Data Quality Contract Job Trends in England

Data Quality
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 95 116
Rank change year-on-year +51 +21 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,161 773 674
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.62% 2.74% 2.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.51% 15.48% 16.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,373 498 453
10th Percentile £353 £337 £333
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £713
90th Percentile £725 £750 £850
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 13 9
10th Percentile £16.23 - £21.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £18.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £30.14 £34.98 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% -6.72% +5.25%
75th Percentile £55.00 £44.75 £97.50
90th Percentile £70.45 £74.75 -
UK median hourly rate £29.98 £40.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -25.05% +10.34% +2.65%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

Data Quality falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 8,472 4,995 4,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.10% 17.71% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,280 3,251 2,441
10th Percentile £325 £300 £291
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -5.09%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £720 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +0.10% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 689 245 197
10th Percentile £13.74 £15.13 £13.16
25th Percentile £16.60 £17.69 £18.13
Median hourly rate £31.46 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.40 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.32 £81.80 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £27.67
% change year-on-year - +8.42% -23.14%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Quality relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Data Quality job vacancy trend in England

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Quality.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in England over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Quality.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in England over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the England region over the 6 months to 16 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +52 1,169 £537 -1.42% 174
North of England +50 300 £463 +1.37% 90
Midlands +30 225 £463 -7.50% 63
South East +28 219 £513 +13.89% 84
West Midlands +31 180 £470 -10.05% 45
North West +27 153 £513 +13.89% 46
South West +33 123 £514 +8.26% 53
Yorkshire +39 119 £450 -10.00% 28
East of England +23 76 £464 -23.28% 24
East Midlands +15 44 £428 -4.36% 18
North East -16 29 £523 -0.48% 16
Data Quality
UK

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 138 (6.39%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (4.86%) Apache Spark
3 85 (3.93%) Apache
4 68 (3.15%) Confluence
5 54 (2.50%) SAS
6 46 (2.13%) SharePoint
7 14 (0.65%) CMS
8 13 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
9 11 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.37%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.093%) Appian
14 2 (0.093%) GeoServer
14 2 (0.093%) HCL Notes
14 2 (0.093%) Oracle Application Server
15 1 (0.046%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.046%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 171 (7.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
4 15 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.093%) CATIA
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.046%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.046%) Trello
9 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 70 (3.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.79%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.69%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.56%) NEC Housing
5 12 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
5 12 (0.56%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
6 11 (0.51%) SAP MDG
7 10 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 8 (0.37%) SAP HR
9 7 (0.32%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 7 (0.32%) Maximo
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
9 7 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
10 6 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
10 6 (0.28%) Teamcenter
11 5 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 550 (25.45%) Azure
2 464 (21.47%) Power Platform
3 399 (18.46%) AWS
4 192 (8.88%) GCP
5 187 (8.65%) Snowflake
6 142 (6.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 139 (6.43%) dbt
8 111 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
9 108 (5.00%) Amazon S3
10 107 (4.95%) Serverless
11 90 (4.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 85 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
13 83 (3.84%) GitHub
14 71 (3.29%) Microsoft Purview
15 56 (2.59%) Collibra
16 53 (2.45%) SaaS
17 49 (2.27%) Power Automate
18 48 (2.22%) Azure Databricks
18 48 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
19 46 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.28%) Broadband
1 6 (0.28%) Firewall
1 6 (0.28%) SD-WAN
1 6 (0.28%) WAN
2 5 (0.23%) SNMP
2 5 (0.23%) Wireless
3 3 (0.14%) DNS
3 3 (0.14%) HTTP
3 3 (0.14%) Network Security
4 2 (0.093%) SSL
5 1 (0.046%) BGP
5 1 (0.046%) LAN
5 1 (0.046%) MPLS
5 1 (0.046%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.046%) OSPF
5 1 (0.046%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.046%) SMS
5 1 (0.046%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.046%) VLAN
5 1 (0.046%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 436 (20.18%) Power BI
2 351 (16.24%) Metadata
3 334 (15.46%) Data Warehouse
4 182 (8.42%) Data Lake
5 115 (5.32%) Tableau
6 102 (4.72%) BigQuery
7 88 (4.07%) Amazon Redshift
7 88 (4.07%) Delta Lake
8 86 (3.98%) SQL Server
9 81 (3.75%) Relational Database
10 61 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
11 55 (2.55%) Power Query
12 52 (2.41%) NoSQL
13 43 (1.99%) Big Data
14 39 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
15 37 (1.71%) Looker
16 35 (1.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 35 (1.62%) Star Schema
17 32 (1.48%) Semantic Layer
18 29 (1.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 150 (6.94%) Git
2 138 (6.39%) JIRA
3 42 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.57%) GitLab
5 13 (0.60%) Postman
6 10 (0.46%) ERwin
6 10 (0.46%) MLflow
7 9 (0.42%) Eclipse
8 8 (0.37%) Newman
8 8 (0.37%) Selenium
9 7 (0.32%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.28%) Ant
10 6 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.23%) JMeter
11 5 (0.23%) RStudio
11 5 (0.23%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.19%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.19%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 686 (31.74%) Social Skills
2 664 (30.73%) Finance
3 513 (23.74%) Analytical Skills
4 268 (12.40%) Public Sector
5 201 (9.30%) Banking
6 73 (3.38%) Retail
7 70 (3.24%) Manufacturing
8 60 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 56 (2.59%) Marketing
10 55 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (2.13%) Local Government
11 46 (2.13%) Military
12 45 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
13 44 (2.04%) Legal
14 35 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 30 (1.39%) Front Office
16 26 (1.20%) Billing
16 26 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
17 25 (1.16%) Investment Banking
18 23 (1.06%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 460 (21.29%) Analyst
2 454 (21.01%) Data Engineer
3 265 (12.26%) Senior
4 262 (12.12%) Lead
5 243 (11.24%) Data Analyst
6 233 (10.78%) Architect
7 146 (6.76%) Data Architect
8 128 (5.92%) Business Analyst
9 122 (5.65%) Senior Data Engineer
10 117 (5.41%) Developer
11 104 (4.81%) Consultant
12 77 (3.56%) Administrator
13 65 (3.01%) Data Manager
14 58 (2.68%) Data Business Analyst
15 54 (2.50%) Data Consultant
16 42 (1.94%) Senior Analyst
17 41 (1.90%) Databricks Engineer
18 40 (1.85%) Lead Data Engineer
19 35 (1.62%) AWS Engineer
20 34 (1.57%) Databricks Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (8.24%) PySpark
2 141 (6.52%) Terraform
3 82 (3.79%) Kafka
4 61 (2.82%) REST
5 38 (1.76%) JSON
6 36 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
7 27 (1.25%) Web Services
8 25 (1.16%) XML
9 24 (1.11%) Middleware
10 23 (1.06%) Pandas
11 22 (1.02%) SOAP
12 19 (0.88%) Great Expectations
13 17 (0.79%) HTML
14 16 (0.74%) .NET
14 16 (0.74%) OAuth
14 16 (0.74%) pytest
15 15 (0.69%) OpenID
16 12 (0.56%) Playwright
17 11 (0.51%) OAuth2
17 11 (0.51%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 208 (9.63%) Data Structures
2 135 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 130 (6.02%) Cloud Native
4 117 (5.41%) Management Information System
5 107 (4.95%) Product Ownership
6 97 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
7 64 (2.96%) CMDB
8 52 (2.41%) Reference Data
9 46 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
10 45 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
11 39 (1.80%) AI Agents
12 36 (1.67%) Taxonomies
13 27 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
14 26 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
16 21 (0.97%) Algorithms
16 21 (0.97%) NHS
17 20 (0.93%) Life Science
18 15 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
18 15 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.34%) Unix
2 20 (0.93%) Linux
3 12 (0.56%) Windows
4 1 (0.046%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.046%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 869 (40.21%) Data Modelling
2 786 (36.37%) Analytics
3 764 (35.35%) Data Governance
4 604 (27.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 595 (27.53%) Validation
6 587 (27.16%) Data Pipeline
7 548 (25.36%) Business Intelligence
8 533 (24.66%) ETL
9 520 (24.06%) Migration
10 517 (23.92%) Data Engineering
11 450 (20.82%) Agile
12 442 (20.45%) AI
13 421 (19.48%) Decision-Making
14 412 (19.07%) CI/CD
15 389 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
16 358 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 333 (15.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 310 (14.35%) Data Migration
19 304 (14.07%) Data Architecture
20 291 (13.47%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 947 (43.82%) SQL
2 598 (27.67%) Python
3 69 (3.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 61 (2.82%) Java
5 38 (1.76%) PL/SQL
6 34 (1.57%) JavaScript
7 33 (1.53%) Shell Script
8 30 (1.39%) PowerShell
9 28 (1.30%) Scala
10 27 (1.25%) R
11 23 (1.06%) C#
11 23 (1.06%) T-SQL
12 19 (0.88%) Bash
13 17 (0.79%) Bicep
14 12 (0.56%) TypeScript
15 9 (0.42%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.37%) SOQL
17 7 (0.32%) Korn
18 6 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 363 (16.80%) Security Cleared
2 288 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 139 (6.43%) Degree
4 52 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (1.71%) AWS Certification
5 37 (1.71%) DV Cleared
6 30 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.16%) PMI Certification
9 21 (0.97%) PMP
10 20 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 20 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (0.69%) ACCA
11 15 (0.69%) CIMA
12 9 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (0.42%) CISSP
13 8 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.37%) CISM
13 8 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.32%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (6.94%) QA
2 131 (6.06%) GDPR
3 43 (1.99%) Accessibility
3 43 (1.99%) PMO
4 22 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (0.97%) GRC
5 21 (0.97%) NIST
6 20 (0.93%) SLA
7 17 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
8 16 (0.74%) IFRS
9 14 (0.65%) NCSC
10 10 (0.46%) Solvency II
11 9 (0.42%) Basel III
12 8 (0.37%) IFRS 17
13 7 (0.32%) COBIT
13 7 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.28%) IFRS 9
15 5 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 5 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 77 (3.56%) Docker
2 21 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.093%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.046%) HDFS
4 1 (0.046%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (3.56%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (0.60%) Ansible
3 13 (0.60%) Grafana
4 8 (0.37%) Control-M
5 7 (0.32%) Kibana
6 5 (0.23%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.19%) SCCM
8 3 (0.14%) logstash
9 2 (0.093%) Argo
9 2 (0.093%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.046%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.046%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.046%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.046%) Puppet
10 1 (0.046%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 436 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 333 (15.41%) Databricks
3 159 (7.36%) SAP
4 156 (7.22%) Oracle
5 105 (4.86%) ServiceNow
6 89 (4.12%) Informatica
7 86 (3.98%) Google
8 73 (3.38%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.57%) Workday
10 30 (1.39%) Talend
11 28 (1.30%) IBM
12 27 (1.25%) Adobe
13 26 (1.20%) Denodo
14 23 (1.06%) Palantir
15 22 (1.02%) Alteryx
16 21 (0.97%) Splunk
17 16 (0.74%) Foundry
18 13 (0.60%) Ariba
19 12 (0.56%) Bloomberg
19 12 (0.56%) NEC