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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 106 112
Rank change year-on-year +56 +6 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,878 689 700
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.14% 2.50% 2.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.88% 14.67% 15.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,228 450 502
10th Percentile £353 £337 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £590 £638 £713
90th Percentile £679 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 18 9
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.08 £23.30
25th Percentile £21.13 £21.65 £24.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% -20.90% +29.03%
75th Percentile £65.17 £34.85 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £61.24 £55.15
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £24.00
% change year-on-year +26.42% +31.83% -31.84%

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 7,864 4,696 4,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.35% 17.06% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,036 3,066 2,874
10th Percentile £341 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 532 215 295
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.12 £10.95
25th Percentile £19.49 £18.21 £14.42
Median hourly rate £38.86 £31.50 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year +23.37% +18.07% -36.13%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.22 £85.55 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £25.00
% change year-on-year +46.25% +9.40% -34.21%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +66 994 £525 -2.78% 444
North of England +24 243 £475 +5.56% 153
Midlands +35 225 £475 +3.09% 103
South East +23 188 £465 -0.53% 159
West Midlands +34 181 £475 -5.00% 71
North West +6 131 £475 +5.56% 76
South West +17 101 £500 +17.65% 70
East of England +10 88 £565 -6.53% 44
Yorkshire -2 88 £455 +7.69% 48
East Midlands +10 44 £466 +3.79% 32
North East -21 25 £520 -15.10% 31
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
1 104 (5.54%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (5.22%) Apache Spark
3 78 (4.15%) Apache
4 55 (2.93%) Confluence
5 54 (2.88%) SAS
6 35 (1.86%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
8 10 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
9 9 (0.48%) ArcGIS
9 9 (0.48%) CMS
10 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.16%) Appian
11 3 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.053%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.053%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.053%) Luigi
Applications
1 136 (7.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 65 (3.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.64%) NEC Housing
3 12 (0.64%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.48%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.48%) Sage X3
4 9 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 8 (0.43%) SAP MDG
6 7 (0.37%) iTrent
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.27%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.27%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.27%) Maximo
8 5 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.21%) Finacle
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.21%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 498 (26.52%) Azure
2 416 (22.15%) Power Platform
3 322 (17.15%) AWS
4 158 (8.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 147 (7.83%) GCP
6 144 (7.67%) Snowflake
7 127 (6.76%) dbt
8 104 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
9 93 (4.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 92 (4.90%) Amazon S3
11 84 (4.47%) Serverless
12 77 (4.10%) GitHub
13 72 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (2.82%) Collibra
15 42 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
16 40 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
17 39 (2.08%) Power Automate
18 38 (2.02%) SaaS
19 31 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
20 26 (1.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.48%) Firewall
2 5 (0.27%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) HTTP
3 2 (0.11%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.11%) SNMP
3 2 (0.11%) WAN
3 2 (0.11%) Wireless
4 1 (0.053%) 4G
4 1 (0.053%) 5G
4 1 (0.053%) Broadband
4 1 (0.053%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.053%) DNS
4 1 (0.053%) SSH
4 1 (0.053%) SSL
4 1 (0.053%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (20.98%) Power BI
2 314 (16.72%) Data Warehouse
3 241 (12.83%) Metadata
4 168 (8.95%) Data Lake
5 120 (6.39%) Tableau
6 91 (4.85%) SQL Server
7 85 (4.53%) BigQuery
8 78 (4.15%) Delta Lake
9 72 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 68 (3.62%) Relational Database
11 57 (3.04%) Amazon Athena
12 54 (2.88%) Big Data
13 43 (2.29%) Snowflake Schema
14 40 (2.13%) NoSQL
15 38 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 37 (1.97%) Power Query
17 33 (1.76%) Looker
17 33 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
18 32 (1.70%) Star Schema
19 30 (1.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 120 (6.39%) JIRA
2 116 (6.18%) Git
3 49 (2.61%) Jenkins
4 36 (1.92%) GitLab
5 19 (1.01%) ERwin
6 12 (0.64%) ER Studio
7 11 (0.59%) MLflow
8 9 (0.48%) Eclipse
8 9 (0.48%) Postman
9 8 (0.43%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.37%) Selenium
10 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.32%) Ant
11 6 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.27%) Newman
12 5 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
13 4 (0.21%) LSMW
13 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.21%) Zephyr
14 3 (0.16%) Bitbucket
General
1 561 (29.87%) Finance
2 555 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 450 (23.96%) Analytical Skills
4 213 (11.34%) Public Sector
5 146 (7.77%) Banking
6 55 (2.93%) Marketing
7 52 (2.77%) Retail
8 46 (2.45%) Manufacturing
9 44 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
10 42 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 31 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (1.60%) Local Government
14 28 (1.49%) Military
15 27 (1.44%) Legal
16 20 (1.06%) Law
17 19 (1.01%) Financial Institution
17 19 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
18 18 (0.96%) Front Office
18 18 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 430 (22.90%) Data Engineer
2 389 (20.71%) Analyst
3 219 (11.66%) Senior
4 216 (11.50%) Data Analyst
5 204 (10.86%) Lead
6 176 (9.37%) Architect
7 115 (6.12%) Data Architect
8 110 (5.86%) Business Analyst
9 106 (5.64%) Developer
10 90 (4.79%) Senior Data Engineer
11 66 (3.51%) Consultant
12 57 (3.04%) Data Manager
13 51 (2.72%) Administrator
14 46 (2.45%) Data Business Analyst
15 34 (1.81%) Azure Engineer
15 34 (1.81%) Data Consultant
16 32 (1.70%) Python Engineer
17 31 (1.65%) Project Manager
18 30 (1.60%) Data Migration Lead
18 30 (1.60%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (7.67%) PySpark
2 90 (4.79%) Kafka
3 47 (2.50%) REST
4 44 (2.34%) JSON
5 40 (2.13%) Pandas
6 26 (1.38%) Great Expectations
6 26 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
7 24 (1.28%) Web Services
8 20 (1.06%) Middleware
9 18 (0.96%) XML
10 17 (0.91%) scikit-learn
11 15 (0.80%) HTML
12 14 (0.75%) SOAP
13 13 (0.69%) .NET
13 13 (0.69%) GeoJSON
13 13 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
14 10 (0.53%) Apache Beam
14 10 (0.53%) OAuth
14 10 (0.53%) pytest
14 10 (0.53%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 165 (8.79%) Data Structures
2 108 (5.75%) Onboarding
3 105 (5.59%) Legacy Systems
4 100 (5.32%) Cloud Native
5 86 (4.58%) Product Ownership
6 67 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 54 (2.88%) CMDB
8 42 (2.24%) Reference Data
9 31 (1.65%) AI Agents
9 31 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 25 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
11 25 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.33%) Taxonomies
12 23 (1.22%) NHS
13 20 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
14 19 (1.01%) Clustering
15 16 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (0.85%) Life Science
16 15 (0.80%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.06%) Unix
2 19 (1.01%) Linux
3 12 (0.64%) Windows
4 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.053%) VMS
4 1 (0.053%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 746 (39.72%) Data Modelling
2 685 (36.47%) Analytics
3 632 (33.65%) Data Governance
4 541 (28.81%) Data Pipeline
5 531 (28.27%) ETL
6 503 (26.78%) Business Intelligence
7 465 (24.76%) Validation
8 432 (23.00%) Migration
9 412 (21.94%) Data Engineering
10 393 (20.93%) Agile
11 352 (18.74%) Decision-Making
12 350 (18.64%) CI/CD
13 347 (18.48%) Stakeholder Management
14 334 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
15 324 (17.25%) AI
16 285 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
17 277 (14.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 270 (14.38%) Data Migration
19 263 (14.00%) Data Architecture
20 252 (13.42%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 834 (44.41%) SQL
2 513 (27.32%) Python
3 66 (3.51%) Java
4 55 (2.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 42 (2.24%) Scala
6 38 (2.02%) PL/SQL
7 34 (1.81%) T-SQL
8 33 (1.76%) PowerShell
9 25 (1.33%) Shell Script
10 20 (1.06%) C#
11 19 (1.01%) JavaScript
12 18 (0.96%) VBA
13 16 (0.85%) R
14 12 (0.64%) Bash
15 11 (0.59%) Bicep
15 11 (0.59%) TypeScript
16 10 (0.53%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.37%) SOQL
18 6 (0.32%) Cypher
18 6 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 321 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 244 (12.99%) SC Cleared
3 114 (6.07%) Degree
4 63 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 26 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.22%) DV Cleared
8 20 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 18 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (0.91%) AWS Certification
11 13 (0.69%) PMI Certification
12 9 (0.48%) PMP
13 8 (0.43%) ACCA
13 8 (0.43%) CIMA
14 6 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.32%) SnowPro
15 5 (0.27%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.27%) PhD
16 4 (0.21%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (7.35%) GDPR
2 134 (7.14%) QA
3 35 (1.86%) Accessibility
4 33 (1.76%) PMO
5 23 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.85%) Solvency II
7 15 (0.80%) SLA
8 12 (0.64%) IFRS
8 12 (0.64%) NIST
9 10 (0.53%) COREP
9 10 (0.53%) FINREP
9 10 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.48%) GRC
11 8 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.37%) NCSC
13 5 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.21%) BS7666
14 4 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.21%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 79 (4.21%) Docker
2 20 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.27%) etcd
4 1 (0.053%) HDFS
4 1 (0.053%) RACF
4 1 (0.053%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 124 (6.60%) Terraform
2 85 (4.53%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.75%) Grafana
4 11 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.48%) Ansible
7 5 (0.27%) Control-M
7 5 (0.27%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.27%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.27%) SCCM
8 4 (0.21%) Kibana
9 1 (0.053%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.053%) Istio
9 1 (0.053%) logstash
9 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.053%) Nessus
9 1 (0.053%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.053%) Puppet
9 1 (0.053%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.053%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 297 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 273 (14.54%) Databricks
3 159 (8.47%) SAP
4 131 (6.98%) Oracle
5 83 (4.42%) Informatica
6 75 (3.99%) Salesforce
6 75 (3.99%) ServiceNow
7 51 (2.72%) Google
8 36 (1.92%) Talend
9 30 (1.60%) Workday
10 23 (1.22%) Adobe
10 23 (1.22%) Denodo
11 22 (1.17%) Palantir
12 21 (1.12%) IBM
13 19 (1.01%) Alteryx
14 18 (0.96%) Foundry
14 18 (0.96%) Splunk
15 14 (0.75%) Sage
16 13 (0.69%) GoldenSource
16 13 (0.69%) NEC