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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 97 113
Rank change year-on-year +52 +16 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,094 760 687
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.50% 2.71% 2.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.23% 15.59% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,334 494 463
10th Percentile £353 £334 £341
25th Percentile £425 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £713
90th Percentile £713 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £515 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +0.49% -6.82% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 13 10
10th Percentile £15.64 £18.25 £21.25
25th Percentile £18.38 £21.20 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £34.98 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.35% -20.50% +17.26%
75th Percentile £60.75 £44.75 £86.06
90th Percentile £73.45 £74.75 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £30.27 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.33% +6.67% +5.25%

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 8,301 4,874 4,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.84% 17.39% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,188 3,178 2,486
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £713 £763
UK median daily rate £509 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.80% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 636 235 204
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.09 £17.96 £17.18
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.74 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -5.02% -12.77%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.25 £82.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.40 £31.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +2.87% +14.51% -22.68%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +55 1,128 £528 -4.09% 1,854
North of England +44 293 £463 +1.37% 541
Midlands +29 223 £465 -7.00% 261
South East +33 210 £500 +8.70% 448
West Midlands +31 176 £468 -10.53% 178
North West +26 152 £525 +16.67% 322
South West +27 118 £500 +5.26% 199
Yorkshire +34 117 £450 -10.00% 157
East of England +14 75 £502 -16.97% 186
East Midlands +8 46 £450 +0.67% 83
North East -25 25 £520 +18.86% 64
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
1 136 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (4.58%) Apache Spark
3 80 (3.82%) Apache
4 66 (3.15%) Confluence
5 46 (2.20%) SAS
5 46 (2.20%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.62%) CMS
6 13 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
7 11 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.096%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.096%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.048%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.048%) Luigi
13 1 (0.048%) nginx
13 1 (0.048%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 159 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
4 15 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.096%) CATIA
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.048%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.048%) Trello
9 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 66 (3.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.72%) Aladdin
3 15 (0.72%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.57%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.53%) NEC Housing
6 10 (0.48%) SAP MDG
6 10 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.38%) SAP HR
8 7 (0.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.29%) Maximo
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.24%) SAP MM
10 5 (0.24%) Shopify
11 4 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 534 (25.50%) Azure
2 450 (21.49%) Power Platform
3 373 (17.81%) AWS
4 189 (9.03%) GCP
5 178 (8.50%) Snowflake
6 146 (6.97%) Azure Data Factory
7 137 (6.54%) dbt
8 107 (5.11%) Amazon S3
9 106 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
10 104 (4.97%) Serverless
11 91 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 84 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
13 78 (3.72%) GitHub
14 73 (3.49%) Microsoft Purview
15 56 (2.67%) Collibra
16 51 (2.44%) SaaS
17 49 (2.34%) Power Automate
18 47 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
19 45 (2.15%) Azure Databricks
20 44 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.29%) Broadband
1 6 (0.29%) Firewall
1 6 (0.29%) SD-WAN
1 6 (0.29%) WAN
2 5 (0.24%) SNMP
2 5 (0.24%) Wireless
3 3 (0.14%) DNS
3 3 (0.14%) HTTP
3 3 (0.14%) Network Security
4 2 (0.096%) SSL
5 1 (0.048%) BGP
5 1 (0.048%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.048%) LAN
5 1 (0.048%) MPLS
5 1 (0.048%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.048%) OSPF
5 1 (0.048%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.048%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.048%) VLAN
5 1 (0.048%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 423 (20.20%) Power BI
2 345 (16.48%) Metadata
3 328 (15.66%) Data Warehouse
4 180 (8.60%) Data Lake
5 117 (5.59%) Tableau
6 101 (4.82%) BigQuery
7 86 (4.11%) Delta Lake
8 85 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 84 (4.01%) SQL Server
10 80 (3.82%) Relational Database
11 63 (3.01%) Amazon Athena
12 51 (2.44%) NoSQL
13 48 (2.29%) Power Query
14 41 (1.96%) Big Data
15 39 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
16 36 (1.72%) Looker
17 34 (1.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 30 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
18 30 (1.43%) Star Schema
19 29 (1.38%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 134 (6.40%) Git
2 129 (6.16%) JIRA
3 31 (1.48%) GitLab
3 31 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.57%) ERwin
5 11 (0.53%) Postman
6 9 (0.43%) Eclipse
6 9 (0.43%) ER Studio
6 9 (0.43%) MLflow
7 8 (0.38%) Selenium
7 8 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (0.33%) Newman
9 6 (0.29%) Ant
9 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.24%) RStudio
10 5 (0.24%) Terragrunt
11 4 (0.19%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.19%) TestRail
11 4 (0.19%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 663 (31.66%) Social Skills
2 642 (30.66%) Finance
3 497 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (12.56%) Public Sector
5 188 (8.98%) Banking
6 73 (3.49%) Retail
7 67 (3.20%) Manufacturing
8 57 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
9 52 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (2.48%) Marketing
10 48 (2.29%) Military
11 47 (2.24%) Local Government
12 44 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
13 43 (2.05%) Legal
14 35 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 24 (1.15%) Billing
15 24 (1.15%) Front Office
15 24 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (1.10%) Automotive
17 22 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 441 (21.06%) Analyst
2 437 (20.87%) Data Engineer
3 263 (12.56%) Senior
4 246 (11.75%) Lead
5 229 (10.94%) Data Analyst
6 221 (10.55%) Architect
7 143 (6.83%) Data Architect
8 122 (5.83%) Business Analyst
8 122 (5.83%) Senior Data Engineer
9 117 (5.59%) Developer
10 94 (4.49%) Consultant
11 74 (3.53%) Administrator
12 66 (3.15%) Data Manager
13 53 (2.53%) Data Business Analyst
13 53 (2.53%) Data Consultant
14 41 (1.96%) Databricks Engineer
15 39 (1.86%) Senior Analyst
16 38 (1.81%) Lead Data Engineer
17 35 (1.67%) Databricks Data Engineer
18 34 (1.62%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (8.40%) PySpark
2 137 (6.54%) Terraform
3 77 (3.68%) Kafka
4 56 (2.67%) REST
5 42 (2.01%) JSON
6 35 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.19%) Pandas
7 25 (1.19%) Web Services
8 24 (1.15%) XML
9 22 (1.05%) Middleware
10 21 (1.00%) SOAP
11 19 (0.91%) Great Expectations
12 17 (0.81%) HTML
13 15 (0.72%) .NET
13 15 (0.72%) pytest
14 14 (0.67%) OAuth
15 13 (0.62%) OpenID
16 11 (0.53%) Playwright
17 10 (0.48%) OpenTelemetry
17 10 (0.48%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 193 (9.22%) Data Structures
2 131 (6.26%) Onboarding
3 119 (5.68%) Cloud Native
4 106 (5.06%) Product Ownership
5 102 (4.87%) Management Information System
6 99 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
7 60 (2.87%) CMDB
8 47 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
9 44 (2.10%) Reference Data
10 41 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (1.86%) AI Agents
12 33 (1.58%) Taxonomies
13 27 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
13 27 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.05%) NHS
15 21 (1.00%) Life Science
16 20 (0.96%) Algorithms
17 15 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
17 15 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.34%) Unix
2 19 (0.91%) Linux
3 11 (0.53%) Windows
4 1 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (39.68%) Data Modelling
2 771 (36.82%) Analytics
3 740 (35.34%) Data Governance
4 572 (27.32%) Data Pipeline
5 566 (27.03%) Stakeholder Management
6 563 (26.89%) Validation
7 536 (25.60%) Business Intelligence
8 520 (24.83%) ETL
9 499 (23.83%) Migration
10 484 (23.11%) Data Engineering
11 434 (20.73%) Agile
12 431 (20.58%) AI
13 418 (19.96%) Decision-Making
14 393 (18.77%) CI/CD
15 373 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
16 340 (16.24%) Continuous Improvement
17 326 (15.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 299 (14.28%) Data Architecture
19 288 (13.75%) Data Migration
20 280 (13.37%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 904 (43.17%) SQL
2 567 (27.08%) Python
3 63 (3.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 60 (2.87%) Java
5 39 (1.86%) PL/SQL
6 33 (1.58%) Scala
7 31 (1.48%) Shell Script
8 30 (1.43%) JavaScript
9 29 (1.38%) PowerShell
10 28 (1.34%) T-SQL
11 25 (1.19%) R
12 23 (1.10%) C#
13 17 (0.81%) Bash
14 14 (0.67%) Bicep
15 10 (0.48%) TypeScript
16 9 (0.43%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.38%) Korn
17 8 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.38%) SOQL
18 6 (0.29%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 337 (16.09%) Security Cleared
2 262 (12.51%) SC Cleared
3 132 (6.30%) Degree
4 50 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.43%) DV Cleared
6 29 (1.38%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.29%) AWS Certification
8 25 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.10%) PMI Certification
10 21 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (0.96%) Master's Degree
12 19 (0.91%) PMP
13 12 (0.57%) ACCA
13 12 (0.57%) CIMA
14 9 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 8 (0.38%) CISSP
16 7 (0.33%) CIPD
16 7 (0.33%) CISM
17 6 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (7.16%) QA
2 126 (6.02%) GDPR
3 42 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 39 (1.86%) PMO
5 23 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.00%) NIST
6 21 (1.00%) SLA
7 20 (0.96%) GRC
8 16 (0.76%) IFRS
9 15 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.67%) NCSC
11 10 (0.48%) Solvency II
12 9 (0.43%) Basel III
13 8 (0.38%) IFRS 17
14 7 (0.33%) COBIT
15 6 (0.29%) IFRS 9
15 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.24%) COREP
16 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 67 (3.20%) Docker
2 20 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.096%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.048%) HDFS
4 1 (0.048%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (3.15%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (0.57%) Ansible
3 12 (0.57%) Grafana
4 8 (0.38%) Control-M
5 7 (0.33%) Kibana
6 5 (0.24%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.19%) SCCM
8 2 (0.096%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.096%) logstash
9 1 (0.048%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.048%) Argo
9 1 (0.048%) Istio
9 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.048%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.048%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.048%) Puppet
9 1 (0.048%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 416 (19.87%) Microsoft
2 315 (15.04%) Databricks
3 159 (7.59%) SAP
4 143 (6.83%) Oracle
5 100 (4.78%) ServiceNow
6 84 (4.01%) Informatica
7 77 (3.68%) Google
8 66 (3.15%) Salesforce
9 38 (1.81%) Workday
10 27 (1.29%) Adobe
11 26 (1.24%) IBM
12 22 (1.05%) Alteryx
12 22 (1.05%) Palantir
13 21 (1.00%) Splunk
14 18 (0.86%) Denodo
14 18 (0.86%) Talend
15 16 (0.76%) Foundry
16 12 (0.57%) Ariba
16 12 (0.57%) Bloomberg
16 12 (0.57%) Teradata