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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 112 114
Rank change year-on-year +46 +2 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,291 612 770
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.50% 2.49% 2.03%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.10% 16.23% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 884 432 515
10th Percentile £345 £310 £360
25th Percentile £413 £400 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £688 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 17 36
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.21 £13.93
25th Percentile £17.48 £22.98 £15.39
Median hourly rate £18.94 £26.50 £22.82
Median % change year-on-year -28.54% +16.13% +1.49%
75th Percentile £48.25 £43.75 £44.15
90th Percentile £81.00 £93.75 £57.75
UK median hourly rate £29.25 £26.50 £20.47
% change year-on-year +10.36% +29.46% -8.96%

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 6,424 3,771 5,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.44% 15.35% 14.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,157 2,408 3,482
10th Percentile £334 £263 £305
25th Percentile £413 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -4.71% -
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 158 343
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.24 £10.96
25th Percentile £18.40 £22.04 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.94 £32.66 £24.97
Median % change year-on-year -20.56% +30.78% -38.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £80.20 £78.49 £67.48
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £32.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.88% +33.33% -36.42%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 +44 747 £525 - 268
North of England 0 153 £480 +7.38% 130
Midlands +10 138 £500 +6.38% 90
West Midlands +1 111 £513 +5.07% 62
South East +20 106 £438 -15.50% 179
North West +2 82 £475 +4.40% 63
South West +16 64 £500 -4.76% 61
Yorkshire -36 45 £498 +80.91% 55
East of England -34 38 £565 -5.83% 36
East Midlands -18 28 £447 +20.00% 28
North East - 26 £500 - 14
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
1 117 (9.06%) Apache Spark
2 69 (5.34%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (4.26%) Apache
4 42 (3.25%) SAS
5 31 (2.40%) Confluence
6 29 (2.25%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.70%) Appian
8 8 (0.62%) GeoServer
8 8 (0.62%) Smallworld
9 7 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (0.31%) CMS
12 3 (0.23%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.23%) NetWeaver
13 2 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.077%) Jupyter
Applications
1 116 (8.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.24%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.23%) Trello
8 1 (0.077%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 41 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.93%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.54%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.46%) Finacle
6 6 (0.46%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.46%) SAP MDG
6 6 (0.46%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.39%) SystmOne
8 4 (0.31%) Actimize
8 4 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.31%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.23%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 414 (32.07%) Azure
2 347 (26.88%) Power Platform
3 250 (19.36%) AWS
4 168 (13.01%) Azure Data Factory
5 119 (9.22%) GCP
6 108 (8.37%) Snowflake
7 101 (7.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 81 (6.27%) dbt
9 80 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
10 68 (5.27%) Amazon S3
11 61 (4.73%) GitHub
12 56 (4.34%) Serverless
13 54 (4.18%) Collibra
14 38 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
15 32 (2.48%) Microsoft Purview
16 27 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
16 27 (2.09%) Power Automate
17 25 (1.94%) SaaS
18 20 (1.55%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.39%) VPN
2 4 (0.31%) Firewall
3 2 (0.15%) Broadband
3 2 (0.15%) DNS
3 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.15%) SSL
3 2 (0.15%) VoIP
4 1 (0.077%) 4G
4 1 (0.077%) 5G
4 1 (0.077%) HTTP
4 1 (0.077%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 334 (25.87%) Power BI
2 251 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
3 186 (14.41%) Metadata
4 125 (9.68%) Data Lake
5 89 (6.89%) Tableau
6 85 (6.58%) SQL Server
7 70 (5.42%) Delta Lake
8 65 (5.03%) Azure SQL Database
9 55 (4.26%) BigQuery
10 52 (4.03%) Big Data
10 52 (4.03%) NoSQL
11 48 (3.72%) Relational Database
11 48 (3.72%) Snowflake Schema
12 40 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
12 40 (3.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 30 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
14 29 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
14 29 (2.25%) Pentaho
15 27 (2.09%) Star Schema
16 26 (2.01%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 127 (9.84%) Git
2 91 (7.05%) JIRA
3 51 (3.95%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.63%) ERwin
5 16 (1.24%) MLflow
6 15 (1.16%) GitLab
7 14 (1.08%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.54%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.31%) DBeaver
10 4 (0.31%) LSMW
11 3 (0.23%) Selenium
11 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.15%) Postman
12 2 (0.15%) Zephyr
13 1 (0.077%) GCC
13 1 (0.077%) Hudson
13 1 (0.077%) RStudio
General
1 426 (33.00%) Social Skills
2 376 (29.12%) Finance
3 304 (23.55%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (11.39%) Public Sector
5 106 (8.21%) Banking
6 41 (3.18%) Marketing
7 34 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (2.56%) Retail
9 27 (2.09%) Legal
10 26 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (1.55%) Publishing
13 19 (1.47%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.24%) Local Government
14 16 (1.24%) Telecoms
15 15 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.16%) Law
15 15 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.01%) Military
17 12 (0.93%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 354 (27.42%) Data Engineer
2 271 (20.99%) Analyst
3 166 (12.86%) Data Analyst
4 139 (10.77%) Senior
5 130 (10.07%) Architect
6 128 (9.91%) Lead
7 81 (6.27%) Business Analyst
8 78 (6.04%) Data Architect
9 64 (4.96%) Developer
10 59 (4.57%) Senior Data Engineer
11 52 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
12 43 (3.33%) Azure Data Engineer
13 39 (3.02%) Consultant
14 38 (2.94%) Data Business Analyst
15 28 (2.17%) Data Manager
16 26 (2.01%) Data Modeller
17 24 (1.86%) Senior Analyst
18 23 (1.78%) Principal Engineer
18 23 (1.78%) Project Manager
19 20 (1.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (9.45%) PySpark
2 101 (7.82%) Kafka
3 39 (3.02%) Pandas
4 38 (2.94%) REST
5 22 (1.70%) NumPy
5 22 (1.70%) scikit-learn
6 21 (1.63%) Great Expectations
7 15 (1.16%) Web Services
8 14 (1.08%) JSON
9 13 (1.01%) OAuth
9 13 (1.01%) PyTorch
9 13 (1.01%) TensorFlow
10 12 (0.93%) Middleware
10 12 (0.93%) XML
11 11 (0.85%) Flask
11 11 (0.85%) GeoJSON
11 11 (0.85%) Matplotlib
11 11 (0.85%) pytest
12 10 (0.77%) RESTful
12 10 (0.77%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 112 (8.68%) Data Structures
2 94 (7.28%) Legacy Systems
3 66 (5.11%) Cloud Native
4 56 (4.34%) Management Information System
5 48 (3.72%) Onboarding
6 45 (3.49%) Product Ownership
7 40 (3.10%) CMDB
8 37 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 27 (2.09%) Reference Data
10 21 (1.63%) NHS
11 18 (1.39%) Clustering
11 18 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.16%) Replication
14 14 (1.08%) Taxonomies
15 13 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (1.01%) Reinsurance
16 12 (0.93%) Fixed Income
17 10 (0.77%) AI Agents
18 9 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (0.77%) Linux
2 9 (0.70%) Unix
3 7 (0.54%) Windows
4 1 (0.077%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (44.77%) Data Modelling
2 503 (38.96%) Analytics
3 449 (34.78%) Data Governance
4 443 (34.31%) ETL
5 433 (33.54%) Business Intelligence
6 371 (28.74%) Data Pipeline
7 302 (23.39%) Data Engineering
8 300 (23.24%) Agile
9 285 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
10 266 (20.60%) Migration
11 254 (19.67%) Validation
12 244 (18.90%) CI/CD
13 231 (17.89%) Decision-Making
14 215 (16.65%) Data Architecture
15 189 (14.64%) AI
16 182 (14.10%) Data Migration
16 182 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
17 178 (13.79%) DevOps
18 173 (13.40%) Data Integration
19 172 (13.32%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 676 (52.36%) SQL
2 422 (32.69%) Python
3 60 (4.65%) Scala
4 39 (3.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 38 (2.94%) Java
6 26 (2.01%) T-SQL
7 24 (1.86%) C#
7 24 (1.86%) PL/SQL
7 24 (1.86%) R
8 15 (1.16%) Bicep
8 15 (1.16%) PowerShell
9 14 (1.08%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.08%) VBA
10 13 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 8 (0.62%) Bash
12 5 (0.39%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.31%) ABAP
13 4 (0.31%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.31%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 242 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 179 (13.87%) SC Cleared
3 76 (5.89%) Degree
4 40 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.32%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.23%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.23%) PhD
9 3 (0.23%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.15%) AAT
10 2 (0.15%) ACCA
10 2 (0.15%) CFA
10 2 (0.15%) CIMA
10 2 (0.15%) PMP
10 2 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (8.99%) GDPR
2 81 (6.27%) QA
3 39 (3.02%) Accessibility
4 23 (1.78%) PMO
5 12 (0.93%) SLA
5 12 (0.93%) Solvency II
6 11 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 7 (0.54%) Basel III
9 7 (0.54%) IFRS
10 5 (0.39%) FINREP
11 4 (0.31%) MiFID
11 4 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.23%) COREP
12 3 (0.23%) GRC
12 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.23%) NIST
13 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.15%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 68 (5.27%) Docker
2 6 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.31%) etcd
4 2 (0.15%) zsh
5 1 (0.077%) HDFS
5 1 (0.077%) RACF
5 1 (0.077%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 96 (7.44%) Terraform
2 73 (5.65%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.31%) Fluentd
4 4 (0.31%) Kibana
4 4 (0.31%) SCCM
5 3 (0.23%) Ansible
5 3 (0.23%) Grafana
5 3 (0.23%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.23%) logstash
6 1 (0.077%) Nessus
6 1 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 247 (19.13%) Databricks
2 199 (15.41%) Microsoft
3 94 (7.28%) SAP
4 90 (6.97%) Oracle
5 72 (5.58%) Informatica
6 62 (4.80%) Salesforce
7 58 (4.49%) ServiceNow
8 52 (4.03%) Talend
9 50 (3.87%) Google
10 30 (2.32%) Denodo
11 12 (0.93%) ESRI
11 12 (0.93%) OpenAI
11 12 (0.93%) Palantir
11 12 (0.93%) Workday
12 10 (0.77%) Avaloq
12 10 (0.77%) IBM
13 9 (0.70%) Automation Anywhere
13 9 (0.70%) Foundry
13 9 (0.70%) GoldenSource
13 9 (0.70%) Sparx