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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 98 119
Rank change year-on-year +51 +21 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,016 733 673
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.36% 2.64% 2.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.71% 15.35% 15.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,291 475 468
10th Percentile £353 £338 £349
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £713
90th Percentile £694 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £505 £508 £550
% change year-on-year -0.49% -7.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 15 9
10th Percentile £15.39 £24.72 £21.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £31.64 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £33.88 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.06% -9.65% -13.71%
75th Percentile £60.75 £44.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £69.50 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £30.89 £34.98 £36.25
% change year-on-year -11.71% -3.50% -8.04%

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 8,160 4,775 4,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.67% 17.21% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,138 3,112 2,598
10th Percentile £328 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £720 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% -3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 578 228 216
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.03 £17.96 £15.20
Median hourly rate £33.98 £31.82 £30.56
Median % change year-on-year +6.79% +4.12% -13.92%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £63.99
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.83 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £27.09
% change year-on-year +10.00% +10.74% -22.60%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +54 1,083 £525 -2.78% 1,082
North of England +41 281 £463 +2.78% 245
Midlands +31 221 £458 -8.45% 150
South East +34 207 £500 - 286
West Midlands +28 173 £451 -14.19% 109
North West +20 150 £525 +16.67% 162
Yorkshire +30 113 £450 -10.00% 64
South West +5 102 £500 +17.65% 103
East of England +19 86 £565 -6.53% 102
East Midlands +10 47 £481 +7.61% 41
North East -27 19 £520 +18.86% 21
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
1 123 (6.10%) Apache Airflow
2 90 (4.46%) Apache Spark
3 74 (3.67%) Apache
4 60 (2.98%) Confluence
5 47 (2.33%) SAS
6 43 (2.13%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.55%) CMS
9 10 (0.50%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.099%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.099%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.050%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.050%) GeoServer
14 1 (0.050%) Luigi
14 1 (0.050%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 152 (7.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
3 26 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.099%) CATIA
8 1 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.050%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.050%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.050%) Trello
8 1 (0.050%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 68 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.60%) Aladdin
5 11 (0.55%) NEC Housing
6 10 (0.50%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.40%) SAP MDG
7 8 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 7 (0.35%) iTrent
8 7 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.30%) Maximo
9 6 (0.30%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.25%) Shopify
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
11 4 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 519 (25.74%) Azure
2 421 (20.88%) Power Platform
3 357 (17.71%) AWS
4 167 (8.28%) GCP
5 159 (7.89%) Snowflake
6 151 (7.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 134 (6.65%) dbt
8 104 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
9 102 (5.06%) Serverless
10 96 (4.76%) Amazon S3
11 92 (4.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 82 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
13 77 (3.82%) GitHub
14 60 (2.98%) Collibra
14 60 (2.98%) Microsoft Purview
15 47 (2.33%) SaaS
16 45 (2.23%) Power Automate
17 43 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
18 42 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
19 40 (1.98%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.35%) Firewall
2 6 (0.30%) Broadband
3 5 (0.25%) SD-WAN
3 5 (0.25%) SNMP
3 5 (0.25%) WAN
3 5 (0.25%) Wireless
4 3 (0.15%) HTTP
5 2 (0.099%) DNS
5 2 (0.099%) SSL
6 1 (0.050%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.050%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.050%) Network Security
6 1 (0.050%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.050%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (19.54%) Power BI
2 321 (15.92%) Metadata
3 319 (15.82%) Data Warehouse
4 171 (8.48%) Data Lake
5 109 (5.41%) Tableau
6 93 (4.61%) SQL Server
7 87 (4.32%) BigQuery
8 85 (4.22%) Delta Lake
9 79 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
10 76 (3.77%) Relational Database
11 57 (2.83%) Amazon Athena
12 50 (2.48%) NoSQL
13 46 (2.28%) Big Data
14 41 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
15 39 (1.93%) Power Query
16 38 (1.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 38 (1.88%) Star Schema
17 37 (1.84%) Snowflake Schema
18 34 (1.69%) Looker
19 29 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 125 (6.20%) JIRA
2 113 (5.61%) Git
3 36 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.64%) GitLab
5 11 (0.55%) ERwin
6 10 (0.50%) MLflow
6 10 (0.50%) Selenium
7 9 (0.45%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.45%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.40%) Postman
8 8 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.30%) Ant
9 6 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.25%) Newman
10 5 (0.25%) RStudio
10 5 (0.25%) Terragrunt
11 4 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.20%) TestRail
11 4 (0.20%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 644 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 612 (30.36%) Finance
3 481 (23.86%) Analytical Skills
4 239 (11.86%) Public Sector
5 175 (8.68%) Banking
6 67 (3.32%) Retail
7 58 (2.88%) Manufacturing
8 53 (2.63%) Marketing
9 52 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
10 44 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
10 44 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
11 43 (2.13%) Local Government
12 40 (1.98%) Military
13 36 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 33 (1.64%) Legal
15 26 (1.29%) Law
16 25 (1.24%) Billing
17 24 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
18 22 (1.09%) Automotive
18 22 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 430 (21.33%) Data Engineer
2 421 (20.88%) Analyst
3 241 (11.95%) Senior
4 240 (11.90%) Lead
5 227 (11.26%) Data Analyst
6 212 (10.52%) Architect
7 139 (6.89%) Data Architect
8 111 (5.51%) Senior Data Engineer
9 110 (5.46%) Business Analyst
10 107 (5.31%) Developer
11 85 (4.22%) Consultant
12 66 (3.27%) Administrator
13 63 (3.13%) Data Manager
14 50 (2.48%) Data Consultant
15 43 (2.13%) Data Business Analyst
16 35 (1.74%) AWS Engineer
16 35 (1.74%) Databricks Engineer
16 35 (1.74%) Lead Data Engineer
17 34 (1.69%) Python Engineer
18 31 (1.54%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (8.83%) PySpark
2 132 (6.55%) Terraform
3 76 (3.77%) Kafka
4 57 (2.83%) REST
5 44 (2.18%) JSON
6 33 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
7 26 (1.29%) Great Expectations
8 22 (1.09%) Pandas
8 22 (1.09%) XML
9 20 (0.99%) Middleware
10 19 (0.94%) Web Services
11 18 (0.89%) .NET
12 17 (0.84%) HTML
13 16 (0.79%) SOAP
14 14 (0.69%) pytest
15 12 (0.60%) OpenTelemetry
16 10 (0.50%) CSS
16 10 (0.50%) OAuth
16 10 (0.50%) OpenID
16 10 (0.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 183 (9.08%) Data Structures
2 133 (6.60%) Onboarding
3 106 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 98 (4.86%) Legacy Systems
4 98 (4.86%) Product Ownership
5 93 (4.61%) Management Information System
6 56 (2.78%) CMDB
7 49 (2.43%) Reference Data
8 40 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
9 38 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
10 37 (1.84%) AI Agents
11 27 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
12 26 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 25 (1.24%) Taxonomies
14 23 (1.14%) NHS
15 22 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
16 21 (1.04%) Life Science
17 17 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
18 15 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
18 15 (0.74%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.09%) Unix
2 17 (0.84%) Linux
3 12 (0.60%) Windows
4 1 (0.050%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 793 (39.34%) Data Modelling
2 722 (35.81%) Data Governance
3 718 (35.62%) Analytics
4 552 (27.38%) Data Pipeline
5 527 (26.14%) ETL
6 525 (26.04%) Validation
7 507 (25.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 503 (24.95%) Business Intelligence
9 486 (24.11%) Migration
10 457 (22.67%) Data Engineering
11 412 (20.44%) Agile
12 397 (19.69%) AI
13 393 (19.49%) Decision-Making
14 379 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
15 377 (18.70%) CI/CD
16 322 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
17 301 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 292 (14.48%) Data Architecture
19 288 (14.29%) Data Migration
20 278 (13.79%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 863 (42.81%) SQL
2 536 (26.59%) Python
3 60 (2.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 58 (2.88%) Java
5 42 (2.08%) PL/SQL
6 34 (1.69%) T-SQL
7 30 (1.49%) PowerShell
7 30 (1.49%) Scala
8 26 (1.29%) Shell Script
9 25 (1.24%) JavaScript
10 22 (1.09%) C#
10 22 (1.09%) R
11 16 (0.79%) Bash
12 13 (0.64%) Bicep
13 9 (0.45%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.40%) SOQL
14 8 (0.40%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.35%) VBA
16 6 (0.30%) Go
16 6 (0.30%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 322 (15.97%) Security Cleared
2 246 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 121 (6.00%) Degree
4 53 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.34%) DV Cleared
7 26 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.24%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (0.89%) PMI Certification
11 16 (0.79%) Master's Degree
12 13 (0.64%) PMP
13 10 (0.50%) ACCA
13 10 (0.50%) CIMA
14 8 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 5 (0.25%) CIPD
16 5 (0.25%) PhD
16 5 (0.25%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (7.39%) QA
2 124 (6.15%) GDPR
3 40 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 32 (1.59%) PMO
5 22 (1.09%) SLA
6 20 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.79%) IFRS
8 15 (0.74%) NIST
9 14 (0.69%) GRC
9 14 (0.69%) NCSC
10 12 (0.60%) Solvency II
11 10 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.40%) COREP
12 8 (0.40%) FINREP
12 8 (0.40%) IFRS 17
12 8 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 5 (0.25%) IFRS 9
15 5 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 75 (3.72%) Docker
2 19 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.099%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.050%) etcd
4 1 (0.050%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (3.67%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.69%) Grafana
3 13 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (0.60%) Ansible
5 9 (0.45%) Control-M
6 7 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.20%) Kibana
7 4 (0.20%) SCCM
8 3 (0.15%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.050%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.050%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.050%) Istio
9 1 (0.050%) logstash
9 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.050%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.050%) Puppet
9 1 (0.050%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.050%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 380 (18.85%) Microsoft
2 296 (14.68%) Databricks
3 166 (8.23%) SAP
4 148 (7.34%) Oracle
5 91 (4.51%) ServiceNow
6 84 (4.17%) Informatica
7 76 (3.77%) Salesforce
8 63 (3.13%) Google
9 32 (1.59%) Workday
10 27 (1.34%) Adobe
11 26 (1.29%) IBM
12 24 (1.19%) Talend
13 23 (1.14%) Alteryx
14 21 (1.04%) Palantir
14 21 (1.04%) Splunk
15 16 (0.79%) Denodo
15 16 (0.79%) Foundry
16 12 (0.60%) Bloomberg
16 12 (0.60%) Teradata
17 11 (0.55%) GoldenSource