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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 115 129
Rank change year-on-year +30 +14 +54
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 946 645 720
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.98% 2.24% 1.96%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.22% 15.87% 13.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 428 504
10th Percentile £332 £307 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £682
90th Percentile £723 £750 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 22
10th Percentile - £21.25 £20.07
25th Percentile £18.25 £26.25 £29.56
Median hourly rate £24.00 £37.50 £43.28
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -13.35% +143.82%
75th Percentile £43.60 £93.75 £59.25
90th Percentile £61.88 £97.50 £64.95
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £35.13 £43.28
% change year-on-year -13.17% -18.84% +143.82%

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 5,493 4,065 5,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.32% 14.14% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,572 2,367 3,527
10th Percentile £313 £270 £325
25th Percentile £406 £385 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -8.26% +3.81%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £702 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 163 214
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.76 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.40 £19.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.62 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.46% -9.66% +53.85%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.73 £64.88
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.89 £83.36
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -12.12% +46.67%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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 +24 564 £525 -2.33% 329
North of England -7 124 £475 +15.15% 194
Midlands +10 98 £513 +24.36% 152
South East -8 73 £420 -26.96% 266
West Midlands +6 71 £525 +7.58% 90
North West -16 65 £463 +10.45% 101
Yorkshire -6 48 £500 +33.33% 79
South West +6 43 £500 +2.56% 105
East Midlands -4 28 £430 +26.47% 53
East of England -38 15 £538 +7.50% 105
North East -1 12 £475 +91.92% 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 86 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 54 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (3.81%) Apache
3 36 (3.81%) SAS
4 16 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.37%) Confluence
6 8 (0.85%) Oracle Application Server
7 6 (0.63%) GeoServer
7 6 (0.63%) Smallworld
8 3 (0.32%) Luigi
8 3 (0.32%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) Appian
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 98 (10.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.48%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.21%) Trello
8 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.11%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 39 (4.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.74%) SAP MDG
5 5 (0.53%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.42%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.42%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle SCM
7 3 (0.32%) SAP MDG-F
7 3 (0.32%) SAP MDG-M
7 3 (0.32%) SAP MDG-S
8 2 (0.21%) Actimize
8 2 (0.21%) Maximo
8 2 (0.21%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.21%) SystmOne
8 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 254 (26.85%) Azure
2 219 (23.15%) Power Platform
3 187 (19.77%) AWS
4 95 (10.04%) GCP
5 87 (9.20%) Snowflake
6 84 (8.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 52 (5.50%) Amazon S3
8 51 (5.39%) dbt
9 50 (5.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 43 (4.55%) Collibra
11 37 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
12 36 (3.81%) GitHub
13 30 (3.17%) Serverless
14 26 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
17 19 (2.01%) OCI
18 16 (1.69%) SaaS
19 14 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
19 14 (1.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.42%) DNS
2 3 (0.32%) HTTP
3 2 (0.21%) Broadband
3 2 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.21%) Internet
3 2 (0.21%) SSL
3 2 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (22.62%) Power BI
2 182 (19.24%) Data Warehouse
3 143 (15.12%) Metadata
4 75 (7.93%) Data Lake
5 68 (7.19%) Tableau
6 56 (5.92%) SQL Server
7 45 (4.76%) Big Data
7 45 (4.76%) Relational Database
8 42 (4.44%) NoSQL
9 41 (4.33%) Snowflake Schema
10 38 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
11 32 (3.38%) Pentaho
12 31 (3.28%) BigQuery
12 31 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 29 (3.07%) Delta Lake
13 29 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
13 29 (3.07%) Star Schema
14 23 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
15 20 (2.11%) Amazon QuickSight
15 20 (2.11%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 118 (12.47%) Git
2 67 (7.08%) JIRA
3 47 (4.97%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.90%) ERwin
5 15 (1.59%) PowerDesigner
6 11 (1.16%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.74%) DBeaver
8 4 (0.42%) MLflow
9 3 (0.32%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.32%) LSMW
10 2 (0.21%) GitLab
10 2 (0.21%) Vite
10 2 (0.21%) webpack
11 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.11%) Deequ
11 1 (0.11%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.11%) Selenium
11 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
General
1 337 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 288 (30.44%) Finance
3 224 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (10.25%) Public Sector
5 75 (7.93%) Banking
6 38 (4.02%) Marketing
7 22 (2.33%) Legal
8 21 (2.22%) Local Government
9 20 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (2.01%) Retail
11 16 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.37%) Military
13 13 (1.37%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.27%) Investment Banking
15 11 (1.16%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.16%) Publishing
16 10 (1.06%) Billing
Job Titles
1 221 (23.36%) Analyst
2 211 (22.30%) Data Engineer
3 136 (14.38%) Data Analyst
4 95 (10.04%) Lead
5 90 (9.51%) Architect
6 87 (9.20%) Senior
7 70 (7.40%) Business Analyst
8 58 (6.13%) Developer
9 55 (5.81%) Data Architect
10 40 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
11 38 (4.02%) Senior Data Engineer
12 33 (3.49%) Azure Data Engineer
12 33 (3.49%) Data Business Analyst
13 32 (3.38%) Consultant
14 27 (2.85%) Data Manager
15 25 (2.64%) Data Modeller
16 20 (2.11%) Governance Analyst
17 17 (1.80%) Salesforce Architect
18 16 (1.69%) Project Manager
18 16 (1.69%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (8.03%) PySpark
2 56 (5.92%) Kafka
3 27 (2.85%) REST
4 24 (2.54%) XML
5 14 (1.48%) Middleware
5 14 (1.48%) SOAP
6 13 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
6 13 (1.37%) Pandas
6 13 (1.37%) Visualforce
7 11 (1.16%) JSON
8 10 (1.06%) Great Expectations
9 9 (0.95%) HTML
10 8 (0.85%) RESTful
11 7 (0.74%) Apache NiFi
11 7 (0.74%) NumPy
11 7 (0.74%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 7 (0.74%) YAML
12 6 (0.63%) .NET
13 5 (0.53%) CSS
13 5 (0.53%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 84 (8.88%) Data Structures
2 54 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 32 (3.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 30 (3.17%) Cloud Native
5 27 (2.85%) Management Information System
5 27 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.01%) CMDB
8 18 (1.90%) Reference Data
9 17 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.59%) NHS
10 15 (1.59%) Replication
11 13 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.27%) Reinsurance
13 11 (1.16%) Data Centre
13 11 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.06%) Clustering
15 9 (0.95%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
16 8 (0.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.80%) Linux
2 4 (0.42%) Unix
3 2 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (41.97%) Data Modelling
2 369 (39.01%) Data Governance
3 343 (36.26%) Analytics
4 299 (31.61%) Business Intelligence
5 298 (31.50%) ETL
6 267 (28.22%) Problem-Solving
7 234 (24.74%) Agile
8 232 (24.52%) Data Pipeline
9 187 (19.77%) Data Engineering
10 180 (19.03%) Migration
11 156 (16.49%) Validation
12 154 (16.28%) CI/CD
13 152 (16.07%) Data Management
14 146 (15.43%) Decision-Making
15 140 (14.80%) Data Analysis
16 139 (14.69%) Data Architecture
17 133 (14.06%) Data Integration
18 132 (13.95%) Data Migration
19 117 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
20 116 (12.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 467 (49.37%) SQL
2 293 (30.97%) Python
3 40 (4.23%) Scala
4 28 (2.96%) Java
4 28 (2.96%) R
5 18 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 17 (1.80%) C#
6 17 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 15 (1.59%) PL/SQL
7 15 (1.59%) T-SQL
8 13 (1.37%) Apex Code
8 13 (1.37%) Bash
9 8 (0.85%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.74%) C++
10 7 (0.74%) VBA
11 6 (0.63%) Bicep
11 6 (0.63%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.42%) ABAP
12 4 (0.42%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.32%) Korn
Qualifications
1 139 (14.69%) Security Cleared
2 102 (10.78%) SC Cleared
3 79 (8.35%) Degree
4 35 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.64%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.59%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.37%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.42%) CCAB
10 4 (0.42%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.42%) PMP
11 3 (0.32%) PhD
11 3 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.21%) ACCA
12 2 (0.21%) CFA
12 2 (0.21%) CIMA
12 2 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (9.41%) GDPR
2 61 (6.45%) QA
3 41 (4.33%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 13 (1.37%) PMO
6 12 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.85%) Basel III
7 8 (0.85%) IFRS
7 8 (0.85%) SLA
8 5 (0.53%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.42%) MiFID
9 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.32%) FINREP
10 3 (0.32%) GRC
10 3 (0.32%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.21%) CRD IV
11 2 (0.21%) EMIR
11 2 (0.21%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.21%) NIST
11 2 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (6.03%) Docker
2 8 (0.85%) zsh
3 4 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 53 (5.60%) Kubernetes
2 43 (4.55%) Terraform
3 4 (0.42%) Control-M
3 4 (0.42%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
4 3 (0.32%) Oozie
5 2 (0.21%) Ansible
5 2 (0.21%) Kibana
5 2 (0.21%) logstash
6 1 (0.11%) Grafana
6 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 161 (17.02%) Databricks
2 126 (13.32%) Microsoft
3 87 (9.20%) Oracle
4 69 (7.29%) SAP
5 46 (4.86%) Salesforce
5 46 (4.86%) Talend
6 45 (4.76%) Informatica
7 40 (4.23%) Google
8 31 (3.28%) ServiceNow
9 30 (3.17%) Denodo
10 13 (1.37%) Sparx
11 11 (1.16%) Alteryx
12 10 (1.06%) Adobe
12 10 (1.06%) Palantir
13 8 (0.85%) Workday
14 7 (0.74%) Foundry
15 6 (0.63%) ESRI
15 6 (0.63%) Guidewire
15 6 (0.63%) Intergraph
16 5 (0.53%) VMware