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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 104 111
Rank change year-on-year +55 +7 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,877 693 686
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.14% 2.49% 2.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.81% 14.64% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,224 453 494
10th Percentile £351 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £594 £638 £713
90th Percentile £688 £744 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 18 9
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.08 £21.10
25th Percentile £21.08 £21.65 £24.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% -15.63% +13.64%
75th Percentile £63.75 £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% -31.43%

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 7,882 4,732 4,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.38% 17.04% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,044 3,094 2,803
10th Percentile £340 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £605 £622 £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 535 217 282
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.12 £10.96
25th Percentile £19.39 £18.20 £14.41
Median hourly rate £38.72 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.07% +9.09% -35.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £62.54
90th Percentile £81.14 £85.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.86 £26.93 £25.77
% change year-on-year +44.33% +4.50% -34.79%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +65 993 £525 - 606
North of England +27 242 £475 +5.56% 166
Midlands +36 226 £476 +2.92% 122
South East +22 189 £464 -0.80% 193
West Midlands +37 181 £476 -4.80% 91
North West +10 133 £475 +3.26% 89
South West +20 100 £500 +17.65% 77
East of England +17 88 £565 -6.46% 52
Yorkshire +4 88 £455 +7.06% 47
East Midlands +6 45 £466 +3.79% 31
North East -19 22 £525 -14.29% 32
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
1 106 (5.65%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (5.22%) Apache Spark
3 79 (4.21%) Apache
4 55 (2.93%) Confluence
4 55 (2.93%) SAS
5 34 (1.81%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
6 10 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.48%) ArcGIS
7 9 (0.48%) CMS
8 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.11%) Appian
10 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.053%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.053%) Luigi
11 1 (0.053%) Mendix
Applications
1 139 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.11%) CATIA
8 1 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 66 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.01%) 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 (26.53%) Azure
2 416 (22.16%) Power Platform
3 323 (17.21%) AWS
4 157 (8.36%) Azure Data Factory
5 149 (7.94%) GCP
6 146 (7.78%) Snowflake
7 127 (6.77%) dbt
8 104 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
9 91 (4.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 89 (4.74%) Amazon S3
11 82 (4.37%) Serverless
12 75 (4.00%) GitHub
13 70 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (2.77%) Collibra
15 43 (2.29%) Microsoft Purview
16 39 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
17 38 (2.02%) SaaS
18 37 (1.97%) Power Automate
19 34 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
20 25 (1.33%) 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
1 393 (20.94%) Power BI
2 315 (16.78%) Data Warehouse
3 241 (12.84%) Metadata
4 166 (8.84%) Data Lake
5 120 (6.39%) Tableau
6 90 (4.79%) SQL Server
7 85 (4.53%) BigQuery
8 79 (4.21%) Delta Lake
9 70 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 67 (3.57%) Relational Database
11 55 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
12 53 (2.82%) Big Data
13 43 (2.29%) Snowflake Schema
14 41 (2.18%) NoSQL
15 38 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 37 (1.97%) Power Query
17 33 (1.76%) Looker
18 32 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
19 31 (1.65%) Star Schema
20 30 (1.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 121 (6.45%) JIRA
2 115 (6.13%) Git
3 50 (2.66%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.86%) GitLab
5 19 (1.01%) ERwin
6 12 (0.64%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.53%) 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%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 565 (30.10%) Finance
2 558 (29.73%) Social Skills
3 451 (24.03%) Analytical Skills
4 211 (11.24%) Public Sector
5 146 (7.78%) Banking
6 56 (2.98%) Marketing
7 53 (2.82%) Retail
8 48 (2.56%) Manufacturing
9 45 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
10 42 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 32 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (1.60%) Local Government
14 28 (1.49%) Military
15 27 (1.44%) Legal
16 20 (1.07%) Financial Institution
16 20 (1.07%) Law
17 19 (1.01%) Front Office
17 19 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
18 18 (0.96%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 431 (22.96%) Data Engineer
2 393 (20.94%) Analyst
3 219 (11.67%) Data Analyst
4 218 (11.61%) Senior
5 208 (11.08%) Lead
6 176 (9.38%) Architect
7 114 (6.07%) Data Architect
8 112 (5.97%) Business Analyst
9 105 (5.59%) Developer
10 90 (4.79%) Senior Data Engineer
11 67 (3.57%) Consultant
12 58 (3.09%) Data Manager
13 51 (2.72%) Administrator
14 45 (2.40%) 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%) Lead Data Engineer
17 31 (1.65%) Project Manager
18 30 (1.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (7.73%) PySpark
2 90 (4.79%) Kafka
3 46 (2.45%) REST
4 43 (2.29%) JSON
5 39 (2.08%) Pandas
6 26 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.33%) Great Expectations
8 23 (1.23%) Web Services
9 21 (1.12%) Middleware
10 17 (0.91%) XML
11 16 (0.85%) scikit-learn
12 15 (0.80%) HTML
13 14 (0.75%) SOAP
14 13 (0.69%) .NET
14 13 (0.69%) GeoJSON
14 13 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
15 10 (0.53%) Apache Beam
15 10 (0.53%) Matplotlib
15 10 (0.53%) SailPoint
16 9 (0.48%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 166 (8.84%) Data Structures
2 108 (5.75%) Onboarding
3 104 (5.54%) Legacy Systems
4 99 (5.27%) Cloud Native
5 84 (4.48%) Product Ownership
6 69 (3.68%) Management Information System
7 53 (2.82%) CMDB
8 42 (2.24%) Reference Data
9 33 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.60%) AI Agents
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 (1.23%) NHS
13 20 (1.07%) 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 19 (1.01%) Unix
2 18 (0.96%) Linux
3 11 (0.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 742 (39.53%) Data Modelling
2 684 (36.44%) Analytics
3 631 (33.62%) Data Governance
4 543 (28.93%) Data Pipeline
5 530 (28.24%) ETL
6 503 (26.80%) Business Intelligence
7 464 (24.72%) Validation
8 434 (23.12%) Migration
9 410 (21.84%) Data Engineering
10 395 (21.04%) Agile
11 353 (18.81%) Stakeholder Management
12 351 (18.70%) Decision-Making
13 350 (18.65%) CI/CD
14 339 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
15 322 (17.16%) AI
16 290 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 278 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 270 (14.38%) Data Migration
19 264 (14.06%) Data Architecture
20 251 (13.37%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 832 (44.33%) SQL
2 511 (27.22%) Python
3 64 (3.41%) Java
4 55 (2.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 39 (2.08%) Scala
6 38 (2.02%) PL/SQL
7 34 (1.81%) PowerShell
7 34 (1.81%) T-SQL
8 24 (1.28%) Shell Script
9 20 (1.07%) C#
10 19 (1.01%) JavaScript
11 18 (0.96%) VBA
12 16 (0.85%) R
13 12 (0.64%) Bash
13 12 (0.64%) Bicep
14 10 (0.53%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.53%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.37%) SOQL
16 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
16 6 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 317 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 241 (12.84%) SC Cleared
3 114 (6.07%) Degree
4 59 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.23%) DV Cleared
8 20 (1.07%) 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
1 136 (7.25%) GDPR
2 134 (7.14%) QA
3 34 (1.81%) Accessibility
4 33 (1.76%) PMO
5 22 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.85%) Solvency II
7 14 (0.75%) 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 82 (4.37%) Docker
2 20 (1.07%) 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
1 121 (6.45%) Terraform
2 87 (4.64%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.69%) Grafana
4 11 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.48%) Ansible
5 9 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.27%) Control-M
6 5 (0.27%) Fluentd
6 5 (0.27%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.21%) Kibana
7 4 (0.21%) SCCM
8 1 (0.053%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.053%) Istio
8 1 (0.053%) logstash
8 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.053%) Nessus
8 1 (0.053%) Nexpose
8 1 (0.053%) Puppet
8 1 (0.053%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.053%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 299 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 273 (14.54%) Databricks
3 161 (8.58%) SAP
4 131 (6.98%) Oracle
5 83 (4.42%) Informatica
6 77 (4.10%) Salesforce
7 75 (4.00%) ServiceNow
8 51 (2.72%) Google
9 37 (1.97%) Talend
10 30 (1.60%) Workday
11 24 (1.28%) Denodo
12 23 (1.23%) Adobe
13 21 (1.12%) Palantir
14 20 (1.07%) IBM
15 19 (1.01%) Alteryx
16 18 (0.96%) Splunk
17 17 (0.91%) Foundry
18 14 (0.75%) Sage
19 13 (0.69%) NEC
20 12 (0.64%) Bloomberg