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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 106 111
Rank change year-on-year +54 +5 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,765 682 764
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.95% 2.53% 2.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.00% 15.25% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 432 535
10th Percentile £350 £343 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £595 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 23 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.20 £13.28
25th Percentile £18.81 £22.99 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +50.67% -10.10%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.99 £42.50
90th Percentile £76.75 £73.71 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £15.79
% change year-on-year +26.42% +100.38% -32.41%

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 7,673 4,472 5,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.16% 16.57% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,935 2,899 3,156
10th Percentile £348 £280 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.31% -2.15%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 518 198 378
10th Percentile £14.18 £15.13 £11.04
25th Percentile £19.33 £19.66 £13.50
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.88 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.14% +27.52% -41.18%
75th Percentile £68.54 £65.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £82.01 £83.96 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £24.09
% change year-on-year +20.23% +24.53% -38.89%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +62 936 £524 -4.77% 468
North of England +10 223 £475 +5.56% 131
Midlands +35 219 £492 +6.12% 99
West Midlands +33 179 £492 -1.59% 49
South East +21 167 £471 -5.80% 173
North West +14 128 £475 +4.97% 65
South West +19 96 £500 +17.65% 113
East of England +1 80 £575 -4.17% 39
Yorkshire -13 70 £463 +10.12% 44
East Midlands +10 40 £500 +8.52% 50
North East -10 25 £498 -18.78% 22
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 90 (5.10%) Apache Airflow
1 90 (5.10%) Apache Spark
2 58 (3.29%) Apache
3 57 (3.23%) Confluence
4 51 (2.89%) SAS
5 36 (2.04%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
6 9 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.34%) Appian
7 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.23%) CMS
9 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.057%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.057%) Luigi
11 1 (0.057%) Mendix
Applications
1 133 (7.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 19 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
4 17 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.11%) CATIA
7 1 (0.057%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 61 (3.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.74%) NEC Housing
3 12 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.57%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.45%) iTrent
7 7 (0.40%) Sage X3
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.34%) SAP MDG
8 6 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.28%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.28%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.23%) Aladdin
10 4 (0.23%) Finacle
10 4 (0.23%) Maximo
10 4 (0.23%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 485 (27.48%) Azure
2 414 (23.46%) Power Platform
3 308 (17.45%) AWS
4 158 (8.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 128 (7.25%) GCP
6 123 (6.97%) Snowflake
7 119 (6.74%) dbt
8 101 (5.72%) Azure DevOps
9 99 (5.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 95 (5.38%) Amazon S3
11 82 (4.65%) Serverless
12 72 (4.08%) GitHub
13 69 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
14 58 (3.29%) Collibra
15 42 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
16 37 (2.10%) Power Automate
17 36 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
18 33 (1.87%) SaaS
19 24 (1.36%) PowerApps
20 23 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.51%) Firewall
2 5 (0.28%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) HTTP
4 1 (0.057%) 4G
4 1 (0.057%) 5G
4 1 (0.057%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.057%) DNS
4 1 (0.057%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.057%) SNMP
4 1 (0.057%) SSH
4 1 (0.057%) WAN
4 1 (0.057%) Wireless
4 1 (0.057%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (22.32%) Power BI
2 274 (15.52%) Data Warehouse
3 221 (12.52%) Metadata
4 162 (9.18%) Data Lake
5 114 (6.46%) Tableau
6 94 (5.33%) SQL Server
7 82 (4.65%) Delta Lake
8 73 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 73 (4.14%) BigQuery
9 60 (3.40%) Relational Database
10 56 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
11 52 (2.95%) Big Data
12 44 (2.49%) Snowflake Schema
13 37 (2.10%) Power Query
14 35 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
14 35 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 34 (1.93%) NoSQL
16 32 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
17 29 (1.64%) Star Schema
18 25 (1.42%) Looker
Development Applications
1 127 (7.20%) JIRA
2 114 (6.46%) Git
3 44 (2.49%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.93%) GitLab
5 18 (1.02%) ERwin
6 13 (0.74%) MLflow
7 9 (0.51%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.51%) Postman
8 8 (0.45%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
8 8 (0.45%) Selenium
9 7 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.34%) Ant
11 5 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.23%) LSMW
12 4 (0.23%) Newman
12 4 (0.23%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.23%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 542 (30.71%) Finance
2 522 (29.58%) Social Skills
3 417 (23.63%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (11.22%) Public Sector
5 137 (7.76%) Banking
6 52 (2.95%) Retail
7 48 (2.72%) Marketing
8 41 (2.32%) Manufacturing
8 41 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
9 40 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
10 33 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (1.64%) Legal
11 29 (1.64%) Local Government
12 27 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (1.19%) Military
14 19 (1.08%) Law
15 17 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.91%) Publishing
17 15 (0.85%) Telecoms
18 14 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 421 (23.85%) Data Engineer
2 377 (21.36%) Analyst
3 213 (12.07%) Data Analyst
4 205 (11.61%) Senior
5 196 (11.10%) Lead
6 152 (8.61%) Architect
7 99 (5.61%) Business Analyst
8 94 (5.33%) Data Architect
9 91 (5.16%) Developer
10 89 (5.04%) Senior Data Engineer
11 59 (3.34%) Consultant
12 54 (3.06%) Data Manager
13 44 (2.49%) Administrator
14 39 (2.21%) Data Business Analyst
15 32 (1.81%) Azure Engineer
16 31 (1.76%) Data Scientist
16 31 (1.76%) Lead Data Engineer
16 31 (1.76%) Project Manager
17 30 (1.70%) Data Consultant
17 30 (1.70%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (7.48%) PySpark
2 94 (5.33%) Kafka
3 42 (2.38%) Pandas
3 42 (2.38%) REST
4 41 (2.32%) JSON
5 28 (1.59%) Great Expectations
6 24 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
7 20 (1.13%) scikit-learn
7 20 (1.13%) Web Services
8 19 (1.08%) XML
9 17 (0.96%) Middleware
10 14 (0.79%) SOAP
11 13 (0.74%) GeoJSON
11 13 (0.74%) HTML
11 13 (0.74%) NumPy
11 13 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
12 12 (0.68%) pytest
13 11 (0.62%) PyTorch
14 10 (0.57%) Matplotlib
15 9 (0.51%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 141 (7.99%) Data Structures
2 110 (6.23%) Legacy Systems
3 102 (5.78%) Onboarding
4 90 (5.10%) Cloud Native
5 65 (3.68%) Product Ownership
6 62 (3.51%) Management Information System
7 56 (3.17%) CMDB
8 33 (1.87%) Reference Data
9 32 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 31 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
11 29 (1.64%) AI Agents
12 24 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.36%) Taxonomies
13 23 (1.30%) NHS
14 22 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (0.96%) Clustering
16 16 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (0.91%) Life Science
17 14 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
18 13 (0.74%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.68%) Windows
2 11 (0.62%) Linux
2 11 (0.62%) Unix
3 1 (0.057%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.057%) VMS
3 1 (0.057%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 708 (40.11%) Data Modelling
2 639 (36.20%) Analytics
3 579 (32.80%) Data Governance
4 505 (28.61%) Data Pipeline
4 505 (28.61%) ETL
5 491 (27.82%) Business Intelligence
6 429 (24.31%) Validation
7 410 (23.23%) Migration
8 391 (22.15%) Data Engineering
9 360 (20.40%) Agile
10 340 (19.26%) Decision-Making
11 334 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
12 325 (18.41%) CI/CD
13 306 (17.34%) AI
14 305 (17.28%) Stakeholder Management
15 258 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
16 257 (14.56%) Data Migration
16 257 (14.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 242 (13.71%) Data Management
18 235 (13.31%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 784 (44.42%) SQL
2 481 (27.25%) Python
3 58 (3.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 56 (3.17%) Java
5 44 (2.49%) Scala
6 36 (2.04%) T-SQL
7 30 (1.70%) PL/SQL
8 29 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 18 (1.02%) C#
9 18 (1.02%) VBA
10 13 (0.74%) JavaScript
10 13 (0.74%) R
10 13 (0.74%) Shell Script
11 11 (0.62%) Bicep
12 10 (0.57%) Bash
12 10 (0.57%) TypeScript
13 9 (0.51%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.40%) SOQL
15 6 (0.34%) SOSL
16 5 (0.28%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 296 (16.77%) Security Cleared
2 226 (12.80%) SC Cleared
3 105 (5.95%) Degree
4 69 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 23 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 18 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 15 (0.85%) Master's Degree
9 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (0.62%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.40%) ACCA
11 7 (0.40%) CIMA
11 7 (0.40%) PMP
11 7 (0.40%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.34%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.28%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.28%) PhD
13 5 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (8.39%) GDPR
2 119 (6.74%) QA
3 34 (1.93%) PMO
4 29 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.02%) Solvency II
7 16 (0.91%) SLA
8 11 (0.62%) IFRS
8 11 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.45%) COREP
9 8 (0.45%) FINREP
9 8 (0.45%) GRC
10 7 (0.40%) NIST
11 6 (0.34%) NCSC
12 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.23%) BS7666
12 4 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.23%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 68 (3.85%) Docker
2 10 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.28%) etcd
4 1 (0.057%) HDFS
4 1 (0.057%) RACF
4 1 (0.057%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.057%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 127 (7.20%) Terraform
2 73 (4.14%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.79%) Grafana
4 12 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.51%) Ansible
6 6 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.28%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.28%) Kibana
7 5 (0.28%) SCCM
8 4 (0.23%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.11%) logstash
10 1 (0.057%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.057%) Control-M
10 1 (0.057%) Istio
10 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.057%) Nessus
10 1 (0.057%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.057%) Puppet
10 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.057%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 278 (15.75%) Microsoft
2 266 (15.07%) Databricks
3 140 (7.93%) SAP
4 123 (6.97%) Oracle
5 78 (4.42%) Salesforce
6 77 (4.36%) Informatica
7 72 (4.08%) ServiceNow
8 42 (2.38%) Google
9 34 (1.93%) Talend
10 22 (1.25%) Denodo
11 20 (1.13%) Workday
12 19 (1.08%) Palantir
13 18 (1.02%) IBM
14 16 (0.91%) Alteryx
14 16 (0.91%) Foundry
15 15 (0.85%) Adobe
16 14 (0.79%) NEC
17 13 (0.74%) GoldenSource
18 11 (0.62%) OpenAI
18 11 (0.62%) Splunk