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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 98 119
Rank change year-on-year +52 +21 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,069 742 681
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.45% 2.66% 2.08%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.02% 15.38% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,327 485 467
10th Percentile £352 £332 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £560
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -8.04% +1.82%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £713
90th Percentile £700 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 12 9
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.55 £21.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £27.80 £35.00
Median hourly rate £30.27 £37.74 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.78% +0.63% +6.19%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.38 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £40.25 £36.25
% change year-on-year -25.56% +11.02% +3.57%

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 8,271 4,825 4,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.77% 17.32% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,185 3,152 2,531
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.46%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £720 £756
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +0.24% -0.99% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 603 228 208
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year - -2.99% -6.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.49 £65.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.83 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.40 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.98% +9.09% -22.54%

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 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 25 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 25 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 +53 1,110 £525 -4.55% 1,739
North of England +57 287 £463 +1.37% 490
Midlands +28 218 £458 -8.45% 278
South East +34 215 £500 +8.11% 405
West Midlands +32 172 £465 -11.43% 199
North West +20 148 £525 +16.67% 302
Yorkshire +32 116 £450 -10.00% 140
South West +21 111 £500 +11.11% 162
East of England +11 82 £525 -13.15% 182
East Midlands +13 45 £450 +0.67% 79
North East -24 24 £491 +12.29% 49
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
1 131 (6.33%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (4.54%) Apache Spark
3 79 (3.82%) Apache
4 64 (3.09%) Confluence
5 48 (2.32%) SAS
6 45 (2.17%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
8 12 (0.58%) CMS
9 11 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
10 9 (0.43%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.097%) HCL Notes
14 2 (0.097%) Oracle Application Server
15 1 (0.048%) Apache Synapse
15 1 (0.048%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.048%) Luigi
15 1 (0.048%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 158 (7.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.68%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.097%) CATIA
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.048%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.048%) Trello
9 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 65 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.72%) NetSuite
4 14 (0.68%) Aladdin
5 12 (0.58%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.53%) NEC Housing
7 10 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 9 (0.43%) SAP MDG
9 8 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
10 7 (0.34%) iTrent
10 7 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (0.34%) SAP HR
11 6 (0.29%) Maximo
11 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
12 5 (0.24%) Shopify
13 4 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
13 4 (0.19%) SAP MM
13 4 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 522 (25.23%) Azure
2 443 (21.41%) Power Platform
3 373 (18.03%) AWS
4 182 (8.80%) GCP
5 170 (8.22%) Snowflake
6 149 (7.20%) Azure Data Factory
7 140 (6.77%) dbt
8 109 (5.27%) Amazon S3
9 104 (5.03%) Serverless
10 103 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
11 90 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 85 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
13 78 (3.77%) GitHub
14 71 (3.43%) Microsoft Purview
15 57 (2.75%) Collibra
16 51 (2.46%) Power Automate
17 46 (2.22%) SaaS
18 44 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
18 44 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
19 42 (2.03%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.29%) Broadband
1 6 (0.29%) SD-WAN
1 6 (0.29%) WAN
2 5 (0.24%) Firewall
2 5 (0.24%) SNMP
2 5 (0.24%) Wireless
3 3 (0.14%) HTTP
4 2 (0.097%) DNS
4 2 (0.097%) Network Security
4 2 (0.097%) SSL
5 1 (0.048%) BGP
5 1 (0.048%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.048%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.048%) LAN
5 1 (0.048%) MPLS
5 1 (0.048%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.048%) OSPF
5 1 (0.048%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.048%) VLAN
5 1 (0.048%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 415 (20.06%) Power BI
2 344 (16.63%) Metadata
3 330 (15.95%) Data Warehouse
4 177 (8.55%) Data Lake
5 119 (5.75%) Tableau
6 97 (4.69%) BigQuery
7 91 (4.40%) SQL Server
8 84 (4.06%) Delta Lake
9 82 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 79 (3.82%) Relational Database
11 68 (3.29%) Amazon Athena
12 51 (2.46%) NoSQL
13 43 (2.08%) Power Query
14 42 (2.03%) Big Data
15 38 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
16 35 (1.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 35 (1.69%) Looker
17 32 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
17 32 (1.55%) Star Schema
18 29 (1.40%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 131 (6.33%) Git
2 129 (6.23%) JIRA
3 35 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.45%) GitLab
5 12 (0.58%) ERwin
6 10 (0.48%) MLflow
6 10 (0.48%) Postman
7 9 (0.43%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.43%) ER Studio
7 9 (0.43%) Selenium
8 8 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.29%) Ant
9 6 (0.29%) Newman
9 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.24%) RStudio
10 5 (0.24%) Terragrunt
11 4 (0.19%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.19%) TestRail
11 4 (0.19%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 658 (31.80%) Social Skills
2 629 (30.40%) Finance
3 491 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
4 248 (11.99%) Public Sector
5 187 (9.04%) Banking
6 69 (3.33%) Retail
7 62 (3.00%) Manufacturing
8 55 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
9 53 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
10 52 (2.51%) Marketing
11 47 (2.27%) Local Government
12 43 (2.08%) Military
13 42 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
14 41 (1.98%) Legal
15 36 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
17 24 (1.16%) Billing
17 24 (1.16%) Law
18 23 (1.11%) Automotive
18 23 (1.11%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 440 (21.27%) Data Engineer
2 427 (20.64%) Analyst
3 250 (12.08%) Senior
4 246 (11.89%) Lead
5 225 (10.87%) Data Analyst
6 220 (10.63%) Architect
7 142 (6.86%) Data Architect
8 116 (5.61%) Senior Data Engineer
9 115 (5.56%) Developer
10 114 (5.51%) Business Analyst
11 82 (3.96%) Consultant
12 68 (3.29%) Administrator
13 65 (3.14%) Data Manager
14 50 (2.42%) Data Business Analyst
15 49 (2.37%) Data Consultant
16 40 (1.93%) Databricks Engineer
17 37 (1.79%) Lead Data Engineer
18 35 (1.69%) Senior Analyst
19 34 (1.64%) AWS Engineer
19 34 (1.64%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (8.55%) PySpark
2 139 (6.72%) Terraform
3 76 (3.67%) Kafka
4 58 (2.80%) REST
5 42 (2.03%) JSON
6 32 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.21%) Web Services
8 24 (1.16%) XML
9 23 (1.11%) Great Expectations
10 21 (1.01%) SOAP
11 20 (0.97%) Middleware
11 20 (0.97%) Pandas
12 18 (0.87%) HTML
13 16 (0.77%) .NET
14 14 (0.68%) pytest
15 12 (0.58%) OAuth
15 12 (0.58%) OpenID
16 11 (0.53%) CSS
16 11 (0.53%) OpenTelemetry
17 10 (0.48%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 182 (8.80%) Data Structures
2 132 (6.38%) Onboarding
3 120 (5.80%) Cloud Native
4 108 (5.22%) Product Ownership
5 96 (4.64%) Management Information System
6 95 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
7 61 (2.95%) CMDB
8 50 (2.42%) Reference Data
9 44 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
10 39 (1.88%) AI Agents
10 39 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (1.35%) Taxonomies
12 27 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
15 22 (1.06%) NHS
16 21 (1.01%) Life Science
17 19 (0.92%) Algorithms
18 16 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
18 16 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.35%) Unix
2 17 (0.82%) Linux
3 10 (0.48%) Windows
4 1 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (39.87%) Data Modelling
2 764 (36.93%) Analytics
3 740 (35.77%) Data Governance
4 574 (27.74%) Data Pipeline
5 554 (26.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 541 (26.15%) Validation
7 529 (25.57%) Business Intelligence
8 528 (25.52%) ETL
9 489 (23.63%) Migration
10 472 (22.81%) Data Engineering
11 430 (20.78%) Agile
12 426 (20.59%) AI
13 403 (19.48%) Decision-Making
14 389 (18.80%) CI/CD
15 381 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
16 337 (16.29%) Continuous Improvement
17 312 (15.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 300 (14.50%) Data Architecture
19 282 (13.63%) Data Migration
20 277 (13.39%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 898 (43.40%) SQL
2 558 (26.97%) Python
3 61 (2.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 59 (2.85%) Java
5 39 (1.88%) PL/SQL
6 33 (1.59%) Scala
7 32 (1.55%) T-SQL
8 31 (1.50%) Shell Script
9 30 (1.45%) PowerShell
10 29 (1.40%) JavaScript
11 24 (1.16%) R
12 23 (1.11%) C#
13 17 (0.82%) Bash
14 13 (0.63%) Bicep
15 9 (0.43%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.43%) TypeScript
16 8 (0.39%) Korn
16 8 (0.39%) SOQL
17 7 (0.34%) VBA
18 6 (0.29%) Go
Qualifications
1 327 (15.80%) Security Cleared
2 253 (12.23%) SC Cleared
3 133 (6.43%) Degree
4 49 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.40%) DV Cleared
7 25 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 23 (1.11%) PMI Certification
10 21 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (0.97%) Master's Degree
12 19 (0.92%) PMP
13 13 (0.63%) ACCA
13 13 (0.63%) CIMA
14 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.29%) CIPD
15 6 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 5 (0.24%) PhD
16 5 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (7.10%) QA
2 124 (5.99%) GDPR
3 41 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 35 (1.69%) PMO
5 23 (1.11%) SLA
6 21 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.77%) IFRS
7 16 (0.77%) NIST
8 15 (0.72%) GRC
9 14 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
9 14 (0.68%) NCSC
10 10 (0.48%) Solvency II
11 8 (0.39%) Basel III
11 8 (0.39%) IFRS 17
12 7 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.34%) COREP
12 7 (0.34%) FINREP
13 6 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 72 (3.48%) Docker
2 19 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.097%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.048%) HDFS
4 1 (0.048%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 70 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.72%) Grafana
3 14 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.48%) Ansible
5 8 (0.39%) Control-M
6 6 (0.29%) Kibana
7 5 (0.24%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.19%) SCCM
9 3 (0.14%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.048%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.048%) Istio
10 1 (0.048%) logstash
10 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.048%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.048%) Puppet
10 1 (0.048%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 402 (19.43%) Microsoft
2 305 (14.74%) Databricks
3 155 (7.49%) SAP
4 141 (6.81%) Oracle
5 97 (4.69%) ServiceNow
6 83 (4.01%) Informatica
7 74 (3.58%) Google
8 69 (3.33%) Salesforce
9 38 (1.84%) Workday
10 28 (1.35%) Adobe
11 25 (1.21%) IBM
12 23 (1.11%) Alteryx
12 23 (1.11%) Talend
13 22 (1.06%) Palantir
14 21 (1.01%) Splunk
15 20 (0.97%) Denodo
16 17 (0.82%) Foundry
17 13 (0.63%) Bloomberg
18 12 (0.58%) Teradata
19 11 (0.53%) NEC