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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 107 111
Rank change year-on-year +49 +4 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,580 610 745
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.74% 2.49% 1.99%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.19% 15.28% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,042 389 520
10th Percentile £350 £349 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £638 £688
90th Percentile £675 £725 £816
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 20 28
10th Percentile £13.96 £18.22 £13.49
25th Percentile £17.20 £23.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £35.75 £31.64 £21.06
Median % change year-on-year +12.99% +50.26% -6.35%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.99 £44.81
90th Percentile £81.78 £78.83 £58.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £15.80
% change year-on-year +26.42% +100.25% -29.73%

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 7,121 3,992 5,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.86% 16.32% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,609 2,561 3,210
10th Percentile £350 £268 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 454 172 380
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £12.96
Median hourly rate £33.55 £34.50 £23.90
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +44.35% -43.76%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.15 £82.94 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £23.30
% change year-on-year +7.69% +39.51% -39.82%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +60 878 £524 -0.24% 279
North of England +5 186 £480 +6.67% 136
Midlands +20 178 £492 +6.81% 75
West Midlands +26 144 £498 +15.43% 57
South East +16 141 £463 -7.50% 153
North West +12 110 £475 +5.56% 80
South West +30 88 £500 +17.65% 46
East of England -10 68 £575 -4.49% 38
Yorkshire -34 50 £500 +25.00% 39
East Midlands -8 35 £450 -2.33% 18
North East 0 26 £475 -22.45% 19
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 95 (6.01%) Apache Spark
2 84 (5.32%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (3.16%) Apache
4 45 (2.85%) Confluence
5 42 (2.66%) SAS
6 36 (2.28%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.63%) Appian
8 8 (0.51%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.25%) CMS
12 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
13 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
13 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
Applications
1 123 (7.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 19 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.14%) MS Visio
4 17 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.13%) CATIA
6 2 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 49 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.76%) NEC Housing
3 10 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.57%) iTrent
4 9 (0.57%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.44%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.38%) Finacle
6 6 (0.38%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.32%) SystmOne
8 4 (0.25%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.25%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.19%) Actimize
9 3 (0.19%) Maximo
9 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 448 (28.35%) Azure
2 380 (24.05%) Power Platform
3 272 (17.22%) AWS
4 170 (10.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 121 (7.66%) GCP
6 113 (7.15%) Snowflake
7 110 (6.96%) dbt
8 106 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
9 104 (6.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 84 (5.32%) Amazon S3
11 77 (4.87%) GitHub
12 72 (4.56%) Serverless
13 57 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
14 56 (3.54%) Collibra
15 38 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
16 33 (2.09%) Microsoft Purview
16 33 (2.09%) Power Automate
17 31 (1.96%) SaaS
18 23 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
19 18 (1.14%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.44%) Firewall
2 5 (0.32%) VPN
3 2 (0.13%) HTTP
4 1 (0.063%) 4G
4 1 (0.063%) 5G
4 1 (0.063%) Broadband
4 1 (0.063%) DNS
4 1 (0.063%) SSH
4 1 (0.063%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 363 (22.97%) Power BI
2 246 (15.57%) Data Warehouse
3 206 (13.04%) Metadata
4 163 (10.32%) Data Lake
5 102 (6.46%) Tableau
6 101 (6.39%) SQL Server
7 78 (4.94%) Delta Lake
8 68 (4.30%) BigQuery
9 57 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 55 (3.48%) Relational Database
11 49 (3.10%) Big Data
12 48 (3.04%) Amazon Athena
12 48 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
13 46 (2.91%) Snowflake Schema
14 38 (2.41%) NoSQL
15 36 (2.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 35 (2.22%) Power Query
17 30 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
18 28 (1.77%) Star Schema
19 25 (1.58%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 114 (7.22%) JIRA
2 108 (6.84%) Git
3 43 (2.72%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.71%) GitLab
5 17 (1.08%) ERwin
6 15 (0.95%) MLflow
7 8 (0.51%) Postman
7 8 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.44%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.44%) Selenium
9 5 (0.32%) Eclipse
9 5 (0.32%) LSMW
9 5 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (0.25%) Ant
10 4 (0.25%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.25%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.19%) Newman
11 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
General
1 483 (30.57%) Finance
2 466 (29.49%) Social Skills
3 358 (22.66%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (10.44%) Public Sector
5 131 (8.29%) Banking
6 45 (2.85%) Marketing
7 41 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
8 40 (2.53%) Retail
9 35 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
10 30 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 25 (1.58%) Local Government
13 24 (1.52%) Legal
14 23 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (1.14%) Law
15 18 (1.14%) Military
16 16 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.89%) Financial Institution
17 14 (0.89%) Publishing
18 13 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 397 (25.13%) Data Engineer
2 323 (20.44%) Analyst
3 184 (11.65%) Data Analyst
4 174 (11.01%) Senior
5 161 (10.19%) Lead
6 124 (7.85%) Architect
7 83 (5.25%) Business Analyst
8 80 (5.06%) Developer
9 76 (4.81%) Senior Data Engineer
10 73 (4.62%) Data Architect
11 55 (3.48%) Consultant
12 51 (3.23%) Data Manager
13 38 (2.41%) Administrator
14 34 (2.15%) Azure Engineer
15 32 (2.03%) Data Business Analyst
16 31 (1.96%) Project Manager
17 30 (1.90%) Azure Data Engineer
18 29 (1.84%) AWS Engineer
18 29 (1.84%) Data Migration Lead
19 27 (1.71%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (7.97%) PySpark
2 91 (5.76%) Kafka
3 52 (3.29%) Pandas
4 46 (2.91%) REST
5 34 (2.15%) JSON
6 31 (1.96%) Great Expectations
7 25 (1.58%) scikit-learn
8 22 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
9 21 (1.33%) Web Services
10 20 (1.27%) NumPy
11 17 (1.08%) Middleware
11 17 (1.08%) XML
12 16 (1.01%) pytest
13 15 (0.95%) PyTorch
14 13 (0.82%) GeoJSON
15 12 (0.76%) OAuth
15 12 (0.76%) TensorFlow
16 11 (0.70%) Flask
16 11 (0.70%) RESTful
16 11 (0.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 120 (7.59%) Data Structures
2 113 (7.15%) Legacy Systems
3 82 (5.19%) Cloud Native
4 80 (5.06%) Onboarding
5 62 (3.92%) Product Ownership
6 57 (3.61%) Management Information System
7 46 (2.91%) CMDB
8 35 (2.22%) Reference Data
9 28 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
10 26 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.46%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.14%) Clustering
14 17 (1.08%) NHS
15 16 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (1.01%) Life Science
15 16 (1.01%) Taxonomies
16 12 (0.76%) Fixed Income
17 11 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.70%) Windows
2 10 (0.63%) Unix
3 9 (0.57%) Linux
4 1 (0.063%) VMS
4 1 (0.063%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 656 (41.52%) Data Modelling
2 591 (37.41%) Analytics
3 497 (31.46%) Data Governance
4 481 (30.44%) ETL
5 459 (29.05%) Data Pipeline
6 451 (28.54%) Business Intelligence
7 371 (23.48%) Validation
8 357 (22.59%) Migration
9 345 (21.84%) Data Engineering
10 326 (20.63%) Agile
11 302 (19.11%) Decision-Making
11 302 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
12 291 (18.42%) CI/CD
13 274 (17.34%) AI
14 242 (15.32%) Stakeholder Management
15 239 (15.13%) Data Migration
16 222 (14.05%) Data Architecture
17 221 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
18 210 (13.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 209 (13.23%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 748 (47.34%) SQL
2 455 (28.80%) Python
3 53 (3.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 49 (3.10%) Java
5 44 (2.78%) Scala
6 40 (2.53%) T-SQL
7 36 (2.28%) PL/SQL
8 22 (1.39%) PowerShell
9 19 (1.20%) C#
10 16 (1.01%) VBA
11 14 (0.89%) Bicep
12 13 (0.82%) R
13 10 (0.63%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.57%) JavaScript
15 8 (0.51%) Bash
16 7 (0.44%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.44%) TypeScript
17 5 (0.32%) Korn
17 5 (0.32%) SOQL
18 4 (0.25%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 265 (16.77%) Security Cleared
2 209 (13.23%) SC Cleared
3 88 (5.57%) Degree
4 57 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (1.33%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (0.82%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.70%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.51%) ACCA
9 8 (0.51%) CIMA
9 8 (0.51%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.44%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.38%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.32%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.32%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.25%) PhD
13 4 (0.25%) PMP
13 4 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 2 (0.13%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (8.35%) GDPR
2 107 (6.77%) QA
3 36 (2.28%) PMO
4 24 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.08%) SLA
7 13 (0.82%) Solvency II
8 11 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.57%) IFRS
10 8 (0.51%) COREP
10 8 (0.51%) FINREP
11 7 (0.44%) NIST
12 6 (0.38%) GRC
13 4 (0.25%) Basel III
13 4 (0.25%) BS7666
13 4 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.25%) GAAP
13 4 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 66 (4.18%) Docker
2 7 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.32%) etcd
4 1 (0.063%) HDFS
4 1 (0.063%) RACF
4 1 (0.063%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 119 (7.53%) Terraform
2 69 (4.37%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.63%) Prometheus
4 9 (0.57%) Grafana
5 8 (0.51%) Ansible
6 6 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.32%) Fluentd
8 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.25%) Kibana
8 4 (0.25%) SCCM
9 1 (0.063%) Control-M
9 1 (0.063%) Istio
9 1 (0.063%) logstash
9 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.063%) Nessus
9 1 (0.063%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.063%) Puppet
9 1 (0.063%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 258 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 253 (16.01%) Databricks
3 119 (7.53%) SAP
4 116 (7.34%) Oracle
5 74 (4.68%) Salesforce
6 64 (4.05%) ServiceNow
7 58 (3.67%) Informatica
8 42 (2.66%) Google
9 32 (2.03%) Talend
10 23 (1.46%) Denodo
11 20 (1.27%) IBM
12 17 (1.08%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.08%) Workday
13 15 (0.95%) GoldenSource
14 13 (0.82%) Adobe
14 13 (0.82%) NEC
15 11 (0.70%) Avaloq
15 11 (0.70%) ESRI
15 11 (0.70%) Foundry
16 10 (0.63%) Palantir