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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 110 118
Rank change year-on-year +42 +8 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,275 617 768
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.46% 2.50% 2.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.93% 16.30% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 872 435 512
10th Percentile £347 £310 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £539
Median % change year-on-year - -7.19% +2.62%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £665
90th Percentile £688 £742 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 17 38
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.21 £14.01
25th Percentile £17.48 £22.98 £15.39
Median hourly rate £18.94 £26.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.54% +10.42% +6.74%
75th Percentile £48.25 £43.75 £47.44
90th Percentile £81.00 £93.75 £62.73
UK median hourly rate £29.25 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +10.36% +26.19% -6.60%

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 6,396 3,785 5,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.37% 15.32% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,138 2,397 3,496
10th Percentile £336 £263 £306
25th Percentile £413 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 155 351
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.24 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.45 £22.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £26.11 £32.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +30.00% -37.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £79.87 £78.58 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £31.88 £24.50
% change year-on-year -12.36% +30.12% -34.67%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 +39 743 £525 - 271
North of England -4 151 £486 +8.72% 125
Midlands +4 135 £505 +7.45% 87
West Midlands -2 108 £514 +5.33% 61
South East +10 103 £438 -16.35% 174
North West +1 80 £475 +4.40% 68
South West +16 64 £500 -4.76% 53
Yorkshire -37 45 £498 +80.91% 44
East of England -38 34 £519 -13.54% 28
East Midlands -17 28 £447 +20.00% 26
North East - 26 £500 - 15
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
1 117 (9.18%) Apache Spark
2 68 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (4.31%) Apache
4 42 (3.29%) SAS
5 30 (2.35%) Confluence
6 27 (2.12%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.71%) Appian
8 8 (0.63%) GeoServer
8 8 (0.63%) Smallworld
9 7 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (0.31%) CMS
12 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.24%) NetWeaver
13 2 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.078%) Jupyter
Applications
1 115 (9.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.24%) Trello
7 1 (0.078%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 40 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.94%) Loan IQ
2 12 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.55%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.47%) Sage X3
5 6 (0.47%) SAP MDG
5 6 (0.47%) SAP MM
6 5 (0.39%) Finacle
6 5 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.39%) SystmOne
7 4 (0.31%) Actimize
7 4 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.31%) SAP PM
8 3 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.24%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.24%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 409 (32.08%) Azure
2 338 (26.51%) Power Platform
3 252 (19.76%) AWS
4 164 (12.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 121 (9.49%) GCP
6 110 (8.63%) Snowflake
7 95 (7.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 81 (6.35%) dbt
9 76 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
10 67 (5.25%) Amazon S3
11 61 (4.78%) GitHub
12 55 (4.31%) Serverless
13 54 (4.24%) Collibra
14 37 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
15 31 (2.43%) Microsoft Purview
16 26 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
16 26 (2.04%) Power Automate
17 25 (1.96%) SaaS
18 19 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.39%) VPN
2 3 (0.24%) Firewall
3 2 (0.16%) Broadband
3 2 (0.16%) DNS
3 2 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.16%) SSL
3 2 (0.16%) VoIP
4 1 (0.078%) 4G
4 1 (0.078%) 5G
4 1 (0.078%) HTTP
4 1 (0.078%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (25.49%) Power BI
2 247 (19.37%) Data Warehouse
3 187 (14.67%) Metadata
4 124 (9.73%) Data Lake
5 85 (6.67%) Tableau
6 83 (6.51%) SQL Server
7 67 (5.25%) Delta Lake
8 63 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
9 54 (4.24%) BigQuery
10 53 (4.16%) Big Data
11 50 (3.92%) NoSQL
12 49 (3.84%) Relational Database
12 49 (3.84%) Snowflake Schema
13 41 (3.22%) Amazon Redshift
14 40 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 29 (2.27%) Pentaho
15 29 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
16 28 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
17 26 (2.04%) Star Schema
18 24 (1.88%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 127 (9.96%) Git
2 90 (7.06%) JIRA
3 51 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.80%) ERwin
5 16 (1.25%) PowerDesigner
6 15 (1.18%) GitLab
6 15 (1.18%) MLflow
7 9 (0.71%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.31%) DBeaver
8 4 (0.31%) LSMW
8 4 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.24%) Selenium
9 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.24%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.16%) Postman
10 2 (0.16%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.078%) GCC
11 1 (0.078%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.078%) RStudio
General
1 420 (32.94%) Social Skills
2 365 (28.63%) Finance
3 299 (23.45%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (11.45%) Public Sector
5 103 (8.08%) Banking
6 41 (3.22%) Marketing
7 33 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
8 32 (2.51%) Retail
9 27 (2.12%) Legal
10 26 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (1.57%) Publishing
13 19 (1.49%) Manufacturing
14 18 (1.41%) Telecoms
15 16 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.25%) Local Government
16 15 (1.18%) Law
16 15 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (1.02%) Military
18 12 (0.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 353 (27.69%) Data Engineer
2 265 (20.78%) Analyst
3 163 (12.78%) Data Analyst
4 135 (10.59%) Senior
5 130 (10.20%) Architect
6 127 (9.96%) Lead
7 79 (6.20%) Business Analyst
8 76 (5.96%) Data Architect
9 63 (4.94%) Developer
10 59 (4.63%) Senior Data Engineer
11 52 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
12 43 (3.37%) Azure Data Engineer
13 38 (2.98%) Data Business Analyst
14 36 (2.82%) Consultant
15 28 (2.20%) Data Manager
15 28 (2.20%) Data Modeller
16 23 (1.80%) Project Manager
16 23 (1.80%) Senior Analyst
17 22 (1.73%) Principal Engineer
18 20 (1.57%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (9.49%) PySpark
2 98 (7.69%) Kafka
3 39 (3.06%) Pandas
4 38 (2.98%) REST
5 22 (1.73%) NumPy
5 22 (1.73%) scikit-learn
6 20 (1.57%) Great Expectations
7 15 (1.18%) Web Services
8 13 (1.02%) OAuth
8 13 (1.02%) PyTorch
8 13 (1.02%) TensorFlow
8 13 (1.02%) XML
9 12 (0.94%) JSON
10 11 (0.86%) Flask
10 11 (0.86%) GeoJSON
10 11 (0.86%) Matplotlib
10 11 (0.86%) Middleware
10 11 (0.86%) pytest
11 10 (0.78%) RESTful
11 10 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 111 (8.71%) Data Structures
2 95 (7.45%) Legacy Systems
3 64 (5.02%) Cloud Native
4 55 (4.31%) Management Information System
5 47 (3.69%) Onboarding
6 42 (3.29%) Product Ownership
7 39 (3.06%) CMDB
8 37 (2.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 27 (2.12%) Reference Data
10 21 (1.65%) NHS
11 18 (1.41%) Clustering
11 18 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.18%) Replication
13 15 (1.18%) Taxonomies
14 14 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (1.10%) Reinsurance
15 12 (0.94%) Fixed Income
16 9 (0.71%) Algorithms
16 9 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (0.78%) Linux
2 9 (0.71%) Unix
3 7 (0.55%) Windows
4 1 (0.078%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 573 (44.94%) Data Modelling
2 503 (39.45%) Analytics
3 449 (35.22%) Data Governance
4 439 (34.43%) ETL
5 425 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
6 369 (28.94%) Data Pipeline
7 300 (23.53%) Data Engineering
8 299 (23.45%) Agile
9 286 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
10 260 (20.39%) Migration
11 244 (19.14%) Validation
12 239 (18.75%) CI/CD
13 226 (17.73%) Decision-Making
14 212 (16.63%) Data Architecture
15 185 (14.51%) AI
16 180 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
17 175 (13.73%) Data Migration
18 172 (13.49%) DevOps
19 171 (13.41%) Data Integration
20 168 (13.18%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 666 (52.24%) SQL
2 419 (32.86%) Python
3 60 (4.71%) Scala
4 39 (3.06%) Java
5 37 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 25 (1.96%) R
7 23 (1.80%) C#
7 23 (1.80%) PL/SQL
7 23 (1.80%) T-SQL
8 15 (1.18%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.10%) Bicep
9 14 (1.10%) VBA
10 13 (1.02%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.02%) Shell Script
11 9 (0.71%) Bash
12 5 (0.39%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.39%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.31%) ABAP
13 4 (0.31%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 239 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 179 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 74 (5.80%) Degree
4 37 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.33%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.24%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.16%) AAT
11 2 (0.16%) ACCA
11 2 (0.16%) CFA
11 2 (0.16%) CIMA
11 2 (0.16%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.16%) PhD
11 2 (0.16%) PMP
11 2 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (9.02%) GDPR
2 82 (6.43%) QA
3 41 (3.22%) Accessibility
4 23 (1.80%) PMO
5 12 (0.94%) SLA
5 12 (0.94%) Solvency II
6 11 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 9 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.55%) Basel III
8 7 (0.55%) IFRS
9 5 (0.39%) FINREP
10 4 (0.31%) MiFID
10 4 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.24%) COREP
11 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.24%) NIST
12 2 (0.16%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.16%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 67 (5.25%) Docker
2 6 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.31%) etcd
4 2 (0.16%) zsh
5 1 (0.078%) HDFS
5 1 (0.078%) RACF
5 1 (0.078%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 94 (7.37%) Terraform
2 72 (5.65%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.55%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.31%) Ansible
4 4 (0.31%) Fluentd
4 4 (0.31%) Kibana
4 4 (0.31%) SCCM
5 3 (0.24%) Grafana
5 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.24%) logstash
6 1 (0.078%) Nessus
6 1 (0.078%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 243 (19.06%) Databricks
2 196 (15.37%) Microsoft
3 89 (6.98%) SAP
4 88 (6.90%) Oracle
5 70 (5.49%) Informatica
6 62 (4.86%) Salesforce
7 56 (4.39%) ServiceNow
8 52 (4.08%) Talend
9 49 (3.84%) Google
10 30 (2.35%) Denodo
11 12 (0.94%) ESRI
11 12 (0.94%) OpenAI
11 12 (0.94%) Palantir
11 12 (0.94%) Workday
12 10 (0.78%) Sparx
13 9 (0.71%) Automation Anywhere
13 9 (0.71%) Avaloq
13 9 (0.71%) Foundry
13 9 (0.71%) IBM
14 8 (0.63%) GoldenSource