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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 107 111
Rank change year-on-year +56 +4 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,802 678 738
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.02% 2.49% 2.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.38% 14.75% 15.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,182 435 527
10th Percentile £350 £346 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £590 £638 £713
90th Percentile £675 £742 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 19 16
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.12 £14.76
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.10 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +31.83% -22.58%
75th Percentile £61.50 £34.72 £44.81
90th Percentile £77.50 £58.74 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £15.81
% change year-on-year +26.42% +100.13% -49.00%

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 7,707 4,598 4,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.19% 16.87% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,938 2,995 3,027
10th Percentile £342 £273 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.47% -1.25%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £636
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 210 327
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.46 £18.59 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +22.80% -39.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.30 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £28.18 £25.00
% change year-on-year +37.40% +12.72% -35.42%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +62 938 £525 -4.55% 357
North of England +24 230 £475 +5.56% 107
Midlands +42 221 £475 +2.70% 75
South East +20 182 £463 -5.13% 127
West Midlands +33 179 £472 -5.60% 42
North West +8 125 £475 +3.26% 43
South West +18 102 £500 +17.65% 43
East of England +9 85 £565 -6.46% 20
Yorkshire -4 81 £463 +9.47% 38
East Midlands +9 42 £488 +8.33% 33
North East -20 25 £520 -15.10% 26
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 98 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (5.22%) Apache Spark
3 66 (3.66%) Apache
4 55 (3.05%) Confluence
5 50 (2.77%) SAS
6 37 (2.05%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
8 9 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.39%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.39%) CMS
10 4 (0.22%) Appian
11 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.055%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.055%) Luigi
13 1 (0.055%) Mendix
Applications
1 132 (7.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.72%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.055%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 65 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.67%) NEC Housing
3 12 (0.67%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.44%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.44%) Sage X3
5 8 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.39%) iTrent
6 7 (0.39%) SAP MDG
6 7 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.33%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.28%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.28%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.22%) Maximo
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.22%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 482 (26.75%) Azure
2 412 (22.86%) Power Platform
3 313 (17.37%) AWS
4 154 (8.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 137 (7.60%) GCP
6 136 (7.55%) Snowflake
7 124 (6.88%) dbt
8 97 (5.38%) Amazon S3
8 97 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
9 93 (5.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 84 (4.66%) Serverless
11 72 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
12 71 (3.94%) GitHub
13 58 (3.22%) Collibra
14 40 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
15 38 (2.11%) Power Automate
16 37 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
16 37 (2.05%) SaaS
17 28 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
18 25 (1.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.50%) Firewall
2 5 (0.28%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) HTTP
4 1 (0.055%) 4G
4 1 (0.055%) 5G
4 1 (0.055%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.055%) DNS
4 1 (0.055%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.055%) SNMP
4 1 (0.055%) SSH
4 1 (0.055%) WAN
4 1 (0.055%) Wireless
4 1 (0.055%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 390 (21.64%) Power BI
2 291 (16.15%) Data Warehouse
3 229 (12.71%) Metadata
4 161 (8.93%) Data Lake
5 117 (6.49%) Tableau
6 88 (4.88%) SQL Server
7 79 (4.38%) BigQuery
8 77 (4.27%) Delta Lake
9 73 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 61 (3.39%) Relational Database
11 56 (3.11%) Amazon Athena
12 55 (3.05%) Big Data
13 43 (2.39%) Snowflake Schema
14 37 (2.05%) Power Query
15 36 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 35 (1.94%) NoSQL
17 32 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
17 32 (1.78%) Star Schema
18 29 (1.61%) Looker
19 28 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 121 (6.71%) JIRA
2 115 (6.38%) Git
3 42 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.83%) GitLab
5 16 (0.89%) ERwin
6 12 (0.67%) MLflow
7 9 (0.50%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.50%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.44%) Postman
8 8 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.39%) Selenium
9 7 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.33%) Ant
11 5 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
11 5 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.22%) LSMW
12 4 (0.22%) Newman
12 4 (0.22%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.17%) Robot Framework
General
1 538 (29.86%) Finance
2 528 (29.30%) Social Skills
3 427 (23.70%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (11.10%) Public Sector
5 128 (7.10%) Banking
6 50 (2.77%) Marketing
7 47 (2.61%) Retail
8 45 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 43 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
10 41 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 31 (1.72%) Local Government
13 28 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
14 26 (1.44%) Legal
15 23 (1.28%) Military
16 19 (1.05%) Law
16 19 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
17 17 (0.94%) Publishing
18 15 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
18 15 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 412 (22.86%) Data Engineer
2 383 (21.25%) Analyst
3 213 (11.82%) Data Analyst
4 203 (11.27%) Senior
5 199 (11.04%) Lead
6 165 (9.16%) Architect
7 104 (5.77%) Data Architect
8 102 (5.66%) Business Analyst
9 98 (5.44%) Developer
10 87 (4.83%) Senior Data Engineer
11 62 (3.44%) Consultant
12 55 (3.05%) Data Manager
13 47 (2.61%) Administrator
14 44 (2.44%) Data Business Analyst
15 31 (1.72%) Azure Engineer
15 31 (1.72%) Data Consultant
15 31 (1.72%) Lead Data Engineer
16 30 (1.66%) Data Scientist
16 30 (1.66%) Project Manager
17 29 (1.61%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (7.33%) PySpark
2 92 (5.11%) Kafka
3 46 (2.55%) REST
4 42 (2.33%) JSON
5 39 (2.16%) Pandas
6 28 (1.55%) Great Expectations
7 24 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
8 22 (1.22%) Web Services
9 18 (1.00%) scikit-learn
10 17 (0.94%) Middleware
10 17 (0.94%) XML
11 14 (0.78%) HTML
11 14 (0.78%) SOAP
12 13 (0.72%) GeoJSON
12 13 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
13 10 (0.55%) .NET
13 10 (0.55%) Matplotlib
13 10 (0.55%) NumPy
13 10 (0.55%) pytest
13 10 (0.55%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 150 (8.32%) Data Structures
2 107 (5.94%) Legacy Systems
3 104 (5.77%) Onboarding
4 96 (5.33%) Cloud Native
5 74 (4.11%) Product Ownership
6 61 (3.39%) Management Information System
7 55 (3.05%) CMDB
8 35 (1.94%) Reference Data
9 33 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
10 31 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 29 (1.61%) AI Agents
12 26 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
13 24 (1.33%) Taxonomies
14 23 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
15 22 (1.22%) NHS
16 17 (0.94%) Clustering
17 16 (0.89%) Life Science
18 15 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
18 15 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
19 14 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 17 (0.94%) Linux
1 17 (0.94%) Unix
2 12 (0.67%) Windows
3 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.055%) VMS
3 1 (0.055%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 709 (39.35%) Data Modelling
2 644 (35.74%) Analytics
3 600 (33.30%) Data Governance
4 516 (28.63%) Data Pipeline
5 512 (28.41%) ETL
6 489 (27.14%) Business Intelligence
7 447 (24.81%) Validation
8 423 (23.47%) Migration
9 397 (22.03%) Data Engineering
10 370 (20.53%) Agile
11 336 (18.65%) Decision-Making
12 333 (18.48%) CI/CD
13 326 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
14 321 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
15 304 (16.87%) AI
16 264 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
17 262 (14.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 259 (14.37%) Data Migration
19 245 (13.60%) Data Architecture
20 240 (13.32%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 795 (44.12%) SQL
2 481 (26.69%) Python
3 58 (3.22%) Java
4 56 (3.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 42 (2.33%) Scala
6 34 (1.89%) PL/SQL
6 34 (1.89%) T-SQL
7 30 (1.66%) PowerShell
8 21 (1.17%) Shell Script
9 19 (1.05%) VBA
10 18 (1.00%) C#
11 14 (0.78%) JavaScript
12 13 (0.72%) R
13 12 (0.67%) Bicep
14 11 (0.61%) Bash
15 10 (0.55%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.55%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.39%) SOQL
17 6 (0.33%) Cypher
17 6 (0.33%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 303 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 229 (12.71%) SC Cleared
3 108 (5.99%) Degree
4 67 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.66%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.17%) DV Cleared
7 18 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 16 (0.89%) Master's Degree
8 16 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.67%) PMI Certification
10 8 (0.44%) PMP
11 7 (0.39%) ACCA
11 7 (0.39%) CIMA
11 7 (0.39%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.28%) PhD
14 4 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (8.10%) GDPR
2 124 (6.88%) QA
3 34 (1.89%) PMO
4 33 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.94%) Solvency II
7 15 (0.83%) SLA
8 11 (0.61%) IFRS
9 10 (0.55%) NIST
9 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.50%) COREP
10 9 (0.50%) FINREP
11 8 (0.44%) GRC
12 7 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.33%) NCSC
14 4 (0.22%) BS7666
14 4 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.22%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.22%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 69 (3.83%) Docker
2 19 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.28%) etcd
4 1 (0.055%) HDFS
4 1 (0.055%) RACF
4 1 (0.055%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.055%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 126 (6.99%) Terraform
2 73 (4.05%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.78%) Grafana
4 12 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.50%) Ansible
5 9 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.28%) Fluentd
6 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
6 5 (0.28%) SCCM
7 4 (0.22%) Control-M
7 4 (0.22%) Kibana
8 1 (0.055%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.055%) Istio
8 1 (0.055%) logstash
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.055%) Nessus
8 1 (0.055%) Nexpose
8 1 (0.055%) Puppet
8 1 (0.055%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.055%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 285 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 267 (14.82%) Databricks
3 151 (8.38%) SAP
4 122 (6.77%) Oracle
5 83 (4.61%) Informatica
6 80 (4.44%) Salesforce
7 74 (4.11%) ServiceNow
8 46 (2.55%) Google
9 33 (1.83%) Talend
10 27 (1.50%) Workday
11 21 (1.17%) Palantir
12 20 (1.11%) IBM
13 19 (1.05%) Denodo
14 18 (1.00%) Alteryx
15 17 (0.94%) Adobe
15 17 (0.94%) Foundry
16 13 (0.72%) NEC
16 13 (0.72%) Sage
16 13 (0.72%) Splunk
17 12 (0.67%) GoldenSource