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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 105 114
Rank change year-on-year +42 +9 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,401 610 743
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.58% 2.50% 1.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.78% 16.13% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 967 431 514
10th Percentile £350 £320 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £531
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -4.34% -0.22%
75th Percentile £590 £625 £663
90th Percentile £675 £725 £771
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 32
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £14.13
25th Percentile £17.73 £22.55 £15.39
Median hourly rate £28.25 £29.07 £22.82
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +27.39% +1.49%
75th Percentile £66.60 £34.60 £49.71
90th Percentile £83.00 £80.21 £60.95
UK median hourly rate £40.75 £29.07 £20.47
% change year-on-year +40.18% +42.01% -8.96%

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 6,743 3,782 5,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.24% 15.53% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,394 2,451 3,392
10th Percentile £340 £270 £305
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 156 339
10th Percentile £14.34 £17.48 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.09
Median hourly rate £30.49 £32.66 £21.12
Median % change year-on-year -6.63% +54.65% -50.32%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.73 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £32.00 £20.61
% change year-on-year -3.13% +55.30% -48.49%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +48 778 £525 - 272
North of England +9 178 £492 +9.33% 142
Midlands +12 154 £500 +7.53% 89
West Midlands +17 123 £505 +0.90% 59
South East +15 112 £456 -12.76% 145
North West +16 98 £480 +5.49% 65
South West +23 79 £500 +2.56% 54
East of England -27 57 £575 -4.17% 42
Yorkshire -30 54 £495 +80.00% 63
East Midlands -17 32 £450 +9.82% 30
North East - 26 £475 - 16
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
1 118 (8.42%) Apache Spark
2 74 (5.28%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (4.07%) Apache
4 49 (3.50%) SAS
5 34 (2.43%) Confluence
6 33 (2.36%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.64%) Appian
8 6 (0.43%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.29%) CMS
11 3 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
11 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
11 3 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
13 1 (0.071%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 126 (8.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 47 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.86%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.71%) iTrent
5 8 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.50%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.43%) Finacle
7 6 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.43%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.43%) SAP MDG
7 6 (0.43%) SAP MM
7 6 (0.43%) SystmOne
8 5 (0.36%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.36%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.29%) Actimize
9 4 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.29%) SAP PM
10 3 (0.21%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 442 (31.55%) Azure
2 367 (26.20%) Power Platform
3 260 (18.56%) AWS
4 187 (13.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 126 (8.99%) GCP
6 112 (7.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 107 (7.64%) Snowflake
8 95 (6.78%) dbt
9 90 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
10 76 (5.42%) Amazon S3
11 68 (4.85%) GitHub
12 60 (4.28%) Collibra
13 59 (4.21%) Serverless
14 40 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
16 30 (2.14%) Power Automate
17 29 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
17 29 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
18 24 (1.71%) SaaS
19 20 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.36%) VPN
2 4 (0.29%) Firewall
3 2 (0.14%) Broadband
3 2 (0.14%) DNS
3 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.14%) SSL
3 2 (0.14%) VoIP
4 1 (0.071%) 4G
4 1 (0.071%) 5G
4 1 (0.071%) HTTP
4 1 (0.071%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 352 (25.12%) Power BI
2 261 (18.63%) Data Warehouse
3 200 (14.28%) Metadata
4 135 (9.64%) Data Lake
5 98 (7.00%) Tableau
6 92 (6.57%) SQL Server
7 75 (5.35%) Delta Lake
8 69 (4.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 61 (4.35%) BigQuery
10 55 (3.93%) Snowflake Schema
11 50 (3.57%) NoSQL
12 47 (3.35%) Big Data
13 45 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
14 44 (3.14%) Relational Database
15 39 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 36 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
17 32 (2.28%) Pentaho
18 30 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
19 29 (2.07%) OLAP
19 29 (2.07%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 134 (9.56%) Git
2 104 (7.42%) JIRA
3 55 (3.93%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.50%) ERwin
5 18 (1.28%) GitLab
6 17 (1.21%) MLflow
7 14 (1.00%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.50%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.43%) Selenium
10 5 (0.36%) LSMW
10 5 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.21%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.21%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.21%) Zephyr
13 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.14%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.14%) Postman
14 1 (0.071%) GCC
14 1 (0.071%) Hudson
General
1 458 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 413 (29.48%) Finance
3 336 (23.98%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (11.21%) Public Sector
5 113 (8.07%) Banking
6 44 (3.14%) Marketing
7 38 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
8 35 (2.50%) Retail
9 33 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (1.86%) Legal
12 21 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (1.43%) Law
14 18 (1.28%) Local Government
14 18 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.21%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.21%) Manufacturing
16 16 (1.14%) Military
16 16 (1.14%) Telecoms
17 15 (1.07%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 390 (27.84%) Data Engineer
2 290 (20.70%) Analyst
3 182 (12.99%) Data Analyst
4 152 (10.85%) Senior
5 130 (9.28%) Lead
6 126 (8.99%) Architect
7 89 (6.35%) Business Analyst
8 77 (5.50%) Data Architect
9 69 (4.93%) Developer
10 63 (4.50%) Senior Data Engineer
11 55 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
12 45 (3.21%) Azure Data Engineer
13 42 (3.00%) Consultant
14 39 (2.78%) Data Business Analyst
14 39 (2.78%) Data Manager
15 25 (1.78%) Data Migration Lead
15 25 (1.78%) Data Modeller
15 25 (1.78%) Project Manager
16 24 (1.71%) Principal Engineer
17 23 (1.64%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (9.42%) PySpark
2 108 (7.71%) Kafka
3 45 (3.21%) Pandas
4 43 (3.07%) REST
5 27 (1.93%) Great Expectations
5 27 (1.93%) JSON
6 24 (1.71%) scikit-learn
7 22 (1.57%) NumPy
8 15 (1.07%) PyTorch
8 15 (1.07%) Web Services
9 14 (1.00%) Middleware
10 13 (0.93%) OAuth
10 13 (0.93%) pytest
10 13 (0.93%) TensorFlow
10 13 (0.93%) XML
11 12 (0.86%) YAML
12 11 (0.79%) Flask
12 11 (0.79%) GeoJSON
12 11 (0.79%) Matplotlib
13 10 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 118 (8.42%) Data Structures
2 99 (7.07%) Legacy Systems
3 72 (5.14%) Cloud Native
4 65 (4.64%) Onboarding
5 61 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 52 (3.71%) Product Ownership
7 44 (3.14%) CMDB
8 32 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
9 31 (2.21%) Reference Data
10 23 (1.64%) NHS
11 22 (1.57%) Clustering
12 18 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (1.07%) Taxonomies
14 14 (1.00%) AI Agents
14 14 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
15 12 (0.86%) Fixed Income
15 12 (0.86%) Reinsurance
16 11 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.64%) Linux
1 9 (0.64%) Unix
1 9 (0.64%) Windows
2 1 (0.071%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 631 (45.04%) Data Modelling
2 543 (38.76%) Analytics
3 497 (35.47%) Data Governance
4 485 (34.62%) ETL
5 457 (32.62%) Business Intelligence
6 424 (30.26%) Data Pipeline
7 323 (23.05%) Data Engineering
8 314 (22.41%) Agile
9 311 (22.20%) Problem-Solving
10 303 (21.63%) Validation
11 288 (20.56%) Migration
12 276 (19.70%) CI/CD
13 258 (18.42%) Decision-Making
14 230 (16.42%) Data Architecture
15 210 (14.99%) AI
16 208 (14.85%) Stakeholder Management
17 194 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
17 194 (13.85%) Data Migration
18 193 (13.78%) DevOps
19 184 (13.13%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 723 (51.61%) SQL
2 447 (31.91%) Python
3 61 (4.35%) Scala
4 44 (3.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 41 (2.93%) Java
6 34 (2.43%) T-SQL
7 27 (1.93%) C#
8 26 (1.86%) PL/SQL
9 23 (1.64%) R
10 20 (1.43%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.21%) VBA
12 15 (1.07%) Bicep
12 15 (1.07%) JavaScript
13 9 (0.64%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.57%) Bash
15 4 (0.29%) ABAP
15 4 (0.29%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
15 4 (0.29%) TypeScript
16 3 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 260 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 196 (13.99%) SC Cleared
3 76 (5.42%) Degree
4 44 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (1.43%) Azure Certification
5 20 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (0.86%) AWS Certification
6 12 (0.86%) DV Cleared
7 11 (0.79%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.29%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.29%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.29%) SnowPro
10 3 (0.21%) ACCA
10 3 (0.21%) CIMA
10 3 (0.21%) PhD
11 2 (0.14%) AAT
11 2 (0.14%) CFA
11 2 (0.14%) PMP
11 2 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (8.71%) GDPR
2 87 (6.21%) QA
3 33 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.78%) PMO
5 16 (1.14%) SLA
6 14 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.93%) Solvency II
8 10 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.64%) FINREP
10 8 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.57%) IFRS
11 7 (0.50%) COREP
12 6 (0.43%) Basel III
12 6 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.36%) MiFID
14 4 (0.29%) BS7666
14 4 (0.29%) GRC
15 3 (0.21%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.21%) NIST
16 2 (0.14%) FATCA
System Software
1 73 (5.21%) Docker
2 6 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.36%) etcd
4 1 (0.071%) HDFS
4 1 (0.071%) RACF
4 1 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 106 (7.57%) Terraform
2 81 (5.78%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.71%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.57%) Grafana
5 5 (0.36%) Ansible
5 5 (0.36%) Fluentd
5 5 (0.36%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.29%) Kibana
6 4 (0.29%) SCCM
7 3 (0.21%) logstash
8 1 (0.071%) Control-M
8 1 (0.071%) Nessus
8 1 (0.071%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.071%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 266 (18.99%) Databricks
2 225 (16.06%) Microsoft
3 112 (7.99%) SAP
4 103 (7.35%) Oracle
5 70 (5.00%) Informatica
6 67 (4.78%) Salesforce
7 62 (4.43%) ServiceNow
8 55 (3.93%) Talend
9 51 (3.64%) Google
10 33 (2.36%) Denodo
11 16 (1.14%) Workday
12 13 (0.93%) GoldenSource
13 12 (0.86%) IBM
13 12 (0.86%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.79%) Avaloq
15 10 (0.71%) Palantir
16 9 (0.64%) Adobe
16 9 (0.64%) Automation Anywhere
16 9 (0.64%) ESRI
16 9 (0.64%) Sparx