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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 99 116
Rank change year-on-year +50 +17 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,925 720 674
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.22% 2.61% 2.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.12% 15.17% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,247 467 476
10th Percentile £351 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £600 £626 £713
90th Percentile £688 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 18 9
10th Percentile £16.23 £20.18 £21.10
25th Percentile £21.13 £27.24 £24.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.56 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% -35.53% +28.11%
75th Percentile £61.50 £44.37 £51.75
90th Percentile £75.75 £61.24 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £33.11 £24.00
% change year-on-year +20.81% +37.96% -35.50%

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 7,982 4,747 4,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.48% 17.23% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,090 3,101 2,719
10th Percentile £338 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.19% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 539 228 268
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.14 £18.50 £13.77
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.09
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +16.80% -22.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.59
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £28.59 £25.00
% change year-on-year +26.16% +14.36% -28.57%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +57 1,022 £525 - 340
North of England +37 253 £475 +5.56% 160
Midlands +32 228 £470 -6.00% 92
South East +23 203 £475 -2.56% 196
West Midlands +29 178 £451 -13.11% 70
North West +22 138 £500 +6.38% 84
Yorkshire +18 96 £454 +3.71% 45
South West +4 94 £500 +17.65% 71
East of England +27 90 £565 -4.24% 53
East Midlands +9 49 £488 +8.33% 22
North East -19 20 £520 -15.10% 32
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
1 114 (5.92%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (4.88%) Apache Spark
3 72 (3.74%) Apache
4 55 (2.86%) Confluence
5 51 (2.65%) SAS
6 41 (2.13%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.57%) CMS
8 11 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
9 10 (0.52%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.10%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.10%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.052%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.052%) GeoServer
14 1 (0.052%) Luigi
14 1 (0.052%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 140 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
3 20 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.78%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.10%) CATIA
9 1 (0.052%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.052%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.052%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 66 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.57%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.52%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.42%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.36%) iTrent
8 7 (0.36%) SAP MDG
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.31%) Sage X3
10 5 (0.26%) BambooHR
10 5 (0.26%) Maximo
11 4 (0.21%) Finacle
11 4 (0.21%) Loan IQ
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.21%) Shopify
11 4 (0.21%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 508 (26.39%) Azure
2 415 (21.56%) Power Platform
3 348 (18.08%) AWS
4 158 (8.21%) Azure Data Factory
5 151 (7.84%) GCP
5 151 (7.84%) Snowflake
6 125 (6.49%) dbt
7 111 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
8 94 (4.88%) Serverless
9 93 (4.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 92 (4.78%) Amazon S3
11 78 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
12 74 (3.84%) GitHub
13 54 (2.81%) Microsoft Purview
14 53 (2.75%) Collibra
15 42 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
15 42 (2.18%) Power Automate
15 42 (2.18%) SaaS
16 35 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
17 31 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.47%) Firewall
2 5 (0.26%) VPN
3 3 (0.16%) HTTP
4 2 (0.10%) Broadband
4 2 (0.10%) DNS
4 2 (0.10%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.10%) SNMP
4 2 (0.10%) SSL
4 2 (0.10%) WAN
4 2 (0.10%) Wireless
5 1 (0.052%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.052%) Network Security
5 1 (0.052%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.052%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (20.47%) Power BI
2 325 (16.88%) Data Warehouse
3 282 (14.65%) Metadata
4 167 (8.68%) Data Lake
5 115 (5.97%) Tableau
6 98 (5.09%) SQL Server
7 85 (4.42%) BigQuery
8 83 (4.31%) Delta Lake
9 79 (4.10%) Amazon Redshift
10 75 (3.90%) Relational Database
11 54 (2.81%) Amazon Athena
12 52 (2.70%) Big Data
13 49 (2.55%) NoSQL
14 41 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
15 38 (1.97%) Snowflake Schema
16 36 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 35 (1.82%) Star Schema
18 34 (1.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 34 (1.77%) Looker
18 34 (1.77%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 116 (6.03%) JIRA
2 107 (5.56%) Git
3 42 (2.18%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.77%) GitLab
5 15 (0.78%) ERwin
6 10 (0.52%) ER Studio
6 10 (0.52%) MLflow
6 10 (0.52%) Selenium
7 9 (0.47%) Eclipse
8 8 (0.42%) Postman
9 7 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.31%) Ant
10 6 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.26%) Newman
11 5 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.21%) LSMW
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.21%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 599 (31.12%) Social Skills
2 576 (29.92%) Finance
3 454 (23.58%) Analytical Skills
4 231 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 157 (8.16%) Banking
6 60 (3.12%) Retail
7 55 (2.86%) Marketing
8 51 (2.65%) Manufacturing
9 47 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
10 45 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
11 40 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
12 39 (2.03%) Local Government
13 37 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 33 (1.71%) Legal
15 31 (1.61%) Military
16 27 (1.40%) Law
17 25 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
18 21 (1.09%) Automotive
19 19 (0.99%) Front Office
20 17 (0.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 431 (22.39%) Data Engineer
2 393 (20.42%) Analyst
3 225 (11.69%) Lead
3 225 (11.69%) Senior
4 216 (11.22%) Data Analyst
5 194 (10.08%) Architect
6 126 (6.55%) Data Architect
7 106 (5.51%) Business Analyst
8 104 (5.40%) Developer
9 99 (5.14%) Senior Data Engineer
10 72 (3.74%) Consultant
11 60 (3.12%) Data Manager
12 59 (3.06%) Administrator
13 40 (2.08%) Data Business Analyst
14 39 (2.03%) Data Consultant
15 37 (1.92%) Python Engineer
16 36 (1.87%) Lead Data Engineer
17 31 (1.61%) AWS Engineer
17 31 (1.61%) Azure Engineer
17 31 (1.61%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (8.83%) PySpark
2 128 (6.65%) Terraform
3 87 (4.52%) Kafka
4 52 (2.70%) REST
5 44 (2.29%) JSON
6 30 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
7 29 (1.51%) Pandas
8 26 (1.35%) Great Expectations
9 21 (1.09%) Web Services
9 21 (1.09%) XML
10 19 (0.99%) Middleware
11 16 (0.83%) HTML
12 14 (0.73%) .NET
12 14 (0.73%) SOAP
13 12 (0.62%) OpenTelemetry
13 12 (0.62%) pytest
14 10 (0.52%) SailPoint
14 10 (0.52%) SAML
15 9 (0.47%) CSS
15 9 (0.47%) React
Miscellaneous
1 163 (8.47%) Data Structures
2 119 (6.18%) Onboarding
3 102 (5.30%) Cloud Native
4 98 (5.09%) Legacy Systems
5 92 (4.78%) Product Ownership
6 79 (4.10%) Management Information System
7 59 (3.06%) CMDB
8 46 (2.39%) Reference Data
9 36 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (1.45%) AI Agents
10 28 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
11 27 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.25%) Taxonomies
13 21 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
13 21 (1.09%) NHS
14 17 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (0.88%) Life Science
15 16 (0.83%) SCADA
16 15 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.19%) Unix
2 20 (1.04%) Linux
3 13 (0.68%) Windows
4 1 (0.052%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (39.43%) Data Modelling
2 691 (35.90%) Analytics
3 674 (35.01%) Data Governance
4 545 (28.31%) Data Pipeline
5 534 (27.74%) ETL
6 499 (25.92%) Business Intelligence
7 493 (25.61%) Validation
8 462 (24.00%) Migration
9 431 (22.39%) Data Engineering
10 416 (21.61%) Stakeholder Management
11 403 (20.94%) Agile
12 367 (19.06%) Decision-Making
13 363 (18.86%) CI/CD
14 353 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
15 344 (17.87%) AI
16 300 (15.58%) Continuous Improvement
17 288 (14.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 281 (14.60%) Data Migration
19 274 (14.23%) Data Architecture
20 263 (13.66%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 840 (43.64%) SQL
2 520 (27.01%) Python
3 64 (3.32%) Java
4 55 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 40 (2.08%) PL/SQL
6 36 (1.87%) Scala
7 34 (1.77%) T-SQL
8 33 (1.71%) PowerShell
9 27 (1.40%) Shell Script
10 24 (1.25%) JavaScript
11 20 (1.04%) C#
12 17 (0.88%) R
13 13 (0.68%) Bash
13 13 (0.68%) VBA
14 12 (0.62%) Bicep
15 9 (0.47%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.42%) TypeScript
17 7 (0.36%) SOQL
18 6 (0.31%) Go
18 6 (0.31%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 317 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 242 (12.57%) SC Cleared
3 118 (6.13%) Degree
4 52 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (1.66%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 24 (1.25%) AWS Certification
9 19 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (0.83%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.73%) PMI Certification
12 9 (0.47%) PMP
13 8 (0.42%) ACCA
13 8 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.42%) CIMA
14 6 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.31%) SnowPro
15 5 (0.26%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (7.38%) QA
2 134 (6.96%) GDPR
3 35 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 30 (1.56%) PMO
5 24 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (0.99%) SLA
7 15 (0.78%) NIST
8 14 (0.73%) GRC
9 13 (0.68%) IFRS
9 13 (0.68%) Solvency II
10 12 (0.62%) NCSC
11 9 (0.47%) COREP
11 9 (0.47%) FINREP
11 9 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.21%) BS7666
13 4 (0.21%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.21%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 77 (4.00%) Docker
2 20 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.26%) etcd
4 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.052%) RACF
5 1 (0.052%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.68%) Grafana
3 11 (0.57%) Ansible
3 11 (0.57%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.42%) Control-M
6 5 (0.26%) Fluentd
6 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.21%) SCCM
8 3 (0.16%) Kibana
9 1 (0.052%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.052%) Istio
9 1 (0.052%) logstash
9 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.052%) Nessus
9 1 (0.052%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.052%) Puppet
9 1 (0.052%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.052%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 336 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 290 (15.06%) Databricks
3 163 (8.47%) SAP
4 138 (7.17%) Oracle
5 86 (4.47%) Informatica
6 84 (4.36%) ServiceNow
7 70 (3.64%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.91%) Google
9 29 (1.51%) Workday
10 28 (1.45%) Talend
11 24 (1.25%) Adobe
11 24 (1.25%) IBM
12 22 (1.14%) Palantir
13 21 (1.09%) Alteryx
13 21 (1.09%) Denodo
14 19 (0.99%) Splunk
15 18 (0.94%) Foundry
16 12 (0.62%) GoldenSource
17 11 (0.57%) Bloomberg
17 11 (0.57%) ESRI