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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 100 115
Rank change year-on-year +54 +15 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,047 736 676
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.42% 2.65% 2.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.90% 15.32% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,315 481 468
10th Percentile £356 £334 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -6.82% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £713
90th Percentile £700 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £510 £511 £550
% change year-on-year -0.24% -7.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 11 9
10th Percentile £15.39 £21.20 £21.25
25th Percentile £17.62 £31.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £30.89 £40.49 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.72% +7.97% +5.25%
75th Percentile £56.44 £49.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.00 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £40.49 £36.25
% change year-on-year -25.62% +11.70% +2.65%

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 8,221 4,805 4,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.75% 17.30% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,166 3,142 2,571
10th Percentile £328 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £758
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +0.10% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 596 224 213
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +2.78% -15.68%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.54 £63.75
90th Percentile £76.00 £82.93 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.40 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.98% +9.09% -22.82%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 1,102 £525 -2.78% 1,653
North of England +45 282 £463 +2.78% 399
Midlands +31 218 £475 -5.00% 238
South East +38 212 £500 +5.26% 353
West Midlands +23 170 £470 -10.48% 178
North West +24 145 £525 +16.67% 256
Yorkshire +24 114 £450 -10.00% 100
South West +18 111 £500 +11.11% 141
East of England +15 80 £525 -13.15% 135
East Midlands +11 47 £481 +7.25% 60
North East -23 24 £491 +12.29% 45
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
1 125 (6.11%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (4.49%) Apache Spark
3 74 (3.62%) Apache
4 61 (2.98%) Confluence
5 49 (2.39%) SAS
6 43 (2.10%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.54%) CMS
9 10 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
10 9 (0.44%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.20%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.098%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.098%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.049%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.049%) GeoServer
14 1 (0.049%) Luigi
14 1 (0.049%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 157 (7.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
4 15 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.68%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.098%) CATIA
9 1 (0.049%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.049%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.049%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.049%) Trello
9 1 (0.049%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 68 (3.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.64%) Aladdin
5 11 (0.54%) NEC Housing
6 10 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 10 (0.49%) Workday HCM
7 9 (0.44%) SAP MDG
8 8 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
9 7 (0.34%) iTrent
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
9 7 (0.34%) SAP HR
10 6 (0.29%) Maximo
10 6 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.24%) Shopify
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
12 4 (0.20%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 517 (25.26%) Azure
2 425 (20.76%) Power Platform
3 369 (18.03%) AWS
4 175 (8.55%) GCP
5 160 (7.82%) Snowflake
6 146 (7.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 137 (6.69%) dbt
8 104 (5.08%) Amazon S3
9 103 (5.03%) Serverless
10 100 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
11 90 (4.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 84 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
13 79 (3.86%) GitHub
14 67 (3.27%) Microsoft Purview
15 57 (2.78%) Collibra
16 48 (2.34%) Power Automate
17 46 (2.25%) SaaS
18 44 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
18 44 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
19 40 (1.95%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.29%) Broadband
1 6 (0.29%) SD-WAN
1 6 (0.29%) WAN
2 5 (0.24%) Firewall
2 5 (0.24%) SNMP
2 5 (0.24%) Wireless
3 3 (0.15%) HTTP
4 2 (0.098%) DNS
4 2 (0.098%) Network Security
4 2 (0.098%) SSL
5 1 (0.049%) BGP
5 1 (0.049%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.049%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.049%) LAN
5 1 (0.049%) MPLS
5 1 (0.049%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.049%) OSPF
5 1 (0.049%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.049%) VLAN
5 1 (0.049%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 399 (19.49%) Power BI
2 335 (16.37%) Metadata
3 323 (15.78%) Data Warehouse
4 171 (8.35%) Data Lake
5 112 (5.47%) Tableau
6 90 (4.40%) SQL Server
7 89 (4.35%) BigQuery
8 85 (4.15%) Delta Lake
9 81 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 80 (3.91%) Relational Database
11 65 (3.18%) Amazon Athena
12 50 (2.44%) NoSQL
13 46 (2.25%) Big Data
14 42 (2.05%) Power Query
15 40 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
16 36 (1.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 34 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
17 34 (1.66%) Star Schema
18 33 (1.61%) Looker
19 30 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 127 (6.20%) JIRA
2 124 (6.06%) Git
3 37 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.66%) GitLab
5 12 (0.59%) ERwin
6 11 (0.54%) Selenium
7 10 (0.49%) Postman
8 9 (0.44%) Eclipse
8 9 (0.44%) ER Studio
8 9 (0.44%) MLflow
9 8 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.29%) Ant
10 6 (0.29%) Newman
10 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.24%) RStudio
11 5 (0.24%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.20%) TestRail
12 4 (0.20%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 649 (31.70%) Social Skills
2 619 (30.24%) Finance
3 487 (23.79%) Analytical Skills
4 244 (11.92%) Public Sector
5 181 (8.84%) Banking
6 66 (3.22%) Retail
7 61 (2.98%) Manufacturing
8 53 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
10 51 (2.49%) Marketing
11 44 (2.15%) Local Government
12 43 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
13 42 (2.05%) Military
14 40 (1.95%) Legal
15 36 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
17 24 (1.17%) Billing
17 24 (1.17%) Law
18 23 (1.12%) Front Office
18 23 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 434 (21.20%) Data Engineer
2 420 (20.52%) Analyst
3 248 (12.12%) Senior
4 246 (12.02%) Lead
5 223 (10.89%) Data Analyst
6 215 (10.50%) Architect
7 140 (6.84%) Data Architect
8 115 (5.62%) Developer
8 115 (5.62%) Senior Data Engineer
9 112 (5.47%) Business Analyst
10 80 (3.91%) Consultant
11 68 (3.32%) Administrator
12 65 (3.18%) Data Manager
13 47 (2.30%) Data Consultant
14 46 (2.25%) Data Business Analyst
15 38 (1.86%) Databricks Engineer
16 35 (1.71%) AWS Engineer
16 35 (1.71%) Lead Data Engineer
17 34 (1.66%) Senior Analyst
18 32 (1.56%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (8.60%) PySpark
2 133 (6.50%) Terraform
3 75 (3.66%) Kafka
4 57 (2.78%) REST
5 41 (2.00%) JSON
6 33 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
7 24 (1.17%) Great Expectations
7 24 (1.17%) Web Services
7 24 (1.17%) XML
8 21 (1.03%) Middleware
8 21 (1.03%) Pandas
9 20 (0.98%) SOAP
10 18 (0.88%) HTML
11 16 (0.78%) .NET
12 14 (0.68%) pytest
13 12 (0.59%) OpenTelemetry
14 11 (0.54%) CSS
14 11 (0.54%) OAuth
14 11 (0.54%) OpenID
15 10 (0.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 183 (8.94%) Data Structures
2 132 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 115 (5.62%) Cloud Native
4 104 (5.08%) Product Ownership
5 96 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
6 95 (4.64%) Management Information System
7 60 (2.93%) CMDB
8 49 (2.39%) Reference Data
9 42 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
10 39 (1.91%) AI Agents
10 39 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (1.37%) Taxonomies
12 27 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
15 22 (1.07%) NHS
16 21 (1.03%) Life Science
17 18 (0.88%) Algorithms
18 17 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
19 16 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.32%) Unix
2 18 (0.88%) Linux
3 12 (0.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.049%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.049%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 809 (39.52%) Data Modelling
2 745 (36.39%) Analytics
3 730 (35.66%) Data Governance
4 565 (27.60%) Data Pipeline
5 539 (26.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 539 (26.33%) Validation
6 532 (25.99%) ETL
7 511 (24.96%) Business Intelligence
8 485 (23.69%) Migration
9 466 (22.77%) Data Engineering
10 429 (20.96%) Agile
11 409 (19.98%) AI
12 397 (19.39%) Decision-Making
13 384 (18.76%) CI/CD
14 382 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
15 336 (16.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 310 (15.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 297 (14.51%) Data Architecture
18 281 (13.73%) Data Migration
19 277 (13.53%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 880 (42.99%) SQL
2 546 (26.67%) Python
3 60 (2.93%) Java
4 58 (2.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 41 (2.00%) PL/SQL
6 32 (1.56%) Scala
6 32 (1.56%) T-SQL
7 30 (1.47%) Shell Script
8 29 (1.42%) PowerShell
9 28 (1.37%) JavaScript
10 23 (1.12%) C#
11 22 (1.07%) R
12 17 (0.83%) Bash
13 12 (0.59%) Bicep
14 9 (0.44%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.44%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.39%) Korn
15 8 (0.39%) SOQL
15 8 (0.39%) VBA
16 6 (0.29%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 327 (15.97%) Security Cleared
2 252 (12.31%) SC Cleared
3 130 (6.35%) Degree
4 48 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.42%) DV Cleared
7 27 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.22%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.07%) PMI Certification
10 21 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (0.93%) Master's Degree
12 18 (0.88%) PMP
13 12 (0.59%) ACCA
13 12 (0.59%) CIMA
14 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.29%) CIPD
15 6 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 5 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
17 4 (0.20%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (7.28%) QA
2 120 (5.86%) GDPR
3 41 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 34 (1.66%) PMO
5 22 (1.07%) SLA
6 21 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.78%) IFRS
7 16 (0.78%) NIST
8 14 (0.68%) GRC
8 14 (0.68%) NCSC
9 13 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.49%) Solvency II
11 8 (0.39%) COREP
11 8 (0.39%) FINREP
11 8 (0.39%) IFRS 17
12 7 (0.34%) Basel III
12 7 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.24%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 73 (3.57%) Docker
2 19 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.098%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.049%) etcd
4 1 (0.049%) HDFS
4 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 72 (3.52%) Kubernetes
2 16 (0.78%) Grafana
3 14 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (0.54%) Ansible
5 9 (0.44%) Control-M
6 7 (0.34%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.29%) Kibana
8 4 (0.20%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.20%) SCCM
9 1 (0.049%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.049%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.049%) Istio
9 1 (0.049%) logstash
9 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.049%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.049%) Puppet
9 1 (0.049%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.049%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 391 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 302 (14.75%) Databricks
3 159 (7.77%) SAP
4 147 (7.18%) Oracle
5 96 (4.69%) ServiceNow
6 85 (4.15%) Informatica
7 74 (3.62%) Salesforce
8 68 (3.32%) Google
9 35 (1.71%) Workday
10 28 (1.37%) Adobe
11 26 (1.27%) IBM
12 23 (1.12%) Alteryx
12 23 (1.12%) Talend
13 22 (1.07%) Splunk
14 21 (1.03%) Palantir
15 19 (0.93%) Denodo
16 16 (0.78%) Foundry
17 13 (0.64%) Bloomberg
18 12 (0.59%) Teradata
19 11 (0.54%) NEC