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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 108 113
Rank change year-on-year +34 +5 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,195 624 746
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.38% 2.42% 2.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.37% 16.17% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 822 430 504
10th Percentile £344 £308 £365
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £673
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 37
10th Percentile £13.95 £19.74 £13.97
25th Percentile £18.23 £22.55 £15.39
Median hourly rate £19.38 £33.91 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +41.27% +6.74%
75th Percentile £54.00 £56.25 £42.50
90th Percentile £81.40 £95.63 £61.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.91 £21.38
% change year-on-year -11.52% +58.60% -4.93%

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 6,169 3,859 5,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.44% 14.98% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,995 2,332 3,478
10th Percentile £331 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £602 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 147 323
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £14.52
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.76 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year -18.86% +21.04% -25.03%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.25 £76.34 £71.62
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.11 £25.06
% change year-on-year -8.65% +20.14% -22.90%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +39 700 £525 - 143
North of England 0 146 £475 +18.75% 88
Midlands +9 125 £505 +24.31% 60
West Midlands +6 99 £515 +8.19% 40
South East +4 86 £450 -14.29% 85
North West -1 77 £461 +2.50% 45
South West +22 67 £500 -4.76% 38
Yorkshire -37 47 £500 +81.82% 28
East of England -35 29 £581 -3.13% 20
East Midlands -17 27 £442 +24.23% 20
North East +9 23 £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
1 108 (9.04%) Apache Spark
2 63 (5.27%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (4.18%) Apache
4 46 (3.85%) SAS
5 26 (2.18%) Confluence
6 21 (1.76%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.75%) Appian
7 9 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.67%) GeoServer
8 8 (0.67%) Smallworld
9 5 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.25%) CMS
10 3 (0.25%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.084%) Jupyter
Applications
1 100 (8.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.17%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.25%) Trello
8 1 (0.084%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 38 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.84%) Loan IQ
4 8 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.59%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.50%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.42%) Finacle
7 5 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.42%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.42%) SystmOne
8 4 (0.33%) Actimize
8 4 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.33%) Sage X3
8 4 (0.33%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.25%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.25%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.25%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 377 (31.55%) Azure
2 297 (24.85%) Power Platform
3 231 (19.33%) AWS
4 148 (12.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 116 (9.71%) GCP
6 100 (8.37%) Snowflake
7 88 (7.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 76 (6.36%) dbt
9 62 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
10 57 (4.77%) Amazon S3
11 50 (4.18%) Collibra
11 50 (4.18%) GitHub
12 49 (4.10%) Serverless
13 32 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (2.34%) Microsoft Purview
15 25 (2.09%) Power Automate
16 24 (2.01%) SaaS
17 23 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
18 21 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
19 17 (1.42%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.25%) DNS
2 2 (0.17%) Broadband
2 2 (0.17%) HTTP
2 2 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (0.17%) SSL
2 2 (0.17%) VoIP
3 1 (0.084%) 4G
3 1 (0.084%) 5G
3 1 (0.084%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (23.93%) Power BI
2 222 (18.58%) Data Warehouse
3 174 (14.56%) Metadata
4 110 (9.21%) Data Lake
5 80 (6.69%) SQL Server
6 68 (5.69%) Tableau
7 62 (5.19%) Delta Lake
8 57 (4.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 53 (4.44%) Snowflake Schema
10 49 (4.10%) Big Data
11 46 (3.85%) BigQuery
12 45 (3.77%) NoSQL
12 45 (3.77%) Relational Database
13 37 (3.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 33 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
15 32 (2.68%) Pentaho
16 27 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
17 26 (2.18%) Data Vault
18 23 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
18 23 (1.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 135 (11.30%) Git
2 84 (7.03%) JIRA
3 54 (4.52%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.76%) ERwin
5 16 (1.34%) PowerDesigner
6 13 (1.09%) MLflow
7 10 (0.84%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.84%) GitLab
8 4 (0.33%) DBeaver
8 4 (0.33%) LSMW
9 3 (0.25%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.17%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.17%) Postman
10 2 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.17%) Selenium
11 1 (0.084%) git-flow
11 1 (0.084%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.084%) RStudio
11 1 (0.084%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 403 (33.72%) Social Skills
2 342 (28.62%) Finance
3 270 (22.59%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (10.79%) Public Sector
5 98 (8.20%) Banking
6 36 (3.01%) Marketing
7 30 (2.51%) Retail
8 28 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.76%) Legal
11 19 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (1.51%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.42%) Publishing
14 15 (1.26%) Local Government
14 15 (1.26%) Telecoms
15 14 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (1.09%) Military
16 13 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (1.00%) Billing
18 11 (0.92%) Law
Job Titles
1 322 (26.95%) Data Engineer
2 257 (21.51%) Analyst
3 162 (13.56%) Data Analyst
4 125 (10.46%) Lead
5 122 (10.21%) Senior
6 118 (9.87%) Architect
7 75 (6.28%) Business Analyst
8 72 (6.03%) Data Architect
9 63 (5.27%) Developer
10 54 (4.52%) Senior Data Engineer
11 49 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
12 41 (3.43%) Azure Data Engineer
13 40 (3.35%) Data Business Analyst
14 38 (3.18%) Consultant
15 27 (2.26%) Data Modeller
16 23 (1.92%) Data Manager
17 21 (1.76%) Project Manager
18 20 (1.67%) Senior Analyst
19 19 (1.59%) Governance Analyst
20 18 (1.51%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (9.37%) PySpark
2 83 (6.95%) Kafka
3 34 (2.85%) REST
4 32 (2.68%) Pandas
5 20 (1.67%) NumPy
6 18 (1.51%) Great Expectations
7 17 (1.42%) scikit-learn
8 13 (1.09%) XML
9 12 (1.00%) Middleware
9 12 (1.00%) OAuth
9 12 (1.00%) PyTorch
9 12 (1.00%) TensorFlow
9 12 (1.00%) Web Services
10 11 (0.92%) Flask
10 11 (0.92%) JSON
10 11 (0.92%) YAML
11 10 (0.84%) Hugging Face
11 10 (0.84%) OpenAPI
11 10 (0.84%) pytest
11 10 (0.84%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 106 (8.87%) Data Structures
2 90 (7.53%) Legacy Systems
3 53 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 48 (4.02%) Management Information System
5 38 (3.18%) Onboarding
6 35 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 33 (2.76%) Product Ownership
8 30 (2.51%) CMDB
9 24 (2.01%) Reference Data
10 20 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
11 19 (1.59%) Clustering
11 19 (1.59%) NHS
12 17 (1.42%) Reinsurance
13 14 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (1.09%) Replication
15 12 (1.00%) Taxonomies
16 11 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
17 9 (0.75%) Algorithms
17 9 (0.75%) Fixed Income
18 8 (0.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.09%) Linux
2 5 (0.42%) Unix
3 3 (0.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.084%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 523 (43.77%) Data Modelling
2 478 (40.00%) Analytics
3 422 (35.31%) Data Governance
4 398 (33.31%) ETL
5 392 (32.80%) Business Intelligence
6 331 (27.70%) Data Pipeline
7 284 (23.77%) Problem-Solving
8 280 (23.43%) Agile
9 277 (23.18%) Data Engineering
10 234 (19.58%) Migration
11 220 (18.41%) CI/CD
12 214 (17.91%) Validation
13 201 (16.82%) Decision-Making
14 190 (15.90%) Data Architecture
15 176 (14.73%) AI
16 170 (14.23%) Stakeholder Management
17 165 (13.81%) Data Integration
18 161 (13.47%) Data Migration
19 160 (13.39%) Data Management
20 159 (13.31%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 614 (51.38%) SQL
2 386 (32.30%) Python
3 55 (4.60%) Scala
4 31 (2.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 29 (2.43%) Java
6 26 (2.18%) PL/SQL
7 25 (2.09%) R
8 22 (1.84%) T-SQL
9 20 (1.67%) C#
10 16 (1.34%) JavaScript
11 12 (1.00%) Bicep
12 10 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.84%) VBA
13 9 (0.75%) Bash
13 9 (0.75%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.59%) C++
14 7 (0.59%) TypeScript
15 6 (0.50%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.33%) ABAP
17 3 (0.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 212 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 159 (13.31%) SC Cleared
3 72 (6.03%) Degree
4 35 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.34%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.17%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.00%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.17%) AAT
12 2 (0.17%) ACCA
12 2 (0.17%) CFA
12 2 (0.17%) CIMA
12 2 (0.17%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.17%) PhD
12 2 (0.17%) PMP
13 1 (0.084%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (8.28%) GDPR
2 75 (6.28%) QA
3 44 (3.68%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.67%) PMO
5 13 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
6 11 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 11 (0.92%) SLA
7 10 (0.84%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.59%) Basel III
9 6 (0.50%) IFRS
10 5 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.33%) FINREP
11 4 (0.33%) ISO 19650
11 4 (0.33%) MiFID
11 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.25%) NIST
13 2 (0.17%) CRD IV
13 2 (0.17%) EMIR
13 2 (0.17%) FATCA
System Software
1 70 (5.86%) Docker
2 5 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.33%) zsh
4 2 (0.17%) HDFS
5 1 (0.084%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (6.95%) Terraform
2 70 (5.86%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.33%) Kibana
3 4 (0.33%) SCCM
4 3 (0.25%) Ansible
4 3 (0.25%) Grafana
4 3 (0.25%) logstash
4 3 (0.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.084%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.084%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.084%) Oozie
5 1 (0.084%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 229 (19.16%) Databricks
2 178 (14.90%) Microsoft
3 94 (7.87%) Oracle
4 79 (6.61%) SAP
5 60 (5.02%) Informatica
6 59 (4.94%) Salesforce
7 53 (4.44%) Talend
8 45 (3.77%) Google
9 44 (3.68%) ServiceNow
10 33 (2.76%) Denodo
11 14 (1.17%) Palantir
12 12 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 12 (1.00%) Sparx
13 11 (0.92%) Foundry
14 9 (0.75%) Automation Anywhere
14 9 (0.75%) Avaloq
15 8 (0.67%) ESRI
15 8 (0.67%) Intergraph
15 8 (0.67%) UiPath
15 8 (0.67%) Workday