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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 103 114
Rank change year-on-year +38 +11 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,402 612 739
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.56% 2.50% 1.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.88% 15.92% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 969 426 514
10th Percentile £350 £325 £354
25th Percentile £413 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -7.05% -
75th Percentile £590 £625 £680
90th Percentile £675 £725 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £536
% change year-on-year -1.48% -5.32% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 19 31
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £14.13
25th Percentile £17.18 £22.12 £15.39
Median hourly rate £28.25 £31.64 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +31.83% +6.74%
75th Percentile £66.60 £34.73 £50.42
90th Percentile £82.70 £81.71 £61.75
UK median hourly rate £40.75 £31.64 £16.86
% change year-on-year +28.79% +87.66% -25.02%

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 6,713 3,844 5,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.03% 15.69% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,369 2,476 3,388
10th Percentile £340 £267 £304
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £605 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £514
% change year-on-year - -2.68% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 155 343
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.69 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.21 £12.92
Median hourly rate £30.54 £34.50 £20.61
Median % change year-on-year -11.49% +67.44% -51.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.58 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £32.81 £20.47
% change year-on-year -5.52% +60.28% -45.77%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +51 782 £525 - 287
North of England +8 174 £494 +9.67% 143
Midlands +15 160 £500 +5.26% 89
West Midlands +18 127 £500 -4.76% 58
South East +28 113 £450 -11.98% 126
North West +1 95 £495 +6.45% 80
South West +19 78 £500 +2.56% 56
East of England -24 56 £575 -4.17% 37
Yorkshire -31 55 £495 +80.00% 52
East Midlands -18 34 £450 +9.82% 31
North East - 24 £475 - 13
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 77 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (3.92%) Apache
4 49 (3.50%) SAS
5 34 (2.43%) Confluence
5 34 (2.43%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.64%) Appian
7 6 (0.43%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.29%) CMS
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
10 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.071%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 124 (8.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.36%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.21%) Trello
8 1 (0.071%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 46 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.86%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.71%) iTrent
5 8 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.50%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.43%) Finacle
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%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.29%) SAP PM
10 3 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 440 (31.38%) Azure
2 361 (25.75%) Power Platform
3 256 (18.26%) AWS
4 188 (13.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 125 (8.92%) GCP
6 114 (8.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 99 (7.06%) Snowflake
8 92 (6.56%) dbt
9 90 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
10 79 (5.63%) Amazon S3
11 69 (4.92%) GitHub
12 61 (4.35%) Serverless
13 59 (4.21%) Collibra
14 42 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
16 31 (2.21%) Power Automate
17 30 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
18 29 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
19 20 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
19 20 (1.43%) SaaS
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%) HTTP
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%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 345 (24.61%) Power BI
2 256 (18.26%) Data Warehouse
3 204 (14.55%) Metadata
4 140 (9.99%) Data Lake
5 100 (7.13%) Tableau
6 97 (6.92%) SQL Server
7 75 (5.35%) Delta Lake
8 69 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 63 (4.49%) BigQuery
10 54 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
11 53 (3.78%) NoSQL
12 47 (3.35%) Big Data
13 46 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
13 46 (3.28%) Relational Database
14 40 (2.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 38 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
16 32 (2.28%) Pentaho
17 29 (2.07%) OLAP
18 28 (2.00%) Star Schema
19 27 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 129 (9.20%) Git
2 103 (7.35%) JIRA
3 54 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.43%) 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%) Postman
14 1 (0.071%) GCC
14 1 (0.071%) Hudson
14 1 (0.071%) SonarQube
General
1 457 (32.60%) Social Skills
2 415 (29.60%) Finance
3 330 (23.54%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (11.20%) Public Sector
5 113 (8.06%) Banking
6 41 (2.92%) Marketing
7 38 (2.71%) Retail
8 37 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
9 31 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (1.85%) Legal
12 23 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (1.50%) Law
13 21 (1.50%) Local Government
14 18 (1.28%) Manufacturing
14 18 (1.28%) Military
14 18 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.21%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.00%) Telecoms
17 13 (0.93%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 387 (27.60%) Data Engineer
2 286 (20.40%) Analyst
3 176 (12.55%) Data Analyst
4 156 (11.13%) Senior
5 128 (9.13%) Lead
6 126 (8.99%) Architect
7 87 (6.21%) Business Analyst
8 76 (5.42%) Data Architect
9 70 (4.99%) Developer
10 65 (4.64%) Senior Data Engineer
11 55 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
12 45 (3.21%) Azure Data Engineer
13 42 (3.00%) Consultant
14 40 (2.85%) Data Manager
15 36 (2.57%) Data Business Analyst
16 27 (1.93%) Project Manager
17 25 (1.78%) Data Migration Lead
18 24 (1.71%) AWS Engineer
18 24 (1.71%) Principal Engineer
19 22 (1.57%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (9.70%) PySpark
2 105 (7.49%) Kafka
3 44 (3.14%) Pandas
4 43 (3.07%) REST
5 30 (2.14%) Great Expectations
6 29 (2.07%) JSON
7 24 (1.71%) scikit-learn
8 20 (1.43%) NumPy
9 16 (1.14%) PyTorch
10 15 (1.07%) Middleware
10 15 (1.07%) Web Services
11 13 (0.93%) OAuth
11 13 (0.93%) pytest
11 13 (0.93%) TensorFlow
11 13 (0.93%) XML
12 12 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
12 12 (0.86%) YAML
13 11 (0.78%) Flask
13 11 (0.78%) GeoJSON
14 10 (0.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 112 (7.99%) Data Structures
2 101 (7.20%) Legacy Systems
3 75 (5.35%) Cloud Native
4 67 (4.78%) Onboarding
5 61 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 54 (3.85%) Product Ownership
7 43 (3.07%) CMDB
8 30 (2.14%) Reference Data
9 29 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
10 22 (1.57%) Clustering
10 22 (1.57%) NHS
11 18 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.07%) AI Agents
13 14 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (1.00%) Taxonomies
14 12 (0.86%) Fixed Income
14 12 (0.86%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.78%) 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
1 621 (44.29%) Data Modelling
2 538 (38.37%) Analytics
3 489 (34.88%) Data Governance
4 476 (33.95%) ETL
5 446 (31.81%) Business Intelligence
6 430 (30.67%) Data Pipeline
7 324 (23.11%) Data Engineering
8 317 (22.61%) Agile
9 307 (21.90%) Validation
10 306 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
11 297 (21.18%) Migration
12 276 (19.69%) CI/CD
13 265 (18.90%) Decision-Making
14 228 (16.26%) Data Architecture
15 218 (15.55%) AI
16 207 (14.76%) Stakeholder Management
17 201 (14.34%) Data Migration
18 194 (13.84%) DevOps
19 186 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
20 179 (12.77%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 714 (50.93%) SQL
2 443 (31.60%) Python
3 63 (4.49%) Scala
4 45 (3.21%) Java
5 44 (3.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 36 (2.57%) T-SQL
7 31 (2.21%) PL/SQL
8 28 (2.00%) C#
9 22 (1.57%) R
10 20 (1.43%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.21%) VBA
12 16 (1.14%) JavaScript
13 14 (1.00%) Bicep
14 9 (0.64%) Bash
14 9 (0.64%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.36%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.29%) ABAP
16 4 (0.29%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
17 3 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 260 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 198 (14.12%) SC Cleared
3 78 (5.56%) Degree
4 45 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.43%) Azure Certification
7 12 (0.86%) AWS Certification
7 12 (0.86%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.71%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.29%) ACCA
10 4 (0.29%) CIMA
10 4 (0.29%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.29%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.29%) PhD
10 4 (0.29%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.14%) AAT
11 2 (0.14%) CFA
11 2 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (8.42%) GDPR
2 84 (5.99%) QA
3 33 (2.35%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.71%) 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%) IFRS
11 7 (0.50%) COREP
12 6 (0.43%) Basel III
12 6 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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%) NIST
16 2 (0.14%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.14%) IFRS 9
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
1 110 (7.85%) Terraform
2 80 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.71%) Prometheus
4 9 (0.64%) Grafana
5 5 (0.36%) Ansible
5 5 (0.36%) Fluentd
5 5 (0.36%) HP ALM
5 5 (0.36%) Kibana
6 4 (0.29%) SCCM
7 3 (0.21%) logstash
8 1 (0.071%) Control-M
8 1 (0.071%) Istio
8 1 (0.071%) Nessus
8 1 (0.071%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.071%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 267 (19.04%) Databricks
2 227 (16.19%) Microsoft
3 113 (8.06%) SAP
4 105 (7.49%) Oracle
5 68 (4.85%) Informatica
6 66 (4.71%) Salesforce
7 61 (4.35%) ServiceNow
8 54 (3.85%) Google
9 49 (3.50%) Talend
10 33 (2.35%) Denodo
11 16 (1.14%) Workday
12 13 (0.93%) GoldenSource
12 13 (0.93%) IBM
13 12 (0.86%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.78%) 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