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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 105 113
Rank change year-on-year +40 +8 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,331 602 762
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.53% 2.48% 2.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.31% 15.98% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 425 519
10th Percentile £350 £313 £357
25th Percentile £413 £400 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £733 £765
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 19 33
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £13.81
25th Percentile £17.48 £22.99 £15.39
Median hourly rate £19.44 £31.64 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% +46.21% -3.76%
75th Percentile £55.31 £34.73 £49.08
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.71 £60.15
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £31.64 £18.67
% change year-on-year -2.02% +69.52% -16.99%

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 6,555 3,767 5,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.40% 15.55% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,241 2,445 3,411
10th Percentile £340 £264 £305
25th Percentile £413 £386 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £703 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 388 160 335
10th Percentile £15.60 £17.04 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.25
Median hourly rate £28.28 £32.25 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +44.36% -47.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.43 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £32.00 £21.38
% change year-on-year -4.44% +49.69% -46.56%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 27 March 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 +46 761 £525 - 272
North of England +2 159 £495 +10.37% 142
Midlands +8 144 £500 +8.23% 89
West Midlands +9 115 £511 +7.41% 59
South East +3 103 £450 -13.96% 145
North West +7 84 £475 +4.40% 65
South West +21 68 £500 -1.23% 54
East of England -25 52 £565 -5.83% 42
Yorkshire -34 49 £500 +81.82% 63
East Midlands -17 30 £450 +9.82% 30
North East - 26 £500 - 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
1 117 (8.79%) Apache Spark
2 72 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (4.13%) Apache
4 44 (3.31%) SAS
5 32 (2.40%) Confluence
6 31 (2.33%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.68%) Appian
8 6 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.38%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.30%) CMS
11 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.23%) NetWeaver
11 3 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.15%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.15%) Smallworld
13 1 (0.075%) Jupyter
Applications
1 119 (8.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.23%) Trello
7 1 (0.075%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 44 (3.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.90%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.53%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.45%) Finacle
6 6 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.45%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.45%) SAP MDG
6 6 (0.45%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.45%) SystmOne
7 5 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (0.38%) iTrent
7 5 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.30%) Actimize
8 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.30%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.23%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 425 (31.93%) Azure
2 348 (26.15%) Power Platform
3 252 (18.93%) AWS
4 176 (13.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 123 (9.24%) GCP
6 108 (8.11%) Snowflake
7 104 (7.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 88 (6.61%) dbt
9 85 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
10 71 (5.33%) Amazon S3
11 68 (5.11%) GitHub
12 60 (4.51%) Collibra
13 58 (4.36%) Serverless
14 39 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
15 34 (2.55%) Microsoft Purview
16 29 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
16 29 (2.18%) Power Automate
17 27 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (2.03%) SaaS
18 20 (1.50%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.38%) VPN
2 4 (0.30%) Firewall
3 2 (0.15%) Broadband
3 2 (0.15%) DNS
3 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.15%) SSL
3 2 (0.15%) VoIP
4 1 (0.075%) 4G
4 1 (0.075%) 5G
4 1 (0.075%) HTTP
4 1 (0.075%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (25.17%) Power BI
2 254 (19.08%) Data Warehouse
3 193 (14.50%) Metadata
4 127 (9.54%) Data Lake
5 90 (6.76%) SQL Server
6 88 (6.61%) Tableau
7 69 (5.18%) Delta Lake
8 67 (5.03%) Azure SQL Database
9 57 (4.28%) BigQuery
10 50 (3.76%) NoSQL
10 50 (3.76%) Snowflake Schema
11 49 (3.68%) Big Data
12 47 (3.53%) Relational Database
13 43 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
14 41 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 30 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
15 30 (2.25%) Pentaho
15 30 (2.25%) Star Schema
16 28 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
17 27 (2.03%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 130 (9.77%) Git
2 98 (7.36%) JIRA
3 55 (4.13%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.50%) ERwin
5 19 (1.43%) GitLab
6 17 (1.28%) MLflow
7 13 (0.98%) PowerDesigner
8 6 (0.45%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.38%) LSMW
9 5 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.38%) Selenium
10 3 (0.23%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.15%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.15%) Postman
11 2 (0.15%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.075%) GCC
12 1 (0.075%) Hudson
General
1 438 (32.91%) Social Skills
2 397 (29.83%) Finance
3 311 (23.37%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (11.04%) Public Sector
5 105 (7.89%) Banking
6 44 (3.31%) Marketing
7 36 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (2.48%) Retail
9 28 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (1.95%) Legal
11 25 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (1.35%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.35%) Publishing
13 17 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.20%) Law
14 16 (1.20%) Local Government
14 16 (1.20%) Telecoms
15 15 (1.13%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.05%) Military
16 14 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 366 (27.50%) Data Engineer
2 275 (20.66%) Analyst
3 169 (12.70%) Data Analyst
4 138 (10.37%) Senior
5 135 (10.14%) Lead
6 125 (9.39%) Architect
7 85 (6.39%) Business Analyst
8 77 (5.79%) Data Architect
9 65 (4.88%) Developer
10 56 (4.21%) Senior Data Engineer
11 51 (3.83%) Azure Engineer
12 42 (3.16%) Azure Data Engineer
12 42 (3.16%) Consultant
13 40 (3.01%) Data Business Analyst
14 32 (2.40%) Data Manager
15 26 (1.95%) Data Modeller
16 24 (1.80%) Principal Engineer
17 23 (1.73%) Project Manager
17 23 (1.73%) Senior Analyst
18 22 (1.65%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (9.69%) PySpark
2 108 (8.11%) Kafka
3 43 (3.23%) REST
4 41 (3.08%) Pandas
5 25 (1.88%) Great Expectations
6 22 (1.65%) NumPy
6 22 (1.65%) scikit-learn
7 21 (1.58%) JSON
8 15 (1.13%) Web Services
9 13 (0.98%) OAuth
9 13 (0.98%) pytest
9 13 (0.98%) PyTorch
9 13 (0.98%) TensorFlow
10 12 (0.90%) Middleware
10 12 (0.90%) XML
11 11 (0.83%) Flask
11 11 (0.83%) GeoJSON
11 11 (0.83%) Matplotlib
12 10 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
12 10 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 115 (8.64%) Data Structures
2 95 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 70 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 58 (4.36%) Onboarding
5 56 (4.21%) Management Information System
6 47 (3.53%) Product Ownership
7 43 (3.23%) CMDB
8 35 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 31 (2.33%) Reference Data
10 21 (1.58%) NHS
11 20 (1.50%) Clustering
12 17 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (1.13%) Taxonomies
14 12 (0.90%) Fixed Income
14 12 (0.90%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
16 10 (0.75%) AI Agents
16 10 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.68%) Linux
1 9 (0.68%) Unix
1 9 (0.68%) Windows
2 1 (0.075%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (45.23%) Data Modelling
2 511 (38.39%) Analytics
3 474 (35.61%) Data Governance
4 469 (35.24%) ETL
5 436 (32.76%) Business Intelligence
6 394 (29.60%) Data Pipeline
7 314 (23.59%) Data Engineering
8 299 (22.46%) Agile
8 299 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
9 285 (21.41%) Validation
10 277 (20.81%) Migration
11 260 (19.53%) CI/CD
12 240 (18.03%) Decision-Making
13 222 (16.68%) Data Architecture
14 194 (14.58%) AI
14 194 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
15 191 (14.35%) Data Migration
16 183 (13.75%) DevOps
17 177 (13.30%) Data Integration
18 175 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 688 (51.69%) SQL
2 428 (32.16%) Python
3 58 (4.36%) Scala
4 42 (3.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 40 (3.01%) Java
6 28 (2.10%) T-SQL
7 27 (2.03%) PL/SQL
8 25 (1.88%) C#
9 22 (1.65%) R
10 18 (1.35%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.13%) Bicep
11 15 (1.13%) VBA
12 14 (1.05%) JavaScript
13 10 (0.75%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.45%) Bash
15 4 (0.30%) ABAP
15 4 (0.30%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.30%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
15 4 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 248 (18.63%) Security Cleared
2 184 (13.82%) SC Cleared
3 71 (5.33%) Degree
4 42 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.28%) Azure Certification
7 13 (0.98%) AWS Certification
7 13 (0.98%) DV Cleared
8 12 (0.90%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.30%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.23%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.23%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.23%) PhD
12 2 (0.15%) AAT
12 2 (0.15%) ACCA
12 2 (0.15%) CFA
12 2 (0.15%) CIMA
12 2 (0.15%) PMP
12 2 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (8.87%) GDPR
2 86 (6.46%) QA
3 35 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.80%) PMO
5 14 (1.05%) Solvency II
6 12 (0.90%) SLA
7 11 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 7 (0.53%) IFRS
10 6 (0.45%) Basel III
10 6 (0.45%) FINREP
10 6 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.30%) COREP
11 4 (0.30%) MiFID
12 3 (0.23%) BS7666
12 3 (0.23%) GRC
12 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.23%) NIST
13 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 71 (5.33%) Docker
2 6 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.38%) etcd
4 1 (0.075%) HDFS
4 1 (0.075%) RACF
4 1 (0.075%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 99 (7.44%) Terraform
2 77 (5.79%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.75%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.38%) Ansible
4 5 (0.38%) Fluentd
4 5 (0.38%) Grafana
5 4 (0.30%) HP ALM
5 4 (0.30%) Kibana
5 4 (0.30%) SCCM
6 3 (0.23%) logstash
7 1 (0.075%) Control-M
7 1 (0.075%) Nessus
7 1 (0.075%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.075%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 256 (19.23%) Databricks
2 209 (15.70%) Microsoft
3 103 (7.74%) SAP
4 97 (7.29%) Oracle
5 73 (5.48%) Informatica
6 67 (5.03%) Salesforce
7 62 (4.66%) ServiceNow
8 56 (4.21%) Talend
9 53 (3.98%) Google
10 31 (2.33%) Denodo
11 12 (0.90%) OpenAI
12 11 (0.83%) GoldenSource
12 11 (0.83%) IBM
12 11 (0.83%) Palantir
12 11 (0.83%) Workday
13 10 (0.75%) Avaloq
14 9 (0.68%) Automation Anywhere
14 9 (0.68%) Sparx
15 8 (0.60%) Foundry
15 8 (0.60%) UiPath