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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 104 111
Rank change year-on-year +52 +7 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,791 685 745
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.99% 2.50% 2.08%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.27% 14.82% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,177 441 528
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -4.91% +2.33%
75th Percentile £590 £638 £713
90th Percentile £675 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 20 20
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.16 £13.92
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.55 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% +41.06% -27.23%
75th Percentile £61.50 £37.42 £42.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.83 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £18.14
% change year-on-year +25.71% +75.41% -41.48%

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 7,695 4,622 4,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.14% 16.85% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,924 3,014 3,050
10th Percentile £345 £277 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -4.39% -1.33%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £635
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 514 210 337
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £11.02
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.59 £13.85
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.70 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% +26.80% -41.18%
75th Percentile £69.67 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £29.00 £24.92
% change year-on-year +29.31% +16.37% -36.93%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +63 934 £525 -4.55% 274
North of England +19 229 £475 +5.56% 100
Midlands +41 220 £475 +2.70% 75
West Midlands +30 179 £472 -5.60% 39
South East +21 179 £463 -5.13% 126
North West +7 125 £475 +3.26% 38
South West +17 101 £500 +17.65% 38
East of England +13 85 £565 -6.15% 19
Yorkshire -5 80 £463 +9.47% 38
East Midlands +6 41 £494 +9.72% 36
North East -14 25 £520 -15.10% 24
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 98 (5.47%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (5.14%) Apache Spark
3 65 (3.63%) Apache
4 55 (3.07%) Confluence
5 50 (2.79%) SAS
6 37 (2.07%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
7 9 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.28%) CMS
10 4 (0.22%) Appian
11 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.056%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.056%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.056%) Luigi
13 1 (0.056%) Mendix
13 1 (0.056%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 132 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (0.78%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.056%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 65 (3.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.67%) NEC Housing
3 12 (0.67%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.50%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.45%) Sage X3
5 8 (0.45%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.39%) iTrent
6 7 (0.39%) SAP MDG
7 6 (0.34%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.28%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.28%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.22%) Maximo
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.22%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 481 (26.86%) Azure
2 411 (22.95%) Power Platform
3 312 (17.42%) AWS
4 154 (8.60%) Azure Data Factory
5 138 (7.71%) GCP
6 136 (7.59%) Snowflake
7 123 (6.87%) dbt
8 97 (5.42%) Amazon S3
8 97 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
9 93 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 84 (4.69%) Serverless
11 72 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
12 71 (3.96%) GitHub
13 57 (3.18%) Collibra
14 40 (2.23%) Microsoft Purview
15 38 (2.12%) Power Automate
16 37 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
16 37 (2.07%) SaaS
17 28 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
18 25 (1.40%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.50%) Firewall
2 5 (0.28%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) HTTP
4 1 (0.056%) 4G
4 1 (0.056%) 5G
4 1 (0.056%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.056%) DNS
4 1 (0.056%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.056%) SNMP
4 1 (0.056%) SSH
4 1 (0.056%) WAN
4 1 (0.056%) Wireless
4 1 (0.056%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 389 (21.72%) Power BI
2 290 (16.19%) Data Warehouse
3 227 (12.67%) Metadata
4 160 (8.93%) Data Lake
5 116 (6.48%) Tableau
6 88 (4.91%) SQL Server
7 79 (4.41%) BigQuery
8 76 (4.24%) Delta Lake
9 73 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
10 60 (3.35%) Relational Database
11 55 (3.07%) Amazon Athena
12 54 (3.02%) Big Data
13 43 (2.40%) Snowflake Schema
14 37 (2.07%) Power Query
15 36 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 35 (1.95%) NoSQL
17 33 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
18 32 (1.79%) Star Schema
19 29 (1.62%) Looker
20 28 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 121 (6.76%) JIRA
2 114 (6.37%) Git
3 42 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.84%) GitLab
5 17 (0.95%) ERwin
6 12 (0.67%) MLflow
7 9 (0.50%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.50%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.45%) Postman
8 8 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.39%) Selenium
9 7 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.34%) Ant
11 5 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.22%) LSMW
12 4 (0.22%) Newman
12 4 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.22%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.17%) Robot Framework
General
1 538 (30.04%) Finance
2 528 (29.48%) Social Skills
3 424 (23.67%) Analytical Skills
4 199 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 128 (7.15%) Banking
6 49 (2.74%) Marketing
7 48 (2.68%) Retail
8 44 (2.46%) Manufacturing
9 43 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
10 41 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 30 (1.68%) Local Government
13 28 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
14 26 (1.45%) Legal
15 22 (1.23%) Military
16 19 (1.06%) Law
16 19 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (0.89%) Publishing
18 15 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
18 15 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 411 (22.95%) Data Engineer
2 384 (21.44%) Analyst
3 213 (11.89%) Data Analyst
4 202 (11.28%) Senior
5 198 (11.06%) Lead
6 165 (9.21%) Architect
7 104 (5.81%) Data Architect
8 103 (5.75%) Business Analyst
9 97 (5.42%) Developer
10 86 (4.80%) Senior Data Engineer
11 61 (3.41%) Consultant
12 55 (3.07%) Data Manager
13 47 (2.62%) Administrator
14 44 (2.46%) Data Business Analyst
15 31 (1.73%) Lead Data Engineer
15 31 (1.73%) Project Manager
16 30 (1.68%) Azure Engineer
16 30 (1.68%) Data Consultant
17 29 (1.62%) AWS Engineer
17 29 (1.62%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (7.26%) PySpark
2 92 (5.14%) Kafka
3 46 (2.57%) REST
4 42 (2.35%) JSON
5 39 (2.18%) Pandas
6 28 (1.56%) Great Expectations
7 24 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
8 21 (1.17%) Web Services
9 18 (1.01%) scikit-learn
10 17 (0.95%) XML
11 16 (0.89%) Middleware
12 14 (0.78%) SOAP
13 13 (0.73%) GeoJSON
13 13 (0.73%) HTML
13 13 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
14 10 (0.56%) .NET
14 10 (0.56%) Matplotlib
14 10 (0.56%) NumPy
14 10 (0.56%) pytest
14 10 (0.56%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 148 (8.26%) Data Structures
2 108 (6.03%) Legacy Systems
3 103 (5.75%) Onboarding
4 96 (5.36%) Cloud Native
5 72 (4.02%) Product Ownership
6 62 (3.46%) Management Information System
7 55 (3.07%) CMDB
8 35 (1.95%) Reference Data
9 33 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 29 (1.62%) AI Agents
12 26 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
13 24 (1.34%) Taxonomies
14 22 (1.23%) NHS
14 22 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (0.95%) Clustering
16 16 (0.89%) Life Science
17 15 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
17 15 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
18 13 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 16 (0.89%) Linux
1 16 (0.89%) Unix
2 12 (0.67%) Windows
3 1 (0.056%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.056%) VMS
3 1 (0.056%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 707 (39.48%) Data Modelling
2 638 (35.62%) Analytics
3 595 (33.22%) Data Governance
4 511 (28.53%) Data Pipeline
5 507 (28.31%) ETL
6 487 (27.19%) Business Intelligence
7 445 (24.85%) Validation
8 423 (23.62%) Migration
9 392 (21.89%) Data Engineering
10 364 (20.32%) Agile
11 336 (18.76%) Decision-Making
12 332 (18.54%) CI/CD
13 327 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
14 320 (17.87%) Stakeholder Management
15 302 (16.86%) AI
16 262 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 259 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
17 259 (14.46%) Data Migration
18 245 (13.68%) Data Architecture
19 241 (13.46%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 788 (44.00%) SQL
2 479 (26.74%) Python
3 57 (3.18%) Java
4 56 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 41 (2.29%) Scala
6 34 (1.90%) T-SQL
7 33 (1.84%) PL/SQL
8 30 (1.68%) PowerShell
9 20 (1.12%) Shell Script
10 19 (1.06%) VBA
11 18 (1.01%) C#
12 13 (0.73%) JavaScript
12 13 (0.73%) R
13 12 (0.67%) Bicep
14 11 (0.61%) Bash
15 10 (0.56%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.56%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.39%) SOQL
17 6 (0.34%) Cypher
17 6 (0.34%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 301 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 227 (12.67%) SC Cleared
3 109 (6.09%) Degree
4 68 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.68%) Azure Certification
6 22 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (1.17%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.01%) AWS Certification
9 16 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (0.84%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.67%) PMI Certification
12 8 (0.45%) PMP
13 7 (0.39%) ACCA
13 7 (0.39%) CIMA
13 7 (0.39%) SnowPro
14 6 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.34%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 5 (0.28%) PhD
16 4 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (8.21%) GDPR
2 123 (6.87%) QA
3 34 (1.90%) PMO
4 33 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.95%) Solvency II
7 15 (0.84%) SLA
8 11 (0.61%) IFRS
9 10 (0.56%) NIST
9 10 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.50%) COREP
10 9 (0.50%) FINREP
11 8 (0.45%) GRC
12 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.34%) NCSC
13 4 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.22%) GAAP
13 4 (0.22%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.22%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 68 (3.80%) Docker
2 19 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.28%) etcd
4 1 (0.056%) HDFS
4 1 (0.056%) RACF
4 1 (0.056%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.056%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 126 (7.04%) Terraform
2 73 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.78%) Grafana
4 12 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.50%) Ansible
5 9 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.28%) Fluentd
6 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
6 5 (0.28%) SCCM
7 4 (0.22%) Control-M
7 4 (0.22%) Kibana
8 1 (0.056%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.056%) Istio
8 1 (0.056%) logstash
8 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.056%) Nessus
8 1 (0.056%) Nexpose
8 1 (0.056%) Puppet
8 1 (0.056%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.056%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 287 (16.02%) Microsoft
2 264 (14.74%) Databricks
3 150 (8.38%) SAP
4 123 (6.87%) Oracle
5 83 (4.63%) Informatica
6 81 (4.52%) Salesforce
7 74 (4.13%) ServiceNow
8 46 (2.57%) Google
9 33 (1.84%) Talend
10 27 (1.51%) Workday
11 20 (1.12%) IBM
11 20 (1.12%) Palantir
12 19 (1.06%) Denodo
13 17 (0.95%) Alteryx
14 16 (0.89%) Adobe
14 16 (0.89%) Foundry
15 13 (0.73%) NEC
15 13 (0.73%) Sage
15 13 (0.73%) Splunk
16 12 (0.67%) GoldenSource