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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 97 116
Rank change year-on-year +51 +19 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,049 755 684
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.44% 2.72% 2.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.98% 15.72% 15.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,318 491 465
10th Percentile £355 £334 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £615 £638 £713
90th Percentile £700 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £513 £511 £550
% change year-on-year +0.24% -7.05% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 12 10
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.55 £21.25
25th Percentile £17.57 £27.80 £35.00
Median hourly rate £30.14 £37.74 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.14% -14.24% +17.26%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.00 £86.06
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.38 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £40.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -25.56% +7.32% +5.25%

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 8,203 4,804 4,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.78% 17.32% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,138 3,137 2,502
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £716 £760
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.35% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 229 203
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.79 £15.99
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -4.21% -11.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.40 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.39 £80.55 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.40 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.98% +9.09% -22.54%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +56 1,103 £525 -4.55% 1,462
North of England +46 285 £463 +1.37% 441
Midlands +31 218 £465 -7.00% 243
South East +31 211 £500 +8.40% 315
West Midlands +28 171 £465 -11.43% 169
North West +17 148 £525 +16.67% 260
Yorkshire +29 114 £450 -10.00% 134
South West +20 113 £500 +8.11% 151
East of England +13 72 £513 -15.22% 166
East Midlands +9 46 £450 +0.67% 74
North East -19 24 £491 +12.29% 47
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
1 128 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (4.49%) Apache Spark
3 76 (3.71%) Apache
4 64 (3.12%) Confluence
5 46 (2.24%) SAS
6 45 (2.20%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.63%) CMS
7 13 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.39%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.24%) 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
1 155 (7.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
4 14 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.63%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.29%) 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 66 (3.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.73%) Aladdin
3 15 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.59%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.54%) NEC Housing
6 10 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.44%) SAP MDG
8 8 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.39%) SAP HR
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
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%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.24%) Shopify
12 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
12 4 (0.20%) SAP MM
12 4 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 516 (25.18%) Azure
2 432 (21.08%) Power Platform
3 369 (18.01%) AWS
4 181 (8.83%) GCP
5 168 (8.20%) Snowflake
6 144 (7.03%) Azure Data Factory
7 136 (6.64%) dbt
8 107 (5.22%) Amazon S3
9 104 (5.08%) Serverless
10 102 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
11 89 (4.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 85 (4.15%) AWS Lambda
13 76 (3.71%) GitHub
14 70 (3.42%) Microsoft Purview
15 54 (2.64%) Collibra
16 51 (2.49%) Power Automate
17 46 (2.24%) SaaS
18 44 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
19 42 (2.05%) Azure Databricks
19 42 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
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
1 405 (19.77%) Power BI
2 339 (16.54%) Metadata
3 323 (15.76%) Data Warehouse
4 176 (8.59%) Data Lake
5 114 (5.56%) Tableau
6 97 (4.73%) BigQuery
7 85 (4.15%) SQL Server
8 83 (4.05%) Delta Lake
9 81 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
10 78 (3.81%) Relational Database
11 67 (3.27%) Amazon Athena
12 51 (2.49%) NoSQL
13 43 (2.10%) Power Query
14 41 (2.00%) Big Data
15 38 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
16 36 (1.76%) Looker
17 34 (1.66%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 31 (1.51%) Snowflake Schema
19 30 (1.46%) Star Schema
20 27 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 128 (6.25%) Git
2 127 (6.20%) JIRA
3 32 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.46%) GitLab
5 12 (0.59%) ERwin
6 10 (0.49%) Postman
7 9 (0.44%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.44%) ER Studio
7 9 (0.44%) MLflow
7 9 (0.44%) Selenium
8 8 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.29%) Ant
9 6 (0.29%) Newman
9 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.24%) RStudio
10 5 (0.24%) Terragrunt
11 4 (0.20%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.20%) TestRail
11 4 (0.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 650 (31.72%) Social Skills
2 628 (30.65%) Finance
3 483 (23.57%) Analytical Skills
4 252 (12.30%) Public Sector
5 184 (8.98%) Banking
6 70 (3.42%) Retail
7 63 (3.07%) Manufacturing
8 54 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
9 52 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (2.54%) Marketing
10 47 (2.29%) Local Government
11 44 (2.15%) Military
12 43 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
12 43 (2.10%) Legal
13 36 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 24 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
15 23 (1.12%) Automotive
15 23 (1.12%) Front Office
15 23 (1.12%) Law
15 23 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 430 (20.99%) Data Engineer
2 428 (20.89%) Analyst
3 254 (12.40%) Senior
4 237 (11.57%) Lead
5 225 (10.98%) Data Analyst
6 219 (10.69%) Architect
7 141 (6.88%) Data Architect
8 118 (5.76%) Senior Data Engineer
9 115 (5.61%) Business Analyst
9 115 (5.61%) Developer
10 84 (4.10%) Consultant
11 72 (3.51%) Administrator
12 63 (3.07%) Data Manager
13 50 (2.44%) Data Consultant
14 49 (2.39%) Data Business Analyst
15 40 (1.95%) Databricks Engineer
16 37 (1.81%) Lead Data Engineer
16 37 (1.81%) Senior Analyst
17 33 (1.61%) AWS Engineer
17 33 (1.61%) Databricks Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (8.49%) PySpark
2 136 (6.64%) Terraform
3 71 (3.47%) Kafka
4 55 (2.68%) REST
5 42 (2.05%) JSON
6 33 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.22%) Web Services
8 24 (1.17%) XML
9 21 (1.02%) Great Expectations
9 21 (1.02%) Middleware
9 21 (1.02%) SOAP
10 20 (0.98%) Pandas
11 18 (0.88%) HTML
12 16 (0.78%) .NET
13 14 (0.68%) pytest
14 12 (0.59%) OAuth
14 12 (0.59%) OpenID
15 11 (0.54%) CSS
15 11 (0.54%) OpenTelemetry
16 10 (0.49%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 183 (8.93%) Data Structures
2 132 (6.44%) Onboarding
3 117 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 106 (5.17%) Product Ownership
5 97 (4.73%) Management Information System
6 94 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
7 58 (2.83%) CMDB
8 46 (2.24%) Reference Data
9 44 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
10 40 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (1.90%) AI Agents
12 30 (1.46%) Taxonomies
13 27 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
13 27 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.12%) NHS
15 22 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
16 21 (1.02%) Life Science
17 19 (0.93%) Algorithms
18 16 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
19 15 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.37%) Unix
2 17 (0.83%) Linux
3 10 (0.49%) Windows
4 1 (0.049%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.049%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (39.19%) Data Modelling
2 751 (36.65%) Analytics
3 726 (35.43%) Data Governance
4 558 (27.23%) Data Pipeline
5 549 (26.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 537 (26.21%) Validation
7 516 (25.18%) Business Intelligence
8 505 (24.65%) ETL
9 486 (23.72%) Migration
10 466 (22.74%) Data Engineering
11 423 (20.64%) AI
12 422 (20.60%) Agile
13 397 (19.38%) Decision-Making
14 380 (18.55%) CI/CD
15 368 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
16 329 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
17 314 (15.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 296 (14.45%) Data Architecture
19 281 (13.71%) Data Migration
20 276 (13.47%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 885 (43.19%) SQL
2 549 (26.79%) Python
3 59 (2.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 58 (2.83%) Java
5 39 (1.90%) PL/SQL
6 33 (1.61%) Scala
7 32 (1.56%) T-SQL
8 31 (1.51%) Shell Script
9 29 (1.42%) JavaScript
10 27 (1.32%) PowerShell
11 22 (1.07%) C#
11 22 (1.07%) R
12 17 (0.83%) Bash
13 13 (0.63%) Bicep
14 9 (0.44%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.44%) Korn
14 9 (0.44%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.39%) SOQL
16 6 (0.29%) Cypher
16 6 (0.29%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 323 (15.76%) Security Cleared
2 252 (12.30%) SC Cleared
3 132 (6.44%) Degree
4 48 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.46%) Azure Certification
5 30 (1.46%) DV Cleared
6 25 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (1.17%) AWS Certification
8 23 (1.12%) PMI Certification
9 21 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (0.98%) Master's Degree
11 19 (0.93%) PMP
12 12 (0.59%) ACCA
12 12 (0.59%) CIMA
13 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.39%) CISSP
14 7 (0.34%) CIPD
14 7 (0.34%) CISM
15 6 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (7.08%) QA
2 125 (6.10%) GDPR
3 41 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 36 (1.76%) PMO
5 23 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.12%) SLA
6 20 (0.98%) GRC
6 20 (0.98%) NIST
7 15 (0.73%) IFRS
8 14 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
8 14 (0.68%) NCSC
9 10 (0.49%) Solvency II
10 8 (0.39%) Basel III
10 8 (0.39%) IFRS 17
11 7 (0.34%) COBIT
12 6 (0.29%) COREP
12 6 (0.29%) FINREP
12 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 68 (3.32%) Docker
2 19 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.098%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.049%) HDFS
4 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.68%) Grafana
2 14 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (0.49%) Ansible
4 8 (0.39%) Control-M
5 6 (0.29%) Kibana
6 4 (0.20%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.20%) SCCM
7 3 (0.15%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.049%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.049%) Istio
8 1 (0.049%) logstash
8 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.049%) Nexpose
8 1 (0.049%) Puppet
8 1 (0.049%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 398 (19.42%) Microsoft
2 300 (14.64%) Databricks
3 154 (7.52%) SAP
4 141 (6.88%) Oracle
5 97 (4.73%) ServiceNow
6 81 (3.95%) Informatica
7 73 (3.56%) Google
8 68 (3.32%) Salesforce
9 38 (1.85%) Workday
10 28 (1.37%) Adobe
11 26 (1.27%) IBM
12 22 (1.07%) Alteryx
12 22 (1.07%) Palantir
13 21 (1.02%) Splunk
14 19 (0.93%) Talend
15 18 (0.88%) Denodo
16 16 (0.78%) Foundry
17 13 (0.63%) Bloomberg
18 12 (0.59%) Teradata
19 11 (0.54%) NEC