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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 109 109
Rank change year-on-year +57 0 +51
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,764 682 765
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.93% 2.50% 2.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.94% 15.02% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,168 431 540
10th Percentile £350 £343 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -4.91% -
75th Percentile £590 £638 £703
90th Percentile £675 £745 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 23 25
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.20 £14.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.99 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +50.67% -32.26%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.99 £42.50
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.71 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £15.79
% change year-on-year +26.42% +100.38% -49.06%

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 7,690 4,542 4,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.15% 16.64% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,951 2,950 3,105
10th Percentile £350 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -4.31% -2.15%
75th Percentile £613 £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 521 206 368
10th Percentile £14.02 £15.12 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £13.52
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.76 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.57% +27.04% -41.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £52.06
90th Percentile £81.90 £83.21 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +20.23% +24.07% -37.54%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +64 931 £525 -3.67% 479
North of England +14 223 £475 +5.56% 123
Midlands +44 219 £492 +6.11% 96
West Midlands +36 178 £485 -3.10% 50
South East +14 172 £463 -7.50% 162
North West +2 126 £475 +4.40% 61
South West +25 96 £500 +17.65% 100
East of England +1 80 £570 -5.00% 32
Yorkshire -13 72 £469 +11.61% 42
East Midlands +11 41 £500 +8.52% 46
North East -12 25 £498 -18.78% 20
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 91 (5.16%) Apache Spark
2 90 (5.10%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (3.29%) Apache
4 57 (3.23%) Confluence
5 51 (2.89%) SAS
6 36 (2.04%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
7 9 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.34%) Appian
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.23%) CMS
10 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.057%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.057%) Luigi
12 1 (0.057%) Mendix
Applications
1 132 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 19 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
4 17 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.11%) CATIA
7 1 (0.057%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 62 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.74%) NEC Housing
3 12 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.57%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.45%) iTrent
7 7 (0.40%) Sage X3
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.34%) SAP MDG
8 6 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.28%) Aladdin
9 5 (0.28%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.28%) SAP MM
9 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.23%) Maximo
10 4 (0.23%) SAP PM
11 3 (0.17%) Actimize
11 3 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 481 (27.27%) Azure
2 414 (23.47%) Power Platform
3 310 (17.57%) AWS
4 157 (8.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 131 (7.43%) GCP
6 122 (6.92%) Snowflake
7 116 (6.58%) dbt
8 100 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
9 96 (5.44%) Amazon S3
9 96 (5.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 83 (4.71%) Serverless
11 72 (4.08%) GitHub
12 71 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
13 56 (3.17%) Collibra
14 41 (2.32%) Microsoft Purview
15 36 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (2.04%) Power Automate
16 31 (1.76%) SaaS
17 24 (1.36%) PowerApps
18 23 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.51%) Firewall
2 5 (0.28%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) HTTP
4 1 (0.057%) 4G
4 1 (0.057%) 5G
4 1 (0.057%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.057%) DNS
4 1 (0.057%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.057%) SNMP
4 1 (0.057%) SSH
4 1 (0.057%) WAN
4 1 (0.057%) Wireless
4 1 (0.057%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (22.34%) Power BI
2 278 (15.76%) Data Warehouse
3 219 (12.41%) Metadata
4 160 (9.07%) Data Lake
5 114 (6.46%) Tableau
6 93 (5.27%) SQL Server
7 82 (4.65%) Delta Lake
8 74 (4.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 74 (4.20%) BigQuery
9 59 (3.34%) Relational Database
10 56 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
11 54 (3.06%) Big Data
12 44 (2.49%) Snowflake Schema
13 36 (2.04%) Power Query
14 35 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 34 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
16 32 (1.81%) NoSQL
17 31 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
18 29 (1.64%) Star Schema
19 26 (1.47%) Looker
Development Applications
1 127 (7.20%) JIRA
2 113 (6.41%) Git
3 43 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.87%) GitLab
5 18 (1.02%) ERwin
6 13 (0.74%) MLflow
7 9 (0.51%) Eclipse
8 8 (0.45%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.45%) Postman
8 8 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.40%) Selenium
9 7 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.34%) Ant
11 5 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.23%) LSMW
12 4 (0.23%) Newman
12 4 (0.23%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.17%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 537 (30.44%) Finance
2 523 (29.65%) Social Skills
3 425 (24.09%) Analytical Skills
4 196 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 132 (7.48%) Banking
6 49 (2.78%) Retail
7 48 (2.72%) Marketing
8 42 (2.38%) Manufacturing
8 42 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
9 41 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
10 33 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (1.64%) Legal
11 29 (1.64%) Local Government
12 26 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (1.19%) Military
14 20 (1.13%) Law
15 18 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.91%) Publishing
17 15 (0.85%) Telecoms
18 14 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 418 (23.70%) Data Engineer
2 379 (21.49%) Analyst
3 212 (12.02%) Data Analyst
4 202 (11.45%) Senior
5 199 (11.28%) Lead
6 150 (8.50%) Architect
7 102 (5.78%) Business Analyst
8 95 (5.39%) Data Architect
9 92 (5.22%) Developer
10 87 (4.93%) Senior Data Engineer
11 59 (3.34%) Consultant
12 54 (3.06%) Data Manager
13 45 (2.55%) Administrator
14 42 (2.38%) Data Business Analyst
15 32 (1.81%) Lead Data Engineer
16 31 (1.76%) Azure Engineer
16 31 (1.76%) Data Scientist
17 30 (1.70%) Data Migration Lead
17 30 (1.70%) Project Manager
18 29 (1.64%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (7.48%) PySpark
2 92 (5.22%) Kafka
3 42 (2.38%) Pandas
4 41 (2.32%) REST
5 40 (2.27%) JSON
6 27 (1.53%) Great Expectations
7 24 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
8 20 (1.13%) scikit-learn
8 20 (1.13%) Web Services
9 18 (1.02%) XML
10 15 (0.85%) Middleware
11 14 (0.79%) SOAP
12 13 (0.74%) GeoJSON
12 13 (0.74%) NumPy
12 13 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
13 12 (0.68%) HTML
14 11 (0.62%) pytest
14 11 (0.62%) PyTorch
15 10 (0.57%) Matplotlib
16 9 (0.51%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 139 (7.88%) Data Structures
2 109 (6.18%) Legacy Systems
3 101 (5.73%) Onboarding
4 94 (5.33%) Cloud Native
5 64 (3.63%) Product Ownership
6 61 (3.46%) Management Information System
7 54 (3.06%) CMDB
8 33 (1.87%) Reference Data
9 32 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 30 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
11 29 (1.64%) AI Agents
12 24 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
13 23 (1.30%) NHS
14 22 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (1.25%) Taxonomies
15 17 (0.96%) Clustering
16 16 (0.91%) Life Science
17 15 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
18 14 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
19 13 (0.74%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.68%) Unix
1 12 (0.68%) Windows
2 11 (0.62%) Linux
3 1 (0.057%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.057%) VMS
3 1 (0.057%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 703 (39.85%) Data Modelling
2 634 (35.94%) Analytics
3 576 (32.65%) Data Governance
4 507 (28.74%) Data Pipeline
5 502 (28.46%) ETL
6 490 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
7 433 (24.55%) Validation
8 410 (23.24%) Migration
9 389 (22.05%) Data Engineering
10 360 (20.41%) Agile
11 340 (19.27%) Decision-Making
12 338 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
13 325 (18.42%) CI/CD
14 308 (17.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 304 (17.23%) AI
16 264 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
17 258 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 255 (14.46%) Data Migration
19 241 (13.66%) Data Management
20 233 (13.21%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 782 (44.33%) SQL
2 479 (27.15%) Python
3 57 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 56 (3.17%) Java
5 43 (2.44%) Scala
6 34 (1.93%) T-SQL
7 30 (1.70%) PL/SQL
8 29 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 18 (1.02%) VBA
10 17 (0.96%) C#
11 14 (0.79%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.74%) R
13 12 (0.68%) JavaScript
14 11 (0.62%) Bicep
15 10 (0.57%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.57%) Bash
15 10 (0.57%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.40%) SOQL
17 6 (0.34%) SOSL
18 5 (0.28%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 296 (16.78%) Security Cleared
2 225 (12.76%) SC Cleared
3 108 (6.12%) Degree
4 72 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.70%) Azure Certification
6 23 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.02%) AWS Certification
9 15 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.62%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.40%) ACCA
12 7 (0.40%) CIMA
12 7 (0.40%) PMP
12 7 (0.40%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.34%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.28%) PhD
14 5 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 4 (0.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (8.28%) GDPR
2 123 (6.97%) QA
3 34 (1.93%) PMO
4 29 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.96%) Solvency II
7 16 (0.91%) SLA
8 11 (0.62%) IFRS
9 10 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.45%) COREP
10 8 (0.45%) FINREP
10 8 (0.45%) GRC
11 7 (0.40%) NIST
12 6 (0.34%) NCSC
13 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.23%) BS7666
13 4 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.23%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 69 (3.91%) Docker
2 13 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.28%) etcd
4 1 (0.057%) HDFS
4 1 (0.057%) RACF
4 1 (0.057%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.057%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 126 (7.14%) Terraform
2 74 (4.20%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.79%) Grafana
4 12 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.51%) Ansible
6 6 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.28%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.28%) Kibana
8 4 (0.23%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.23%) SCCM
9 2 (0.11%) logstash
10 1 (0.057%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.057%) Control-M
10 1 (0.057%) Istio
10 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.057%) Nessus
10 1 (0.057%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.057%) Puppet
10 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.057%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 278 (15.76%) Microsoft
2 264 (14.97%) Databricks
3 141 (7.99%) SAP
4 124 (7.03%) Oracle
5 77 (4.37%) Salesforce
6 76 (4.31%) Informatica
7 72 (4.08%) ServiceNow
8 43 (2.44%) Google
9 34 (1.93%) Talend
10 22 (1.25%) Denodo
11 21 (1.19%) Workday
12 19 (1.08%) IBM
12 19 (1.08%) Palantir
13 16 (0.91%) Alteryx
13 16 (0.91%) Foundry
14 15 (0.85%) Adobe
15 14 (0.79%) NEC
16 12 (0.68%) GoldenSource
17 11 (0.62%) OpenAI
17 11 (0.62%) Splunk