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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 99 119
Rank change year-on-year +53 +20 +32
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,034 723 664
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.40% 2.64% 2.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.90% 15.30% 15.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,307 468 459
10th Percentile £355 £336 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -7.27% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £713
90th Percentile £700 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £507 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -0.59% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 14 9
10th Percentile £15.39 £23.84 £21.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £31.64 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £34.43 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -8.19% -4.87%
75th Percentile £60.75 £44.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.13 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £37.49 £36.25
% change year-on-year -15.98% +3.42% -3.40%

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 8,170 4,727 4,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.67% 17.28% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,149 3,078 2,559
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 578 228 215
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.96 £15.22
Median hourly rate £33.98 £32.50 £31.12
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.43% -12.66%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £64.24
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.83 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% +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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +63 1,091 £525 -2.78% 1,984
North of England +43 282 £463 +2.78% 480
Midlands +31 224 £465 -7.00% 271
South East +34 210 £500 +2.56% 385
West Midlands +24 175 £465 -11.43% 207
North West +25 150 £525 +16.67% 302
Yorkshire +32 113 £450 -10.00% 137
South West +7 106 £500 +11.11% 159
East of England +12 86 £565 -6.53% 184
East Midlands +15 48 £466 +4.14% 64
North East -23 20 £520 +18.86% 43
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
1 124 (6.10%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (4.47%) Apache Spark
3 74 (3.64%) Apache
4 60 (2.95%) Confluence
5 48 (2.36%) SAS
6 43 (2.11%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.54%) CMS
9 10 (0.49%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
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
1 154 (7.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
3 16 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.098%) CATIA
8 1 (0.049%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.049%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.049%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.049%) Trello
8 1 (0.049%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 67 (3.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.74%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.59%) Aladdin
5 11 (0.54%) NEC Housing
6 10 (0.49%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.39%) SAP MDG
7 8 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 7 (0.34%) iTrent
8 7 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.29%) Maximo
9 6 (0.29%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.25%) Shopify
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
11 4 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 517 (25.42%) Azure
2 427 (20.99%) Power Platform
3 364 (17.90%) AWS
4 171 (8.41%) GCP
5 162 (7.96%) Snowflake
6 149 (7.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 137 (6.74%) dbt
8 104 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
9 103 (5.06%) Serverless
10 101 (4.97%) Amazon S3
11 91 (4.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 84 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
13 79 (3.88%) GitHub
14 63 (3.10%) Microsoft Purview
15 61 (3.00%) Collibra
16 47 (2.31%) SaaS
17 46 (2.26%) Power Automate
18 44 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
19 42 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
20 40 (1.97%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.29%) Broadband
1 6 (0.29%) Firewall
2 5 (0.25%) SD-WAN
2 5 (0.25%) SNMP
2 5 (0.25%) WAN
2 5 (0.25%) Wireless
3 3 (0.15%) HTTP
4 2 (0.098%) DNS
4 2 (0.098%) SSL
5 1 (0.049%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.049%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.049%) Network Security
5 1 (0.049%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.049%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 401 (19.71%) Power BI
2 326 (16.03%) Metadata
3 323 (15.88%) Data Warehouse
4 172 (8.46%) Data Lake
5 113 (5.56%) Tableau
6 94 (4.62%) SQL Server
7 89 (4.38%) BigQuery
8 85 (4.18%) Delta Lake
9 80 (3.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 78 (3.83%) Relational Database
11 61 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
12 52 (2.56%) NoSQL
13 45 (2.21%) Big Data
14 41 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
15 40 (1.97%) Power Query
16 37 (1.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 37 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
16 37 (1.82%) Star Schema
17 34 (1.67%) Looker
18 29 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 126 (6.19%) JIRA
2 117 (5.75%) Git
3 36 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.67%) GitLab
5 11 (0.54%) ERwin
6 10 (0.49%) MLflow
6 10 (0.49%) Selenium
7 9 (0.44%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.44%) ER Studio
7 9 (0.44%) Postman
8 8 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.29%) Ant
9 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.25%) Newman
10 5 (0.25%) RStudio
10 5 (0.25%) Terragrunt
11 4 (0.20%) TestRail
11 4 (0.20%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 651 (32.01%) Social Skills
2 624 (30.68%) Finance
3 486 (23.89%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (11.80%) Public Sector
5 179 (8.80%) Banking
6 68 (3.34%) Retail
7 59 (2.90%) Manufacturing
8 53 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
9 52 (2.56%) Marketing
10 45 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
11 44 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
12 43 (2.11%) Local Government
13 40 (1.97%) Military
14 37 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 36 (1.77%) Legal
16 25 (1.23%) Billing
16 25 (1.23%) Law
17 24 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
18 23 (1.13%) Front Office
18 23 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 434 (21.34%) Data Engineer
2 424 (20.85%) Analyst
3 243 (11.95%) Lead
4 242 (11.90%) Senior
5 229 (11.26%) Data Analyst
6 212 (10.42%) Architect
7 139 (6.83%) Data Architect
8 112 (5.51%) Senior Data Engineer
9 110 (5.41%) Business Analyst
9 110 (5.41%) Developer
10 85 (4.18%) Consultant
11 66 (3.24%) Administrator
12 63 (3.10%) Data Manager
13 51 (2.51%) Data Consultant
14 44 (2.16%) Data Business Analyst
15 36 (1.77%) Databricks Engineer
16 35 (1.72%) AWS Engineer
16 35 (1.72%) Lead Data Engineer
17 33 (1.62%) Python Engineer
18 32 (1.57%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (8.70%) PySpark
2 132 (6.49%) Terraform
3 77 (3.79%) Kafka
4 56 (2.75%) REST
5 45 (2.21%) JSON
6 33 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
7 26 (1.28%) Great Expectations
8 23 (1.13%) XML
9 21 (1.03%) Pandas
10 20 (0.98%) Middleware
11 19 (0.93%) Web Services
12 17 (0.84%) .NET
12 17 (0.84%) HTML
13 16 (0.79%) SOAP
14 14 (0.69%) pytest
15 12 (0.59%) OpenTelemetry
16 10 (0.49%) CSS
16 10 (0.49%) OAuth
16 10 (0.49%) OpenID
16 10 (0.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 184 (9.05%) Data Structures
2 134 (6.59%) Onboarding
3 111 (5.46%) Cloud Native
4 99 (4.87%) Legacy Systems
5 97 (4.77%) Product Ownership
6 92 (4.52%) Management Information System
7 57 (2.80%) CMDB
8 49 (2.41%) Reference Data
9 41 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
10 38 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (1.82%) AI Agents
12 27 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
13 25 (1.23%) Taxonomies
14 22 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.08%) NHS
15 21 (1.03%) Life Science
16 17 (0.84%) Algorithms
16 17 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
17 16 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.18%) Unix
2 17 (0.84%) Linux
3 12 (0.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.049%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.049%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 797 (39.18%) Data Modelling
2 732 (35.99%) Analytics
3 726 (35.69%) Data Governance
4 559 (27.48%) Data Pipeline
5 536 (26.35%) Validation
6 532 (26.16%) ETL
7 515 (25.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 510 (25.07%) Business Intelligence
9 488 (23.99%) Migration
10 463 (22.76%) Data Engineering
11 417 (20.50%) Agile
12 404 (19.86%) AI
13 397 (19.52%) Decision-Making
14 382 (18.78%) CI/CD
15 380 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
16 326 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
17 305 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 295 (14.50%) Data Architecture
19 288 (14.16%) Data Migration
20 280 (13.77%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 877 (43.12%) SQL
2 542 (26.65%) Python
3 60 (2.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 59 (2.90%) Java
5 42 (2.06%) PL/SQL
6 34 (1.67%) T-SQL
7 31 (1.52%) Scala
8 30 (1.47%) PowerShell
9 28 (1.38%) Shell Script
10 25 (1.23%) JavaScript
11 23 (1.13%) C#
12 22 (1.08%) R
13 16 (0.79%) Bash
14 13 (0.64%) Bicep
15 9 (0.44%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.39%) SOQL
16 8 (0.39%) TypeScript
16 8 (0.39%) VBA
17 6 (0.29%) Go
17 6 (0.29%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 324 (15.93%) Security Cleared
2 249 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 122 (6.00%) Degree
4 53 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.33%) DV Cleared
7 26 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.23%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 18 (0.88%) PMI Certification
11 13 (0.64%) PMP
12 10 (0.49%) ACCA
12 10 (0.49%) CIMA
13 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 5 (0.25%) CIPD
15 5 (0.25%) PhD
15 5 (0.25%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (7.33%) QA
2 123 (6.05%) GDPR
3 41 (2.02%) Accessibility
4 33 (1.62%) PMO
5 22 (1.08%) SLA
6 20 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.79%) IFRS
8 15 (0.74%) NIST
9 14 (0.69%) GRC
9 14 (0.69%) NCSC
10 12 (0.59%) Solvency II
11 11 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.39%) COREP
12 8 (0.39%) FINREP
12 8 (0.39%) IFRS 17
12 8 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.29%) Basel III
14 6 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 5 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 75 (3.69%) Docker
2 19 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.098%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.049%) etcd
4 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.69%) Grafana
2 14 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (0.54%) Ansible
4 9 (0.44%) Control-M
5 7 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.20%) Kibana
6 4 (0.20%) SCCM
7 3 (0.15%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.049%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.049%) Fluentd
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%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.049%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 385 (18.93%) Microsoft
2 300 (14.75%) Databricks
3 166 (8.16%) SAP
4 148 (7.28%) Oracle
5 93 (4.57%) ServiceNow
6 84 (4.13%) Informatica
7 76 (3.74%) Salesforce
8 64 (3.15%) Google
9 33 (1.62%) Workday
10 27 (1.33%) Adobe
11 25 (1.23%) IBM
12 24 (1.18%) Talend
13 23 (1.13%) Alteryx
14 21 (1.03%) Palantir
14 21 (1.03%) Splunk
15 17 (0.84%) Denodo
16 16 (0.79%) Foundry
17 13 (0.64%) Bloomberg
18 12 (0.59%) Teradata
19 11 (0.54%) GoldenSource