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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 108 134
Rank change year-on-year +14 +26 +60
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 872 688 730
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.84% 2.27% 1.89%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.18% 16.60% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 465 508
10th Percentile £341 £308 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £751 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 20
10th Percentile - £21.25 £19.60
25th Percentile £18.25 £26.25 £26.22
Median hourly rate £23.75 £37.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -7.41% +138.24%
75th Percentile £40.91 £93.75 £54.12
90th Percentile £44.75 £97.50 £64.55
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £35.13 £40.50
% change year-on-year -11.74% -13.27% +116.00%

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 5,390 4,145 5,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.57% 13.66% 14.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,493 2,411 3,707
10th Percentile £313 £288 £324
25th Percentile £404 £393 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £711 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 175 224
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.26 £15.27
25th Percentile £17.69 £17.31 £21.07
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% -21.09% +61.54%
75th Percentile £57.00 £62.99 £65.63
90th Percentile £76.19 £70.00 £83.36
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £26.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year -5.09% -25.62% +51.62%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +19 504 £525 -7.89% 241
North of England -11 120 £463 +12.12% 74
Midlands +16 94 £514 +14.22% 48
South East +14 71 £469 -23.47% 214
North West -8 71 £463 +8.89% 39
West Midlands +4 67 £525 +7.58% 37
South West +12 42 £488 - 34
Yorkshire -10 41 £492 +31.20% 29
East Midlands 0 27 £439 +28.97% 11
East of England -26 15 £519 +22.06% 41
North East -3 9 £450 +81.82% 10
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 71 (8.14%) Apache Spark
2 57 (6.54%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (4.13%) SAS
4 32 (3.67%) Apache
5 10 (1.15%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.92%) Oracle Application Server
7 6 (0.69%) Confluence
7 6 (0.69%) GeoServer
7 6 (0.69%) Smallworld
8 4 (0.46%) Luigi
9 3 (0.34%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 87 (9.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.46%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.11%) Maple
8 1 (0.11%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 30 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.69%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.57%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.46%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.46%) Loan IQ
7 4 (0.46%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
8 3 (0.34%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (0.34%) SAP MDG-M
8 3 (0.34%) SAP MDG-S
9 2 (0.23%) Actimize
9 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.23%) Maximo
9 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 211 (24.20%) Azure
2 197 (22.59%) Power Platform
3 182 (20.87%) AWS
4 95 (10.89%) Snowflake
5 94 (10.78%) GCP
6 63 (7.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 55 (6.31%) dbt
8 46 (5.28%) Amazon S3
9 38 (4.36%) Collibra
10 37 (4.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 33 (3.78%) GitHub
12 30 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (2.87%) Serverless
14 24 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (2.18%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (2.18%) OCI
16 18 (2.06%) SaaS
17 15 (1.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
18 13 (1.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.46%) HTTP
2 3 (0.34%) DNS
3 2 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.23%) Internet
3 2 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (22.02%) Power BI
2 165 (18.92%) Data Warehouse
3 131 (15.02%) Metadata
4 69 (7.91%) Tableau
5 56 (6.42%) Data Lake
6 50 (5.73%) SQL Server
7 49 (5.62%) Relational Database
8 46 (5.28%) Big Data
9 38 (4.36%) Snowflake Schema
10 35 (4.01%) NoSQL
11 32 (3.67%) Pentaho
12 31 (3.56%) BigQuery
12 31 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
13 25 (2.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 24 (2.75%) Star Schema
15 23 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
15 23 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (2.64%) Delta Lake
16 21 (2.41%) Amazon QuickSight
17 20 (2.29%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 104 (11.93%) Git
2 59 (6.77%) JIRA
3 47 (5.39%) Jenkins
4 20 (2.29%) ERwin
5 16 (1.83%) PowerDesigner
6 12 (1.38%) ER Studio
7 8 (0.92%) DBeaver
8 4 (0.46%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.34%) GitLab
9 3 (0.34%) Vite
9 3 (0.34%) webpack
10 2 (0.23%) MLflow
11 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.11%) Deequ
11 1 (0.11%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.11%) LSMW
11 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.11%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 320 (36.70%) Social Skills
2 277 (31.77%) Finance
3 221 (25.34%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (9.75%) Public Sector
5 75 (8.60%) Banking
6 39 (4.47%) Marketing
7 22 (2.52%) Legal
8 18 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
8 18 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (1.95%) Local Government
10 16 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.61%) Retail
12 13 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.49%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.49%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.38%) Billing
14 11 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.26%) Publishing
15 10 (1.15%) Military
Job Titles
1 205 (23.51%) Analyst
2 188 (21.56%) Data Engineer
3 131 (15.02%) Data Analyst
4 86 (9.86%) Architect
5 83 (9.52%) Lead
6 82 (9.40%) Senior
7 64 (7.34%) Business Analyst
8 60 (6.88%) Developer
9 50 (5.73%) Data Architect
10 34 (3.90%) Senior Data Engineer
11 33 (3.78%) Consultant
12 32 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
13 30 (3.44%) Data Manager
14 28 (3.21%) Data Business Analyst
15 26 (2.98%) Azure Data Engineer
16 25 (2.87%) Data Modeller
17 19 (2.18%) Governance Analyst
18 17 (1.95%) Salesforce Architect
19 16 (1.83%) Data Quality Analyst
19 16 (1.83%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (5.85%) PySpark
2 48 (5.50%) Kafka
3 28 (3.21%) XML
4 22 (2.52%) REST
5 17 (1.95%) Lightning Web Components
6 14 (1.61%) Middleware
6 14 (1.61%) SOAP
7 13 (1.49%) Visualforce
8 11 (1.26%) Pandas
9 10 (1.15%) JSON
10 9 (1.03%) HTML
11 8 (0.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 7 (0.80%) RESTful
13 6 (0.69%) .NET
13 6 (0.69%) Apache NiFi
13 6 (0.69%) CSS
13 6 (0.69%) Great Expectations
13 6 (0.69%) NumPy
13 6 (0.69%) YAML
14 5 (0.57%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 72 (8.26%) Data Structures
2 45 (5.16%) Legacy Systems
3 32 (3.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 28 (3.21%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.98%) Cloud Native
6 24 (2.75%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.41%) Product Ownership
8 18 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (2.06%) Reference Data
9 13 (1.49%) CMDB
9 13 (1.49%) Replication
10 12 (1.38%) NHS
11 11 (1.26%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
11 11 (1.26%) Reinsurance
12 9 (1.03%) Clustering
12 9 (1.03%) Derivative
13 8 (0.92%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.92%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.95%) Linux
2 4 (0.46%) Unix
3 2 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (40.83%) Data Modelling
2 334 (38.30%) Data Governance
3 311 (35.67%) Analytics
4 276 (31.65%) ETL
5 272 (31.19%) Business Intelligence
6 256 (29.36%) Problem-Solving
7 210 (24.08%) Data Pipeline
8 204 (23.39%) Agile
9 164 (18.81%) Data Engineering
9 164 (18.81%) Migration
10 148 (16.97%) CI/CD
11 142 (16.28%) Data Management
12 141 (16.17%) Validation
13 133 (15.25%) Decision-Making
14 128 (14.68%) Data Migration
15 125 (14.33%) Data Integration
16 124 (14.22%) Data Analysis
17 116 (13.30%) Data Architecture
18 113 (12.96%) Visualisation
19 106 (12.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 426 (48.85%) SQL
2 280 (32.11%) Python
3 34 (3.90%) Java
3 34 (3.90%) Scala
4 31 (3.56%) R
5 21 (2.41%) JavaScript
6 17 (1.95%) Apex Code
7 13 (1.49%) Bash
7 13 (1.49%) C#
8 12 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (1.38%) T-SQL
9 11 (1.26%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.92%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.80%) C++
11 7 (0.80%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.69%) VBA
13 4 (0.46%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.34%) ABAP
14 3 (0.34%) Korn
14 3 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 116 (13.30%) Security Cleared
2 83 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 79 (9.06%) Degree
4 36 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.33%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.26%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.46%) CCAB
10 4 (0.46%) PhD
10 4 (0.46%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.46%) PMP
11 3 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.23%) ACCA
12 2 (0.23%) CIMA
12 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.11%) ECDL
13 1 (0.11%) ISEB
13 1 (0.11%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (9.06%) GDPR
2 54 (6.19%) QA
3 36 (4.13%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 11 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (1.03%) PMO
7 7 (0.80%) IFRS
8 6 (0.69%) SLA
9 4 (0.46%) Basel III
9 4 (0.46%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.34%) ISO 19650
10 3 (0.34%) MiFID
10 3 (0.34%) WCAG
11 2 (0.23%) CRD IV
11 2 (0.23%) EMIR
11 2 (0.23%) FINREP
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.11%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 52 (5.96%) Docker
2 8 (0.92%) zsh
3 3 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 49 (5.62%) Kubernetes
2 37 (4.24%) Terraform
3 4 (0.46%) Control-M
3 4 (0.46%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
4 3 (0.34%) Oozie
5 1 (0.11%) Ansible
5 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 131 (15.02%) Databricks
2 115 (13.19%) Microsoft
3 89 (10.21%) Oracle
4 56 (6.42%) SAP
5 50 (5.73%) Informatica
6 49 (5.62%) Salesforce
7 47 (5.39%) Talend
8 41 (4.70%) Google
9 30 (3.44%) Denodo
10 21 (2.41%) ServiceNow
11 13 (1.49%) Sparx
12 10 (1.15%) Alteryx
12 10 (1.15%) Palantir
13 9 (1.03%) Adobe
14 7 (0.80%) Foundry
14 7 (0.80%) Workday
15 6 (0.69%) Bloomberg
15 6 (0.69%) ESRI
15 6 (0.69%) Guidewire
15 6 (0.69%) Intergraph