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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 100 118
Rank change year-on-year +51 +18 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,943 725 676
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.25% 2.63% 2.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.23% 15.29% 15.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 466 472
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £713
90th Percentile £688 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £550
% change year-on-year -0.50% -8.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 18 9
10th Percentile £16.23 £20.18 £21.10
25th Percentile £21.13 £27.24 £24.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.56 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% -35.53% +15.75%
75th Percentile £61.50 £44.37 £51.75
90th Percentile £75.75 £61.24 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £33.11 £24.00
% change year-on-year +20.81% +37.96% -44.99%

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 8,020 4,741 4,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.54% 17.18% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,083 3,103 2,683
10th Percentile £331 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £611 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.07% -2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 227 253
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £17.57 £18.50 £13.25
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +22.80% -27.42%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £85.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £30.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +20.00% +24.07% -30.91%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 +59 1,035 £523 -0.48% 1,152
North of England +38 272 £463 +2.78% 304
Midlands +27 219 £458 -6.96% 142
South East +36 201 £475 - 284
West Midlands +28 172 £458 -11.72% 103
North West +18 148 £495 +4.76% 189
Yorkshire +20 105 £454 +3.71% 72
South West +6 95 £500 +14.29% 133
East of England +16 86 £565 -4.24% 87
East Midlands +8 46 £466 +4.14% 39
North East -26 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
1 115 (5.92%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (4.79%) Apache Spark
3 71 (3.65%) Apache
4 54 (2.78%) Confluence
5 48 (2.47%) SAS
6 44 (2.26%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.57%) CMS
9 10 (0.51%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.10%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.10%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.051%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.051%) GeoServer
14 1 (0.051%) Luigi
14 1 (0.051%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 144 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
3 19 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.10%) CATIA
9 1 (0.051%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.051%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.051%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.051%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 67 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.72%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.67%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.51%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.41%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.36%) iTrent
8 7 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.36%) SAP MDG
9 5 (0.26%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.26%) Maximo
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
9 5 (0.26%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.21%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.21%) Shopify
10 4 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
11 3 (0.15%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 515 (26.51%) Azure
2 416 (21.41%) Power Platform
3 350 (18.01%) AWS
4 158 (8.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 151 (7.77%) Snowflake
6 149 (7.67%) GCP
7 125 (6.43%) dbt
8 110 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
9 96 (4.94%) Serverless
10 95 (4.89%) Amazon S3
11 94 (4.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 81 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
13 76 (3.91%) GitHub
14 55 (2.83%) Collibra
15 53 (2.73%) Microsoft Purview
16 44 (2.26%) Power Automate
17 43 (2.21%) SaaS
18 42 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
19 36 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
20 32 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.46%) Firewall
2 5 (0.26%) VPN
3 3 (0.15%) HTTP
3 3 (0.15%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.15%) SNMP
3 3 (0.15%) WAN
3 3 (0.15%) Wireless
4 2 (0.10%) Broadband
4 2 (0.10%) DNS
4 2 (0.10%) SSL
5 1 (0.051%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.051%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.051%) Network Security
5 1 (0.051%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.051%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 393 (20.23%) Power BI
2 323 (16.62%) Data Warehouse
3 300 (15.44%) Metadata
4 168 (8.65%) Data Lake
5 119 (6.12%) Tableau
6 93 (4.79%) SQL Server
7 85 (4.37%) Delta Lake
8 82 (4.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 82 (4.22%) BigQuery
9 78 (4.01%) Relational Database
10 54 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
11 49 (2.52%) Big Data
12 47 (2.42%) NoSQL
13 40 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
14 37 (1.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 37 (1.90%) Looker
14 37 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
15 36 (1.85%) Star Schema
16 32 (1.65%) Power Query
16 32 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 117 (6.02%) JIRA
2 98 (5.04%) Git
3 39 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.80%) GitLab
5 15 (0.77%) ERwin
6 10 (0.51%) ER Studio
6 10 (0.51%) MLflow
6 10 (0.51%) Selenium
7 9 (0.46%) Eclipse
8 8 (0.41%) Postman
9 7 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.31%) Ant
10 6 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.26%) Newman
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.21%) RStudio
12 4 (0.21%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 4 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 613 (31.55%) Social Skills
2 584 (30.06%) Finance
3 461 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
4 237 (12.20%) Public Sector
5 160 (8.23%) Banking
6 61 (3.14%) Retail
7 53 (2.73%) Marketing
8 51 (2.62%) Manufacturing
9 49 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
10 47 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
11 41 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
12 40 (2.06%) Local Government
13 37 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 34 (1.75%) Military
15 31 (1.60%) Legal
16 28 (1.44%) Law
17 24 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
18 21 (1.08%) Automotive
19 19 (0.98%) Billing
19 19 (0.98%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 420 (21.62%) Data Engineer
2 409 (21.05%) Analyst
3 227 (11.68%) Senior
4 223 (11.48%) Data Analyst
4 223 (11.48%) Lead
5 200 (10.29%) Architect
6 130 (6.69%) Data Architect
7 108 (5.56%) Business Analyst
8 102 (5.25%) Developer
9 99 (5.10%) Senior Data Engineer
10 76 (3.91%) Consultant
11 61 (3.14%) Data Manager
12 60 (3.09%) Administrator
13 44 (2.26%) Data Consultant
14 40 (2.06%) Data Business Analyst
15 34 (1.75%) Lead Data Engineer
15 34 (1.75%) Python Engineer
16 31 (1.60%) AWS Engineer
16 31 (1.60%) Project Manager
16 31 (1.60%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (8.80%) PySpark
2 127 (6.54%) Terraform
3 87 (4.48%) Kafka
4 53 (2.73%) REST
5 43 (2.21%) JSON
6 28 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
6 28 (1.44%) Pandas
7 26 (1.34%) Great Expectations
8 21 (1.08%) Web Services
8 21 (1.08%) XML
9 19 (0.98%) Middleware
10 16 (0.82%) HTML
11 14 (0.72%) .NET
11 14 (0.72%) SOAP
12 12 (0.62%) OpenTelemetry
12 12 (0.62%) pytest
13 10 (0.51%) SailPoint
13 10 (0.51%) SAML
14 9 (0.46%) CSS
14 9 (0.46%) React
Miscellaneous
1 167 (8.59%) Data Structures
2 121 (6.23%) Onboarding
3 103 (5.30%) Cloud Native
4 101 (5.20%) Legacy Systems
5 93 (4.79%) Product Ownership
6 81 (4.17%) Management Information System
7 64 (3.29%) CMDB
8 48 (2.47%) Reference Data
9 38 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
11 27 (1.39%) AI Agents
12 26 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
13 24 (1.24%) Taxonomies
14 23 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
15 21 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
15 21 (1.08%) NHS
16 18 (0.93%) Life Science
17 17 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
18 16 (0.82%) SCADA
19 15 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.29%) Unix
2 20 (1.03%) Linux
3 13 (0.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.051%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 767 (39.48%) Data Modelling
2 692 (35.62%) Data Governance
3 683 (35.15%) Analytics
4 541 (27.84%) Data Pipeline
5 537 (27.64%) ETL
6 500 (25.73%) Validation
7 499 (25.68%) Business Intelligence
8 470 (24.19%) Migration
9 443 (22.80%) Stakeholder Management
10 430 (22.13%) Data Engineering
11 401 (20.64%) Agile
12 371 (19.09%) Decision-Making
13 361 (18.58%) CI/CD
14 358 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
15 353 (18.17%) AI
16 302 (15.54%) Continuous Improvement
17 290 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 286 (14.72%) Data Migration
19 283 (14.57%) Data Architecture
20 273 (14.05%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 835 (42.97%) SQL
2 516 (26.56%) Python
3 63 (3.24%) Java
4 55 (2.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 39 (2.01%) PL/SQL
6 33 (1.70%) PowerShell
6 33 (1.70%) Scala
6 33 (1.70%) T-SQL
7 28 (1.44%) Shell Script
8 24 (1.24%) JavaScript
9 20 (1.03%) C#
9 20 (1.03%) R
10 14 (0.72%) Bash
11 12 (0.62%) Bicep
12 11 (0.57%) VBA
13 9 (0.46%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.41%) SOQL
15 7 (0.36%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.31%) Go
16 6 (0.31%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 324 (16.68%) Security Cleared
2 250 (12.87%) SC Cleared
3 120 (6.18%) Degree
4 50 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.29%) AWS Certification
8 24 (1.24%) DV Cleared
9 19 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (0.87%) Master's Degree
11 16 (0.82%) PMI Certification
12 11 (0.57%) PMP
13 9 (0.46%) ACCA
13 9 (0.46%) CIMA
14 8 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.31%) PhD
15 6 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 6 (0.31%) SnowPro
16 5 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (7.46%) QA
2 133 (6.85%) GDPR
3 36 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 31 (1.60%) PMO
5 24 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.08%) SLA
7 15 (0.77%) NIST
8 14 (0.72%) GRC
8 14 (0.72%) IFRS
9 13 (0.67%) Solvency II
10 12 (0.62%) NCSC
11 9 (0.46%) COREP
11 9 (0.46%) FINREP
11 9 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.31%) IFRS 17
13 6 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.21%) BS7666
14 4 (0.21%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 74 (3.81%) Docker
2 20 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.26%) etcd
4 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.051%) RACF
5 1 (0.051%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (4.01%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.67%) Grafana
3 12 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (0.57%) Ansible
4 11 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.41%) Control-M
6 5 (0.26%) Fluentd
6 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.21%) SCCM
8 3 (0.15%) Kibana
9 1 (0.051%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.051%) Istio
9 1 (0.051%) logstash
9 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.051%) Nessus
9 1 (0.051%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.051%) Puppet
9 1 (0.051%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.051%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 340 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 288 (14.82%) Databricks
3 162 (8.34%) SAP
4 135 (6.95%) Oracle
5 92 (4.73%) ServiceNow
6 84 (4.32%) Informatica
7 71 (3.65%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.88%) Google
9 30 (1.54%) Workday
10 26 (1.34%) Talend
11 25 (1.29%) IBM
12 24 (1.24%) Adobe
13 22 (1.13%) Alteryx
14 21 (1.08%) Palantir
15 20 (1.03%) Splunk
16 17 (0.87%) Denodo
17 15 (0.77%) Foundry
18 12 (0.62%) Teradata
19 11 (0.57%) Bloomberg
19 11 (0.57%) GoldenSource