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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 110 116
Rank change year-on-year +49 +6 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,537 596 735
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.68% 2.49% 2.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.95% 15.40% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 387 509
10th Percentile £350 £352 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £688
90th Percentile £688 £709 £813
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £550
% change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 20 28
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £13.49
25th Percentile £17.20 £23.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £21.06
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +50.26% -6.35%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.99 £44.81
90th Percentile £82.48 £78.83 £58.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £15.80
% change year-on-year +26.42% +100.25% -29.73%

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 7,001 3,869 5,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.74% 16.17% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,536 2,504 3,284
10th Percentile £344 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £607 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £729 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.72% -3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 151 361
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.35 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.21 £13.18
Median hourly rate £33.98 £34.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% +50.00% -41.92%
75th Percentile £67.38 £67.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.90 £80.00 £68.88
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £32.66 £21.38
% change year-on-year +10.24% +52.75% -38.92%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +60 867 £525 - 257
Midlands +21 176 £499 +8.66% 59
North of England +4 173 £495 +10.00% 117
West Midlands +24 142 £500 +18.55% 37
South East +21 127 £450 -10.00% 123
North West +17 103 £475 +2.15% 54
South West +20 85 £495 -1.00% 33
East of England -17 66 £575 -4.88% 26
Yorkshire -34 48 £507 +26.75% 48
East Midlands -7 35 £450 -2.33% 22
North East -7 22 £475 -7.99% 18
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
1 104 (6.77%) Apache Spark
2 83 (5.40%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (3.58%) Apache
4 44 (2.86%) Confluence
5 41 (2.67%) SAS
6 36 (2.34%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.65%) Appian
8 8 (0.52%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.26%) CMS
10 4 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.065%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 130 (8.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 21 (1.37%) MS Visio
3 20 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.20%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 46 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.85%) NEC Housing
3 9 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.59%) iTrent
3 9 (0.59%) Loan IQ
4 8 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.39%) Finacle
6 6 (0.39%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.39%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.33%) SystmOne
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.26%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.20%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 454 (29.54%) Azure
2 383 (24.92%) Power Platform
3 257 (16.72%) AWS
4 178 (11.58%) Azure Data Factory
5 122 (7.94%) GCP
6 108 (7.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 105 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
7 105 (6.83%) Snowflake
8 102 (6.64%) dbt
9 76 (4.94%) GitHub
10 71 (4.62%) Amazon S3
11 56 (3.64%) Serverless
12 55 (3.58%) Collibra
13 41 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
14 37 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (2.15%) Power Automate
16 29 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
17 28 (1.82%) SaaS
18 24 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
19 17 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.46%) Firewall
2 5 (0.33%) VPN
3 2 (0.13%) Broadband
3 2 (0.13%) DNS
3 2 (0.13%) HTTP
3 2 (0.13%) VoIP
4 1 (0.065%) 4G
4 1 (0.065%) 5G
4 1 (0.065%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 367 (23.88%) Power BI
2 247 (16.07%) Data Warehouse
3 198 (12.88%) Metadata
4 157 (10.21%) Data Lake
5 107 (6.96%) Tableau
6 103 (6.70%) SQL Server
7 82 (5.34%) Delta Lake
8 70 (4.55%) BigQuery
9 55 (3.58%) Azure SQL Database
10 52 (3.38%) Big Data
11 51 (3.32%) Relational Database
12 48 (3.12%) Snowflake Schema
13 44 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
14 42 (2.73%) NoSQL
15 38 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
15 38 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 34 (2.21%) Power Query
17 31 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
18 29 (1.89%) Star Schema
19 28 (1.82%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 113 (7.35%) JIRA
2 111 (7.22%) Git
3 43 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.56%) GitLab
5 16 (1.04%) ERwin
5 16 (1.04%) MLflow
6 8 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
7 7 (0.46%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.46%) Postman
7 7 (0.46%) Selenium
8 6 (0.39%) LSMW
9 5 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.26%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.26%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (0.26%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.20%) Ant
11 3 (0.20%) Newman
11 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 475 (30.90%) Finance
2 467 (30.38%) Social Skills
3 355 (23.10%) Analytical Skills
4 159 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 135 (8.78%) Banking
6 43 (2.80%) Retail
7 42 (2.73%) Marketing
8 39 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 27 (1.76%) Local Government
12 24 (1.56%) Manufacturing
13 23 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.50%) Legal
14 18 (1.17%) Law
14 18 (1.17%) Military
15 17 (1.11%) Financial Institution
16 16 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.98%) Investment Banking
18 14 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 390 (25.37%) Data Engineer
2 324 (21.08%) Analyst
3 188 (12.23%) Data Analyst
4 176 (11.45%) Senior
5 154 (10.02%) Lead
6 122 (7.94%) Architect
7 91 (5.92%) Business Analyst
8 80 (5.20%) Developer
9 75 (4.88%) Data Architect
10 73 (4.75%) Senior Data Engineer
11 52 (3.38%) Consultant
12 51 (3.32%) Data Manager
13 38 (2.47%) Azure Engineer
14 35 (2.28%) Data Business Analyst
15 34 (2.21%) Administrator
15 34 (2.21%) Azure Data Engineer
16 33 (2.15%) Project Manager
17 29 (1.89%) Data Migration Lead
18 26 (1.69%) Python Engineer
19 25 (1.63%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (8.52%) PySpark
2 94 (6.12%) Kafka
3 52 (3.38%) Pandas
4 44 (2.86%) REST
5 33 (2.15%) Great Expectations
6 29 (1.89%) JSON
7 25 (1.63%) scikit-learn
8 20 (1.30%) NumPy
9 17 (1.11%) Middleware
9 17 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
9 17 (1.11%) Web Services
10 16 (1.04%) pytest
10 16 (1.04%) PyTorch
11 13 (0.85%) GeoJSON
11 13 (0.85%) TensorFlow
12 12 (0.78%) XML
13 11 (0.72%) Flask
13 11 (0.72%) OAuth
13 11 (0.72%) RESTful
14 10 (0.65%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 120 (7.81%) Data Structures
2 109 (7.09%) Legacy Systems
3 80 (5.20%) Cloud Native
4 73 (4.75%) Onboarding
5 63 (4.10%) Product Ownership
6 57 (3.71%) Management Information System
7 41 (2.67%) CMDB
8 34 (2.21%) Reference Data
9 27 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 23 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
11 22 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
12 21 (1.37%) AI Agents
13 18 (1.17%) Clustering
14 15 (0.98%) NHS
15 14 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.91%) Life Science
16 13 (0.85%) Fixed Income
16 13 (0.85%) Taxonomies
17 11 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.72%) Windows
2 9 (0.59%) Linux
2 9 (0.59%) Unix
3 1 (0.065%) VMS
3 1 (0.065%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 652 (42.42%) Data Modelling
2 580 (37.74%) Analytics
3 502 (32.66%) Data Governance
4 480 (31.23%) ETL
5 455 (29.60%) Business Intelligence
6 449 (29.21%) Data Pipeline
7 350 (22.77%) Validation
8 342 (22.25%) Migration
9 332 (21.60%) Data Engineering
10 331 (21.54%) Agile
11 306 (19.91%) Decision-Making
12 300 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
13 276 (17.96%) CI/CD
14 256 (16.66%) AI
15 233 (15.16%) Stakeholder Management
16 229 (14.90%) Data Migration
17 220 (14.31%) Data Architecture
18 211 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
19 205 (13.34%) DevOps
20 203 (13.21%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 741 (48.21%) SQL
2 444 (28.89%) Python
3 56 (3.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 51 (3.32%) Java
5 49 (3.19%) Scala
6 42 (2.73%) T-SQL
7 37 (2.41%) PL/SQL
8 21 (1.37%) C#
8 21 (1.37%) PowerShell
9 17 (1.11%) VBA
10 14 (0.91%) Bicep
10 14 (0.91%) R
11 9 (0.59%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.52%) Bash
12 8 (0.52%) JavaScript
13 7 (0.46%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.39%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.33%) Korn
16 4 (0.26%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.26%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 268 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 207 (13.47%) SC Cleared
3 91 (5.92%) Degree
4 51 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (1.37%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 9 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (0.46%) ACCA
9 7 (0.46%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.46%) CIMA
9 7 (0.46%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.39%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.33%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.33%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.26%) PhD
13 3 (0.20%) PMP
13 3 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 2 (0.13%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (8.20%) GDPR
2 106 (6.90%) QA
3 32 (2.08%) PMO
4 30 (1.95%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (0.98%) SLA
7 13 (0.85%) Solvency II
8 10 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.59%) COREP
9 9 (0.59%) FINREP
9 9 (0.59%) IFRS
10 6 (0.39%) Basel III
10 6 (0.39%) NIST
11 5 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.33%) GRC
12 4 (0.26%) BS7666
13 3 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.20%) GAAP
13 3 (0.20%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 66 (4.29%) Docker
2 6 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.33%) etcd
4 1 (0.065%) HDFS
4 1 (0.065%) RACF
4 1 (0.065%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 107 (6.96%) Terraform
2 69 (4.49%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.72%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.65%) Grafana
5 9 (0.59%) Ansible
6 6 (0.39%) Kibana
7 5 (0.33%) Fluentd
8 4 (0.26%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.26%) SCCM
8 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.20%) logstash
10 1 (0.065%) Control-M
10 1 (0.065%) Istio
10 1 (0.065%) Nessus
10 1 (0.065%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.065%) Puppet
10 1 (0.065%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 255 (16.59%) Databricks
2 254 (16.53%) Microsoft
3 115 (7.48%) SAP
4 108 (7.03%) Oracle
5 70 (4.55%) Salesforce
6 60 (3.90%) ServiceNow
7 59 (3.84%) Informatica
8 44 (2.86%) Google
9 32 (2.08%) Talend
10 23 (1.50%) Denodo
11 17 (1.11%) Workday
12 16 (1.04%) OpenAI
13 15 (0.98%) GoldenSource
13 15 (0.98%) IBM
14 14 (0.91%) NEC
15 11 (0.72%) Alteryx
15 11 (0.72%) Avaloq
15 11 (0.72%) ESRI
16 10 (0.65%) Adobe
17 9 (0.59%) Automation Anywhere