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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 109 116
Rank change year-on-year +49 +7 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,547 600 732
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.70% 2.50% 1.99%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.04% 15.38% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 387 507
10th Percentile £350 £347 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £688
90th Percentile £675 £725 £813
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 20 28
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £13.49
25th Percentile £17.48 £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 £82.33 £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 7,018 3,902 5,067
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.80% 16.27% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,540 2,514 3,218
10th Percentile £349 £263 £299
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £604 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.72% -3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 160 369
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.18
Median hourly rate £33.55 £34.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +44.96% -44.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.03 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year +7.69% +42.86% -39.33%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +65 863 £525 - 366
North of England +6 180 £488 +8.33% 129
Midlands +20 176 £499 +8.66% 83
West Midlands +23 142 £500 +18.55% 49
South East +15 136 £450 -10.00% 137
North West +20 107 £475 +4.97% 69
South West +18 83 £500 +17.65% 47
East of England -20 66 £575 -4.88% 42
Yorkshire -41 50 £507 +26.75% 43
East Midlands -7 35 £450 -2.33% 34
North East -8 23 £475 -22.45% 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
1 101 (6.53%) Apache Spark
2 82 (5.30%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (3.49%) Apache
4 47 (3.04%) Confluence
5 41 (2.65%) SAS
6 36 (2.33%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.65%) Appian
8 8 (0.52%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.26%) CMS
10 4 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
13 1 (0.065%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 123 (7.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 19 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 18 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.13%) CATIA
6 2 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 46 (2.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.78%) NEC Housing
3 9 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.58%) iTrent
3 9 (0.58%) Loan IQ
3 9 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.45%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.39%) Finacle
6 6 (0.39%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.32%) SystmOne
8 4 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.26%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 453 (29.28%) Azure
2 377 (24.37%) Power Platform
3 259 (16.74%) AWS
4 174 (11.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 122 (7.89%) GCP
6 110 (7.11%) Snowflake
7 105 (6.79%) dbt
8 104 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
9 103 (6.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 76 (4.91%) GitHub
11 72 (4.65%) Amazon S3
12 60 (3.88%) Serverless
13 54 (3.49%) Collibra
14 45 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
15 37 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
16 32 (2.07%) Power Automate
17 31 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
18 30 (1.94%) SaaS
19 22 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
20 18 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.45%) Firewall
2 5 (0.32%) VPN
3 2 (0.13%) HTTP
4 1 (0.065%) 4G
4 1 (0.065%) 5G
4 1 (0.065%) Broadband
4 1 (0.065%) DNS
4 1 (0.065%) SSH
4 1 (0.065%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 359 (23.21%) Power BI
2 243 (15.71%) Data Warehouse
3 199 (12.86%) Metadata
4 155 (10.02%) Data Lake
5 103 (6.66%) SQL Server
6 102 (6.59%) Tableau
7 81 (5.24%) Delta Lake
8 68 (4.40%) BigQuery
9 53 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 52 (3.36%) Big Data
11 51 (3.30%) Relational Database
12 46 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 45 (2.91%) Snowflake Schema
14 41 (2.65%) NoSQL
15 39 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
16 37 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 34 (2.20%) Power Query
18 30 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
19 29 (1.87%) Star Schema
20 25 (1.62%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 116 (7.50%) JIRA
2 111 (7.18%) Git
3 43 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.75%) GitLab
5 16 (1.03%) ERwin
5 16 (1.03%) MLflow
6 8 (0.52%) Postman
6 8 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
7 7 (0.45%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.45%) Selenium
8 5 (0.32%) Eclipse
8 5 (0.32%) LSMW
8 5 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (0.26%) Ant
9 4 (0.26%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.26%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.19%) Newman
10 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
General
1 474 (30.64%) Finance
2 458 (29.61%) Social Skills
3 354 (22.88%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 132 (8.53%) Banking
6 44 (2.84%) Marketing
7 43 (2.78%) Retail
8 40 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
10 29 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (1.68%) Local Government
12 25 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 23 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.49%) Legal
14 19 (1.23%) Law
15 17 (1.10%) Military
16 16 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.97%) Financial Institution
18 14 (0.90%) Investment Banking
18 14 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 391 (25.27%) Data Engineer
2 321 (20.75%) Analyst
3 183 (11.83%) Data Analyst
4 176 (11.38%) Senior
5 155 (10.02%) Lead
6 126 (8.14%) Architect
7 85 (5.49%) Business Analyst
8 77 (4.98%) Developer
9 76 (4.91%) Data Architect
10 75 (4.85%) Senior Data Engineer
11 54 (3.49%) Consultant
12 50 (3.23%) Data Manager
13 36 (2.33%) Administrator
13 36 (2.33%) Azure Engineer
14 33 (2.13%) Data Business Analyst
15 32 (2.07%) Azure Data Engineer
16 31 (2.00%) Project Manager
17 29 (1.87%) Data Migration Lead
18 27 (1.75%) Data Consultant
19 26 (1.68%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (8.47%) PySpark
2 91 (5.88%) Kafka
3 52 (3.36%) Pandas
4 44 (2.84%) REST
5 31 (2.00%) Great Expectations
6 29 (1.87%) JSON
7 25 (1.62%) scikit-learn
8 20 (1.29%) NumPy
9 18 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
9 18 (1.16%) Web Services
10 17 (1.10%) Middleware
11 16 (1.03%) pytest
11 16 (1.03%) PyTorch
12 13 (0.84%) GeoJSON
12 13 (0.84%) TensorFlow
13 12 (0.78%) XML
14 11 (0.71%) Flask
14 11 (0.71%) HTML
14 11 (0.71%) OAuth
14 11 (0.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 118 (7.63%) Data Structures
2 107 (6.92%) Legacy Systems
3 82 (5.30%) Cloud Native
4 75 (4.85%) Onboarding
5 63 (4.07%) Product Ownership
6 55 (3.56%) Management Information System
7 43 (2.78%) CMDB
8 35 (2.26%) Reference Data
9 25 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
10 24 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.49%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.16%) Clustering
14 16 (1.03%) Life Science
14 16 (1.03%) Taxonomies
15 14 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.90%) NHS
16 12 (0.78%) Fixed Income
17 11 (0.71%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.71%) Windows
2 9 (0.58%) Linux
2 9 (0.58%) Unix
3 1 (0.065%) VMS
3 1 (0.065%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 651 (42.08%) Data Modelling
2 581 (37.56%) Analytics
3 501 (32.39%) Data Governance
4 478 (30.90%) ETL
5 447 (28.89%) Data Pipeline
6 446 (28.83%) Business Intelligence
7 361 (23.34%) Validation
8 348 (22.50%) Migration
9 328 (21.20%) Data Engineering
10 327 (21.14%) Agile
11 305 (19.72%) Decision-Making
12 290 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
13 279 (18.03%) CI/CD
14 264 (17.07%) AI
15 237 (15.32%) Stakeholder Management
16 230 (14.87%) Data Migration
17 221 (14.29%) Data Architecture
18 212 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
19 205 (13.25%) DevOps
20 202 (13.06%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 739 (47.77%) SQL
2 441 (28.51%) Python
3 51 (3.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 51 (3.30%) Java
4 47 (3.04%) Scala
5 40 (2.59%) T-SQL
6 37 (2.39%) PL/SQL
7 21 (1.36%) PowerShell
8 19 (1.23%) C#
9 16 (1.03%) VBA
10 14 (0.90%) Bicep
11 13 (0.84%) R
12 9 (0.58%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.52%) Bash
14 7 (0.45%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.45%) JavaScript
14 7 (0.45%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.32%) Korn
15 5 (0.32%) SOQL
16 4 (0.26%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 266 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 208 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 85 (5.49%) Degree
4 53 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (1.29%) Azure Certification
5 20 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (0.84%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (0.52%) ACCA
8 8 (0.52%) CIMA
8 8 (0.52%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.45%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.39%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.32%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.32%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.26%) PhD
13 3 (0.19%) PMP
13 3 (0.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 2 (0.13%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (8.14%) GDPR
2 106 (6.85%) QA
3 33 (2.13%) PMO
4 27 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.03%) SLA
7 12 (0.78%) Solvency II
8 11 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.65%) IFRS
10 8 (0.52%) COREP
10 8 (0.52%) FINREP
11 5 (0.32%) NIST
12 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.26%) Basel III
12 4 (0.26%) BS7666
12 4 (0.26%) GAAP
12 4 (0.26%) GRC
12 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 66 (4.27%) Docker
2 6 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.32%) etcd
4 1 (0.065%) HDFS
4 1 (0.065%) RACF
4 1 (0.065%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 109 (7.05%) Terraform
2 69 (4.46%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.71%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.65%) Grafana
5 9 (0.58%) Ansible
6 6 (0.39%) Kibana
7 5 (0.32%) Fluentd
8 4 (0.26%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.26%) SCCM
8 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.19%) logstash
10 1 (0.065%) Control-M
10 1 (0.065%) Istio
10 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.065%) Nessus
10 1 (0.065%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.065%) Puppet
10 1 (0.065%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 253 (16.35%) Databricks
1 253 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 116 (7.50%) SAP
3 111 (7.18%) Oracle
4 75 (4.85%) Salesforce
5 62 (4.01%) ServiceNow
6 57 (3.68%) Informatica
7 41 (2.65%) Google
8 32 (2.07%) Talend
9 23 (1.49%) Denodo
10 17 (1.10%) IBM
10 17 (1.10%) OpenAI
10 17 (1.10%) Workday
11 15 (0.97%) GoldenSource
12 13 (0.84%) NEC
13 11 (0.71%) Avaloq
13 11 (0.71%) ESRI
14 10 (0.65%) Adobe
15 9 (0.58%) Foundry
15 9 (0.58%) Sage