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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 106 116
Rank change year-on-year +44 +10 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,401 612 740
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.58% 2.51% 2.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.94% 16.04% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 966 428 515
10th Percentile £350 £324 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -4.67% -2.73%
75th Percentile £590 £625 £675
90th Percentile £675 £729 £785
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 31
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £14.13
25th Percentile £17.23 £22.55 £15.39
Median hourly rate £28.25 £29.07 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +21.13% +6.74%
75th Percentile £63.75 £34.60 £50.42
90th Percentile £82.85 £80.21 £61.75
UK median hourly rate £40.75 £29.07 £18.67
% change year-on-year +40.18% +55.75% -16.99%

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 6,692 3,816 5,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.12% 15.65% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,353 2,459 3,383
10th Percentile £340 £270 £304
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £606 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 409 155 340
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.45 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £12.84
Median hourly rate £29.04 £33.11 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.29% +61.51% -49.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.58 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £32.66 £20.47
% change year-on-year -5.07% +59.57% -45.43%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 14 April 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 +45 777 £525 - 268
North of England +12 179 £494 +9.67% 135
Midlands +14 156 £500 +6.38% 93
West Midlands +14 123 £510 -2.86% 67
South East +16 112 £456 -11.88% 118
North West +16 98 £488 +7.14% 70
South West +12 78 £500 +2.56% 51
East of England -20 57 £575 -4.17% 37
Yorkshire -34 55 £495 +80.00% 55
East Midlands -17 34 £450 +9.82% 26
North East - 26 £475 - 12
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
1 117 (8.35%) Apache Spark
2 74 (5.28%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (3.93%) Apache
4 49 (3.50%) SAS
5 34 (2.43%) Confluence
6 33 (2.36%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.64%) Appian
8 6 (0.43%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.29%) CMS
11 3 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
11 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
12 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
13 1 (0.071%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 127 (9.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (1.43%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 1 (0.071%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 47 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.86%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.71%) iTrent
5 8 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.50%) NEC Housing
6 7 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.43%) Finacle
7 6 (0.43%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.43%) SAP MDG
7 6 (0.43%) SAP MM
7 6 (0.43%) SystmOne
8 5 (0.36%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.36%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.29%) SAP PM
10 3 (0.21%) Actimize
10 3 (0.21%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 438 (31.26%) Azure
2 364 (25.98%) Power Platform
3 259 (18.49%) AWS
4 185 (13.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 125 (8.92%) GCP
6 112 (7.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 100 (7.14%) Snowflake
8 93 (6.64%) dbt
9 90 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
10 78 (5.57%) Amazon S3
11 68 (4.85%) GitHub
12 60 (4.28%) Serverless
13 59 (4.21%) Collibra
14 41 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
16 31 (2.21%) Power Automate
17 30 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
18 29 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
19 22 (1.57%) SaaS
20 20 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.36%) VPN
2 4 (0.29%) Firewall
3 2 (0.14%) Broadband
3 2 (0.14%) DNS
3 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.14%) SSL
3 2 (0.14%) VoIP
4 1 (0.071%) 4G
4 1 (0.071%) 5G
4 1 (0.071%) HTTP
4 1 (0.071%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 349 (24.91%) Power BI
2 260 (18.56%) Data Warehouse
3 202 (14.42%) Metadata
4 135 (9.64%) Data Lake
5 98 (7.00%) Tableau
6 92 (6.57%) SQL Server
7 75 (5.35%) Delta Lake
8 69 (4.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 60 (4.28%) BigQuery
10 54 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
11 50 (3.57%) NoSQL
12 47 (3.35%) Big Data
13 46 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
14 45 (3.21%) Relational Database
15 39 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 38 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
17 32 (2.28%) Pentaho
18 29 (2.07%) OLAP
19 28 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
19 28 (2.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 132 (9.42%) Git
2 105 (7.49%) JIRA
3 55 (3.93%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.50%) ERwin
5 18 (1.28%) GitLab
6 17 (1.21%) MLflow
7 14 (1.00%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.50%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.43%) Selenium
10 5 (0.36%) LSMW
10 5 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.21%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.21%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.21%) Zephyr
13 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.14%) Postman
14 1 (0.071%) GCC
14 1 (0.071%) Hudson
14 1 (0.071%) SonarQube
General
1 459 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 413 (29.48%) Finance
3 335 (23.91%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (11.21%) Public Sector
5 112 (7.99%) Banking
6 44 (3.14%) Marketing
7 38 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (2.57%) Retail
9 32 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (1.86%) Legal
12 21 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (1.43%) Law
14 19 (1.36%) Local Government
15 18 (1.28%) Manufacturing
15 18 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (1.21%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.21%) Military
17 16 (1.14%) Telecoms
18 14 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 386 (27.55%) Data Engineer
2 287 (20.49%) Analyst
3 180 (12.85%) Data Analyst
4 154 (10.99%) Senior
5 131 (9.35%) Lead
6 127 (9.06%) Architect
7 88 (6.28%) Business Analyst
8 77 (5.50%) Data Architect
9 71 (5.07%) Developer
10 64 (4.57%) Senior Data Engineer
11 55 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
12 45 (3.21%) Azure Data Engineer
13 42 (3.00%) Consultant
14 41 (2.93%) Data Manager
15 38 (2.71%) Data Business Analyst
16 25 (1.78%) Data Migration Lead
16 25 (1.78%) Project Manager
17 24 (1.71%) AWS Engineer
17 24 (1.71%) Principal Engineer
18 23 (1.64%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (9.49%) PySpark
2 105 (7.49%) Kafka
3 46 (3.28%) Pandas
4 43 (3.07%) REST
5 28 (2.00%) Great Expectations
6 27 (1.93%) JSON
7 24 (1.71%) scikit-learn
8 22 (1.57%) NumPy
9 16 (1.14%) PyTorch
10 15 (1.07%) Web Services
11 14 (1.00%) Middleware
12 13 (0.93%) OAuth
12 13 (0.93%) pytest
12 13 (0.93%) TensorFlow
12 13 (0.93%) XML
13 12 (0.86%) YAML
14 11 (0.79%) Flask
14 11 (0.79%) GeoJSON
14 11 (0.79%) Matplotlib
14 11 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.57%) Data Structures
2 100 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 73 (5.21%) Cloud Native
4 66 (4.71%) Onboarding
5 61 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 54 (3.85%) Product Ownership
7 44 (3.14%) CMDB
8 32 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
9 31 (2.21%) Reference Data
10 23 (1.64%) NHS
11 22 (1.57%) Clustering
12 18 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.07%) AI Agents
13 15 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (1.00%) Taxonomies
15 12 (0.86%) Fixed Income
15 12 (0.86%) Reinsurance
16 11 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.64%) Linux
1 9 (0.64%) Unix
1 9 (0.64%) Windows
2 1 (0.071%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 630 (44.97%) Data Modelling
2 543 (38.76%) Analytics
3 495 (35.33%) Data Governance
4 481 (34.33%) ETL
5 454 (32.41%) Business Intelligence
6 424 (30.26%) Data Pipeline
7 322 (22.98%) Data Engineering
8 316 (22.56%) Agile
9 311 (22.20%) Problem-Solving
10 307 (21.91%) Validation
11 292 (20.84%) Migration
12 274 (19.56%) CI/CD
13 263 (18.77%) Decision-Making
14 230 (16.42%) Data Architecture
15 214 (15.27%) AI
16 210 (14.99%) Stakeholder Management
17 197 (14.06%) Data Migration
18 194 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
19 193 (13.78%) DevOps
20 184 (13.13%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 718 (51.25%) SQL
2 446 (31.83%) Python
3 62 (4.43%) Scala
4 44 (3.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 42 (3.00%) Java
6 34 (2.43%) T-SQL
7 27 (1.93%) C#
7 27 (1.93%) PL/SQL
8 23 (1.64%) R
9 20 (1.43%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.21%) VBA
11 15 (1.07%) Bicep
11 15 (1.07%) JavaScript
12 9 (0.64%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.57%) Bash
14 5 (0.36%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.29%) ABAP
15 4 (0.29%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
16 3 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 260 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 197 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 78 (5.57%) Degree
4 44 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.43%) Azure Certification
7 12 (0.86%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.79%) DV Cleared
8 11 (0.79%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.29%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.29%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.29%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.21%) ACCA
11 3 (0.21%) CIMA
11 3 (0.21%) PhD
12 2 (0.14%) AAT
12 2 (0.14%) CFA
12 2 (0.14%) PMP
12 2 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (8.64%) GDPR
2 87 (6.21%) QA
3 32 (2.28%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.78%) PMO
5 16 (1.14%) SLA
6 14 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.93%) Solvency II
8 10 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.64%) FINREP
10 8 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.57%) IFRS
11 7 (0.50%) COREP
12 6 (0.43%) Basel III
12 6 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.36%) MiFID
14 4 (0.29%) BS7666
14 4 (0.29%) GRC
15 3 (0.21%) NIST
16 2 (0.14%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.14%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 73 (5.21%) Docker
2 6 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.36%) etcd
4 1 (0.071%) HDFS
4 1 (0.071%) RACF
4 1 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 107 (7.64%) Terraform
2 81 (5.78%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.71%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.57%) Grafana
5 5 (0.36%) Ansible
5 5 (0.36%) Fluentd
5 5 (0.36%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.29%) Kibana
6 4 (0.29%) SCCM
7 3 (0.21%) logstash
8 1 (0.071%) Control-M
8 1 (0.071%) Istio
8 1 (0.071%) Nessus
8 1 (0.071%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.071%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 265 (18.92%) Databricks
2 227 (16.20%) Microsoft
3 115 (8.21%) SAP
4 103 (7.35%) Oracle
5 69 (4.93%) Informatica
6 67 (4.78%) Salesforce
7 60 (4.28%) ServiceNow
8 52 (3.71%) Talend
9 51 (3.64%) Google
10 33 (2.36%) Denodo
11 16 (1.14%) Workday
12 13 (0.93%) GoldenSource
13 12 (0.86%) IBM
13 12 (0.86%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.79%) Avaloq
15 10 (0.71%) Palantir
16 9 (0.64%) Adobe
16 9 (0.64%) Automation Anywhere
16 9 (0.64%) ESRI
16 9 (0.64%) Sparx