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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 101 116
Rank change year-on-year +53 +15 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,955 725 675
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.27% 2.61% 2.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.30% 15.28% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 468 469
10th Percentile £350 £338 £349
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -8.64% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £713
90th Percentile £688 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £550
% change year-on-year -2.20% -7.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 18 8
10th Percentile £15.88 £20.18 £21.25
25th Percentile £21.08 £30.41 £32.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £33.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.42% -33.67% +16.20%
75th Percentile £60.75 £44.75 £75.94
90th Percentile £75.50 £79.09 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £33.88 £50.50
% change year-on-year +18.06% -32.91% +28.11%

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 8,046 4,746 4,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.59% 17.10% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,092 3,108 2,664
10th Percentile £331 £292 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £622 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.39% -2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 220 238
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £11.33
25th Percentile £17.57 £18.37 £13.89
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +15.05% -21.43%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £63.31
90th Percentile £79.60 £85.30 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.82 £30.00 £25.30
% change year-on-year +19.40% +18.58% -26.67%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +56 1,044 £524 -0.24% 625
North of England +43 278 £463 +2.78% 192
Midlands +34 217 £465 -3.83% 105
South East +32 203 £475 -2.56% 227
West Midlands +37 170 £458 -11.72% 81
North West +19 150 £500 +6.38% 118
Yorkshire +26 108 £450 +1.41% 44
South West +6 95 £500 +14.29% 93
East of England +22 83 £565 -5.83% 57
East Midlands +10 46 £481 +7.61% 24
North East -20 21 £520 +18.86% 30
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
1 116 (5.93%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (4.71%) Apache Spark
3 70 (3.58%) Apache
4 55 (2.81%) Confluence
5 48 (2.46%) SAS
6 45 (2.30%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.56%) CMS
9 10 (0.51%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.20%) 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
1 143 (7.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
3 20 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.61%) 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 68 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.72%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.66%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.51%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.41%) SAP MDG
7 8 (0.41%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.36%) iTrent
8 7 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.31%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.26%) BambooHR
10 5 (0.26%) Maximo
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
11 4 (0.20%) SAP MM
11 4 (0.20%) Shopify
11 4 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
12 3 (0.15%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 512 (26.19%) Azure
2 416 (21.28%) Power Platform
3 356 (18.21%) AWS
4 154 (7.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 153 (7.83%) Snowflake
6 151 (7.72%) GCP
7 127 (6.50%) dbt
8 108 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
9 101 (5.17%) Serverless
10 97 (4.96%) Amazon S3
11 92 (4.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 85 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
13 77 (3.94%) GitHub
14 57 (2.92%) Collibra
15 54 (2.76%) Microsoft Purview
16 45 (2.30%) SaaS
17 44 (2.25%) Power Automate
18 43 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
19 42 (2.15%) Azure Databricks
20 36 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.46%) Firewall
2 5 (0.26%) VPN
3 4 (0.20%) SD-WAN
3 4 (0.20%) SNMP
3 4 (0.20%) WAN
3 4 (0.20%) Wireless
4 3 (0.15%) Broadband
4 3 (0.15%) HTTP
5 2 (0.10%) DNS
5 2 (0.10%) SSL
6 1 (0.051%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.051%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.051%) Network Security
6 1 (0.051%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.051%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 393 (20.10%) Power BI
2 320 (16.37%) Data Warehouse
3 304 (15.55%) Metadata
4 167 (8.54%) Data Lake
5 117 (5.98%) Tableau
6 93 (4.76%) SQL Server
7 84 (4.30%) Delta Lake
8 83 (4.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 82 (4.19%) BigQuery
10 78 (3.99%) Relational Database
11 56 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
12 48 (2.46%) Big Data
12 48 (2.46%) NoSQL
13 39 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
14 38 (1.94%) Snowflake Schema
15 37 (1.89%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 37 (1.89%) Looker
16 36 (1.84%) Star Schema
17 32 (1.64%) Power Query
18 30 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 115 (5.88%) JIRA
2 99 (5.06%) Git
3 39 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 36 (1.84%) GitLab
5 14 (0.72%) ERwin
6 11 (0.56%) MLflow
6 11 (0.56%) Selenium
7 10 (0.51%) ER Studio
8 9 (0.46%) Eclipse
9 8 (0.41%) Postman
10 7 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.31%) Ant
11 6 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.26%) Newman
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
13 4 (0.20%) RStudio
13 4 (0.20%) Terragrunt
13 4 (0.20%) TestRail
13 4 (0.20%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 618 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 587 (30.03%) Finance
3 466 (23.84%) Analytical Skills
4 234 (11.97%) Public Sector
5 163 (8.34%) Banking
6 62 (3.17%) Retail
7 52 (2.66%) Marketing
8 51 (2.61%) Manufacturing
9 48 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
10 46 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
11 42 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
12 41 (2.10%) Local Government
13 36 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 34 (1.74%) Military
15 31 (1.59%) Legal
16 28 (1.43%) Law
17 23 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
18 21 (1.07%) Automotive
18 21 (1.07%) Billing
19 20 (1.02%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 420 (21.48%) Data Engineer
2 412 (21.07%) Analyst
3 228 (11.66%) Senior
4 227 (11.61%) Lead
5 226 (11.56%) Data Analyst
6 200 (10.23%) Architect
7 129 (6.60%) Data Architect
8 108 (5.52%) Business Analyst
9 101 (5.17%) Developer
10 99 (5.06%) Senior Data Engineer
11 77 (3.94%) Consultant
12 62 (3.17%) Data Manager
13 61 (3.12%) Administrator
14 45 (2.30%) Data Consultant
15 40 (2.05%) Data Business Analyst
16 36 (1.84%) Lead Data Engineer
17 34 (1.74%) Python Engineer
18 33 (1.69%) AWS Engineer
19 32 (1.64%) Databricks Engineer
20 31 (1.59%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (8.80%) PySpark
2 131 (6.70%) Terraform
3 87 (4.45%) Kafka
4 53 (2.71%) REST
5 43 (2.20%) JSON
6 28 (1.43%) Great Expectations
6 28 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
7 27 (1.38%) Pandas
8 22 (1.13%) Web Services
9 21 (1.07%) XML
10 19 (0.97%) Middleware
11 16 (0.82%) HTML
12 15 (0.77%) .NET
13 14 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (0.72%) pytest
13 14 (0.72%) SOAP
14 10 (0.51%) React
14 10 (0.51%) SailPoint
14 10 (0.51%) SAML
15 9 (0.46%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 170 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 124 (6.34%) Onboarding
3 104 (5.32%) Cloud Native
4 101 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
5 94 (4.81%) Product Ownership
6 81 (4.14%) Management Information System
7 64 (3.27%) CMDB
8 47 (2.40%) Reference Data
9 38 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
10 31 (1.59%) AI Agents
10 31 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
11 27 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
12 25 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.23%) Taxonomies
14 22 (1.13%) NHS
15 21 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
16 18 (0.92%) Life Science
17 17 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
18 16 (0.82%) SCADA
19 15 (0.77%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.28%) Unix
2 20 (1.02%) Linux
3 13 (0.66%) Windows
4 1 (0.051%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 774 (39.59%) Data Modelling
2 696 (35.60%) Data Governance
3 690 (35.29%) Analytics
4 541 (27.67%) Data Pipeline
5 532 (27.21%) ETL
6 503 (25.73%) Validation
7 501 (25.63%) Business Intelligence
8 472 (24.14%) Migration
9 448 (22.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 437 (22.35%) Data Engineering
11 402 (20.56%) Agile
12 375 (19.18%) Decision-Making
13 365 (18.67%) CI/CD
14 364 (18.62%) AI
15 362 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
16 305 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
17 289 (14.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 285 (14.58%) Data Migration
19 283 (14.48%) Data Architecture
20 271 (13.86%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 838 (42.86%) SQL
2 525 (26.85%) Python
3 64 (3.27%) Java
4 54 (2.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 39 (1.99%) PL/SQL
6 34 (1.74%) PowerShell
7 33 (1.69%) T-SQL
8 32 (1.64%) Scala
9 28 (1.43%) Shell Script
10 25 (1.28%) JavaScript
11 21 (1.07%) C#
12 20 (1.02%) R
13 15 (0.77%) Bash
14 13 (0.66%) Bicep
15 9 (0.46%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.46%) VBA
16 8 (0.41%) SOQL
16 8 (0.41%) TypeScript
17 7 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
18 6 (0.31%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 323 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 249 (12.74%) SC Cleared
3 119 (6.09%) Degree
4 50 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (1.59%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.28%) AWS Certification
8 24 (1.23%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (0.87%) Master's Degree
11 16 (0.82%) PMI Certification
12 11 (0.56%) 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 (7.42%) QA
2 133 (6.80%) GDPR
3 36 (1.84%) Accessibility
4 31 (1.59%) PMO
5 24 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.07%) SLA
7 15 (0.77%) NIST
8 14 (0.72%) GRC
8 14 (0.72%) IFRS
8 14 (0.72%) Solvency II
9 12 (0.61%) NCSC
10 9 (0.46%) COREP
10 9 (0.46%) FINREP
10 9 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.31%) IFRS 17
12 6 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.20%) BS7666
13 4 (0.20%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 74 (3.79%) Docker
2 20 (1.02%) 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 77 (3.94%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.66%) Grafana
3 12 (0.61%) Ansible
3 12 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.41%) Control-M
6 5 (0.26%) Fluentd
7 4 (0.20%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.20%) 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
1 342 (17.49%) Microsoft
2 288 (14.73%) Databricks
3 162 (8.29%) SAP
4 136 (6.96%) Oracle
5 90 (4.60%) ServiceNow
6 82 (4.19%) Informatica
7 73 (3.73%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.86%) Google
9 30 (1.53%) Workday
10 26 (1.33%) Talend
11 25 (1.28%) Adobe
11 25 (1.28%) IBM
12 22 (1.13%) Alteryx
13 21 (1.07%) Palantir
13 21 (1.07%) Splunk
14 17 (0.87%) Denodo
15 15 (0.77%) Foundry
16 12 (0.61%) Bloomberg
16 12 (0.61%) Teradata
17 11 (0.56%) NEC