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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 110 116
Rank change year-on-year +37 +6 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,118 618 768
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.27% 2.37% 2.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.90% 16.12% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 762 412 513
10th Percentile £336 £307 £375
25th Percentile £413 £383 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £496 £550
% change year-on-year +0.78% -9.79% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 41
10th Percentile £13.95 £20.04 £14.13
25th Percentile £17.73 £22.98 £15.39
Median hourly rate £18.50 £35.00 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year -47.14% +43.27% +8.65%
75th Percentile £30.75 £93.75 £49.08
90th Percentile £66.70 £97.50 £61.75
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £23.92
% change year-on-year -20.00% +46.35% +6.36%

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 5,916 3,833 5,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.29% 14.71% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,826 2,262 3,582
10th Percentile £325 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 150 306
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.97 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.18 £20.22 £14.50
Median hourly rate £24.19 £30.99 £25.06
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +23.66% -17.26%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £49.77
90th Percentile £69.41 £75.00 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £28.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.58% +14.00% -12.89%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +31 663 £525 - 208
North of England +7 145 £475 +18.75% 112
Midlands -3 106 £500 +21.21% 77
West Midlands -2 82 £515 +5.53% 52
North West -1 79 £463 +8.82% 67
South East +10 78 £425 -26.09% 175
South West +32 67 £500 -1.23% 43
Yorkshire -32 43 £500 +138.10% 31
East Midlands -17 25 £428 +20.08% 25
East of England -41 25 £650 +18.18% 32
North East +9 24 £463 - 15
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 98 (8.77%) Apache Spark
2 60 (5.37%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (3.94%) Apache
4 31 (2.77%) SAS
5 24 (2.15%) Confluence
6 21 (1.88%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.81%) Appian
8 8 (0.72%) GeoServer
8 8 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.72%) Smallworld
9 7 (0.63%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.27%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.089%) CMS
12 1 (0.089%) Jupyter
Applications
1 97 (8.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.25%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.27%) Trello
8 1 (0.089%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.089%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 40 (3.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (0.81%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.63%) NEC Housing
4 7 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.63%) SAP MDG
5 6 (0.54%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.36%) Finacle
7 4 (0.36%) SAP MM
7 4 (0.36%) SystmOne
8 3 (0.27%) iTrent
8 3 (0.27%) Oracle SCM
8 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.27%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.27%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.27%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (0.27%) SAP MDG-M
8 3 (0.27%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 355 (31.75%) Azure
2 279 (24.96%) Power Platform
3 225 (20.13%) AWS
4 134 (11.99%) Azure Data Factory
5 112 (10.02%) GCP
6 96 (8.59%) Snowflake
7 81 (7.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 71 (6.35%) dbt
9 59 (5.28%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (5.01%) Amazon S3
11 50 (4.47%) Collibra
12 49 (4.38%) GitHub
13 45 (4.03%) Serverless
14 31 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
15 28 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
16 24 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
17 23 (2.06%) Power Automate
17 23 (2.06%) SaaS
18 20 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
19 17 (1.52%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.27%) DNS
2 2 (0.18%) Broadband
2 2 (0.18%) HTTP
2 2 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (0.18%) SSL
2 2 (0.18%) VoIP
3 1 (0.089%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (24.42%) Power BI
2 206 (18.43%) Data Warehouse
3 171 (15.30%) Metadata
4 106 (9.48%) Data Lake
5 75 (6.71%) SQL Server
6 64 (5.72%) Tableau
7 57 (5.10%) Delta Lake
8 54 (4.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 50 (4.47%) Snowflake Schema
10 45 (4.03%) Big Data
11 43 (3.85%) NoSQL
12 41 (3.67%) Relational Database
13 39 (3.49%) BigQuery
14 32 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
14 32 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 31 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
16 27 (2.42%) Data Vault
17 24 (2.15%) Star Schema
18 23 (2.06%) Pentaho
19 20 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 116 (10.38%) Git
2 78 (6.98%) JIRA
3 40 (3.58%) Jenkins
4 23 (2.06%) ERwin
5 17 (1.52%) PowerDesigner
6 12 (1.07%) ER Studio
6 12 (1.07%) MLflow
7 7 (0.63%) GitLab
8 6 (0.54%) DBeaver
9 3 (0.27%) LSMW
9 3 (0.27%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.18%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.18%) Selenium
11 1 (0.089%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.089%) Deequ
11 1 (0.089%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.089%) RStudio
11 1 (0.089%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.089%) Vite
11 1 (0.089%) webpack
General
1 382 (34.17%) Social Skills
2 324 (28.98%) Finance
3 257 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (11.00%) Public Sector
5 90 (8.05%) Banking
6 31 (2.77%) Marketing
7 27 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (2.42%) Retail
8 24 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (1.70%) Legal
10 17 (1.52%) Local Government
10 17 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (1.43%) Publishing
12 15 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.25%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.16%) Military
15 12 (1.07%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.98%) Billing
16 11 (0.98%) Law
16 11 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 284 (25.40%) Data Engineer
2 242 (21.65%) Analyst
3 148 (13.24%) Data Analyst
4 116 (10.38%) Lead
5 114 (10.20%) Senior
6 111 (9.93%) Architect
7 69 (6.17%) Business Analyst
8 67 (5.99%) Data Architect
9 60 (5.37%) Developer
10 52 (4.65%) Senior Data Engineer
11 47 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
12 39 (3.49%) Azure Data Engineer
12 39 (3.49%) Consultant
13 35 (3.13%) Data Business Analyst
14 31 (2.77%) Data Modeller
15 27 (2.42%) Data Manager
16 22 (1.97%) Project Manager
17 20 (1.79%) Governance Analyst
18 17 (1.52%) Principal Engineer
18 17 (1.52%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (9.21%) PySpark
2 78 (6.98%) Kafka
3 35 (3.13%) REST
4 28 (2.50%) Pandas
5 18 (1.61%) NumPy
6 16 (1.43%) Great Expectations
6 16 (1.43%) scikit-learn
7 13 (1.16%) Middleware
7 13 (1.16%) XML
8 12 (1.07%) OAuth
8 12 (1.07%) Web Services
9 11 (0.98%) PyTorch
10 10 (0.89%) Flask
10 10 (0.89%) Hugging Face
10 10 (0.89%) OpenAPI
10 10 (0.89%) pytest
10 10 (0.89%) TensorFlow
10 10 (0.89%) YAML
11 9 (0.81%) RESTful
11 9 (0.81%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 104 (9.30%) Data Structures
2 85 (7.60%) Legacy Systems
3 46 (4.11%) Cloud Native
3 46 (4.11%) Management Information System
4 33 (2.95%) Onboarding
5 32 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 32 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 28 (2.50%) CMDB
7 22 (1.97%) Reference Data
8 20 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (1.70%) Reinsurance
10 18 (1.61%) Clustering
10 18 (1.61%) NHS
11 15 (1.34%) Replication
12 14 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.16%) Taxonomies
14 9 (0.81%) Data Centre
14 9 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (0.72%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.34%) Linux
2 5 (0.45%) Unix
3 3 (0.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.089%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (42.84%) Data Modelling
2 439 (39.27%) Analytics
3 405 (36.23%) Data Governance
4 360 (32.20%) Business Intelligence
4 360 (32.20%) ETL
5 294 (26.30%) Data Pipeline
6 269 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
7 259 (23.17%) Agile
8 253 (22.63%) Data Engineering
9 214 (19.14%) Migration
10 200 (17.89%) Validation
11 192 (17.17%) CI/CD
12 184 (16.46%) Decision-Making
13 178 (15.92%) Data Architecture
14 164 (14.67%) AI
15 160 (14.31%) Data Management
16 159 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
17 150 (13.42%) Data Integration
18 145 (12.97%) Data Migration
19 144 (12.88%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 557 (49.82%) SQL
2 354 (31.66%) Python
3 48 (4.29%) Scala
4 27 (2.42%) Java
5 26 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 25 (2.24%) PL/SQL
7 22 (1.97%) R
8 21 (1.88%) C#
9 19 (1.70%) T-SQL
10 16 (1.43%) JavaScript
11 12 (1.07%) Bicep
12 11 (0.98%) Bash
13 10 (0.89%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.81%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.63%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.63%) C++
15 7 (0.63%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.63%) VBA
16 4 (0.36%) ABAP
16 4 (0.36%) Korn
Qualifications
1 192 (17.17%) Security Cleared
2 141 (12.61%) SC Cleared
3 69 (6.17%) Degree
4 28 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.34%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.16%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.07%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.18%) AAT
12 2 (0.18%) ACCA
12 2 (0.18%) CFA
12 2 (0.18%) CIMA
12 2 (0.18%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.18%) PhD
12 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (8.86%) GDPR
2 65 (5.81%) QA
3 42 (3.76%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.79%) PMO
5 14 (1.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 12 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (0.98%) SLA
8 10 (0.89%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.63%) Basel III
10 6 (0.54%) IFRS
11 5 (0.45%) ISO 19650
11 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.36%) FINREP
13 3 (0.27%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.27%) MiFID
13 3 (0.27%) NIST
13 3 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.18%) GRC
14 2 (0.18%) HL7
14 2 (0.18%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 55 (4.92%) Docker
2 6 (0.54%) zsh
3 5 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.18%) HDFS
5 1 (0.089%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (6.44%) Terraform
2 54 (4.83%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.36%) SCCM
4 3 (0.27%) Kibana
4 3 (0.27%) logstash
4 3 (0.27%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.18%) Ansible
5 2 (0.18%) Grafana
6 1 (0.089%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.089%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.089%) Oozie
6 1 (0.089%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 211 (18.87%) Databricks
2 166 (14.85%) Microsoft
3 87 (7.78%) Oracle
4 75 (6.71%) SAP
5 56 (5.01%) Informatica
6 53 (4.74%) Salesforce
7 43 (3.85%) Google
7 43 (3.85%) ServiceNow
8 41 (3.67%) Talend
9 22 (1.97%) Denodo
10 14 (1.25%) Sparx
11 13 (1.16%) Palantir
12 10 (0.89%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.81%) Alteryx
13 9 (0.81%) Automation Anywhere
14 8 (0.72%) Avaloq
14 8 (0.72%) ESRI
14 8 (0.72%) Foundry
14 8 (0.72%) Intergraph
14 8 (0.72%) Workday