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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 110 138
Rank change year-on-year +20 +28 +58
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 870 682 726
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.84% 2.20% 1.87%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.10% 16.30% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 464 508
10th Percentile £338 £308 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £626 £675 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £739
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 19
10th Percentile - £21.25 £19.12
25th Percentile £18.25 £26.25 £28.32
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% -7.41% +138.24%
75th Percentile £37.04 £93.75 £56.67
90th Percentile £44.75 £97.50 £64.60
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £35.13 £40.50
% change year-on-year -11.74% -13.27% +125.00%

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 5,404 4,183 5,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.62% 13.48% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,497 2,429 3,698
10th Percentile £312 £290 £320
25th Percentile £404 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £541
Median % change year-on-year - -7.62% +3.10%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £752
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 185 222
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.26 £15.34
25th Percentile £17.69 £17.13 £21.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £30.00 £40.77
Median % change year-on-year -12.97% -26.42% +73.49%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £69.50
90th Percentile £79.94 £70.00 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £26.11 £27.43 £40.00
% change year-on-year -4.79% -31.44% +70.21%

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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 +11 487 £525 -8.70% 241
North of England -3 122 £456 +10.61% 75
Midlands +21 101 £514 +32.65% 76
West Midlands +21 74 £525 +10.53% 48
South East +12 73 £469 -16.67% 237
North West -3 69 £450 +5.94% 40
Yorkshire -6 44 £482 +26.30% 26
South West +12 41 £500 +2.56% 47
East Midlands +3 27 £439 +28.97% 26
East of England -24 15 £519 +25.76% 47
North East -3 10 £495 +100.00% 11
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 68 (7.82%) Apache Spark
2 59 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (3.91%) Apache
3 34 (3.91%) SAS
4 16 (1.84%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.15%) Confluence
6 8 (0.92%) Oracle Application Server
7 6 (0.69%) GeoServer
7 6 (0.69%) Smallworld
8 4 (0.46%) Luigi
9 3 (0.34%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 92 (10.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.46%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.11%) Maple
8 1 (0.11%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 31 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.80%) SAP MDG
5 5 (0.57%) Teamcenter
6 4 (0.46%) Actimize
6 4 (0.46%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.46%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.46%) Oracle SCM
6 4 (0.46%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.34%) SAP MDG-F
7 3 (0.34%) SAP MDG-M
7 3 (0.34%) SAP MDG-S
8 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.23%) Maximo
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 207 (23.79%) Azure
2 194 (22.30%) Power Platform
3 188 (21.61%) AWS
4 100 (11.49%) GCP
5 93 (10.69%) Snowflake
6 60 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 59 (6.78%) dbt
8 44 (5.06%) Amazon S3
9 36 (4.14%) GitHub
10 34 (3.91%) Collibra
11 33 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
11 33 (3.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 26 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (2.76%) Serverless
14 19 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (2.07%) OCI
15 18 (2.07%) SaaS
16 17 (1.95%) PowerApps
17 16 (1.84%) Microsoft Purview
18 15 (1.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.46%) HTTP
2 3 (0.34%) DNS
3 2 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.23%) Internet
3 2 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (21.26%) Power BI
2 168 (19.31%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (14.48%) Metadata
4 70 (8.05%) Tableau
5 56 (6.44%) Data Lake
6 52 (5.98%) SQL Server
7 49 (5.63%) Relational Database
8 45 (5.17%) Big Data
9 38 (4.37%) Snowflake Schema
10 33 (3.79%) BigQuery
10 33 (3.79%) NoSQL
11 32 (3.68%) Pentaho
11 32 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
12 25 (2.87%) Delta Lake
13 24 (2.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 23 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
14 23 (2.64%) Star Schema
15 22 (2.53%) Looker
16 21 (2.41%) Amazon QuickSight
17 20 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 104 (11.95%) Git
2 63 (7.24%) JIRA
3 45 (5.17%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.76%) ERwin
5 16 (1.84%) PowerDesigner
6 15 (1.72%) ER Studio
7 8 (0.92%) DBeaver
8 4 (0.46%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.34%) GitLab
9 3 (0.34%) MLflow
9 3 (0.34%) Vite
9 3 (0.34%) webpack
10 2 (0.23%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.11%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.11%) LSMW
11 1 (0.11%) Selenium
11 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 329 (37.82%) Social Skills
2 266 (30.57%) Finance
3 232 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (9.54%) Public Sector
5 79 (9.08%) Banking
6 38 (4.37%) Marketing
7 22 (2.53%) Legal
7 22 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (2.07%) Retail
10 17 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (1.95%) Investment Banking
11 16 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.61%) Local Government
14 13 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.38%) Billing
16 11 (1.26%) Publishing
17 10 (1.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 207 (23.79%) Analyst
2 182 (20.92%) Data Engineer
3 135 (15.52%) Data Analyst
4 90 (10.34%) Lead
5 89 (10.23%) Architect
6 81 (9.31%) Senior
7 67 (7.70%) Business Analyst
8 62 (7.13%) Developer
9 51 (5.86%) Data Architect
10 33 (3.79%) Senior Data Engineer
11 32 (3.68%) Consultant
12 31 (3.56%) Data Manager
13 30 (3.45%) Data Business Analyst
14 28 (3.22%) Azure Engineer
14 28 (3.22%) Data Modeller
15 23 (2.64%) Azure Data Engineer
16 18 (2.07%) Governance Analyst
17 16 (1.84%) Salesforce Architect
18 15 (1.72%) Senior Analyst
19 14 (1.61%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.29%) PySpark
2 45 (5.17%) Kafka
3 27 (3.10%) XML
4 20 (2.30%) REST
5 17 (1.95%) Lightning Web Components
6 14 (1.61%) Middleware
7 13 (1.49%) Visualforce
8 12 (1.38%) SOAP
9 11 (1.26%) Pandas
10 9 (1.03%) HTML
10 9 (1.03%) JSON
11 8 (0.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 7 (0.80%) RESTful
13 6 (0.69%) Apache NiFi
13 6 (0.69%) CSS
13 6 (0.69%) NumPy
14 5 (0.57%) .NET
14 5 (0.57%) GraphQL
15 4 (0.46%) SAML
15 4 (0.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (8.28%) Data Structures
2 50 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
3 30 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (3.10%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.87%) Cloud Native
6 24 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.64%) Product Ownership
8 19 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.07%) Reference Data
10 13 (1.49%) Replication
11 12 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (1.38%) Reinsurance
12 11 (1.26%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.26%) NHS
13 9 (1.03%) Clustering
13 9 (1.03%) Derivative
13 9 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.92%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.92%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.07%) Linux
2 4 (0.46%) Unix
3 2 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (41.15%) Data Modelling
2 330 (37.93%) Data Governance
3 314 (36.09%) Analytics
4 275 (31.61%) ETL
5 268 (30.80%) Business Intelligence
6 258 (29.66%) Problem-Solving
7 207 (23.79%) Agile
7 207 (23.79%) Data Pipeline
8 165 (18.97%) Migration
9 159 (18.28%) Data Engineering
10 146 (16.78%) CI/CD
11 144 (16.55%) Data Management
12 140 (16.09%) Decision-Making
13 134 (15.40%) Data Analysis
13 134 (15.40%) Validation
14 128 (14.71%) Data Migration
15 122 (14.02%) Data Integration
16 120 (13.79%) Data Architecture
17 118 (13.56%) Visualisation
18 103 (11.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 421 (48.39%) SQL
2 271 (31.15%) Python
3 36 (4.14%) Java
4 30 (3.45%) Scala
5 27 (3.10%) R
6 18 (2.07%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.95%) Apex Code
8 15 (1.72%) Bash
9 12 (1.38%) T-SQL
10 11 (1.26%) C#
10 11 (1.26%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (1.03%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.92%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.80%) C++
14 7 (0.80%) VBA
15 5 (0.57%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.34%) ABAP
16 3 (0.34%) Korn
16 3 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 114 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 83 (9.54%) SC Cleared
3 79 (9.08%) Degree
4 39 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.57%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.57%) PMP
10 4 (0.46%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.46%) CCAB
10 4 (0.46%) PhD
11 3 (0.34%) ACCA
11 3 (0.34%) CIMA
11 3 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.11%) ECDL
13 1 (0.11%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (8.85%) GDPR
2 53 (6.09%) QA
3 37 (4.25%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 9 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
5 9 (1.03%) PMO
6 7 (0.80%) IFRS
7 6 (0.69%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.57%) MiFID
8 5 (0.57%) SLA
9 4 (0.46%) Basel III
10 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.34%) ISO 19650
10 3 (0.34%) WCAG
11 2 (0.23%) CRD IV
11 2 (0.23%) EMIR
11 2 (0.23%) FINREP
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.11%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 52 (5.98%) Docker
2 9 (1.03%) zsh
3 3 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 52 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 38 (4.37%) Terraform
3 4 (0.46%) Control-M
3 4 (0.46%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
4 3 (0.34%) Oozie
5 2 (0.23%) Grafana
5 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.11%) Ansible
6 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 122 (14.02%) Databricks
2 118 (13.56%) Microsoft
3 91 (10.46%) Oracle
4 59 (6.78%) SAP
5 47 (5.40%) Informatica
5 47 (5.40%) Salesforce
6 46 (5.29%) Talend
7 42 (4.83%) Google
8 30 (3.45%) Denodo
9 15 (1.72%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.61%) Sparx
11 10 (1.15%) Palantir
12 9 (1.03%) Alteryx
12 9 (1.03%) Guidewire
13 8 (0.92%) Adobe
13 8 (0.92%) Workday
14 7 (0.80%) Foundry
15 6 (0.69%) Bloomberg
15 6 (0.69%) ESRI
15 6 (0.69%) Intergraph