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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 104 114
Rank change year-on-year +54 +10 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,898 704 683
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.16% 2.55% 2.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.92% 14.89% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,243 457 490
10th Percentile £353 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £713
90th Percentile £688 £747 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 20 9
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.16 £21.10
25th Percentile £21.49 £22.55 £24.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -15.15% +13.64%
75th Percentile £68.44 £43.60 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £56.25 £55.15
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £24.00
% change year-on-year +25.71% +32.58% -31.43%

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 7,934 4,728 4,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.39% 17.14% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,088 3,091 2,788
10th Percentile £340 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £610 £624 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 533 219 280
10th Percentile £14.04 £15.12 £10.95
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.36 £14.41
Median hourly rate £39.00 £31.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +14.55% -32.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.00 £62.51
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.35 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.59 £25.77
% change year-on-year +45.01% +7.06% -34.64%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +63 1,004 £525 - 629
North of England +27 244 £475 +5.56% 191
Midlands +25 236 £484 +1.95% 117
South East +25 196 £471 -0.84% 177
West Midlands +30 187 £482 -6.99% 87
North West +18 133 £500 +11.11% 106
South West +16 92 £500 +17.65% 84
Yorkshire +10 89 £455 +4.00% 57
East of England +11 87 £565 -6.15% 52
East Midlands +11 48 £484 +7.61% 30
North East -22 23 £520 -15.10% 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
1 107 (5.64%) Apache Airflow
2 95 (5.01%) Apache Spark
3 75 (3.95%) Apache
4 58 (3.06%) SAS
5 56 (2.95%) Confluence
6 35 (1.84%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
8 10 (0.53%) CMS
8 10 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.47%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.11%) Appian
11 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.053%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.053%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.053%) Mendix
Applications
1 144 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.053%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 65 (3.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.63%) NEC Housing
5 10 (0.53%) Aladdin
6 9 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.47%) Sage X3
7 8 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.42%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.37%) iTrent
8 7 (0.37%) SAP MDG
9 5 (0.26%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.26%) Loan IQ
9 5 (0.26%) Maximo
10 4 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
10 4 (0.21%) Finacle
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.21%) Shopify
10 4 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 503 (26.50%) Azure
2 422 (22.23%) Power Platform
3 327 (17.23%) AWS
4 159 (8.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 151 (7.96%) GCP
6 148 (7.80%) Snowflake
7 126 (6.64%) dbt
8 108 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
9 93 (4.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 90 (4.74%) Amazon S3
11 85 (4.48%) Serverless
12 76 (4.00%) GitHub
13 74 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
14 51 (2.69%) Collibra
15 48 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
16 40 (2.11%) SaaS
17 39 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
18 38 (2.00%) Power Automate
19 34 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
20 24 (1.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.47%) Firewall
2 5 (0.26%) VPN
3 3 (0.16%) HTTP
4 2 (0.11%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.11%) SNMP
4 2 (0.11%) SSL
4 2 (0.11%) WAN
4 2 (0.11%) Wireless
5 1 (0.053%) 4G
5 1 (0.053%) 5G
5 1 (0.053%) Broadband
5 1 (0.053%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.053%) DNS
5 1 (0.053%) SSH
5 1 (0.053%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 400 (21.07%) Power BI
2 322 (16.97%) Data Warehouse
3 254 (13.38%) Metadata
4 167 (8.80%) Data Lake
5 120 (6.32%) Tableau
6 89 (4.69%) SQL Server
7 85 (4.48%) BigQuery
8 81 (4.27%) Delta Lake
9 71 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 71 (3.74%) Relational Database
10 55 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
11 51 (2.69%) Big Data
12 46 (2.42%) NoSQL
13 43 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
14 38 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 37 (1.95%) Power Query
16 34 (1.79%) Looker
17 32 (1.69%) Star Schema
18 31 (1.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 31 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 123 (6.48%) Git
1 123 (6.48%) JIRA
2 51 (2.69%) Jenkins
3 36 (1.90%) GitLab
4 19 (1.00%) ERwin
5 12 (0.63%) ER Studio
6 10 (0.53%) MLflow
7 9 (0.47%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.47%) Postman
8 8 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
8 8 (0.42%) Selenium
9 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.32%) Ant
10 6 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.26%) Newman
11 5 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.21%) LSMW
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 4 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 586 (30.87%) Social Skills
2 573 (30.19%) Finance
3 460 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
4 217 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 147 (7.74%) Banking
6 57 (3.00%) Marketing
7 55 (2.90%) Retail
8 48 (2.53%) Manufacturing
9 44 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
10 43 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
11 36 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 34 (1.79%) Local Government
13 28 (1.48%) Military
14 27 (1.42%) Legal
15 22 (1.16%) Law
15 22 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (1.05%) Financial Institution
17 19 (1.00%) Front Office
17 19 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 435 (22.92%) Data Engineer
2 395 (20.81%) Analyst
3 225 (11.85%) Data Analyst
4 217 (11.43%) Senior
5 212 (11.17%) Lead
6 182 (9.59%) Architect
7 120 (6.32%) Data Architect
8 110 (5.80%) Business Analyst
9 105 (5.53%) Developer
10 92 (4.85%) Senior Data Engineer
11 66 (3.48%) Consultant
12 59 (3.11%) Data Manager
13 54 (2.85%) Administrator
14 45 (2.37%) Data Business Analyst
15 36 (1.90%) Data Consultant
16 32 (1.69%) Lead Data Engineer
16 32 (1.69%) Python Engineer
17 31 (1.63%) Azure Engineer
17 31 (1.63%) Data Migration Lead
17 31 (1.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (7.80%) PySpark
2 88 (4.64%) Kafka
3 48 (2.53%) REST
4 43 (2.27%) JSON
5 39 (2.05%) Pandas
6 30 (1.58%) Oracle Fusion
7 26 (1.37%) Great Expectations
8 22 (1.16%) Web Services
9 21 (1.11%) Middleware
10 20 (1.05%) XML
11 16 (0.84%) HTML
11 16 (0.84%) scikit-learn
12 15 (0.79%) SOAP
13 14 (0.74%) .NET
14 13 (0.68%) GeoJSON
15 12 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
16 11 (0.58%) pytest
17 10 (0.53%) Matplotlib
17 10 (0.53%) SailPoint
18 9 (0.47%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 172 (9.06%) Data Structures
2 111 (5.85%) Onboarding
3 105 (5.53%) Legacy Systems
4 102 (5.37%) Cloud Native
5 86 (4.53%) Product Ownership
6 72 (3.79%) Management Information System
7 52 (2.74%) CMDB
8 43 (2.27%) Reference Data
9 33 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 29 (1.53%) AI Agents
12 27 (1.42%) Taxonomies
13 25 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
14 23 (1.21%) NHS
15 22 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
16 16 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
17 15 (0.79%) Clustering
17 15 (0.79%) Life Science
17 15 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.05%) Unix
2 19 (1.00%) Linux
3 12 (0.63%) Windows
4 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 758 (39.94%) Data Modelling
2 687 (36.20%) Analytics
3 648 (34.14%) Data Governance
4 550 (28.98%) Data Pipeline
5 538 (28.35%) ETL
6 512 (26.98%) Business Intelligence
7 476 (25.08%) Validation
8 451 (23.76%) Migration
9 414 (21.81%) Data Engineering
10 405 (21.34%) Agile
11 377 (19.86%) Stakeholder Management
12 361 (19.02%) Decision-Making
13 355 (18.70%) CI/CD
14 345 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
15 324 (17.07%) AI
16 293 (15.44%) Continuous Improvement
17 287 (15.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 282 (14.86%) Data Migration
19 272 (14.33%) Data Architecture
20 252 (13.28%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 837 (44.10%) SQL
2 514 (27.08%) Python
3 63 (3.32%) Java
4 58 (3.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 39 (2.05%) Scala
6 35 (1.84%) PL/SQL
6 35 (1.84%) PowerShell
7 34 (1.79%) T-SQL
8 24 (1.26%) Shell Script
9 22 (1.16%) JavaScript
10 21 (1.11%) C#
11 19 (1.00%) VBA
12 16 (0.84%) R
13 13 (0.68%) Bicep
14 12 (0.63%) Bash
15 10 (0.53%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.47%) TypeScript
17 8 (0.42%) SOQL
18 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
18 6 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 325 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 248 (13.07%) SC Cleared
3 113 (5.95%) Degree
4 61 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (1.74%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (1.26%) DV Cleared
8 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (0.95%) AWS Certification
10 17 (0.90%) Master's Degree
11 13 (0.68%) PMI Certification
12 9 (0.47%) PMP
13 8 (0.42%) ACCA
13 8 (0.42%) CIMA
14 6 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.32%) SnowPro
15 5 (0.26%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.26%) PhD
16 4 (0.21%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (7.53%) GDPR
2 140 (7.38%) QA
3 33 (1.74%) PMO
4 32 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.84%) Solvency II
7 13 (0.68%) SLA
8 12 (0.63%) IFRS
9 11 (0.58%) GRC
9 11 (0.58%) NIST
9 11 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.53%) COREP
10 10 (0.53%) FINREP
11 9 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.37%) NCSC
13 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.21%) BS7666
14 4 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.21%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 84 (4.43%) Docker
2 20 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.26%) etcd
4 1 (0.053%) HDFS
4 1 (0.053%) RACF
4 1 (0.053%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 121 (6.38%) Terraform
2 90 (4.74%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.68%) Grafana
4 11 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.53%) Ansible
6 9 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.26%) Control-M
7 5 (0.26%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.21%) Kibana
8 4 (0.21%) SCCM
9 1 (0.053%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.053%) Istio
9 1 (0.053%) logstash
9 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.053%) Nessus
9 1 (0.053%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.053%) Puppet
9 1 (0.053%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.053%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 312 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 273 (14.38%) Databricks
3 159 (8.38%) SAP
4 136 (7.17%) Oracle
5 80 (4.21%) Informatica
6 77 (4.06%) Salesforce
7 75 (3.95%) ServiceNow
8 54 (2.85%) Google
9 35 (1.84%) Talend
10 29 (1.53%) Workday
11 27 (1.42%) Denodo
12 24 (1.26%) Adobe
13 21 (1.11%) Palantir
14 20 (1.05%) IBM
15 19 (1.00%) Alteryx
15 19 (1.00%) Splunk
16 17 (0.90%) Foundry
17 14 (0.74%) Sage
18 13 (0.68%) NEC
19 12 (0.63%) Bloomberg