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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 99 116
Rank change year-on-year +50 +17 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,902 715 668
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.17% 2.58% 2.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.98% 15.04% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 466 487
10th Percentile £354 £340 £345
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £713
90th Percentile £688 £745 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 19 8
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.14 £21.03
25th Percentile £21.10 £24.66 £23.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +18.25%
75th Percentile £68.44 £43.98 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £58.74 £56.85
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £32.56 £23.00
% change year-on-year +22.87% +41.54% -41.65%

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 7,932 4,754 4,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.40% 17.17% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,081 3,108 2,766
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% -2.05%
75th Percentile £610 £620 £638
90th Percentile £715 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 531 224 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.97
25th Percentile £18.84 £18.50 £14.41
Median hourly rate £38.72 £31.64 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.38% +15.05% -30.40%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.56
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.60 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.86 £28.18 £26.56
% change year-on-year +37.90% +6.10% -29.64%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +58 1,007 £525 - 1,119
North of England +34 246 £475 +5.56% 277
Midlands +33 235 £488 - 163
South East +25 198 £475 +2.70% 261
West Midlands +38 186 £482 -6.99% 125
North West +18 133 £500 +11.11% 163
Yorkshire +14 92 £459 +4.86% 75
South West +11 92 £500 +17.65% 122
East of England +15 87 £565 -6.46% 94
East Midlands +16 48 £488 +8.70% 38
North East -23 22 £520 -15.10% 42
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
1 110 (5.78%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (5.05%) Apache Spark
3 76 (4.00%) Apache
4 57 (3.00%) SAS
5 54 (2.84%) Confluence
6 37 (1.95%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.63%) 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 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.053%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.053%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.053%) Luigi
13 1 (0.053%) Mendix
Applications
1 141 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.11%) CATIA
8 1 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
8 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 11 (0.58%) NEC Housing
5 10 (0.53%) Aladdin
6 9 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.42%) Sage X3
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
10 4 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
10 4 (0.21%) Finacle
10 4 (0.21%) Maximo
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.21%) Shopify
10 4 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 498 (26.18%) Azure
2 414 (21.77%) Power Platform
3 328 (17.25%) AWS
4 158 (8.31%) Azure Data Factory
5 150 (7.89%) Snowflake
6 146 (7.68%) GCP
7 125 (6.57%) dbt
8 109 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
9 91 (4.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 89 (4.68%) Amazon S3
11 84 (4.42%) Serverless
12 73 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
12 73 (3.84%) GitHub
13 51 (2.68%) Collibra
14 50 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
15 39 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
15 39 (2.05%) Power Automate
15 39 (2.05%) SaaS
16 34 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
17 28 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
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%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 392 (20.61%) Power BI
2 320 (16.82%) Data Warehouse
3 262 (13.77%) Metadata
4 166 (8.73%) Data Lake
5 114 (5.99%) Tableau
6 93 (4.89%) SQL Server
7 84 (4.42%) BigQuery
8 80 (4.21%) Delta Lake
9 73 (3.84%) Relational Database
10 71 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
11 54 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
12 52 (2.73%) Big Data
13 47 (2.47%) NoSQL
14 42 (2.21%) Snowflake Schema
15 38 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 36 (1.89%) Power Query
17 35 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
18 33 (1.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 33 (1.74%) Looker
19 32 (1.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 122 (6.41%) JIRA
2 117 (6.15%) Git
3 51 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.84%) GitLab
5 16 (0.84%) ERwin
6 12 (0.63%) ER Studio
7 9 (0.47%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.47%) MLflow
7 9 (0.47%) Postman
8 8 (0.42%) Selenium
9 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.32%) Ant
10 6 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.26%) Newman
11 5 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.21%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 4 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 585 (30.76%) Social Skills
2 569 (29.92%) Finance
3 451 (23.71%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (11.72%) Public Sector
5 150 (7.89%) Banking
6 57 (3.00%) Marketing
7 55 (2.89%) Retail
8 49 (2.58%) Manufacturing
9 45 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
10 44 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
11 37 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
12 36 (1.89%) Local Government
13 34 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 30 (1.58%) Military
15 28 (1.47%) Legal
16 23 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
17 22 (1.16%) Law
18 19 (1.00%) Front Office
19 18 (0.95%) Automotive
19 18 (0.95%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 436 (22.92%) Data Engineer
2 392 (20.61%) Analyst
3 222 (11.67%) Data Analyst
4 221 (11.62%) Senior
5 217 (11.41%) Lead
6 179 (9.41%) Architect
7 119 (6.26%) Data Architect
8 109 (5.73%) Business Analyst
9 105 (5.52%) Developer
10 93 (4.89%) Senior Data Engineer
11 68 (3.58%) Consultant
12 59 (3.10%) Data Manager
13 58 (3.05%) Administrator
14 43 (2.26%) Data Business Analyst
15 38 (2.00%) Data Consultant
16 33 (1.74%) Lead Data Engineer
16 33 (1.74%) Python Engineer
17 31 (1.63%) Data Migration Lead
18 30 (1.58%) Azure Engineer
18 30 (1.58%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (7.89%) PySpark
2 85 (4.47%) Kafka
3 46 (2.42%) REST
4 43 (2.26%) JSON
5 33 (1.74%) Pandas
6 31 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.31%) Great Expectations
8 21 (1.10%) Web Services
8 21 (1.10%) XML
9 20 (1.05%) Middleware
10 16 (0.84%) HTML
11 15 (0.79%) SOAP
12 14 (0.74%) .NET
13 12 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
14 10 (0.53%) pytest
14 10 (0.53%) SailPoint
14 10 (0.53%) scikit-learn
15 9 (0.47%) CSS
15 9 (0.47%) SAML
16 8 (0.42%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 167 (8.78%) Data Structures
2 114 (5.99%) Onboarding
3 102 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 102 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
4 88 (4.63%) Product Ownership
5 75 (3.94%) Management Information System
6 53 (2.79%) CMDB
7 44 (2.31%) Reference Data
8 32 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 28 (1.47%) AI Agents
9 28 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 25 (1.31%) Taxonomies
11 24 (1.26%) NHS
12 23 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 23 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
14 16 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (0.79%) Life Science
15 15 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
15 15 (0.79%) SCADA
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
1 761 (40.01%) Data Modelling
2 684 (35.96%) Analytics
3 657 (34.54%) Data Governance
4 550 (28.92%) Data Pipeline
5 543 (28.55%) ETL
6 501 (26.34%) Business Intelligence
7 481 (25.29%) Validation
8 459 (24.13%) Migration
9 414 (21.77%) Data Engineering
10 406 (21.35%) Agile
11 382 (20.08%) Stakeholder Management
12 362 (19.03%) Decision-Making
13 359 (18.87%) CI/CD
14 350 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
15 322 (16.93%) AI
16 295 (15.51%) Continuous Improvement
17 290 (15.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 288 (15.14%) Data Migration
19 269 (14.14%) Data Architecture
20 256 (13.46%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 834 (43.85%) SQL
2 510 (26.81%) Python
3 63 (3.31%) Java
4 56 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 37 (1.95%) 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 20 (1.05%) C#
11 18 (0.95%) VBA
12 14 (0.74%) R
13 13 (0.68%) Bash
13 13 (0.68%) Bicep
14 10 (0.53%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.47%) TypeScript
16 8 (0.42%) SOQL
17 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
17 6 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 324 (17.03%) Security Cleared
2 251 (13.20%) SC Cleared
3 112 (5.89%) Degree
4 59 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (1.74%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 22 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.74%) PMI Certification
12 10 (0.53%) PMP
13 8 (0.42%) ACCA
13 8 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (7.41%) QA
2 138 (7.26%) GDPR
3 33 (1.74%) PMO
4 31 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 24 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.74%) Solvency II
7 13 (0.68%) IFRS
7 13 (0.68%) SLA
8 12 (0.63%) GRC
9 11 (0.58%) NIST
10 10 (0.53%) COREP
10 10 (0.53%) FINREP
10 10 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.37%) NCSC
13 6 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.21%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.21%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 84 (4.42%) Docker
2 20 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.26%) etcd
4 1 (0.053%) RACF
4 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 123 (6.47%) Terraform
2 90 (4.73%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.68%) Grafana
4 11 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.53%) Ansible
6 9 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.32%) Control-M
8 5 (0.26%) Fluentd
8 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.21%) Kibana
9 4 (0.21%) SCCM
10 1 (0.053%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.053%) Istio
10 1 (0.053%) logstash
10 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.053%) Nessus
10 1 (0.053%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.053%) Puppet
10 1 (0.053%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.053%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 318 (16.72%) Microsoft
2 276 (14.51%) Databricks
3 160 (8.41%) SAP
4 138 (7.26%) Oracle
5 82 (4.31%) Informatica
6 77 (4.05%) Salesforce
7 76 (4.00%) ServiceNow
8 53 (2.79%) Google
9 34 (1.79%) Talend
10 29 (1.52%) Workday
11 26 (1.37%) Denodo
12 24 (1.26%) Adobe
13 21 (1.10%) Palantir
14 20 (1.05%) IBM
15 19 (1.00%) Alteryx
15 19 (1.00%) Splunk
16 17 (0.89%) Foundry
17 13 (0.68%) Sage
18 12 (0.63%) Bloomberg
18 12 (0.63%) NEC