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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 111 112
Rank change year-on-year +45 +1 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,303 609 772
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.51% 2.49% 2.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.12% 16.21% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 425 520
10th Percentile £350 £311 £357
25th Percentile £413 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £539
Median % change year-on-year - -7.19% +2.62%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £738 £752
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 36
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £13.93
25th Percentile £17.73 £23.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £19.38 £31.64 £22.82
Median % change year-on-year -38.76% +38.65% +1.49%
75th Percentile £54.88 £37.19 £44.15
90th Percentile £80.60 £93.75 £57.75
UK median hourly rate £30.49 £31.64 £20.47
% change year-on-year -3.63% +54.57% -8.96%

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 6,477 3,757 5,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.44% 15.37% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,195 2,402 3,455
10th Percentile £340 £263 £304
25th Percentile £413 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 376 162 337
10th Percentile £15.60 £17.15 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.40 £22.14 £13.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £32.25 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.04% +34.38% -42.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.40 £67.70
UK median hourly rate £28.28 £31.76 £23.00
% change year-on-year -10.97% +38.09% -39.47%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +42 748 £525 - 276
North of England -9 155 £492 +10.07% 129
Midlands +9 141 £500 +8.93% 82
West Midlands +5 113 £513 +8.98% 58
South East +8 107 £450 -13.09% 156
North West -2 83 £475 +5.56% 58
South West +15 65 £500 -4.76% 53
Yorkshire -42 46 £500 +81.82% 59
East of England -25 42 £565 -5.83% 38
East Midlands -23 29 £447 +9.09% 24
North East - 26 £500 - 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
1 117 (8.98%) Apache Spark
2 69 (5.30%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (4.14%) Apache
4 42 (3.22%) SAS
5 31 (2.38%) Confluence
6 30 (2.30%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.69%) Appian
8 8 (0.61%) GeoServer
8 8 (0.61%) Smallworld
9 6 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (0.31%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.31%) CMS
12 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.23%) NetWeaver
13 2 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.077%) Jupyter
Applications
1 116 (8.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.23%) Trello
7 1 (0.077%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 41 (3.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.92%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.54%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.46%) Finacle
6 6 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.46%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.46%) SAP MDG
6 6 (0.46%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.46%) SystmOne
7 5 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.31%) Actimize
8 4 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.31%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.31%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.23%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 420 (32.23%) Azure
2 346 (26.55%) Power Platform
3 254 (19.49%) AWS
4 170 (13.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 120 (9.21%) GCP
6 113 (8.67%) Snowflake
7 101 (7.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 82 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
8 82 (6.29%) dbt
9 69 (5.30%) Amazon S3
10 63 (4.83%) GitHub
11 59 (4.53%) Collibra
12 57 (4.37%) Serverless
13 38 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
15 29 (2.23%) Power Automate
16 27 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
17 26 (2.00%) SaaS
18 20 (1.53%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.38%) VPN
2 4 (0.31%) Firewall
3 2 (0.15%) Broadband
3 2 (0.15%) DNS
3 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.15%) SSL
3 2 (0.15%) VoIP
4 1 (0.077%) 4G
4 1 (0.077%) 5G
4 1 (0.077%) HTTP
4 1 (0.077%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 333 (25.56%) Power BI
2 253 (19.42%) Data Warehouse
3 189 (14.50%) Metadata
4 127 (9.75%) Data Lake
5 89 (6.83%) SQL Server
6 88 (6.75%) Tableau
7 68 (5.22%) Delta Lake
8 66 (5.07%) Azure SQL Database
9 55 (4.22%) BigQuery
10 52 (3.99%) Big Data
10 52 (3.99%) NoSQL
11 50 (3.84%) Relational Database
12 49 (3.76%) Snowflake Schema
13 41 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
14 39 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 29 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
15 29 (2.23%) Pentaho
15 29 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
16 28 (2.15%) Star Schema
17 26 (2.00%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 127 (9.75%) Git
2 91 (6.98%) JIRA
3 51 (3.91%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.61%) ERwin
5 16 (1.23%) MLflow
6 15 (1.15%) GitLab
7 14 (1.07%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.54%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.38%) LSMW
9 5 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.31%) DBeaver
11 3 (0.23%) Selenium
11 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.15%) Postman
12 2 (0.15%) Zephyr
13 1 (0.077%) GCC
13 1 (0.077%) Hudson
13 1 (0.077%) RStudio
General
1 428 (32.85%) Social Skills
2 388 (29.78%) Finance
3 304 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 103 (7.90%) Banking
6 43 (3.30%) Marketing
7 34 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (2.53%) Retail
9 27 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (2.00%) Legal
11 24 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (1.53%) Publishing
13 19 (1.46%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.23%) Local Government
14 16 (1.23%) Telecoms
15 15 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.15%) Law
16 14 (1.07%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.07%) Military
17 13 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 359 (27.55%) Data Engineer
2 271 (20.80%) Analyst
3 167 (12.82%) Data Analyst
4 138 (10.59%) Senior
5 131 (10.05%) Lead
6 130 (9.98%) Architect
7 82 (6.29%) Business Analyst
8 78 (5.99%) Data Architect
9 63 (4.83%) Developer
10 59 (4.53%) Senior Data Engineer
11 51 (3.91%) Azure Engineer
12 42 (3.22%) Azure Data Engineer
13 40 (3.07%) Consultant
13 40 (3.07%) Data Business Analyst
14 30 (2.30%) Data Manager
15 26 (2.00%) Data Modeller
16 23 (1.77%) Principal Engineer
16 23 (1.77%) Project Manager
16 23 (1.77%) Senior Analyst
17 20 (1.53%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (9.44%) PySpark
2 103 (7.90%) Kafka
3 39 (2.99%) Pandas
3 39 (2.99%) REST
4 22 (1.69%) Great Expectations
4 22 (1.69%) NumPy
4 22 (1.69%) scikit-learn
5 17 (1.30%) JSON
6 15 (1.15%) Web Services
7 13 (1.00%) OAuth
7 13 (1.00%) PyTorch
7 13 (1.00%) TensorFlow
8 12 (0.92%) Middleware
8 12 (0.92%) pytest
8 12 (0.92%) XML
9 11 (0.84%) Flask
9 11 (0.84%) GeoJSON
9 11 (0.84%) Matplotlib
10 10 (0.77%) RESTful
10 10 (0.77%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 113 (8.67%) Data Structures
2 99 (7.60%) Legacy Systems
3 66 (5.07%) Cloud Native
4 56 (4.30%) Management Information System
5 53 (4.07%) Onboarding
6 45 (3.45%) Product Ownership
7 40 (3.07%) CMDB
8 37 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 27 (2.07%) Reference Data
10 21 (1.61%) NHS
11 19 (1.46%) Clustering
12 18 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
14 15 (1.15%) Replication
14 15 (1.15%) Taxonomies
15 13 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
16 12 (0.92%) Fixed Income
16 12 (0.92%) Reinsurance
17 10 (0.77%) AI Agents
18 9 (0.69%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.69%) Linux
1 9 (0.69%) Unix
2 7 (0.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.077%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 586 (44.97%) Data Modelling
2 506 (38.83%) Analytics
3 464 (35.61%) Data Governance
4 452 (34.69%) ETL
5 431 (33.08%) Business Intelligence
6 376 (28.86%) Data Pipeline
7 307 (23.56%) Data Engineering
8 298 (22.87%) Agile
9 286 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
10 274 (21.03%) Migration
11 265 (20.34%) Validation
12 250 (19.19%) CI/CD
13 234 (17.96%) Decision-Making
14 220 (16.88%) Data Architecture
15 194 (14.89%) AI
16 191 (14.66%) Data Migration
17 181 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
18 180 (13.81%) DevOps
19 175 (13.43%) Data Integration
20 168 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 679 (52.11%) SQL
2 425 (32.62%) Python
3 60 (4.60%) Scala
4 40 (3.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 39 (2.99%) Java
6 27 (2.07%) T-SQL
7 25 (1.92%) C#
7 25 (1.92%) PL/SQL
8 22 (1.69%) R
9 15 (1.15%) Bicep
9 15 (1.15%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.07%) JavaScript
10 14 (1.07%) VBA
11 12 (0.92%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.54%) Bash
13 5 (0.38%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.31%) ABAP
14 4 (0.31%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.31%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 240 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 179 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 75 (5.76%) Degree
4 41 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.30%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.07%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.00%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.31%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.23%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.23%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.23%) PhD
12 2 (0.15%) AAT
12 2 (0.15%) ACCA
12 2 (0.15%) CFA
12 2 (0.15%) CIMA
12 2 (0.15%) PMP
12 2 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (9.21%) GDPR
2 83 (6.37%) QA
3 38 (2.92%) Accessibility
4 23 (1.77%) PMO
5 14 (1.07%) Solvency II
6 12 (0.92%) SLA
7 11 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.54%) Basel III
10 7 (0.54%) IFRS
11 6 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.38%) FINREP
13 4 (0.31%) MiFID
14 3 (0.23%) COREP
14 3 (0.23%) GRC
14 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.23%) NIST
15 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.15%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 70 (5.37%) Docker
2 6 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.31%) etcd
4 1 (0.077%) HDFS
4 1 (0.077%) RACF
4 1 (0.077%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.077%) zsh
Systems Management
1 97 (7.44%) Terraform
2 75 (5.76%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.31%) Ansible
4 4 (0.31%) Fluentd
4 4 (0.31%) Kibana
4 4 (0.31%) SCCM
5 3 (0.23%) Grafana
5 3 (0.23%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.23%) logstash
6 1 (0.077%) Nessus
6 1 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 248 (19.03%) Databricks
2 204 (15.66%) Microsoft
3 99 (7.60%) SAP
4 93 (7.14%) Oracle
5 72 (5.53%) Informatica
6 63 (4.83%) Salesforce
7 58 (4.45%) ServiceNow
8 53 (4.07%) Talend
9 51 (3.91%) Google
10 30 (2.30%) Denodo
11 13 (1.00%) ESRI
12 12 (0.92%) OpenAI
12 12 (0.92%) Workday
13 11 (0.84%) Palantir
14 10 (0.77%) Avaloq
14 10 (0.77%) GoldenSource
14 10 (0.77%) IBM
15 9 (0.69%) Automation Anywhere
15 9 (0.69%) Sparx
16 8 (0.61%) UiPath