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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 107 116
Rank change year-on-year +45 +9 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,461 615 731
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.61% 2.54% 1.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.36% 15.85% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 420 504
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £594 £625 £688
90th Percentile £688 £721 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £522 £550
% change year-on-year -4.12% -5.18% +2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 18 30
10th Percentile £13.96 £18.21 £13.92
25th Percentile £17.73 £22.99 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +40.26% +0.32%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.87 £49.44
90th Percentile £81.60 £83.22 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £16.34
% change year-on-year +58.03% +93.69% -27.35%

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 6,841 3,881 5,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.89% 16.02% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,455 2,490 3,347
10th Percentile £340 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 156 349
10th Percentile £14.11 £17.95 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.44 £13.18
Median hourly rate £31.86 £35.00 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year -8.97% +56.67% -40.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £78.60 £78.55 £68.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £20.80
% change year-on-year +1.45% +65.85% -40.56%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +52 811 £525 - 276
North of England +10 175 £495 +10.00% 110
Midlands +19 164 £500 +5.26% 73
West Midlands +23 131 £500 -4.76% 56
South East +4 120 £450 -13.09% 136
North West +15 106 £488 +4.84% 63
South West +18 86 £500 -4.76% 46
East of England -22 60 £581 -3.77% 30
Yorkshire -32 46 £500 +42.86% 31
East Midlands -11 34 £475 +3.49% 17
North East +5 23 £475 -7.99% 17
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 (7.32%) Apache Spark
2 74 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (3.56%) Apache
4 42 (2.87%) SAS
5 40 (2.74%) Confluence
6 38 (2.60%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.62%) Appian
8 6 (0.41%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.27%) CMS
9 4 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.068%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 133 (9.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
3 21 (1.44%) MS Visio
4 15 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.21%) Trello
6 1 (0.068%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 49 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.89%) Loan IQ
3 10 (0.68%) iTrent
4 9 (0.62%) NEC Housing
5 8 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.41%) Finacle
6 6 (0.41%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.41%) SAP MDG
6 6 (0.41%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.41%) SystmOne
7 5 (0.34%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.34%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.27%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 448 (30.66%) Azure
2 380 (26.01%) Power Platform
3 249 (17.04%) AWS
4 186 (12.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 122 (8.35%) GCP
6 111 (7.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 98 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
8 96 (6.57%) dbt
9 95 (6.50%) Snowflake
10 71 (4.86%) Amazon S3
11 66 (4.52%) GitHub
12 59 (4.04%) Collibra
13 55 (3.76%) Serverless
14 39 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
16 33 (2.26%) Power Automate
17 27 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
18 26 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
18 26 (1.78%) SaaS
19 19 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.48%) Firewall
2 5 (0.34%) VPN
3 3 (0.21%) HTTP
4 2 (0.14%) Broadband
4 2 (0.14%) DNS
4 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.14%) VoIP
5 1 (0.068%) 4G
5 1 (0.068%) 5G
5 1 (0.068%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 364 (24.91%) Power BI
2 247 (16.91%) Data Warehouse
3 207 (14.17%) Metadata
4 145 (9.92%) Data Lake
5 108 (7.39%) Tableau
6 103 (7.05%) SQL Server
7 81 (5.54%) Delta Lake
8 66 (4.52%) BigQuery
9 63 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 51 (3.49%) Big Data
10 51 (3.49%) Relational Database
11 48 (3.29%) Snowflake Schema
12 45 (3.08%) NoSQL
13 43 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 41 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
15 37 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
16 29 (1.98%) Star Schema
17 28 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
17 28 (1.92%) Power Query
18 27 (1.85%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 122 (8.35%) Git
2 111 (7.60%) JIRA
3 47 (3.22%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.30%) GitLab
5 16 (1.10%) MLflow
6 15 (1.03%) ERwin
7 9 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.48%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.41%) Selenium
10 5 (0.34%) LSMW
10 5 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.21%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.21%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.21%) Zephyr
13 2 (0.14%) Ant
13 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.14%) Postman
13 2 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 457 (31.28%) Social Skills
2 439 (30.05%) Finance
3 345 (23.61%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (11.02%) Public Sector
5 119 (8.15%) Banking
6 42 (2.87%) Marketing
7 37 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (2.46%) Retail
9 30 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (1.85%) Legal
12 26 (1.78%) Local Government
13 23 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.44%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.44%) Military
15 19 (1.30%) Law
16 17 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (1.10%) Financial Institution
18 14 (0.96%) Investment Banking
19 13 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 388 (26.56%) Data Engineer
2 303 (20.74%) Analyst
3 179 (12.25%) Data Analyst
4 173 (11.84%) Senior
5 146 (9.99%) Lead
6 122 (8.35%) Architect
7 88 (6.02%) Business Analyst
8 75 (5.13%) Developer
9 74 (5.07%) Senior Data Engineer
10 73 (5.00%) Data Architect
11 48 (3.29%) Consultant
12 46 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
13 43 (2.94%) Data Manager
14 41 (2.81%) Azure Data Engineer
15 35 (2.40%) Data Business Analyst
16 30 (2.05%) Project Manager
17 29 (1.98%) Data Migration Lead
18 24 (1.64%) Data Scientist
18 24 (1.64%) Senior Analyst
19 22 (1.51%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (9.24%) PySpark
2 104 (7.12%) Kafka
3 46 (3.15%) Pandas
4 42 (2.87%) REST
5 31 (2.12%) Great Expectations
6 29 (1.98%) JSON
7 24 (1.64%) scikit-learn
8 19 (1.30%) NumPy
8 19 (1.30%) Web Services
9 17 (1.16%) Middleware
10 16 (1.10%) PyTorch
11 14 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
12 13 (0.89%) TensorFlow
13 12 (0.82%) OAuth
13 12 (0.82%) pytest
13 12 (0.82%) YAML
14 11 (0.75%) Flask
14 11 (0.75%) GeoJSON
14 11 (0.75%) SOAP
15 10 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 121 (8.28%) Data Structures
2 103 (7.05%) Legacy Systems
3 77 (5.27%) Cloud Native
4 67 (4.59%) Onboarding
5 63 (4.31%) Management Information System
6 58 (3.97%) Product Ownership
7 43 (2.94%) CMDB
8 29 (1.98%) Reference Data
9 25 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.30%) Clustering
11 19 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (1.23%) AI Agents
13 17 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
14 16 (1.10%) NHS
15 15 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
16 12 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
16 12 (0.82%) Fixed Income
16 12 (0.82%) Taxonomies
17 10 (0.68%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (0.68%) Linux
1 10 (0.68%) Windows
2 9 (0.62%) Unix
3 1 (0.068%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 639 (43.74%) Data Modelling
2 557 (38.12%) Analytics
3 490 (33.54%) Data Governance
4 476 (32.58%) ETL
5 455 (31.14%) Business Intelligence
6 432 (29.57%) Data Pipeline
7 336 (23.00%) Validation
8 332 (22.72%) Data Engineering
9 330 (22.59%) Agile
10 327 (22.38%) Migration
11 304 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
12 294 (20.12%) Decision-Making
13 272 (18.62%) CI/CD
14 231 (15.81%) AI
15 220 (15.06%) Data Architecture
16 218 (14.92%) Data Migration
17 215 (14.72%) Stakeholder Management
18 202 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
18 202 (13.83%) DevOps
19 192 (13.14%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 729 (49.90%) SQL
2 442 (30.25%) Python
3 56 (3.83%) Scala
4 49 (3.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 43 (2.94%) Java
6 39 (2.67%) T-SQL
7 32 (2.19%) PL/SQL
8 22 (1.51%) C#
8 22 (1.51%) R
9 19 (1.30%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.16%) VBA
11 14 (0.96%) Bicep
12 12 (0.82%) JavaScript
13 10 (0.68%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.48%) Bash
15 6 (0.41%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.41%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.27%) ABAP
16 4 (0.27%) C++
16 4 (0.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 266 (18.21%) Security Cleared
2 204 (13.96%) SC Cleared
3 84 (5.75%) Degree
4 49 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (1.51%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (0.89%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.75%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.48%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.34%) ACCA
11 5 (0.34%) CIMA
11 5 (0.34%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.27%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.27%) PhD
12 4 (0.27%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.21%) PMP
14 2 (0.14%) CFA
14 2 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (8.08%) GDPR
2 94 (6.43%) QA
3 32 (2.19%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.71%) PMO
5 17 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.03%) SLA
7 12 (0.82%) Solvency II
8 10 (0.68%) FINREP
9 8 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.55%) COREP
9 8 (0.55%) IFRS
10 7 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.41%) NIST
12 5 (0.34%) Basel III
12 5 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.34%) MiFID
13 4 (0.27%) BS7666
13 4 (0.27%) GRC
14 2 (0.14%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.14%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 70 (4.79%) Docker
2 6 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.34%) etcd
4 1 (0.068%) HDFS
4 1 (0.068%) RACF
4 1 (0.068%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 102 (6.98%) Terraform
2 77 (5.27%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.75%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.68%) Grafana
5 8 (0.55%) Ansible
6 6 (0.41%) Kibana
7 5 (0.34%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.34%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.27%) SCCM
9 3 (0.21%) logstash
9 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.068%) Control-M
10 1 (0.068%) Istio
10 1 (0.068%) Nessus
10 1 (0.068%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 260 (17.80%) Databricks
2 238 (16.29%) Microsoft
3 118 (8.08%) SAP
4 105 (7.19%) Oracle
5 70 (4.79%) Salesforce
6 64 (4.38%) Informatica
7 60 (4.11%) ServiceNow
8 51 (3.49%) Google
9 41 (2.81%) Talend
10 27 (1.85%) Denodo
11 17 (1.16%) Workday
12 14 (0.96%) GoldenSource
12 14 (0.96%) IBM
13 13 (0.89%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.75%) Avaloq
15 10 (0.68%) Adobe
15 10 (0.68%) Alteryx
15 10 (0.68%) NEC
16 9 (0.62%) Automation Anywhere
16 9 (0.62%) ESRI