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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 112 109
Rank change year-on-year +56 -3 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,607 608 751
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.76% 2.47% 2.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.32% 15.17% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,061 388 523
10th Percentile £350 £341 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £698
90th Percentile £675 £725 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -2.72% -6.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 20 27
10th Percentile £13.97 £18.22 £13.28
25th Percentile £17.36 £23.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £31.00 £31.64 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +50.67% -6.60%
75th Percentile £59.50 £34.99 £42.50
90th Percentile £80.83 £78.83 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £15.79
% change year-on-year +26.42% +100.38% -29.78%

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 7,201 4,007 5,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.86% 16.29% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,657 2,578 3,198
10th Percentile £350 £268 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £608 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.77% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 462 170 383
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.27 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.77 £22.14 £12.92
Median hourly rate £34.49 £33.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% +38.52% -43.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £50.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.59 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £32.25 £23.80
% change year-on-year +11.63% +35.50% -37.37%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +69 893 £520 -0.95% 308
North of England +12 188 £475 +5.56% 127
Midlands +25 182 £492 +6.80% 88
West Midlands +26 148 £495 +14.81% 60
South East +15 140 £463 -8.42% 161
North West +14 111 £475 +5.56% 87
South West +27 91 £500 +17.65% 47
East of England -10 70 £575 -4.49% 45
Yorkshire -33 50 £498 +24.38% 29
East Midlands 0 35 £450 -2.33% 28
North East -10 27 £475 -22.45% 12
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 91 (5.66%) Apache Spark
2 86 (5.35%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (3.05%) Apache
3 49 (3.05%) Confluence
4 43 (2.68%) SAS
5 37 (2.30%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.62%) Appian
7 8 (0.50%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.25%) CMS
11 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.12%) Smallworld
Applications
1 122 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
3 19 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
5 17 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) CATIA
8 1 (0.062%) Trello
Business Applications
1 47 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.75%) NEC Housing
3 10 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.56%) iTrent
4 9 (0.56%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.44%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.37%) Finacle
6 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.31%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.31%) SystmOne
8 4 (0.25%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.19%) Maximo
9 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.19%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 458 (28.50%) Azure
2 388 (24.14%) Power Platform
3 281 (17.49%) AWS
4 170 (10.58%) Azure Data Factory
5 120 (7.47%) GCP
6 115 (7.16%) Snowflake
7 113 (7.03%) dbt
8 108 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
9 103 (6.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 87 (5.41%) Amazon S3
11 78 (4.85%) GitHub
11 78 (4.85%) Serverless
12 61 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
13 55 (3.42%) Collibra
14 38 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
15 35 (2.18%) Power Automate
16 34 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
17 31 (1.93%) SaaS
18 22 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
19 20 (1.24%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.44%) Firewall
2 5 (0.31%) VPN
3 2 (0.12%) HTTP
4 1 (0.062%) 4G
4 1 (0.062%) 5G
4 1 (0.062%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 371 (23.09%) Power BI
2 256 (15.93%) Data Warehouse
3 210 (13.07%) Metadata
4 166 (10.33%) Data Lake
5 104 (6.47%) Tableau
6 102 (6.35%) SQL Server
7 79 (4.92%) Delta Lake
8 67 (4.17%) BigQuery
9 63 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
10 57 (3.55%) Relational Database
11 51 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
12 49 (3.05%) Big Data
13 47 (2.92%) Snowflake Schema
14 46 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
15 37 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 36 (2.24%) NoSQL
17 35 (2.18%) Power Query
18 30 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
19 28 (1.74%) Star Schema
20 24 (1.49%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 117 (7.28%) JIRA
2 112 (6.97%) Git
3 45 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.87%) GitLab
5 17 (1.06%) ERwin
6 15 (0.93%) MLflow
7 8 (0.50%) Postman
7 8 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.44%) Eclipse
8 7 (0.44%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.44%) Selenium
8 7 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.37%) Ant
10 5 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.25%) LSMW
11 4 (0.25%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.25%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.19%) Newman
12 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
General
1 494 (30.74%) Finance
2 476 (29.62%) Social Skills
3 364 (22.65%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 131 (8.15%) Banking
6 44 (2.74%) Marketing
7 41 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (2.55%) Retail
8 35 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (1.80%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.56%) Local Government
12 24 (1.49%) Legal
13 22 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (1.18%) Military
15 18 (1.12%) Law
16 17 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.87%) Financial Institution
17 14 (0.87%) Publishing
18 13 (0.81%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 408 (25.39%) Data Engineer
2 334 (20.78%) Analyst
3 194 (12.07%) Data Analyst
4 185 (11.51%) Senior
5 166 (10.33%) Lead
6 126 (7.84%) Architect
7 83 (5.16%) Business Analyst
7 83 (5.16%) Senior Data Engineer
8 82 (5.10%) Developer
9 76 (4.73%) Data Architect
10 54 (3.36%) Consultant
11 51 (3.17%) Data Manager
12 38 (2.36%) Administrator
13 32 (1.99%) Data Business Analyst
14 31 (1.93%) Azure Engineer
14 31 (1.93%) Data Migration Lead
15 29 (1.80%) Project Manager
16 28 (1.74%) Azure Data Engineer
17 27 (1.68%) AWS Engineer
17 27 (1.68%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (7.97%) PySpark
2 90 (5.60%) Kafka
3 52 (3.24%) Pandas
4 48 (2.99%) REST
5 34 (2.12%) JSON
6 30 (1.87%) Great Expectations
7 25 (1.56%) scikit-learn
8 23 (1.43%) Web Services
9 22 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
10 20 (1.24%) NumPy
11 17 (1.06%) Middleware
11 17 (1.06%) XML
12 16 (1.00%) pytest
13 15 (0.93%) PyTorch
14 13 (0.81%) GeoJSON
14 13 (0.81%) HTML
14 13 (0.81%) SOAP
15 12 (0.75%) OAuth
15 12 (0.75%) TensorFlow
16 11 (0.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 123 (7.65%) Data Structures
2 111 (6.91%) Legacy Systems
3 83 (5.16%) Cloud Native
3 83 (5.16%) Onboarding
4 62 (3.86%) Product Ownership
5 58 (3.61%) Management Information System
6 47 (2.92%) CMDB
7 35 (2.18%) Reference Data
8 28 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 27 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 25 (1.56%) AI Agents
11 22 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
11 22 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.24%) NHS
13 19 (1.18%) Clustering
14 17 (1.06%) Life Science
15 16 (1.00%) Taxonomies
16 15 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
17 12 (0.75%) Fixed Income
18 11 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.68%) Unix
1 11 (0.68%) Windows
2 9 (0.56%) Linux
3 1 (0.062%) VMS
3 1 (0.062%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 667 (41.51%) Data Modelling
2 602 (37.46%) Analytics
3 506 (31.49%) Data Governance
4 496 (30.86%) ETL
5 465 (28.94%) Data Pipeline
6 463 (28.81%) Business Intelligence
7 382 (23.77%) Validation
8 366 (22.78%) Migration
9 354 (22.03%) Data Engineering
10 333 (20.72%) Agile
11 309 (19.23%) Decision-Making
12 304 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
13 303 (18.86%) CI/CD
14 290 (18.05%) AI
15 258 (16.05%) Stakeholder Management
16 244 (15.18%) Data Migration
17 223 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
17 223 (13.88%) Data Architecture
18 216 (13.44%) DevOps
18 216 (13.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 762 (47.42%) SQL
2 464 (28.87%) Python
3 54 (3.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 50 (3.11%) Java
5 42 (2.61%) Scala
6 41 (2.55%) T-SQL
7 36 (2.24%) PL/SQL
8 26 (1.62%) PowerShell
9 18 (1.12%) C#
10 17 (1.06%) VBA
11 15 (0.93%) Bicep
12 13 (0.81%) R
13 10 (0.62%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.56%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.56%) JavaScript
15 8 (0.50%) Bash
16 7 (0.44%) SOQL
16 7 (0.44%) TypeScript
17 6 (0.37%) SOSL
18 5 (0.31%) Korn
Qualifications
1 269 (16.74%) Security Cleared
2 212 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 90 (5.60%) Degree
4 62 (3.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (0.81%) AWS Certification
8 13 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.50%) ACCA
9 8 (0.50%) CIMA
9 8 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.50%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.37%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.37%) SnowPro
11 5 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.31%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.25%) PhD
12 4 (0.25%) PMP
12 4 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (8.46%) GDPR
2 107 (6.66%) QA
3 36 (2.24%) PMO
4 23 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.06%) SLA
7 16 (1.00%) Solvency II
8 11 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.62%) IFRS
10 8 (0.50%) COREP
10 8 (0.50%) FINREP
11 7 (0.44%) NIST
12 6 (0.37%) GRC
13 4 (0.25%) BS7666
13 4 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.25%) GAAP
13 4 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.19%) Basel III
System Software
1 68 (4.23%) Docker
2 7 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.31%) etcd
4 1 (0.062%) HDFS
4 1 (0.062%) RACF
4 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 122 (7.59%) Terraform
2 71 (4.42%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.68%) Grafana
4 10 (0.62%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.50%) Ansible
6 6 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.31%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.31%) SCCM
8 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.25%) Kibana
9 1 (0.062%) Control-M
9 1 (0.062%) Istio
9 1 (0.062%) logstash
9 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.062%) Nessus
9 1 (0.062%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.062%) Puppet
9 1 (0.062%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.062%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 266 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 253 (15.74%) Databricks
3 119 (7.41%) Oracle
4 117 (7.28%) SAP
5 77 (4.79%) Salesforce
6 67 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 62 (3.86%) Informatica
8 41 (2.55%) Google
9 32 (1.99%) Talend
10 23 (1.43%) Denodo
11 20 (1.24%) IBM
12 17 (1.06%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.06%) Workday
13 15 (0.93%) GoldenSource
14 13 (0.81%) Adobe
14 13 (0.81%) NEC
14 13 (0.81%) Palantir
15 11 (0.68%) Avaloq
15 11 (0.68%) ESRI
15 11 (0.68%) Foundry