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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 114 121
Rank change year-on-year +39 +7 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,100 622 756
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.24% 2.39% 2.01%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.76% 16.28% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 753 408 505
10th Percentile £337 £307 £375
25th Percentile £413 £387 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.66%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £675
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 41
10th Percentile £14.27 £21.25 £14.13
25th Percentile £18.24 £25.06 £15.39
Median hourly rate £18.94 £35.00 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year -45.89% +43.27% +8.65%
75th Percentile £30.87 £93.75 £49.08
90th Percentile £68.07 £97.50 £61.75
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £23.92
% change year-on-year -20.00% +46.35% +6.36%

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 5,862 3,821 5,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.26% 14.65% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,791 2,240 3,532
10th Percentile £325 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £378 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 148 305
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.70 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.24 £20.14 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.99 £25.12
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +23.37% -13.84%
75th Percentile £63.45 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £26.11 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.97% +16.00% -12.28%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +32 655 £537 +2.33% 222
North of England -4 142 £475 +18.75% 111
Midlands -5 102 £500 +21.21% 74
South East +6 80 £425 -26.09% 169
West Midlands -8 78 £515 +5.53% 51
North West +2 77 £461 +5.43% 67
South West +24 65 £500 -1.23% 41
Yorkshire -33 43 £500 +138.10% 32
East Midlands -12 25 £428 +20.08% 23
North East +5 23 £475 - 13
East of England -45 21 £638 +15.91% 31
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 98 (8.91%) Apache Spark
2 66 (6.00%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (4.09%) Apache
4 31 (2.82%) SAS
5 22 (2.00%) Confluence
5 22 (2.00%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.82%) Appian
7 8 (0.73%) GeoServer
7 8 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.73%) Smallworld
8 7 (0.64%) Oracle Application Server
9 3 (0.27%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.091%) CMS
11 1 (0.091%) Luigi
Applications
1 90 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.27%) Trello
8 1 (0.091%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.091%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 40 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (0.82%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.64%) SAP MDG
5 6 (0.55%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.55%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.36%) Finacle
6 4 (0.36%) SAP MM
6 4 (0.36%) SystmOne
7 3 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.27%) Oracle SCM
7 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.27%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.27%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.27%) SAP MDG-F
7 3 (0.27%) SAP MDG-S
7 3 (0.27%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 350 (31.82%) Azure
2 268 (24.36%) Power Platform
3 224 (20.36%) AWS
4 132 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 113 (10.27%) GCP
6 95 (8.64%) Snowflake
7 78 (7.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 74 (6.73%) dbt
9 60 (5.45%) Amazon S3
10 58 (5.27%) Azure DevOps
11 53 (4.82%) GitHub
12 49 (4.45%) Collibra
13 43 (3.91%) Serverless
14 29 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (2.45%) Microsoft Purview
16 23 (2.09%) Power Automate
17 21 (1.91%) SaaS
18 20 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
19 16 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.27%) DNS
2 2 (0.18%) Broadband
2 2 (0.18%) HTTP
2 2 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (0.18%) SSL
2 2 (0.18%) VoIP
3 1 (0.091%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (23.82%) Power BI
2 201 (18.27%) Data Warehouse
3 167 (15.18%) Metadata
4 105 (9.55%) Data Lake
5 75 (6.82%) SQL Server
6 61 (5.55%) Tableau
7 54 (4.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 54 (4.91%) Delta Lake
8 49 (4.45%) Snowflake Schema
9 45 (4.09%) Big Data
10 43 (3.91%) NoSQL
11 40 (3.64%) Relational Database
12 39 (3.55%) BigQuery
13 32 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
13 32 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 31 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
15 30 (2.73%) Star Schema
16 27 (2.45%) Data Vault
17 23 (2.09%) Pentaho
18 20 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 118 (10.73%) Git
2 75 (6.82%) JIRA
3 40 (3.64%) Jenkins
4 23 (2.09%) ERwin
5 17 (1.55%) PowerDesigner
6 12 (1.09%) MLflow
7 11 (1.00%) ER Studio
8 6 (0.55%) DBeaver
9 5 (0.45%) GitLab
10 3 (0.27%) LSMW
10 3 (0.27%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.18%) Browser DevTools
11 2 (0.18%) Selenium
12 1 (0.091%) Liquibase
12 1 (0.091%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.091%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.091%) RStudio
12 1 (0.091%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.091%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.091%) webpack
General
1 371 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 317 (28.82%) Finance
3 248 (22.55%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 90 (8.18%) Banking
6 31 (2.82%) Marketing
7 27 (2.45%) Retail
8 26 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (1.73%) Legal
11 17 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (1.45%) Local Government
13 15 (1.36%) Publishing
14 14 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.27%) Military
14 14 (1.27%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.09%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.00%) Billing
16 11 (1.00%) Law
16 11 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 283 (25.73%) Data Engineer
2 233 (21.18%) Analyst
3 142 (12.91%) Data Analyst
4 118 (10.73%) Lead
5 114 (10.36%) Senior
6 107 (9.73%) Architect
7 68 (6.18%) Business Analyst
8 65 (5.91%) Data Architect
9 60 (5.45%) Developer
10 55 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
11 48 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
12 40 (3.64%) Azure Data Engineer
13 38 (3.45%) Consultant
14 35 (3.18%) Data Business Analyst
15 31 (2.82%) Data Modeller
16 27 (2.45%) Data Manager
17 22 (2.00%) Project Manager
18 20 (1.82%) Governance Analyst
19 17 (1.55%) Principal Engineer
19 17 (1.55%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (9.18%) PySpark
2 78 (7.09%) Kafka
3 35 (3.18%) REST
4 26 (2.36%) Pandas
5 18 (1.64%) NumPy
6 16 (1.45%) Great Expectations
7 15 (1.36%) scikit-learn
8 13 (1.18%) Middleware
8 13 (1.18%) XML
9 12 (1.09%) OAuth
9 12 (1.09%) Web Services
10 11 (1.00%) PyTorch
11 10 (0.91%) Flask
11 10 (0.91%) Hugging Face
11 10 (0.91%) OpenAPI
11 10 (0.91%) pytest
11 10 (0.91%) TensorFlow
12 9 (0.82%) RESTful
12 9 (0.82%) Swagger
12 9 (0.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 100 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 83 (7.55%) Legacy Systems
3 46 (4.18%) Cloud Native
4 45 (4.09%) Management Information System
5 33 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 32 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 32 (2.91%) Product Ownership
7 28 (2.55%) CMDB
8 21 (1.91%) Reference Data
9 20 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (1.73%) Reinsurance
11 18 (1.64%) Clustering
11 18 (1.64%) NHS
12 15 (1.36%) Replication
13 14 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (1.09%) Taxonomies
15 9 (0.82%) Data Centre
15 9 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
16 8 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
16 8 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.36%) Linux
2 5 (0.45%) Unix
3 3 (0.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.091%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (43.36%) Data Modelling
2 432 (39.27%) Analytics
3 399 (36.27%) Data Governance
4 356 (32.36%) ETL
5 349 (31.73%) Business Intelligence
6 294 (26.73%) Data Pipeline
7 267 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
8 253 (23.00%) Agile
8 253 (23.00%) Data Engineering
9 206 (18.73%) Migration
10 194 (17.64%) CI/CD
10 194 (17.64%) Validation
11 179 (16.27%) Decision-Making
12 173 (15.73%) Data Architecture
13 166 (15.09%) AI
14 157 (14.27%) Data Management
14 157 (14.27%) Stakeholder Management
15 148 (13.45%) Data Integration
16 146 (13.27%) Data Analysis
17 139 (12.64%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 551 (50.09%) SQL
2 352 (32.00%) Python
3 48 (4.36%) Scala
4 27 (2.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 27 (2.45%) Java
5 25 (2.27%) PL/SQL
6 22 (2.00%) R
7 21 (1.91%) C#
8 19 (1.73%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.45%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.00%) Bicep
11 10 (0.91%) Bash
11 10 (0.91%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.64%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.64%) C++
12 7 (0.64%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.64%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.45%) VBA
14 4 (0.36%) ABAP
14 4 (0.36%) Korn
Qualifications
1 186 (16.91%) Security Cleared
2 136 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 69 (6.27%) Degree
4 28 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.09%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 3 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.18%) AAT
10 2 (0.18%) ACCA
10 2 (0.18%) CFA
10 2 (0.18%) CIMA
10 2 (0.18%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.18%) PhD
10 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (9.09%) GDPR
2 64 (5.82%) QA
3 42 (3.82%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.45%) PMO
5 14 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 12 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (0.91%) SLA
8 9 (0.82%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.64%) Basel III
10 6 (0.55%) IFRS
11 5 (0.45%) ISO 19650
11 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.27%) FINREP
12 3 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.27%) MiFID
12 3 (0.27%) NIST
12 3 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.18%) EMIR
13 2 (0.18%) GRC
13 2 (0.18%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 55 (5.00%) Docker
2 6 (0.55%) zsh
3 5 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.18%) HDFS
5 1 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (6.18%) Terraform
2 54 (4.91%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.36%) SCCM
4 3 (0.27%) Kibana
4 3 (0.27%) logstash
4 3 (0.27%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.18%) Ansible
5 2 (0.18%) Grafana
6 1 (0.091%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.091%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.091%) Oozie
6 1 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 211 (19.18%) Databricks
2 162 (14.73%) Microsoft
3 87 (7.91%) Oracle
4 74 (6.73%) SAP
5 58 (5.27%) Informatica
6 51 (4.64%) Salesforce
7 43 (3.91%) Google
8 42 (3.82%) ServiceNow
9 41 (3.73%) Talend
10 23 (2.09%) Denodo
11 14 (1.27%) Sparx
12 13 (1.18%) Palantir
13 10 (0.91%) Alteryx
13 10 (0.91%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.82%) Automation Anywhere
15 8 (0.73%) Avaloq
15 8 (0.73%) Foundry
15 8 (0.73%) Intergraph
15 8 (0.73%) UiPath
15 8 (0.73%) Workday