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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 114 113
Rank change year-on-year +46 -1 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,232 623 778
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.38% 2.42% 2.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.45% 16.04% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 437 518
10th Percentile £344 £310 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -7.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 40
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.21 £14.09
25th Percentile £17.98 £22.98 £15.39
Median hourly rate £18.94 £26.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.54% +10.42% +6.74%
75th Percentile £36.75 £35.00 £44.15
90th Percentile £76.13 £93.75 £61.75
UK median hourly rate £29.25 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +10.36% +26.19% -6.60%

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 6,335 3,885 5,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.40% 15.11% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,088 2,389 3,553
10th Percentile £330 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £378 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £606 £638 £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 367 162 351
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.56 £11.77
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.44 £14.22
Median hourly rate £26.11 £31.88 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +27.52% -33.33%
75th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.27 £78.40 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £31.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +27.04% -25.93%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +37 711 £525 - 285
North of England -7 146 £475 +11.76% 138
Midlands +4 134 £511 +9.95% 101
West Midlands +6 107 £515 +8.19% 67
South East +17 95 £450 -13.96% 189
North West -5 76 £461 +1.93% 73
South West +23 68 £500 -4.76% 66
Yorkshire -37 45 £496 +80.36% 44
East of England -34 35 £538 -10.42% 34
East Midlands -15 28 £447 +20.00% 33
North East - 25 £475 - 23
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
1 111 (9.01%) Apache Spark
2 66 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (4.22%) Apache
4 46 (3.73%) SAS
5 29 (2.35%) Confluence
6 26 (2.11%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.73%) Appian
8 8 (0.65%) GeoServer
8 8 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.65%) Smallworld
9 5 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
10 4 (0.32%) CMS
11 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.24%) NetWeaver
12 2 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.081%) Jupyter
Applications
1 107 (8.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (1.14%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.24%) Trello
8 1 (0.081%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 39 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.97%) Loan IQ
2 12 (0.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.57%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.49%) Sage X3
5 6 (0.49%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.41%) Finacle
6 5 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.41%) SAP MM
6 5 (0.41%) SystmOne
7 4 (0.32%) Actimize
7 4 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.24%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.24%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.24%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 387 (31.41%) Azure
2 322 (26.14%) Power Platform
3 239 (19.40%) AWS
4 151 (12.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 117 (9.50%) GCP
6 113 (9.17%) Snowflake
7 87 (7.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 80 (6.49%) dbt
9 66 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
10 61 (4.95%) Amazon S3
11 53 (4.30%) Collibra
12 51 (4.14%) GitHub
12 51 (4.14%) Serverless
13 34 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (2.35%) Microsoft Purview
15 25 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
15 25 (2.03%) Power Automate
15 25 (2.03%) SaaS
16 20 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (1.46%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.41%) VPN
2 2 (0.16%) Broadband
2 2 (0.16%) DNS
2 2 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (0.16%) SSL
2 2 (0.16%) VoIP
3 1 (0.081%) 4G
3 1 (0.081%) 5G
3 1 (0.081%) HTTP
3 1 (0.081%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 311 (25.24%) Power BI
2 235 (19.07%) Data Warehouse
3 178 (14.45%) Metadata
4 116 (9.42%) Data Lake
5 81 (6.57%) SQL Server
6 77 (6.25%) Tableau
7 61 (4.95%) Delta Lake
8 58 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 55 (4.46%) Snowflake Schema
10 52 (4.22%) BigQuery
11 48 (3.90%) Big Data
12 47 (3.81%) Relational Database
13 46 (3.73%) NoSQL
14 41 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 38 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
16 33 (2.68%) Pentaho
17 28 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
18 26 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
19 25 (2.03%) Data Vault
20 24 (1.95%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 133 (10.80%) Git
2 91 (7.39%) JIRA
3 54 (4.38%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.79%) ERwin
5 16 (1.30%) PowerDesigner
6 14 (1.14%) MLflow
7 12 (0.97%) GitLab
8 10 (0.81%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.32%) DBeaver
9 4 (0.32%) LSMW
9 4 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.24%) Selenium
10 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.24%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.16%) Postman
12 1 (0.081%) Browser DevTools
12 1 (0.081%) Deequ
12 1 (0.081%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.081%) Zephyr
General
1 414 (33.60%) Social Skills
2 352 (28.57%) Finance
3 278 (22.56%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (11.28%) Public Sector
5 101 (8.20%) Banking
6 40 (3.25%) Marketing
7 30 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (2.44%) Retail
8 25 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (2.03%) Legal
9 22 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (1.62%) Manufacturing
11 18 (1.46%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.38%) Publishing
13 16 (1.30%) Local Government
14 15 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.06%) Military
17 12 (0.97%) Billing
18 11 (0.89%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 330 (26.79%) Data Engineer
2 263 (21.35%) Analyst
3 163 (13.23%) Data Analyst
4 127 (10.31%) Senior
5 126 (10.23%) Architect
6 125 (10.15%) Lead
7 77 (6.25%) Business Analyst
8 73 (5.93%) Data Architect
9 64 (5.19%) Developer
10 56 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
11 50 (4.06%) Azure Engineer
12 42 (3.41%) Azure Data Engineer
13 39 (3.17%) Data Business Analyst
14 38 (3.08%) Consultant
15 27 (2.19%) Data Modeller
16 24 (1.95%) Data Manager
17 22 (1.79%) Project Manager
17 22 (1.79%) Senior Analyst
18 21 (1.70%) Principal Engineer
19 20 (1.62%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (9.01%) PySpark
2 86 (6.98%) Kafka
3 35 (2.84%) REST
4 33 (2.68%) Pandas
5 20 (1.62%) NumPy
6 18 (1.46%) Great Expectations
7 17 (1.38%) scikit-learn
8 13 (1.06%) OAuth
9 12 (0.97%) Middleware
9 12 (0.97%) Web Services
9 12 (0.97%) XML
10 11 (0.89%) Flask
10 11 (0.89%) PyTorch
10 11 (0.89%) TensorFlow
11 10 (0.81%) JSON
11 10 (0.81%) OpenAPI
11 10 (0.81%) pytest
11 10 (0.81%) RESTful
11 10 (0.81%) YAML
12 9 (0.73%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 108 (8.77%) Data Structures
2 88 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 56 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 52 (4.22%) Management Information System
5 42 (3.41%) Onboarding
6 38 (3.08%) Product Ownership
7 37 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 33 (2.68%) CMDB
9 25 (2.03%) Reference Data
10 20 (1.62%) Clustering
10 20 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (1.62%) NHS
11 16 (1.30%) Reinsurance
12 15 (1.22%) Taxonomies
13 14 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (1.06%) Replication
15 12 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (0.81%) Fixed Income
17 9 (0.73%) Algorithms
17 9 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.57%) Linux
2 5 (0.41%) Unix
3 3 (0.24%) Windows
4 1 (0.081%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (44.64%) Data Modelling
2 489 (39.69%) Analytics
3 439 (35.63%) Data Governance
4 422 (34.25%) ETL
5 417 (33.85%) Business Intelligence
6 350 (28.41%) Data Pipeline
7 290 (23.54%) Agile
8 285 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
9 284 (23.05%) Data Engineering
10 243 (19.72%) Migration
11 229 (18.59%) Validation
12 227 (18.43%) CI/CD
13 212 (17.21%) Decision-Making
14 198 (16.07%) Data Architecture
15 177 (14.37%) Stakeholder Management
16 175 (14.20%) AI
17 172 (13.96%) Data Integration
18 167 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
19 165 (13.39%) Data Migration
19 165 (13.39%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 640 (51.95%) SQL
2 395 (32.06%) Python
3 56 (4.55%) Scala
4 37 (3.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 35 (2.84%) Java
6 27 (2.19%) PL/SQL
7 25 (2.03%) T-SQL
8 24 (1.95%) R
9 22 (1.79%) C#
10 15 (1.22%) JavaScript
11 12 (0.97%) Bicep
11 12 (0.97%) VBA
12 11 (0.89%) PowerShell
13 10 (0.81%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.65%) Bash
15 6 (0.49%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.49%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.32%) ABAP
16 4 (0.32%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 225 (18.26%) Security Cleared
2 168 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 73 (5.93%) Degree
4 35 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.38%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.22%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.22%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.14%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.16%) AAT
11 2 (0.16%) ACCA
11 2 (0.16%) CFA
11 2 (0.16%) CIMA
11 2 (0.16%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.16%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.16%) PhD
11 2 (0.16%) PMP
11 2 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (8.69%) GDPR
2 80 (6.49%) QA
3 42 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.62%) PMO
5 12 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
5 12 (0.97%) SLA
6 10 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (0.81%) Solvency II
7 7 (0.57%) Basel III
7 7 (0.57%) IFRS
8 6 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.32%) FINREP
9 4 (0.32%) MiFID
9 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.24%) ISO 19650
10 3 (0.24%) NIST
11 2 (0.16%) GRC
11 2 (0.16%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.16%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 72 (5.84%) Docker
2 6 (0.49%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.16%) zsh
4 1 (0.081%) HDFS
4 1 (0.081%) RACF
4 1 (0.081%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 87 (7.06%) Terraform
2 72 (5.84%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.32%) Kibana
3 4 (0.32%) SCCM
4 3 (0.24%) Ansible
4 3 (0.24%) Grafana
4 3 (0.24%) logstash
4 3 (0.24%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.16%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.081%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 235 (19.07%) Databricks
2 187 (15.18%) Microsoft
3 94 (7.63%) Oracle
4 83 (6.74%) SAP
5 65 (5.28%) Informatica
6 62 (5.03%) Salesforce
7 54 (4.38%) Talend
8 52 (4.22%) ServiceNow
9 46 (3.73%) Google
10 34 (2.76%) Denodo
11 13 (1.06%) Palantir
12 12 (0.97%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.89%) ESRI
13 11 (0.89%) Workday
14 10 (0.81%) Foundry
14 10 (0.81%) Sparx
15 9 (0.73%) Automation Anywhere
15 9 (0.73%) Avaloq
16 8 (0.65%) IBM
16 8 (0.65%) Intergraph