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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 108 115
Rank change year-on-year +46 +7 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,409 612 741
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.59% 2.51% 2.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.03% 16.05% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 974 428 516
10th Percentile £350 £319 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% -4.55% -3.09%
75th Percentile £590 £625 £675
90th Percentile £675 £729 £784
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 31
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £14.13
25th Percentile £17.48 £22.55 £15.39
Median hourly rate £29.37 £29.07 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% +21.13% +6.74%
75th Percentile £68.02 £34.60 £50.42
90th Percentile £82.78 £80.21 £61.75
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £29.07 £18.67
% change year-on-year +72.00% +55.75% -16.99%

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 6,700 3,814 5,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.09% 15.64% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,359 2,460 3,382
10th Percentile £340 £268 £304
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -2.43% -
75th Percentile £607 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 410 154 340
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.43 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £12.84
Median hourly rate £30.54 £33.81 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% +64.90% -50.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.61 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £32.81 £20.47
% change year-on-year -4.75% +60.32% -45.43%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 +47 780 £525 - 272
North of England +13 181 £495 +10.00% 150
Midlands +18 159 £500 +6.38% 99
West Midlands +14 125 £510 -2.86% 67
South East +16 112 £456 -10.98% 117
North West +10 101 £498 +9.34% 82
South West +16 78 £500 +2.56% 61
East of England -22 58 £575 -4.17% 43
Yorkshire -27 55 £495 +80.00% 57
East Midlands -13 35 £450 +9.82% 32
North East - 25 £475 - 13
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
1 118 (8.37%) Apache Spark
2 75 (5.32%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (3.90%) Apache
4 51 (3.62%) SAS
5 34 (2.41%) Confluence
5 34 (2.41%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.64%) Appian
7 6 (0.43%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.28%) CMS
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
10 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.071%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 127 (9.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 1 (0.071%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 47 (3.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.85%) Loan IQ
3 10 (0.71%) iTrent
3 10 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.50%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.43%) Finacle
6 6 (0.43%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.43%) SAP MDG
6 6 (0.43%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.43%) SystmOne
7 5 (0.35%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.35%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.28%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.21%) Actimize
9 3 (0.21%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 440 (31.23%) Azure
2 366 (25.98%) Power Platform
3 257 (18.24%) AWS
4 187 (13.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 124 (8.80%) GCP
6 114 (8.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 99 (7.03%) Snowflake
8 92 (6.53%) dbt
9 90 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
10 79 (5.61%) Amazon S3
11 69 (4.90%) GitHub
12 61 (4.33%) Serverless
13 59 (4.19%) Collibra
14 42 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (2.48%) Microsoft Purview
16 31 (2.20%) Power Automate
17 30 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
18 29 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
19 21 (1.49%) SaaS
20 20 (1.42%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.35%) VPN
2 4 (0.28%) Firewall
3 2 (0.14%) Broadband
3 2 (0.14%) DNS
3 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.14%) SSL
3 2 (0.14%) VoIP
4 1 (0.071%) 4G
4 1 (0.071%) 5G
4 1 (0.071%) HTTP
4 1 (0.071%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 351 (24.91%) Power BI
2 260 (18.45%) Data Warehouse
3 204 (14.48%) Metadata
4 139 (9.87%) Data Lake
5 98 (6.96%) Tableau
6 96 (6.81%) SQL Server
7 74 (5.25%) Delta Lake
8 69 (4.90%) Azure SQL Database
9 61 (4.33%) BigQuery
10 53 (3.76%) NoSQL
10 53 (3.76%) Snowflake Schema
11 48 (3.41%) Big Data
12 46 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
13 45 (3.19%) Relational Database
14 41 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 38 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
16 34 (2.41%) Pentaho
17 29 (2.06%) OLAP
17 29 (2.06%) Star Schema
18 28 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 131 (9.30%) Git
2 105 (7.45%) JIRA
3 56 (3.97%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.42%) ERwin
5 18 (1.28%) GitLab
6 17 (1.21%) MLflow
7 14 (0.99%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.50%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.43%) Selenium
10 5 (0.35%) LSMW
10 5 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.21%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.21%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.21%) Zephyr
13 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.14%) Postman
14 1 (0.071%) GCC
14 1 (0.071%) Hudson
14 1 (0.071%) Liquibase
General
1 462 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 414 (29.38%) Finance
3 338 (23.99%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (11.21%) Public Sector
5 113 (8.02%) Banking
6 44 (3.12%) Marketing
7 39 (2.77%) Retail
8 38 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
9 31 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (1.85%) Legal
12 23 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (1.42%) Law
13 20 (1.42%) Local Government
13 20 (1.42%) Manufacturing
14 18 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.21%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.21%) Military
16 16 (1.14%) Telecoms
17 14 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 385 (27.32%) Data Engineer
2 287 (20.37%) Analyst
3 180 (12.78%) Data Analyst
4 153 (10.86%) Senior
5 131 (9.30%) Lead
6 130 (9.23%) Architect
7 89 (6.32%) Business Analyst
8 80 (5.68%) Data Architect
9 72 (5.11%) Developer
10 63 (4.47%) Senior Data Engineer
11 54 (3.83%) Azure Engineer
12 44 (3.12%) Azure Data Engineer
12 44 (3.12%) Consultant
13 41 (2.91%) Data Manager
14 38 (2.70%) Data Business Analyst
15 27 (1.92%) Project Manager
16 25 (1.77%) Data Migration Lead
17 24 (1.70%) AWS Engineer
17 24 (1.70%) Principal Engineer
18 22 (1.56%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (9.51%) PySpark
2 105 (7.45%) Kafka
3 45 (3.19%) Pandas
4 43 (3.05%) REST
5 28 (1.99%) Great Expectations
6 27 (1.92%) JSON
7 24 (1.70%) scikit-learn
8 21 (1.49%) NumPy
9 16 (1.14%) PyTorch
10 15 (1.06%) Middleware
10 15 (1.06%) Web Services
11 13 (0.92%) OAuth
11 13 (0.92%) pytest
11 13 (0.92%) TensorFlow
11 13 (0.92%) XML
12 12 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
12 12 (0.85%) YAML
13 11 (0.78%) Flask
13 11 (0.78%) GeoJSON
14 10 (0.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 119 (8.45%) Data Structures
2 102 (7.24%) Legacy Systems
3 75 (5.32%) Cloud Native
4 66 (4.68%) Onboarding
5 61 (4.33%) Management Information System
6 54 (3.83%) Product Ownership
7 44 (3.12%) CMDB
8 32 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
9 31 (2.20%) Reference Data
10 23 (1.63%) NHS
11 22 (1.56%) Clustering
12 18 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.06%) AI Agents
13 15 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (0.99%) Taxonomies
15 12 (0.85%) Fixed Income
15 12 (0.85%) Reinsurance
16 11 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.64%) Linux
1 9 (0.64%) Unix
1 9 (0.64%) Windows
2 1 (0.071%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 630 (44.71%) Data Modelling
2 543 (38.54%) Analytics
3 495 (35.13%) Data Governance
4 482 (34.21%) ETL
5 456 (32.36%) Business Intelligence
6 429 (30.45%) Data Pipeline
7 321 (22.78%) Data Engineering
8 319 (22.64%) Agile
9 315 (22.36%) Problem-Solving
10 308 (21.86%) Validation
11 300 (21.29%) Migration
12 278 (19.73%) CI/CD
13 265 (18.81%) Decision-Making
14 233 (16.54%) Data Architecture
15 219 (15.54%) AI
16 211 (14.98%) Stakeholder Management
17 202 (14.34%) Data Migration
18 196 (13.91%) DevOps
19 194 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
20 185 (13.13%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 718 (50.96%) SQL
2 444 (31.51%) Python
3 63 (4.47%) Scala
4 45 (3.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 45 (3.19%) Java
5 36 (2.56%) T-SQL
6 29 (2.06%) PL/SQL
7 27 (1.92%) C#
8 23 (1.63%) R
9 20 (1.42%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.21%) VBA
11 16 (1.14%) JavaScript
12 14 (0.99%) Bicep
13 9 (0.64%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.57%) Bash
15 5 (0.35%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.28%) ABAP
16 4 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
17 3 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 263 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 199 (14.12%) SC Cleared
3 79 (5.61%) Degree
4 45 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.42%) Azure Certification
7 12 (0.85%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.78%) DV Cleared
8 11 (0.78%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.28%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.28%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.28%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.21%) ACCA
11 3 (0.21%) CIMA
11 3 (0.21%) PhD
12 2 (0.14%) AAT
12 2 (0.14%) CFA
12 2 (0.14%) PMP
12 2 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (8.59%) GDPR
2 85 (6.03%) QA
3 33 (2.34%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.77%) PMO
5 16 (1.14%) SLA
6 14 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.92%) Solvency II
8 10 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.64%) FINREP
10 8 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.57%) IFRS
11 7 (0.50%) COREP
12 6 (0.43%) Basel III
12 6 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.35%) MiFID
14 4 (0.28%) BS7666
14 4 (0.28%) GRC
15 3 (0.21%) NIST
16 2 (0.14%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.14%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 74 (5.25%) Docker
2 6 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.35%) etcd
4 1 (0.071%) HDFS
4 1 (0.071%) RACF
4 1 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 107 (7.59%) Terraform
2 81 (5.75%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.71%) Prometheus
4 9 (0.64%) Grafana
5 5 (0.35%) Ansible
5 5 (0.35%) Fluentd
5 5 (0.35%) HP ALM
5 5 (0.35%) Kibana
6 4 (0.28%) SCCM
7 3 (0.21%) logstash
8 1 (0.071%) Control-M
8 1 (0.071%) Istio
8 1 (0.071%) Nessus
8 1 (0.071%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.071%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 267 (18.95%) Databricks
2 229 (16.25%) Microsoft
3 117 (8.30%) SAP
4 105 (7.45%) Oracle
5 69 (4.90%) Informatica
5 69 (4.90%) Salesforce
6 60 (4.26%) ServiceNow
7 52 (3.69%) Google
8 51 (3.62%) Talend
9 35 (2.48%) Denodo
10 16 (1.14%) Workday
11 13 (0.92%) GoldenSource
11 13 (0.92%) IBM
12 12 (0.85%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.78%) Avaloq
14 10 (0.71%) Palantir
15 9 (0.64%) Adobe
15 9 (0.64%) Automation Anywhere
15 9 (0.64%) ESRI
16 8 (0.57%) UiPath