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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 107 115
Rank change year-on-year +42 +8 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,416 621 737
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.57% 2.53% 1.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.06% 16.06% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 974 432 508
10th Percentile £350 £325 £352
25th Percentile £413 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% -6.59% -
75th Percentile £594 £625 £675
90th Percentile £675 £725 £777
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £535
% change year-on-year -1.96% -4.67% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 19 30
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £13.92
25th Percentile £17.48 £22.12 £15.39
Median hourly rate £31.25 £31.64 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +40.26% +0.32%
75th Percentile £63.00 £34.73 £49.44
90th Percentile £82.48 £81.71 £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 6,724 3,866 5,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.94% 15.73% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,376 2,483 3,388
10th Percentile £340 £275 £304
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £608 £630 £638
90th Percentile £704 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 155 345
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.69 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.27 £13.00
Median hourly rate £30.58 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% +66.67% -50.59%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.13 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £33.81 £20.50
% change year-on-year -3.86% +64.90% -47.16%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +47 785 £525 - 260
North of England +18 180 £498 +10.56% 117
Midlands +17 155 £500 +5.26% 74
West Midlands +22 120 £500 -4.76% 50
South East +14 116 £450 -12.20% 151
North West +14 99 £500 +7.53% 69
South West +17 83 £500 -4.76% 58
East of England -23 56 £575 -4.17% 48
Yorkshire -26 56 £495 +80.00% 36
East Midlands -15 36 £475 +15.92% 24
North East - 25 £475 - 14
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
1 117 (8.26%) Apache Spark
2 79 (5.58%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (3.88%) Apache
4 42 (2.97%) SAS
5 34 (2.40%) Confluence
5 34 (2.40%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.64%) Appian
7 6 (0.42%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.28%) CMS
8 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
9 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.071%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.071%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 124 (8.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 15 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 1 (0.071%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 46 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.85%) Loan IQ
2 12 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.71%) iTrent
4 8 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.56%) NEC Housing
4 8 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.42%) Finacle
5 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
5 6 (0.42%) SAP MDG
5 6 (0.42%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.42%) SystmOne
6 5 (0.35%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.35%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.28%) SAP PM
8 3 (0.21%) Actimize
8 3 (0.21%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 448 (31.64%) Azure
2 365 (25.78%) Power Platform
3 259 (18.29%) AWS
4 188 (13.28%) Azure Data Factory
5 128 (9.04%) GCP
6 113 (7.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 100 (7.06%) Snowflake
8 93 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
8 93 (6.57%) dbt
9 77 (5.44%) Amazon S3
10 72 (5.08%) GitHub
11 60 (4.24%) Collibra
11 60 (4.24%) Serverless
12 41 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (2.47%) Microsoft Purview
14 33 (2.33%) Power Automate
15 31 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
16 30 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
17 22 (1.55%) SaaS
18 20 (1.41%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.49%) Firewall
2 5 (0.35%) 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%) SSL
4 2 (0.14%) VoIP
5 1 (0.071%) 4G
5 1 (0.071%) 5G
5 1 (0.071%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 349 (24.65%) Power BI
2 261 (18.43%) Data Warehouse
3 203 (14.34%) Metadata
4 146 (10.31%) Data Lake
5 103 (7.27%) Tableau
6 99 (6.99%) SQL Server
7 77 (5.44%) Delta Lake
8 66 (4.66%) Azure SQL Database
9 65 (4.59%) BigQuery
10 54 (3.81%) Snowflake Schema
11 52 (3.67%) Big Data
11 52 (3.67%) NoSQL
12 48 (3.39%) Relational Database
13 47 (3.32%) Amazon Redshift
14 40 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 37 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
16 28 (1.98%) OLAP
16 28 (1.98%) Star Schema
17 27 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
18 26 (1.84%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 124 (8.76%) Git
2 101 (7.13%) JIRA
3 48 (3.39%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.41%) ERwin
5 19 (1.34%) GitLab
6 17 (1.20%) MLflow
7 14 (0.99%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.49%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.42%) 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%) SonarQube
General
1 460 (32.49%) Social Skills
2 419 (29.59%) Finance
3 336 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (11.09%) Public Sector
5 111 (7.84%) Banking
6 40 (2.82%) Marketing
7 39 (2.75%) Retail
8 38 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
9 32 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (1.91%) Legal
12 25 (1.77%) Local Government
13 22 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.41%) Law
14 20 (1.41%) Military
15 18 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (1.20%) Financial Institution
17 16 (1.13%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.92%) Investment Banking
18 13 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 390 (27.54%) Data Engineer
2 286 (20.20%) Analyst
3 173 (12.22%) Data Analyst
4 164 (11.58%) Senior
5 129 (9.11%) Architect
6 127 (8.97%) Lead
7 85 (6.00%) Business Analyst
8 77 (5.44%) Data Architect
9 72 (5.08%) Developer
10 68 (4.80%) Senior Data Engineer
11 53 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
12 44 (3.11%) Azure Data Engineer
12 44 (3.11%) Data Manager
13 42 (2.97%) Consultant
14 34 (2.40%) Data Business Analyst
15 26 (1.84%) Project Manager
16 24 (1.69%) Data Migration Lead
17 23 (1.62%) AWS Engineer
17 23 (1.62%) Data Scientist
18 22 (1.55%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (9.39%) PySpark
2 103 (7.27%) Kafka
3 44 (3.11%) Pandas
3 44 (3.11%) REST
4 31 (2.19%) Great Expectations
5 29 (2.05%) JSON
6 24 (1.69%) scikit-learn
7 19 (1.34%) NumPy
8 16 (1.13%) PyTorch
8 16 (1.13%) Web Services
9 15 (1.06%) Middleware
10 14 (0.99%) OAuth
11 13 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
11 13 (0.92%) pytest
11 13 (0.92%) TensorFlow
11 13 (0.92%) XML
12 12 (0.85%) YAML
13 11 (0.78%) .NET
13 11 (0.78%) Flask
13 11 (0.78%) GeoJSON
Miscellaneous
1 115 (8.12%) Data Structures
2 103 (7.27%) Legacy Systems
3 74 (5.23%) Cloud Native
4 68 (4.80%) Onboarding
5 63 (4.45%) Management Information System
6 55 (3.88%) Product Ownership
7 43 (3.04%) CMDB
8 31 (2.19%) Reference Data
9 27 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (1.48%) Clustering
10 21 (1.48%) NHS
10 21 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (1.06%) AI Agents
12 15 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (0.99%) Taxonomies
14 12 (0.85%) Fixed Income
15 11 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
15 11 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.85%) Linux
2 10 (0.71%) Unix
2 10 (0.71%) Windows
3 1 (0.071%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (44.28%) Data Modelling
2 544 (38.42%) Analytics
3 492 (34.75%) Data Governance
4 480 (33.90%) ETL
5 441 (31.14%) Business Intelligence
6 428 (30.23%) Data Pipeline
7 329 (23.23%) Data Engineering
8 324 (22.88%) Agile
9 311 (21.96%) Validation
10 309 (21.82%) Migration
11 299 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
12 273 (19.28%) CI/CD
13 272 (19.21%) Decision-Making
14 226 (15.96%) Data Architecture
15 221 (15.61%) AI
16 211 (14.90%) Data Migration
17 206 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
18 193 (13.63%) DevOps
19 182 (12.85%) Continuous Improvement
20 180 (12.71%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 715 (50.49%) SQL
2 444 (31.36%) Python
3 61 (4.31%) Scala
4 46 (3.25%) Java
5 45 (3.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 36 (2.54%) T-SQL
7 30 (2.12%) PL/SQL
8 27 (1.91%) C#
9 21 (1.48%) PowerShell
9 21 (1.48%) R
10 17 (1.20%) VBA
11 16 (1.13%) JavaScript
12 14 (0.99%) Bicep
13 10 (0.71%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.64%) 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
1 260 (18.36%) Security Cleared
2 198 (13.98%) SC Cleared
3 79 (5.58%) Degree
4 45 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.41%) Azure Certification
7 12 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 12 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.71%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.28%) ACCA
10 4 (0.28%) CIMA
10 4 (0.28%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.28%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.28%) PhD
10 4 (0.28%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.14%) AAT
11 2 (0.14%) CFA
11 2 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (8.33%) GDPR
2 86 (6.07%) QA
3 30 (2.12%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.69%) PMO
5 15 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.06%) SLA
6 13 (0.92%) Solvency II
7 9 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.64%) FINREP
8 8 (0.56%) IFRS
9 7 (0.49%) COREP
10 6 (0.42%) Basel III
10 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.35%) MiFID
12 4 (0.28%) BS7666
12 4 (0.28%) GRC
12 4 (0.28%) NIST
13 2 (0.14%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.14%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 68 (4.80%) Docker
2 7 (0.49%) 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
1 111 (7.84%) Terraform
2 75 (5.30%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.78%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.71%) Grafana
5 8 (0.56%) Ansible
6 6 (0.42%) Kibana
7 5 (0.35%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.35%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.28%) SCCM
9 3 (0.21%) logstash
10 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.071%) Control-M
11 1 (0.071%) Istio
11 1 (0.071%) Nessus
11 1 (0.071%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 263 (18.57%) Databricks
2 233 (16.45%) Microsoft
3 115 (8.12%) SAP
4 101 (7.13%) Oracle
5 68 (4.80%) Informatica
6 66 (4.66%) Salesforce
7 60 (4.24%) ServiceNow
8 53 (3.74%) Google
9 42 (2.97%) Talend
10 27 (1.91%) Denodo
11 16 (1.13%) Workday
12 13 (0.92%) GoldenSource
12 13 (0.92%) IBM
13 12 (0.85%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.78%) Avaloq
15 10 (0.71%) Sparx
16 9 (0.64%) Adobe
16 9 (0.64%) Automation Anywhere
16 9 (0.64%) ESRI
16 9 (0.64%) Palantir