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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 113 117
Rank change year-on-year +47 +4 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,299 611 768
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.51% 2.50% 2.03%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.13% 16.21% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 427 514
10th Percentile £344 £312 £354
25th Percentile £413 £400 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year - -6.76% +2.14%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £688 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 36
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £13.93
25th Percentile £17.73 £23.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £19.38 £31.64 £22.82
Median % change year-on-year -38.76% +38.65% +1.49%
75th Percentile £54.88 £37.19 £44.15
90th Percentile £80.60 £93.75 £57.75
UK median hourly rate £30.49 £31.64 £20.47
% change year-on-year -3.63% +54.57% -8.96%

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 6,453 3,770 5,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.44% 15.41% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,183 2,405 3,474
10th Percentile £340 £263 £303
25th Percentile £413 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £608 £635 £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 374 161 340
10th Percentile £15.60 £17.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.35 £22.14 £13.67
Median hourly rate £26.11 £32.50 £24.47
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +32.84% -41.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £79.60 £78.40 £67.39
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £31.88 £23.09
% change year-on-year -12.36% +38.07% -39.24%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +44 746 £525 - 268
North of England -9 154 £492 +11.25% 132
Midlands +5 141 £500 +7.53% 80
West Midlands +11 113 £513 +5.07% 58
South East +12 108 £438 -15.50% 169
North West 0 82 £475 +4.97% 58
South West +17 64 £500 -4.76% 54
Yorkshire -40 46 £500 +81.82% 59
East of England -28 41 £565 -5.83% 28
East Midlands -22 29 £447 +9.09% 22
North East - 26 £500 - 18
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 (9.01%) Apache Spark
2 68 (5.23%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (4.16%) Apache
4 42 (3.23%) SAS
5 30 (2.31%) Confluence
5 30 (2.31%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.69%) Appian
7 8 (0.62%) GeoServer
7 8 (0.62%) Smallworld
8 6 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
10 4 (0.31%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.31%) CMS
11 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.23%) NetWeaver
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.077%) Jupyter
Applications
1 118 (9.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.23%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.23%) Trello
8 1 (0.077%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 40 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.92%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.54%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.46%) Finacle
6 6 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.46%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.46%) SAP MDG
6 6 (0.46%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.38%) SystmOne
8 4 (0.31%) Actimize
8 4 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.31%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.23%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 418 (32.18%) Azure
2 348 (26.79%) Power Platform
3 252 (19.40%) AWS
4 170 (13.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 118 (9.08%) GCP
6 109 (8.39%) Snowflake
7 101 (7.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 81 (6.24%) Azure DevOps
8 81 (6.24%) dbt
9 68 (5.23%) Amazon S3
10 62 (4.77%) GitHub
11 57 (4.39%) Collibra
11 57 (4.39%) Serverless
12 38 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
13 33 (2.54%) Microsoft Purview
14 29 (2.23%) Power Automate
15 27 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
16 25 (1.92%) SaaS
17 20 (1.54%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.38%) VPN
2 4 (0.31%) Firewall
3 2 (0.15%) Broadband
3 2 (0.15%) DNS
3 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.15%) SSL
3 2 (0.15%) VoIP
4 1 (0.077%) 4G
4 1 (0.077%) 5G
4 1 (0.077%) HTTP
4 1 (0.077%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (25.79%) Power BI
2 253 (19.48%) Data Warehouse
3 187 (14.40%) Metadata
4 126 (9.70%) Data Lake
5 87 (6.70%) SQL Server
6 86 (6.62%) Tableau
7 69 (5.31%) Delta Lake
8 66 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 54 (4.16%) BigQuery
10 52 (4.00%) Big Data
10 52 (4.00%) NoSQL
11 50 (3.85%) Relational Database
12 48 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
13 40 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
14 39 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 29 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
15 29 (2.23%) Pentaho
15 29 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
16 27 (2.08%) Star Schema
17 26 (2.00%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 127 (9.78%) Git
2 89 (6.85%) JIRA
3 51 (3.93%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.62%) ERwin
5 16 (1.23%) MLflow
6 15 (1.15%) GitLab
7 14 (1.08%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.54%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.31%) DBeaver
10 4 (0.31%) LSMW
11 3 (0.23%) Selenium
11 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.15%) Postman
12 2 (0.15%) Zephyr
13 1 (0.077%) Deequ
13 1 (0.077%) Hudson
13 1 (0.077%) REST Assured
General
1 429 (33.03%) Social Skills
2 387 (29.79%) Finance
3 306 (23.56%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (11.39%) Public Sector
5 104 (8.01%) Banking
6 43 (3.31%) Marketing
7 34 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (2.54%) Retail
9 27 (2.08%) Legal
10 26 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (1.54%) Publishing
13 19 (1.46%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.23%) Local Government
14 16 (1.23%) Telecoms
15 15 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.15%) Law
15 15 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (1.08%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 357 (27.48%) Data Engineer
2 270 (20.79%) Analyst
3 167 (12.86%) Data Analyst
4 139 (10.70%) Senior
5 130 (10.01%) Architect
6 129 (9.93%) Lead
7 79 (6.08%) Business Analyst
8 78 (6.00%) Data Architect
9 64 (4.93%) Developer
10 59 (4.54%) Senior Data Engineer
11 51 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
12 42 (3.23%) Azure Data Engineer
13 41 (3.16%) Consultant
14 38 (2.93%) Data Business Analyst
15 29 (2.23%) Data Manager
16 26 (2.00%) Data Modeller
17 24 (1.85%) Project Manager
17 24 (1.85%) Senior Analyst
18 23 (1.77%) Principal Engineer
19 20 (1.54%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (9.47%) PySpark
2 101 (7.78%) Kafka
3 39 (3.00%) Pandas
4 38 (2.93%) REST
5 22 (1.69%) Great Expectations
5 22 (1.69%) NumPy
5 22 (1.69%) scikit-learn
6 16 (1.23%) JSON
7 15 (1.15%) Web Services
8 13 (1.00%) OAuth
8 13 (1.00%) PyTorch
8 13 (1.00%) TensorFlow
9 12 (0.92%) Middleware
9 12 (0.92%) pytest
9 12 (0.92%) XML
10 11 (0.85%) Flask
10 11 (0.85%) GeoJSON
10 11 (0.85%) Matplotlib
11 10 (0.77%) RESTful
11 10 (0.77%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 111 (8.55%) Data Structures
2 98 (7.54%) Legacy Systems
3 66 (5.08%) Cloud Native
4 56 (4.31%) Management Information System
5 51 (3.93%) Onboarding
6 45 (3.46%) Product Ownership
7 40 (3.08%) CMDB
8 37 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 27 (2.08%) Reference Data
10 21 (1.62%) NHS
11 18 (1.39%) Clustering
11 18 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.15%) Replication
13 15 (1.15%) Taxonomies
14 13 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.92%) Fixed Income
15 12 (0.92%) Reinsurance
16 10 (0.77%) AI Agents
17 9 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.69%) Linux
1 9 (0.69%) Unix
2 7 (0.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.077%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 583 (44.88%) Data Modelling
2 505 (38.88%) Analytics
3 457 (35.18%) Data Governance
4 447 (34.41%) ETL
5 434 (33.41%) Business Intelligence
6 373 (28.71%) Data Pipeline
7 303 (23.33%) Data Engineering
8 295 (22.71%) Agile
9 285 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
10 274 (21.09%) Migration
11 260 (20.02%) Validation
12 248 (19.09%) CI/CD
13 233 (17.94%) Decision-Making
14 218 (16.78%) Data Architecture
15 191 (14.70%) AI
16 189 (14.55%) Data Migration
17 179 (13.78%) DevOps
17 179 (13.78%) Stakeholder Management
18 173 (13.32%) Data Integration
19 169 (13.01%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 679 (52.27%) SQL
2 425 (32.72%) Python
3 60 (4.62%) Scala
4 40 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 39 (3.00%) Java
6 26 (2.00%) T-SQL
7 24 (1.85%) C#
7 24 (1.85%) PL/SQL
8 23 (1.77%) R
9 15 (1.15%) Bicep
9 15 (1.15%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.08%) JavaScript
10 14 (1.08%) VBA
11 13 (1.00%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.54%) Bash
13 5 (0.38%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.31%) ABAP
14 4 (0.31%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.31%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 240 (18.48%) Security Cleared
2 178 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 76 (5.85%) Degree
4 41 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.31%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.31%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.08%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.00%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.23%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.23%) PhD
10 3 (0.23%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.15%) AAT
11 2 (0.15%) ACCA
11 2 (0.15%) CFA
11 2 (0.15%) CIMA
11 2 (0.15%) PMP
11 2 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (8.93%) GDPR
2 83 (6.39%) QA
3 38 (2.93%) Accessibility
4 23 (1.77%) PMO
5 12 (0.92%) SLA
5 12 (0.92%) Solvency II
6 11 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 7 (0.54%) Basel III
9 7 (0.54%) IFRS
10 5 (0.38%) FINREP
10 5 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.31%) MiFID
12 3 (0.23%) COREP
12 3 (0.23%) GRC
12 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.23%) NIST
13 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.15%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 69 (5.31%) Docker
2 6 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.31%) etcd
4 1 (0.077%) HDFS
4 1 (0.077%) RACF
4 1 (0.077%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.077%) zsh
Systems Management
1 96 (7.39%) Terraform
2 74 (5.70%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.31%) Fluentd
4 4 (0.31%) Kibana
4 4 (0.31%) SCCM
5 3 (0.23%) Ansible
5 3 (0.23%) Grafana
5 3 (0.23%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.23%) logstash
6 1 (0.077%) Nessus
6 1 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 249 (19.17%) Databricks
2 202 (15.55%) Microsoft
3 96 (7.39%) SAP
4 91 (7.01%) Oracle
5 71 (5.47%) Informatica
6 64 (4.93%) Salesforce
7 58 (4.46%) ServiceNow
8 52 (4.00%) Talend
9 50 (3.85%) Google
10 30 (2.31%) Denodo
11 13 (1.00%) ESRI
12 12 (0.92%) OpenAI
12 12 (0.92%) Workday
13 11 (0.85%) Palantir
14 10 (0.77%) Avaloq
14 10 (0.77%) GoldenSource
14 10 (0.77%) IBM
15 9 (0.69%) Automation Anywhere
15 9 (0.69%) Sparx
16 8 (0.62%) UiPath