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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 98 115
Rank change year-on-year +49 +17 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,896 718 668
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.16% 2.58% 2.01%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.94% 15.05% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,238 467 488
10th Percentile £352 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £713
90th Percentile £688 £747 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 20 8
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.16 £21.03
25th Percentile £21.10 £22.55 £23.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -27.68% +25.71%
75th Percentile £68.44 £43.60 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £56.25 £56.85
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £32.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +39.13% -38.19%

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 7,921 4,770 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.39% 17.14% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,070 3,117 2,768
10th Percentile £339 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.05%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 531 223 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.97
25th Percentile £19.11 £18.36 £14.41
Median hourly rate £38.72 £31.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.92% +14.55% -35.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.38 £62.56
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £27.59 £26.56
% change year-on-year +41.38% +3.86% -32.93%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +57 1,001 £525 - 633
North of England +37 244 £475 +5.56% 185
Midlands +29 238 £479 +0.84% 111
South East +15 198 £475 +2.70% 181
West Midlands +32 187 £477 -8.00% 84
North West +17 134 £500 +11.11% 101
South West +8 91 £500 +17.65% 83
Yorkshire +13 89 £455 +4.00% 57
East of England +19 87 £565 -6.15% 54
East Midlands +16 50 £481 +6.89% 27
North East -23 22 £520 -15.10% 29
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
1 108 (5.70%) Apache Airflow
2 95 (5.01%) Apache Spark
3 75 (3.96%) Apache
4 57 (3.01%) SAS
5 55 (2.90%) Confluence
6 37 (1.95%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
8 10 (0.53%) CMS
8 10 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.47%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.053%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.053%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.053%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.053%) Luigi
Applications
1 142 (7.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.053%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 65 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.53%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.53%) NEC Housing
5 9 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.42%) Sage X3
6 8 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 8 (0.42%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.37%) iTrent
7 7 (0.37%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.26%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.26%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.26%) Maximo
9 4 (0.21%) Finacle
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.21%) Shopify
9 4 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 496 (26.16%) Azure
2 417 (21.99%) Power Platform
3 329 (17.35%) AWS
4 155 (8.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 149 (7.86%) Snowflake
6 147 (7.75%) GCP
7 126 (6.65%) dbt
8 107 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
9 91 (4.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 89 (4.69%) Amazon S3
11 85 (4.48%) Serverless
12 74 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
12 74 (3.90%) GitHub
13 50 (2.64%) Collibra
14 49 (2.58%) Microsoft Purview
15 40 (2.11%) SaaS
16 39 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
16 39 (2.06%) Power Automate
17 34 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
18 28 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.47%) Firewall
2 5 (0.26%) VPN
3 3 (0.16%) HTTP
4 2 (0.11%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.11%) SNMP
4 2 (0.11%) SSL
4 2 (0.11%) WAN
4 2 (0.11%) Wireless
5 1 (0.053%) 4G
5 1 (0.053%) 5G
5 1 (0.053%) Broadband
5 1 (0.053%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.053%) DNS
5 1 (0.053%) SSH
5 1 (0.053%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 395 (20.83%) Power BI
2 320 (16.88%) Data Warehouse
3 254 (13.40%) Metadata
4 165 (8.70%) Data Lake
5 117 (6.17%) Tableau
6 92 (4.85%) SQL Server
7 84 (4.43%) BigQuery
8 80 (4.22%) Delta Lake
9 72 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 71 (3.74%) Relational Database
11 54 (2.85%) Amazon Athena
12 51 (2.69%) Big Data
13 46 (2.43%) NoSQL
14 43 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
15 38 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 36 (1.90%) Power Query
17 34 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
18 33 (1.74%) Looker
19 32 (1.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
19 32 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 123 (6.49%) JIRA
2 121 (6.38%) Git
3 51 (2.69%) Jenkins
4 36 (1.90%) GitLab
5 17 (0.90%) ERwin
6 12 (0.63%) ER Studio
7 9 (0.47%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.47%) MLflow
7 9 (0.47%) Postman
8 8 (0.42%) Selenium
9 7 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.32%) Ant
10 6 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.26%) Newman
11 5 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.21%) LSMW
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 4 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 584 (30.80%) Social Skills
2 571 (30.12%) Finance
3 453 (23.89%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (11.71%) Public Sector
5 147 (7.75%) Banking
6 57 (3.01%) Marketing
7 54 (2.85%) Retail
8 47 (2.48%) Manufacturing
9 45 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
10 43 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
11 36 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (1.90%) Local Government
12 34 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 29 (1.53%) Military
14 27 (1.42%) Legal
15 22 (1.16%) Law
15 22 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (1.05%) Financial Institution
17 19 (1.00%) Front Office
18 18 (0.95%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 432 (22.78%) Data Engineer
2 396 (20.89%) Analyst
3 224 (11.81%) Data Analyst
4 222 (11.71%) Senior
5 214 (11.29%) Lead
6 180 (9.49%) Architect
7 119 (6.28%) Data Architect
8 111 (5.85%) Business Analyst
9 105 (5.54%) Developer
10 94 (4.96%) Senior Data Engineer
11 66 (3.48%) Consultant
12 59 (3.11%) Data Manager
13 58 (3.06%) Administrator
14 45 (2.37%) Data Business Analyst
15 37 (1.95%) Data Consultant
16 33 (1.74%) Python Engineer
17 32 (1.69%) Lead Data Engineer
18 31 (1.64%) Azure Engineer
18 31 (1.64%) Data Migration Lead
19 30 (1.58%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (7.81%) PySpark
2 88 (4.64%) Kafka
3 47 (2.48%) REST
4 43 (2.27%) JSON
5 35 (1.85%) Pandas
6 31 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.32%) Great Expectations
8 21 (1.11%) Middleware
8 21 (1.11%) Web Services
9 20 (1.05%) XML
10 16 (0.84%) HTML
11 15 (0.79%) SOAP
12 14 (0.74%) .NET
13 12 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
13 12 (0.63%) scikit-learn
14 10 (0.53%) pytest
14 10 (0.53%) SailPoint
15 9 (0.47%) CSS
15 9 (0.47%) SAML
16 8 (0.42%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 168 (8.86%) Data Structures
2 111 (5.85%) Onboarding
3 100 (5.27%) Cloud Native
3 100 (5.27%) Legacy Systems
4 88 (4.64%) Product Ownership
5 72 (3.80%) Management Information System
6 53 (2.80%) CMDB
7 42 (2.22%) Reference Data
8 33 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 29 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 28 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 27 (1.42%) Taxonomies
12 24 (1.27%) NHS
12 24 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
13 23 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
14 22 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
15 16 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (0.79%) Clustering
16 15 (0.79%) Life Science
16 15 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.05%) Unix
2 19 (1.00%) Linux
3 12 (0.63%) Windows
4 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 760 (40.08%) Data Modelling
2 683 (36.02%) Analytics
3 649 (34.23%) Data Governance
4 546 (28.80%) Data Pipeline
5 539 (28.43%) ETL
6 505 (26.64%) Business Intelligence
7 478 (25.21%) Validation
8 453 (23.89%) Migration
9 415 (21.89%) Data Engineering
10 406 (21.41%) Agile
11 379 (19.99%) Stakeholder Management
12 362 (19.09%) Decision-Making
13 358 (18.88%) CI/CD
14 347 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
15 323 (17.04%) AI
16 295 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
17 288 (15.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 283 (14.93%) Data Migration
19 269 (14.19%) Data Architecture
20 252 (13.29%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 831 (43.83%) SQL
2 506 (26.69%) Python
3 63 (3.32%) Java
4 56 (2.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 38 (2.00%) Scala
6 36 (1.90%) PL/SQL
7 35 (1.85%) PowerShell
8 34 (1.79%) T-SQL
9 24 (1.27%) Shell Script
10 22 (1.16%) JavaScript
11 20 (1.05%) C#
12 18 (0.95%) VBA
13 15 (0.79%) R
14 13 (0.69%) Bicep
15 12 (0.63%) Bash
16 10 (0.53%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.47%) TypeScript
18 8 (0.42%) SOQL
19 6 (0.32%) Cypher
19 6 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 325 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 251 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 112 (5.91%) Degree
4 60 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (1.74%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 22 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (0.90%) Master's Degree
11 13 (0.69%) PMI Certification
12 9 (0.47%) PMP
13 8 (0.42%) ACCA
13 8 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.42%) CIMA
14 6 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.32%) SnowPro
15 5 (0.26%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (7.44%) QA
2 140 (7.38%) GDPR
3 33 (1.74%) PMO
4 31 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (0.79%) Solvency II
7 13 (0.69%) SLA
8 12 (0.63%) GRC
8 12 (0.63%) IFRS
9 11 (0.58%) NIST
9 11 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.53%) COREP
10 10 (0.53%) FINREP
11 8 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.37%) NCSC
13 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.21%) BS7666
14 4 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.21%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 84 (4.43%) Docker
2 20 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.26%) etcd
4 1 (0.053%) HDFS
4 1 (0.053%) RACF
4 1 (0.053%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 123 (6.49%) Terraform
2 90 (4.75%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.69%) Grafana
4 11 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.53%) Ansible
6 9 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.26%) Control-M
7 5 (0.26%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.21%) Kibana
8 4 (0.21%) SCCM
9 1 (0.053%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.053%) Istio
9 1 (0.053%) logstash
9 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.053%) Nessus
9 1 (0.053%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.053%) Puppet
9 1 (0.053%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.053%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 315 (16.61%) Microsoft
2 273 (14.40%) Databricks
3 160 (8.44%) SAP
4 137 (7.23%) Oracle
5 80 (4.22%) Informatica
6 77 (4.06%) Salesforce
6 77 (4.06%) ServiceNow
7 52 (2.74%) Google
8 34 (1.79%) Talend
9 29 (1.53%) Workday
10 26 (1.37%) Denodo
11 24 (1.27%) Adobe
12 21 (1.11%) Palantir
13 20 (1.05%) IBM
14 19 (1.00%) Alteryx
14 19 (1.00%) Splunk
15 17 (0.90%) Foundry
16 13 (0.69%) Sage
17 12 (0.63%) Bloomberg
17 12 (0.63%) GoldenSource