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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 106 134
Rank change year-on-year +17 +28 +55
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 893 693 734
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.87% 2.26% 1.92%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.38% 16.50% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 470 512
10th Percentile £337 £308 £363
25th Percentile £413 £401 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £751 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £550
% change year-on-year -2.20% -7.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 20
10th Percentile - £21.25 £19.60
25th Percentile £18.25 £26.25 £26.22
Median hourly rate £23.75 £37.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -7.41% +153.13%
75th Percentile £40.91 £93.75 £54.12
90th Percentile £44.75 £97.50 £64.55
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £35.13 £40.50
% change year-on-year -11.74% -13.27% +128.17%

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 5,453 4,201 5,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.50% 13.69% 14.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,538 2,450 3,673
10th Percentile £313 £288 £323
25th Percentile £404 £393 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 175 222
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.36 £14.61
25th Percentile £17.69 £17.83 £20.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £35.98
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -16.61% +58.13%
75th Percentile £56.75 £63.75 £66.88
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £83.39
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £27.35 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.04% -22.96% +55.41%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025. 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 +19 518 £525 -5.62% 194
North of England -2 121 £463 +12.12% 64
Midlands +16 97 £515 +14.44% 54
North West -2 73 £456 +7.35% 34
South East +6 71 £469 -23.47% 171
West Midlands +9 70 £525 +7.58% 34
South West +6 42 £488 - 28
Yorkshire -7 40 £496 +32.27% 24
East Midlands +2 27 £439 +28.97% 20
East of England -28 16 £519 +22.06% 35
North East -2 9 £450 +81.82% 10
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 74 (8.29%) Apache Spark
2 57 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (4.03%) SAS
4 33 (3.70%) Apache
5 10 (1.12%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.90%) Oracle Application Server
7 6 (0.67%) Confluence
7 6 (0.67%) GeoServer
7 6 (0.67%) Smallworld
8 4 (0.45%) Luigi
9 3 (0.34%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 90 (10.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.12%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.45%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.11%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 31 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.67%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.56%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.45%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.45%) Loan IQ
7 4 (0.45%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
8 3 (0.34%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (0.34%) SAP MDG-M
8 3 (0.34%) SAP MDG-S
9 2 (0.22%) Actimize
9 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.22%) Maximo
9 2 (0.22%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 220 (24.64%) Azure
2 206 (23.07%) Power Platform
3 187 (20.94%) AWS
4 96 (10.75%) GCP
5 95 (10.64%) Snowflake
6 67 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 55 (6.16%) dbt
8 48 (5.38%) Amazon S3
9 40 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 40 (4.48%) Collibra
10 33 (3.70%) GitHub
11 31 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
12 26 (2.91%) Serverless
13 24 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
14 19 (2.13%) OCI
15 18 (2.02%) SaaS
16 14 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (1.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.45%) DNS
1 4 (0.45%) HTTP
2 2 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (0.22%) Internet
2 2 (0.22%) SSL
3 1 (0.11%) Broadband
3 1 (0.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (22.51%) Power BI
2 170 (19.04%) Data Warehouse
3 133 (14.89%) Metadata
4 72 (8.06%) Tableau
5 58 (6.49%) Data Lake
6 51 (5.71%) SQL Server
7 50 (5.60%) Relational Database
8 46 (5.15%) Big Data
9 40 (4.48%) Snowflake Schema
10 36 (4.03%) NoSQL
11 32 (3.58%) BigQuery
11 32 (3.58%) Pentaho
11 32 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
12 26 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 25 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
14 24 (2.69%) Delta Lake
14 24 (2.69%) Star Schema
15 23 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
16 21 (2.35%) Amazon QuickSight
17 20 (2.24%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 106 (11.87%) Git
2 60 (6.72%) JIRA
3 48 (5.38%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.13%) ERwin
5 15 (1.68%) PowerDesigner
6 12 (1.34%) ER Studio
7 8 (0.90%) DBeaver
8 4 (0.45%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.34%) GitLab
9 3 (0.34%) Vite
9 3 (0.34%) webpack
10 2 (0.22%) LSMW
10 2 (0.22%) MLflow
11 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.11%) Deequ
11 1 (0.11%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.11%) Selenium
11 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.11%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 332 (37.18%) Social Skills
2 286 (32.03%) Finance
3 226 (25.31%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (9.97%) Public Sector
5 79 (8.85%) Banking
6 39 (4.37%) Marketing
7 22 (2.46%) Legal
8 18 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (2.02%) Local Government
8 18 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
8 18 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.57%) Retail
10 14 (1.57%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.46%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.34%) Billing
13 11 (1.23%) Military
13 11 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 214 (23.96%) Analyst
2 192 (21.50%) Data Engineer
3 137 (15.34%) Data Analyst
4 86 (9.63%) Architect
4 86 (9.63%) Lead
5 85 (9.52%) Senior
6 67 (7.50%) Business Analyst
7 63 (7.05%) Developer
8 50 (5.60%) Data Architect
9 35 (3.92%) Senior Data Engineer
10 34 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
11 32 (3.58%) Consultant
12 30 (3.36%) Data Manager
13 29 (3.25%) Data Business Analyst
14 28 (3.14%) Azure Data Engineer
15 24 (2.69%) Data Modeller
16 20 (2.24%) Governance Analyst
17 17 (1.90%) Financial Analyst
17 17 (1.90%) Salesforce Architect
18 16 (1.79%) Data Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (6.16%) PySpark
2 50 (5.60%) Kafka
3 28 (3.14%) XML
4 22 (2.46%) REST
5 17 (1.90%) Lightning Web Components
6 14 (1.57%) Middleware
6 14 (1.57%) SOAP
7 13 (1.46%) Visualforce
8 11 (1.23%) Pandas
9 10 (1.12%) JSON
10 9 (1.01%) HTML
11 8 (0.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 7 (0.78%) Great Expectations
12 7 (0.78%) RESTful
12 7 (0.78%) YAML
13 6 (0.67%) .NET
13 6 (0.67%) Apache NiFi
13 6 (0.67%) CSS
13 6 (0.67%) NumPy
14 5 (0.56%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 77 (8.62%) Data Structures
2 46 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
3 32 (3.58%) Analytical Mindset
4 28 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 27 (3.02%) Cloud Native
6 26 (2.91%) Management Information System
7 22 (2.46%) Product Ownership
8 18 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (2.02%) Reference Data
9 16 (1.79%) CMDB
10 13 (1.46%) NHS
10 13 (1.46%) Replication
11 11 (1.23%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
11 11 (1.23%) Reinsurance
12 10 (1.12%) Derivative
13 9 (1.01%) Clustering
13 9 (1.01%) Fixed Income
14 8 (0.90%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.90%) Linux
2 4 (0.45%) Unix
3 2 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (41.21%) Data Modelling
2 341 (38.19%) Data Governance
3 319 (35.72%) Analytics
4 282 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
5 281 (31.47%) ETL
6 261 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
7 215 (24.08%) Data Pipeline
8 212 (23.74%) Agile
9 170 (19.04%) Data Engineering
10 169 (18.92%) Migration
11 151 (16.91%) CI/CD
12 146 (16.35%) Data Management
13 144 (16.13%) Validation
14 137 (15.34%) Decision-Making
15 130 (14.56%) Data Analysis
16 129 (14.45%) Data Migration
17 125 (14.00%) Data Integration
18 118 (13.21%) Data Architecture
19 117 (13.10%) Visualisation
20 109 (12.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 436 (48.82%) SQL
2 285 (31.91%) Python
3 36 (4.03%) Scala
4 34 (3.81%) Java
5 32 (3.58%) R
6 21 (2.35%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.90%) Apex Code
8 16 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (1.57%) C#
9 14 (1.57%) T-SQL
10 13 (1.46%) Bash
11 11 (1.23%) PL/SQL
12 8 (0.90%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.78%) C++
13 7 (0.78%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.78%) VBA
14 4 (0.45%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.34%) ABAP
15 3 (0.34%) Korn
15 3 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 124 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 87 (9.74%) SC Cleared
3 82 (9.18%) Degree
4 36 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.25%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.68%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.34%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.78%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.45%) CCAB
9 4 (0.45%) PhD
9 4 (0.45%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.45%) PMP
10 3 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.22%) ACCA
11 2 (0.22%) CIMA
11 2 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.11%) CFA
12 1 (0.11%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (9.07%) GDPR
2 56 (6.27%) QA
3 39 (4.37%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 11 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (1.12%) PMO
7 7 (0.78%) IFRS
8 6 (0.67%) Basel III
8 6 (0.67%) SLA
9 5 (0.56%) ISO 19650
10 4 (0.45%) MiFID
10 4 (0.45%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.34%) FINREP
11 3 (0.34%) GRC
11 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.34%) WCAG
12 2 (0.22%) CRD IV
12 2 (0.22%) EMIR
12 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 53 (5.94%) Docker
2 8 (0.90%) zsh
3 3 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 50 (5.60%) Kubernetes
2 38 (4.26%) Terraform
3 4 (0.45%) Control-M
3 4 (0.45%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
4 3 (0.34%) Oozie
5 1 (0.11%) Ansible
5 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 137 (15.34%) Databricks
2 118 (13.21%) Microsoft
3 89 (9.97%) Oracle
4 57 (6.38%) SAP
5 50 (5.60%) Informatica
6 48 (5.38%) Salesforce
7 47 (5.26%) Talend
8 42 (4.70%) Google
9 30 (3.36%) Denodo
10 24 (2.69%) ServiceNow
11 13 (1.46%) Sparx
12 11 (1.23%) Alteryx
13 10 (1.12%) Palantir
14 9 (1.01%) Adobe
15 7 (0.78%) Foundry
15 7 (0.78%) Workday
16 6 (0.67%) Bloomberg
16 6 (0.67%) ESRI
16 6 (0.67%) Guidewire
16 6 (0.67%) Intergraph