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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 98 114
Rank change year-on-year +52 +16 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,097 761 682
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.53% 2.72% 2.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.29% 15.50% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,331 490 459
10th Percentile £353 £335 £340
25th Percentile £425 £413 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% -7.73% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £713
90th Percentile £725 £750 £850
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 12 10
10th Percentile £16.07 £18.25 £21.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £27.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.74 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -14.24% +23.49%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.00 £86.06
90th Percentile £72.93 £77.38 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £40.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -25.46% +7.32% +6.19%

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 8,291 4,909 4,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.92% 17.54% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,166 3,190 2,458
10th Percentile £325 £300 £297
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.68% -4.86%
75th Percentile £616 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £715 £753
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.40% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 649 241 201
10th Percentile £13.98 £15.13 £12.36
25th Percentile £16.60 £17.69 £18.00
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -7.14% -9.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.40 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.27 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +0.90% +9.09% -22.68%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +49 1,144 £533 -3.18% 1,784
North of England +55 290 £463 - 495
Midlands +28 216 £465 -7.00% 264
South East +30 210 £500 +11.11% 389
West Midlands +28 171 £470 -10.05% 184
North West +28 147 £525 +16.67% 294
Yorkshire +35 117 £450 -10.00% 139
South West +28 116 £503 +5.89% 173
East of England +10 75 £472 -22.00% 148
East Midlands +9 44 £440 -1.57% 80
North East -17 27 £520 +18.86% 62
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
1 137 (6.53%) Apache Airflow
2 99 (4.72%) Apache Spark
3 83 (3.96%) Apache
4 64 (3.05%) Confluence
5 46 (2.19%) SAS
6 45 (2.15%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.62%) CMS
7 13 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.33%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.095%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.095%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.048%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.048%) Luigi
13 1 (0.048%) nginx
13 1 (0.048%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 159 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
4 15 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.095%) CATIA
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.048%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.048%) Trello
9 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 66 (3.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.76%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.72%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.57%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.52%) NEC Housing
7 10 (0.48%) SAP MDG
7 10 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 9 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
9 8 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.38%) SAP HR
10 7 (0.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 6 (0.29%) Maximo
11 6 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
12 5 (0.24%) SAP MM
12 5 (0.24%) Shopify
13 4 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 532 (25.37%) Azure
2 452 (21.55%) Power Platform
3 381 (18.17%) AWS
4 190 (9.06%) GCP
5 180 (8.58%) Snowflake
6 140 (6.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 138 (6.58%) dbt
8 108 (5.15%) Amazon S3
9 107 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
10 106 (5.05%) Serverless
11 86 (4.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 84 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
13 80 (3.81%) GitHub
14 71 (3.39%) Microsoft Purview
15 55 (2.62%) Collibra
16 51 (2.43%) SaaS
17 50 (2.38%) Power Automate
18 46 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
19 45 (2.15%) Azure Databricks
20 44 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.29%) Broadband
1 6 (0.29%) Firewall
1 6 (0.29%) SD-WAN
1 6 (0.29%) WAN
2 5 (0.24%) SNMP
2 5 (0.24%) Wireless
3 3 (0.14%) DNS
3 3 (0.14%) HTTP
3 3 (0.14%) Network Security
4 2 (0.095%) SSL
5 1 (0.048%) BGP
5 1 (0.048%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.048%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.048%) LAN
5 1 (0.048%) MPLS
5 1 (0.048%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.048%) OSPF
5 1 (0.048%) SMS
5 1 (0.048%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.048%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 423 (20.17%) Power BI
2 347 (16.55%) Metadata
3 330 (15.74%) Data Warehouse
4 179 (8.54%) Data Lake
5 114 (5.44%) Tableau
6 101 (4.82%) BigQuery
7 87 (4.15%) Delta Lake
8 86 (4.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 86 (4.10%) SQL Server
9 80 (3.81%) Relational Database
10 62 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
11 53 (2.53%) NoSQL
12 50 (2.38%) Power Query
13 42 (2.00%) Big Data
14 38 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
15 36 (1.72%) Looker
16 34 (1.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 31 (1.48%) Semantic Layer
17 31 (1.48%) Star Schema
18 28 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 135 (6.44%) Git
2 131 (6.25%) JIRA
3 32 (1.53%) GitLab
4 31 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 12 (0.57%) ERwin
6 11 (0.52%) Postman
7 9 (0.43%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.43%) ER Studio
7 9 (0.43%) MLflow
8 8 (0.38%) Selenium
8 8 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (0.33%) Newman
10 6 (0.29%) Ant
10 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.24%) RStudio
11 5 (0.24%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.19%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.19%) TestRail
12 4 (0.19%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 667 (31.81%) Social Skills
2 648 (30.90%) Finance
3 499 (23.80%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (12.54%) Public Sector
5 195 (9.30%) Banking
6 74 (3.53%) Retail
7 68 (3.24%) Manufacturing
8 54 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
9 52 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
10 51 (2.43%) Marketing
11 46 (2.19%) Local Government
11 46 (2.19%) Military
12 44 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
13 42 (2.00%) Legal
14 37 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 29 (1.38%) Front Office
16 25 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
17 24 (1.14%) Billing
17 24 (1.14%) Investment Banking
18 23 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 443 (21.13%) Analyst
2 434 (20.70%) Data Engineer
3 262 (12.49%) Senior
4 250 (11.92%) Lead
5 227 (10.82%) Data Analyst
6 226 (10.78%) Architect
7 146 (6.96%) Data Architect
8 123 (5.87%) Business Analyst
9 122 (5.82%) Senior Data Engineer
10 116 (5.53%) Developer
11 103 (4.91%) Consultant
12 74 (3.53%) Administrator
13 62 (2.96%) Data Manager
14 54 (2.58%) Data Business Analyst
14 54 (2.58%) Data Consultant
15 40 (1.91%) Databricks Engineer
15 40 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
16 38 (1.81%) Lead Data Engineer
17 35 (1.67%) AWS Engineer
18 34 (1.62%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (8.44%) PySpark
2 140 (6.68%) Terraform
3 78 (3.72%) Kafka
4 59 (2.81%) REST
5 40 (1.91%) JSON
6 36 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.19%) Web Services
8 23 (1.10%) Middleware
8 23 (1.10%) Pandas
8 23 (1.10%) XML
9 21 (1.00%) SOAP
10 19 (0.91%) Great Expectations
11 17 (0.81%) HTML
12 16 (0.76%) .NET
12 16 (0.76%) OAuth
13 15 (0.72%) OpenID
13 15 (0.72%) pytest
14 11 (0.52%) OAuth2
14 11 (0.52%) Playwright
14 11 (0.52%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 197 (9.39%) Data Structures
2 128 (6.10%) Onboarding
3 120 (5.72%) Cloud Native
4 106 (5.05%) Product Ownership
5 105 (5.01%) Management Information System
6 96 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
7 60 (2.86%) CMDB
8 47 (2.24%) Reference Data
9 46 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
10 43 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (1.86%) AI Agents
12 34 (1.62%) Taxonomies
13 27 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
14 26 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
15 23 (1.10%) Algorithms
15 23 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
16 22 (1.05%) NHS
17 20 (0.95%) Life Science
18 16 (0.76%) Clustering
19 15 (0.72%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.34%) Unix
2 20 (0.95%) Linux
3 11 (0.52%) Windows
4 1 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (39.77%) Data Modelling
2 768 (36.62%) Analytics
3 731 (34.86%) Data Governance
4 576 (27.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 574 (27.37%) Data Pipeline
6 570 (27.18%) Validation
7 534 (25.46%) Business Intelligence
8 519 (24.75%) ETL
9 498 (23.75%) Migration
10 487 (23.22%) Data Engineering
11 439 (20.93%) Agile
11 439 (20.93%) AI
12 416 (19.84%) Decision-Making
13 396 (18.88%) CI/CD
14 376 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
15 344 (16.40%) Continuous Improvement
16 324 (15.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 300 (14.31%) Data Architecture
18 292 (13.92%) Data Migration
19 281 (13.40%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 913 (43.54%) SQL
2 573 (27.32%) Python
3 65 (3.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 63 (3.00%) Java
5 41 (1.96%) PL/SQL
6 32 (1.53%) Shell Script
7 31 (1.48%) JavaScript
8 30 (1.43%) Scala
9 29 (1.38%) PowerShell
10 27 (1.29%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.24%) R
12 23 (1.10%) C#
13 19 (0.91%) Bash
14 16 (0.76%) Bicep
15 11 (0.52%) TypeScript
16 9 (0.43%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.38%) Korn
17 8 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.38%) SOQL
18 6 (0.29%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 341 (16.26%) Security Cleared
2 266 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 134 (6.39%) Degree
4 49 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (1.53%) DV Cleared
6 30 (1.43%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.29%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.10%) PMI Certification
10 20 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 20 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (0.91%) PMP
12 13 (0.62%) ACCA
12 13 (0.62%) CIMA
13 9 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.43%) CISSP
14 8 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.38%) CISM
15 7 (0.33%) CRISC
15 7 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (7.06%) QA
2 123 (5.87%) GDPR
3 42 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 39 (1.86%) PMO
5 22 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.00%) GRC
6 21 (1.00%) NIST
7 20 (0.95%) SLA
8 16 (0.76%) IFRS
9 15 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.67%) NCSC
11 10 (0.48%) Solvency II
12 9 (0.43%) Basel III
13 8 (0.38%) IFRS 17
14 7 (0.33%) COBIT
14 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.29%) IFRS 9
16 5 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 67 (3.20%) Docker
2 21 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.048%) HDFS
4 1 (0.048%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (3.15%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (0.67%) Grafana
4 13 (0.62%) Ansible
5 8 (0.38%) Control-M
5 8 (0.38%) Kibana
6 5 (0.24%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.19%) SCCM
8 3 (0.14%) logstash
9 2 (0.095%) Argo
9 2 (0.095%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.048%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.048%) Istio
10 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.048%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.048%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.048%) Puppet
10 1 (0.048%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 417 (19.89%) Microsoft
2 316 (15.07%) Databricks
3 154 (7.34%) SAP
4 148 (7.06%) Oracle
5 102 (4.86%) ServiceNow
6 83 (3.96%) Informatica
7 79 (3.77%) Google
8 67 (3.20%) Salesforce
9 35 (1.67%) Workday
10 27 (1.29%) Adobe
11 26 (1.24%) IBM
12 22 (1.05%) Alteryx
12 22 (1.05%) Palantir
13 21 (1.00%) Splunk
14 19 (0.91%) Denodo
15 18 (0.86%) Talend
16 16 (0.76%) Foundry
17 12 (0.57%) Ariba
17 12 (0.57%) Bloomberg
18 11 (0.52%) NEC