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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 106 114
Rank change year-on-year +56 +8 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,871 690 688
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.15% 2.50% 2.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.91% 14.64% 15.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,221 450 494
10th Percentile £351 £342 £345
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% -6.14% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £713
90th Percentile £688 £746 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.58% -6.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 18 9
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.08 £21.10
25th Percentile £21.08 £21.65 £24.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% -15.63% +13.64%
75th Percentile £65.31 £34.85 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £61.24 £55.15
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £24.00
% change year-on-year +26.42% +31.83% -31.43%

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 7,825 4,714 4,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.34% 17.07% 13.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,014 3,082 2,801
10th Percentile £340 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £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 530 215 282
10th Percentile £14.42 £15.12 £10.96
25th Percentile £19.47 £18.21 £14.41
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +9.09% -34.16%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.38 £62.54
90th Percentile £81.94 £85.55 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.93 £25.77
% change year-on-year +48.56% +4.50% -34.64%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +66 992 £525 -1.41% 697
North of England +32 240 £475 +5.56% 189
Midlands +36 231 £484 +4.70% 136
South East +26 188 £463 -1.07% 196
West Midlands +33 183 £482 -10.49% 104
North West +10 131 £495 +7.61% 111
South West +10 95 £500 +17.65% 85
Yorkshire +8 88 £455 +4.00% 51
East of England +15 87 £565 -6.46% 60
East Midlands +13 47 £484 +7.61% 32
North East -21 22 £523 -14.69% 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
1 104 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (5.02%) Apache Spark
3 77 (4.12%) Apache
4 56 (2.99%) SAS
5 55 (2.94%) Confluence
6 35 (1.87%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.53%) CMS
7 10 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
7 10 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
8 9 (0.48%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.11%) Appian
10 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.053%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.053%) Luigi
11 1 (0.053%) Mendix
Applications
1 142 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.11%) CATIA
8 1 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 67 (3.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.64%) NEC Housing
3 12 (0.64%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.48%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.48%) Sage X3
5 8 (0.43%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.37%) iTrent
6 7 (0.37%) SAP MDG
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.27%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.27%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.27%) Maximo
9 4 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.21%) Finacle
9 4 (0.21%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.21%) Shopify
9 4 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 495 (26.46%) Azure
2 416 (22.23%) Power Platform
3 321 (17.16%) AWS
4 158 (8.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 148 (7.91%) GCP
6 145 (7.75%) Snowflake
7 123 (6.57%) dbt
8 106 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
9 92 (4.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 88 (4.70%) Amazon S3
11 82 (4.38%) Serverless
12 76 (4.06%) GitHub
13 71 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (2.78%) Collibra
15 45 (2.41%) Microsoft Purview
16 40 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
17 38 (2.03%) SaaS
18 37 (1.98%) Power Automate
19 34 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
20 25 (1.34%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.48%) Firewall
2 5 (0.27%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) HTTP
3 2 (0.11%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.11%) SNMP
3 2 (0.11%) WAN
3 2 (0.11%) Wireless
4 1 (0.053%) 4G
4 1 (0.053%) 5G
4 1 (0.053%) Broadband
4 1 (0.053%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.053%) DNS
4 1 (0.053%) SSH
4 1 (0.053%) SSL
4 1 (0.053%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 393 (21.00%) Power BI
2 311 (16.62%) Data Warehouse
3 241 (12.88%) Metadata
4 162 (8.66%) Data Lake
5 118 (6.31%) Tableau
6 88 (4.70%) SQL Server
7 85 (4.54%) BigQuery
8 80 (4.28%) Delta Lake
9 69 (3.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 67 (3.58%) Relational Database
11 55 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
12 51 (2.73%) Big Data
13 42 (2.24%) NoSQL
13 42 (2.24%) Snowflake Schema
14 39 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 37 (1.98%) Power Query
16 33 (1.76%) Looker
17 31 (1.66%) Star Schema
18 30 (1.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 30 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 122 (6.52%) JIRA
2 116 (6.20%) Git
3 51 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.87%) GitLab
5 19 (1.02%) ERwin
6 12 (0.64%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.53%) MLflow
8 9 (0.48%) Eclipse
8 9 (0.48%) Postman
9 8 (0.43%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.37%) Selenium
10 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.32%) Ant
11 6 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.27%) Newman
12 5 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
13 4 (0.21%) LSMW
13 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.21%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 4 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 567 (30.30%) Finance
2 562 (30.04%) Social Skills
3 451 (24.10%) Analytical Skills
4 210 (11.22%) Public Sector
5 147 (7.86%) Banking
6 55 (2.94%) Marketing
7 54 (2.89%) Retail
8 48 (2.57%) Manufacturing
9 43 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
10 42 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 32 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
13 31 (1.66%) Local Government
14 28 (1.50%) Military
15 27 (1.44%) Legal
16 20 (1.07%) Financial Institution
16 20 (1.07%) Law
17 19 (1.02%) Front Office
17 19 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 431 (23.04%) Data Engineer
2 389 (20.79%) Analyst
3 218 (11.65%) Data Analyst
4 215 (11.49%) Senior
5 207 (11.06%) Lead
6 175 (9.35%) Architect
7 114 (6.09%) Data Architect
8 111 (5.93%) Business Analyst
9 105 (5.61%) Developer
10 91 (4.86%) Senior Data Engineer
11 69 (3.69%) Consultant
12 58 (3.10%) Data Manager
13 51 (2.73%) Administrator
14 45 (2.41%) Data Business Analyst
15 36 (1.92%) Data Consultant
16 32 (1.71%) Python Engineer
17 31 (1.66%) Azure Engineer
17 31 (1.66%) Lead Data Engineer
17 31 (1.66%) Project Manager
17 31 (1.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (7.70%) PySpark
2 89 (4.76%) Kafka
3 46 (2.46%) REST
4 43 (2.30%) JSON
5 39 (2.08%) Pandas
6 26 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.34%) Great Expectations
8 22 (1.18%) Web Services
9 21 (1.12%) Middleware
10 20 (1.07%) XML
11 16 (0.86%) HTML
11 16 (0.86%) scikit-learn
12 14 (0.75%) SOAP
13 13 (0.69%) .NET
13 13 (0.69%) GeoJSON
13 13 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
14 10 (0.53%) Apache Beam
14 10 (0.53%) Matplotlib
14 10 (0.53%) SailPoint
15 9 (0.48%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 166 (8.87%) Data Structures
2 106 (5.67%) Onboarding
3 103 (5.51%) Legacy Systems
4 100 (5.34%) Cloud Native
5 83 (4.44%) Product Ownership
6 68 (3.63%) Management Information System
7 52 (2.78%) CMDB
8 42 (2.24%) Reference Data
9 33 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.60%) AI Agents
10 30 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 25 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
11 25 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.34%) Taxonomies
12 23 (1.23%) NHS
13 21 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (0.91%) Clustering
15 15 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (0.80%) Life Science
15 15 (0.80%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.02%) Unix
2 18 (0.96%) Linux
3 11 (0.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 739 (39.50%) Data Modelling
2 678 (36.24%) Analytics
3 635 (33.94%) Data Governance
4 543 (29.02%) Data Pipeline
5 529 (28.27%) ETL
6 507 (27.10%) Business Intelligence
7 468 (25.01%) Validation
8 439 (23.46%) Migration
9 405 (21.65%) Data Engineering
10 396 (21.17%) Agile
11 356 (19.03%) Stakeholder Management
12 353 (18.87%) Decision-Making
13 348 (18.60%) CI/CD
14 337 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
15 317 (16.94%) AI
16 281 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
16 281 (15.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 276 (14.75%) Data Migration
18 263 (14.06%) Data Architecture
19 249 (13.31%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 828 (44.25%) SQL
2 511 (27.31%) Python
3 64 (3.42%) Java
4 56 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 39 (2.08%) Scala
6 36 (1.92%) PL/SQL
7 35 (1.87%) T-SQL
8 34 (1.82%) PowerShell
9 24 (1.28%) Shell Script
10 20 (1.07%) C#
11 19 (1.02%) JavaScript
11 19 (1.02%) VBA
12 16 (0.86%) R
13 13 (0.69%) Bicep
14 12 (0.64%) Bash
15 10 (0.53%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.48%) TypeScript
17 8 (0.43%) SOQL
18 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
18 6 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 316 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 241 (12.88%) SC Cleared
3 111 (5.93%) Degree
4 59 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (1.71%) Azure Certification
6 26 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.23%) DV Cleared
8 18 (0.96%) Master's Degree
8 18 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (0.91%) AWS Certification
10 13 (0.69%) PMI Certification
11 9 (0.48%) PMP
12 8 (0.43%) ACCA
12 8 (0.43%) CIMA
13 6 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.32%) SnowPro
14 5 (0.27%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.27%) PhD
15 4 (0.21%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (7.43%) GDPR
2 135 (7.22%) QA
3 33 (1.76%) Accessibility
3 33 (1.76%) PMO
4 23 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (0.86%) Solvency II
6 12 (0.64%) IFRS
6 12 (0.64%) NIST
6 12 (0.64%) SLA
7 10 (0.53%) COREP
7 10 (0.53%) FINREP
7 10 (0.53%) GRC
7 10 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.37%) NCSC
10 5 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 4 (0.21%) BS7666
11 4 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.21%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 83 (4.44%) Docker
2 20 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.27%) etcd
4 1 (0.053%) HDFS
4 1 (0.053%) RACF
4 1 (0.053%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 121 (6.47%) Terraform
2 89 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.69%) Grafana
4 11 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.48%) Ansible
5 9 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.27%) Control-M
6 5 (0.27%) Fluentd
6 5 (0.27%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.21%) Kibana
7 4 (0.21%) SCCM
8 1 (0.053%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.053%) Istio
8 1 (0.053%) logstash
8 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.053%) Nessus
8 1 (0.053%) Nexpose
8 1 (0.053%) Puppet
8 1 (0.053%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.053%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 304 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 273 (14.59%) Databricks
3 161 (8.61%) SAP
4 131 (7.00%) Oracle
5 81 (4.33%) Informatica
6 76 (4.06%) Salesforce
7 74 (3.96%) ServiceNow
8 52 (2.78%) Google
9 35 (1.87%) Talend
10 29 (1.55%) Workday
11 25 (1.34%) Denodo
12 24 (1.28%) Adobe
13 21 (1.12%) Palantir
14 20 (1.07%) IBM
15 19 (1.02%) Alteryx
16 18 (0.96%) Splunk
17 17 (0.91%) Foundry
18 14 (0.75%) Sage
19 13 (0.69%) NEC
20 12 (0.64%) Bloomberg