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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 97 116
Rank change year-on-year +51 +19 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,086 762 676
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.48% 2.73% 2.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.08% 15.75% 15.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,339 494 458
10th Percentile £352 £332 £345
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% -6.59% -
75th Percentile £615 £638 £713
90th Percentile £700 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £550
% change year-on-year - -6.82% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 13 10
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.25 £21.25
25th Percentile £18.38 £21.20 £35.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £34.98 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% -20.50% +17.26%
75th Percentile £60.75 £44.75 £86.06
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.75 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +6.67% +5.25%

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 8,319 4,839 4,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.87% 17.32% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,211 3,153 2,475
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £717 £762
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.45% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 629 231 204
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.88 £17.13
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -5.70% -12.57%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.40 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.32 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.40 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.98% +9.09% -22.54%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +54 1,122 £525 -4.55% 1,851
North of England +46 289 £463 - 513
Midlands +26 222 £465 -7.00% 276
South East +32 211 £500 +8.40% 446
West Midlands +32 175 £470 -10.05% 190
North West +23 148 £525 +16.67% 309
South West +27 119 £500 +5.26% 188
Yorkshire +33 117 £450 -10.00% 145
East of England +11 75 £500 -17.22% 181
East Midlands +11 46 £450 +0.67% 86
North East -17 25 £520 +18.86% 60
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
1 133 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (4.46%) Apache Spark
3 77 (3.69%) Apache
4 65 (3.12%) Confluence
5 45 (2.16%) SAS
5 45 (2.16%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.62%) CMS
6 13 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
7 11 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.096%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.096%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.048%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.048%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.048%) Luigi
13 1 (0.048%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 157 (7.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
4 14 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.096%) CATIA
8 1 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.048%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.048%) Trello
8 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 67 (3.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.72%) Aladdin
3 15 (0.72%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.58%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.53%) NEC Housing
6 10 (0.48%) SAP MDG
6 10 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.38%) SAP HR
8 7 (0.34%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 7 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.29%) Maximo
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.24%) Shopify
11 4 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 4 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 530 (25.41%) Azure
2 448 (21.48%) Power Platform
3 373 (17.88%) AWS
4 184 (8.82%) GCP
5 175 (8.39%) Snowflake
6 149 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 141 (6.76%) dbt
8 110 (5.27%) Amazon S3
9 104 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
9 104 (4.99%) Serverless
10 93 (4.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 85 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
12 76 (3.64%) GitHub
13 73 (3.50%) Microsoft Purview
14 54 (2.59%) Collibra
15 51 (2.44%) Power Automate
16 49 (2.35%) SaaS
17 47 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
18 44 (2.11%) Azure Databricks
18 44 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.29%) Broadband
1 6 (0.29%) SD-WAN
1 6 (0.29%) WAN
2 5 (0.24%) Firewall
2 5 (0.24%) SNMP
2 5 (0.24%) Wireless
3 3 (0.14%) HTTP
4 2 (0.096%) DNS
4 2 (0.096%) Network Security
4 2 (0.096%) 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%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.048%) VLAN
5 1 (0.048%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 420 (20.13%) Power BI
2 342 (16.40%) Metadata
3 326 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
4 177 (8.49%) Data Lake
5 115 (5.51%) Tableau
6 99 (4.75%) BigQuery
7 86 (4.12%) SQL Server
8 84 (4.03%) Delta Lake
9 83 (3.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 78 (3.74%) Relational Database
11 67 (3.21%) Amazon Athena
12 51 (2.44%) NoSQL
13 47 (2.25%) Power Query
14 41 (1.97%) Big Data
15 38 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
16 36 (1.73%) Looker
17 34 (1.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 32 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
19 30 (1.44%) Star Schema
20 29 (1.39%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 132 (6.33%) Git
2 127 (6.09%) JIRA
3 31 (1.49%) GitLab
3 31 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.58%) ERwin
5 10 (0.48%) Postman
6 9 (0.43%) Eclipse
6 9 (0.43%) ER Studio
6 9 (0.43%) MLflow
6 9 (0.43%) Selenium
7 8 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (0.29%) Ant
8 6 (0.29%) Newman
8 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.24%) RStudio
9 5 (0.24%) Terragrunt
10 4 (0.19%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.19%) TestRail
10 4 (0.19%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 661 (31.69%) Social Skills
2 637 (30.54%) Finance
3 494 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
4 258 (12.37%) Public Sector
5 185 (8.87%) Banking
6 75 (3.60%) Retail
7 66 (3.16%) Manufacturing
8 54 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
9 52 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (2.49%) Marketing
10 47 (2.25%) Local Government
11 45 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
11 45 (2.16%) Military
12 43 (2.06%) Legal
13 36 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 24 (1.15%) Billing
14 24 (1.15%) Front Office
14 24 (1.15%) Law
14 24 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
14 24 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 441 (21.14%) Analyst
2 439 (21.05%) Data Engineer
3 260 (12.46%) Senior
4 245 (11.74%) Lead
5 230 (11.03%) Data Analyst
6 219 (10.50%) Architect
7 142 (6.81%) Data Architect
8 122 (5.85%) Senior Data Engineer
9 121 (5.80%) Business Analyst
10 117 (5.61%) Developer
11 89 (4.27%) Consultant
12 70 (3.36%) Administrator
13 63 (3.02%) Data Manager
14 52 (2.49%) Data Business Analyst
15 51 (2.44%) Data Consultant
16 42 (2.01%) Databricks Engineer
17 38 (1.82%) Senior Analyst
18 37 (1.77%) Lead Data Engineer
19 35 (1.68%) Databricks Data Engineer
20 34 (1.63%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (8.44%) PySpark
2 138 (6.62%) Terraform
3 73 (3.50%) Kafka
4 56 (2.68%) REST
5 42 (2.01%) JSON
6 34 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.20%) Web Services
8 24 (1.15%) XML
9 22 (1.05%) Pandas
10 21 (1.01%) Great Expectations
10 21 (1.01%) Middleware
10 21 (1.01%) SOAP
11 17 (0.81%) HTML
12 15 (0.72%) .NET
13 14 (0.67%) OAuth
13 14 (0.67%) pytest
14 13 (0.62%) OpenID
15 10 (0.48%) CSS
15 10 (0.48%) OAuth2
15 10 (0.48%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 189 (9.06%) Data Structures
2 131 (6.28%) Onboarding
3 119 (5.70%) Cloud Native
4 105 (5.03%) Product Ownership
5 102 (4.89%) Management Information System
6 98 (4.70%) Legacy Systems
7 58 (2.78%) CMDB
8 46 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
8 46 (2.21%) Reference Data
9 41 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
10 37 (1.77%) AI Agents
11 31 (1.49%) Taxonomies
12 27 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
12 27 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 23 (1.10%) NHS
14 22 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
15 21 (1.01%) Life Science
16 20 (0.96%) Algorithms
17 16 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
18 15 (0.72%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.34%) Unix
2 18 (0.86%) Linux
3 10 (0.48%) Windows
4 1 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 823 (39.45%) Data Modelling
2 765 (36.67%) Analytics
3 737 (35.33%) Data Governance
4 569 (27.28%) Data Pipeline
5 565 (27.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 559 (26.80%) Validation
7 532 (25.50%) Business Intelligence
8 515 (24.69%) ETL
9 498 (23.87%) Migration
10 481 (23.06%) Data Engineering
11 431 (20.66%) Agile
12 426 (20.42%) AI
13 415 (19.89%) Decision-Making
14 385 (18.46%) CI/CD
15 374 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
16 339 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
17 320 (15.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 298 (14.29%) Data Architecture
19 287 (13.76%) Data Migration
20 278 (13.33%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 904 (43.34%) SQL
2 561 (26.89%) Python
3 62 (2.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 60 (2.88%) Java
5 39 (1.87%) PL/SQL
6 34 (1.63%) Scala
7 32 (1.53%) T-SQL
8 31 (1.49%) Shell Script
9 28 (1.34%) JavaScript
9 28 (1.34%) PowerShell
10 23 (1.10%) R
11 21 (1.01%) C#
12 18 (0.86%) Bash
13 14 (0.67%) Bicep
14 9 (0.43%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.43%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.38%) Korn
15 8 (0.38%) SOQL
16 7 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.29%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 335 (16.06%) Security Cleared
2 262 (12.56%) SC Cleared
3 132 (6.33%) Degree
4 50 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.44%) Azure Certification
5 30 (1.44%) DV Cleared
6 25 (1.20%) AWS Certification
6 25 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.10%) PMI Certification
8 21 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 19 (0.91%) PMP
11 12 (0.58%) ACCA
11 12 (0.58%) CIMA
12 8 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.38%) CISSP
13 7 (0.34%) CIPD
13 7 (0.34%) CISM
14 6 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (7.05%) QA
2 125 (5.99%) GDPR
3 42 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 36 (1.73%) PMO
5 23 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.10%) SLA
6 20 (0.96%) GRC
6 20 (0.96%) NIST
7 16 (0.77%) IFRS
8 15 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
9 14 (0.67%) NCSC
10 10 (0.48%) Solvency II
11 9 (0.43%) Basel III
12 8 (0.38%) IFRS 17
13 7 (0.34%) COBIT
14 6 (0.29%) COREP
14 6 (0.29%) FINREP
14 6 (0.29%) IFRS 9
14 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 67 (3.21%) Docker
2 19 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.096%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.048%) HDFS
4 1 (0.048%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (3.12%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.67%) Grafana
2 14 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (0.53%) Ansible
4 8 (0.38%) Control-M
5 7 (0.34%) Kibana
6 4 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.19%) SCCM
7 3 (0.14%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.096%) logstash
9 1 (0.048%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.048%) Argo
9 1 (0.048%) Istio
9 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.048%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.048%) Puppet
9 1 (0.048%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 413 (19.80%) Microsoft
2 310 (14.86%) Databricks
3 158 (7.57%) SAP
4 143 (6.86%) Oracle
5 98 (4.70%) ServiceNow
6 82 (3.93%) Informatica
7 74 (3.55%) Google
8 68 (3.26%) Salesforce
9 38 (1.82%) Workday
10 27 (1.29%) Adobe
11 26 (1.25%) IBM
12 22 (1.05%) Alteryx
12 22 (1.05%) Palantir
13 21 (1.01%) Splunk
14 18 (0.86%) Denodo
14 18 (0.86%) Talend
15 16 (0.77%) Foundry
16 13 (0.62%) Bloomberg
17 12 (0.58%) Ariba
17 12 (0.58%) Teradata