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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 112 114
Rank change year-on-year +51 +2 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,388 603 745
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.59% 2.47% 1.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.66% 16.00% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 952 426 514
10th Percentile £350 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £590 £625 £663
90th Percentile £677 £725 £771
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 19 33
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £13.81
25th Percentile £17.23 £22.99 £15.39
Median hourly rate £20.00 £31.64 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -36.79% +46.21% -3.76%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.73 £49.08
90th Percentile £83.40 £81.71 £60.15
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £31.64 £18.67
% change year-on-year -1.23% +69.52% -16.99%

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 6,717 3,769 5,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.40% 15.47% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,367 2,444 3,405
10th Percentile £340 £266 £306
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -3.10% -
75th Percentile £613 £629 £638
90th Percentile £713 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 398 155 338
10th Percentile £14.40 £17.45 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.18
Median hourly rate £28.55 £32.81 £21.38
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +53.48% -49.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.13 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £32.50 £20.80
% change year-on-year -5.91% +56.23% -47.99%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +49 781 £525 - 272
North of England -1 171 £494 +9.67% 142
Midlands +5 152 £500 +8.23% 89
West Midlands +15 120 £510 +7.14% 59
South East +14 109 £450 -13.96% 145
North West -1 93 £475 +4.40% 65
South West +23 75 £500 -1.23% 54
East of England -24 56 £575 -4.17% 42
Yorkshire -34 52 £500 +81.82% 63
East Midlands -15 33 £450 +9.82% 30
North East - 26 £500 - 16
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
1 120 (8.65%) Apache Spark
2 74 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (4.18%) Apache
4 47 (3.39%) SAS
5 32 (2.31%) Confluence
5 32 (2.31%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.65%) Appian
7 6 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.36%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.29%) CMS
10 3 (0.22%) Apache Synapse
10 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.22%) NetWeaver
10 3 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.072%) Jupyter
Applications
1 126 (9.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.37%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.22%) Trello
8 1 (0.072%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 47 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.86%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.58%) iTrent
4 8 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.50%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.43%) Finacle
6 6 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.43%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.43%) SAP MDG
6 6 (0.43%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.43%) SystmOne
7 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.29%) Actimize
8 4 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.29%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.29%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.22%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 440 (31.70%) Azure
2 365 (26.30%) Power Platform
3 263 (18.95%) AWS
4 183 (13.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 125 (9.01%) GCP
6 110 (7.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 106 (7.64%) Snowflake
8 95 (6.84%) dbt
9 87 (6.27%) Azure DevOps
10 77 (5.55%) Amazon S3
11 68 (4.90%) GitHub
12 60 (4.32%) Collibra
12 60 (4.32%) Serverless
13 41 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
14 35 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
15 32 (2.31%) Power Automate
16 29 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
17 25 (1.80%) SaaS
18 20 (1.44%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.36%) VPN
2 4 (0.29%) Firewall
3 2 (0.14%) Broadband
3 2 (0.14%) DNS
3 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.14%) SSL
3 2 (0.14%) VoIP
4 1 (0.072%) 4G
4 1 (0.072%) 5G
4 1 (0.072%) HTTP
4 1 (0.072%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 350 (25.22%) Power BI
2 259 (18.66%) Data Warehouse
3 196 (14.12%) Metadata
4 132 (9.51%) Data Lake
5 95 (6.84%) Tableau
6 92 (6.63%) SQL Server
7 73 (5.26%) Delta Lake
8 68 (4.90%) Azure SQL Database
9 56 (4.03%) BigQuery
10 54 (3.89%) Snowflake Schema
11 50 (3.60%) NoSQL
12 47 (3.39%) Big Data
13 43 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
13 43 (3.10%) Relational Database
14 41 (2.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 36 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
16 32 (2.31%) Pentaho
17 29 (2.09%) Star Schema
18 28 (2.02%) OLAP
18 28 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 134 (9.65%) Git
2 102 (7.35%) JIRA
3 57 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.37%) ERwin
4 19 (1.37%) GitLab
5 17 (1.22%) MLflow
6 12 (0.86%) PowerDesigner
7 6 (0.43%) Selenium
8 5 (0.36%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.36%) LSMW
8 5 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.22%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.22%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.22%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.14%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.14%) Postman
12 1 (0.072%) GCC
12 1 (0.072%) Hudson
General
1 459 (33.07%) Social Skills
2 406 (29.25%) Finance
3 327 (23.56%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (10.88%) Public Sector
5 110 (7.93%) Banking
6 45 (3.24%) Marketing
7 38 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
8 35 (2.52%) Retail
9 30 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (1.87%) Legal
12 21 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (1.44%) Law
14 18 (1.30%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.22%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.22%) Local Government
15 17 (1.22%) Military
15 17 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (1.15%) Publishing
16 16 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 387 (27.88%) Data Engineer
2 287 (20.68%) Analyst
3 179 (12.90%) Data Analyst
4 149 (10.73%) Senior
5 133 (9.58%) Lead
6 127 (9.15%) Architect
7 86 (6.20%) Business Analyst
8 78 (5.62%) Data Architect
9 69 (4.97%) Developer
10 61 (4.39%) Senior Data Engineer
11 52 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
12 42 (3.03%) Azure Data Engineer
12 42 (3.03%) Consultant
13 39 (2.81%) Data Business Analyst
14 38 (2.74%) Data Manager
15 25 (1.80%) Data Migration Lead
16 24 (1.73%) Data Modeller
16 24 (1.73%) Principal Engineer
17 23 (1.66%) Project Manager
17 23 (1.66%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (9.58%) PySpark
2 110 (7.93%) Kafka
3 45 (3.24%) Pandas
4 44 (3.17%) REST
5 27 (1.95%) Great Expectations
6 25 (1.80%) JSON
7 24 (1.73%) scikit-learn
8 22 (1.59%) NumPy
9 15 (1.08%) PyTorch
9 15 (1.08%) Web Services
10 13 (0.94%) Middleware
10 13 (0.94%) OAuth
10 13 (0.94%) pytest
10 13 (0.94%) TensorFlow
10 13 (0.94%) XML
11 11 (0.79%) Flask
11 11 (0.79%) GeoJSON
11 11 (0.79%) Matplotlib
12 10 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
12 10 (0.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 118 (8.50%) Data Structures
2 96 (6.92%) Legacy Systems
3 73 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 62 (4.47%) Management Information System
4 62 (4.47%) Onboarding
5 50 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 45 (3.24%) CMDB
7 32 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
7 32 (2.31%) Reference Data
8 22 (1.59%) NHS
9 20 (1.44%) Clustering
10 18 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.08%) Taxonomies
13 14 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (0.94%) AI Agents
15 12 (0.86%) Fixed Income
15 12 (0.86%) Reinsurance
16 11 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.65%) Linux
1 9 (0.65%) Unix
1 9 (0.65%) Windows
2 1 (0.072%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 625 (45.03%) Data Modelling
2 534 (38.47%) Analytics
3 492 (35.45%) Data Governance
4 482 (34.73%) ETL
5 454 (32.71%) Business Intelligence
6 417 (30.04%) Data Pipeline
7 320 (23.05%) Data Engineering
8 314 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
9 309 (22.26%) Agile
10 298 (21.47%) Validation
11 284 (20.46%) Migration
12 272 (19.60%) CI/CD
13 254 (18.30%) Decision-Making
14 229 (16.50%) Data Architecture
15 207 (14.91%) Stakeholder Management
16 206 (14.84%) AI
17 193 (13.90%) Data Migration
18 188 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
19 187 (13.47%) DevOps
20 183 (13.18%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 717 (51.66%) SQL
2 442 (31.84%) Python
3 61 (4.39%) Scala
4 44 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 40 (2.88%) Java
6 33 (2.38%) T-SQL
7 27 (1.95%) C#
7 27 (1.95%) PL/SQL
8 23 (1.66%) R
9 19 (1.37%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.22%) VBA
11 15 (1.08%) Bicep
11 15 (1.08%) JavaScript
12 9 (0.65%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.58%) Bash
14 4 (0.29%) ABAP
14 4 (0.29%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.29%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
14 4 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 258 (18.59%) Security Cleared
2 193 (13.90%) SC Cleared
3 75 (5.40%) Degree
4 43 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (1.30%) Azure Certification
7 13 (0.94%) DV Cleared
8 12 (0.86%) AWS Certification
8 12 (0.86%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.29%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.29%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.22%) ACCA
11 3 (0.22%) CIMA
11 3 (0.22%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.22%) PhD
12 2 (0.14%) AAT
12 2 (0.14%) CFA
12 2 (0.14%) PMP
12 2 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (8.50%) GDPR
2 87 (6.27%) QA
3 35 (2.52%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.73%) PMO
5 16 (1.15%) SLA
6 14 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.94%) Solvency II
8 10 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.65%) FINREP
10 8 (0.58%) IFRS
11 7 (0.50%) COREP
12 6 (0.43%) Basel III
12 6 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.36%) MiFID
14 4 (0.29%) GRC
15 3 (0.22%) BS7666
15 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.22%) NIST
16 2 (0.14%) FATCA
System Software
1 73 (5.26%) Docker
2 6 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.36%) etcd
4 1 (0.072%) HDFS
4 1 (0.072%) RACF
4 1 (0.072%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 107 (7.71%) Terraform
2 81 (5.84%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.72%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.58%) Grafana
5 5 (0.36%) Ansible
5 5 (0.36%) Fluentd
5 5 (0.36%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.29%) Kibana
6 4 (0.29%) SCCM
7 3 (0.22%) logstash
8 1 (0.072%) Control-M
8 1 (0.072%) Nessus
8 1 (0.072%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.072%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 264 (19.02%) Databricks
2 221 (15.92%) Microsoft
3 112 (8.07%) SAP
4 103 (7.42%) Oracle
5 73 (5.26%) Informatica
6 69 (4.97%) Salesforce
7 63 (4.54%) ServiceNow
8 58 (4.18%) Talend
9 51 (3.67%) Google
10 33 (2.38%) Denodo
11 13 (0.94%) GoldenSource
12 12 (0.86%) IBM
12 12 (0.86%) OpenAI
12 12 (0.86%) Workday
13 11 (0.79%) Palantir
14 10 (0.72%) Avaloq
15 9 (0.65%) Adobe
15 9 (0.65%) Automation Anywhere
15 9 (0.65%) Foundry
15 9 (0.65%) Sparx