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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 95 116
Rank change year-on-year +49 +21 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,078 761 683
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.49% 2.71% 2.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.17% 15.56% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,322 494 458
10th Percentile £353 £334 £344
25th Percentile £425 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £713
90th Percentile £713 £750 £850
UK median daily rate £515 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +0.49% -6.82% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 13 10
10th Percentile £16.07 £18.25 £21.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.20 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £34.98 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.35% -20.50% +17.26%
75th Percentile £60.75 £44.75 £86.06
90th Percentile £72.93 £74.75 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £30.27 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.33% +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 8,256 4,892 4,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.82% 17.42% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,149 3,187 2,474
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 £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £714 £756
UK median daily rate £509 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.80% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 635 236 204
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.96 £17.59
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -5.70% -12.97%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.15 £81.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.40 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.98% +9.09% -22.82%

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 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 4 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 4 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 1,121 £525 -4.55% 1,917
North of England +44 289 £463 - 590
Midlands +33 221 £465 -7.00% 289
South East +32 211 £500 +8.70% 471
West Midlands +23 175 £465 -11.00% 184
North West +27 149 £525 +16.67% 343
Yorkshire +35 116 £450 -10.00% 174
South West +30 116 £503 +5.89% 218
East of England +18 73 £502 -17.04% 214
East Midlands +15 45 £450 +0.67% 105
North East -19 25 £520 +18.86% 76
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
1 135 (6.50%) Apache Airflow
2 95 (4.57%) Apache Spark
3 80 (3.85%) Apache
4 66 (3.18%) Confluence
5 46 (2.21%) SAS
5 46 (2.21%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.63%) CMS
6 13 (0.63%) 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%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.048%) Luigi
13 1 (0.048%) nginx
13 1 (0.048%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 158 (7.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
4 15 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.096%) 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 65 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.96%) 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%) SAP MM
10 5 (0.24%) Shopify
11 4 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 528 (25.41%) Azure
2 448 (21.56%) Power Platform
3 372 (17.90%) AWS
4 188 (9.05%) GCP
5 178 (8.57%) Snowflake
6 143 (6.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 137 (6.59%) dbt
8 107 (5.15%) Amazon S3
9 105 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
10 104 (5.00%) Serverless
11 87 (4.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 84 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
13 78 (3.75%) GitHub
14 72 (3.46%) Microsoft Purview
15 56 (2.69%) Collibra
16 51 (2.45%) SaaS
17 49 (2.36%) Power Automate
18 47 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
19 44 (2.12%) Azure Databricks
19 44 (2.12%) 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 (0.096%) SSL
5 1 (0.048%) BGP
5 1 (0.048%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.048%) LAN
5 1 (0.048%) MPLS
5 1 (0.048%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.048%) OSPF
5 1 (0.048%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.048%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.048%) VLAN
5 1 (0.048%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 421 (20.26%) Power BI
2 343 (16.51%) Metadata
3 326 (15.69%) Data Warehouse
4 178 (8.57%) Data Lake
5 117 (5.63%) Tableau
6 101 (4.86%) BigQuery
7 86 (4.14%) Delta Lake
8 85 (4.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 83 (3.99%) SQL Server
10 79 (3.80%) Relational Database
11 63 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
12 50 (2.41%) NoSQL
13 47 (2.26%) Power Query
14 41 (1.97%) Big Data
15 39 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
16 36 (1.73%) Looker
17 33 (1.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 30 (1.44%) Star Schema
19 29 (1.40%) Semantic Layer
19 29 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 134 (6.45%) Git
2 128 (6.16%) JIRA
3 31 (1.49%) GitLab
3 31 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.58%) ERwin
5 11 (0.53%) Postman
6 9 (0.43%) Eclipse
6 9 (0.43%) ER Studio
6 9 (0.43%) MLflow
7 8 (0.38%) Selenium
7 8 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (0.34%) Newman
9 6 (0.29%) Ant
9 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.24%) RStudio
10 5 (0.24%) Terragrunt
11 4 (0.19%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.19%) TestRail
11 4 (0.19%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 660 (31.76%) Social Skills
2 636 (30.61%) Finance
3 497 (23.92%) Analytical Skills
4 262 (12.61%) Public Sector
5 185 (8.90%) Banking
6 73 (3.51%) Retail
7 67 (3.22%) Manufacturing
8 56 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
9 52 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
10 51 (2.45%) Marketing
11 47 (2.26%) Local Government
12 46 (2.21%) Military
13 44 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
14 43 (2.07%) Legal
15 35 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 24 (1.15%) Billing
16 24 (1.15%) Front Office
16 24 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
17 23 (1.11%) Automotive
18 22 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 438 (21.08%) Analyst
2 431 (20.74%) Data Engineer
3 260 (12.51%) Senior
4 244 (11.74%) Lead
5 227 (10.92%) Data Analyst
6 220 (10.59%) Architect
7 142 (6.83%) Data Architect
8 121 (5.82%) Business Analyst
8 121 (5.82%) Senior Data Engineer
9 116 (5.58%) Developer
10 94 (4.52%) Consultant
11 73 (3.51%) Administrator
12 63 (3.03%) Data Manager
13 53 (2.55%) Data Business Analyst
13 53 (2.55%) Data Consultant
14 41 (1.97%) Databricks Engineer
15 39 (1.88%) Senior Analyst
16 37 (1.78%) Lead Data Engineer
17 35 (1.68%) Databricks Data Engineer
18 34 (1.64%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (8.47%) PySpark
2 137 (6.59%) Terraform
3 76 (3.66%) Kafka
4 55 (2.65%) REST
5 40 (1.92%) JSON
6 35 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.20%) Pandas
7 25 (1.20%) Web Services
8 23 (1.11%) Middleware
8 23 (1.11%) XML
9 21 (1.01%) SOAP
10 19 (0.91%) Great Expectations
11 17 (0.82%) HTML
12 15 (0.72%) .NET
12 15 (0.72%) pytest
13 14 (0.67%) OAuth
14 13 (0.63%) OpenID
15 11 (0.53%) Playwright
16 10 (0.48%) OpenTelemetry
16 10 (0.48%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 193 (9.29%) Data Structures
2 130 (6.26%) Onboarding
3 118 (5.68%) Cloud Native
4 106 (5.10%) Product Ownership
5 101 (4.86%) Management Information System
6 98 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
7 60 (2.89%) CMDB
8 47 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
9 43 (2.07%) Reference Data
10 42 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (1.88%) AI Agents
12 33 (1.59%) Taxonomies
13 27 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
13 27 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (1.06%) NHS
15 21 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
16 20 (0.96%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.96%) Life Science
17 15 (0.72%) Clustering
17 15 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.35%) Unix
2 19 (0.91%) Linux
3 11 (0.53%) Windows
4 1 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (39.70%) Data Modelling
2 767 (36.91%) Analytics
3 732 (35.23%) Data Governance
4 569 (27.38%) Data Pipeline
5 564 (27.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 561 (27.00%) Validation
7 534 (25.70%) Business Intelligence
8 516 (24.83%) ETL
9 497 (23.92%) Migration
10 481 (23.15%) Data Engineering
11 433 (20.84%) Agile
12 429 (20.64%) AI
13 416 (20.02%) Decision-Making
14 391 (18.82%) CI/CD
15 371 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
16 341 (16.41%) Continuous Improvement
17 326 (15.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 298 (14.34%) Data Architecture
19 286 (13.76%) Data Migration
20 277 (13.33%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 896 (43.12%) SQL
2 563 (27.09%) Python
3 63 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 59 (2.84%) Java
5 39 (1.88%) PL/SQL
6 32 (1.54%) Scala
7 31 (1.49%) Shell Script
8 30 (1.44%) JavaScript
9 29 (1.40%) PowerShell
10 27 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 25 (1.20%) R
12 23 (1.11%) C#
13 17 (0.82%) Bash
14 14 (0.67%) Bicep
15 10 (0.48%) 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%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 337 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 262 (12.61%) SC Cleared
3 130 (6.26%) Degree
4 50 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.44%) DV Cleared
6 29 (1.40%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.30%) AWS Certification
8 25 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.11%) PMI Certification
10 21 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (0.96%) Master's Degree
12 19 (0.91%) PMP
13 12 (0.58%) ACCA
13 12 (0.58%) CIMA
14 9 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 8 (0.38%) CISSP
16 7 (0.34%) CIPD
16 7 (0.34%) CISM
17 6 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (7.22%) QA
2 127 (6.11%) GDPR
3 41 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 39 (1.88%) PMO
5 23 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.01%) NIST
6 21 (1.01%) SLA
7 20 (0.96%) GRC
8 16 (0.77%) 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 (0.34%) COBIT
15 6 (0.29%) IFRS 9
15 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 66 (3.18%) Docker
2 20 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.096%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.048%) HDFS
4 1 (0.048%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (3.18%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (0.58%) Ansible
3 12 (0.58%) Grafana
4 8 (0.38%) Control-M
5 7 (0.34%) Kibana
6 5 (0.24%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.19%) SCCM
8 2 (0.096%) 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%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.048%) Puppet
9 1 (0.048%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 412 (19.83%) Microsoft
2 312 (15.01%) Databricks
3 158 (7.60%) SAP
4 143 (6.88%) Oracle
5 100 (4.81%) ServiceNow
6 83 (3.99%) Informatica
7 77 (3.71%) Google
8 66 (3.18%) Salesforce
9 38 (1.83%) Workday
10 27 (1.30%) Adobe
11 26 (1.25%) IBM
12 22 (1.06%) Alteryx
12 22 (1.06%) Palantir
13 21 (1.01%) Splunk
14 18 (0.87%) Denodo
14 18 (0.87%) Talend
15 16 (0.77%) Foundry
16 12 (0.58%) Ariba
16 12 (0.58%) Bloomberg
16 12 (0.58%) Teradata