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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 99 118
Rank change year-on-year +53 +19 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,028 735 664
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.40% 2.65% 2.03%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.87% 15.33% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,299 477 459
10th Percentile £356 £336 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -8.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £713
90th Percentile £700 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £509 £511 £550
% change year-on-year -0.44% -7.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 14 9
10th Percentile £15.39 £23.84 £21.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £31.64 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £34.43 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -8.19% +5.25%
75th Percentile £60.75 £44.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.13 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £37.49 £36.25
% change year-on-year -15.98% +3.42% +2.65%

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 8,154 4,794 4,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.68% 17.27% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,138 3,128 2,545
10th Percentile £329 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.60%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 230 216
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.96 £15.20
Median hourly rate £33.98 £32.50 £30.56
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +6.35% -18.51%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £63.99
90th Percentile £76.30 £82.78 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £27.09
% change year-on-year +10.00% +10.74% -23.97%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +53 1,095 £525 -2.78% 2,013
North of England +38 280 £463 +2.78% 505
Midlands +34 220 £465 -7.00% 274
South East +36 210 £500 +2.56% 423
West Midlands +22 171 £465 -11.43% 207
North West +22 146 £525 +16.67% 315
Yorkshire +24 115 £450 -10.00% 145
South West +12 106 £500 +11.11% 166
East of England +17 82 £525 -13.15% 180
East Midlands +18 48 £466 +4.14% 67
North East -24 20 £520 +18.86% 47
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
1 123 (6.07%) Apache Airflow
2 90 (4.44%) Apache Spark
3 73 (3.60%) Apache
4 60 (2.96%) Confluence
5 48 (2.37%) SAS
6 42 (2.07%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.54%) CMS
9 10 (0.49%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.099%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.099%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.049%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.049%) GeoServer
14 1 (0.049%) Luigi
14 1 (0.049%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 153 (7.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
3 15 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.099%) CATIA
7 1 (0.049%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.049%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.049%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.049%) Trello
7 1 (0.049%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 68 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.74%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.59%) Aladdin
5 11 (0.54%) NEC Housing
6 10 (0.49%) Workday HCM
7 9 (0.44%) SAP MDG
7 9 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 8 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
9 7 (0.35%) iTrent
9 7 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.30%) Maximo
10 6 (0.30%) SAP HR
10 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
11 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.25%) Shopify
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
12 4 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 512 (25.25%) Azure
2 422 (20.81%) Power Platform
3 365 (18.00%) AWS
4 170 (8.38%) GCP
5 161 (7.94%) Snowflake
6 145 (7.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 137 (6.76%) dbt
8 103 (5.08%) Amazon S3
8 103 (5.08%) Serverless
9 100 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
10 86 (4.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 84 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
12 79 (3.90%) GitHub
13 64 (3.16%) Microsoft Purview
14 60 (2.96%) Collibra
15 47 (2.32%) Power Automate
15 47 (2.32%) SaaS
16 44 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
17 43 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
18 40 (1.97%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.30%) Broadband
2 5 (0.25%) Firewall
2 5 (0.25%) SD-WAN
2 5 (0.25%) SNMP
2 5 (0.25%) WAN
2 5 (0.25%) Wireless
3 3 (0.15%) HTTP
4 2 (0.099%) DNS
4 2 (0.099%) SSL
5 1 (0.049%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.049%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.049%) Network Security
5 1 (0.049%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.049%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 396 (19.53%) Power BI
2 328 (16.17%) Metadata
3 322 (15.88%) Data Warehouse
4 171 (8.43%) Data Lake
5 112 (5.52%) Tableau
6 92 (4.54%) SQL Server
7 88 (4.34%) BigQuery
8 84 (4.14%) Delta Lake
9 81 (3.99%) Amazon Redshift
10 78 (3.85%) Relational Database
11 64 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
12 50 (2.47%) NoSQL
13 45 (2.22%) Big Data
14 40 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
15 39 (1.92%) Power Query
16 36 (1.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 35 (1.73%) Snowflake Schema
17 35 (1.73%) Star Schema
18 33 (1.63%) Looker
19 29 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 124 (6.11%) JIRA
2 119 (5.87%) Git
3 36 (1.78%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.68%) GitLab
5 11 (0.54%) ERwin
6 10 (0.49%) Selenium
7 9 (0.44%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.44%) ER Studio
7 9 (0.44%) MLflow
7 9 (0.44%) Postman
8 8 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.30%) Ant
9 6 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.25%) Newman
10 5 (0.25%) RStudio
10 5 (0.25%) Terragrunt
11 4 (0.20%) TestRail
11 4 (0.20%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 648 (31.95%) Social Skills
2 622 (30.67%) Finance
3 487 (24.01%) Analytical Skills
4 237 (11.69%) Public Sector
5 176 (8.68%) Banking
6 66 (3.25%) Retail
7 59 (2.91%) Manufacturing
8 52 (2.56%) Marketing
8 52 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
9 49 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
10 43 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
10 43 (2.12%) Local Government
11 41 (2.02%) Military
12 39 (1.92%) Legal
13 37 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (1.23%) Billing
14 25 (1.23%) Law
15 24 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (1.13%) Front Office
16 23 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 433 (21.35%) Data Engineer
2 422 (20.81%) Analyst
3 245 (12.08%) Lead
4 237 (11.69%) Senior
5 227 (11.19%) Data Analyst
6 210 (10.36%) Architect
7 137 (6.76%) Data Architect
8 112 (5.52%) Senior Data Engineer
9 111 (5.47%) Business Analyst
10 110 (5.42%) Developer
11 81 (3.99%) Consultant
12 66 (3.25%) Administrator
13 64 (3.16%) Data Manager
14 48 (2.37%) Data Consultant
15 45 (2.22%) Data Business Analyst
16 37 (1.82%) Databricks Engineer
17 35 (1.73%) AWS Engineer
17 35 (1.73%) Lead Data Engineer
18 33 (1.63%) Python Engineer
19 31 (1.53%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (8.73%) PySpark
2 131 (6.46%) Terraform
3 74 (3.65%) Kafka
4 55 (2.71%) REST
5 43 (2.12%) JSON
6 33 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.23%) Great Expectations
8 23 (1.13%) XML
9 21 (1.04%) Pandas
9 21 (1.04%) Web Services
10 20 (0.99%) Middleware
11 18 (0.89%) SOAP
12 17 (0.84%) .NET
12 17 (0.84%) HTML
13 14 (0.69%) pytest
14 12 (0.59%) OpenTelemetry
15 10 (0.49%) CSS
15 10 (0.49%) OAuth
15 10 (0.49%) OpenID
15 10 (0.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 184 (9.07%) Data Structures
2 133 (6.56%) Onboarding
3 110 (5.42%) Cloud Native
4 100 (4.93%) Legacy Systems
5 99 (4.88%) Product Ownership
6 92 (4.54%) Management Information System
7 56 (2.76%) CMDB
8 48 (2.37%) Reference Data
9 42 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
10 38 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (1.82%) AI Agents
12 27 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
13 26 (1.28%) Taxonomies
14 25 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
15 22 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
15 22 (1.08%) NHS
16 21 (1.04%) Life Science
17 17 (0.84%) Algorithms
17 17 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
18 16 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.18%) Unix
2 17 (0.84%) Linux
3 12 (0.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.049%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.049%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 799 (39.40%) Data Modelling
2 736 (36.29%) Analytics
3 727 (35.85%) Data Governance
4 559 (27.56%) Data Pipeline
5 534 (26.33%) Validation
6 527 (25.99%) ETL
7 524 (25.84%) Stakeholder Management
8 508 (25.05%) Business Intelligence
9 483 (23.82%) Migration
10 464 (22.88%) Data Engineering
11 418 (20.61%) Agile
12 405 (19.97%) AI
13 395 (19.48%) Decision-Making
14 381 (18.79%) CI/CD
15 380 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
16 327 (16.12%) Continuous Improvement
17 304 (14.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 296 (14.60%) Data Architecture
19 282 (13.91%) Data Migration
20 279 (13.76%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 874 (43.10%) SQL
2 542 (26.73%) Python
3 59 (2.91%) Java
4 58 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 41 (2.02%) PL/SQL
6 31 (1.53%) Scala
6 31 (1.53%) T-SQL
7 28 (1.38%) PowerShell
7 28 (1.38%) Shell Script
8 25 (1.23%) JavaScript
9 22 (1.08%) C#
9 22 (1.08%) R
10 16 (0.79%) Bash
11 12 (0.59%) Bicep
12 9 (0.44%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.39%) SOQL
13 8 (0.39%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.39%) VBA
14 6 (0.30%) Go
14 6 (0.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 320 (15.78%) Security Cleared
2 247 (12.18%) SC Cleared
3 124 (6.11%) Degree
4 49 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.48%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.38%) DV Cleared
7 26 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.23%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.04%) PMI Certification
10 17 (0.84%) Master's Degree
10 17 (0.84%) PMP
11 12 (0.59%) ACCA
11 12 (0.59%) CIMA
12 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.25%) CIPD
14 5 (0.25%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (7.30%) QA
2 122 (6.02%) GDPR
3 41 (2.02%) Accessibility
4 33 (1.63%) PMO
5 22 (1.08%) SLA
6 20 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.79%) IFRS
8 15 (0.74%) NIST
9 14 (0.69%) NCSC
10 13 (0.64%) GRC
11 12 (0.59%) Solvency II
12 11 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.39%) COREP
13 8 (0.39%) FINREP
13 8 (0.39%) IFRS 17
13 8 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.30%) Basel III
15 6 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 74 (3.65%) Docker
2 19 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.099%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.049%) etcd
4 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (3.60%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.69%) Grafana
2 14 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (0.54%) Ansible
4 9 (0.44%) Control-M
5 7 (0.35%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.20%) Kibana
6 4 (0.20%) SCCM
7 3 (0.15%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.049%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.049%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.049%) Istio
8 1 (0.049%) logstash
8 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.049%) Nexpose
8 1 (0.049%) Puppet
8 1 (0.049%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.049%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 385 (18.98%) Microsoft
2 296 (14.60%) Databricks
3 163 (8.04%) SAP
4 147 (7.25%) Oracle
5 91 (4.49%) ServiceNow
6 82 (4.04%) Informatica
7 77 (3.80%) Salesforce
8 64 (3.16%) Google
9 33 (1.63%) Workday
10 28 (1.38%) Adobe
11 25 (1.23%) IBM
12 24 (1.18%) Talend
13 23 (1.13%) Alteryx
14 22 (1.08%) Splunk
15 21 (1.04%) Palantir
16 17 (0.84%) Denodo
17 16 (0.79%) Foundry
18 13 (0.64%) Bloomberg
19 12 (0.59%) Teradata
20 11 (0.54%) NEC