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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 108 116
Rank change year-on-year +48 +8 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,543 602 738
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.70% 2.51% 2.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.02% 15.43% 14.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 390 512
10th Percentile £350 £342 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -7.05% +4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £688
90th Percentile £675 £725 £813
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 20 28
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £13.49
25th Percentile £17.48 £23.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £21.06
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +50.26% -6.35%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.99 £44.81
90th Percentile £82.33 £78.83 £58.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £15.80
% change year-on-year +26.42% +100.25% -29.73%

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 7,007 3,902 5,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.80% 16.30% 13.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,532 2,518 3,239
10th Percentile £344 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 453 157 369
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.55 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.18
Median hourly rate £33.12 £34.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +44.96% -44.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.98 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.66 £22.42
% change year-on-year +7.18% +45.65% -40.21%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +59 863 £525 - 365
North of England +2 178 £488 +8.33% 134
Midlands +23 176 £499 +8.66% 75
West Midlands +19 142 £500 +18.55% 46
South East +15 131 £450 -10.00% 139
North West +17 107 £475 +4.40% 67
South West +20 84 £498 +17.06% 44
East of England -17 66 £575 -4.88% 42
Yorkshire -41 48 £507 +26.75% 48
East Midlands -8 35 £450 -2.33% 29
North East -10 23 £475 -22.45% 22
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
1 102 (6.61%) Apache Spark
2 83 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (3.50%) Apache
4 47 (3.05%) Confluence
5 41 (2.66%) SAS
6 36 (2.33%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.65%) Appian
8 8 (0.52%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.26%) CMS
10 4 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
13 1 (0.065%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 125 (8.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 19 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 18 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.13%) CATIA
6 2 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 46 (2.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.78%) NEC Housing
3 9 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.58%) iTrent
3 9 (0.58%) Loan IQ
3 9 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.45%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.39%) Finacle
6 6 (0.39%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.32%) SystmOne
8 4 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.26%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 455 (29.49%) Azure
2 376 (24.37%) Power Platform
3 261 (16.92%) AWS
4 176 (11.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 123 (7.97%) GCP
6 109 (7.06%) Snowflake
7 105 (6.80%) dbt
8 104 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
8 104 (6.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 76 (4.93%) GitHub
10 73 (4.73%) Amazon S3
11 61 (3.95%) Serverless
12 54 (3.50%) Collibra
13 45 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
14 37 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
15 32 (2.07%) Power Automate
16 31 (2.01%) Microsoft Purview
17 30 (1.94%) SaaS
18 22 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
19 17 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.45%) Firewall
2 5 (0.32%) VPN
3 2 (0.13%) Broadband
3 2 (0.13%) DNS
3 2 (0.13%) HTTP
3 2 (0.13%) VoIP
4 1 (0.065%) 4G
4 1 (0.065%) 5G
4 1 (0.065%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 360 (23.33%) Power BI
2 243 (15.75%) Data Warehouse
3 201 (13.03%) Metadata
4 156 (10.11%) Data Lake
5 104 (6.74%) SQL Server
6 103 (6.68%) Tableau
7 82 (5.31%) Delta Lake
8 68 (4.41%) BigQuery
9 54 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 52 (3.37%) Big Data
11 50 (3.24%) Relational Database
12 46 (2.98%) Amazon Redshift
12 46 (2.98%) Snowflake Schema
13 42 (2.72%) NoSQL
14 39 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
15 38 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 34 (2.20%) Power Query
17 31 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
18 29 (1.88%) Star Schema
19 26 (1.69%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 116 (7.52%) JIRA
2 113 (7.32%) Git
3 42 (2.72%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.75%) GitLab
5 16 (1.04%) ERwin
5 16 (1.04%) MLflow
6 8 (0.52%) Postman
6 8 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
7 7 (0.45%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.45%) Selenium
8 5 (0.32%) LSMW
8 5 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.26%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.26%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (0.26%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.19%) Ant
10 3 (0.19%) Newman
10 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
General
1 472 (30.59%) Finance
2 455 (29.49%) Social Skills
3 354 (22.94%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (10.43%) Public Sector
5 132 (8.55%) Banking
6 44 (2.85%) Marketing
7 43 (2.79%) Retail
8 40 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 27 (1.75%) Local Government
12 25 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 23 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.49%) Legal
14 18 (1.17%) Military
15 17 (1.10%) Law
16 16 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.97%) Financial Institution
18 14 (0.91%) Investment Banking
18 14 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 394 (25.53%) Data Engineer
2 315 (20.41%) Analyst
3 182 (11.80%) Data Analyst
4 177 (11.47%) Senior
5 156 (10.11%) Lead
6 127 (8.23%) Architect
7 85 (5.51%) Business Analyst
8 76 (4.93%) Data Architect
8 76 (4.93%) Developer
8 76 (4.93%) Senior Data Engineer
9 53 (3.43%) Consultant
10 50 (3.24%) Data Manager
11 38 (2.46%) Azure Engineer
12 36 (2.33%) Administrator
13 34 (2.20%) Azure Data Engineer
14 33 (2.14%) Data Business Analyst
15 31 (2.01%) Project Manager
16 29 (1.88%) Data Migration Lead
17 26 (1.69%) Data Consultant
17 26 (1.69%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (8.68%) PySpark
2 91 (5.90%) Kafka
3 52 (3.37%) Pandas
4 43 (2.79%) REST
5 31 (2.01%) Great Expectations
6 29 (1.88%) JSON
7 25 (1.62%) scikit-learn
8 20 (1.30%) NumPy
9 18 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
10 17 (1.10%) Middleware
10 17 (1.10%) Web Services
11 16 (1.04%) pytest
11 16 (1.04%) PyTorch
12 13 (0.84%) GeoJSON
12 13 (0.84%) TensorFlow
13 12 (0.78%) XML
14 11 (0.71%) Flask
14 11 (0.71%) OAuth
14 11 (0.71%) RESTful
15 10 (0.65%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 120 (7.78%) Data Structures
2 109 (7.06%) Legacy Systems
3 82 (5.31%) Cloud Native
4 75 (4.86%) Onboarding
5 63 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 56 (3.63%) Management Information System
7 41 (2.66%) CMDB
8 35 (2.27%) Reference Data
9 25 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
10 24 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
11 22 (1.43%) AI Agents
11 22 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
11 22 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (1.17%) Clustering
13 16 (1.04%) Taxonomies
14 15 (0.97%) Life Science
15 14 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.91%) NHS
16 12 (0.78%) Fixed Income
17 11 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.71%) Windows
2 9 (0.58%) Linux
2 9 (0.58%) Unix
3 1 (0.065%) VMS
3 1 (0.065%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 648 (42.00%) Data Modelling
2 582 (37.72%) Analytics
3 501 (32.47%) Data Governance
4 480 (31.11%) ETL
5 451 (29.23%) Data Pipeline
6 447 (28.97%) Business Intelligence
7 359 (23.27%) Validation
8 348 (22.55%) Migration
9 331 (21.45%) Data Engineering
10 327 (21.19%) Agile
11 304 (19.70%) Decision-Making
12 292 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
13 279 (18.08%) CI/CD
14 261 (16.92%) AI
15 233 (15.10%) Stakeholder Management
16 230 (14.91%) Data Migration
17 222 (14.39%) Data Architecture
18 208 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
19 206 (13.35%) DevOps
20 201 (13.03%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 741 (48.02%) SQL
2 443 (28.71%) Python
3 53 (3.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 51 (3.31%) Java
5 48 (3.11%) Scala
6 41 (2.66%) T-SQL
7 37 (2.40%) PL/SQL
8 21 (1.36%) PowerShell
9 19 (1.23%) C#
10 16 (1.04%) VBA
11 14 (0.91%) Bicep
12 12 (0.78%) R
13 9 (0.58%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.52%) Bash
15 7 (0.45%) JavaScript
15 7 (0.45%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.39%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.32%) Korn
18 4 (0.26%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.26%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 268 (17.37%) Security Cleared
2 208 (13.48%) SC Cleared
3 85 (5.51%) Degree
4 53 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (1.30%) Azure Certification
5 20 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (0.84%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (0.52%) ACCA
8 8 (0.52%) CIMA
8 8 (0.52%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.45%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.39%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.32%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.32%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.26%) PhD
13 3 (0.19%) PMP
13 3 (0.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 2 (0.13%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (8.17%) GDPR
2 106 (6.87%) QA
3 33 (2.14%) PMO
4 28 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.04%) SLA
7 12 (0.78%) Solvency II
8 11 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.65%) IFRS
10 8 (0.52%) COREP
10 8 (0.52%) FINREP
11 6 (0.39%) NIST
12 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.26%) Basel III
12 4 (0.26%) BS7666
12 4 (0.26%) GAAP
12 4 (0.26%) GRC
13 3 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.19%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 66 (4.28%) Docker
2 6 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.32%) etcd
4 1 (0.065%) HDFS
4 1 (0.065%) RACF
4 1 (0.065%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 109 (7.06%) Terraform
2 68 (4.41%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.71%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.65%) Grafana
5 9 (0.58%) Ansible
6 6 (0.39%) Kibana
7 5 (0.32%) Fluentd
8 4 (0.26%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.26%) SCCM
8 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.19%) logstash
10 1 (0.065%) Control-M
10 1 (0.065%) Istio
10 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.065%) Nessus
10 1 (0.065%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.065%) Puppet
10 1 (0.065%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 256 (16.59%) Databricks
2 252 (16.33%) Microsoft
3 116 (7.52%) SAP
4 111 (7.19%) Oracle
5 74 (4.80%) Salesforce
6 59 (3.82%) ServiceNow
7 57 (3.69%) Informatica
8 41 (2.66%) Google
9 32 (2.07%) Talend
10 23 (1.49%) Denodo
11 17 (1.10%) IBM
11 17 (1.10%) OpenAI
11 17 (1.10%) Workday
12 15 (0.97%) GoldenSource
13 13 (0.84%) NEC
14 11 (0.71%) Avaloq
14 11 (0.71%) ESRI
15 10 (0.65%) Adobe
16 9 (0.58%) Alteryx
16 9 (0.58%) Sage