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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 103 110
Rank change year-on-year +51 +7 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,800 685 749
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.00% 2.50% 2.08%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.28% 14.85% 15.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 441 530
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -4.91% -
75th Percentile £590 £638 £713
90th Percentile £675 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 20 21
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.16 £14.13
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.55 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £21.12
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% +50.70% -31.89%
75th Percentile £61.50 £37.42 £42.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.83 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £15.80
% change year-on-year +25.71% +101.39% -49.03%

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 7,733 4,614 4,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.17% 16.84% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,954 3,010 3,075
10th Percentile £346 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -3.85% -2.62%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 512 210 344
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £11.06
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.59 £13.77
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.70 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% +26.80% -41.18%
75th Percentile £68.92 £65.00 £55.63
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £29.00 £24.51
% change year-on-year +24.38% +18.32% -38.11%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +64 940 £525 -4.55% 269
North of England +24 229 £475 +5.56% 100
Midlands +41 221 £475 +2.70% 74
West Midlands +28 180 £475 -5.00% 38
South East +23 179 £463 -5.13% 127
North West +5 125 £475 +3.26% 40
South West +17 103 £500 +17.65% 36
East of England +11 85 £565 -6.15% 21
Yorkshire -1 80 £463 +9.47% 37
East Midlands +7 41 £494 +9.72% 36
North East -14 25 £520 -15.10% 23
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 98 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (5.17%) Apache Spark
3 66 (3.67%) Apache
4 55 (3.06%) Confluence
5 51 (2.83%) SAS
6 37 (2.06%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
7 9 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.33%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.28%) Appian
9 5 (0.28%) CMS
10 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.056%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.056%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.056%) Luigi
12 1 (0.056%) Mendix
12 1 (0.056%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 132 (7.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (0.78%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.056%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 65 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.72%) NEC Housing
4 12 (0.67%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.50%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.44%) Sage X3
7 7 (0.39%) iTrent
7 7 (0.39%) SAP MDG
7 7 (0.39%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.33%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.28%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.28%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.22%) Maximo
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.22%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 483 (26.83%) Azure
2 413 (22.94%) Power Platform
3 312 (17.33%) AWS
4 155 (8.61%) Azure Data Factory
5 138 (7.67%) GCP
6 135 (7.50%) Snowflake
7 123 (6.83%) dbt
8 98 (5.44%) Amazon S3
9 97 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
10 95 (5.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 84 (4.67%) Serverless
12 72 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
13 71 (3.94%) GitHub
14 58 (3.22%) Collibra
15 41 (2.28%) Microsoft Purview
16 40 (2.22%) Power Automate
17 37 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
17 37 (2.06%) SaaS
18 28 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
19 26 (1.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.50%) Firewall
2 5 (0.28%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) HTTP
4 1 (0.056%) 4G
4 1 (0.056%) 5G
4 1 (0.056%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.056%) DNS
4 1 (0.056%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.056%) SNMP
4 1 (0.056%) SSH
4 1 (0.056%) WAN
4 1 (0.056%) Wireless
4 1 (0.056%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 391 (21.72%) Power BI
2 290 (16.11%) Data Warehouse
3 227 (12.61%) Metadata
4 161 (8.94%) Data Lake
5 115 (6.39%) Tableau
6 89 (4.94%) SQL Server
7 80 (4.44%) BigQuery
8 76 (4.22%) Delta Lake
9 73 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 60 (3.33%) Relational Database
11 56 (3.11%) Amazon Athena
12 54 (3.00%) Big Data
13 43 (2.39%) Snowflake Schema
14 37 (2.06%) Power Query
15 36 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 35 (1.94%) NoSQL
17 33 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
18 32 (1.78%) Star Schema
19 28 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
19 28 (1.56%) Looker
Development Applications
1 121 (6.72%) JIRA
2 114 (6.33%) Git
3 42 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.83%) GitLab
5 17 (0.94%) ERwin
6 13 (0.72%) MLflow
7 9 (0.50%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.50%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.44%) Postman
8 8 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.39%) Selenium
9 7 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.33%) Ant
11 5 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.22%) LSMW
12 4 (0.22%) Newman
12 4 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.22%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.17%) Robot Framework
General
1 542 (30.11%) Finance
2 530 (29.44%) Social Skills
3 424 (23.56%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 130 (7.22%) Banking
6 49 (2.72%) Marketing
6 49 (2.72%) Retail
7 44 (2.44%) Manufacturing
8 43 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
10 34 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.67%) Local Government
12 28 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (1.44%) Legal
14 22 (1.22%) Military
15 19 (1.06%) Law
15 19 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.89%) Publishing
17 15 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 412 (22.89%) Data Engineer
2 387 (21.50%) Analyst
3 216 (12.00%) Data Analyst
4 204 (11.33%) Senior
5 200 (11.11%) Lead
6 165 (9.17%) Architect
7 104 (5.78%) Data Architect
8 103 (5.72%) Business Analyst
9 98 (5.44%) Developer
10 86 (4.78%) Senior Data Engineer
11 61 (3.39%) Consultant
12 55 (3.06%) Data Manager
13 47 (2.61%) Administrator
14 44 (2.44%) Data Business Analyst
15 32 (1.78%) Lead Data Engineer
16 31 (1.72%) Project Manager
17 30 (1.67%) Azure Engineer
17 30 (1.67%) Data Consultant
17 30 (1.67%) Data Migration Lead
18 29 (1.61%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (7.22%) PySpark
2 93 (5.17%) Kafka
3 47 (2.61%) REST
4 42 (2.33%) JSON
5 40 (2.22%) Pandas
6 29 (1.61%) Great Expectations
7 24 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
8 22 (1.22%) Web Services
9 19 (1.06%) scikit-learn
10 17 (0.94%) XML
11 16 (0.89%) Middleware
12 14 (0.78%) SOAP
13 13 (0.72%) GeoJSON
13 13 (0.72%) HTML
13 13 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
14 11 (0.61%) NumPy
14 11 (0.61%) pytest
14 11 (0.61%) PyTorch
15 10 (0.56%) Matplotlib
15 10 (0.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 150 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 110 (6.11%) Legacy Systems
3 103 (5.72%) Onboarding
4 97 (5.39%) Cloud Native
5 71 (3.94%) Product Ownership
6 62 (3.44%) Management Information System
7 55 (3.06%) CMDB
8 36 (2.00%) Reference Data
9 33 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.67%) AI Agents
10 30 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 26 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.33%) Taxonomies
13 22 (1.22%) NHS
13 22 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (0.94%) Clustering
15 16 (0.89%) Life Science
16 15 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
17 13 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 16 (0.89%) Linux
1 16 (0.89%) Unix
2 12 (0.67%) Windows
3 1 (0.056%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.056%) VMS
3 1 (0.056%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 709 (39.39%) Data Modelling
2 640 (35.56%) Analytics
3 597 (33.17%) Data Governance
4 511 (28.39%) Data Pipeline
5 510 (28.33%) ETL
6 489 (27.17%) Business Intelligence
7 447 (24.83%) Validation
8 425 (23.61%) Migration
9 395 (21.94%) Data Engineering
10 364 (20.22%) Agile
11 339 (18.83%) Decision-Making
12 334 (18.56%) CI/CD
13 328 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
14 321 (17.83%) Stakeholder Management
15 305 (16.94%) AI
16 263 (14.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 261 (14.50%) Data Migration
18 260 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
19 247 (13.72%) Data Architecture
20 243 (13.50%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 792 (44.00%) SQL
2 482 (26.78%) Python
3 57 (3.17%) Java
4 56 (3.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 41 (2.28%) Scala
6 34 (1.89%) T-SQL
7 33 (1.83%) PL/SQL
8 31 (1.72%) PowerShell
9 20 (1.11%) Shell Script
10 19 (1.06%) C#
10 19 (1.06%) VBA
11 13 (0.72%) JavaScript
11 13 (0.72%) R
12 12 (0.67%) Bicep
13 11 (0.61%) Bash
14 10 (0.56%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.56%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.39%) SOQL
16 6 (0.33%) Cypher
16 6 (0.33%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 301 (16.72%) Security Cleared
2 227 (12.61%) SC Cleared
3 108 (6.00%) Degree
4 68 (3.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.17%) DV Cleared
7 18 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 16 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (0.83%) Master's Degree
10 12 (0.67%) PMI Certification
11 8 (0.44%) PMP
12 7 (0.39%) ACCA
12 7 (0.39%) CIMA
12 7 (0.39%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.33%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.28%) PhD
15 4 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (8.28%) GDPR
2 122 (6.78%) QA
3 34 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 34 (1.89%) PMO
4 23 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (0.94%) Solvency II
6 15 (0.83%) SLA
7 11 (0.61%) IFRS
8 10 (0.56%) NIST
8 10 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.50%) COREP
9 9 (0.50%) FINREP
10 8 (0.44%) GRC
11 6 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.33%) NCSC
12 4 (0.22%) BS7666
12 4 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.22%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 69 (3.83%) Docker
2 19 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.28%) etcd
4 1 (0.056%) HDFS
4 1 (0.056%) RACF
4 1 (0.056%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.056%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 127 (7.06%) Terraform
2 74 (4.11%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.78%) Grafana
4 12 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.50%) Ansible
5 9 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.28%) Fluentd
6 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
6 5 (0.28%) SCCM
7 4 (0.22%) Control-M
7 4 (0.22%) Kibana
8 1 (0.056%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.056%) Istio
8 1 (0.056%) logstash
8 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.056%) Nessus
8 1 (0.056%) Nexpose
8 1 (0.056%) Puppet
8 1 (0.056%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.056%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 288 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 265 (14.72%) Databricks
3 150 (8.33%) SAP
4 122 (6.78%) Oracle
5 83 (4.61%) Informatica
6 81 (4.50%) Salesforce
7 74 (4.11%) ServiceNow
8 47 (2.61%) Google
9 33 (1.83%) Talend
10 26 (1.44%) Workday
11 20 (1.11%) IBM
11 20 (1.11%) Palantir
12 19 (1.06%) Denodo
13 17 (0.94%) Alteryx
14 16 (0.89%) Adobe
14 16 (0.89%) Foundry
15 14 (0.78%) NEC
16 13 (0.72%) GoldenSource
16 13 (0.72%) Sage
16 13 (0.72%) Splunk