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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 108 129
Rank change year-on-year +22 +21 +60
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 890 688 743
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.87% 2.27% 1.93%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.45% 16.51% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 464 518
10th Percentile £337 £308 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £672
90th Percentile £738 £751 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £506 £550
% change year-on-year -1.23% -7.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 20
10th Percentile - £21.25 £19.60
25th Percentile £18.25 £26.25 £26.22
Median hourly rate £23.75 £37.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -7.41% +153.13%
75th Percentile £40.91 £93.75 £54.12
90th Percentile £44.75 £97.50 £64.55
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £35.13 £40.50
% change year-on-year -11.74% -13.27% +128.17%

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 5,409 4,168 5,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.47% 13.75% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,504 2,437 3,721
10th Percentile £313 £280 £320
25th Percentile £405 £390 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 169 222
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.26 £14.61
25th Percentile £17.69 £17.50 £20.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £35.79
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% -18.97% +59.07%
75th Percentile £56.69 £62.56 £66.88
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £83.39
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £26.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -5.09% -25.35% +56.49%

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 12 December 2025.

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 12 December 2025.

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 12 December 2025. 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 +17 517 £525 -4.55% 179
North of England -2 122 £463 +12.12% 55
Midlands +10 96 £515 +14.44% 44
North West +6 73 £456 +7.35% 28
South East +1 71 £469 -25.00% 171
West Midlands +7 69 £525 +7.58% 33
South West 0 41 £500 +2.56% 34
Yorkshire -17 41 £500 +53.85% 24
East Midlands -2 27 £439 +28.97% 11
East of England -25 16 £519 +22.06% 38
North East 0 9 £450 +81.82% 6
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 76 (8.54%) Apache Spark
2 54 (6.07%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (4.04%) SAS
4 32 (3.60%) Apache
5 10 (1.12%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.90%) Confluence
6 8 (0.90%) Oracle Application Server
7 6 (0.67%) GeoServer
7 6 (0.67%) Smallworld
8 4 (0.45%) Luigi
9 3 (0.34%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 90 (10.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.45%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.11%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 31 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.67%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.56%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.45%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.45%) Loan IQ
7 4 (0.45%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
8 3 (0.34%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (0.34%) SAP MDG-M
8 3 (0.34%) SAP MDG-S
9 2 (0.22%) Actimize
9 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.22%) Maximo
9 2 (0.22%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 222 (24.94%) Azure
2 205 (23.03%) Power Platform
3 184 (20.67%) AWS
4 96 (10.79%) GCP
5 92 (10.34%) Snowflake
6 68 (7.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 52 (5.84%) dbt
8 48 (5.39%) Amazon S3
9 40 (4.49%) Collibra
10 39 (4.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 33 (3.71%) GitHub
12 31 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
13 26 (2.92%) Serverless
14 24 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (2.13%) OCI
16 18 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
16 18 (2.02%) SaaS
17 14 (1.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
18 13 (1.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.45%) DNS
1 4 (0.45%) HTTP
2 2 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (0.22%) Internet
2 2 (0.22%) SSL
3 1 (0.11%) Broadband
3 1 (0.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (22.47%) Power BI
2 167 (18.76%) Data Warehouse
3 133 (14.94%) Metadata
4 71 (7.98%) Tableau
5 57 (6.40%) Data Lake
6 51 (5.73%) SQL Server
7 50 (5.62%) Relational Database
8 46 (5.17%) Big Data
9 40 (4.49%) Snowflake Schema
10 38 (4.27%) NoSQL
11 32 (3.60%) BigQuery
11 32 (3.60%) Pentaho
11 32 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
13 26 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 24 (2.70%) Delta Lake
14 24 (2.70%) Star Schema
15 23 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
16 21 (2.36%) Amazon QuickSight
17 20 (2.25%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 108 (12.13%) Git
2 62 (6.97%) JIRA
3 48 (5.39%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.02%) ERwin
5 15 (1.69%) PowerDesigner
6 11 (1.24%) ER Studio
7 8 (0.90%) DBeaver
8 4 (0.45%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.34%) GitLab
9 3 (0.34%) Vite
9 3 (0.34%) webpack
10 2 (0.22%) LSMW
10 2 (0.22%) MLflow
11 1 (0.11%) Deequ
11 1 (0.11%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.11%) Selenium
11 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.11%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 332 (37.30%) Social Skills
2 284 (31.91%) Finance
3 225 (25.28%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 79 (8.88%) Banking
6 38 (4.27%) Marketing
7 22 (2.47%) Legal
8 19 (2.13%) Local Government
9 18 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (1.69%) Retail
12 14 (1.57%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.57%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.35%) Billing
15 11 (1.24%) Military
15 11 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (1.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 213 (23.93%) Analyst
2 190 (21.35%) Data Engineer
3 136 (15.28%) Data Analyst
4 86 (9.66%) Lead
5 84 (9.44%) Architect
6 82 (9.21%) Senior
7 68 (7.64%) Business Analyst
8 62 (6.97%) Developer
9 48 (5.39%) Data Architect
10 35 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
11 33 (3.71%) Senior Data Engineer
12 32 (3.60%) Consultant
13 31 (3.48%) Data Manager
14 30 (3.37%) Data Business Analyst
15 29 (3.26%) Azure Data Engineer
16 24 (2.70%) Data Modeller
17 20 (2.25%) Governance Analyst
18 18 (2.02%) Financial Analyst
19 17 (1.91%) Salesforce Architect
20 16 (1.80%) Data Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (6.29%) PySpark
2 50 (5.62%) Kafka
3 28 (3.15%) XML
4 22 (2.47%) REST
5 17 (1.91%) Lightning Web Components
6 14 (1.57%) Middleware
6 14 (1.57%) SOAP
7 13 (1.46%) Visualforce
8 11 (1.24%) Pandas
9 10 (1.12%) JSON
10 9 (1.01%) HTML
11 8 (0.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 7 (0.79%) Great Expectations
12 7 (0.79%) RESTful
12 7 (0.79%) YAML
13 6 (0.67%) .NET
13 6 (0.67%) Apache NiFi
13 6 (0.67%) CSS
13 6 (0.67%) NumPy
14 4 (0.45%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 77 (8.65%) Data Structures
2 44 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
3 32 (3.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.92%) Management Information System
6 24 (2.70%) Cloud Native
7 23 (2.58%) Product Ownership
8 18 (2.02%) Reference Data
9 17 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.80%) CMDB
11 13 (1.46%) NHS
11 13 (1.46%) Replication
12 11 (1.24%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.24%) Reinsurance
13 10 (1.12%) Derivative
14 9 (1.01%) Clustering
14 9 (1.01%) Fixed Income
15 8 (0.90%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.91%) Linux
2 4 (0.45%) Unix
3 2 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (41.12%) Data Modelling
2 344 (38.65%) Data Governance
3 317 (35.62%) Analytics
4 282 (31.69%) Business Intelligence
5 276 (31.01%) ETL
6 262 (29.44%) Problem-Solving
7 214 (24.04%) Agile
8 212 (23.82%) Data Pipeline
9 170 (19.10%) Data Engineering
10 169 (18.99%) Migration
11 148 (16.63%) CI/CD
12 147 (16.52%) Data Management
13 143 (16.07%) Validation
14 135 (15.17%) Decision-Making
15 131 (14.72%) Data Analysis
16 129 (14.49%) Data Migration
17 127 (14.27%) Data Integration
18 117 (13.15%) Data Architecture
18 117 (13.15%) Visualisation
19 109 (12.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 434 (48.76%) SQL
2 284 (31.91%) Python
3 38 (4.27%) Scala
4 34 (3.82%) Java
5 32 (3.60%) R
6 21 (2.36%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.91%) Apex Code
8 16 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (1.57%) C#
9 14 (1.57%) T-SQL
10 13 (1.46%) Bash
11 11 (1.24%) PL/SQL
12 8 (0.90%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.79%) C++
13 7 (0.79%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.79%) VBA
14 4 (0.45%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.34%) ABAP
15 3 (0.34%) Korn
15 3 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 124 (13.93%) Security Cleared
2 88 (9.89%) SC Cleared
3 82 (9.21%) Degree
4 36 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.26%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.35%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.79%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.45%) CCAB
10 4 (0.45%) PhD
10 4 (0.45%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.45%) PMP
11 3 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.22%) ACCA
12 2 (0.22%) CIMA
12 2 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.11%) GIAC
13 1 (0.11%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (9.10%) GDPR
2 55 (6.18%) QA
3 39 (4.38%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 12 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (1.12%) PMO
7 8 (0.90%) IFRS
8 6 (0.67%) Basel III
8 6 (0.67%) SLA
9 5 (0.56%) ISO 19650
10 4 (0.45%) MiFID
10 4 (0.45%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.34%) FINREP
11 3 (0.34%) GRC
11 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.34%) WCAG
12 2 (0.22%) CRD IV
12 2 (0.22%) EMIR
12 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 53 (5.96%) Docker
2 8 (0.90%) zsh
3 3 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 50 (5.62%) Kubernetes
2 37 (4.16%) Terraform
3 4 (0.45%) Control-M
3 4 (0.45%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
4 3 (0.34%) Oozie
5 1 (0.11%) Ansible
5 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 138 (15.51%) Databricks
2 117 (13.15%) Microsoft
3 89 (10.00%) Oracle
4 57 (6.40%) SAP
5 48 (5.39%) Informatica
6 47 (5.28%) Salesforce
6 47 (5.28%) Talend
7 42 (4.72%) Google
8 30 (3.37%) Denodo
9 24 (2.70%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.46%) Sparx
11 11 (1.24%) Alteryx
12 10 (1.12%) Palantir
13 9 (1.01%) Adobe
14 7 (0.79%) Foundry
14 7 (0.79%) Workday
15 6 (0.67%) Bloomberg
15 6 (0.67%) ESRI
15 6 (0.67%) Guidewire
15 6 (0.67%) Intergraph