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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 111 114
Rank change year-on-year +51 +3 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,557 604 735
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.69% 2.50% 1.99%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.96% 15.33% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,030 387 512
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £638 £688
90th Percentile £675 £725 £846
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 20 28
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £13.49
25th Percentile £17.73 £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 £82.25 £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 7,091 3,939 5,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.81% 16.29% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,594 2,534 3,208
10th Percentile £350 £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 455 163 375
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.60 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.59 £22.14 £13.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +43.75% -43.53%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.15 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.04 £32.50 £23.30
% change year-on-year +10.88% +39.51% -38.70%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +66 864 £525 - 339
North of England +9 182 £480 +6.67% 146
Midlands +26 178 £498 +8.39% 71
West Midlands +20 144 £500 +18.55% 45
South East +19 139 £450 -10.00% 135
North West +14 108 £475 +4.97% 77
South West +24 84 £500 +17.65% 53
East of England -16 67 £575 -4.88% 41
Yorkshire -42 50 £500 +25.00% 51
East Midlands -5 35 £450 -2.33% 26
North East -5 24 £475 -22.45% 21
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 99 (6.36%) Apache Spark
2 83 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (3.47%) Apache
4 46 (2.95%) Confluence
5 42 (2.70%) SAS
6 37 (2.38%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.64%) Appian
8 8 (0.51%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.39%) 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 (0.064%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 123 (7.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 19 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.16%) MS Visio
4 17 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.13%) CATIA
7 2 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 47 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.77%) 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 (0.51%) 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%) Actimize
9 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 453 (29.09%) Azure
2 379 (24.34%) Power Platform
3 259 (16.63%) AWS
4 173 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 122 (7.84%) GCP
6 110 (7.06%) Snowflake
7 107 (6.87%) dbt
8 105 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
9 104 (6.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 76 (4.88%) GitHub
11 72 (4.62%) Amazon S3
12 60 (3.85%) Serverless
13 55 (3.53%) Collibra
14 45 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
15 37 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
16 33 (2.12%) Power Automate
17 31 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
17 31 (1.99%) SaaS
18 22 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
19 18 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.45%) Firewall
2 5 (0.32%) VPN
3 2 (0.13%) HTTP
4 1 (0.064%) 4G
4 1 (0.064%) 5G
4 1 (0.064%) Broadband
4 1 (0.064%) DNS
4 1 (0.064%) SSH
4 1 (0.064%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 361 (23.19%) Power BI
2 244 (15.67%) Data Warehouse
3 201 (12.91%) Metadata
4 155 (9.96%) Data Lake
5 103 (6.62%) SQL Server
6 102 (6.55%) Tableau
7 81 (5.20%) Delta Lake
8 68 (4.37%) BigQuery
9 52 (3.34%) Big Data
10 51 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 51 (3.28%) Relational Database
11 46 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
11 46 (2.95%) Snowflake Schema
12 39 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
12 39 (2.50%) NoSQL
13 37 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 34 (2.18%) Power Query
15 30 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
15 30 (1.93%) Star Schema
16 25 (1.61%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 115 (7.39%) JIRA
2 110 (7.06%) Git
3 43 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.73%) GitLab
5 16 (1.03%) ERwin
5 16 (1.03%) MLflow
6 8 (0.51%) Postman
6 8 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
7 7 (0.45%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.45%) Selenium
8 5 (0.32%) Eclipse
8 5 (0.32%) LSMW
8 5 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (0.26%) Ant
9 4 (0.26%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.26%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.19%) Newman
10 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
General
1 477 (30.64%) Finance
2 459 (29.48%) Social Skills
3 356 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (10.40%) Public Sector
5 132 (8.48%) Banking
6 44 (2.83%) Marketing
7 42 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 42 (2.70%) Retail
8 34 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
9 29 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (1.67%) Local Government
11 25 (1.61%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.54%) Legal
13 23 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (1.22%) Law
15 18 (1.16%) Military
16 16 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.96%) Financial Institution
18 14 (0.90%) Publishing
19 13 (0.83%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 391 (25.11%) Data Engineer
2 321 (20.62%) Analyst
3 184 (11.82%) Data Analyst
4 175 (11.24%) Senior
5 158 (10.15%) Lead
6 127 (8.16%) Architect
7 83 (5.33%) Business Analyst
8 77 (4.95%) Data Architect
8 77 (4.95%) Developer
9 74 (4.75%) Senior Data Engineer
10 55 (3.53%) Consultant
11 51 (3.28%) Data Manager
12 37 (2.38%) Administrator
13 35 (2.25%) Azure Engineer
14 32 (2.06%) Data Business Analyst
15 31 (1.99%) Azure Data Engineer
16 30 (1.93%) Project Manager
17 29 (1.86%) Data Migration Lead
18 28 (1.80%) Data Consultant
19 26 (1.67%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (8.35%) PySpark
2 92 (5.91%) Kafka
3 52 (3.34%) Pandas
4 44 (2.83%) REST
5 31 (1.99%) Great Expectations
5 31 (1.99%) JSON
6 25 (1.61%) scikit-learn
7 20 (1.28%) NumPy
7 20 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
8 19 (1.22%) Web Services
9 17 (1.09%) Middleware
10 16 (1.03%) pytest
10 16 (1.03%) PyTorch
11 14 (0.90%) XML
12 13 (0.83%) GeoJSON
12 13 (0.83%) TensorFlow
13 12 (0.77%) OAuth
14 11 (0.71%) Flask
14 11 (0.71%) HTML
14 11 (0.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 120 (7.71%) Data Structures
2 110 (7.06%) Legacy Systems
3 82 (5.27%) Cloud Native
4 77 (4.95%) Onboarding
5 62 (3.98%) Product Ownership
6 56 (3.60%) Management Information System
7 44 (2.83%) CMDB
8 35 (2.25%) Reference Data
9 26 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
10 25 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.48%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.16%) Clustering
14 16 (1.03%) Life Science
14 16 (1.03%) Taxonomies
15 15 (0.96%) NHS
16 14 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
17 12 (0.77%) Fixed Income
18 11 (0.71%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.71%) Windows
2 9 (0.58%) Linux
2 9 (0.58%) Unix
3 1 (0.064%) VMS
3 1 (0.064%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 656 (42.13%) Data Modelling
2 584 (37.51%) Analytics
3 500 (32.11%) Data Governance
4 481 (30.89%) ETL
5 447 (28.71%) Business Intelligence
5 447 (28.71%) Data Pipeline
6 366 (23.51%) Validation
7 352 (22.61%) Migration
8 328 (21.07%) Data Engineering
9 325 (20.87%) Agile
10 305 (19.59%) Decision-Making
11 291 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
12 280 (17.98%) CI/CD
13 263 (16.89%) AI
14 236 (15.16%) Stakeholder Management
15 234 (15.03%) Data Migration
16 219 (14.07%) Data Architecture
17 215 (13.81%) Continuous Improvement
18 206 (13.23%) DevOps
19 200 (12.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 741 (47.59%) SQL
2 441 (28.32%) Python
3 52 (3.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 51 (3.28%) Java
5 45 (2.89%) Scala
6 40 (2.57%) T-SQL
7 37 (2.38%) PL/SQL
8 22 (1.41%) PowerShell
9 19 (1.22%) C#
10 16 (1.03%) VBA
11 14 (0.90%) Bicep
12 13 (0.83%) R
13 9 (0.58%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.51%) Bash
15 7 (0.45%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.45%) JavaScript
15 7 (0.45%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.32%) Korn
16 5 (0.32%) SOQL
17 4 (0.26%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 269 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 211 (13.55%) SC Cleared
3 87 (5.59%) Degree
4 53 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (1.28%) Azure Certification
5 20 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 10 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (0.58%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.51%) ACCA
9 8 (0.51%) CIMA
9 8 (0.51%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.45%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.39%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.32%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.32%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.26%) PhD
13 4 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 3 (0.19%) PMP
15 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (8.29%) GDPR
2 107 (6.87%) QA
3 35 (2.25%) PMO
4 27 (1.73%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.03%) SLA
7 12 (0.77%) Solvency II
8 11 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.58%) IFRS
10 8 (0.51%) COREP
10 8 (0.51%) FINREP
11 6 (0.39%) NIST
12 4 (0.26%) Basel III
12 4 (0.26%) BS7666
12 4 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.26%) GAAP
12 4 (0.26%) GRC
12 4 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 66 (4.24%) Docker
2 7 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.32%) etcd
4 1 (0.064%) HDFS
4 1 (0.064%) RACF
4 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 109 (7.00%) Terraform
2 70 (4.50%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.71%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.64%) Grafana
5 9 (0.58%) Ansible
6 6 (0.39%) Kibana
7 5 (0.32%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.26%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.26%) SCCM
9 3 (0.19%) logstash
10 1 (0.064%) Control-M
10 1 (0.064%) Istio
10 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.064%) Nessus
10 1 (0.064%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.064%) Puppet
10 1 (0.064%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 255 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 252 (16.18%) Databricks
3 117 (7.51%) SAP
4 113 (7.26%) Oracle
5 75 (4.82%) Salesforce
6 63 (4.05%) ServiceNow
7 58 (3.73%) Informatica
8 41 (2.63%) Google
9 32 (2.06%) Talend
10 23 (1.48%) Denodo
11 18 (1.16%) IBM
12 17 (1.09%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.09%) Workday
13 15 (0.96%) GoldenSource
14 13 (0.83%) NEC
15 11 (0.71%) Avaloq
15 11 (0.71%) ESRI
16 10 (0.64%) Adobe
17 9 (0.58%) Foundry
17 9 (0.58%) Sage