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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 108 132
Rank change year-on-year +14 +24 +67
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 870 691 732
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.83% 2.23% 1.88%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.08% 16.47% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 468 512
10th Percentile £343 £308 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £666 £663
90th Percentile £738 £753 £742
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
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% +138.24%
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% +116.00%

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 5,411 4,196 5,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.62% 13.54% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,502 2,433 3,704
10th Percentile £313 £288 £320
25th Percentile £404 £395 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year - -8.09% +3.62%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 184 225
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.26 £15.28
25th Percentile £17.69 £17.59 £21.50
Median hourly rate £25.63 £29.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% -28.40% +76.09%
75th Percentile £60.15 £63.75 £68.00
90th Percentile £79.87 £70.00 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £26.31 £26.75 £36.75
% change year-on-year -1.66% -27.21% +53.13%

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 29 November 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 +13 496 £525 -8.70% 236
North of England -6 123 £463 +12.12% 53
Midlands +13 95 £514 +14.22% 47
South East +16 72 £469 -21.88% 207
North West -4 72 £456 +7.42% 31
West Midlands +8 68 £525 +7.58% 34
Yorkshire -3 42 £492 +31.20% 17
South West +21 41 £500 +2.56% 35
East Midlands +3 27 £439 +28.97% 13
East of England -26 15 £519 +25.76% 36
North East -2 10 £495 +100.00% 9
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 71 (8.16%) Apache Spark
2 58 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (4.02%) SAS
4 31 (3.56%) Apache
5 11 (1.26%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.92%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (0.80%) Confluence
8 6 (0.69%) GeoServer
8 6 (0.69%) Smallworld
9 4 (0.46%) Luigi
10 3 (0.34%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 87 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.46%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.11%) Maple
8 1 (0.11%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 29 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.69%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.57%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.46%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.46%) Loan IQ
7 4 (0.46%) 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 (0.23%) Actimize
9 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.23%) Maximo
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.11%) PORTIA
Cloud Services
1 214 (24.60%) Azure
2 195 (22.41%) Power Platform
3 184 (21.15%) AWS
4 99 (11.38%) GCP
5 94 (10.80%) Snowflake
6 63 (7.24%) Azure Data Factory
7 56 (6.44%) dbt
8 45 (5.17%) Amazon S3
9 36 (4.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 36 (4.14%) Collibra
10 33 (3.79%) GitHub
11 31 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (2.87%) Serverless
13 24 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (2.18%) Microsoft Purview
14 19 (2.18%) OCI
14 19 (2.18%) SaaS
15 15 (1.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 13 (1.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.46%) HTTP
2 3 (0.34%) DNS
3 2 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.23%) Internet
3 2 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (21.84%) Power BI
2 166 (19.08%) Data Warehouse
3 130 (14.94%) Metadata
4 69 (7.93%) Tableau
5 56 (6.44%) Data Lake
6 51 (5.86%) SQL Server
7 49 (5.63%) Relational Database
8 47 (5.40%) Big Data
9 37 (4.25%) Snowflake Schema
10 35 (4.02%) NoSQL
11 34 (3.91%) BigQuery
12 32 (3.68%) Pentaho
12 32 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
13 25 (2.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 24 (2.76%) Star Schema
15 23 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
15 23 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (2.64%) Delta Lake
16 22 (2.53%) Looker
17 21 (2.41%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 106 (12.18%) Git
2 60 (6.90%) JIRA
3 47 (5.40%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.41%) ERwin
5 16 (1.84%) PowerDesigner
6 12 (1.38%) ER Studio
7 8 (0.92%) DBeaver
8 4 (0.46%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.34%) GitLab
9 3 (0.34%) MLflow
9 3 (0.34%) Vite
9 3 (0.34%) webpack
10 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.11%) Deequ
10 1 (0.11%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.11%) LSMW
10 1 (0.11%) Selenium
10 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.11%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
General
1 316 (36.32%) Social Skills
2 271 (31.15%) Finance
3 222 (25.52%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (9.66%) Public Sector
5 76 (8.74%) Banking
6 39 (4.48%) Marketing
7 22 (2.53%) Legal
8 19 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.84%) Local Government
10 16 (1.84%) Retail
11 14 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.49%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.49%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.38%) Billing
13 12 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.26%) Publishing
15 10 (1.15%) Military
Job Titles
1 201 (23.10%) Analyst
2 188 (21.61%) Data Engineer
3 129 (14.83%) Data Analyst
4 88 (10.11%) Architect
5 85 (9.77%) Lead
6 83 (9.54%) Senior
7 62 (7.13%) Business Analyst
8 61 (7.01%) Developer
9 51 (5.86%) Data Architect
10 35 (4.02%) Senior Data Engineer
11 34 (3.91%) Consultant
12 33 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
13 30 (3.45%) Data Manager
14 28 (3.22%) Data Business Analyst
15 27 (3.10%) Azure Data Engineer
16 25 (2.87%) Data Modeller
17 18 (2.07%) Governance Analyst
18 17 (1.95%) Salesforce Architect
19 15 (1.72%) Senior Analyst
20 14 (1.61%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (5.86%) PySpark
2 48 (5.52%) Kafka
3 28 (3.22%) XML
4 21 (2.41%) REST
5 17 (1.95%) Lightning Web Components
6 14 (1.61%) Middleware
7 13 (1.49%) SOAP
7 13 (1.49%) Visualforce
8 11 (1.26%) Pandas
9 10 (1.15%) JSON
10 9 (1.03%) HTML
11 8 (0.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 7 (0.80%) RESTful
13 6 (0.69%) .NET
13 6 (0.69%) Apache NiFi
13 6 (0.69%) CSS
13 6 (0.69%) NumPy
13 6 (0.69%) YAML
14 5 (0.57%) GraphQL
14 5 (0.57%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 70 (8.05%) Data Structures
2 45 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
3 30 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 28 (3.22%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.99%) Cloud Native
6 22 (2.53%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.41%) Product Ownership
8 18 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (2.07%) Reference Data
9 13 (1.49%) Replication
10 12 (1.38%) CMDB
10 12 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (1.38%) NHS
11 11 (1.26%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.26%) Reinsurance
12 9 (1.03%) Clustering
12 9 (1.03%) Derivative
12 9 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.92%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.07%) Linux
2 4 (0.46%) Unix
3 2 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (41.15%) Data Modelling
2 329 (37.82%) Data Governance
3 312 (35.86%) Analytics
4 279 (32.07%) ETL
5 270 (31.03%) Business Intelligence
6 257 (29.54%) Problem-Solving
7 212 (24.37%) Data Pipeline
8 207 (23.79%) Agile
9 166 (19.08%) Data Engineering
10 164 (18.85%) Migration
11 149 (17.13%) CI/CD
12 142 (16.32%) Data Management
13 140 (16.09%) Validation
14 132 (15.17%) Decision-Making
15 127 (14.60%) Data Integration
15 127 (14.60%) Data Migration
16 125 (14.37%) Data Analysis
17 117 (13.45%) Data Architecture
18 114 (13.10%) Visualisation
19 105 (12.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 424 (48.74%) SQL
2 280 (32.18%) Python
3 35 (4.02%) Java
3 35 (4.02%) Scala
4 30 (3.45%) R
5 20 (2.30%) JavaScript
6 17 (1.95%) Apex Code
7 15 (1.72%) Bash
8 12 (1.38%) C#
8 12 (1.38%) T-SQL
9 11 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (1.26%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.92%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.80%) C++
11 7 (0.80%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.69%) VBA
13 4 (0.46%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.34%) ABAP
14 3 (0.34%) Korn
14 3 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 117 (13.45%) Security Cleared
2 85 (9.77%) SC Cleared
3 77 (8.85%) Degree
4 37 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.57%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.57%) PMP
11 4 (0.46%) CCAB
11 4 (0.46%) PhD
12 3 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.23%) ACCA
13 2 (0.23%) CIMA
13 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.11%) ECDL
14 1 (0.11%) GIAC
14 1 (0.11%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (9.08%) GDPR
2 54 (6.21%) QA
3 37 (4.25%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 10 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (1.03%) PMO
7 7 (0.80%) IFRS
8 6 (0.69%) SLA
9 4 (0.46%) Basel III
10 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.34%) ISO 19650
10 3 (0.34%) MiFID
10 3 (0.34%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.34%) WCAG
11 2 (0.23%) CRD IV
11 2 (0.23%) EMIR
11 2 (0.23%) FINREP
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.11%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 53 (6.09%) Docker
2 9 (1.03%) zsh
3 3 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 51 (5.86%) Kubernetes
2 38 (4.37%) Terraform
3 4 (0.46%) Control-M
3 4 (0.46%) 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%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 130 (14.94%) Databricks
2 115 (13.22%) Microsoft
3 89 (10.23%) Oracle
4 56 (6.44%) SAP
5 49 (5.63%) Salesforce
6 47 (5.40%) Informatica
6 47 (5.40%) Talend
7 44 (5.06%) Google
8 30 (3.45%) Denodo
9 21 (2.41%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.61%) Sparx
11 10 (1.15%) Palantir
12 9 (1.03%) Adobe
12 9 (1.03%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.80%) Foundry
13 7 (0.80%) Workday
14 6 (0.69%) Bloomberg
14 6 (0.69%) ESRI
14 6 (0.69%) Guidewire
14 6 (0.69%) Intergraph