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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 106 110
Rank change year-on-year +57 +4 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,814 688 738
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.04% 2.52% 2.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.48% 14.89% 15.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,194 445 527
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £421 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +1.85%
75th Percentile £590 £638 £713
90th Percentile £675 £742 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 19 16
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.12 £14.76
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.10 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +31.83% -22.58%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.72 £44.81
90th Percentile £77.50 £58.74 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £15.81
% change year-on-year +26.42% +100.13% -49.00%

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 7,725 4,620 4,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.22% 16.92% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,958 3,013 3,026
10th Percentile £344 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.47% -1.25%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £635
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 509 210 326
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.59 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £31.64 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +22.80% -39.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.30 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.86 £28.18 £25.00
% change year-on-year +37.90% +12.72% -36.58%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +58 948 £525 -2.78% 473
North of England +16 231 £475 +5.56% 127
Midlands +35 222 £472 +2.05% 84
South East +23 181 £464 -4.87% 140
West Midlands +32 180 £469 -6.20% 48
North West +9 126 £475 +3.26% 61
South West +21 103 £500 +17.65% 53
East of England +9 85 £565 -6.46% 28
Yorkshire +3 82 £463 +9.47% 41
East Midlands +9 42 £481 +6.89% 36
North East -15 24 £520 -15.10% 25
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 97 (5.35%) Apache Spark
2 96 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
3 68 (3.75%) Apache
4 55 (3.03%) Confluence
5 50 (2.76%) SAS
6 37 (2.04%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
8 9 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.39%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.39%) CMS
10 4 (0.22%) Appian
11 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.055%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.055%) Luigi
13 1 (0.055%) Mendix
Applications
1 129 (7.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
3 17 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.72%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.055%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 65 (3.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.72%) NEC Housing
4 12 (0.66%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.44%) Sage X3
6 8 (0.44%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.39%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.39%) iTrent
7 7 (0.39%) SAP MDG
7 7 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 6 (0.33%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
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
1 486 (26.79%) Azure
2 407 (22.44%) Power Platform
3 314 (17.31%) AWS
4 158 (8.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 136 (7.50%) Snowflake
6 135 (7.44%) GCP
7 124 (6.84%) dbt
8 101 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
9 98 (5.40%) Amazon S3
10 95 (5.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 84 (4.63%) Serverless
12 72 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
13 70 (3.86%) GitHub
14 58 (3.20%) Collibra
15 40 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
16 39 (2.15%) Power Automate
17 37 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
17 37 (2.04%) SaaS
18 29 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
19 26 (1.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.50%) Firewall
2 5 (0.28%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) HTTP
4 1 (0.055%) 4G
4 1 (0.055%) 5G
4 1 (0.055%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.055%) DNS
4 1 (0.055%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.055%) SNMP
4 1 (0.055%) SSH
4 1 (0.055%) WAN
4 1 (0.055%) Wireless
4 1 (0.055%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 385 (21.22%) Power BI
2 293 (16.15%) Data Warehouse
3 231 (12.73%) Metadata
4 163 (8.99%) Data Lake
5 115 (6.34%) Tableau
6 89 (4.91%) SQL Server
7 79 (4.36%) BigQuery
8 77 (4.24%) Delta Lake
9 74 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
10 63 (3.47%) Relational Database
11 57 (3.14%) Amazon Athena
12 54 (2.98%) Big Data
13 42 (2.32%) Snowflake Schema
14 37 (2.04%) Power Query
15 36 (1.98%) NoSQL
15 36 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 32 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
16 32 (1.76%) Star Schema
17 28 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
17 28 (1.54%) Looker
Development Applications
1 118 (6.50%) JIRA
2 114 (6.28%) Git
3 42 (2.32%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.82%) GitLab
5 18 (0.99%) ERwin
6 12 (0.66%) MLflow
7 11 (0.61%) ER Studio
8 9 (0.50%) Eclipse
9 8 (0.44%) Postman
9 8 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.39%) Selenium
10 7 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.33%) Ant
12 5 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.22%) LSMW
13 4 (0.22%) Newman
13 4 (0.22%) Zephyr
14 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
14 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 546 (30.10%) Finance
2 534 (29.44%) Social Skills
3 435 (23.98%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (11.03%) Public Sector
5 135 (7.44%) Banking
6 49 (2.70%) Marketing
7 47 (2.59%) Retail
8 46 (2.54%) Manufacturing
9 44 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 32 (1.76%) Local Government
13 28 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
14 26 (1.43%) Legal
15 23 (1.27%) Military
16 19 (1.05%) Law
17 18 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (0.94%) Publishing
19 15 (0.83%) Automotive
19 15 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 414 (22.82%) Data Engineer
2 382 (21.06%) Analyst
3 215 (11.85%) Data Analyst
4 204 (11.25%) Senior
5 199 (10.97%) Lead
6 168 (9.26%) Architect
7 108 (5.95%) Data Architect
8 104 (5.73%) Business Analyst
9 100 (5.51%) Developer
10 87 (4.80%) Senior Data Engineer
11 64 (3.53%) Consultant
12 55 (3.03%) Data Manager
13 47 (2.59%) Administrator
14 45 (2.48%) Data Business Analyst
15 33 (1.82%) Azure Engineer
16 32 (1.76%) Data Consultant
17 31 (1.71%) Lead Data Engineer
18 30 (1.65%) Azure Data Engineer
18 30 (1.65%) Data Scientist
18 30 (1.65%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (7.61%) PySpark
2 92 (5.07%) Kafka
3 48 (2.65%) REST
4 43 (2.37%) JSON
5 39 (2.15%) Pandas
6 28 (1.54%) Great Expectations
7 24 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
8 23 (1.27%) Web Services
9 19 (1.05%) Middleware
10 18 (0.99%) scikit-learn
11 17 (0.94%) XML
12 15 (0.83%) SOAP
13 14 (0.77%) HTML
14 13 (0.72%) GeoJSON
14 13 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
15 10 (0.55%) .NET
15 10 (0.55%) Matplotlib
15 10 (0.55%) NumPy
15 10 (0.55%) pytest
15 10 (0.55%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 157 (8.65%) Data Structures
2 108 (5.95%) Legacy Systems
3 106 (5.84%) Onboarding
4 97 (5.35%) Cloud Native
5 77 (4.24%) Product Ownership
6 64 (3.53%) Management Information System
7 55 (3.03%) CMDB
8 37 (2.04%) Reference Data
9 32 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
10 31 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 29 (1.60%) AI Agents
12 26 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
13 24 (1.32%) Taxonomies
14 23 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
15 22 (1.21%) NHS
16 17 (0.94%) Clustering
17 16 (0.88%) Life Science
18 15 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
18 15 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
19 14 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 18 (0.99%) Linux
1 18 (0.99%) Unix
2 12 (0.66%) Windows
3 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.055%) VMS
3 1 (0.055%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 715 (39.42%) Data Modelling
2 647 (35.67%) Analytics
3 602 (33.19%) Data Governance
4 519 (28.61%) Data Pipeline
5 516 (28.45%) ETL
6 487 (26.85%) Business Intelligence
7 449 (24.75%) Validation
8 425 (23.43%) Migration
9 402 (22.16%) Data Engineering
10 372 (20.51%) Agile
11 334 (18.41%) Decision-Making
12 331 (18.25%) CI/CD
13 327 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
14 325 (17.92%) Stakeholder Management
15 305 (16.81%) AI
16 268 (14.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 264 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
18 262 (14.44%) Data Migration
19 250 (13.78%) Data Architecture
20 243 (13.40%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 805 (44.38%) SQL
2 487 (26.85%) Python
3 59 (3.25%) Java
4 56 (3.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 41 (2.26%) Scala
6 35 (1.93%) PL/SQL
7 34 (1.87%) T-SQL
8 30 (1.65%) PowerShell
9 22 (1.21%) Shell Script
10 19 (1.05%) C#
10 19 (1.05%) VBA
11 14 (0.77%) JavaScript
12 13 (0.72%) R
13 12 (0.66%) Bicep
14 11 (0.61%) Bash
15 10 (0.55%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.55%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.39%) SOQL
17 6 (0.33%) Cypher
17 6 (0.33%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 303 (16.70%) Security Cleared
2 229 (12.62%) SC Cleared
3 110 (6.06%) Degree
4 66 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 22 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (1.16%) DV Cleared
8 17 (0.94%) AWS Certification
8 17 (0.94%) Master's Degree
8 17 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (0.72%) PMI Certification
10 9 (0.50%) PMP
11 7 (0.39%) ACCA
11 7 (0.39%) CIMA
11 7 (0.39%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.28%) PhD
14 4 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (7.94%) GDPR
2 124 (6.84%) QA
3 34 (1.87%) PMO
4 33 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.94%) Solvency II
7 15 (0.83%) SLA
8 11 (0.61%) IFRS
9 10 (0.55%) NIST
9 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.50%) COREP
10 9 (0.50%) FINREP
11 8 (0.44%) GRC
12 7 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.33%) NCSC
14 4 (0.22%) BS7666
14 4 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.22%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.22%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 69 (3.80%) Docker
2 19 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.28%) etcd
4 1 (0.055%) HDFS
4 1 (0.055%) RACF
4 1 (0.055%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.055%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 124 (6.84%) Terraform
2 73 (4.02%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.77%) Grafana
4 12 (0.66%) 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 (0.055%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.055%) Istio
8 1 (0.055%) logstash
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.055%) Nessus
8 1 (0.055%) Nexpose
8 1 (0.055%) Puppet
8 1 (0.055%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.055%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 290 (15.99%) Microsoft
2 268 (14.77%) Databricks
3 150 (8.27%) SAP
4 124 (6.84%) Oracle
5 83 (4.58%) Informatica
6 78 (4.30%) Salesforce
7 74 (4.08%) ServiceNow
8 46 (2.54%) Google
9 33 (1.82%) Talend
10 27 (1.49%) Workday
11 21 (1.16%) Palantir
12 20 (1.10%) IBM
13 19 (1.05%) Denodo
14 18 (0.99%) Alteryx
15 17 (0.94%) Adobe
15 17 (0.94%) Foundry
16 14 (0.77%) NEC
17 13 (0.72%) Sage
17 13 (0.72%) Splunk
18 12 (0.66%) GoldenSource