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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 119 142
Rank change year-on-year +23 +23 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 845 651 726
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.78% 2.11% 1.85%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.76% 16.01% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 441 508
10th Percentile £337 £308 £363
25th Percentile £410 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £794 £739
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 20
10th Percentile - £21.25 £19.60
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.00 £21.48
Median hourly rate £32.00 £36.25 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.72% -10.49% +138.24%
75th Percentile £44.75 £63.19 £54.12
90th Percentile £64.25 £97.50 £64.55
UK median hourly rate £32.94 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -5.89% -13.58% +125.00%

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 5,362 4,066 5,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.65% 13.19% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,472 2,367 3,753
10th Percentile £310 £281 £319
25th Percentile £403 £394 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £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 283 173 231
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.49 £14.54
25th Percentile £17.69 £16.23 £20.51
Median hourly rate £26.11 £30.21 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% -25.41% +67.01%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.69 £67.75
90th Percentile £79.97 £70.00 £83.25
UK median hourly rate £25.63 £27.50 £36.75
% change year-on-year -6.80% -25.17% +50.00%

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 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 19 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 19 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 +8 473 £539 -6.30% 458
North of England -4 112 £456 +12.31% 87
Midlands +28 102 £507 +40.99% 93
South East +28 74 £450 -25.00% 164
West Midlands +20 74 £525 +16.67% 68
North West -13 61 £450 +5.94% 54
Yorkshire -16 42 £482 +32.83% 23
South West +19 40 £500 +5.26% 45
East Midlands 0 28 £447 +31.47% 25
East of England -26 14 £519 +29.69% 39
North East -2 10 £495 +100.00% 11
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 65 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 58 (6.86%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (4.14%) Apache
4 32 (3.79%) SAS
5 15 (1.78%) SharePoint
6 9 (1.07%) Confluence
7 8 (0.95%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (0.71%) GeoServer
8 6 (0.71%) Smallworld
9 4 (0.47%) Luigi
10 2 (0.24%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 88 (10.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.95%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.47%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.12%) Maple
7 1 (0.12%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 28 (3.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.71%) SAP MDG
5 5 (0.59%) Teamcenter
6 4 (0.47%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.47%) Oracle SCM
7 3 (0.36%) Actimize
7 3 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.36%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.24%) Maximo
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.24%) SAP MDG-F
8 2 (0.24%) SAP MDG-M
8 2 (0.24%) SAP MDG-S
9 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 202 (23.91%) Azure
2 187 (22.13%) Power Platform
3 185 (21.89%) AWS
4 96 (11.36%) GCP
5 91 (10.77%) Snowflake
6 60 (7.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 58 (6.86%) dbt
8 44 (5.21%) Amazon S3
9 39 (4.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 36 (4.26%) GitHub
11 34 (4.02%) Collibra
12 33 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
13 26 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (2.84%) Serverless
15 19 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (2.13%) OCI
17 17 (2.01%) PowerApps
17 17 (2.01%) SaaS
18 15 (1.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 13 (1.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.47%) HTTP
1 4 (0.47%) Internet
2 3 (0.36%) DNS
3 2 (0.24%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (21.07%) Power BI
2 167 (19.76%) Data Warehouse
3 118 (13.96%) Metadata
4 69 (8.17%) Tableau
5 59 (6.98%) Data Lake
6 53 (6.27%) SQL Server
7 51 (6.04%) Relational Database
8 46 (5.44%) Big Data
9 36 (4.26%) Snowflake Schema
10 34 (4.02%) NoSQL
10 34 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
11 31 (3.67%) Pentaho
12 29 (3.43%) BigQuery
13 24 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (2.84%) Delta Lake
14 23 (2.72%) Star Schema
15 22 (2.60%) Hadoop
15 22 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 20 (2.37%) Amazon QuickSight
16 20 (2.37%) Looker
Development Applications
1 100 (11.83%) Git
2 59 (6.98%) JIRA
3 46 (5.44%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.84%) ERwin
5 15 (1.78%) ER Studio
5 15 (1.78%) PowerDesigner
6 8 (0.95%) DBeaver
7 4 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.36%) MLflow
8 3 (0.36%) Vite
8 3 (0.36%) webpack
9 2 (0.24%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.24%) GitLab
10 1 (0.12%) Deequ
10 1 (0.12%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.12%) LSMW
10 1 (0.12%) Selenium
10 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.12%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 328 (38.82%) Social Skills
2 254 (30.06%) Finance
3 220 (26.04%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (8.88%) Banking
5 73 (8.64%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.38%) Marketing
7 21 (2.49%) Legal
7 21 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
7 21 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (2.13%) Retail
9 16 (1.89%) Investment Banking
10 15 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.42%) Billing
13 12 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.30%) Local Government
14 11 (1.30%) Publishing
15 10 (1.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 198 (23.43%) Analyst
2 177 (20.95%) Data Engineer
3 132 (15.62%) Data Analyst
4 88 (10.41%) Architect
5 85 (10.06%) Lead
6 79 (9.35%) Senior
7 63 (7.46%) Business Analyst
8 61 (7.22%) Developer
9 50 (5.92%) Data Architect
10 33 (3.91%) Consultant
10 33 (3.91%) Senior Data Engineer
11 29 (3.43%) Data Manager
11 29 (3.43%) Data Modeller
12 28 (3.31%) Data Business Analyst
13 24 (2.84%) Azure Engineer
14 19 (2.25%) Azure Data Engineer
15 18 (2.13%) Governance Analyst
16 16 (1.89%) Salesforce Architect
17 14 (1.66%) Data Consultant
18 13 (1.54%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.33%) Kafka
2 39 (4.62%) PySpark
3 26 (3.08%) XML
4 20 (2.37%) REST
5 17 (2.01%) Lightning Web Components
6 14 (1.66%) Middleware
7 13 (1.54%) Visualforce
8 12 (1.42%) SOAP
9 10 (1.18%) HTML
9 10 (1.18%) Pandas
10 8 (0.95%) Apache NiFi
10 8 (0.95%) CSS
10 8 (0.95%) JSON
10 8 (0.95%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 6 (0.71%) NumPy
11 6 (0.71%) RESTful
12 5 (0.59%) .NET
12 5 (0.59%) GraphQL
12 5 (0.59%) Great Expectations
13 4 (0.47%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (7.93%) Data Structures
2 48 (5.68%) Legacy Systems
3 31 (3.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 28 (3.31%) Cloud Native
4 28 (3.31%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.96%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.25%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.13%) Reference Data
8 14 (1.66%) Replication
9 13 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (1.54%) Reinsurance
10 11 (1.30%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.18%) NHS
12 9 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.95%) Derivative
13 8 (0.95%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.95%) Taxonomies
14 7 (0.83%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.37%) Linux
2 4 (0.47%) Unix
3 2 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (41.30%) Data Modelling
2 324 (38.34%) Data Governance
3 309 (36.57%) Analytics
4 268 (31.72%) ETL
5 266 (31.48%) Business Intelligence
6 251 (29.70%) Problem-Solving
7 201 (23.79%) Data Pipeline
8 199 (23.55%) Agile
9 157 (18.58%) Migration
10 155 (18.34%) Data Engineering
11 146 (17.28%) CI/CD
12 142 (16.80%) Data Management
13 133 (15.74%) Data Analysis
14 132 (15.62%) Decision-Making
15 130 (15.38%) Validation
16 125 (14.79%) Visualisation
17 124 (14.67%) Data Migration
18 122 (14.44%) Data Integration
19 110 (13.02%) Data Architecture
20 104 (12.31%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 414 (48.99%) SQL
2 265 (31.36%) Python
3 40 (4.73%) Java
4 29 (3.43%) Scala
5 27 (3.20%) R
6 17 (2.01%) Apex Code
6 17 (2.01%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.89%) Bash
8 12 (1.42%) C#
9 11 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (1.30%) PL/SQL
9 11 (1.30%) T-SQL
10 10 (1.18%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.07%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.95%) VBA
13 6 (0.71%) C++
13 6 (0.71%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.36%) Korn
14 3 (0.36%) PHP
15 2 (0.24%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 107 (12.66%) Security Cleared
2 81 (9.59%) Degree
2 81 (9.59%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 31 (3.67%) Master's Degree
5 18 (2.13%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.59%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.59%) PMP
9 4 (0.47%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.47%) CCAB
9 4 (0.47%) PhD
10 3 (0.36%) ACCA
10 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.36%) CIMA
10 3 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.12%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (9.11%) GDPR
2 56 (6.63%) QA
3 39 (4.62%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 9 (1.07%) PMO
6 7 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.71%) SLA
7 6 (0.71%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.59%) IFRS
9 4 (0.47%) Basel III
9 4 (0.47%) ISO 19650
10 3 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.36%) MiFID
10 3 (0.36%) WCAG
11 2 (0.24%) FATCA
11 2 (0.24%) GRC
11 2 (0.24%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.12%) EMIR
12 1 (0.12%) LOINC
12 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (6.39%) Docker
2 10 (1.18%) zsh
3 3 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.36%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 54 (6.39%) Kubernetes
2 38 (4.50%) Terraform
3 4 (0.47%) Control-M
3 4 (0.47%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.36%) Grafana
4 3 (0.36%) Hadoop YARN
4 3 (0.36%) Oozie
4 3 (0.36%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.12%) Ansible
5 1 (0.12%) Kibana
5 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.12%) logstash
5 1 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 114 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 112 (13.25%) Databricks
3 92 (10.89%) Oracle
4 55 (6.51%) SAP
5 46 (5.44%) Informatica
6 45 (5.33%) Salesforce
6 45 (5.33%) Talend
7 40 (4.73%) Google
8 30 (3.55%) Denodo
9 14 (1.66%) Sparx
10 12 (1.42%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.07%) Alteryx
11 9 (1.07%) Guidewire
11 9 (1.07%) Palantir
12 8 (0.95%) Adobe
12 8 (0.95%) Workday
13 6 (0.71%) ESRI
13 6 (0.71%) Foundry
13 6 (0.71%) Intergraph
14 5 (0.59%) Bloomberg