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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 103 114
Rank change year-on-year +40 +11 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,431 617 741
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.56% 2.52% 2.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.04% 16.00% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 982 428 514
10th Percentile £350 £325 £351
25th Percentile £413 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £590 £625 £675
90th Percentile £675 £725 £796
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £531
% change year-on-year -2.44% -3.48% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 19 30
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £13.92
25th Percentile £17.18 £22.12 £15.39
Median hourly rate £31.50 £31.64 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +40.26% +0.32%
75th Percentile £62.25 £34.73 £49.44
90th Percentile £82.40 £81.71 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £16.34
% change year-on-year +58.03% +93.69% -27.35%

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 6,801 3,857 5,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.94% 15.77% 14.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,435 2,475 3,349
10th Percentile £339 £272 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £602 £630 £638
90th Percentile £704 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 427 160 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.78 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.27 £13.14
Median hourly rate £30.58 £34.75 £22.42
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +55.00% -44.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £80.31 £79.11 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £34.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -5.80% +64.29% -44.00%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +51 790 £525 - 258
North of England +11 181 £495 +10.00% 116
Midlands +18 159 £500 +5.26% 85
West Midlands +21 124 £500 -4.76% 59
South East +10 119 £450 -11.98% 184
North West +19 102 £488 +4.84% 77
South West +13 82 £500 -4.76% 48
East of England -26 57 £581 -3.13% 34
Yorkshire -36 55 £498 +80.91% 27
East Midlands -18 36 £475 +15.92% 26
North East - 24 £475 - 13
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
1 114 (7.97%) Apache Spark
2 77 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (3.63%) Apache
4 42 (2.94%) SAS
5 35 (2.45%) Confluence
6 34 (2.38%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.63%) Appian
8 6 (0.42%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.28%) CMS
9 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
10 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.070%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.070%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 129 (9.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (1.40%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 46 (3.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.84%) Loan IQ
3 10 (0.70%) iTrent
3 10 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.63%) NEC Housing
4 9 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.42%) Finacle
6 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.42%) SAP MDG
6 6 (0.42%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.42%) SystmOne
7 5 (0.35%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.35%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.28%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 446 (31.17%) Azure
2 368 (25.72%) Power Platform
3 251 (17.54%) AWS
4 188 (13.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 124 (8.67%) GCP
6 114 (7.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 97 (6.78%) Snowflake
8 93 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
9 91 (6.36%) dbt
10 73 (5.10%) Amazon S3
11 70 (4.89%) GitHub
12 59 (4.12%) Collibra
12 59 (4.12%) Serverless
13 40 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
14 35 (2.45%) Microsoft Purview
15 33 (2.31%) Power Automate
16 31 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
17 29 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
18 25 (1.75%) SaaS
19 18 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.49%) Firewall
2 5 (0.35%) VPN
3 3 (0.21%) HTTP
4 2 (0.14%) Broadband
4 2 (0.14%) DNS
4 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.14%) SSL
4 2 (0.14%) VoIP
5 1 (0.070%) 4G
5 1 (0.070%) 5G
5 1 (0.070%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 352 (24.60%) Power BI
2 258 (18.03%) Data Warehouse
3 203 (14.19%) Metadata
4 144 (10.06%) Data Lake
5 106 (7.41%) Tableau
6 98 (6.85%) SQL Server
7 77 (5.38%) Delta Lake
8 65 (4.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 64 (4.47%) BigQuery
10 52 (3.63%) Snowflake Schema
11 51 (3.56%) Big Data
12 48 (3.35%) NoSQL
13 47 (3.28%) Relational Database
14 45 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
15 40 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 35 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
17 29 (2.03%) Star Schema
18 27 (1.89%) OLAP
18 27 (1.89%) Power Query
19 26 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 122 (8.53%) Git
2 103 (7.20%) JIRA
3 48 (3.35%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.33%) ERwin
4 19 (1.33%) GitLab
5 17 (1.19%) MLflow
6 13 (0.91%) PowerDesigner
7 7 (0.49%) ER Studio
8 6 (0.42%) Selenium
9 5 (0.35%) LSMW
9 5 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.21%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.21%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.21%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.14%) Postman
13 1 (0.070%) GCC
13 1 (0.070%) Hudson
13 1 (0.070%) SonarQube
General
1 462 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 428 (29.91%) Finance
3 338 (23.62%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (11.32%) Public Sector
5 118 (8.25%) Banking
6 41 (2.87%) Marketing
7 39 (2.73%) Retail
8 37 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
9 30 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (2.03%) Legal
11 28 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (1.75%) Local Government
13 22 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.47%) Military
15 19 (1.33%) Law
16 17 (1.19%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (1.12%) Manufacturing
18 14 (0.98%) Investment Banking
19 13 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 383 (26.76%) Data Engineer
2 293 (20.48%) Analyst
3 176 (12.30%) Data Analyst
4 168 (11.74%) Senior
5 131 (9.15%) Lead
6 121 (8.46%) Architect
7 87 (6.08%) Business Analyst
8 77 (5.38%) Developer
9 71 (4.96%) Data Architect
10 68 (4.75%) Senior Data Engineer
11 52 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
12 47 (3.28%) Data Manager
13 44 (3.07%) Consultant
14 43 (3.00%) Azure Data Engineer
15 34 (2.38%) Data Business Analyst
16 29 (2.03%) Project Manager
17 26 (1.82%) Data Migration Lead
18 25 (1.75%) Data Scientist
19 23 (1.61%) AWS Engineer
19 23 (1.61%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (9.29%) PySpark
2 103 (7.20%) Kafka
3 45 (3.14%) Pandas
4 44 (3.07%) REST
5 31 (2.17%) Great Expectations
6 29 (2.03%) JSON
7 24 (1.68%) scikit-learn
8 19 (1.33%) NumPy
9 17 (1.19%) Web Services
10 16 (1.12%) PyTorch
11 15 (1.05%) Middleware
11 15 (1.05%) OAuth
12 14 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (0.91%) pytest
13 13 (0.91%) TensorFlow
14 12 (0.84%) YAML
15 11 (0.77%) .NET
15 11 (0.77%) Flask
15 11 (0.77%) GeoJSON
15 11 (0.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 117 (8.18%) Data Structures
2 101 (7.06%) Legacy Systems
3 73 (5.10%) Cloud Native
4 68 (4.75%) Onboarding
5 64 (4.47%) Management Information System
6 57 (3.98%) Product Ownership
7 43 (3.00%) CMDB
8 31 (2.17%) Reference Data
9 25 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.40%) Clustering
12 19 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
12 19 (1.33%) NHS
13 17 (1.19%) AI Agents
14 16 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
15 14 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.98%) Taxonomies
16 12 (0.84%) Fixed Income
17 11 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
17 11 (0.77%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.84%) Linux
2 11 (0.77%) Unix
3 10 (0.70%) Windows
4 1 (0.070%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 628 (43.89%) Data Modelling
2 545 (38.09%) Analytics
3 494 (34.52%) Data Governance
4 475 (33.19%) ETL
5 444 (31.03%) Business Intelligence
6 430 (30.05%) Data Pipeline
7 329 (22.99%) Agile
8 327 (22.85%) Data Engineering
9 320 (22.36%) Validation
10 311 (21.73%) Migration
11 301 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
12 283 (19.78%) Decision-Making
13 273 (19.08%) CI/CD
14 229 (16.00%) AI
15 225 (15.72%) Data Architecture
16 209 (14.61%) Stakeholder Management
17 208 (14.54%) Data Migration
18 193 (13.49%) DevOps
19 190 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
20 181 (12.65%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 713 (49.83%) SQL
2 442 (30.89%) Python
3 59 (4.12%) Scala
4 48 (3.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 42 (2.94%) Java
6 36 (2.52%) T-SQL
7 31 (2.17%) PL/SQL
8 26 (1.82%) C#
9 22 (1.54%) PowerShell
9 22 (1.54%) R
10 17 (1.19%) VBA
11 16 (1.12%) JavaScript
12 14 (0.98%) Bicep
13 12 (0.84%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.63%) Bash
15 5 (0.35%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.28%) ABAP
16 4 (0.28%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 262 (18.31%) Security Cleared
2 198 (13.84%) SC Cleared
3 82 (5.73%) Degree
4 48 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.40%) Azure Certification
7 13 (0.91%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.70%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.70%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.35%) PhD
11 4 (0.28%) ACCA
11 4 (0.28%) CIMA
11 4 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.28%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.28%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.21%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.21%) PMP
13 2 (0.14%) CFA
13 2 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (8.32%) GDPR
2 90 (6.29%) QA
3 30 (2.10%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.75%) PMO
5 16 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.05%) SLA
7 12 (0.84%) Solvency II
8 10 (0.70%) FINREP
9 9 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.56%) COREP
11 7 (0.49%) IFRS
12 6 (0.42%) Basel III
12 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.35%) MiFID
13 5 (0.35%) NIST
14 4 (0.28%) BS7666
14 4 (0.28%) GRC
15 2 (0.14%) HL7
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 71 (4.96%) Docker
2 8 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.35%) etcd
4 1 (0.070%) HDFS
4 1 (0.070%) RACF
4 1 (0.070%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 109 (7.62%) Terraform
2 78 (5.45%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.77%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.70%) Grafana
5 8 (0.56%) Ansible
6 6 (0.42%) Kibana
7 5 (0.35%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.35%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.28%) SCCM
9 3 (0.21%) logstash
9 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.070%) Control-M
10 1 (0.070%) Istio
10 1 (0.070%) Nessus
10 1 (0.070%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 262 (18.31%) Databricks
2 237 (16.56%) Microsoft
3 115 (8.04%) SAP
4 102 (7.13%) Oracle
5 69 (4.82%) Salesforce
6 67 (4.68%) Informatica
7 60 (4.19%) ServiceNow
8 52 (3.63%) Google
9 42 (2.94%) Talend
10 27 (1.89%) Denodo
11 16 (1.12%) IBM
11 16 (1.12%) Workday
12 14 (0.98%) GoldenSource
13 12 (0.84%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.77%) Avaloq
15 10 (0.70%) NEC
15 10 (0.70%) Sparx
16 9 (0.63%) Adobe
16 9 (0.63%) Automation Anywhere
16 9 (0.63%) ESRI