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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 111 124
Rank change year-on-year +24 +13 +51
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 956 638 720
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.02% 2.25% 1.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.43% 15.88% 13.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 664 423 504
10th Percentile £336 £308 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +0.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £688
90th Percentile £722 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +0.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 22
10th Percentile - £21.25 £20.07
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.75 £29.56
Median hourly rate £19.75 £35.00 £43.28
Median % change year-on-year -43.57% -19.13% +92.47%
75th Percentile £40.16 £95.63 £59.25
90th Percentile £68.73 £97.50 £64.95
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £43.28
% change year-on-year -17.14% -19.13% +92.47%

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 5,484 4,018 5,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.32% 14.20% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,567 2,336 3,506
10th Percentile £313 £265 £325
25th Percentile £406 £382 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £650
90th Percentile £703 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 160 216
10th Percentile £15.61 £14.70 £14.10
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.27 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.67 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.98% -9.14% +43.40%
75th Percentile £60.77 £64.73 £61.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £83.18
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -12.12% +45.47%

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 31 December 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 31 December 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 31 December 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 +29 572 £525 - 459
North of England -5 122 £475 +15.15% 470
Midlands +15 98 £515 +24.85% 379
West Midlands +6 71 £525 +10.29% 210
South East 0 71 £420 -26.96% 581
North West -7 63 £463 +8.82% 244
Yorkshire -13 47 £500 +33.33% 194
South West +17 45 £500 +2.56% 251
East Midlands +2 28 £430 +23.56% 141
East of England -35 16 £581 +12.86% 328
North East -1 13 £475 +91.92% 32
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 88 (9.21%) Apache Spark
2 55 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (3.87%) SAS
4 34 (3.56%) Apache
5 17 (1.78%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.46%) Confluence
7 7 (0.73%) GeoServer
7 7 (0.73%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (0.73%) Smallworld
8 3 (0.31%) Luigi
8 3 (0.31%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.21%) Appian
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.10%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 97 (10.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.21%) Trello
8 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 38 (3.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.63%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.63%) SAP MDG
5 4 (0.42%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.42%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
6 3 (0.31%) SAP MDG-F
6 3 (0.31%) SAP MDG-M
6 3 (0.31%) SAP MDG-S
6 3 (0.31%) SystmOne
7 2 (0.21%) Actimize
7 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.21%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.21%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 270 (28.24%) Azure
2 225 (23.54%) Power Platform
3 189 (19.77%) AWS
4 97 (10.15%) GCP
5 92 (9.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 83 (8.68%) Snowflake
7 56 (5.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 50 (5.23%) Amazon S3
8 50 (5.23%) dbt
9 43 (4.50%) Collibra
10 41 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (4.18%) GitHub
12 29 (3.03%) Serverless
13 27 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (1.99%) OCI
16 16 (1.67%) SaaS
17 15 (1.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 14 (1.46%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.42%) DNS
2 3 (0.31%) HTTP
3 2 (0.21%) Broadband
3 2 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.21%) SSL
3 2 (0.21%) VoIP
4 1 (0.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (23.01%) Power BI
2 182 (19.04%) Data Warehouse
3 150 (15.69%) Metadata
4 82 (8.58%) Data Lake
5 65 (6.80%) Tableau
6 61 (6.38%) SQL Server
7 45 (4.71%) Big Data
7 45 (4.71%) Relational Database
8 44 (4.60%) NoSQL
9 43 (4.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 42 (4.39%) Snowflake Schema
11 34 (3.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 33 (3.45%) Pentaho
13 31 (3.24%) BigQuery
14 30 (3.14%) Delta Lake
15 28 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
15 28 (2.93%) Star Schema
16 22 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
17 21 (2.20%) Data Vault
18 20 (2.09%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 118 (12.34%) Git
2 69 (7.22%) JIRA
3 48 (5.02%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.88%) ERwin
5 15 (1.57%) PowerDesigner
6 11 (1.15%) ER Studio
7 6 (0.63%) DBeaver
7 6 (0.63%) MLflow
8 3 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.31%) LSMW
9 2 (0.21%) GitLab
9 2 (0.21%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.21%) Vite
9 2 (0.21%) webpack
10 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.10%) Deequ
10 1 (0.10%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.10%) Selenium
10 1 (0.10%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 331 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 289 (30.23%) Finance
3 222 (23.22%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (10.56%) Public Sector
5 80 (8.37%) Banking
6 39 (4.08%) Marketing
7 21 (2.20%) Legal
7 21 (2.20%) Retail
8 20 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (1.99%) Local Government
10 16 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.46%) Military
12 13 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.26%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.26%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.15%) Publishing
15 10 (1.05%) Billing
Job Titles
1 217 (22.70%) Analyst
2 216 (22.59%) Data Engineer
3 134 (14.02%) Data Analyst
4 98 (10.25%) Lead
5 92 (9.62%) Architect
6 90 (9.41%) Senior
7 69 (7.22%) Business Analyst
8 58 (6.07%) Developer
9 55 (5.75%) Data Architect
10 40 (4.18%) Azure Engineer
10 40 (4.18%) Senior Data Engineer
11 33 (3.45%) Azure Data Engineer
11 33 (3.45%) Data Business Analyst
12 32 (3.35%) Consultant
13 27 (2.82%) Data Manager
14 25 (2.62%) Data Modeller
15 21 (2.20%) Governance Analyst
16 17 (1.78%) Project Manager
16 17 (1.78%) Salesforce Architect
16 17 (1.78%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (8.58%) PySpark
2 57 (5.96%) Kafka
3 30 (3.14%) REST
4 22 (2.30%) XML
5 15 (1.57%) Middleware
5 15 (1.57%) Pandas
6 14 (1.46%) SOAP
7 13 (1.36%) Lightning Web Components
7 13 (1.36%) Visualforce
8 10 (1.05%) Great Expectations
8 10 (1.05%) JSON
9 9 (0.94%) NumPy
10 8 (0.84%) HTML
10 8 (0.84%) RESTful
11 7 (0.73%) YAML
12 6 (0.63%) .NET
12 6 (0.63%) Apache NiFi
12 6 (0.63%) OAuth
12 6 (0.63%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 6 (0.63%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 85 (8.89%) Data Structures
2 56 (5.86%) Legacy Systems
3 30 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 30 (3.14%) Cloud Native
4 28 (2.93%) Management Information System
4 28 (2.93%) Onboarding
4 28 (2.93%) Product Ownership
5 19 (1.99%) CMDB
5 19 (1.99%) Reference Data
6 16 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (1.67%) NHS
7 14 (1.46%) Replication
8 13 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.26%) Reinsurance
10 11 (1.15%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.05%) Clustering
12 9 (0.94%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.78%) Linux
2 4 (0.42%) Unix
3 2 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (42.15%) Data Modelling
2 369 (38.60%) Data Governance
3 354 (37.03%) Analytics
4 307 (32.11%) Business Intelligence
5 306 (32.01%) ETL
6 265 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
7 241 (25.21%) Data Pipeline
8 239 (25.00%) Agile
9 194 (20.29%) Data Engineering
10 186 (19.46%) Migration
11 159 (16.63%) CI/CD
12 156 (16.32%) Validation
13 152 (15.90%) Data Management
14 150 (15.69%) Decision-Making
15 144 (15.06%) Data Architecture
16 141 (14.75%) Data Analysis
17 137 (14.33%) Data Integration
18 136 (14.23%) Data Migration
19 119 (12.45%) DevOps
19 119 (12.45%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 475 (49.69%) SQL
2 300 (31.38%) Python
3 40 (4.18%) Scala
4 29 (3.03%) R
5 26 (2.72%) Java
6 19 (1.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (1.78%) C#
7 17 (1.78%) PL/SQL
7 17 (1.78%) T-SQL
8 16 (1.67%) JavaScript
9 13 (1.36%) Apex Code
9 13 (1.36%) Bash
10 8 (0.84%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.73%) Bicep
11 7 (0.73%) C++
12 6 (0.63%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.63%) VBA
13 5 (0.52%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.42%) ABAP
15 3 (0.31%) Korn
Qualifications
1 145 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 106 (11.09%) SC Cleared
3 76 (7.95%) Degree
4 36 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.41%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.57%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.36%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.05%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.42%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.42%) PMP
11 3 (0.31%) CCAB
11 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.31%) PhD
11 3 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.21%) ACCA
12 2 (0.21%) CFA
12 2 (0.21%) CIMA
13 1 (0.10%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (9.41%) GDPR
2 61 (6.38%) QA
3 41 (4.29%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 14 (1.46%) PMO
6 12 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.84%) Basel III
7 8 (0.84%) SLA
8 7 (0.73%) IFRS
9 5 (0.52%) ISO 19650
10 4 (0.42%) MiFID
10 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.31%) FINREP
11 3 (0.31%) GRC
11 3 (0.31%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.21%) CRD IV
12 2 (0.21%) EMIR
12 2 (0.21%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.21%) NIST
12 2 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (6.17%) Docker
2 8 (0.84%) zsh
3 4 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 56 (5.86%) Kubernetes
2 44 (4.60%) Terraform
3 3 (0.31%) Control-M
3 3 (0.31%) Hadoop YARN
3 3 (0.31%) Oozie
3 3 (0.31%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.21%) Ansible
4 2 (0.21%) Kibana
4 2 (0.21%) logstash
5 1 (0.10%) Grafana
5 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 168 (17.57%) Databricks
2 134 (14.02%) Microsoft
3 89 (9.31%) Oracle
4 65 (6.80%) SAP
5 47 (4.92%) Salesforce
6 46 (4.81%) Talend
7 45 (4.71%) Informatica
8 40 (4.18%) Google
9 33 (3.45%) ServiceNow
10 31 (3.24%) Denodo
11 13 (1.36%) Sparx
12 12 (1.26%) Alteryx
13 11 (1.15%) Palantir
14 9 (0.94%) Adobe
15 7 (0.73%) ESRI
15 7 (0.73%) Foundry
15 7 (0.73%) Intergraph
15 7 (0.73%) Workday
16 6 (0.63%) Guidewire
17 4 (0.42%) Planview