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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 99 121
Rank change year-on-year +53 +22 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,063 756 683
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.45% 2.71% 2.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.99% 15.68% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,327 491 466
10th Percentile £353 £334 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £614 £638 £713
90th Percentile £700 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +0.49% -7.27% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 12 10
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.55 £21.25
25th Percentile £17.57 £27.80 £35.00
Median hourly rate £30.14 £37.74 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.14% -14.24% +17.26%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.00 £86.06
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.38 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £40.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -25.56% +7.32% +5.25%

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 8,255 4,820 4,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.81% 17.26% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,174 3,146 2,521
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.60%
75th Percentile £613 £624 £638
90th Percentile £714 £716 £756
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +1.00% -0.10% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 611 229 208
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.84 £17.96 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -4.21% -5.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.40 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.55 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.40 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.98% +9.09% -22.54%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 27 September 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 +55 1,109 £525 -4.55% 1,435
North of England +45 286 £463 +1.37% 428
Midlands +32 219 £465 -7.00% 242
South East +30 214 £500 +8.40% 313
West Midlands +28 172 £470 -10.48% 167
North West +18 148 £525 +16.67% 260
South West +26 115 £500 +8.11% 145
Yorkshire +25 115 £450 -10.00% 127
East of England +16 73 £525 -13.15% 164
East Midlands +8 46 £450 +0.67% 75
North East -18 24 £491 +12.29% 42
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
1 129 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (4.46%) Apache Spark
3 77 (3.73%) Apache
4 64 (3.10%) Confluence
5 47 (2.28%) SAS
6 45 (2.18%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.63%) CMS
7 13 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.39%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.097%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.097%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.048%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.048%) GeoServer
14 1 (0.048%) Luigi
14 1 (0.048%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 160 (7.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
4 15 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.68%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.097%) CATIA
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.048%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.048%) Trello
9 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 66 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.73%) Aladdin
3 15 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.58%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.53%) NEC Housing
6 10 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.44%) SAP MDG
8 8 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.39%) SAP HR
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.29%) Maximo
10 6 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
11 5 (0.24%) iTrent
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.24%) Shopify
12 4 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 4 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 520 (25.21%) Azure
2 441 (21.38%) Power Platform
3 372 (18.03%) AWS
4 182 (8.82%) GCP
5 170 (8.24%) Snowflake
6 145 (7.03%) Azure Data Factory
7 136 (6.59%) dbt
8 108 (5.24%) Amazon S3
9 104 (5.04%) Serverless
10 103 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
11 90 (4.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 85 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
13 76 (3.68%) GitHub
14 70 (3.39%) Microsoft Purview
15 55 (2.67%) Collibra
16 51 (2.47%) Power Automate
17 46 (2.23%) SaaS
18 44 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
19 42 (2.04%) Azure Databricks
19 42 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.29%) Broadband
1 6 (0.29%) SD-WAN
1 6 (0.29%) WAN
2 5 (0.24%) Firewall
2 5 (0.24%) SNMP
2 5 (0.24%) Wireless
3 3 (0.15%) HTTP
4 2 (0.097%) DNS
4 2 (0.097%) Network Security
4 2 (0.097%) SSL
5 1 (0.048%) BGP
5 1 (0.048%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.048%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.048%) LAN
5 1 (0.048%) MPLS
5 1 (0.048%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.048%) OSPF
5 1 (0.048%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.048%) VLAN
5 1 (0.048%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 413 (20.02%) Power BI
2 340 (16.48%) Metadata
3 325 (15.75%) Data Warehouse
4 177 (8.58%) Data Lake
5 116 (5.62%) Tableau
6 97 (4.70%) BigQuery
7 86 (4.17%) SQL Server
8 84 (4.07%) Delta Lake
9 81 (3.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 78 (3.78%) Relational Database
11 67 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
12 51 (2.47%) NoSQL
13 43 (2.08%) Power Query
14 42 (2.04%) Big Data
15 38 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
16 36 (1.75%) Looker
17 34 (1.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 31 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
19 30 (1.45%) Star Schema
20 28 (1.36%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 129 (6.25%) Git
2 128 (6.20%) JIRA
3 33 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.45%) GitLab
5 12 (0.58%) ERwin
6 10 (0.48%) Postman
7 9 (0.44%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.44%) ER Studio
7 9 (0.44%) MLflow
7 9 (0.44%) Selenium
8 8 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.29%) Ant
9 6 (0.29%) Newman
9 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.24%) RStudio
10 5 (0.24%) Terragrunt
11 4 (0.19%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.19%) TestRail
11 4 (0.19%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 657 (31.85%) Social Skills
2 632 (30.63%) Finance
3 489 (23.70%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (12.26%) Public Sector
5 186 (9.02%) Banking
6 70 (3.39%) Retail
7 63 (3.05%) Manufacturing
8 54 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
8 54 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
9 52 (2.52%) Marketing
10 47 (2.28%) Local Government
11 45 (2.18%) Military
12 44 (2.13%) Legal
13 43 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
14 36 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 25 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
16 24 (1.16%) Law
17 23 (1.11%) Automotive
17 23 (1.11%) Front Office
17 23 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 434 (21.04%) Data Engineer
2 431 (20.89%) Analyst
3 254 (12.31%) Senior
4 239 (11.59%) Lead
5 227 (11.00%) Data Analyst
6 219 (10.62%) Architect
7 141 (6.83%) Data Architect
8 118 (5.72%) Senior Data Engineer
9 116 (5.62%) Business Analyst
10 115 (5.57%) Developer
11 84 (4.07%) Consultant
12 72 (3.49%) Administrator
13 64 (3.10%) Data Manager
14 50 (2.42%) Data Business Analyst
14 50 (2.42%) Data Consultant
15 40 (1.94%) Databricks Engineer
16 37 (1.79%) Lead Data Engineer
16 37 (1.79%) Senior Analyst
17 34 (1.65%) Snowflake Engineer
18 33 (1.60%) Databricks Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (8.43%) PySpark
2 138 (6.69%) Terraform
3 71 (3.44%) Kafka
4 55 (2.67%) REST
5 42 (2.04%) JSON
6 33 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.21%) Web Services
8 24 (1.16%) XML
9 21 (1.02%) Great Expectations
9 21 (1.02%) Middleware
9 21 (1.02%) SOAP
10 20 (0.97%) Pandas
11 18 (0.87%) HTML
12 16 (0.78%) .NET
13 14 (0.68%) pytest
14 12 (0.58%) OAuth
14 12 (0.58%) OpenID
15 11 (0.53%) CSS
15 11 (0.53%) OpenTelemetry
16 10 (0.48%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 185 (8.97%) Data Structures
2 132 (6.40%) Onboarding
3 119 (5.77%) Cloud Native
4 106 (5.14%) Product Ownership
5 99 (4.80%) Management Information System
6 95 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
7 60 (2.91%) CMDB
8 46 (2.23%) Reference Data
9 44 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
10 40 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (1.89%) AI Agents
12 30 (1.45%) Taxonomies
13 27 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
13 27 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
14 23 (1.11%) NHS
15 21 (1.02%) Life Science
16 19 (0.92%) Algorithms
17 16 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
18 15 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.36%) Unix
2 17 (0.82%) Linux
3 10 (0.48%) Windows
4 1 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 809 (39.21%) Data Modelling
2 757 (36.69%) Analytics
3 731 (35.43%) Data Governance
4 561 (27.19%) Data Pipeline
5 552 (26.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 540 (26.18%) Validation
7 525 (25.45%) Business Intelligence
8 510 (24.72%) ETL
9 487 (23.61%) Migration
10 468 (22.69%) Data Engineering
11 425 (20.60%) Agile
11 425 (20.60%) AI
12 400 (19.39%) Decision-Making
13 383 (18.57%) CI/CD
14 372 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
15 336 (16.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 315 (15.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 299 (14.49%) Data Architecture
18 282 (13.67%) Data Migration
19 277 (13.43%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 894 (43.33%) SQL
2 553 (26.81%) Python
3 60 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 58 (2.81%) Java
5 39 (1.89%) PL/SQL
6 33 (1.60%) Scala
7 32 (1.55%) T-SQL
8 31 (1.50%) Shell Script
9 29 (1.41%) JavaScript
10 27 (1.31%) PowerShell
11 23 (1.11%) C#
11 23 (1.11%) R
12 17 (0.82%) Bash
13 13 (0.63%) Bicep
14 9 (0.44%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.44%) Korn
14 9 (0.44%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.39%) SOQL
16 7 (0.34%) VBA
17 6 (0.29%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 326 (15.80%) Security Cleared
2 255 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 132 (6.40%) Degree
4 49 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.45%) Azure Certification
5 30 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 25 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 23 (1.11%) PMI Certification
9 21 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (0.97%) Master's Degree
11 19 (0.92%) PMP
12 13 (0.63%) ACCA
12 13 (0.63%) CIMA
13 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.39%) CISSP
14 7 (0.34%) CIPD
14 7 (0.34%) CISM
15 6 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (7.13%) QA
2 125 (6.06%) GDPR
3 41 (1.99%) Accessibility
4 36 (1.75%) PMO
5 25 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.11%) SLA
7 20 (0.97%) GRC
7 20 (0.97%) NIST
8 16 (0.78%) IFRS
9 14 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
9 14 (0.68%) NCSC
10 10 (0.48%) Solvency II
11 8 (0.39%) Basel III
11 8 (0.39%) IFRS 17
12 7 (0.34%) COBIT
12 7 (0.34%) COREP
12 7 (0.34%) FINREP
13 6 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 69 (3.34%) Docker
2 19 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.097%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.048%) HDFS
4 1 (0.048%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (3.25%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.68%) Grafana
2 14 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (0.48%) Ansible
4 8 (0.39%) Control-M
5 6 (0.29%) Kibana
6 4 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.19%) SCCM
7 3 (0.15%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.048%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.048%) Istio
8 1 (0.048%) logstash
8 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.048%) Nexpose
8 1 (0.048%) Puppet
8 1 (0.048%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 400 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 302 (14.64%) Databricks
3 157 (7.61%) SAP
4 143 (6.93%) Oracle
5 97 (4.70%) ServiceNow
6 81 (3.93%) Informatica
7 73 (3.54%) Google
8 68 (3.30%) Salesforce
9 39 (1.89%) Workday
10 28 (1.36%) Adobe
11 26 (1.26%) IBM
12 23 (1.11%) Alteryx
13 22 (1.07%) Palantir
14 21 (1.02%) Splunk
15 20 (0.97%) Talend
16 19 (0.92%) Denodo
17 17 (0.82%) Foundry
18 13 (0.63%) Bloomberg
19 12 (0.58%) Teradata
20 11 (0.53%) NEC