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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 111 126
Rank change year-on-year +29 +15 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 997 630 745
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.08% 2.36% 1.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.90% 16.42% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 411 513
10th Percentile £337 £307 £364
25th Percentile £413 £380 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +2.23%
75th Percentile £614 £634 £663
90th Percentile £722 £738 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £498 £550
% change year-on-year +0.39% -9.44% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 37
10th Percentile £17.20 £21.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.06 £15.39
Median hourly rate £19.44 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.46% - +55.66%
75th Percentile £30.87 £93.75 £51.58
90th Percentile £55.03 £97.50 £64.70
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £25.80
% change year-on-year -42.86% +35.67% +14.73%

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 5,569 3,836 5,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.18% 14.39% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,596 2,224 3,560
10th Percentile £325 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.45% +1.81%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 152 280
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.13 £20.45 £15.39
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.11 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.46% +0.35% +15.38%
75th Percentile £63.40 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £69.36 £75.00 £78.04
UK median hourly rate £26.11 £29.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.97% -3.33% +20.00%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 25 January 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 +25 597 £525 - 239
North of England -6 128 £473 +18.25% 143
Midlands +7 102 £519 +33.81% 98
West Midlands +1 80 £525 +7.58% 47
South East +9 75 £444 -26.04% 284
North West -5 70 £463 +10.45% 72
South West +11 49 £500 +2.56% 77
Yorkshire -21 42 £500 +81.82% 55
East Midlands -15 23 £439 +26.01% 50
East of England -37 18 £650 +22.64% 89
North East -1 17 £450 +81.82% 17
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 87 (8.73%) Apache Spark
2 60 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (4.21%) SAS
4 35 (3.51%) Apache
5 18 (1.81%) Confluence
5 18 (1.81%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.80%) GeoServer
6 8 (0.80%) Smallworld
7 7 (0.70%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (0.60%) Appian
9 3 (0.30%) Luigi
9 3 (0.30%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 88 (8.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (1.50%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.30%) Trello
7 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 39 (3.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.80%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.60%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.60%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.40%) Finacle
6 4 (0.40%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.40%) SystmOne
7 3 (0.30%) iTrent
7 3 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
7 3 (0.30%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.30%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.30%) SAP MDG-F
7 3 (0.30%) SAP MDG-M
7 3 (0.30%) SAP MDG-S
8 2 (0.20%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 304 (30.49%) Azure
2 235 (23.57%) Power Platform
3 195 (19.56%) AWS
4 111 (11.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 96 (9.63%) GCP
6 87 (8.73%) Snowflake
7 67 (6.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 60 (6.02%) dbt
9 54 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (4.81%) Amazon S3
10 48 (4.81%) GitHub
11 40 (4.01%) Collibra
12 34 (3.41%) Serverless
13 29 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (2.51%) Microsoft Purview
15 22 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (1.91%) OCI
17 18 (1.81%) SaaS
18 15 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
19 14 (1.40%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.30%) DNS
2 2 (0.20%) Broadband
2 2 (0.20%) HTTP
2 2 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (0.20%) SSL
2 2 (0.20%) VoIP
3 1 (0.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (22.87%) Power BI
2 186 (18.66%) Data Warehouse
3 156 (15.65%) Metadata
4 91 (9.13%) Data Lake
5 71 (7.12%) SQL Server
6 57 (5.72%) Tableau
7 50 (5.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 44 (4.41%) Snowflake Schema
9 43 (4.31%) NoSQL
10 42 (4.21%) Big Data
10 42 (4.21%) Delta Lake
11 40 (4.01%) Relational Database
12 36 (3.61%) Pentaho
13 35 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 32 (3.21%) BigQuery
15 29 (2.91%) Star Schema
16 27 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
17 26 (2.61%) Data Vault
18 21 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
19 18 (1.81%) Looker
Development Applications
1 119 (11.94%) Git
2 84 (8.43%) JIRA
3 52 (5.22%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.11%) ERwin
5 15 (1.50%) PowerDesigner
6 11 (1.10%) ER Studio
7 9 (0.90%) MLflow
8 6 (0.60%) DBeaver
9 3 (0.30%) GitLab
9 3 (0.30%) LSMW
9 3 (0.30%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.20%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.20%) Selenium
11 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.10%) Deequ
11 1 (0.10%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.10%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.10%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.10%) Vite
General
1 339 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 291 (29.19%) Finance
3 215 (21.56%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (10.83%) Public Sector
5 82 (8.22%) Banking
6 30 (3.01%) Marketing
7 27 (2.71%) Retail
8 23 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
10 20 (2.01%) Legal
11 15 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (1.40%) Local Government
12 14 (1.40%) Military
12 14 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.20%) Billing
13 12 (1.20%) Publishing
14 11 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.10%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.90%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 255 (25.58%) Data Engineer
2 211 (21.16%) Analyst
3 131 (13.14%) Data Analyst
4 103 (10.33%) Lead
5 96 (9.63%) Architect
6 95 (9.53%) Senior
7 61 (6.12%) Business Analyst
8 58 (5.82%) Data Architect
9 52 (5.22%) Developer
10 47 (4.71%) Senior Data Engineer
11 45 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
12 38 (3.81%) Azure Data Engineer
13 35 (3.51%) Consultant
14 30 (3.01%) Data Business Analyst
15 28 (2.81%) Data Manager
16 27 (2.71%) Data Modeller
17 22 (2.21%) Governance Analyst
18 20 (2.01%) Project Manager
19 15 (1.50%) Data Migration Lead
19 15 (1.50%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (9.23%) PySpark
2 62 (6.22%) Kafka
3 31 (3.11%) REST
4 19 (1.91%) Pandas
5 13 (1.30%) Middleware
5 13 (1.30%) NumPy
5 13 (1.30%) XML
6 12 (1.20%) Great Expectations
7 9 (0.90%) JSON
7 9 (0.90%) OAuth
7 9 (0.90%) SOAP
7 9 (0.90%) YAML
8 8 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
8 8 (0.80%) pytest
8 8 (0.80%) PyTorch
8 8 (0.80%) Visualforce
8 8 (0.80%) Web Services
9 7 (0.70%) Hugging Face
9 7 (0.70%) scikit-learn
9 7 (0.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 90 (9.03%) Data Structures
2 69 (6.92%) Legacy Systems
3 36 (3.61%) Cloud Native
3 36 (3.61%) Management Information System
4 32 (3.21%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 26 (2.61%) Product Ownership
6 21 (2.11%) CMDB
7 20 (2.01%) Reference Data
8 19 (1.91%) Reinsurance
9 18 (1.81%) NHS
10 16 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.40%) Replication
12 13 (1.30%) Data Centre
13 12 (1.20%) Clustering
14 10 (1.00%) Taxonomies
15 9 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
16 8 (0.80%) Algorithms
17 7 (0.70%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.50%) Linux
2 4 (0.40%) Unix
3 1 (0.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (43.83%) Data Modelling
2 383 (38.42%) Analytics
3 375 (37.61%) Data Governance
4 339 (34.00%) ETL
5 314 (31.49%) Business Intelligence
6 279 (27.98%) Data Pipeline
7 255 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
8 248 (24.87%) Agile
9 215 (21.56%) Data Engineering
10 185 (18.56%) Migration
11 177 (17.75%) CI/CD
12 165 (16.55%) Validation
13 164 (16.45%) Decision-Making
14 159 (15.95%) Data Architecture
15 150 (15.05%) Data Integration
16 149 (14.94%) Data Management
17 138 (13.84%) Data Analysis
18 134 (13.44%) AI
19 133 (13.34%) DevOps
20 130 (13.04%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 496 (49.75%) SQL
2 316 (31.70%) Python
3 43 (4.31%) Scala
4 25 (2.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 23 (2.31%) Java
6 22 (2.21%) R
7 21 (2.11%) PL/SQL
8 18 (1.81%) C#
8 18 (1.81%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.50%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.10%) Bash
11 10 (1.00%) Bicep
12 9 (0.90%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.80%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.70%) C++
14 7 (0.70%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.50%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.40%) ABAP
16 4 (0.40%) Korn
17 3 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 172 (17.25%) Security Cleared
2 130 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 59 (5.92%) Degree
4 26 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.40%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.30%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.30%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.30%) PMP
9 3 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 3 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.20%) AAT
10 2 (0.20%) ACCA
10 2 (0.20%) CFA
10 2 (0.20%) CIMA
10 2 (0.20%) PhD
11 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (8.73%) GDPR
2 59 (5.92%) QA
3 40 (4.01%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 15 (1.50%) PMO
5 11 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (0.80%) SLA
7 7 (0.70%) Basel III
7 7 (0.70%) IFRS
8 6 (0.60%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.50%) ISO 19650
10 3 (0.30%) FINREP
10 3 (0.30%) MiFID
11 2 (0.20%) CRD IV
11 2 (0.20%) EMIR
11 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.20%) HL7
11 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.20%) NIST
11 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 63 (6.32%) Docker
2 6 (0.60%) zsh
3 5 (0.50%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.10%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 63 (6.32%) Kubernetes
2 52 (5.22%) Terraform
3 3 (0.30%) Kibana
3 3 (0.30%) logstash
3 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.30%) SCCM
4 2 (0.20%) Ansible
5 1 (0.10%) Grafana
5 1 (0.10%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.10%) Oozie
5 1 (0.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 184 (18.46%) Databricks
2 144 (14.44%) Microsoft
3 98 (9.83%) Oracle
4 67 (6.72%) SAP
5 51 (5.12%) Informatica
6 49 (4.91%) Talend
7 47 (4.71%) Salesforce
8 38 (3.81%) Google
9 37 (3.71%) ServiceNow
10 34 (3.41%) Denodo
11 13 (1.30%) Sparx
12 12 (1.20%) Palantir
13 10 (1.00%) Alteryx
14 8 (0.80%) Avaloq
14 8 (0.80%) ESRI
14 8 (0.80%) Intergraph
15 7 (0.70%) Foundry
15 7 (0.70%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.70%) Workday
16 6 (0.60%) Guidewire