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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 112 116
Rank change year-on-year +41 +4 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,179 605 757
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.37% 2.38% 2.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.34% 16.02% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 809 414 512
10th Percentile £342 £308 £371
25th Percentile £413 £399 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +2.83%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £673
90th Percentile £700 £746 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 37
10th Percentile £13.95 £19.74 £13.97
25th Percentile £18.23 £22.55 £15.39
Median hourly rate £19.38 £33.91 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +41.27% +6.74%
75th Percentile £54.00 £56.25 £42.50
90th Percentile £81.40 £95.63 £61.75
UK median hourly rate £30.25 £33.91 £21.38
% change year-on-year -10.79% +58.60% -4.93%

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 6,095 3,776 5,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.42% 14.88% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,944 2,268 3,521
10th Percentile £331 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £607 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.31% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 147 323
10th Percentile £15.54 £15.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £14.52
Median hourly rate £25.50 £31.76 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year -19.71% +21.04% -25.03%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.50 £76.34 £71.62
UK median hourly rate £26.11 £30.11 £25.06
% change year-on-year -13.27% +20.14% -22.90%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 24 February 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 +38 692 £525 - 201
North of England +2 146 £475 +18.75% 109
Midlands +3 123 £510 +25.54% 78
West Midlands 0 97 £515 +8.19% 50
South East +9 83 £425 -25.57% 155
North West -3 78 £460 +2.22% 55
South West +26 65 £500 -4.76% 38
Yorkshire -27 46 £500 +138.10% 34
East of England -38 29 £581 -3.13% 30
East Midlands -18 27 £442 +24.23% 28
North East +8 23 £475 - 21
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
1 106 (8.99%) Apache Spark
2 63 (5.34%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (4.24%) Apache
4 44 (3.73%) SAS
5 26 (2.21%) Confluence
6 21 (1.78%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.76%) Appian
7 9 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.68%) GeoServer
8 8 (0.68%) Smallworld
9 5 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.25%) CMS
10 3 (0.25%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.085%) Jupyter
Applications
1 99 (8.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.19%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.25%) Trello
8 1 (0.085%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 36 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.85%) Loan IQ
4 8 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.59%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.51%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.42%) Finacle
7 5 (0.42%) SystmOne
8 4 (0.34%) Actimize
8 4 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.34%) Sage X3
8 4 (0.34%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.34%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.25%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.25%) SAP MDG-F
9 3 (0.25%) SAP MDG-M
9 3 (0.25%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 372 (31.55%) Azure
2 291 (24.68%) Power Platform
3 231 (19.59%) AWS
4 145 (12.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 116 (9.84%) GCP
6 97 (8.23%) Snowflake
7 86 (7.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 73 (6.19%) dbt
9 60 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
10 57 (4.83%) Amazon S3
11 50 (4.24%) Collibra
11 50 (4.24%) GitHub
12 48 (4.07%) Serverless
13 32 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (2.37%) Microsoft Purview
15 25 (2.12%) Power Automate
16 23 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 23 (1.95%) SaaS
17 21 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (1.44%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.25%) DNS
2 2 (0.17%) Broadband
2 2 (0.17%) HTTP
2 2 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (0.17%) SSL
2 2 (0.17%) VoIP
3 1 (0.085%) 4G
3 1 (0.085%) 5G
3 1 (0.085%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (23.75%) Power BI
2 217 (18.41%) Data Warehouse
3 172 (14.59%) Metadata
4 111 (9.41%) Data Lake
5 77 (6.53%) SQL Server
6 68 (5.77%) Tableau
7 62 (5.26%) Delta Lake
8 57 (4.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 53 (4.50%) Snowflake Schema
10 48 (4.07%) Big Data
11 46 (3.90%) Relational Database
12 45 (3.82%) BigQuery
13 44 (3.73%) NoSQL
14 35 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 33 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
16 31 (2.63%) Pentaho
17 28 (2.37%) Data Vault
18 27 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
19 23 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
20 22 (1.87%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 132 (11.20%) Git
2 85 (7.21%) JIRA
3 52 (4.41%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.95%) ERwin
5 17 (1.44%) PowerDesigner
6 13 (1.10%) MLflow
7 12 (1.02%) ER Studio
8 10 (0.85%) GitLab
9 4 (0.34%) DBeaver
10 3 (0.25%) LSMW
10 3 (0.25%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.17%) Browser DevTools
11 2 (0.17%) Postman
11 2 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.17%) Selenium
12 1 (0.085%) Deequ
12 1 (0.085%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.085%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.085%) Vite
General
1 399 (33.84%) Social Skills
2 335 (28.41%) Finance
3 268 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (10.86%) Public Sector
5 96 (8.14%) Banking
6 36 (3.05%) Marketing
7 30 (2.54%) Retail
8 27 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.78%) Legal
11 19 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (1.44%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.44%) Publishing
13 15 (1.27%) Local Government
13 15 (1.27%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.10%) Military
16 12 (1.02%) Billing
16 12 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.93%) Law
Job Titles
1 313 (26.55%) Data Engineer
2 259 (21.97%) Analyst
3 162 (13.74%) Data Analyst
4 122 (10.35%) Lead
5 120 (10.18%) Senior
6 113 (9.58%) Architect
7 75 (6.36%) Business Analyst
8 68 (5.77%) Data Architect
9 63 (5.34%) Developer
10 52 (4.41%) Senior Data Engineer
11 47 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
12 40 (3.39%) Data Business Analyst
13 39 (3.31%) Azure Data Engineer
14 37 (3.14%) Consultant
15 29 (2.46%) Data Modeller
16 23 (1.95%) Data Manager
17 21 (1.78%) Project Manager
18 20 (1.70%) Governance Analyst
18 20 (1.70%) Senior Analyst
19 18 (1.53%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (9.33%) PySpark
2 83 (7.04%) Kafka
3 34 (2.88%) REST
4 32 (2.71%) Pandas
5 20 (1.70%) NumPy
6 18 (1.53%) Great Expectations
7 17 (1.44%) scikit-learn
8 13 (1.10%) XML
9 12 (1.02%) Middleware
9 12 (1.02%) OAuth
9 12 (1.02%) PyTorch
9 12 (1.02%) TensorFlow
9 12 (1.02%) Web Services
10 11 (0.93%) JSON
10 11 (0.93%) YAML
11 10 (0.85%) Flask
11 10 (0.85%) Hugging Face
11 10 (0.85%) OpenAPI
11 10 (0.85%) pytest
11 10 (0.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 106 (8.99%) Data Structures
2 88 (7.46%) Legacy Systems
3 50 (4.24%) Cloud Native
4 48 (4.07%) Management Information System
5 37 (3.14%) Onboarding
6 35 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 33 (2.80%) Product Ownership
8 30 (2.54%) CMDB
9 24 (2.04%) Reference Data
10 21 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
11 19 (1.61%) Clustering
11 19 (1.61%) NHS
12 18 (1.53%) Reinsurance
13 14 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (1.10%) Replication
15 12 (1.02%) Taxonomies
16 11 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
17 9 (0.76%) Algorithms
17 9 (0.76%) Data Centre
17 9 (0.76%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.10%) Linux
2 5 (0.42%) Unix
3 3 (0.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.085%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (43.85%) Data Modelling
2 468 (39.69%) Analytics
3 421 (35.71%) Data Governance
4 390 (33.08%) ETL
5 384 (32.57%) Business Intelligence
6 323 (27.40%) Data Pipeline
7 282 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
8 276 (23.41%) Agile
9 271 (22.99%) Data Engineering
10 226 (19.17%) Migration
11 213 (18.07%) CI/CD
12 209 (17.73%) Validation
13 195 (16.54%) Decision-Making
14 184 (15.61%) Data Architecture
15 172 (14.59%) AI
16 167 (14.16%) Stakeholder Management
17 161 (13.66%) Data Integration
18 159 (13.49%) Data Management
19 156 (13.23%) Data Analysis
20 155 (13.15%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 604 (51.23%) SQL
2 378 (32.06%) Python
3 54 (4.58%) Scala
4 31 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 29 (2.46%) Java
6 25 (2.12%) PL/SQL
7 24 (2.04%) R
8 21 (1.78%) T-SQL
9 20 (1.70%) C#
10 16 (1.36%) JavaScript
11 12 (1.02%) Bicep
12 10 (0.85%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.85%) VBA
13 9 (0.76%) Bash
13 9 (0.76%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.59%) C++
14 7 (0.59%) TypeScript
15 6 (0.51%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.34%) ABAP
17 3 (0.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 208 (17.64%) Security Cleared
2 155 (13.15%) SC Cleared
3 71 (6.02%) Degree
4 35 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.36%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.19%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.02%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.17%) AAT
12 2 (0.17%) ACCA
12 2 (0.17%) CFA
12 2 (0.17%) CIMA
12 2 (0.17%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.17%) PhD
12 2 (0.17%) PMP
13 1 (0.085%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (8.48%) GDPR
2 74 (6.28%) QA
3 44 (3.73%) Accessibility
4 19 (1.61%) PMO
5 13 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 11 (0.93%) SLA
8 10 (0.85%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.59%) Basel III
10 6 (0.51%) IFRS
11 5 (0.42%) ISO 19650
11 5 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.34%) FINREP
12 4 (0.34%) MiFID
12 4 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.25%) NIST
14 2 (0.17%) EMIR
14 2 (0.17%) FATCA
14 2 (0.17%) HL7
System Software
1 68 (5.77%) Docker
2 5 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.34%) zsh
4 2 (0.17%) HDFS
5 1 (0.085%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (7.04%) Terraform
2 67 (5.68%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.34%) Kibana
3 4 (0.34%) SCCM
4 3 (0.25%) Ansible
4 3 (0.25%) Grafana
4 3 (0.25%) logstash
4 3 (0.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.085%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.085%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.085%) Oozie
5 1 (0.085%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 226 (19.17%) Databricks
2 174 (14.76%) Microsoft
3 93 (7.89%) Oracle
4 75 (6.36%) SAP
5 60 (5.09%) Informatica
6 57 (4.83%) Salesforce
7 52 (4.41%) Talend
8 46 (3.90%) Google
9 44 (3.73%) ServiceNow
10 31 (2.63%) Denodo
11 14 (1.19%) Palantir
12 13 (1.10%) Sparx
13 12 (1.02%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.76%) Automation Anywhere
14 9 (0.76%) Avaloq
14 9 (0.76%) Foundry
15 8 (0.68%) ESRI
15 8 (0.68%) Intergraph
15 8 (0.68%) UiPath
15 8 (0.68%) Workday