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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 106 114
Rank change year-on-year +44 +8 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,416 610 743
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.60% 2.50% 1.99%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.06% 15.96% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 982 424 516
10th Percentile £350 £325 £351
25th Percentile £413 £404 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £545
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -6.42% -0.91%
75th Percentile £590 £625 £676
90th Percentile £675 £725 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £536
% change year-on-year - -6.72% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 31
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £14.13
25th Percentile £17.23 £22.55 £15.39
Median hourly rate £30.49 £29.07 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.88% +21.13% +6.74%
75th Percentile £69.44 £34.60 £50.42
90th Percentile £82.85 £80.21 £61.75
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £29.07 £18.67
% change year-on-year +72.00% +55.75% -16.99%

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 6,724 3,823 5,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.09% 15.64% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,381 2,465 3,395
10th Percentile £340 £269 £304
25th Percentile £413 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.30% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £604 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 410 156 341
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.71 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.24 £12.84
Median hourly rate £30.58 £33.81 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +64.90% -50.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.55 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £31.86 £32.66 £20.47
% change year-on-year -2.43% +59.57% -45.43%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +50 786 £525 - 258
North of England +10 180 £495 +10.00% 150
Midlands +10 162 £500 +5.26% 98
West Midlands +22 128 £510 -2.86% 65
South East +14 112 £450 -11.98% 124
North West +14 101 £498 +6.99% 83
South West +15 78 £500 +2.56% 61
East of England -21 58 £575 -4.17% 48
Yorkshire -29 55 £495 +80.00% 54
East Midlands -15 35 £450 +9.82% 33
North East - 24 £475 - 15
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
1 119 (8.40%) Apache Spark
2 77 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (3.95%) Apache
4 51 (3.60%) SAS
5 34 (2.40%) Confluence
5 34 (2.40%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.64%) Appian
7 6 (0.42%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.28%) CMS
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%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.071%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 125 (8.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 1 (0.071%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 46 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.85%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.71%) iTrent
5 8 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.49%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.42%) Finacle
7 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.42%) SAP MDG
7 6 (0.42%) SAP MM
7 6 (0.42%) SystmOne
8 5 (0.35%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.35%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.28%) SAP PM
10 3 (0.21%) Actimize
10 3 (0.21%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 441 (31.14%) Azure
2 366 (25.85%) Power Platform
3 258 (18.22%) AWS
4 187 (13.21%) Azure Data Factory
5 126 (8.90%) GCP
6 114 (8.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 100 (7.06%) Snowflake
8 92 (6.50%) dbt
9 90 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
10 79 (5.58%) Amazon S3
11 69 (4.87%) GitHub
12 61 (4.31%) Collibra
12 61 (4.31%) Serverless
13 42 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
14 35 (2.47%) Microsoft Purview
15 31 (2.19%) Power Automate
16 30 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
17 29 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
18 21 (1.48%) SaaS
19 20 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.35%) VPN
2 4 (0.28%) Firewall
3 2 (0.14%) Broadband
3 2 (0.14%) DNS
3 2 (0.14%) HTTP
3 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.14%) SSL
3 2 (0.14%) VoIP
4 1 (0.071%) 4G
4 1 (0.071%) 5G
4 1 (0.071%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 350 (24.72%) Power BI
2 258 (18.22%) Data Warehouse
3 207 (14.62%) Metadata
4 140 (9.89%) Data Lake
5 100 (7.06%) Tableau
6 97 (6.85%) SQL Server
7 75 (5.30%) Delta Lake
8 69 (4.87%) Azure SQL Database
9 63 (4.45%) BigQuery
10 54 (3.81%) Snowflake Schema
11 53 (3.74%) NoSQL
12 48 (3.39%) Big Data
13 46 (3.25%) Amazon Redshift
13 46 (3.25%) Relational Database
14 40 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 38 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
16 34 (2.40%) Pentaho
17 29 (2.05%) OLAP
17 29 (2.05%) Star Schema
18 28 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 131 (9.25%) Git
2 105 (7.42%) JIRA
3 56 (3.95%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.41%) ERwin
5 18 (1.27%) GitLab
6 17 (1.20%) MLflow
7 14 (0.99%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.49%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.42%) Selenium
10 5 (0.35%) LSMW
10 5 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.21%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.21%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.21%) Zephyr
13 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.14%) Postman
14 1 (0.071%) Claude Code
14 1 (0.071%) Liquibase
14 1 (0.071%) SonarQube
General
1 463 (32.70%) Social Skills
2 417 (29.45%) Finance
3 336 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (11.16%) Public Sector
5 113 (7.98%) Banking
6 43 (3.04%) Marketing
7 39 (2.75%) Retail
8 38 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
9 31 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (1.84%) Legal
12 23 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (1.48%) Law
14 20 (1.41%) Local Government
15 19 (1.34%) Manufacturing
15 19 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (1.20%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.20%) Military
17 15 (1.06%) Telecoms
18 13 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 388 (27.40%) Data Engineer
2 286 (20.20%) Analyst
3 179 (12.64%) Data Analyst
4 156 (11.02%) Senior
5 131 (9.25%) Architect
6 129 (9.11%) Lead
7 88 (6.21%) Business Analyst
8 80 (5.65%) Data Architect
9 71 (5.01%) Developer
10 65 (4.59%) Senior Data Engineer
11 54 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
12 44 (3.11%) Azure Data Engineer
12 44 (3.11%) Consultant
13 41 (2.90%) Data Manager
14 37 (2.61%) Data Business Analyst
15 27 (1.91%) Project Manager
16 25 (1.77%) Data Migration Lead
17 24 (1.69%) AWS Engineer
17 24 (1.69%) Principal Engineer
18 22 (1.55%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (9.68%) PySpark
2 105 (7.42%) Kafka
3 45 (3.18%) Pandas
4 43 (3.04%) REST
5 30 (2.12%) Great Expectations
6 29 (2.05%) JSON
7 24 (1.69%) scikit-learn
8 21 (1.48%) NumPy
9 16 (1.13%) PyTorch
10 15 (1.06%) Middleware
10 15 (1.06%) Web Services
11 13 (0.92%) OAuth
11 13 (0.92%) pytest
11 13 (0.92%) TensorFlow
11 13 (0.92%) XML
12 12 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
12 12 (0.85%) YAML
13 11 (0.78%) Flask
13 11 (0.78%) GeoJSON
14 10 (0.71%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 118 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 101 (7.13%) Legacy Systems
3 75 (5.30%) Cloud Native
4 67 (4.73%) Onboarding
5 61 (4.31%) Management Information System
6 54 (3.81%) Product Ownership
7 43 (3.04%) CMDB
8 31 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
9 30 (2.12%) Reference Data
10 22 (1.55%) Clustering
10 22 (1.55%) NHS
11 18 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.06%) AI Agents
13 14 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (0.99%) Taxonomies
14 12 (0.85%) Fixed Income
14 12 (0.85%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.64%) Linux
1 9 (0.64%) Unix
1 9 (0.64%) Windows
2 1 (0.071%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 630 (44.49%) Data Modelling
2 547 (38.63%) Analytics
3 495 (34.96%) Data Governance
4 481 (33.97%) ETL
5 454 (32.06%) Business Intelligence
6 432 (30.51%) Data Pipeline
7 324 (22.88%) Data Engineering
8 319 (22.53%) Agile
9 313 (22.10%) Problem-Solving
10 308 (21.75%) Validation
11 300 (21.19%) Migration
12 279 (19.70%) CI/CD
13 268 (18.93%) Decision-Making
14 233 (16.45%) Data Architecture
15 222 (15.68%) AI
16 209 (14.76%) Stakeholder Management
17 202 (14.27%) Data Migration
18 196 (13.84%) DevOps
19 192 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
20 185 (13.06%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 721 (50.92%) SQL
2 446 (31.50%) Python
3 63 (4.45%) Scala
4 45 (3.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 45 (3.18%) Java
5 36 (2.54%) T-SQL
6 31 (2.19%) PL/SQL
7 28 (1.98%) C#
8 22 (1.55%) R
9 20 (1.41%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.20%) VBA
11 16 (1.13%) JavaScript
12 14 (0.99%) Bicep
13 9 (0.64%) Bash
13 9 (0.64%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.35%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.28%) ABAP
15 4 (0.28%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
16 3 (0.21%) Korn
Qualifications
1 263 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 199 (14.05%) SC Cleared
3 78 (5.51%) Degree
4 45 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.41%) Azure Certification
7 12 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 12 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.71%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.28%) ACCA
10 4 (0.28%) CIMA
10 4 (0.28%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.28%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.28%) PhD
10 4 (0.28%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.14%) AAT
11 2 (0.14%) CFA
11 2 (0.14%) PMP
11 2 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (8.62%) GDPR
2 84 (5.93%) QA
3 33 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.77%) PMO
5 16 (1.13%) SLA
6 14 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.92%) Solvency II
8 10 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.64%) FINREP
10 8 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.56%) IFRS
11 7 (0.49%) COREP
12 6 (0.42%) Basel III
12 6 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.35%) MiFID
14 4 (0.28%) BS7666
14 4 (0.28%) GRC
15 3 (0.21%) NIST
16 2 (0.14%) CRD IV
16 2 (0.14%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 75 (5.30%) Docker
2 6 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.35%) etcd
4 1 (0.071%) HDFS
4 1 (0.071%) RACF
4 1 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 110 (7.77%) Terraform
2 82 (5.79%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.71%) Prometheus
4 9 (0.64%) Grafana
5 5 (0.35%) Ansible
5 5 (0.35%) Fluentd
5 5 (0.35%) HP ALM
5 5 (0.35%) Kibana
6 4 (0.28%) SCCM
7 3 (0.21%) logstash
8 1 (0.071%) Control-M
8 1 (0.071%) Istio
8 1 (0.071%) Nessus
8 1 (0.071%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.071%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 268 (18.93%) Databricks
2 231 (16.31%) Microsoft
3 115 (8.12%) SAP
4 108 (7.63%) Oracle
5 70 (4.94%) Salesforce
6 69 (4.87%) Informatica
7 61 (4.31%) ServiceNow
8 54 (3.81%) Google
9 51 (3.60%) Talend
10 35 (2.47%) Denodo
11 16 (1.13%) Workday
12 13 (0.92%) GoldenSource
12 13 (0.92%) IBM
13 12 (0.85%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.78%) Avaloq
15 10 (0.71%) Palantir
16 9 (0.64%) Adobe
16 9 (0.64%) Automation Anywhere
16 9 (0.64%) ESRI
16 9 (0.64%) Sparx