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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 107 111
Rank change year-on-year +46 +4 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,523 592 725
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.67% 2.49% 1.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.97% 15.44% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 392 501
10th Percentile £350 £343 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -7.05% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £688
90th Percentile £688 £706 £813
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 18 29
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.21 £13.71
25th Percentile £17.48 £22.99 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £21.12
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +49.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.87 £42.50
90th Percentile £82.63 £79.09 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £15.81
% change year-on-year +58.03% +100.13% -29.69%

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 6,932 3,833 5,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.70% 16.10% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,498 2,484 3,271
10th Percentile £347 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £702 £730 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.67% -3.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 445 152 358
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.63 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.24 £13.18
Median hourly rate £33.98 £34.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% +50.00% -41.65%
75th Percentile £67.25 £67.50 £47.81
90th Percentile £80.74 £79.87 £69.22
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £21.38
% change year-on-year +10.77% +52.03% -38.92%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +61 867 £525 - 293
Midlands +21 174 £500 +8.11% 64
North of England +6 171 £500 +11.11% 140
West Midlands +20 140 £500 +7.53% 42
South East +4 118 £450 -10.89% 115
North West +15 104 £488 +4.84% 67
South West +16 83 £495 -5.71% 38
East of England -22 65 £575 -4.88% 31
Yorkshire -38 45 £514 +37.07% 58
East Midlands -10 35 £450 -2.33% 22
North East -2 22 £475 -7.99% 19
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
1 105 (6.89%) Apache Spark
2 79 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (3.55%) Apache
4 42 (2.76%) Confluence
5 39 (2.56%) SAS
6 36 (2.36%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.59%) Appian
8 8 (0.53%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.26%) CMS
9 4 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.066%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 130 (8.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 21 (1.38%) MS Visio
3 20 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.20%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 44 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.79%) NEC Housing
3 9 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.59%) iTrent
3 9 (0.59%) Loan IQ
4 8 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.39%) Finacle
6 6 (0.39%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.39%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.33%) SystmOne
8 4 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.26%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.20%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 454 (29.81%) Azure
2 381 (25.02%) Power Platform
3 254 (16.68%) AWS
4 180 (11.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 117 (7.68%) GCP
6 111 (7.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 103 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
8 102 (6.70%) Snowflake
9 99 (6.50%) dbt
10 73 (4.79%) GitHub
11 71 (4.66%) Amazon S3
12 56 (3.68%) Serverless
13 55 (3.61%) Collibra
14 40 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
15 34 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
16 32 (2.10%) Microsoft Purview
16 32 (2.10%) Power Automate
17 28 (1.84%) SaaS
18 25 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
19 18 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.46%) Firewall
2 5 (0.33%) VPN
3 2 (0.13%) Broadband
3 2 (0.13%) DNS
3 2 (0.13%) HTTP
3 2 (0.13%) VoIP
4 1 (0.066%) 4G
4 1 (0.066%) 5G
4 1 (0.066%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 365 (23.97%) Power BI
2 247 (16.22%) Data Warehouse
3 203 (13.33%) Metadata
4 156 (10.24%) Data Lake
5 108 (7.09%) Tableau
6 103 (6.76%) SQL Server
7 83 (5.45%) Delta Lake
8 67 (4.40%) BigQuery
9 58 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
10 51 (3.35%) Big Data
10 51 (3.35%) Relational Database
11 48 (3.15%) Snowflake Schema
12 43 (2.82%) NoSQL
13 41 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
14 39 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
15 38 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 34 (2.23%) Power Query
17 31 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
18 30 (1.97%) Star Schema
19 29 (1.90%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 112 (7.35%) Git
2 109 (7.16%) JIRA
3 43 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.38%) GitLab
5 16 (1.05%) ERwin
5 16 (1.05%) MLflow
6 8 (0.53%) PowerDesigner
7 7 (0.46%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.46%) Postman
8 6 (0.39%) Selenium
9 5 (0.33%) LSMW
9 5 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.26%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.26%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.20%) Ant
11 3 (0.20%) Newman
11 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 469 (30.79%) Finance
2 464 (30.47%) Social Skills
3 349 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (10.37%) Public Sector
5 129 (8.47%) Banking
6 42 (2.76%) Marketing
6 42 (2.76%) Retail
7 36 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
9 29 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (1.71%) Local Government
11 24 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (1.58%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.51%) Legal
13 20 (1.31%) Military
14 18 (1.18%) Law
15 17 (1.12%) Financial Institution
16 16 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.98%) Investment Banking
18 14 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 390 (25.61%) Data Engineer
2 321 (21.08%) Analyst
3 188 (12.34%) Data Analyst
4 177 (11.62%) Senior
5 152 (9.98%) Lead
6 120 (7.88%) Architect
7 87 (5.71%) Business Analyst
8 77 (5.06%) Developer
9 75 (4.92%) Data Architect
9 75 (4.92%) Senior Data Engineer
10 53 (3.48%) Consultant
10 53 (3.48%) Data Manager
11 43 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
12 38 (2.50%) Azure Data Engineer
13 34 (2.23%) Data Business Analyst
14 32 (2.10%) Project Manager
15 31 (2.04%) Administrator
16 28 (1.84%) Data Migration Lead
17 26 (1.71%) Data Scientist
18 24 (1.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (8.93%) PySpark
2 96 (6.30%) Kafka
3 52 (3.41%) Pandas
4 43 (2.82%) REST
5 34 (2.23%) Great Expectations
6 30 (1.97%) JSON
7 25 (1.64%) scikit-learn
8 20 (1.31%) NumPy
9 17 (1.12%) Middleware
9 17 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
9 17 (1.12%) Web Services
10 16 (1.05%) pytest
10 16 (1.05%) PyTorch
11 13 (0.85%) GeoJSON
11 13 (0.85%) TensorFlow
11 13 (0.85%) XML
12 11 (0.72%) Flask
12 11 (0.72%) OAuth
12 11 (0.72%) RESTful
12 11 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 123 (8.08%) Data Structures
2 108 (7.09%) Legacy Systems
3 80 (5.25%) Cloud Native
4 72 (4.73%) Onboarding
5 62 (4.07%) Product Ownership
6 57 (3.74%) Management Information System
7 46 (3.02%) CMDB
8 32 (2.10%) Reference Data
9 26 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 24 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.38%) AI Agents
11 21 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
13 18 (1.18%) Clustering
14 16 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (1.05%) NHS
15 14 (0.92%) Life Science
16 13 (0.85%) Taxonomies
17 12 (0.79%) Fixed Income
18 11 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.72%) Windows
2 8 (0.53%) Linux
2 8 (0.53%) Unix
3 1 (0.066%) VMS
3 1 (0.066%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (42.42%) Data Modelling
2 577 (37.89%) Analytics
3 502 (32.96%) Data Governance
4 477 (31.32%) ETL
5 453 (29.74%) Business Intelligence
6 446 (29.28%) Data Pipeline
7 348 (22.85%) Validation
8 335 (22.00%) Data Engineering
9 332 (21.80%) Migration
10 327 (21.47%) Agile
11 300 (19.70%) Decision-Making
12 298 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
13 276 (18.12%) CI/CD
14 252 (16.55%) AI
15 230 (15.10%) Stakeholder Management
16 221 (14.51%) Data Migration
17 220 (14.45%) Data Architecture
18 210 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
19 206 (13.53%) DevOps
20 200 (13.13%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 739 (48.52%) SQL
2 448 (29.42%) Python
3 55 (3.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 53 (3.48%) Scala
5 48 (3.15%) Java
6 41 (2.69%) T-SQL
7 36 (2.36%) PL/SQL
8 22 (1.44%) C#
9 21 (1.38%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.12%) R
10 17 (1.12%) VBA
11 14 (0.92%) Bicep
12 10 (0.66%) JavaScript
13 9 (0.59%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.53%) Bash
15 7 (0.46%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.39%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.33%) Korn
18 4 (0.26%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.26%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 263 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 202 (13.26%) SC Cleared
3 91 (5.98%) Degree
4 50 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (1.51%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 9 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (0.46%) ACCA
9 7 (0.46%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.46%) CIMA
10 5 (0.33%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.33%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.33%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.26%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.26%) PhD
12 3 (0.20%) PMP
13 2 (0.13%) CFA
13 2 (0.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (8.01%) GDPR
2 103 (6.76%) QA
3 32 (2.10%) PMO
4 30 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.05%) SLA
7 13 (0.85%) Solvency II
8 9 (0.59%) IFRS
8 9 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.53%) COREP
9 8 (0.53%) FINREP
10 6 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.39%) NIST
11 4 (0.26%) Basel III
11 4 (0.26%) BS7666
11 4 (0.26%) GRC
12 3 (0.20%) GAAP
12 3 (0.20%) MiFID
13 2 (0.13%) FATCA
13 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 65 (4.27%) Docker
2 6 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.33%) etcd
4 1 (0.066%) HDFS
4 1 (0.066%) RACF
4 1 (0.066%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 108 (7.09%) Terraform
2 70 (4.60%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.72%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.66%) Grafana
5 9 (0.59%) Ansible
6 6 (0.39%) Kibana
7 5 (0.33%) Fluentd
8 4 (0.26%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.26%) SCCM
8 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.20%) logstash
10 1 (0.066%) Control-M
10 1 (0.066%) Istio
10 1 (0.066%) Nessus
10 1 (0.066%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.066%) Puppet
10 1 (0.066%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 258 (16.94%) Databricks
2 248 (16.28%) Microsoft
3 113 (7.42%) SAP
4 108 (7.09%) Oracle
5 71 (4.66%) Salesforce
6 66 (4.33%) ServiceNow
7 61 (4.01%) Informatica
8 46 (3.02%) Google
9 33 (2.17%) Talend
10 23 (1.51%) Denodo
11 17 (1.12%) Workday
12 16 (1.05%) OpenAI
13 15 (0.98%) IBM
14 14 (0.92%) GoldenSource
15 13 (0.85%) NEC
16 11 (0.72%) Adobe
16 11 (0.72%) Alteryx
16 11 (0.72%) Avaloq
16 11 (0.72%) ESRI
17 9 (0.59%) Automation Anywhere