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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 99 115
Rank change year-on-year +53 +16 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,067 740 674
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.44% 2.66% 2.07%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.97% 15.37% 15.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,327 483 461
10th Percentile £355 £331 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -8.48% +1.82%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £713
90th Percentile £700 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £511 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.24% -6.82% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 12 9
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.55 £21.25
25th Percentile £17.62 £27.80 £35.00
Median hourly rate £30.89 £37.74 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.15% +0.63% +6.19%
75th Percentile £56.44 £47.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.38 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £40.25 £36.25
% change year-on-year -25.17% +11.02% +3.57%

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 8,278 4,814 4,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.77% 17.30% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,194 3,146 2,516
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.60%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £720 £759
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £507
% change year-on-year +0.10% -1.38% -3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 602 226 207
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -1.72% -8.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.11 £64.86
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.45 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +8.16% +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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +57 1,111 £525 -3.67% 1,652
North of England +43 286 £463 +1.37% 478
Midlands +30 220 £465 -7.00% 268
South East +42 213 £500 +8.11% 382
West Midlands +29 172 £465 -11.43% 193
North West +22 147 £525 +16.67% 291
Yorkshire +35 116 £450 -10.00% 141
South West +23 112 £500 +11.11% 160
East of England +12 80 £525 -13.15% 172
East Midlands +9 47 £466 +3.79% 75
North East -25 24 £491 +12.29% 47
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 (6.24%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (4.45%) Apache Spark
3 76 (3.68%) Apache
4 64 (3.10%) Confluence
5 48 (2.32%) SAS
6 45 (2.18%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
8 12 (0.58%) CMS
9 11 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
10 9 (0.44%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.097%) HCL Notes
14 2 (0.097%) Oracle Application Server
15 1 (0.048%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.048%) GeoServer
15 1 (0.048%) Luigi
15 1 (0.048%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 160 (7.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.24%) 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 65 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 14 (0.68%) Aladdin
5 12 (0.58%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.53%) NEC Housing
7 10 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 9 (0.44%) SAP MDG
9 8 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
10 7 (0.34%) iTrent
10 7 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (0.34%) SAP HR
11 6 (0.29%) Maximo
11 6 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.24%) Shopify
13 4 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
13 4 (0.19%) SAP MM
13 4 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 524 (25.35%) Azure
2 441 (21.34%) Power Platform
3 373 (18.05%) AWS
4 181 (8.76%) GCP
5 167 (8.08%) Snowflake
6 149 (7.21%) Azure Data Factory
7 140 (6.77%) dbt
8 108 (5.22%) Amazon S3
9 103 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
9 103 (4.98%) Serverless
10 90 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 84 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
12 77 (3.73%) GitHub
13 70 (3.39%) Microsoft Purview
14 57 (2.76%) Collibra
15 50 (2.42%) Power Automate
16 46 (2.23%) SaaS
17 44 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
18 43 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
19 42 (2.03%) Azure Databricks
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
1 414 (20.03%) Power BI
2 341 (16.50%) Metadata
3 328 (15.87%) Data Warehouse
4 175 (8.47%) Data Lake
5 119 (5.76%) Tableau
6 94 (4.55%) BigQuery
7 90 (4.35%) SQL Server
8 85 (4.11%) Delta Lake
9 81 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
10 79 (3.82%) Relational Database
11 67 (3.24%) Amazon Athena
12 51 (2.47%) NoSQL
13 43 (2.08%) Big Data
13 43 (2.08%) Power Query
14 40 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
15 35 (1.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 34 (1.64%) Looker
16 34 (1.64%) Star Schema
17 33 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
18 29 (1.40%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 129 (6.24%) JIRA
2 128 (6.19%) Git
3 36 (1.74%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.50%) GitLab
5 12 (0.58%) ERwin
6 10 (0.48%) Postman
6 10 (0.48%) Selenium
7 9 (0.44%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.44%) ER Studio
7 9 (0.44%) MLflow
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%) TestRail
11 4 (0.19%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.19%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 656 (31.74%) Social Skills
2 633 (30.62%) Finance
3 494 (23.90%) Analytical Skills
4 248 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 187 (9.05%) Banking
6 68 (3.29%) Retail
7 62 (3.00%) Manufacturing
8 54 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
9 53 (2.56%) Marketing
10 52 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
11 46 (2.23%) Local Government
12 42 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
12 42 (2.03%) Military
13 41 (1.98%) Legal
14 37 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 26 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 24 (1.16%) Billing
16 24 (1.16%) Law
17 23 (1.11%) Automotive
17 23 (1.11%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 438 (21.19%) Data Engineer
2 428 (20.71%) Analyst
3 250 (12.09%) Senior
4 246 (11.90%) Lead
5 225 (10.89%) Data Analyst
6 219 (10.60%) Architect
7 141 (6.82%) Data Architect
8 116 (5.61%) Senior Data Engineer
9 115 (5.56%) Developer
10 114 (5.52%) Business Analyst
11 84 (4.06%) Consultant
12 68 (3.29%) Administrator
13 65 (3.14%) Data Manager
14 49 (2.37%) Data Consultant
15 48 (2.32%) Data Business Analyst
16 40 (1.94%) Databricks Engineer
17 36 (1.74%) Lead Data Engineer
18 35 (1.69%) AWS Engineer
18 35 (1.69%) Senior Analyst
19 34 (1.64%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (8.42%) PySpark
2 136 (6.58%) Terraform
3 75 (3.63%) Kafka
4 57 (2.76%) REST
5 42 (2.03%) JSON
6 33 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.21%) Web Services
8 24 (1.16%) Great Expectations
8 24 (1.16%) XML
9 21 (1.02%) SOAP
10 20 (0.97%) Middleware
10 20 (0.97%) Pandas
11 18 (0.87%) HTML
12 16 (0.77%) .NET
13 14 (0.68%) pytest
14 12 (0.58%) OAuth
14 12 (0.58%) OpenID
15 11 (0.53%) CSS
16 10 (0.48%) OpenTelemetry
16 10 (0.48%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 183 (8.85%) Data Structures
2 131 (6.34%) Onboarding
3 116 (5.61%) Cloud Native
4 107 (5.18%) Product Ownership
5 95 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
6 94 (4.55%) Management Information System
7 60 (2.90%) CMDB
8 50 (2.42%) Reference Data
9 44 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
10 39 (1.89%) AI Agents
10 39 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (1.35%) Taxonomies
12 27 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
15 22 (1.06%) NHS
16 21 (1.02%) Life Science
17 19 (0.92%) Algorithms
18 17 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
19 16 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.35%) 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
1 824 (39.86%) Data Modelling
2 762 (36.87%) Analytics
3 738 (35.70%) Data Governance
4 574 (27.77%) Data Pipeline
5 550 (26.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 542 (26.22%) Validation
7 533 (25.79%) ETL
8 528 (25.54%) Business Intelligence
9 491 (23.75%) Migration
10 473 (22.88%) Data Engineering
11 433 (20.95%) Agile
12 419 (20.27%) AI
13 405 (19.59%) Decision-Making
14 386 (18.67%) CI/CD
15 380 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
16 338 (16.35%) Continuous Improvement
17 312 (15.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 300 (14.51%) Data Architecture
19 284 (13.74%) Data Migration
20 276 (13.35%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 899 (43.49%) SQL
2 555 (26.85%) Python
3 61 (2.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 59 (2.85%) Java
5 41 (1.98%) PL/SQL
6 33 (1.60%) Scala
7 32 (1.55%) T-SQL
8 31 (1.50%) Shell Script
9 30 (1.45%) PowerShell
10 28 (1.35%) JavaScript
11 24 (1.16%) R
12 23 (1.11%) C#
13 17 (0.82%) Bash
14 12 (0.58%) Bicep
15 9 (0.44%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.44%) TypeScript
16 8 (0.39%) Korn
16 8 (0.39%) SOQL
17 7 (0.34%) VBA
18 6 (0.29%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 326 (15.77%) Security Cleared
2 252 (12.19%) SC Cleared
3 131 (6.34%) Degree
4 49 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.40%) DV Cleared
7 24 (1.16%) AWS Certification
7 24 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (1.11%) PMI Certification
9 21 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (0.92%) Master's Degree
10 19 (0.92%) PMP
11 12 (0.58%) ACCA
11 12 (0.58%) CIMA
12 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.29%) CIPD
13 6 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.24%) PhD
14 5 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (7.16%) QA
2 123 (5.95%) GDPR
3 41 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 36 (1.74%) PMO
5 22 (1.06%) SLA
6 21 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.77%) IFRS
7 16 (0.77%) NIST
8 15 (0.73%) GRC
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%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 71 (3.43%) 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 69 (3.34%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.73%) Grafana
3 14 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.48%) Ansible
5 8 (0.39%) Control-M
6 6 (0.29%) Kibana
7 5 (0.24%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.19%) SCCM
9 3 (0.15%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.048%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.048%) Istio
10 1 (0.048%) logstash
10 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.048%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.048%) Puppet
10 1 (0.048%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.048%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 399 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 306 (14.80%) Databricks
3 155 (7.50%) SAP
4 142 (6.87%) Oracle
5 97 (4.69%) ServiceNow
6 83 (4.02%) Informatica
7 71 (3.43%) Google
8 70 (3.39%) Salesforce
9 37 (1.79%) Workday
10 28 (1.35%) Adobe
11 25 (1.21%) IBM
12 23 (1.11%) Alteryx
12 23 (1.11%) Talend
13 22 (1.06%) Palantir
14 21 (1.02%) Splunk
15 20 (0.97%) Denodo
16 17 (0.82%) Foundry
17 13 (0.63%) Bloomberg
18 12 (0.58%) Teradata
19 11 (0.53%) NEC