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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 102 109
Rank change year-on-year +54 +7 +47
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,909 712 671
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.18% 2.58% 2.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.85% 14.99% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,238 457 475
10th Percentile £351 £341 £342
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £713
90th Percentile £688 £741 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £550
% change year-on-year -2.20% -7.05% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 18 9
10th Percentile £16.23 £20.18 £21.10
25th Percentile £22.16 £27.24 £24.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.56 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% -35.53% +28.11%
75th Percentile £65.31 £44.37 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £61.24 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £33.11 £24.00
% change year-on-year +20.81% +37.96% -35.50%

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 8,003 4,750 4,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.50% 17.22% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,109 3,093 2,722
10th Percentile £338 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £610 £619 £638
90th Percentile £717 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 231 266
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.69 £13.89
Median hourly rate £38.11 £31.64 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.45% +15.05% -21.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.66
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.91 £25.77
% change year-on-year +34.36% +8.33% -26.39%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +60 1,007 £525 - 764
North of England +27 251 £475 +5.56% 234
Midlands +34 236 £477 -4.60% 123
South East +23 201 £475 -2.56% 238
West Midlands +31 185 £475 -8.39% 95
North West +16 137 £500 +6.38% 136
Yorkshire +16 95 £454 +3.71% 59
South West +5 90 £500 +17.65% 95
East of England +17 89 £565 -4.24% 83
East Midlands +11 50 £484 +7.61% 28
North East -21 20 £520 -15.10% 40
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
1 111 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
2 95 (4.98%) Apache Spark
3 74 (3.88%) Apache
4 57 (2.99%) SAS
5 53 (2.78%) Confluence
6 41 (2.15%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.58%) CMS
8 11 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.47%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.10%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.10%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.052%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.052%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.052%) Luigi
13 1 (0.052%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 138 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
3 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.10%) CATIA
8 1 (0.052%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.052%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.052%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 65 (3.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.58%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.52%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.42%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.37%) iTrent
8 7 (0.37%) Sage X3
8 7 (0.37%) SAP MDG
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.26%) BambooHR
10 5 (0.26%) Loan IQ
11 4 (0.21%) Finacle
11 4 (0.21%) Maximo
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.21%) Shopify
11 4 (0.21%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 503 (26.35%) Azure
2 411 (21.53%) Power Platform
3 340 (17.81%) AWS
4 157 (8.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 151 (7.91%) GCP
6 150 (7.86%) Snowflake
7 122 (6.39%) dbt
8 110 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
9 91 (4.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 90 (4.71%) Amazon S3
11 87 (4.56%) Serverless
12 75 (3.93%) GitHub
13 74 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (2.78%) Collibra
15 52 (2.72%) Microsoft Purview
16 42 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
16 42 (2.20%) Power Automate
17 39 (2.04%) SaaS
18 35 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
19 31 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.47%) Firewall
2 5 (0.26%) VPN
3 3 (0.16%) HTTP
4 2 (0.10%) Broadband
4 2 (0.10%) DNS
4 2 (0.10%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.10%) SNMP
4 2 (0.10%) SSL
4 2 (0.10%) WAN
4 2 (0.10%) Wireless
5 1 (0.052%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.052%) Network Security
5 1 (0.052%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.052%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 390 (20.43%) Power BI
2 322 (16.87%) Data Warehouse
3 275 (14.41%) Metadata
4 166 (8.70%) Data Lake
5 114 (5.97%) Tableau
6 96 (5.03%) SQL Server
7 86 (4.50%) BigQuery
8 79 (4.14%) Delta Lake
9 75 (3.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 73 (3.82%) Relational Database
11 53 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
12 50 (2.62%) Big Data
13 49 (2.57%) NoSQL
14 39 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
15 38 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
16 35 (1.83%) Power Query
16 35 (1.83%) Star Schema
17 34 (1.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 34 (1.78%) Looker
17 34 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 119 (6.23%) JIRA
2 111 (5.81%) Git
3 50 (2.62%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.73%) GitLab
5 15 (0.79%) ERwin
6 10 (0.52%) ER Studio
7 9 (0.47%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.47%) MLflow
7 9 (0.47%) Selenium
8 8 (0.42%) Postman
9 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.31%) Ant
10 6 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.26%) Newman
11 5 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.21%) LSMW
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.21%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 590 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 576 (30.17%) Finance
3 450 (23.57%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (11.68%) Public Sector
5 155 (8.12%) Banking
6 59 (3.09%) Retail
7 55 (2.88%) Marketing
8 51 (2.67%) Manufacturing
9 49 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
10 44 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
11 40 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
12 39 (2.04%) Local Government
13 36 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 32 (1.68%) Legal
15 31 (1.62%) Military
16 27 (1.41%) Law
16 27 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
17 21 (1.10%) Automotive
18 19 (1.00%) Front Office
19 17 (0.89%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 434 (22.73%) Data Engineer
2 391 (20.48%) Analyst
3 222 (11.63%) Senior
4 220 (11.52%) Lead
5 216 (11.31%) Data Analyst
6 184 (9.64%) Architect
7 122 (6.39%) Data Architect
8 106 (5.55%) Business Analyst
9 105 (5.50%) Developer
10 97 (5.08%) Senior Data Engineer
11 69 (3.61%) Consultant
12 60 (3.14%) Data Manager
13 58 (3.04%) Administrator
14 40 (2.10%) Data Business Analyst
15 39 (2.04%) Data Consultant
16 37 (1.94%) Python Engineer
17 36 (1.89%) Lead Data Engineer
18 32 (1.68%) Data Migration Lead
19 31 (1.62%) AWS Engineer
20 30 (1.57%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (8.38%) PySpark
2 87 (4.56%) Kafka
3 49 (2.57%) REST
4 44 (2.30%) JSON
5 30 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
6 29 (1.52%) Pandas
7 26 (1.36%) Great Expectations
8 21 (1.10%) Web Services
8 21 (1.10%) XML
9 19 (1.00%) Middleware
10 16 (0.84%) HTML
11 14 (0.73%) .NET
11 14 (0.73%) SOAP
12 12 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
13 11 (0.58%) pytest
14 10 (0.52%) SailPoint
15 9 (0.47%) CSS
15 9 (0.47%) SAML
16 8 (0.42%) React
16 8 (0.42%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 161 (8.43%) Data Structures
2 116 (6.08%) Onboarding
3 103 (5.40%) Cloud Native
4 99 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
5 90 (4.71%) Product Ownership
6 80 (4.19%) Management Information System
7 59 (3.09%) CMDB
8 44 (2.30%) Reference Data
9 37 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
11 27 (1.41%) AI Agents
12 25 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
13 24 (1.26%) Taxonomies
14 23 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
15 22 (1.15%) NHS
16 21 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
17 17 (0.89%) Life Science
18 16 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
18 16 (0.84%) SCADA
19 15 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.05%) Unix
2 19 (1.00%) Linux
3 12 (0.63%) Windows
4 1 (0.052%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (39.76%) Data Modelling
2 695 (36.41%) Analytics
3 671 (35.15%) Data Governance
4 545 (28.55%) Data Pipeline
5 537 (28.13%) ETL
6 498 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
7 486 (25.46%) Validation
8 451 (23.62%) Migration
9 423 (22.16%) Data Engineering
10 407 (21.32%) Agile
10 407 (21.32%) Stakeholder Management
11 367 (19.22%) Decision-Making
12 361 (18.91%) CI/CD
13 360 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
14 335 (17.55%) AI
15 307 (16.08%) Continuous Improvement
16 285 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 277 (14.51%) Data Migration
18 270 (14.14%) Data Architecture
19 259 (13.57%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 835 (43.74%) SQL
2 511 (26.77%) Python
3 64 (3.35%) Java
4 55 (2.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 38 (1.99%) PL/SQL
6 36 (1.89%) Scala
7 34 (1.78%) T-SQL
8 33 (1.73%) PowerShell
9 24 (1.26%) Shell Script
10 23 (1.20%) JavaScript
11 21 (1.10%) C#
12 14 (0.73%) R
12 14 (0.73%) VBA
13 13 (0.68%) Bash
14 12 (0.63%) Bicep
15 9 (0.47%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.42%) TypeScript
17 7 (0.37%) SOQL
18 6 (0.31%) Go
18 6 (0.31%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 319 (16.71%) Security Cleared
2 244 (12.78%) SC Cleared
3 118 (6.18%) Degree
4 52 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (1.68%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 22 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (0.84%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.73%) PMI Certification
12 10 (0.52%) PMP
13 8 (0.42%) ACCA
13 8 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.42%) CIMA
14 6 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.31%) SnowPro
15 5 (0.26%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (7.23%) GDPR
1 138 (7.23%) QA
2 36 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 29 (1.52%) PMO
4 24 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.68%) GRC
5 13 (0.68%) IFRS
5 13 (0.68%) Solvency II
6 12 (0.63%) SLA
7 11 (0.58%) NIST
8 9 (0.47%) COREP
8 9 (0.47%) FINREP
8 9 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.42%) NCSC
10 7 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.21%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.21%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.21%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 84 (4.40%) Docker
2 20 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.26%) etcd
4 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.052%) RACF
5 1 (0.052%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 125 (6.55%) Terraform
2 90 (4.71%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.68%) Grafana
4 11 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.52%) Ansible
5 10 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.37%) Control-M
7 5 (0.26%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.21%) SCCM
9 3 (0.16%) Kibana
10 1 (0.052%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.052%) Istio
10 1 (0.052%) logstash
10 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.052%) Nessus
10 1 (0.052%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.052%) Puppet
10 1 (0.052%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.052%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 329 (17.23%) Microsoft
2 280 (14.67%) Databricks
3 159 (8.33%) SAP
4 138 (7.23%) Oracle
5 83 (4.35%) ServiceNow
6 81 (4.24%) Informatica
7 73 (3.82%) Salesforce
8 57 (2.99%) Google
9 32 (1.68%) Talend
10 29 (1.52%) Workday
11 27 (1.41%) Denodo
12 24 (1.26%) Adobe
13 23 (1.20%) IBM
14 22 (1.15%) Palantir
15 21 (1.10%) Alteryx
16 19 (1.00%) Splunk
17 18 (0.94%) Foundry
18 12 (0.63%) Sage
19 11 (0.58%) Bloomberg
19 11 (0.58%) NEC