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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 105 107
Rank change year-on-year +53 +2 +52
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,680 634 767
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.86% 2.51% 2.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.71% 15.23% 15.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,102 400 538
10th Percentile £350 £349 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £593 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £726 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.58% -6.68% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 22 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.52 £13.28
25th Percentile £17.36 £23.69 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% +51.52% -6.60%
75th Percentile £60.75 £35.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £77.25 £76.21 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £15.79
% change year-on-year +25.71% +101.52% -29.78%

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 7,397 4,162 5,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.02% 16.47% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,769 2,689 3,165
10th Percentile £350 £270 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £705 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.77% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 491 176 378
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £11.00
25th Percentile £19.27 £21.81 £13.18
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £24.09
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% +34.91% -40.25%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £84.33 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £31.57 £23.80
% change year-on-year +14.27% +32.63% -36.53%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +67 906 £525 -3.67% 271
Midlands +29 203 £499 +7.55% 81
North of England +15 203 £475 +5.56% 97
West Midlands +30 167 £499 -0.25% 45
South East +22 159 £471 -6.73% 162
North West +6 123 £475 +4.97% 52
South West +12 90 £498 +17.06% 34
East of England -9 75 £575 -4.49% 40
Yorkshire -16 55 £484 +20.94% 36
East Midlands +7 36 £475 +3.09% 36
North East -14 25 £475 -22.45% 9
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 89 (5.30%) Apache Airflow
1 89 (5.30%) Apache Spark
2 53 (3.15%) Apache
3 50 (2.98%) Confluence
4 49 (2.92%) SAS
5 36 (2.14%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.48%) Appian
7 8 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.42%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.24%) CMS
10 3 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.060%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.060%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.060%) Mendix
12 1 (0.060%) Smallworld
Applications
1 122 (7.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.95%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) CATIA
7 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 51 (3.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.77%) NEC Housing
3 12 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.54%) iTrent
5 9 (0.54%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.42%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.30%) Finacle
8 5 (0.30%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.24%) SAP PM
10 3 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
10 3 (0.18%) Aladdin
10 3 (0.18%) Maximo
10 3 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 470 (27.98%) Azure
2 398 (23.69%) Power Platform
3 301 (17.92%) AWS
4 160 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 129 (7.68%) GCP
6 121 (7.20%) Snowflake
7 118 (7.02%) dbt
8 103 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
9 99 (5.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 92 (5.48%) Amazon S3
11 81 (4.82%) Serverless
12 73 (4.35%) GitHub
13 66 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (3.27%) Collibra
15 40 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
16 37 (2.20%) Power Automate
17 35 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
18 32 (1.90%) SaaS
19 22 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
20 21 (1.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.48%) Firewall
2 5 (0.30%) VPN
3 2 (0.12%) HTTP
4 1 (0.060%) 4G
4 1 (0.060%) 5G
4 1 (0.060%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.060%) DNS
4 1 (0.060%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.060%) SNMP
4 1 (0.060%) SSH
4 1 (0.060%) WAN
4 1 (0.060%) Wireless
4 1 (0.060%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (22.62%) Power BI
2 265 (15.77%) Data Warehouse
3 215 (12.80%) Metadata
4 163 (9.70%) Data Lake
5 106 (6.31%) Tableau
6 96 (5.71%) SQL Server
7 78 (4.64%) Delta Lake
8 72 (4.29%) BigQuery
9 69 (4.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 60 (3.57%) Relational Database
11 55 (3.27%) Amazon Athena
12 49 (2.92%) Big Data
13 47 (2.80%) Snowflake Schema
14 37 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
15 34 (2.02%) Power Query
15 34 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 33 (1.96%) NoSQL
16 33 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
17 26 (1.55%) Star Schema
18 25 (1.49%) Looker
Development Applications
1 119 (7.08%) JIRA
2 112 (6.67%) Git
3 44 (2.62%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.96%) GitLab
5 18 (1.07%) ERwin
6 13 (0.77%) MLflow
7 9 (0.54%) Eclipse
8 8 (0.48%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.48%) Postman
8 8 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.42%) Selenium
9 7 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.36%) Ant
11 5 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.24%) LSMW
12 4 (0.24%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.24%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) Terragrunt
General
1 516 (30.71%) Finance
2 495 (29.46%) Social Skills
3 388 (23.10%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (10.95%) Public Sector
5 136 (8.10%) Banking
6 46 (2.74%) Marketing
7 45 (2.68%) Retail
8 39 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
9 38 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
10 36 (2.14%) Manufacturing
11 33 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 28 (1.67%) Local Government
13 27 (1.61%) Legal
14 26 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.13%) Military
16 18 (1.07%) Law
17 17 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
18 15 (0.89%) Publishing
19 14 (0.83%) Financial Institution
20 13 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 406 (24.17%) Data Engineer
2 348 (20.71%) Analyst
3 201 (11.96%) Data Analyst
4 197 (11.73%) Senior
5 179 (10.65%) Lead
6 145 (8.63%) Architect
7 89 (5.30%) Data Architect
8 87 (5.18%) Business Analyst
8 87 (5.18%) Developer
9 82 (4.88%) Senior Data Engineer
10 55 (3.27%) Consultant
11 54 (3.21%) Data Manager
12 43 (2.56%) Administrator
13 34 (2.02%) Data Business Analyst
14 32 (1.90%) Project Manager
15 31 (1.85%) Data Scientist
16 30 (1.79%) Data Migration Lead
17 29 (1.73%) Azure Engineer
18 28 (1.67%) Data Consultant
18 28 (1.67%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (7.80%) PySpark
2 90 (5.36%) Kafka
3 46 (2.74%) Pandas
4 45 (2.68%) REST
5 38 (2.26%) JSON
6 28 (1.67%) Great Expectations
7 24 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
8 23 (1.37%) scikit-learn
9 22 (1.31%) Web Services
10 19 (1.13%) XML
11 18 (1.07%) Middleware
12 16 (0.95%) NumPy
13 14 (0.83%) pytest
13 14 (0.83%) SOAP
14 13 (0.77%) GeoJSON
14 13 (0.77%) PyTorch
15 12 (0.71%) HTML
16 11 (0.65%) OpenTelemetry
17 10 (0.60%) OAuth
17 10 (0.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 130 (7.74%) Data Structures
2 109 (6.49%) Legacy Systems
3 94 (5.60%) Onboarding
4 81 (4.82%) Cloud Native
5 65 (3.87%) Management Information System
6 64 (3.81%) Product Ownership
7 54 (3.21%) CMDB
8 34 (2.02%) Reference Data
9 31 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
11 27 (1.61%) AI Agents
12 24 (1.43%) Taxonomies
13 23 (1.37%) NHS
14 22 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (1.07%) Clustering
16 14 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
17 13 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
17 13 (0.77%) Life Science
18 12 (0.71%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.65%) Unix
1 11 (0.65%) Windows
2 9 (0.54%) Linux
3 1 (0.060%) VMS
3 1 (0.060%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (40.36%) Data Modelling
2 622 (37.02%) Analytics
3 532 (31.67%) Data Governance
4 492 (29.29%) ETL
5 476 (28.33%) Data Pipeline
6 475 (28.27%) Business Intelligence
7 401 (23.87%) Validation
8 391 (23.27%) Migration
9 373 (22.20%) Data Engineering
10 352 (20.95%) Agile
11 323 (19.23%) Decision-Making
12 320 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
13 310 (18.45%) CI/CD
14 302 (17.98%) AI
15 285 (16.96%) Stakeholder Management
16 250 (14.88%) Data Migration
17 238 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
18 234 (13.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 232 (13.81%) Data Architecture
20 226 (13.45%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 761 (45.30%) SQL
2 469 (27.92%) Python
3 53 (3.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 51 (3.04%) Java
5 39 (2.32%) Scala
6 38 (2.26%) T-SQL
7 33 (1.96%) PL/SQL
8 28 (1.67%) PowerShell
9 18 (1.07%) VBA
10 17 (1.01%) C#
11 12 (0.71%) Bicep
11 12 (0.71%) JavaScript
11 12 (0.71%) R
11 12 (0.71%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.60%) Bash
13 9 (0.54%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.48%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.42%) SOQL
16 6 (0.36%) SOSL
17 5 (0.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 285 (16.96%) Security Cleared
2 223 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 99 (5.89%) Degree
4 62 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (1.55%) Azure Certification
6 22 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.01%) AWS Certification
8 15 (0.89%) Master's Degree
9 14 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.60%) PMI Certification
11 9 (0.54%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.42%) ACCA
12 7 (0.42%) CIMA
12 7 (0.42%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.36%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.36%) PMP
14 5 (0.30%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.30%) PhD
14 5 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (8.63%) GDPR
2 103 (6.13%) QA
3 33 (1.96%) PMO
4 27 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.01%) SLA
6 17 (1.01%) Solvency II
7 11 (0.65%) IFRS
7 11 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.48%) COREP
8 8 (0.48%) FINREP
8 8 (0.48%) GRC
9 7 (0.42%) NIST
10 5 (0.30%) NCSC
11 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.24%) BS7666
11 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.24%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 69 (4.11%) Docker
2 10 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.30%) etcd
4 1 (0.060%) HDFS
4 1 (0.060%) RACF
4 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.060%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 124 (7.38%) Terraform
2 72 (4.29%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.77%) Grafana
4 11 (0.65%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.48%) Ansible
6 6 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.30%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.30%) SCCM
8 4 (0.24%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.24%) Kibana
9 1 (0.060%) Control-M
9 1 (0.060%) Istio
9 1 (0.060%) logstash
9 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.060%) Nessus
9 1 (0.060%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.060%) Puppet
9 1 (0.060%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 273 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 255 (15.18%) Databricks
3 123 (7.32%) Oracle
3 123 (7.32%) SAP
4 78 (4.64%) Salesforce
5 74 (4.40%) ServiceNow
6 72 (4.29%) Informatica
7 41 (2.44%) Google
8 34 (2.02%) Talend
9 23 (1.37%) Denodo
10 19 (1.13%) IBM
10 19 (1.13%) Palantir
11 16 (0.95%) Workday
12 14 (0.83%) Adobe
12 14 (0.83%) GoldenSource
12 14 (0.83%) NEC
12 14 (0.83%) OpenAI
13 13 (0.77%) Foundry
14 12 (0.71%) Alteryx
15 10 (0.60%) Splunk