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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 111 116
Rank change year-on-year +45 +5 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,354 597 759
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 2.46% 2.01%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.36% 15.84% 14.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 422 520
10th Percentile £350 £313 £352
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year - -6.63% -2.64%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £665
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 33
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £13.81
25th Percentile £17.23 £22.99 £15.39
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.64 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -38.37% +46.21% -3.76%
75th Percentile £55.75 £34.73 £49.08
90th Percentile £81.40 £81.71 £60.15
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £31.64 £18.67
% change year-on-year -2.02% +69.52% -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 6,649 3,769 5,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.42% 15.55% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,308 2,447 3,398
10th Percentile £340 £264 £305
25th Percentile £413 £393 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £706 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 156 340
10th Percentile £15.25 £17.48 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.66 £22.01
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +48.36% -48.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £79.85 £78.55 £65.24
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £32.25 £21.12
% change year-on-year -5.44% +52.74% -47.21%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +42 769 £525 - 272
North of England 0 162 £495 +10.37% 142
Midlands +7 146 £500 +7.53% 89
West Midlands +11 116 £510 +1.90% 59
South East +12 107 £450 -13.09% 145
North West +1 87 £475 +4.40% 65
South West +19 71 £500 +3.90% 54
East of England -17 54 £575 -4.17% 42
Yorkshire -34 49 £500 +81.82% 63
East Midlands -17 31 £450 +9.82% 30
North East - 26 £500 - 16
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
1 117 (8.64%) Apache Spark
2 72 (5.32%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (4.14%) Apache
4 47 (3.47%) SAS
5 32 (2.36%) Confluence
5 32 (2.36%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.66%) Appian
7 6 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.37%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.30%) CMS
10 3 (0.22%) Apache Synapse
10 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.22%) NetWeaver
10 3 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.15%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.15%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.074%) Jupyter
Applications
1 121 (8.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.40%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.22%) Trello
8 1 (0.074%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 46 (3.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.89%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.52%) iTrent
5 7 (0.52%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.44%) Finacle
6 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.44%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.44%) SAP MDG
6 6 (0.44%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.44%) SystmOne
7 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.30%) Actimize
8 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.30%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.22%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 427 (31.54%) Azure
2 357 (26.37%) Power Platform
3 257 (18.98%) AWS
4 177 (13.07%) Azure Data Factory
5 122 (9.01%) GCP
6 107 (7.90%) Snowflake
7 104 (7.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 91 (6.72%) dbt
9 86 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
10 74 (5.47%) Amazon S3
11 68 (5.02%) GitHub
12 61 (4.51%) Collibra
13 57 (4.21%) Serverless
14 38 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
15 34 (2.51%) Microsoft Purview
16 30 (2.22%) Power Automate
17 29 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
18 27 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
19 25 (1.85%) SaaS
20 20 (1.48%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.37%) VPN
2 4 (0.30%) Firewall
3 2 (0.15%) Broadband
3 2 (0.15%) DNS
3 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.15%) SSL
3 2 (0.15%) VoIP
4 1 (0.074%) 4G
4 1 (0.074%) 5G
4 1 (0.074%) HTTP
4 1 (0.074%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 342 (25.26%) Power BI
2 254 (18.76%) Data Warehouse
3 192 (14.18%) Metadata
4 129 (9.53%) Data Lake
5 90 (6.65%) SQL Server
5 90 (6.65%) Tableau
6 72 (5.32%) Delta Lake
7 67 (4.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 57 (4.21%) BigQuery
9 49 (3.62%) NoSQL
9 49 (3.62%) Snowflake Schema
10 48 (3.55%) Big Data
11 43 (3.18%) Amazon Redshift
11 43 (3.18%) Relational Database
12 40 (2.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 33 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
14 32 (2.36%) Pentaho
15 29 (2.14%) Star Schema
16 27 (1.99%) OLAP
16 27 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 133 (9.82%) Git
2 100 (7.39%) JIRA
3 57 (4.21%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.40%) ERwin
4 19 (1.40%) GitLab
5 17 (1.26%) MLflow
6 12 (0.89%) PowerDesigner
7 6 (0.44%) Selenium
8 5 (0.37%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.37%) LSMW
8 5 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.22%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.22%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.22%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.15%) DBeaver
10 2 (0.15%) Postman
11 1 (0.074%) Deequ
11 1 (0.074%) REST Assured
General
1 447 (33.01%) Social Skills
2 401 (29.62%) Finance
3 322 (23.78%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (11.00%) Public Sector
5 107 (7.90%) Banking
6 43 (3.18%) Marketing
7 35 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
8 34 (2.51%) Retail
9 29 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (1.85%) Legal
12 20 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.33%) Law
13 18 (1.33%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.26%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (1.18%) Local Government
15 16 (1.18%) Publishing
15 16 (1.18%) Telecoms
16 15 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 371 (27.40%) Data Engineer
2 281 (20.75%) Analyst
3 174 (12.85%) Data Analyst
4 139 (10.27%) Senior
5 135 (9.97%) Lead
6 125 (9.23%) Architect
7 87 (6.43%) Business Analyst
8 76 (5.61%) Data Architect
9 65 (4.80%) Developer
10 56 (4.14%) Senior Data Engineer
11 51 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
12 42 (3.10%) Azure Data Engineer
12 42 (3.10%) Consultant
13 41 (3.03%) Data Business Analyst
14 34 (2.51%) Data Manager
15 24 (1.77%) Data Migration Lead
15 24 (1.77%) Data Modeller
15 24 (1.77%) Principal Engineer
16 23 (1.70%) Senior Analyst
17 22 (1.62%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (9.38%) PySpark
2 108 (7.98%) Kafka
3 43 (3.18%) REST
4 41 (3.03%) Pandas
5 25 (1.85%) Great Expectations
6 22 (1.62%) JSON
6 22 (1.62%) NumPy
6 22 (1.62%) scikit-learn
7 15 (1.11%) Web Services
8 13 (0.96%) Middleware
8 13 (0.96%) OAuth
8 13 (0.96%) pytest
8 13 (0.96%) PyTorch
8 13 (0.96%) TensorFlow
9 12 (0.89%) XML
10 11 (0.81%) Flask
10 11 (0.81%) GeoJSON
10 11 (0.81%) Matplotlib
11 10 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
11 10 (0.74%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 115 (8.49%) Data Structures
2 96 (7.09%) Legacy Systems
3 73 (5.39%) Cloud Native
4 60 (4.43%) Management Information System
4 60 (4.43%) Onboarding
5 48 (3.55%) Product Ownership
6 45 (3.32%) CMDB
7 33 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 32 (2.36%) Reference Data
9 21 (1.55%) NHS
10 20 (1.48%) Clustering
11 17 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.11%) Taxonomies
14 14 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.89%) AI Agents
15 12 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
15 12 (0.89%) Fixed Income
15 12 (0.89%) Reinsurance
16 11 (0.81%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.66%) Linux
1 9 (0.66%) Unix
1 9 (0.66%) Windows
2 1 (0.074%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 613 (45.27%) Data Modelling
2 519 (38.33%) Analytics
3 481 (35.52%) Data Governance
4 476 (35.16%) ETL
5 445 (32.87%) Business Intelligence
6 402 (29.69%) Data Pipeline
7 315 (23.26%) Data Engineering
8 306 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
9 304 (22.45%) Agile
10 293 (21.64%) Validation
11 281 (20.75%) Migration
12 267 (19.72%) CI/CD
13 245 (18.09%) Decision-Making
14 225 (16.62%) Data Architecture
15 202 (14.92%) Stakeholder Management
16 199 (14.70%) AI
17 193 (14.25%) Data Migration
18 187 (13.81%) DevOps
19 184 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
20 180 (13.29%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 698 (51.55%) SQL
2 433 (31.98%) Python
3 57 (4.21%) Scala
4 44 (3.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 38 (2.81%) Java
6 28 (2.07%) T-SQL
7 27 (1.99%) C#
7 27 (1.99%) PL/SQL
8 23 (1.70%) R
9 19 (1.40%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.26%) VBA
11 15 (1.11%) Bicep
11 15 (1.11%) JavaScript
12 10 (0.74%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.59%) Bash
14 4 (0.30%) ABAP
14 4 (0.30%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.30%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
14 4 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 253 (18.69%) Security Cleared
2 188 (13.88%) SC Cleared
3 72 (5.32%) Degree
4 43 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (1.33%) Azure Certification
7 13 (0.96%) DV Cleared
8 12 (0.89%) AWS Certification
8 12 (0.89%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.30%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.30%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.22%) ACCA
11 3 (0.22%) CIMA
11 3 (0.22%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.22%) PhD
12 2 (0.15%) AAT
12 2 (0.15%) CFA
12 2 (0.15%) PMP
12 2 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (8.71%) GDPR
2 88 (6.50%) QA
3 33 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.77%) PMO
5 15 (1.11%) SLA
6 14 (1.03%) Solvency II
7 13 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.59%) FINREP
10 8 (0.59%) IFRS
11 6 (0.44%) Basel III
11 6 (0.44%) COREP
11 6 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.30%) GRC
12 4 (0.30%) MiFID
13 3 (0.22%) BS7666
13 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.22%) NIST
14 2 (0.15%) HL7
System Software
1 73 (5.39%) Docker
2 6 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.37%) etcd
4 1 (0.074%) HDFS
4 1 (0.074%) RACF
4 1 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 102 (7.53%) Terraform
2 80 (5.91%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.74%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.59%) Grafana
5 5 (0.37%) Ansible
5 5 (0.37%) Fluentd
5 5 (0.37%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.30%) Kibana
6 4 (0.30%) SCCM
7 3 (0.22%) logstash
8 1 (0.074%) Control-M
8 1 (0.074%) Nessus
8 1 (0.074%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.074%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 258 (19.05%) Databricks
2 213 (15.73%) Microsoft
3 106 (7.83%) SAP
4 101 (7.46%) Oracle
5 73 (5.39%) Informatica
6 68 (5.02%) Salesforce
7 63 (4.65%) ServiceNow
8 58 (4.28%) Talend
9 52 (3.84%) Google
10 33 (2.44%) Denodo
11 12 (0.89%) GoldenSource
11 12 (0.89%) IBM
11 12 (0.89%) OpenAI
11 12 (0.89%) Workday
12 11 (0.81%) Palantir
13 10 (0.74%) Avaloq
14 9 (0.66%) Adobe
14 9 (0.66%) Automation Anywhere
14 9 (0.66%) Foundry
14 9 (0.66%) Sparx