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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 114 115
Rank change year-on-year +41 +1 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,157 623 761
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.33% 2.40% 2.03%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.24% 16.24% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 793 424 515
10th Percentile £337 £308 £375
25th Percentile £413 £398 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 38
10th Percentile £13.95 £19.74 £14.01
25th Percentile £17.73 £22.55 £15.39
Median hourly rate £18.50 £33.91 £24.22
Median % change year-on-year -45.44% +40.02% +7.69%
75th Percentile £30.75 £56.25 £47.19
90th Percentile £66.70 £95.63 £61.75
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £33.91 £21.64
% change year-on-year -17.42% +56.68% -3.76%

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 6,013 3,837 5,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.32% 14.81% 14.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,894 2,277 3,536
10th Percentile £325 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 148 308
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.91 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £20.14 £14.50
Median hourly rate £24.33 £30.11 £26.45
Median % change year-on-year -19.20% +13.82% -24.43%
75th Percentile £63.40 £65.00 £49.31
90th Percentile £69.50 £75.00 £73.05
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £27.35 £25.06
% change year-on-year -5.78% +9.15% -22.90%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +30 684 £525 - 226
North of England -1 149 £475 +18.75% 100
Midlands -8 109 £500 +21.21% 78
West Midlands -10 86 £515 +5.53% 49
South East +9 83 £425 -26.09% 170
North West +1 80 £463 +2.78% 60
South West +25 66 £500 -4.76% 42
Yorkshire -29 45 £500 +138.10% 26
East of England -45 26 £650 +8.33% 35
North East +9 25 £475 - 15
East Midlands -17 24 £425 +19.38% 29
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
1 103 (8.90%) Apache Spark
2 61 (5.27%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (4.06%) Apache
4 33 (2.85%) SAS
5 24 (2.07%) Confluence
6 21 (1.82%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.78%) Appian
7 9 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.69%) GeoServer
8 8 (0.69%) Smallworld
9 6 (0.52%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.26%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.17%) CMS
11 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.086%) Jupyter
Applications
1 98 (8.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.21%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.26%) Trello
8 1 (0.086%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.086%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 39 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (0.78%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.61%) NEC Housing
4 7 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.61%) SAP MDG
5 5 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.43%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.43%) SystmOne
6 4 (0.35%) Finacle
6 4 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.35%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.26%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.26%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.26%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.26%) SAP MDG-F
7 3 (0.26%) SAP MDG-S
7 3 (0.26%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 369 (31.89%) Azure
2 288 (24.89%) Power Platform
3 231 (19.97%) AWS
4 141 (12.19%) Azure Data Factory
5 116 (10.03%) GCP
6 97 (8.38%) Snowflake
7 83 (7.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 73 (6.31%) dbt
9 59 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (4.84%) Amazon S3
11 50 (4.32%) GitHub
12 49 (4.24%) Collibra
13 47 (4.06%) Serverless
14 32 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
15 28 (2.42%) Microsoft Purview
16 24 (2.07%) Power Automate
17 23 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
17 23 (1.99%) SaaS
18 22 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
19 16 (1.38%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.26%) DNS
2 2 (0.17%) Broadband
2 2 (0.17%) HTTP
2 2 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (0.17%) SSL
2 2 (0.17%) VoIP
3 1 (0.086%) 4G
3 1 (0.086%) 5G
3 1 (0.086%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 278 (24.03%) Power BI
2 214 (18.50%) Data Warehouse
3 174 (15.04%) Metadata
4 108 (9.33%) Data Lake
5 76 (6.57%) SQL Server
6 66 (5.70%) Tableau
7 62 (5.36%) Delta Lake
8 56 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
9 52 (4.49%) Snowflake Schema
10 47 (4.06%) Big Data
11 46 (3.98%) Relational Database
12 44 (3.80%) NoSQL
13 42 (3.63%) BigQuery
14 36 (3.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 33 (2.85%) Amazon Redshift
16 30 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
17 28 (2.42%) Data Vault
18 24 (2.07%) Pentaho
19 22 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
19 22 (1.90%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 121 (10.46%) Git
2 77 (6.66%) JIRA
3 43 (3.72%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.99%) ERwin
5 17 (1.47%) PowerDesigner
6 13 (1.12%) MLflow
7 12 (1.04%) ER Studio
8 9 (0.78%) GitLab
9 5 (0.43%) DBeaver
10 3 (0.26%) LSMW
10 3 (0.26%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.17%) Browser DevTools
11 2 (0.17%) Postman
11 2 (0.17%) Selenium
12 1 (0.086%) git-flow
12 1 (0.086%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.086%) RStudio
12 1 (0.086%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.086%) webpack
General
1 391 (33.79%) Social Skills
2 333 (28.78%) Finance
3 264 (22.82%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (11.06%) Public Sector
5 91 (7.87%) Banking
6 34 (2.94%) Marketing
7 28 (2.42%) Retail
8 27 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (1.64%) Legal
11 18 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (1.47%) Local Government
12 17 (1.47%) Publishing
13 15 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.30%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.30%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.12%) Military
15 12 (1.04%) Billing
16 11 (0.95%) Law
16 11 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 298 (25.76%) Data Engineer
2 253 (21.87%) Analyst
3 159 (13.74%) Data Analyst
4 118 (10.20%) Lead
4 118 (10.20%) Senior
5 115 (9.94%) Architect
6 73 (6.31%) Business Analyst
7 71 (6.14%) Data Architect
8 63 (5.45%) Developer
9 53 (4.58%) Senior Data Engineer
10 47 (4.06%) Azure Engineer
11 39 (3.37%) Azure Data Engineer
11 39 (3.37%) Data Business Analyst
12 38 (3.28%) Consultant
13 30 (2.59%) Data Modeller
14 25 (2.16%) Data Manager
15 21 (1.82%) Project Manager
16 20 (1.73%) Governance Analyst
17 18 (1.56%) Senior Analyst
18 17 (1.47%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (9.25%) PySpark
2 81 (7.00%) Kafka
3 35 (3.03%) REST
4 31 (2.68%) Pandas
5 20 (1.73%) NumPy
6 17 (1.47%) Great Expectations
6 17 (1.47%) scikit-learn
7 13 (1.12%) Middleware
7 13 (1.12%) XML
8 12 (1.04%) OAuth
8 12 (1.04%) PyTorch
8 12 (1.04%) TensorFlow
8 12 (1.04%) Web Services
9 10 (0.86%) Flask
9 10 (0.86%) Hugging Face
9 10 (0.86%) JSON
9 10 (0.86%) OpenAPI
9 10 (0.86%) pytest
9 10 (0.86%) YAML
10 9 (0.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 109 (9.42%) Data Structures
2 88 (7.61%) Legacy Systems
3 47 (4.06%) Cloud Native
3 47 (4.06%) Management Information System
4 34 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 33 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 32 (2.77%) Product Ownership
7 29 (2.51%) CMDB
8 23 (1.99%) Reference Data
9 20 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (1.73%) NHS
10 18 (1.56%) Clustering
10 18 (1.56%) Reinsurance
11 14 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.21%) Replication
12 12 (1.04%) Taxonomies
13 10 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (0.78%) Algorithms
14 9 (0.78%) Data Centre
14 9 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.30%) Linux
2 5 (0.43%) Unix
3 3 (0.26%) Windows
4 1 (0.086%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (43.13%) Data Modelling
2 452 (39.07%) Analytics
3 412 (35.61%) Data Governance
4 380 (32.84%) ETL
5 373 (32.24%) Business Intelligence
6 309 (26.71%) Data Pipeline
7 277 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
8 264 (22.82%) Agile
8 264 (22.82%) Data Engineering
9 227 (19.62%) Migration
10 211 (18.24%) Validation
11 202 (17.46%) CI/CD
12 190 (16.42%) Decision-Making
13 188 (16.25%) Data Architecture
14 171 (14.78%) AI
15 163 (14.09%) Data Management
16 162 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
17 155 (13.40%) Data Migration
18 154 (13.31%) Data Analysis
19 153 (13.22%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 583 (50.39%) SQL
2 370 (31.98%) Python
3 51 (4.41%) Scala
4 28 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 28 (2.42%) Java
5 25 (2.16%) PL/SQL
6 23 (1.99%) R
7 21 (1.82%) C#
7 21 (1.82%) T-SQL
8 16 (1.38%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.04%) Bicep
10 11 (0.95%) Bash
11 10 (0.86%) Shell Script
12 9 (0.78%) PowerShell
13 8 (0.69%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.69%) VBA
14 7 (0.61%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.61%) C++
15 4 (0.35%) ABAP
16 3 (0.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 199 (17.20%) Security Cleared
2 147 (12.71%) SC Cleared
3 71 (6.14%) Degree
4 31 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.38%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.30%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.12%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.04%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.17%) AAT
12 2 (0.17%) ACCA
12 2 (0.17%) CFA
12 2 (0.17%) CIMA
12 2 (0.17%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.17%) PhD
12 2 (0.17%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (8.38%) GDPR
2 73 (6.31%) QA
3 43 (3.72%) Accessibility
4 19 (1.64%) PMO
5 13 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 11 (0.95%) SLA
8 10 (0.86%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.61%) Basel III
10 6 (0.52%) IFRS
11 5 (0.43%) ISO 19650
11 5 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.35%) FINREP
12 4 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.26%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.26%) MiFID
13 3 (0.26%) NIST
14 2 (0.17%) GRC
14 2 (0.17%) HL7
14 2 (0.17%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 59 (5.10%) Docker
2 6 (0.52%) zsh
3 5 (0.43%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.17%) HDFS
5 1 (0.086%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 78 (6.74%) Terraform
2 58 (5.01%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.35%) Kibana
3 4 (0.35%) SCCM
4 3 (0.26%) Ansible
4 3 (0.26%) Grafana
4 3 (0.26%) logstash
4 3 (0.26%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.086%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.086%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.086%) Oozie
5 1 (0.086%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 222 (19.19%) Databricks
2 172 (14.87%) Microsoft
3 89 (7.69%) Oracle
4 78 (6.74%) SAP
5 58 (5.01%) Informatica
6 55 (4.75%) Salesforce
7 45 (3.89%) ServiceNow
7 45 (3.89%) Talend
8 44 (3.80%) Google
9 23 (1.99%) Denodo
10 14 (1.21%) Palantir
11 13 (1.12%) Sparx
12 12 (1.04%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.78%) Alteryx
13 9 (0.78%) Automation Anywhere
13 9 (0.78%) Foundry
14 8 (0.69%) Avaloq
14 8 (0.69%) ESRI
14 8 (0.69%) Intergraph
14 8 (0.69%) UiPath