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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 102 116
Rank change year-on-year +56 +14 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,153 772 672
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.60% 2.74% 2.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.47% 15.47% 15.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,365 497 451
10th Percentile £353 £337 £340
25th Percentile £425 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £713
90th Percentile £725 £750 £850
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £528
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.30% -3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 13 9
10th Percentile £16.17 - £21.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £18.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £30.27 £34.98 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -6.72% +5.25%
75th Percentile £55.50 £44.75 £97.50
90th Percentile £70.75 £74.75 -
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £40.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -24.66% +10.34% +2.65%

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 8,452 4,989 4,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.04% 17.72% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,261 3,255 2,439
10th Percentile £325 £300 £296
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -5.09%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £724 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 678 244 197
10th Percentile £13.84 £15.13 £13.26
25th Percentile £16.60 £17.69 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.20 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.49 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.27 £82.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.27 £30.00 £27.67
% change year-on-year +0.90% +8.42% -23.14%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +46 1,166 £534 -2.06% 1,220
North of England +48 298 £463 - 356
Midlands +36 227 £460 -8.00% 164
South East +27 218 £500 +11.11% 206
West Midlands +29 182 £470 -10.05% 118
North West +24 153 £525 +16.67% 205
South West +29 120 £500 +5.26% 98
Yorkshire +32 117 £450 -10.00% 95
East of England +22 76 £464 -23.28% 106
East Midlands +11 44 £428 -4.36% 46
North East -14 29 £523 -0.48% 56
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
1 138 (6.41%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (4.88%) Apache Spark
3 85 (3.95%) Apache
4 65 (3.02%) Confluence
5 54 (2.51%) SAS
6 46 (2.14%) SharePoint
7 14 (0.65%) CMS
8 13 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
9 11 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.37%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.093%) Appian
14 2 (0.093%) GeoServer
14 2 (0.093%) HCL Notes
14 2 (0.093%) Oracle Application Server
15 1 (0.046%) Apache Superset
15 1 (0.046%) Luigi
Applications
1 168 (7.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
4 15 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.093%) CATIA
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.046%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.046%) Trello
9 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 69 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.79%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.70%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.56%) NEC Housing
5 12 (0.56%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.51%) SAP MDG
7 10 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
7 10 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 9 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.37%) SAP HR
10 7 (0.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 7 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.28%) Maximo
11 6 (0.28%) Teamcenter
12 5 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
12 5 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
12 5 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
12 5 (0.23%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 547 (25.41%) Azure
2 460 (21.37%) Power Platform
3 398 (18.49%) AWS
4 193 (8.96%) GCP
5 188 (8.73%) Snowflake
6 139 (6.46%) Azure Data Factory
6 139 (6.46%) dbt
7 108 (5.02%) Amazon S3
7 108 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
8 107 (4.97%) Serverless
9 87 (4.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 85 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
11 83 (3.86%) GitHub
12 71 (3.30%) Microsoft Purview
13 58 (2.69%) Collibra
14 52 (2.42%) SaaS
15 49 (2.28%) Power Automate
16 48 (2.23%) Azure Databricks
16 48 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
17 46 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.28%) Broadband
1 6 (0.28%) Firewall
1 6 (0.28%) SD-WAN
1 6 (0.28%) WAN
2 5 (0.23%) SNMP
2 5 (0.23%) Wireless
3 3 (0.14%) DNS
3 3 (0.14%) HTTP
3 3 (0.14%) Network Security
4 2 (0.093%) SSL
5 1 (0.046%) BGP
5 1 (0.046%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.046%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.046%) MPLS
5 1 (0.046%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.046%) OSPF
5 1 (0.046%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.046%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.046%) VLAN
5 1 (0.046%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 431 (20.02%) Power BI
2 348 (16.16%) Metadata
3 332 (15.42%) Data Warehouse
4 179 (8.31%) Data Lake
5 116 (5.39%) Tableau
6 102 (4.74%) BigQuery
7 89 (4.13%) Delta Lake
8 88 (4.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 84 (3.90%) SQL Server
10 81 (3.76%) Relational Database
11 61 (2.83%) Amazon Athena
12 52 (2.42%) NoSQL
12 52 (2.42%) Power Query
13 43 (2.00%) Big Data
14 39 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
15 37 (1.72%) Looker
16 35 (1.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 32 (1.49%) Semantic Layer
17 32 (1.49%) Star Schema
18 28 (1.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 150 (6.97%) Git
2 134 (6.22%) JIRA
3 42 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.58%) GitLab
5 13 (0.60%) Postman
6 10 (0.46%) ERwin
6 10 (0.46%) MLflow
7 9 (0.42%) Eclipse
8 8 (0.37%) Newman
8 8 (0.37%) Selenium
9 7 (0.33%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.28%) Ant
10 6 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.23%) JMeter
11 5 (0.23%) RStudio
11 5 (0.23%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.19%) TestRail
12 4 (0.19%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 682 (31.68%) Social Skills
2 660 (30.65%) Finance
3 505 (23.46%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (12.35%) Public Sector
5 199 (9.24%) Banking
6 73 (3.39%) Retail
7 69 (3.20%) Manufacturing
8 59 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
9 56 (2.60%) Marketing
10 53 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (2.14%) Local Government
11 46 (2.14%) Military
12 45 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
13 44 (2.04%) Legal
14 35 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 30 (1.39%) Front Office
16 26 (1.21%) Billing
17 25 (1.16%) Investment Banking
17 25 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
18 24 (1.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 457 (21.23%) Analyst
2 454 (21.09%) Data Engineer
3 264 (12.26%) Senior
4 260 (12.08%) Lead
5 239 (11.10%) Data Analyst
6 229 (10.64%) Architect
7 146 (6.78%) Data Architect
8 127 (5.90%) Business Analyst
9 122 (5.67%) Senior Data Engineer
10 117 (5.43%) Developer
11 103 (4.78%) Consultant
12 77 (3.58%) Administrator
13 64 (2.97%) Data Manager
14 57 (2.65%) Data Business Analyst
15 54 (2.51%) Data Consultant
16 42 (1.95%) Senior Analyst
17 41 (1.90%) Databricks Engineer
18 40 (1.86%) Lead Data Engineer
19 35 (1.63%) AWS Engineer
19 35 (1.63%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (8.27%) PySpark
2 142 (6.60%) Terraform
3 82 (3.81%) Kafka
4 61 (2.83%) REST
5 40 (1.86%) JSON
6 36 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
7 27 (1.25%) Web Services
8 25 (1.16%) XML
9 24 (1.11%) Middleware
10 23 (1.07%) Pandas
11 22 (1.02%) SOAP
12 19 (0.88%) Great Expectations
13 17 (0.79%) HTML
14 16 (0.74%) .NET
14 16 (0.74%) OAuth
14 16 (0.74%) pytest
15 15 (0.70%) OpenID
16 12 (0.56%) Playwright
17 11 (0.51%) OAuth2
17 11 (0.51%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 205 (9.52%) Data Structures
2 135 (6.27%) Onboarding
3 130 (6.04%) Cloud Native
4 116 (5.39%) Management Information System
5 106 (4.92%) Product Ownership
6 96 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
7 64 (2.97%) CMDB
8 52 (2.42%) Reference Data
9 46 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
10 44 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
11 39 (1.81%) AI Agents
12 36 (1.67%) Taxonomies
13 27 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
14 26 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
16 21 (0.98%) Algorithms
16 21 (0.98%) NHS
17 20 (0.93%) Life Science
18 15 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
18 15 (0.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.35%) Unix
2 20 (0.93%) Linux
3 12 (0.56%) Windows
4 1 (0.046%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.046%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 863 (40.08%) Data Modelling
2 781 (36.27%) Analytics
3 758 (35.21%) Data Governance
4 598 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 592 (27.50%) Validation
6 588 (27.31%) Data Pipeline
7 544 (25.27%) Business Intelligence
8 534 (24.80%) ETL
9 516 (23.97%) Migration
10 515 (23.92%) Data Engineering
11 448 (20.81%) Agile
12 443 (20.58%) AI
13 421 (19.55%) Decision-Making
14 410 (19.04%) CI/CD
15 385 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
16 354 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
17 329 (15.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 306 (14.21%) Data Migration
19 303 (14.07%) Data Architecture
20 288 (13.38%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 941 (43.71%) SQL
2 599 (27.82%) Python
3 66 (3.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 61 (2.83%) Java
5 39 (1.81%) PL/SQL
6 34 (1.58%) JavaScript
7 33 (1.53%) Shell Script
8 30 (1.39%) PowerShell
9 28 (1.30%) Scala
10 27 (1.25%) R
11 24 (1.11%) C#
11 24 (1.11%) T-SQL
12 20 (0.93%) Bash
13 17 (0.79%) Bicep
14 12 (0.56%) TypeScript
15 9 (0.42%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.37%) SOQL
17 7 (0.33%) Korn
18 6 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 358 (16.63%) Security Cleared
2 283 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 139 (6.46%) Degree
4 50 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 37 (1.72%) DV Cleared
6 30 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.16%) PMI Certification
9 21 (0.98%) PMP
10 20 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 20 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.65%) ACCA
11 14 (0.65%) CIMA
12 9 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (0.42%) CISSP
13 8 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.37%) CISM
13 8 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.33%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (6.92%) QA
2 132 (6.13%) GDPR
3 43 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 42 (1.95%) PMO
5 22 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (0.98%) GRC
6 21 (0.98%) NIST
7 20 (0.93%) SLA
8 17 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
9 16 (0.74%) IFRS
10 14 (0.65%) NCSC
11 10 (0.46%) Solvency II
12 9 (0.42%) Basel III
13 8 (0.37%) IFRS 17
14 7 (0.33%) COBIT
14 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.28%) IFRS 9
16 5 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 77 (3.58%) Docker
2 21 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.093%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.046%) HDFS
4 1 (0.046%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (3.58%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (0.60%) Ansible
3 13 (0.60%) Grafana
4 8 (0.37%) Control-M
5 7 (0.33%) Kibana
6 5 (0.23%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.19%) SCCM
8 3 (0.14%) logstash
9 2 (0.093%) Argo
9 2 (0.093%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.046%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.046%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.046%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.046%) Puppet
10 1 (0.046%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 433 (20.11%) Microsoft
2 329 (15.28%) Databricks
3 156 (7.25%) SAP
4 153 (7.11%) Oracle
5 104 (4.83%) ServiceNow
6 89 (4.13%) Informatica
7 86 (3.99%) Google
8 72 (3.34%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.58%) Workday
10 30 (1.39%) Talend
11 27 (1.25%) Adobe
12 26 (1.21%) Denodo
12 26 (1.21%) IBM
13 23 (1.07%) Palantir
14 22 (1.02%) Alteryx
15 21 (0.98%) Splunk
16 16 (0.74%) Foundry
17 13 (0.60%) Ariba
18 12 (0.56%) Bloomberg
18 12 (0.56%) NEC