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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 112 127
Rank change year-on-year +32 +15 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,040 629 750
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.16% 2.37% 1.97%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.41% 16.36% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 718 409 509
10th Percentile £325 £307 £375
25th Percentile £413 £385 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £650
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £498 £550
% change year-on-year +0.39% -9.44% +4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 41
10th Percentile £16.49 £21.25 £14.13
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.06 £15.39
Median hourly rate £19.38 £35.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.64% +14.75% +35.65%
75th Percentile £30.75 £93.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £51.60 £97.50 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £23.92
% change year-on-year -17.14% +46.35% +6.36%

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 5,649 3,844 5,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.17% 14.51% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,664 2,232 3,606
10th Percentile £325 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £380 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £704 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 153 296
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.76 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.00 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.62 £28.37
Median % change year-on-year -20.46% +11.46% -0.80%
75th Percentile £63.50 £65.00 £51.94
90th Percentile £69.53 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £26.11 £29.00 £26.66
% change year-on-year -9.97% +8.78% +2.54%

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 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 1 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 1 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 +28 623 £525 - 312
North of England -10 127 £475 +19.50% 114
Midlands +2 107 £515 +32.90% 62
West Midlands +8 85 £520 +6.56% 43
South East +11 77 £444 -24.47% 200
North West -5 71 £463 +12.12% 68
South West +10 55 £500 +2.56% 42
Yorkshire -27 40 £500 +81.82% 34
East Midlands -12 23 £439 +26.01% 19
East of England -41 19 £650 +18.18% 38
North East -3 17 £450 +200.00% 14
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 91 (8.75%) Apache Spark
2 64 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (4.04%) SAS
4 37 (3.56%) Apache
5 21 (2.02%) SharePoint
6 20 (1.92%) Confluence
7 8 (0.77%) GeoServer
7 8 (0.77%) Smallworld
8 7 (0.67%) Appian
8 7 (0.67%) Oracle Application Server
8 7 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.29%) Luigi
9 3 (0.29%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 89 (8.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (1.44%) MS Visio
4 13 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.29%) Trello
7 1 (0.096%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.096%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 39 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (0.87%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.58%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.58%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.48%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.38%) Finacle
7 4 (0.38%) SystmOne
8 3 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.29%) iTrent
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle SCM
8 3 (0.29%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.29%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.29%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (0.29%) SAP MDG-M
8 3 (0.29%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 319 (30.67%) Azure
2 247 (23.75%) Power Platform
3 208 (20.00%) AWS
4 119 (11.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 100 (9.62%) GCP
6 89 (8.56%) Snowflake
7 71 (6.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 68 (6.54%) dbt
9 58 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (5.38%) Amazon S3
11 50 (4.81%) GitHub
12 45 (4.33%) Collibra
13 38 (3.65%) Serverless
14 29 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
16 25 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
17 20 (1.92%) SaaS
18 19 (1.83%) OCI
18 19 (1.83%) Power Automate
19 17 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.29%) DNS
2 2 (0.19%) Broadband
2 2 (0.19%) HTTP
2 2 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (0.19%) SSL
2 2 (0.19%) VoIP
3 1 (0.096%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (23.17%) Power BI
2 190 (18.27%) Data Warehouse
3 161 (15.48%) Metadata
4 93 (8.94%) Data Lake
5 72 (6.92%) SQL Server
6 59 (5.67%) Tableau
7 53 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 47 (4.52%) Delta Lake
9 46 (4.42%) Snowflake Schema
10 44 (4.23%) NoSQL
11 43 (4.13%) Big Data
12 40 (3.85%) Relational Database
13 36 (3.46%) Pentaho
14 34 (3.27%) BigQuery
14 34 (3.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 30 (2.88%) Star Schema
16 27 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
16 27 (2.60%) Data Vault
16 27 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
17 18 (1.73%) Looker
Development Applications
1 122 (11.73%) Git
2 87 (8.37%) JIRA
3 52 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 22 (2.12%) ERwin
5 15 (1.44%) PowerDesigner
6 12 (1.15%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.96%) MLflow
8 6 (0.58%) DBeaver
9 3 (0.29%) GitLab
9 3 (0.29%) LSMW
9 3 (0.29%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.19%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.19%) Selenium
11 1 (0.096%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.096%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.096%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.096%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.096%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.096%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.096%) webpack
General
1 356 (34.23%) Social Skills
2 300 (28.85%) Finance
3 225 (21.63%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 86 (8.27%) Banking
6 30 (2.88%) Marketing
7 27 (2.60%) Retail
8 23 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (1.92%) Legal
10 16 (1.54%) Local Government
10 16 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.35%) Military
13 13 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.15%) Publishing
14 12 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.06%) Billing
15 11 (1.06%) Law
15 11 (1.06%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 263 (25.29%) Data Engineer
2 224 (21.54%) Analyst
3 141 (13.56%) Data Analyst
4 109 (10.48%) Lead
5 101 (9.71%) Architect
6 100 (9.62%) Senior
7 65 (6.25%) Business Analyst
8 61 (5.87%) Data Architect
9 55 (5.29%) Developer
10 49 (4.71%) Senior Data Engineer
11 45 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
12 38 (3.65%) Azure Data Engineer
13 36 (3.46%) Consultant
14 34 (3.27%) Data Business Analyst
15 28 (2.69%) Data Manager
15 28 (2.69%) Data Modeller
16 22 (2.12%) Governance Analyst
17 21 (2.02%) Project Manager
18 16 (1.54%) Data Migration Lead
18 16 (1.54%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (9.13%) PySpark
2 67 (6.44%) Kafka
3 33 (3.17%) REST
4 20 (1.92%) Pandas
5 15 (1.44%) Great Expectations
6 14 (1.35%) NumPy
7 13 (1.25%) Middleware
7 13 (1.25%) XML
8 10 (0.96%) OAuth
8 10 (0.96%) SOAP
9 9 (0.87%) JSON
9 9 (0.87%) pytest
9 9 (0.87%) PyTorch
9 9 (0.87%) Web Services
9 9 (0.87%) YAML
10 8 (0.77%) Hugging Face
10 8 (0.77%) Lightning Web Components
10 8 (0.77%) scikit-learn
10 8 (0.77%) TensorFlow
10 8 (0.77%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 96 (9.23%) Data Structures
2 74 (7.12%) Legacy Systems
3 41 (3.94%) Management Information System
4 40 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 32 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 27 (2.60%) Product Ownership
8 24 (2.31%) CMDB
9 20 (1.92%) Reference Data
10 19 (1.83%) Reinsurance
11 18 (1.73%) NHS
12 17 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.44%) Replication
14 13 (1.25%) Clustering
14 13 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (1.06%) Data Centre
16 10 (0.96%) Taxonomies
17 9 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
18 8 (0.77%) Algorithms
19 7 (0.67%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.44%) Linux
2 4 (0.38%) Unix
3 2 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (43.75%) Data Modelling
2 397 (38.17%) Analytics
3 387 (37.21%) Data Governance
4 352 (33.85%) ETL
5 331 (31.83%) Business Intelligence
6 287 (27.60%) Data Pipeline
7 269 (25.87%) Problem-Solving
8 256 (24.62%) Agile
9 225 (21.63%) Data Engineering
10 199 (19.13%) Migration
11 183 (17.60%) CI/CD
12 178 (17.12%) Validation
13 170 (16.35%) Decision-Making
14 164 (15.77%) Data Architecture
15 155 (14.90%) Data Management
16 150 (14.42%) Data Integration
17 145 (13.94%) Data Analysis
18 142 (13.65%) AI
19 141 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
20 139 (13.37%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 520 (50.00%) SQL
2 325 (31.25%) Python
3 45 (4.33%) Scala
4 25 (2.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 23 (2.21%) Java
6 21 (2.02%) PL/SQL
7 20 (1.92%) C#
7 20 (1.92%) R
8 18 (1.73%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.44%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.06%) Bash
10 11 (1.06%) Bicep
11 9 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.77%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.67%) C++
13 7 (0.67%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.48%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.38%) ABAP
15 4 (0.38%) Korn
15 4 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 180 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 135 (12.98%) SC Cleared
3 64 (6.15%) Degree
4 27 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (1.54%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.25%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.06%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.29%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.29%) PMP
10 3 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 3 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.19%) AAT
11 2 (0.19%) ACCA
11 2 (0.19%) CFA
11 2 (0.19%) CIMA
11 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (9.04%) GDPR
2 61 (5.87%) QA
3 41 (3.94%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.54%) PMO
5 15 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 11 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.77%) SLA
8 7 (0.67%) Basel III
8 7 (0.67%) IFRS
8 7 (0.67%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.48%) ISO 19650
10 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.29%) FINREP
11 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.29%) MiFID
12 2 (0.19%) CRD IV
12 2 (0.19%) EMIR
12 2 (0.19%) HL7
12 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (6.15%) Docker
2 6 (0.58%) zsh
3 5 (0.48%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.096%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 64 (6.15%) Kubernetes
2 58 (5.58%) Terraform
3 3 (0.29%) Kibana
3 3 (0.29%) logstash
3 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.29%) SCCM
4 2 (0.19%) Ansible
5 1 (0.096%) Grafana
5 1 (0.096%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.096%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.096%) Oozie
5 1 (0.096%) Puppet
Vendors
1 193 (18.56%) Databricks
2 155 (14.90%) Microsoft
3 98 (9.42%) Oracle
4 67 (6.44%) SAP
5 54 (5.19%) Informatica
6 50 (4.81%) Salesforce
7 49 (4.71%) Talend
8 39 (3.75%) Google
9 38 (3.65%) ServiceNow
10 34 (3.27%) Denodo
11 14 (1.35%) Sparx
12 12 (1.15%) Palantir
13 10 (0.96%) Alteryx
14 8 (0.77%) Avaloq
14 8 (0.77%) ESRI
14 8 (0.77%) Intergraph
14 8 (0.77%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.67%) Cognos
15 7 (0.67%) Foundry
16 6 (0.58%) Guidewire