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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 97 119
Rank change year-on-year +50 +22 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,035 740 668
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.39% 2.66% 2.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.74% 15.49% 15.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,303 479 462
10th Percentile £352 £333 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £561
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -10.91% +2.05%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £713
90th Percentile £694 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 16 9
10th Percentile £15.39 £25.60 £21.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £31.64 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £34.43 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -8.19% -13.71%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £74.25 £79.35 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £37.49 £36.25
% change year-on-year -15.98% +3.42% -8.04%

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 8,227 4,776 4,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.77% 17.18% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,184 3,116 2,589
10th Percentile £331 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £608 £621 £638
90th Percentile £712 £725 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% -3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 224 219
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.09 £17.96 £15.07
Median hourly rate £33.79 £31.64 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +9.10% -17.14%
75th Percentile £68.17 £63.49 £63.59
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.99 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £26.68
% change year-on-year +10.00% +12.44% -23.77%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +59 1,101 £525 -2.78% 629
North of England +33 283 £463 +2.78% 179
Midlands +30 216 £451 -6.83% 122
South East +30 209 £500 - 229
West Midlands +33 169 £450 -13.21% 87
North West +16 150 £525 +16.67% 112
Yorkshire +24 114 £450 -2.70% 51
South West +7 102 £500 +14.29% 91
East of England +16 87 £565 -6.46% 62
East Midlands +8 46 £484 +8.33% 35
North East -31 20 £520 +18.86% 17
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
1 126 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (4.72%) Apache Spark
3 75 (3.69%) Apache
4 56 (2.75%) Confluence
5 47 (2.31%) SAS
6 44 (2.16%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
8 10 (0.49%) ArcGIS
8 10 (0.49%) CMS
8 10 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.098%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.098%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.049%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.049%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.049%) Luigi
13 1 (0.049%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 155 (7.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
3 25 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.79%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.098%) CATIA
8 1 (0.049%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.049%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.049%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.049%) Trello
8 1 (0.049%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 68 (3.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.59%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.49%) NEC Housing
5 10 (0.49%) Workday HCM
6 9 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.39%) SAP MDG
8 7 (0.34%) iTrent
8 7 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.29%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.25%) Maximo
10 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
11 4 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.20%) Shopify
11 4 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 532 (26.14%) Azure
2 419 (20.59%) Power Platform
3 366 (17.99%) AWS
4 165 (8.11%) GCP
5 160 (7.86%) Snowflake
6 158 (7.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 136 (6.68%) dbt
8 111 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
9 104 (5.11%) Serverless
10 100 (4.91%) Amazon S3
11 93 (4.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 83 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
12 83 (4.08%) GitHub
13 60 (2.95%) Collibra
14 59 (2.90%) Microsoft Purview
15 48 (2.36%) SaaS
16 47 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
17 45 (2.21%) Power Automate
18 44 (2.16%) Azure Databricks
19 41 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.34%) Firewall
2 5 (0.25%) Broadband
2 5 (0.25%) SD-WAN
2 5 (0.25%) SNMP
2 5 (0.25%) WAN
2 5 (0.25%) Wireless
3 3 (0.15%) HTTP
4 2 (0.098%) DNS
4 2 (0.098%) SSL
5 1 (0.049%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.049%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.049%) Network Security
5 1 (0.049%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.049%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 392 (19.26%) Power BI
2 329 (16.17%) Data Warehouse
3 323 (15.87%) Metadata
4 172 (8.45%) Data Lake
5 113 (5.55%) Tableau
6 97 (4.77%) SQL Server
7 86 (4.23%) Delta Lake
8 84 (4.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 84 (4.13%) BigQuery
9 78 (3.83%) Relational Database
10 55 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
11 51 (2.51%) Big Data
11 51 (2.51%) NoSQL
12 42 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
13 38 (1.87%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 38 (1.87%) Power Query
14 37 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
14 37 (1.82%) Star Schema
15 33 (1.62%) Looker
16 30 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 123 (6.04%) JIRA
2 111 (5.45%) Git
3 37 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.72%) GitLab
5 14 (0.69%) ERwin
6 11 (0.54%) Selenium
7 10 (0.49%) ER Studio
8 9 (0.44%) Eclipse
8 9 (0.44%) MLflow
9 8 (0.39%) Postman
10 7 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.29%) Ant
11 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.25%) Newman
12 5 (0.25%) RStudio
12 5 (0.25%) Terragrunt
13 4 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.20%) TestRail
13 4 (0.20%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 644 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 616 (30.27%) Finance
3 492 (24.18%) Analytical Skills
4 239 (11.74%) Public Sector
5 174 (8.55%) Banking
6 67 (3.29%) Retail
7 57 (2.80%) Manufacturing
8 55 (2.70%) Marketing
9 52 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
10 45 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
11 44 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
12 42 (2.06%) Local Government
13 39 (1.92%) Military
14 37 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 34 (1.67%) Legal
16 27 (1.33%) Law
17 25 (1.23%) Billing
17 25 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
18 22 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
18 22 (1.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 443 (21.77%) Data Engineer
2 418 (20.54%) Analyst
3 240 (11.79%) Senior
4 239 (11.74%) Lead
5 229 (11.25%) Data Analyst
6 209 (10.27%) Architect
7 137 (6.73%) Data Architect
8 110 (5.41%) Business Analyst
8 110 (5.41%) Senior Data Engineer
9 106 (5.21%) Developer
10 83 (4.08%) Consultant
11 67 (3.29%) Administrator
12 66 (3.24%) Data Manager
13 48 (2.36%) Data Consultant
14 42 (2.06%) Data Business Analyst
15 35 (1.72%) AWS Engineer
15 35 (1.72%) Databricks Engineer
15 35 (1.72%) Lead Data Engineer
15 35 (1.72%) Python Engineer
16 32 (1.57%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (8.99%) PySpark
2 133 (6.54%) Terraform
3 84 (4.13%) Kafka
4 58 (2.85%) REST
5 44 (2.16%) JSON
6 33 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
7 26 (1.28%) Great Expectations
7 26 (1.28%) Pandas
8 23 (1.13%) XML
9 20 (0.98%) Middleware
9 20 (0.98%) Web Services
10 18 (0.88%) .NET
11 16 (0.79%) HTML
11 16 (0.79%) SOAP
12 15 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (0.69%) pytest
14 10 (0.49%) OAuth
14 10 (0.49%) OpenID
14 10 (0.49%) SailPoint
15 9 (0.44%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 183 (8.99%) Data Structures
2 135 (6.63%) Onboarding
3 107 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 104 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
5 97 (4.77%) Product Ownership
6 94 (4.62%) Management Information System
7 61 (3.00%) CMDB
8 51 (2.51%) Reference Data
9 39 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
10 36 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
11 34 (1.67%) AI Agents
12 29 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
13 28 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
14 25 (1.23%) Taxonomies
15 23 (1.13%) NHS
16 22 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
17 21 (1.03%) Life Science
18 17 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
19 16 (0.79%) Algorithms
20 15 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.23%) Unix
2 20 (0.98%) Linux
3 15 (0.74%) Windows
4 1 (0.049%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.049%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 800 (39.31%) Data Modelling
2 724 (35.58%) Data Governance
3 719 (35.33%) Analytics
4 563 (27.67%) Data Pipeline
5 540 (26.54%) ETL
6 534 (26.24%) Validation
7 503 (24.72%) Business Intelligence
8 501 (24.62%) Stakeholder Management
9 493 (24.23%) Migration
10 465 (22.85%) Data Engineering
11 419 (20.59%) Agile
12 389 (19.12%) Decision-Making
13 387 (19.02%) CI/CD
14 386 (18.97%) AI
15 377 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
16 322 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
17 301 (14.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 298 (14.64%) Data Architecture
19 295 (14.50%) Data Migration
20 281 (13.81%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 877 (43.10%) SQL
2 545 (26.78%) Python
3 59 (2.90%) Java
4 58 (2.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 42 (2.06%) PL/SQL
6 33 (1.62%) Scala
6 33 (1.62%) T-SQL
7 31 (1.52%) PowerShell
8 29 (1.43%) Shell Script
9 25 (1.23%) JavaScript
10 23 (1.13%) R
11 22 (1.08%) C#
12 17 (0.84%) Bash
13 13 (0.64%) Bicep
14 9 (0.44%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.44%) VBA
15 8 (0.39%) SOQL
15 8 (0.39%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
17 6 (0.29%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 328 (16.12%) Security Cleared
2 253 (12.43%) SC Cleared
3 125 (6.14%) Degree
4 55 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.33%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.28%) AWS Certification
9 20 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 18 (0.88%) PMI Certification
11 13 (0.64%) PMP
12 9 (0.44%) ACCA
12 9 (0.44%) CIMA
13 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.29%) SnowPro
15 5 (0.25%) CIPD
15 5 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (7.42%) QA
2 130 (6.39%) GDPR
3 38 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 35 (1.72%) PMO
5 22 (1.08%) SLA
6 21 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.74%) IFRS
7 15 (0.74%) NIST
8 14 (0.69%) GRC
8 14 (0.69%) NCSC
8 14 (0.69%) Solvency II
9 9 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.44%) COREP
9 9 (0.44%) FINREP
10 8 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (0.34%) IFRS 17
12 6 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 5 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
14 4 (0.20%) BS7666
System Software
1 75 (3.69%) Docker
2 19 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.20%) etcd
4 2 (0.098%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (3.78%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.69%) Grafana
3 13 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (0.59%) Ansible
5 10 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.44%) Control-M
7 4 (0.20%) Fluentd
7 4 (0.20%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.20%) Kibana
7 4 (0.20%) SCCM
8 1 (0.049%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.049%) Istio
8 1 (0.049%) logstash
8 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.049%) Nexpose
8 1 (0.049%) Puppet
8 1 (0.049%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.049%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 382 (18.77%) Microsoft
2 297 (14.59%) Databricks
3 167 (8.21%) SAP
4 150 (7.37%) Oracle
5 91 (4.47%) ServiceNow
6 86 (4.23%) Informatica
7 77 (3.78%) Salesforce
8 61 (3.00%) Google
9 33 (1.62%) Workday
10 27 (1.33%) Talend
11 26 (1.28%) IBM
12 25 (1.23%) Adobe
13 23 (1.13%) Alteryx
14 22 (1.08%) Splunk
15 21 (1.03%) Palantir
16 16 (0.79%) Denodo
17 15 (0.74%) Foundry
18 12 (0.59%) Bloomberg
18 12 (0.59%) GoldenSource
18 12 (0.59%) Teradata