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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 113 130
Rank change year-on-year +32 +17 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 973 616 709
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.06% 2.28% 1.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.72% 15.95% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 404 487
10th Percentile £341 £306 £366
25th Percentile £413 £383 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £712 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 25
10th Percentile £17.64 £21.25 £17.22
25th Percentile £18.25 £22.55 £27.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £35.00 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year -44.29% -24.00% +104.83%
75th Percentile £37.11 £94.69 £61.75
90th Percentile £65.30 £97.50 £69.20
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £35.00 £46.06
% change year-on-year -31.43% -24.00% +104.83%

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 5,492 3,861 5,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.29% 14.32% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,569 2,252 3,398
10th Percentile £314 £264 £319
25th Percentile £408 £382 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £614 £636 £650
90th Percentile £703 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 149 227
10th Percentile £15.82 £14.70 £13.11
25th Percentile £18.04 £20.50 £17.36
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -7.69% +31.10%
75th Percentile £60.93 £65.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £70.03 £75.00 £79.87
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -11.14% -10.77% +35.42%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 +30 584 £525 - 215
North of England -1 124 £475 +18.75% 105
Midlands +10 98 £515 +28.75% 74
West Midlands +7 72 £525 +10.29% 44
South East +4 71 £425 -27.66% 228
North West -6 66 £456 +8.96% 55
South West +6 47 £500 +2.56% 60
Yorkshire -17 44 £500 +53.85% 36
East Midlands -11 27 £439 +26.01% 29
East of England -37 17 £625 +15.74% 67
North East -1 15 £463 +86.87% 15
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 92 (9.46%) Apache Spark
2 57 (5.86%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (4.01%) SAS
4 35 (3.60%) Apache
5 18 (1.85%) SharePoint
6 16 (1.64%) Confluence
7 8 (0.82%) GeoServer
7 8 (0.82%) Smallworld
8 7 (0.72%) Oracle Application Server
9 5 (0.51%) Appian
10 3 (0.31%) Luigi
10 3 (0.31%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 90 (9.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.44%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.31%) Trello
8 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 36 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.62%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.62%) SAP MDG
5 4 (0.41%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.41%) SystmOne
6 3 (0.31%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.31%) Finacle
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
6 3 (0.31%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.31%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.31%) SAP MDG-F
6 3 (0.31%) SAP MDG-M
6 3 (0.31%) SAP MDG-S
7 2 (0.21%) iTrent
7 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 295 (30.32%) Azure
2 225 (23.12%) Power Platform
3 192 (19.73%) AWS
4 102 (10.48%) Azure Data Factory
5 96 (9.87%) GCP
6 81 (8.32%) Snowflake
7 64 (6.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 55 (5.65%) dbt
9 50 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (4.83%) Amazon S3
10 47 (4.83%) GitHub
11 43 (4.42%) Collibra
12 32 (3.29%) Serverless
13 30 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
15 20 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (1.85%) OCI
16 18 (1.85%) SaaS
17 14 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
18 13 (1.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.31%) DNS
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) HTTP
2 2 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (0.21%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) VoIP
3 1 (0.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (22.61%) Power BI
2 182 (18.71%) Data Warehouse
3 159 (16.34%) Metadata
4 88 (9.04%) Data Lake
5 67 (6.89%) SQL Server
6 60 (6.17%) Tableau
7 50 (5.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 47 (4.83%) Big Data
9 46 (4.73%) NoSQL
10 42 (4.32%) Relational Database
10 42 (4.32%) Snowflake Schema
11 35 (3.60%) Delta Lake
11 35 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 34 (3.49%) Pentaho
13 32 (3.29%) BigQuery
14 29 (2.98%) Star Schema
15 27 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
16 22 (2.26%) Data Vault
17 20 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
18 17 (1.75%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 117 (12.02%) Git
2 73 (7.50%) JIRA
3 50 (5.14%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.95%) ERwin
5 15 (1.54%) PowerDesigner
6 11 (1.13%) ER Studio
7 8 (0.82%) MLflow
8 6 (0.62%) DBeaver
9 3 (0.31%) GitLab
9 3 (0.31%) LSMW
10 2 (0.21%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.21%) Selenium
10 2 (0.21%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.10%) Deequ
11 1 (0.10%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.10%) Postman
11 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.10%) Vite
General
1 328 (33.71%) Social Skills
2 291 (29.91%) Finance
3 217 (22.30%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (10.89%) Public Sector
5 86 (8.84%) Banking
6 33 (3.39%) Marketing
7 25 (2.57%) Retail
8 23 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (2.36%) Legal
9 21 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.54%) Local Government
12 14 (1.44%) Military
13 12 (1.23%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.13%) Publishing
14 11 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.03%) Billing
15 10 (1.03%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 239 (24.56%) Data Engineer
2 215 (22.10%) Analyst
3 135 (13.87%) Data Analyst
4 97 (9.97%) Architect
4 97 (9.97%) Lead
5 90 (9.25%) Senior
6 64 (6.58%) Business Analyst
7 57 (5.86%) Data Architect
8 54 (5.55%) Developer
9 45 (4.62%) Senior Data Engineer
10 44 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
11 37 (3.80%) Azure Data Engineer
12 33 (3.39%) Consultant
13 30 (3.08%) Data Business Analyst
14 27 (2.77%) Data Manager
15 26 (2.67%) Data Modeller
16 23 (2.36%) Governance Analyst
17 18 (1.85%) Project Manager
18 15 (1.54%) Financial Analyst
18 15 (1.54%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (9.56%) PySpark
2 61 (6.27%) Kafka
3 33 (3.39%) REST
4 18 (1.85%) XML
5 17 (1.75%) Pandas
6 16 (1.64%) Middleware
7 12 (1.23%) SOAP
8 11 (1.13%) Great Expectations
8 11 (1.13%) Lightning Web Components
8 11 (1.13%) NumPy
8 11 (1.13%) Visualforce
9 9 (0.92%) JSON
10 8 (0.82%) OAuth
10 8 (0.82%) pytest
10 8 (0.82%) PyTorch
10 8 (0.82%) RESTful
10 8 (0.82%) YAML
11 7 (0.72%) TensorFlow
11 7 (0.72%) Web Services
12 6 (0.62%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 89 (9.15%) Data Structures
2 62 (6.37%) Legacy Systems
3 35 (3.60%) Onboarding
4 33 (3.39%) Management Information System
5 32 (3.29%) Cloud Native
6 31 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 29 (2.98%) Product Ownership
8 22 (2.26%) CMDB
9 18 (1.85%) Reference Data
10 17 (1.75%) NHS
11 15 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.54%) Reinsurance
12 14 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (1.44%) Replication
13 13 (1.34%) Data Centre
14 11 (1.13%) Clustering
15 10 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
15 10 (1.03%) Taxonomies
16 9 (0.92%) Algorithms
16 9 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.64%) Linux
2 4 (0.41%) Unix
3 1 (0.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (43.47%) Data Modelling
2 371 (38.13%) Data Governance
3 368 (37.82%) Analytics
4 325 (33.40%) ETL
5 307 (31.55%) Business Intelligence
6 261 (26.82%) Data Pipeline
7 252 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
8 243 (24.97%) Agile
9 208 (21.38%) Data Engineering
10 180 (18.50%) Migration
11 173 (17.78%) CI/CD
12 160 (16.44%) Validation
13 154 (15.83%) Decision-Making
14 152 (15.62%) Data Architecture
15 146 (15.01%) Data Management
16 143 (14.70%) Data Integration
17 136 (13.98%) Data Analysis
18 127 (13.05%) Data Migration
18 127 (13.05%) DevOps
19 122 (12.54%) AI
Programming Languages
1 490 (50.36%) SQL
2 312 (32.07%) Python
3 44 (4.52%) Scala
4 26 (2.67%) R
5 23 (2.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (2.26%) Java
7 21 (2.16%) PL/SQL
8 19 (1.95%) T-SQL
9 18 (1.85%) C#
10 15 (1.54%) JavaScript
11 12 (1.23%) Bash
12 11 (1.13%) Apex Code
13 10 (1.03%) Bicep
14 8 (0.82%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.72%) C++
16 6 (0.62%) PowerShell
17 5 (0.51%) TypeScript
18 4 (0.41%) ABAP
18 4 (0.41%) Korn
18 4 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 164 (16.86%) Security Cleared
2 123 (12.64%) SC Cleared
3 64 (6.58%) Degree
4 31 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (1.75%) Master's Degree
6 14 (1.44%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.23%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.03%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.31%) PhD
11 3 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.31%) PMP
11 3 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.21%) AAT
12 2 (0.21%) ACCA
12 2 (0.21%) CCA
12 2 (0.21%) CFA
12 2 (0.21%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (9.15%) GDPR
2 61 (6.27%) QA
3 41 (4.21%) Accessibility
4 19 (1.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 15 (1.54%) PMO
6 12 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.92%) SLA
8 7 (0.72%) Basel III
8 7 (0.72%) IFRS
9 5 (0.51%) ISO 19650
9 5 (0.51%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.31%) FINREP
10 3 (0.31%) MiFID
11 2 (0.21%) CRD IV
11 2 (0.21%) EMIR
11 2 (0.21%) GRC
11 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.21%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 62 (6.37%) Docker
2 7 (0.72%) zsh
3 5 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 61 (6.27%) Kubernetes
2 51 (5.24%) Terraform
3 3 (0.31%) Hadoop YARN
3 3 (0.31%) Oozie
3 3 (0.31%) SCCM
4 2 (0.21%) Ansible
4 2 (0.21%) Kibana
4 2 (0.21%) logstash
5 1 (0.10%) Control-M
5 1 (0.10%) Grafana
5 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.10%) Puppet
5 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 180 (18.50%) Databricks
2 139 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 91 (9.35%) Oracle
4 62 (6.37%) SAP
5 47 (4.83%) Informatica
5 47 (4.83%) Salesforce
6 46 (4.73%) Talend
7 38 (3.91%) Google
8 37 (3.80%) ServiceNow
9 32 (3.29%) Denodo
10 13 (1.34%) Alteryx
10 13 (1.34%) Sparx
11 12 (1.23%) Palantir
12 8 (0.82%) ESRI
12 8 (0.82%) Intergraph
13 7 (0.72%) Foundry
13 7 (0.72%) Workday
14 6 (0.62%) Avaloq
14 6 (0.62%) Guidewire
14 6 (0.62%) OpenAI