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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 108 109
Rank change year-on-year +56 +1 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,696 643 763
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.87% 2.51% 2.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.78% 15.21% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,111 405 533
10th Percentile £350 £340 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +2.09%
75th Percentile £590 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £733 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -2.72% -6.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 22 28
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.52 £13.49
25th Percentile £17.62 £23.69 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £21.06
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% +51.11% -6.35%
75th Percentile £60.75 £35.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £76.75 £76.21 £52.35
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £15.80
% change year-on-year +25.71% +101.39% -29.73%

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 7,445 4,228 5,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.99% 16.49% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,802 2,738 3,142
10th Percentile £350 £270 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £712 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 186 380
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £11.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £20.49 £13.18
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.25 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% +33.37% -43.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.94 £84.33 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +20.23% +26.05% -37.37%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +60 907 £520 -5.45% 428
North of England +13 211 £475 +5.56% 125
Midlands +33 206 £492 +6.12% 106
West Midlands +36 168 £492 -1.57% 63
South East +19 162 £471 -5.80% 183
North West +14 125 £475 +4.97% 77
South West +18 90 £480 +12.94% 51
East of England -5 77 £570 -5.00% 43
Yorkshire -20 61 £471 +17.81% 33
East Midlands +10 38 £475 +3.09% 43
North East -10 25 £475 -22.45% 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 90 (5.31%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (5.25%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.24%) Apache
4 50 (2.95%) Confluence
5 49 (2.89%) SAS
6 36 (2.12%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
8 8 (0.47%) Appian
8 8 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.41%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.24%) CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.059%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.059%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.059%) Luigi
13 1 (0.059%) Mendix
13 1 (0.059%) Smallworld
Applications
1 121 (7.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) CATIA
7 1 (0.059%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.059%) Trello
Business Applications
1 52 (3.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.77%) NEC Housing
3 12 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.65%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.59%) Loan IQ
6 9 (0.53%) iTrent
6 9 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.41%) Sage X3
8 6 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.29%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.24%) Finacle
10 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.24%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.24%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.18%) Aladdin
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
11 3 (0.18%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 470 (27.71%) Azure
2 402 (23.70%) Power Platform
3 302 (17.81%) AWS
4 157 (9.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 128 (7.55%) GCP
6 124 (7.31%) Snowflake
7 119 (7.02%) dbt
8 103 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
9 97 (5.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 94 (5.54%) Amazon S3
11 82 (4.83%) Serverless
12 72 (4.25%) GitHub
13 67 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
14 56 (3.30%) Collibra
15 40 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
16 38 (2.24%) Power Automate
17 36 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
18 32 (1.89%) SaaS
19 25 (1.47%) PowerApps
20 22 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.47%) Firewall
2 5 (0.29%) VPN
3 2 (0.12%) HTTP
4 1 (0.059%) 4G
4 1 (0.059%) 5G
4 1 (0.059%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.059%) DNS
4 1 (0.059%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.059%) SNMP
4 1 (0.059%) SSH
4 1 (0.059%) WAN
4 1 (0.059%) Wireless
4 1 (0.059%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 382 (22.52%) Power BI
2 267 (15.74%) Data Warehouse
3 211 (12.44%) Metadata
4 160 (9.43%) Data Lake
5 108 (6.37%) Tableau
6 98 (5.78%) SQL Server
7 80 (4.72%) Delta Lake
8 73 (4.30%) BigQuery
9 71 (4.19%) Amazon Redshift
10 60 (3.54%) Relational Database
11 55 (3.24%) Amazon Athena
12 50 (2.95%) Big Data
13 45 (2.65%) Snowflake Schema
14 35 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
14 35 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
14 35 (2.06%) Power Query
15 34 (2.00%) NoSQL
15 34 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 27 (1.59%) Star Schema
17 25 (1.47%) Looker
Development Applications
1 119 (7.02%) JIRA
2 114 (6.72%) Git
3 43 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.95%) GitLab
5 18 (1.06%) ERwin
6 13 (0.77%) MLflow
7 9 (0.53%) Eclipse
8 8 (0.47%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.47%) Postman
8 8 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.41%) Selenium
9 7 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.35%) Ant
11 5 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.24%) LSMW
12 4 (0.24%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.24%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.18%) Newman
13 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 524 (30.90%) Finance
2 502 (29.60%) Social Skills
3 394 (23.23%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (11.08%) Public Sector
5 136 (8.02%) Banking
6 46 (2.71%) Marketing
7 44 (2.59%) Retail
8 40 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
9 39 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (2.30%) Manufacturing
10 33 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (1.71%) Local Government
12 28 (1.65%) Legal
13 25 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (1.06%) Law
14 18 (1.06%) Military
15 17 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.88%) Publishing
17 14 (0.83%) Financial Institution
17 14 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 406 (23.94%) Data Engineer
2 356 (20.99%) Analyst
3 203 (11.97%) Data Analyst
4 195 (11.50%) Senior
5 179 (10.55%) Lead
6 148 (8.73%) Architect
7 92 (5.42%) Business Analyst
8 90 (5.31%) Data Architect
9 88 (5.19%) Developer
10 81 (4.78%) Senior Data Engineer
11 57 (3.36%) Consultant
12 55 (3.24%) Data Manager
13 43 (2.54%) Administrator
14 36 (2.12%) Data Business Analyst
15 32 (1.89%) Project Manager
16 30 (1.77%) Data Scientist
17 29 (1.71%) Azure Engineer
17 29 (1.71%) Data Consultant
17 29 (1.71%) Data Migration Lead
17 29 (1.71%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (7.72%) PySpark
2 93 (5.48%) Kafka
3 45 (2.65%) Pandas
3 45 (2.65%) REST
4 38 (2.24%) JSON
5 28 (1.65%) Great Expectations
6 24 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
7 22 (1.30%) scikit-learn
7 22 (1.30%) Web Services
8 19 (1.12%) XML
9 18 (1.06%) Middleware
10 15 (0.88%) NumPy
11 14 (0.83%) pytest
11 14 (0.83%) SOAP
12 13 (0.77%) GeoJSON
12 13 (0.77%) PyTorch
13 12 (0.71%) HTML
13 12 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
14 11 (0.65%) TensorFlow
15 10 (0.59%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 133 (7.84%) Data Structures
2 107 (6.31%) Legacy Systems
3 96 (5.66%) Onboarding
4 83 (4.89%) Cloud Native
5 64 (3.77%) Management Information System
5 64 (3.77%) Product Ownership
6 55 (3.24%) CMDB
7 33 (1.95%) Reference Data
8 31 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 30 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (1.71%) AI Agents
11 24 (1.42%) Taxonomies
12 23 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
12 23 (1.36%) NHS
13 21 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.06%) Clustering
15 14 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.83%) Life Science
16 12 (0.71%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.65%) Unix
1 11 (0.65%) Windows
2 9 (0.53%) Linux
3 1 (0.059%) VMS
3 1 (0.059%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 684 (40.33%) Data Modelling
2 620 (36.56%) Analytics
3 543 (32.02%) Data Governance
4 495 (29.19%) ETL
5 478 (28.18%) Data Pipeline
6 476 (28.07%) Business Intelligence
7 405 (23.88%) Validation
8 397 (23.41%) Migration
9 377 (22.23%) Data Engineering
10 350 (20.64%) Agile
11 330 (19.46%) Decision-Making
12 322 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
13 315 (18.57%) CI/CD
14 304 (17.92%) AI
15 291 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
16 250 (14.74%) Data Migration
17 242 (14.27%) Continuous Improvement
17 242 (14.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 231 (13.62%) Data Architecture
19 226 (13.33%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 767 (45.22%) SQL
2 467 (27.54%) Python
3 55 (3.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 54 (3.18%) Java
5 42 (2.48%) Scala
6 38 (2.24%) T-SQL
7 33 (1.95%) PL/SQL
8 28 (1.65%) PowerShell
9 18 (1.06%) VBA
10 17 (1.00%) C#
11 12 (0.71%) Bicep
11 12 (0.71%) JavaScript
11 12 (0.71%) Shell Script
12 11 (0.65%) R
13 10 (0.59%) Bash
14 9 (0.53%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.53%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.41%) SOQL
16 6 (0.35%) SOSL
17 5 (0.29%) Korn
Qualifications
1 285 (16.80%) Security Cleared
2 223 (13.15%) SC Cleared
3 101 (5.96%) Degree
4 62 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 23 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 15 (0.88%) Master's Degree
9 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (0.65%) PMI Certification
11 9 (0.53%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.47%) ACCA
12 8 (0.47%) CIMA
13 7 (0.41%) PMP
13 7 (0.41%) SnowPro
14 6 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.35%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.29%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.29%) PhD
15 5 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (8.61%) GDPR
2 104 (6.13%) QA
3 32 (1.89%) PMO
4 28 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.00%) Solvency II
7 16 (0.94%) SLA
8 11 (0.65%) IFRS
8 11 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.47%) COREP
9 8 (0.47%) FINREP
9 8 (0.47%) GRC
10 7 (0.41%) NIST
11 5 (0.29%) NCSC
12 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.24%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 68 (4.01%) Docker
2 10 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.29%) etcd
4 1 (0.059%) HDFS
4 1 (0.059%) RACF
4 1 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 125 (7.37%) Terraform
2 72 (4.25%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.77%) Grafana
4 11 (0.65%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.47%) Ansible
6 6 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.29%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.29%) SCCM
8 4 (0.24%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.24%) Kibana
9 1 (0.059%) Control-M
9 1 (0.059%) Istio
9 1 (0.059%) logstash
9 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.059%) Nessus
9 1 (0.059%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.059%) Puppet
9 1 (0.059%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.059%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 274 (16.16%) Microsoft
2 257 (15.15%) Databricks
3 126 (7.43%) SAP
4 122 (7.19%) Oracle
5 78 (4.60%) Salesforce
6 73 (4.30%) Informatica
7 72 (4.25%) ServiceNow
8 42 (2.48%) Google
9 33 (1.95%) Talend
10 22 (1.30%) Denodo
11 19 (1.12%) IBM
11 19 (1.12%) Palantir
12 17 (1.00%) Workday
13 15 (0.88%) Adobe
13 15 (0.88%) Alteryx
13 15 (0.88%) Foundry
14 14 (0.83%) NEC
14 14 (0.83%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.77%) GoldenSource
16 10 (0.59%) ESRI