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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 100 112
Rank change year-on-year +54 +12 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,096 762 677
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.50% 2.73% 2.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.20% 15.57% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,334 493 455
10th Percentile £353 £334 £347
25th Percentile £425 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £713
90th Percentile £718 £750 £850
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 13 10
10th Percentile £16.07 £18.25 £21.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.20 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £34.98 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.35% -20.50% +23.49%
75th Percentile £60.75 £44.75 £86.06
90th Percentile £72.93 £74.75 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +6.67% +6.19%

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 8,319 4,894 4,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.87% 17.51% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,191 3,185 2,441
10th Percentile £325 £300 £297
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -3.29% -4.26%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £713 £756
UK median daily rate £508 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 644 241 201
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.36
25th Percentile £16.75 £17.69 £18.00
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -7.14% -11.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.40 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.46 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +4.87% +9.09% -22.82%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +52 1,139 £528 -4.09% 1,852
North of England +48 291 £469 +2.74% 537
Midlands +32 216 £465 -7.00% 285
South East +28 210 £500 +11.11% 434
West Midlands +28 172 £468 -10.53% 192
North West +31 149 £525 +16.67% 317
South West +24 119 £503 +5.89% 185
Yorkshire +35 116 £450 -10.00% 158
East of England +16 75 £472 -22.00% 170
East Midlands +4 43 £450 +0.67% 93
North East -17 27 £520 +18.86% 62
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
1 136 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
2 97 (4.63%) Apache Spark
3 83 (3.96%) Apache
4 66 (3.15%) Confluence
5 47 (2.24%) SAS
6 46 (2.19%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.62%) CMS
7 13 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.33%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.095%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.095%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.048%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.048%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.048%) nginx
13 1 (0.048%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 159 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
4 15 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.095%) CATIA
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.048%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.048%) Trello
9 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 66 (3.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.76%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.72%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.57%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.52%) NEC Housing
7 10 (0.48%) SAP MDG
7 10 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 9 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
9 8 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.38%) SAP HR
10 7 (0.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 6 (0.29%) Maximo
11 6 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
12 5 (0.24%) SAP MM
12 5 (0.24%) Shopify
13 4 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 532 (25.38%) Azure
2 447 (21.33%) Power Platform
3 376 (17.94%) AWS
4 189 (9.02%) GCP
5 176 (8.40%) Snowflake
6 142 (6.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 137 (6.54%) dbt
8 107 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (5.06%) Amazon S3
10 105 (5.01%) Serverless
11 87 (4.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 83 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
13 80 (3.82%) GitHub
14 72 (3.44%) Microsoft Purview
15 56 (2.67%) Collibra
16 52 (2.48%) SaaS
17 49 (2.34%) Power Automate
18 46 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
19 45 (2.15%) Azure Databricks
20 44 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.29%) Broadband
1 6 (0.29%) Firewall
1 6 (0.29%) SD-WAN
1 6 (0.29%) WAN
2 5 (0.24%) SNMP
2 5 (0.24%) Wireless
3 3 (0.14%) DNS
3 3 (0.14%) HTTP
3 3 (0.14%) Network Security
4 2 (0.095%) SSL
5 1 (0.048%) BGP
5 1 (0.048%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.048%) LAN
5 1 (0.048%) MPLS
5 1 (0.048%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.048%) OSPF
5 1 (0.048%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.048%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.048%) VLAN
5 1 (0.048%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 419 (19.99%) Power BI
2 347 (16.56%) Metadata
3 328 (15.65%) Data Warehouse
4 179 (8.54%) Data Lake
5 113 (5.39%) Tableau
6 101 (4.82%) BigQuery
7 86 (4.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 86 (4.10%) Delta Lake
8 85 (4.06%) SQL Server
9 80 (3.82%) Relational Database
10 61 (2.91%) Amazon Athena
11 51 (2.43%) NoSQL
12 48 (2.29%) Power Query
13 41 (1.96%) Big Data
14 40 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
15 36 (1.72%) Looker
16 34 (1.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 31 (1.48%) Semantic Layer
17 31 (1.48%) Star Schema
18 28 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 134 (6.39%) Git
2 132 (6.30%) JIRA
3 32 (1.53%) GitLab
4 31 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 12 (0.57%) ERwin
6 11 (0.52%) Postman
7 9 (0.43%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.43%) ER Studio
7 9 (0.43%) MLflow
8 8 (0.38%) Selenium
8 8 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (0.33%) Newman
10 6 (0.29%) Ant
10 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.24%) RStudio
11 5 (0.24%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.19%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.19%) TestRail
12 4 (0.19%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 664 (31.68%) Social Skills
2 647 (30.87%) Finance
3 501 (23.90%) Analytical Skills
4 268 (12.79%) Public Sector
5 195 (9.30%) Banking
6 73 (3.48%) Retail
7 67 (3.20%) Manufacturing
8 54 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
9 52 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
10 51 (2.43%) Marketing
11 47 (2.24%) Local Government
12 46 (2.19%) Military
13 44 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
14 42 (2.00%) Legal
15 35 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 28 (1.34%) Front Office
17 25 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
18 24 (1.15%) Billing
18 24 (1.15%) Investment Banking
19 23 (1.10%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 445 (21.23%) Analyst
2 432 (20.61%) Data Engineer
3 262 (12.50%) Senior
4 250 (11.93%) Lead
5 229 (10.93%) Data Analyst
6 225 (10.73%) Architect
7 145 (6.92%) Data Architect
8 126 (6.01%) Business Analyst
9 121 (5.77%) Senior Data Engineer
10 116 (5.53%) Developer
11 99 (4.72%) Consultant
12 74 (3.53%) Administrator
13 62 (2.96%) Data Manager
14 55 (2.62%) Data Business Analyst
15 54 (2.58%) Data Consultant
16 41 (1.96%) Databricks Engineer
17 40 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
18 38 (1.81%) Lead Data Engineer
19 35 (1.67%) AWS Engineer
19 35 (1.67%) Databricks Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (8.40%) PySpark
2 138 (6.58%) Terraform
3 76 (3.63%) Kafka
4 58 (2.77%) REST
5 40 (1.91%) JSON
6 36 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.19%) Middleware
7 25 (1.19%) Web Services
8 23 (1.10%) Pandas
8 23 (1.10%) XML
9 21 (1.00%) SOAP
10 19 (0.91%) Great Expectations
11 17 (0.81%) HTML
12 16 (0.76%) .NET
13 15 (0.72%) OAuth
13 15 (0.72%) pytest
14 14 (0.67%) OpenID
15 11 (0.52%) OAuth2
15 11 (0.52%) Playwright
16 10 (0.48%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 195 (9.30%) Data Structures
2 130 (6.20%) Onboarding
3 120 (5.73%) Cloud Native
4 108 (5.15%) Product Ownership
5 105 (5.01%) Management Information System
6 98 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
7 60 (2.86%) CMDB
8 47 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
8 47 (2.24%) Reference Data
9 42 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (1.86%) AI Agents
11 34 (1.62%) Taxonomies
12 27 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
13 26 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (1.05%) Algorithms
14 22 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.05%) NHS
15 20 (0.95%) Life Science
16 16 (0.76%) Clustering
17 15 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.34%) Unix
2 20 (0.95%) Linux
3 11 (0.52%) Windows
4 1 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (39.79%) Data Modelling
2 767 (36.59%) Analytics
3 736 (35.11%) Data Governance
4 573 (27.34%) Stakeholder Management
5 570 (27.19%) Data Pipeline
6 567 (27.05%) Validation
7 531 (25.33%) Business Intelligence
8 522 (24.90%) ETL
9 499 (23.81%) Migration
10 486 (23.19%) Data Engineering
11 438 (20.90%) Agile
12 435 (20.75%) AI
13 415 (19.80%) Decision-Making
14 396 (18.89%) CI/CD
15 375 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
16 344 (16.41%) Continuous Improvement
17 324 (15.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 300 (14.31%) Data Architecture
19 293 (13.98%) Data Migration
20 279 (13.31%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 909 (43.37%) SQL
2 572 (27.29%) Python
3 64 (3.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 61 (2.91%) Java
5 41 (1.96%) PL/SQL
6 32 (1.53%) Shell Script
7 31 (1.48%) JavaScript
8 30 (1.43%) Scala
9 29 (1.38%) PowerShell
10 27 (1.29%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.24%) R
12 23 (1.10%) C#
13 18 (0.86%) Bash
14 16 (0.76%) Bicep
15 11 (0.52%) TypeScript
16 9 (0.43%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.38%) Korn
17 8 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.38%) SOQL
18 6 (0.29%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 342 (16.32%) Security Cleared
2 267 (12.74%) SC Cleared
3 132 (6.30%) Degree
4 49 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (1.48%) Azure Certification
6 30 (1.43%) DV Cleared
7 27 (1.29%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.10%) PMI Certification
10 21 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (0.95%) Master's Degree
12 19 (0.91%) PMP
13 12 (0.57%) ACCA
13 12 (0.57%) CIMA
14 9 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 8 (0.38%) CISSP
16 7 (0.33%) CIPD
16 7 (0.33%) CISM
16 7 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (7.16%) QA
2 125 (5.96%) GDPR
3 42 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 39 (1.86%) PMO
5 22 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.00%) GRC
6 21 (1.00%) NIST
7 20 (0.95%) SLA
8 16 (0.76%) IFRS
9 15 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.67%) NCSC
11 10 (0.48%) Solvency II
12 9 (0.43%) Basel III
13 8 (0.38%) IFRS 17
14 7 (0.33%) COBIT
15 6 (0.29%) IFRS 9
15 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 67 (3.20%) Docker
2 20 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.048%) HDFS
4 1 (0.048%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (3.15%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.67%) Grafana
2 14 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (0.62%) Ansible
4 8 (0.38%) Control-M
4 8 (0.38%) Kibana
5 5 (0.24%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.19%) SCCM
7 3 (0.14%) logstash
8 2 (0.095%) Argo
8 2 (0.095%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.048%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.048%) Istio
9 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.048%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.048%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.048%) Puppet
9 1 (0.048%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 415 (19.80%) Microsoft
2 313 (14.93%) Databricks
3 153 (7.30%) SAP
4 147 (7.01%) Oracle
5 101 (4.82%) ServiceNow
6 83 (3.96%) Informatica
7 78 (3.72%) Google
8 66 (3.15%) Salesforce
9 35 (1.67%) Workday
10 27 (1.29%) Adobe
11 26 (1.24%) IBM
12 22 (1.05%) Alteryx
12 22 (1.05%) Palantir
13 21 (1.00%) Splunk
14 18 (0.86%) Denodo
14 18 (0.86%) Talend
15 16 (0.76%) Foundry
16 12 (0.57%) Ariba
16 12 (0.57%) Bloomberg
16 12 (0.57%) Teradata