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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 103 113
Rank change year-on-year +42 +10 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,487 630 722
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.63% 2.57% 1.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.80% 16.05% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,000 425 496
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £414 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £688
90th Percentile £688 £714 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £550
% change year-on-year -3.38% -5.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 17 29
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.21 £13.71
25th Percentile £17.23 £22.98 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £21.12
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +49.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.46 £42.50
90th Percentile £82.70 £84.72 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £15.81
% change year-on-year +58.03% +100.13% -29.69%

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 6,822 3,926 5,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.65% 16.04% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,432 2,545 3,284
10th Percentile £345 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £605 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 155 348
10th Percentile £14.02 £18.11 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.63 £13.18
Median hourly rate £33.98 £35.00 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +53.85% -40.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.31 £45.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £79.48 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £34.50 £21.12
% change year-on-year +4.35% +63.39% -39.67%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +54 841 £525 - 252
North of England +7 175 £498 +10.56% 133
Midlands +17 159 £500 +6.38% 70
West Midlands +22 132 £500 -0.10% 50
South East +6 119 £450 -13.09% 131
North West +19 109 £478 +2.69% 65
South West +24 87 £495 -5.71% 44
East of England -23 61 £581 -3.77% 36
Yorkshire -42 45 £514 +28.50% 48
East Midlands -16 28 £525 +14.38% 20
North East -1 21 £475 -7.99% 24
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
1 105 (7.06%) Apache Spark
2 74 (4.98%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (3.50%) Apache
4 41 (2.76%) Confluence
5 40 (2.69%) SAS
6 37 (2.49%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.61%) Appian
8 7 (0.47%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.27%) CMS
9 4 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.067%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.067%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.067%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 133 (8.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.34%) MS Visio
5 15 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.20%) Trello
8 1 (0.067%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 46 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.87%) Loan IQ
3 10 (0.67%) iTrent
3 10 (0.67%) NEC Housing
4 8 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.40%) Finacle
5 6 (0.40%) Sage X3
5 6 (0.40%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.40%) SystmOne
6 5 (0.34%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.34%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.27%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.20%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 449 (30.20%) Azure
2 386 (25.96%) Power Platform
3 248 (16.68%) AWS
4 183 (12.31%) Azure Data Factory
5 116 (7.80%) GCP
6 110 (7.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 99 (6.66%) dbt
8 98 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
9 97 (6.52%) Snowflake
10 71 (4.77%) Amazon S3
11 67 (4.51%) GitHub
12 56 (3.77%) Collibra
12 56 (3.77%) Serverless
13 40 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
15 32 (2.15%) Power Automate
16 28 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
17 27 (1.82%) SaaS
18 26 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
19 19 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.47%) Firewall
2 5 (0.34%) VPN
3 2 (0.13%) Broadband
3 2 (0.13%) DNS
3 2 (0.13%) HTTP
3 2 (0.13%) VoIP
4 1 (0.067%) 4G
4 1 (0.067%) 5G
4 1 (0.067%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 370 (24.88%) Power BI
2 245 (16.48%) Data Warehouse
3 201 (13.52%) Metadata
4 146 (9.82%) Data Lake
5 108 (7.26%) Tableau
6 106 (7.13%) SQL Server
7 82 (5.51%) Delta Lake
8 67 (4.51%) BigQuery
9 61 (4.10%) Azure SQL Database
10 49 (3.30%) Big Data
10 49 (3.30%) Relational Database
11 47 (3.16%) Snowflake Schema
12 45 (3.03%) NoSQL
13 41 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
13 41 (2.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 38 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
15 32 (2.15%) Power Query
16 30 (2.02%) Star Schema
17 29 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
18 28 (1.88%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 119 (8.00%) Git
2 110 (7.40%) JIRA
3 46 (3.09%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.28%) GitLab
5 16 (1.08%) MLflow
6 15 (1.01%) ERwin
7 9 (0.61%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.47%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.40%) Selenium
10 5 (0.34%) LSMW
10 5 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.27%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.27%) Postman
11 4 (0.27%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.20%) Ant
12 3 (0.20%) Zephyr
13 2 (0.13%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 455 (30.60%) Social Skills
2 443 (29.79%) Finance
3 349 (23.47%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (11.03%) Public Sector
5 125 (8.41%) Banking
6 41 (2.76%) Marketing
7 39 (2.62%) Retail
8 37 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
9 31 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (1.75%) Local Government
11 23 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (1.55%) Legal
12 22 (1.48%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.48%) Military
13 18 (1.21%) Law
14 17 (1.14%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (0.94%) Investment Banking
16 13 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 389 (26.16%) Data Engineer
2 313 (21.05%) Analyst
3 183 (12.31%) Data Analyst
4 178 (11.97%) Senior
5 141 (9.48%) Lead
6 119 (8.00%) Architect
7 89 (5.99%) Business Analyst
8 78 (5.25%) Developer
9 76 (5.11%) Senior Data Engineer
10 73 (4.91%) Data Architect
11 51 (3.43%) Consultant
12 48 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
12 48 (3.23%) Data Manager
13 43 (2.89%) Azure Data Engineer
14 35 (2.35%) Data Business Analyst
15 30 (2.02%) Data Migration Lead
15 30 (2.02%) Project Manager
16 28 (1.88%) Administrator
17 25 (1.68%) Data Scientist
17 25 (1.68%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (9.08%) PySpark
2 99 (6.66%) Kafka
3 49 (3.30%) Pandas
4 42 (2.82%) REST
5 32 (2.15%) Great Expectations
6 30 (2.02%) JSON
7 25 (1.68%) scikit-learn
8 20 (1.34%) NumPy
9 18 (1.21%) Web Services
10 17 (1.14%) Middleware
11 16 (1.08%) PyTorch
12 14 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (0.87%) pytest
13 13 (0.87%) TensorFlow
14 12 (0.81%) GeoJSON
14 12 (0.81%) RESTful
15 11 (0.74%) Flask
15 11 (0.74%) OAuth
15 11 (0.74%) YAML
16 10 (0.67%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 125 (8.41%) Data Structures
2 105 (7.06%) Legacy Systems
3 76 (5.11%) Cloud Native
4 67 (4.51%) Onboarding
5 60 (4.03%) Management Information System
6 58 (3.90%) Product Ownership
7 45 (3.03%) CMDB
8 31 (2.08%) Reference Data
9 25 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 22 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.34%) Clustering
12 19 (1.28%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
12 19 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (1.08%) NHS
14 15 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (0.87%) Taxonomies
16 12 (0.81%) Fixed Income
17 11 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
17 11 (0.74%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.74%) Windows
2 10 (0.67%) Linux
3 8 (0.54%) Unix
4 1 (0.067%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 645 (43.38%) Data Modelling
2 568 (38.20%) Analytics
3 495 (33.29%) Data Governance
4 475 (31.94%) ETL
5 457 (30.73%) Business Intelligence
6 433 (29.12%) Data Pipeline
7 344 (23.13%) Validation
8 333 (22.39%) Migration
9 332 (22.33%) Data Engineering
10 325 (21.86%) Agile
11 298 (20.04%) Decision-Making
12 295 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
13 272 (18.29%) CI/CD
14 235 (15.80%) AI
15 222 (14.93%) Data Architecture
15 222 (14.93%) Data Migration
16 216 (14.53%) Stakeholder Management
17 203 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
18 201 (13.52%) DevOps
19 198 (13.32%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 736 (49.50%) SQL
2 447 (30.06%) Python
3 55 (3.70%) Scala
4 53 (3.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 45 (3.03%) Java
6 41 (2.76%) T-SQL
7 36 (2.42%) PL/SQL
8 22 (1.48%) C#
9 20 (1.34%) R
10 19 (1.28%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.14%) VBA
12 13 (0.87%) Bicep
13 10 (0.67%) JavaScript
14 9 (0.61%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.47%) Bash
15 7 (0.47%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.40%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.34%) Korn
18 4 (0.27%) C++
18 4 (0.27%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 268 (18.02%) Security Cleared
2 204 (13.72%) SC Cleared
3 89 (5.99%) Degree
4 49 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (1.48%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.74%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.47%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.34%) ACCA
11 5 (0.34%) CIMA
11 5 (0.34%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.34%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.34%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.27%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.27%) PhD
13 3 (0.20%) PMP
14 2 (0.13%) CBAP
14 2 (0.13%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (7.80%) GDPR
2 96 (6.46%) QA
3 32 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.61%) PMO
5 18 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.01%) SLA
7 11 (0.74%) Solvency II
8 10 (0.67%) FINREP
9 8 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.54%) COREP
10 7 (0.47%) IFRS
10 7 (0.47%) NIST
10 7 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.34%) MiFID
12 4 (0.27%) Basel III
12 4 (0.27%) BS7666
12 4 (0.27%) GRC
13 2 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.13%) IFRS 9
13 2 (0.13%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 67 (4.51%) Docker
2 6 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.34%) etcd
4 1 (0.067%) HDFS
4 1 (0.067%) RACF
4 1 (0.067%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 102 (6.86%) Terraform
2 73 (4.91%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.74%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.67%) Grafana
5 8 (0.54%) Ansible
6 6 (0.40%) Kibana
7 5 (0.34%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.34%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.27%) SCCM
9 3 (0.20%) logstash
9 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.067%) Control-M
10 1 (0.067%) Istio
10 1 (0.067%) Nessus
10 1 (0.067%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.067%) Puppet
10 1 (0.067%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 260 (17.48%) Databricks
2 238 (16.01%) Microsoft
3 116 (7.80%) SAP
4 105 (7.06%) Oracle
5 70 (4.71%) Salesforce
6 61 (4.10%) ServiceNow
7 60 (4.03%) Informatica
8 48 (3.23%) Google
9 36 (2.42%) Talend
10 25 (1.68%) Denodo
11 17 (1.14%) Workday
12 14 (0.94%) GoldenSource
12 14 (0.94%) IBM
12 14 (0.94%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.74%) Adobe
13 11 (0.74%) Alteryx
13 11 (0.74%) Avaloq
13 11 (0.74%) NEC
14 10 (0.67%) ESRI
15 9 (0.61%) Automation Anywhere