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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 114 126
Rank change year-on-year +29 +12 +57
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 924 644 730
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.94% 2.25% 1.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.00% 15.93% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 637 428 510
10th Percentile £337 £307 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -7.73% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £680
90th Percentile £738 £750 £746
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 22
10th Percentile - £21.25 £20.07
25th Percentile £18.25 £26.25 £29.56
Median hourly rate £24.00 £37.50 £43.28
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -13.35% +143.82%
75th Percentile £43.60 £93.75 £59.25
90th Percentile £61.88 £97.50 £64.95
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £35.13 £43.28
% change year-on-year -11.74% -18.84% +143.82%

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 5,436 4,042 5,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.32% 14.11% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,525 2,359 3,578
10th Percentile £313 £268 £325
25th Percentile £406 £385 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 157 213
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.70 £14.20
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.19 £20.07
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -15.80% +58.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.43 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £71.60 £83.37
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £27.68 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.12% -20.93% +55.56%

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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 2025. 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 +23 545 £525 -4.55% 326
North of England +2 123 £475 +15.15% 199
Midlands +6 98 £513 +24.36% 154
South East +1 73 £420 -26.96% 267
West Midlands +8 71 £525 +7.58% 91
North West -13 65 £463 +10.45% 100
Yorkshire -10 47 £500 +33.33% 82
South West +13 41 £500 +2.56% 97
East Midlands -2 28 £430 +26.47% 60
East of England -32 17 £538 +16.22% 129
North East 0 12 £475 +91.92% 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 84 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 56 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (3.90%) SAS
4 35 (3.79%) Apache
5 14 (1.52%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.30%) Confluence
7 8 (0.87%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (0.65%) GeoServer
8 6 (0.65%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.32%) Luigi
9 3 (0.32%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.11%) Appian
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 96 (10.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.52%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.22%) Trello
8 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.11%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 40 (4.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.76%) SAP MDG
5 5 (0.54%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.43%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.43%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle SCM
7 3 (0.32%) SAP MDG-F
7 3 (0.32%) SAP MDG-M
7 3 (0.32%) SAP MDG-S
8 2 (0.22%) Actimize
8 2 (0.22%) Maximo
8 2 (0.22%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.22%) SystmOne
8 2 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 244 (26.41%) Azure
2 214 (23.16%) Power Platform
3 182 (19.70%) AWS
4 97 (10.50%) GCP
5 88 (9.52%) Snowflake
6 80 (8.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 51 (5.52%) dbt
8 47 (5.09%) Amazon S3
9 45 (4.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 43 (4.65%) Collibra
11 34 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (3.68%) GitHub
12 27 (2.92%) Serverless
13 26 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (2.06%) Microsoft Purview
14 19 (2.06%) OCI
15 17 (1.84%) SaaS
16 14 (1.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 13 (1.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.43%) DNS
2 3 (0.32%) HTTP
3 2 (0.22%) Broadband
3 2 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.22%) Internet
3 2 (0.22%) SSL
3 2 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (22.62%) Power BI
2 175 (18.94%) Data Warehouse
3 135 (14.61%) Metadata
4 71 (7.68%) Tableau
5 68 (7.36%) Data Lake
6 53 (5.74%) SQL Server
7 48 (5.19%) Relational Database
8 44 (4.76%) Big Data
9 41 (4.44%) NoSQL
10 39 (4.22%) Snowflake Schema
11 35 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 32 (3.46%) Pentaho
13 31 (3.35%) BigQuery
14 29 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
15 28 (3.03%) Delta Lake
16 27 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 27 (2.92%) Star Schema
17 22 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
18 20 (2.16%) Amazon QuickSight
18 20 (2.16%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 116 (12.55%) Git
2 65 (7.03%) JIRA
3 48 (5.19%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.95%) ERwin
5 15 (1.62%) PowerDesigner
6 11 (1.19%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.76%) DBeaver
8 4 (0.43%) MLflow
9 3 (0.32%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.32%) LSMW
10 2 (0.22%) GitLab
10 2 (0.22%) Vite
10 2 (0.22%) webpack
11 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.11%) Deequ
11 1 (0.11%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.11%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
General
1 334 (36.15%) Social Skills
2 283 (30.63%) Finance
3 225 (24.35%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (10.28%) Public Sector
5 74 (8.01%) Banking
6 39 (4.22%) Marketing
7 22 (2.38%) Legal
8 21 (2.27%) Local Government
9 19 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.95%) Retail
11 17 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (1.62%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.30%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.30%) Military
15 11 (1.19%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.19%) Publishing
16 10 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 215 (23.27%) Analyst
2 201 (21.75%) Data Engineer
3 132 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 92 (9.96%) Architect
4 92 (9.96%) Lead
5 86 (9.31%) Senior
6 68 (7.36%) Business Analyst
7 58 (6.28%) Developer
8 55 (5.95%) Data Architect
9 39 (4.22%) Azure Engineer
10 35 (3.79%) Senior Data Engineer
11 33 (3.57%) Consultant
12 32 (3.46%) Azure Data Engineer
13 31 (3.35%) Data Business Analyst
14 29 (3.14%) Data Manager
15 25 (2.71%) Data Modeller
16 20 (2.16%) Governance Analyst
17 17 (1.84%) Financial Analyst
17 17 (1.84%) Salesforce Architect
18 16 (1.73%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (7.90%) PySpark
2 54 (5.84%) Kafka
3 25 (2.71%) REST
3 25 (2.71%) XML
4 14 (1.52%) Middleware
4 14 (1.52%) SOAP
5 13 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
5 13 (1.41%) Visualforce
6 12 (1.30%) Pandas
7 11 (1.19%) JSON
8 9 (0.97%) Great Expectations
9 8 (0.87%) HTML
9 8 (0.87%) RESTful
10 7 (0.76%) Apache NiFi
10 7 (0.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 7 (0.76%) YAML
11 6 (0.65%) .NET
11 6 (0.65%) NumPy
12 5 (0.54%) CSS
12 5 (0.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 78 (8.44%) Data Structures
2 52 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
3 32 (3.46%) Analytical Mindset
4 28 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 27 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.71%) Management Information System
6 25 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 17 (1.84%) CMDB
7 17 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.84%) Reference Data
8 15 (1.62%) NHS
8 15 (1.62%) Replication
9 12 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.19%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
10 11 (1.19%) Reinsurance
11 10 (1.08%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.97%) Clustering
12 9 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.87%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.84%) Linux
2 4 (0.43%) Unix
3 2 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (41.67%) Data Modelling
2 362 (39.18%) Data Governance
3 333 (36.04%) Analytics
4 291 (31.49%) Business Intelligence
5 283 (30.63%) ETL
6 271 (29.33%) Problem-Solving
7 229 (24.78%) Agile
8 225 (24.35%) Data Pipeline
9 182 (19.70%) Data Engineering
10 176 (19.05%) Migration
11 151 (16.34%) Data Management
12 150 (16.23%) CI/CD
12 150 (16.23%) Validation
13 146 (15.80%) Decision-Making
14 135 (14.61%) Data Analysis
15 134 (14.50%) Data Architecture
16 130 (14.07%) Data Integration
17 127 (13.74%) Data Migration
18 119 (12.88%) Visualisation
19 113 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 450 (48.70%) SQL
2 286 (30.95%) Python
3 40 (4.33%) Scala
4 29 (3.14%) Java
5 28 (3.03%) R
6 19 (2.06%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 16 (1.73%) C#
9 15 (1.62%) T-SQL
10 14 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 13 (1.41%) Apex Code
11 13 (1.41%) Bash
12 8 (0.87%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.76%) C++
13 7 (0.76%) VBA
14 6 (0.65%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.54%) Bicep
16 4 (0.43%) ABAP
16 4 (0.43%) PowerShell
17 3 (0.32%) Korn
Qualifications
1 134 (14.50%) Security Cleared
2 97 (10.50%) SC Cleared
3 82 (8.87%) Degree
4 35 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.03%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.62%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.41%) DV Cleared
8 9 (0.97%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.43%) CCAB
10 4 (0.43%) PhD
10 4 (0.43%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.43%) PMP
11 3 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.22%) ACCA
12 2 (0.22%) CFA
12 2 (0.22%) CIMA
13 1 (0.11%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (9.42%) GDPR
2 62 (6.71%) QA
3 41 (4.44%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 13 (1.41%) PMO
6 12 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.87%) Basel III
7 8 (0.87%) IFRS
8 6 (0.65%) SLA
9 5 (0.54%) ISO 19650
10 4 (0.43%) MiFID
10 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.32%) FINREP
11 3 (0.32%) GRC
11 3 (0.32%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.22%) CRD IV
12 2 (0.22%) EMIR
12 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.22%) NIST
12 2 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (6.06%) Docker
2 8 (0.87%) zsh
3 4 (0.43%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 52 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 41 (4.44%) Terraform
3 4 (0.43%) Control-M
3 4 (0.43%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
4 3 (0.32%) Oozie
5 2 (0.22%) Ansible
5 2 (0.22%) Kibana
5 2 (0.22%) logstash
6 1 (0.11%) Grafana
6 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 156 (16.88%) Databricks
2 122 (13.20%) Microsoft
3 89 (9.63%) Oracle
4 68 (7.36%) SAP
5 46 (4.98%) Talend
6 45 (4.87%) Informatica
6 45 (4.87%) Salesforce
7 40 (4.33%) Google
8 30 (3.25%) Denodo
9 25 (2.71%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.41%) Sparx
11 11 (1.19%) Alteryx
12 10 (1.08%) Adobe
12 10 (1.08%) Palantir
13 7 (0.76%) Foundry
14 6 (0.65%) ESRI
14 6 (0.65%) Guidewire
14 6 (0.65%) Intergraph
14 6 (0.65%) Workday
15 5 (0.54%) VMware