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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 109 111
Rank change year-on-year +59 +2 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,823 689 735
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.06% 2.52% 2.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.56% 14.86% 15.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,196 447 523
10th Percentile £350 £347 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +1.85%
75th Percentile £590 £638 £713
90th Percentile £675 £745 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.58% -6.68% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 19 15
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.12 £14.63
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.10 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +31.83% -22.58%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.72 £47.13
90th Percentile £77.50 £58.74 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £20.47
% change year-on-year +26.42% +54.57% -33.97%

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 7,739 4,636 4,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.24% 16.95% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,962 3,031 3,008
10th Percentile £345 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 512 211 321
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £11.06
25th Percentile £19.49 £18.69 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.11 £31.64 £26.56
Median % change year-on-year +20.45% +19.13% -37.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £28.59 £25.00
% change year-on-year +36.41% +14.36% -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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +62 953 £525 -2.78% 470
North of England +22 236 £475 +5.56% 130
Midlands +38 221 £466 +0.81% 88
South East +20 180 £464 -4.87% 154
West Midlands +34 178 £466 -6.75% 52
North West +9 128 £475 +5.56% 61
South West +23 102 £500 +17.65% 56
East of England +7 87 £565 -6.46% 24
Yorkshire +1 84 £463 +9.47% 43
East Midlands +10 43 £466 +3.44% 36
North East -16 25 £520 -15.10% 27
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 97 (5.32%) Apache Airflow
1 97 (5.32%) Apache Spark
2 69 (3.78%) Apache
3 56 (3.07%) Confluence
4 50 (2.74%) SAS
5 37 (2.03%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
8 7 (0.38%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.38%) CMS
9 4 (0.22%) Appian
9 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.055%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.055%) Luigi
11 1 (0.055%) Mendix
Applications
1 130 (7.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.71%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.055%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.055%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 65 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.66%) NEC Housing
3 12 (0.66%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.49%) Sage X3
5 8 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.38%) iTrent
6 7 (0.38%) SAP MDG
6 7 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.33%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.27%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.27%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.22%) Maximo
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.22%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 488 (26.77%) Azure
2 406 (22.27%) Power Platform
3 315 (17.28%) AWS
4 159 (8.72%) Azure Data Factory
5 138 (7.57%) GCP
6 134 (7.35%) Snowflake
7 122 (6.69%) dbt
8 101 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
9 100 (5.49%) Amazon S3
10 95 (5.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 86 (4.72%) Serverless
12 74 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
13 72 (3.95%) GitHub
14 58 (3.18%) Collibra
15 40 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
16 38 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
16 38 (2.08%) Power Automate
16 38 (2.08%) SaaS
17 29 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
18 26 (1.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.49%) Firewall
2 5 (0.27%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) HTTP
4 1 (0.055%) 4G
4 1 (0.055%) 5G
4 1 (0.055%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.055%) DNS
4 1 (0.055%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.055%) SNMP
4 1 (0.055%) SSH
4 1 (0.055%) SSL
4 1 (0.055%) WAN
4 1 (0.055%) Wireless
4 1 (0.055%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 385 (21.12%) Power BI
2 294 (16.13%) Data Warehouse
3 234 (12.84%) Metadata
4 164 (9.00%) Data Lake
5 116 (6.36%) Tableau
6 89 (4.88%) SQL Server
7 80 (4.39%) BigQuery
8 78 (4.28%) Delta Lake
9 76 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 63 (3.46%) Relational Database
11 57 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
12 55 (3.02%) Big Data
13 42 (2.30%) Snowflake Schema
14 37 (2.03%) NoSQL
15 36 (1.97%) Power Query
15 36 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 33 (1.81%) Star Schema
17 32 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
18 29 (1.59%) Looker
19 28 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 119 (6.53%) JIRA
2 114 (6.25%) Git
3 43 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.81%) GitLab
5 20 (1.10%) ERwin
6 13 (0.71%) ER Studio
7 12 (0.66%) MLflow
8 9 (0.49%) Eclipse
8 9 (0.49%) Postman
9 8 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.38%) Selenium
10 7 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.33%) Ant
12 5 (0.27%) Newman
12 5 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.22%) LSMW
13 4 (0.22%) Zephyr
14 3 (0.16%) Robot Framework
14 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 547 (30.01%) Finance
2 537 (29.46%) Social Skills
3 438 (24.03%) Analytical Skills
4 201 (11.03%) Public Sector
5 137 (7.52%) Banking
6 49 (2.69%) Marketing
7 47 (2.58%) Retail
8 46 (2.52%) Manufacturing
9 45 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 31 (1.70%) Local Government
13 28 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
14 26 (1.43%) Legal
15 22 (1.21%) Military
16 19 (1.04%) Law
16 19 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
17 17 (0.93%) Publishing
18 16 (0.88%) Automotive
19 15 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 416 (22.82%) Data Engineer
2 382 (20.95%) Analyst
3 216 (11.85%) Data Analyst
4 204 (11.19%) Senior
5 201 (11.03%) Lead
6 167 (9.16%) Architect
7 107 (5.87%) Data Architect
8 104 (5.70%) Business Analyst
9 100 (5.49%) Developer
10 87 (4.77%) Senior Data Engineer
11 63 (3.46%) Consultant
12 56 (3.07%) Data Manager
13 50 (2.74%) Administrator
14 46 (2.52%) Data Business Analyst
15 34 (1.87%) Azure Engineer
16 32 (1.76%) Data Consultant
17 31 (1.70%) Azure Data Engineer
17 31 (1.70%) Lead Data Engineer
18 30 (1.65%) Data Migration Lead
18 30 (1.65%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (7.62%) PySpark
2 92 (5.05%) Kafka
3 48 (2.63%) REST
4 43 (2.36%) JSON
5 41 (2.25%) Pandas
6 29 (1.59%) Great Expectations
7 24 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
8 23 (1.26%) Web Services
9 19 (1.04%) Middleware
10 18 (0.99%) scikit-learn
10 18 (0.99%) XML
11 15 (0.82%) SOAP
12 14 (0.77%) HTML
13 13 (0.71%) GeoJSON
13 13 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
14 11 (0.60%) pytest
15 10 (0.55%) .NET
15 10 (0.55%) Matplotlib
15 10 (0.55%) NumPy
15 10 (0.55%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 161 (8.83%) Data Structures
2 107 (5.87%) Legacy Systems
2 107 (5.87%) Onboarding
3 98 (5.38%) Cloud Native
4 78 (4.28%) Product Ownership
5 64 (3.51%) Management Information System
6 56 (3.07%) CMDB
7 40 (2.19%) Reference Data
8 32 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
9 30 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 29 (1.59%) AI Agents
11 26 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.32%) Taxonomies
13 23 (1.26%) NHS
13 23 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (0.93%) Clustering
15 16 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (0.88%) Life Science
16 15 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.04%) Linux
1 19 (1.04%) Unix
2 13 (0.71%) Windows
3 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.055%) VMS
3 1 (0.055%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 720 (39.50%) Data Modelling
2 651 (35.71%) Analytics
3 606 (33.24%) Data Governance
4 519 (28.47%) Data Pipeline
5 515 (28.25%) ETL
6 488 (26.77%) Business Intelligence
7 455 (24.96%) Validation
8 427 (23.42%) Migration
9 400 (21.94%) Data Engineering
10 371 (20.35%) Agile
11 338 (18.54%) Decision-Making
12 333 (18.27%) CI/CD
13 329 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
13 329 (18.05%) Stakeholder Management
14 304 (16.68%) AI
15 268 (14.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 267 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
17 263 (14.43%) Data Migration
18 250 (13.71%) Data Architecture
19 249 (13.66%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 811 (44.49%) SQL
2 491 (26.93%) Python
3 60 (3.29%) Java
4 55 (3.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 41 (2.25%) Scala
6 35 (1.92%) PL/SQL
7 34 (1.87%) T-SQL
8 31 (1.70%) PowerShell
9 22 (1.21%) Shell Script
10 19 (1.04%) C#
10 19 (1.04%) VBA
11 14 (0.77%) JavaScript
12 13 (0.71%) R
13 12 (0.66%) Bicep
14 11 (0.60%) Bash
15 10 (0.55%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.55%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.38%) SOQL
17 6 (0.33%) Cypher
17 6 (0.33%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 305 (16.73%) Security Cleared
2 230 (12.62%) SC Cleared
3 112 (6.14%) Degree
4 67 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 23 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (1.26%) DV Cleared
7 18 (0.99%) Master's Degree
8 17 (0.93%) AWS Certification
8 17 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (0.71%) PMI Certification
10 9 (0.49%) PMP
11 7 (0.38%) ACCA
11 7 (0.38%) CIMA
11 7 (0.38%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.27%) PhD
14 4 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (7.84%) GDPR
2 125 (6.86%) QA
3 34 (1.87%) PMO
4 33 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.93%) Solvency II
7 15 (0.82%) SLA
8 11 (0.60%) IFRS
9 10 (0.55%) NIST
9 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.49%) COREP
10 9 (0.49%) FINREP
11 8 (0.44%) GRC
12 7 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.38%) NCSC
13 4 (0.22%) BS7666
13 4 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.22%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.22%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 69 (3.78%) Docker
2 19 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.27%) etcd
4 1 (0.055%) HDFS
4 1 (0.055%) RACF
4 1 (0.055%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.055%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 124 (6.80%) Terraform
2 74 (4.06%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.77%) Grafana
4 11 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.49%) Ansible
5 9 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.27%) Fluentd
6 5 (0.27%) HP ALM
6 5 (0.27%) SCCM
7 4 (0.22%) Control-M
7 4 (0.22%) Kibana
8 1 (0.055%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.055%) Istio
8 1 (0.055%) logstash
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.055%) Nessus
8 1 (0.055%) Nexpose
8 1 (0.055%) Puppet
8 1 (0.055%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.055%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 288 (15.80%) Microsoft
2 272 (14.92%) Databricks
3 150 (8.23%) SAP
4 124 (6.80%) Oracle
5 84 (4.61%) Informatica
6 78 (4.28%) Salesforce
7 74 (4.06%) ServiceNow
8 47 (2.58%) Google
9 34 (1.87%) Talend
10 27 (1.48%) Workday
11 21 (1.15%) Palantir
12 20 (1.10%) IBM
13 19 (1.04%) Denodo
14 18 (0.99%) Adobe
14 18 (0.99%) Alteryx
15 17 (0.93%) Foundry
16 14 (0.77%) Sage
16 14 (0.77%) Splunk
17 13 (0.71%) NEC
18 12 (0.66%) GoldenSource