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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 112 105
Rank change year-on-year +56 -7 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,623 610 754
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.79% 2.47% 2.01%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.41% 15.15% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 387 526
10th Percentile £350 £341 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £688
90th Percentile £675 £725 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.82% -6.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 20 26
10th Percentile £13.98 £18.22 £13.07
25th Percentile £17.62 £23.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £35.75 £31.64 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +12.99% +67.14% -15.81%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.99 £42.50
90th Percentile £79.88 £78.83 £52.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £15.79
% change year-on-year +26.42% +100.38% -29.78%

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 7,242 4,026 5,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.90% 16.30% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,685 2,589 3,176
10th Percentile £346 £268 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 470 173 384
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.16 £10.95
25th Percentile £19.33 £22.14 £12.84
Median hourly rate £34.49 £32.50 £24.09
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +34.91% -43.32%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.32 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £31.76 £23.80
% change year-on-year +13.35% +33.45% -36.53%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +64 896 £520 -0.95% 298
North of England +10 193 £475 +5.56% 201
Midlands +28 186 £495 +6.99% 142
West Midlands +25 152 £499 +11.33% 79
South East +18 141 £463 -8.42% 225
North West +10 114 £475 +5.56% 103
South West +24 92 £500 +17.65% 79
East of England -12 72 £575 -4.80% 112
Yorkshire -31 53 £495 +23.75% 69
East Midlands -4 35 £450 -2.33% 61
North East -10 26 £475 -22.45% 30
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 91 (5.61%) Apache Spark
2 86 (5.30%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (3.08%) Confluence
4 49 (3.02%) Apache
5 45 (2.77%) SAS
6 37 (2.28%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.62%) Appian
8 8 (0.49%) ArcGIS
8 8 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.25%) CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.12%) Smallworld
Applications
1 124 (7.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
3 19 (1.17%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
5 17 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) CATIA
8 1 (0.062%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.80%) NEC Housing
3 10 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.55%) iTrent
4 9 (0.55%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.43%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.37%) Finacle
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.31%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.31%) SystmOne
8 4 (0.25%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.18%) Actimize
9 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 461 (28.40%) Azure
2 391 (24.09%) Power Platform
3 284 (17.50%) AWS
4 171 (10.54%) Azure Data Factory
5 121 (7.46%) GCP
6 116 (7.15%) Snowflake
7 114 (7.02%) dbt
8 108 (6.65%) Azure DevOps
9 103 (6.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 88 (5.42%) Amazon S3
11 80 (4.93%) Serverless
12 78 (4.81%) GitHub
13 62 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
14 54 (3.33%) Collibra
15 38 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
16 35 (2.16%) Power Automate
17 34 (2.09%) Microsoft Purview
18 32 (1.97%) SaaS
19 22 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
20 21 (1.29%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.43%) Firewall
2 5 (0.31%) VPN
3 2 (0.12%) HTTP
4 1 (0.062%) 4G
4 1 (0.062%) 5G
4 1 (0.062%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 374 (23.04%) Power BI
2 260 (16.02%) Data Warehouse
3 211 (13.00%) Metadata
4 167 (10.29%) Data Lake
5 106 (6.53%) Tableau
6 101 (6.22%) SQL Server
7 79 (4.87%) Delta Lake
8 67 (4.13%) BigQuery
9 64 (3.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 57 (3.51%) Relational Database
11 52 (3.20%) Amazon Athena
12 49 (3.02%) Big Data
13 47 (2.90%) Snowflake Schema
14 46 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
15 37 (2.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 36 (2.22%) NoSQL
17 35 (2.16%) Power Query
18 30 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
19 27 (1.66%) Star Schema
20 24 (1.48%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 118 (7.27%) JIRA
2 114 (7.02%) Git
3 45 (2.77%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.91%) GitLab
5 17 (1.05%) ERwin
6 15 (0.92%) MLflow
7 8 (0.49%) Postman
7 8 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.43%) Eclipse
8 7 (0.43%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.43%) Selenium
8 7 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.37%) Ant
10 5 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.25%) LSMW
11 4 (0.25%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.25%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.18%) Newman
12 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.18%) Terragrunt
General
1 500 (30.81%) Finance
2 479 (29.51%) Social Skills
3 367 (22.61%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (10.54%) Public Sector
5 132 (8.13%) Banking
6 44 (2.71%) Marketing
7 42 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
8 41 (2.53%) Retail
9 35 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.60%) Local Government
13 24 (1.48%) Legal
14 22 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.17%) Military
16 18 (1.11%) Law
17 17 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (0.86%) Financial Institution
18 14 (0.86%) Investment Banking
18 14 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 411 (25.32%) Data Engineer
2 335 (20.64%) Analyst
3 195 (12.01%) Data Analyst
4 186 (11.46%) Senior
5 167 (10.29%) Lead
6 130 (8.01%) Architect
7 84 (5.18%) Senior Data Engineer
8 83 (5.11%) Business Analyst
9 82 (5.05%) Developer
10 79 (4.87%) Data Architect
11 54 (3.33%) Consultant
12 50 (3.08%) Data Manager
13 38 (2.34%) Administrator
14 32 (1.97%) Data Business Analyst
15 31 (1.91%) Azure Engineer
15 31 (1.91%) Data Migration Lead
16 30 (1.85%) Project Manager
17 28 (1.73%) Azure Data Engineer
18 27 (1.66%) AWS Engineer
18 27 (1.66%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (8.07%) PySpark
2 90 (5.55%) Kafka
3 52 (3.20%) Pandas
4 48 (2.96%) REST
5 34 (2.09%) JSON
6 30 (1.85%) Great Expectations
7 25 (1.54%) scikit-learn
8 23 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
8 23 (1.42%) Web Services
9 20 (1.23%) NumPy
10 17 (1.05%) Middleware
10 17 (1.05%) XML
11 16 (0.99%) pytest
12 15 (0.92%) PyTorch
13 13 (0.80%) GeoJSON
13 13 (0.80%) HTML
13 13 (0.80%) SOAP
14 12 (0.74%) OAuth
14 12 (0.74%) TensorFlow
15 11 (0.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 125 (7.70%) Data Structures
2 112 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 86 (5.30%) Onboarding
4 83 (5.11%) Cloud Native
5 63 (3.88%) Product Ownership
6 59 (3.64%) Management Information System
7 49 (3.02%) CMDB
8 34 (2.09%) Reference Data
9 29 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
11 25 (1.54%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.23%) NHS
14 19 (1.17%) Clustering
14 19 (1.17%) Taxonomies
15 16 (0.99%) Life Science
16 15 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
17 12 (0.74%) Fixed Income
18 11 (0.68%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.68%) Unix
1 11 (0.68%) Windows
2 9 (0.55%) Linux
3 1 (0.062%) VMS
3 1 (0.062%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 670 (41.28%) Data Modelling
2 604 (37.22%) Analytics
3 508 (31.30%) Data Governance
4 496 (30.56%) ETL
5 467 (28.77%) Data Pipeline
6 466 (28.71%) Business Intelligence
7 385 (23.72%) Validation
8 372 (22.92%) Migration
9 355 (21.87%) Data Engineering
10 334 (20.58%) Agile
11 313 (19.29%) Decision-Making
12 307 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
13 305 (18.79%) CI/CD
14 295 (18.18%) AI
15 261 (16.08%) Stakeholder Management
16 245 (15.10%) Data Migration
17 226 (13.92%) Data Architecture
18 224 (13.80%) Continuous Improvement
19 221 (13.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 217 (13.37%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 769 (47.38%) SQL
2 467 (28.77%) Python
3 53 (3.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 50 (3.08%) Java
5 42 (2.59%) Scala
6 41 (2.53%) T-SQL
7 36 (2.22%) PL/SQL
8 26 (1.60%) PowerShell
9 18 (1.11%) C#
10 17 (1.05%) VBA
11 15 (0.92%) Bicep
12 13 (0.80%) R
13 10 (0.62%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.55%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.55%) JavaScript
15 8 (0.49%) Bash
16 7 (0.43%) SOQL
16 7 (0.43%) TypeScript
17 6 (0.37%) SOSL
18 5 (0.31%) Korn
Qualifications
1 273 (16.82%) Security Cleared
2 216 (13.31%) SC Cleared
3 90 (5.55%) Degree
4 62 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (1.48%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (0.86%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (0.80%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.49%) ACCA
9 8 (0.49%) CIMA
9 8 (0.49%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.49%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (0.37%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.37%) SnowPro
11 5 (0.31%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (0.25%) PhD
12 4 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (8.50%) GDPR
2 109 (6.72%) QA
3 36 (2.22%) PMO
4 23 (1.42%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.11%) SLA
7 16 (0.99%) Solvency II
8 11 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.62%) IFRS
10 8 (0.49%) COREP
10 8 (0.49%) FINREP
11 7 (0.43%) NIST
12 6 (0.37%) GRC
13 4 (0.25%) BS7666
13 4 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.25%) GAAP
13 4 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.18%) Basel III
14 3 (0.18%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 68 (4.19%) Docker
2 7 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.31%) etcd
4 1 (0.062%) HDFS
4 1 (0.062%) RACF
4 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 123 (7.58%) Terraform
2 71 (4.37%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.68%) Grafana
4 10 (0.62%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.49%) Ansible
6 6 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.31%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.31%) SCCM
8 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.25%) Kibana
9 1 (0.062%) Control-M
9 1 (0.062%) Istio
9 1 (0.062%) logstash
9 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.062%) Nessus
9 1 (0.062%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.062%) Puppet
9 1 (0.062%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.062%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 266 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 255 (15.71%) Databricks
3 121 (7.46%) Oracle
4 118 (7.27%) SAP
5 76 (4.68%) Salesforce
6 69 (4.25%) ServiceNow
7 63 (3.88%) Informatica
8 41 (2.53%) Google
9 32 (1.97%) Talend
10 23 (1.42%) Denodo
11 20 (1.23%) IBM
12 17 (1.05%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.05%) Workday
13 15 (0.92%) GoldenSource
14 14 (0.86%) NEC
15 13 (0.80%) Adobe
15 13 (0.80%) Palantir
16 11 (0.68%) Avaloq
16 11 (0.68%) ESRI
16 11 (0.68%) Foundry