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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 110 110
Rank change year-on-year +59 0 +49
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,706 649 771
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.88% 2.49% 2.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.79% 15.09% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,117 409 538
10th Percentile £350 £342 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +2.09%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £712
90th Percentile £675 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -2.72% -6.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 22 28
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.52 £13.49
25th Percentile £17.75 £23.69 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £21.06
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% +51.11% -6.35%
75th Percentile £60.75 £35.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £76.50 £76.21 £52.35
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £15.80
% change year-on-year +25.71% +101.39% -29.73%

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 7,486 4,301 5,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.05% 16.48% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,813 2,782 3,167
10th Percentile £350 £270 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.82% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 509 188 379
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £11.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £20.69 £13.28
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.00 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +30.99% -42.52%
75th Percentile £67.84 £65.00 £52.13
90th Percentile £80.38 £83.96 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £23.90
% change year-on-year +20.23% +25.52% -38.26%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +68 909 £521 -5.23% 417
Midlands +36 212 £492 +6.09% 104
North of England +9 210 £475 +5.56% 129
West Midlands +33 174 £492 -1.60% 61
South East +27 163 £471 -5.80% 191
North West +10 124 £475 +4.97% 78
South West +21 90 £480 +12.94% 48
East of England -2 78 £570 -5.00% 44
Yorkshire -22 62 £480 +20.00% 35
East Midlands +8 38 £475 +3.09% 43
North East -16 24 £475 -22.45% 16
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 89 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (5.16%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.22%) Apache
4 49 (2.87%) Confluence
4 49 (2.87%) SAS
5 35 (2.05%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
6 9 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.41%) Appian
8 6 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.23%) CMS
10 3 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.059%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.059%) Luigi
12 1 (0.059%) Mendix
Applications
1 125 (7.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
4 17 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (0.94%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) CATIA
8 1 (0.059%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.059%) Trello
Business Applications
1 52 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.76%) NEC Housing
3 12 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.64%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.59%) Loan IQ
6 9 (0.53%) iTrent
6 9 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.41%) Sage X3
8 6 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.29%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.23%) Finacle
10 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.23%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.18%) Actimize
11 3 (0.18%) Maximo
11 3 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 473 (27.73%) Azure
2 406 (23.80%) Power Platform
3 303 (17.76%) AWS
4 157 (9.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 128 (7.50%) GCP
6 123 (7.21%) Snowflake
7 117 (6.86%) dbt
8 101 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
9 97 (5.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 94 (5.51%) Amazon S3
11 82 (4.81%) Serverless
12 71 (4.16%) GitHub
13 69 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
14 56 (3.28%) Collibra
15 41 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
16 37 (2.17%) Power Automate
17 36 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
18 33 (1.93%) SaaS
19 24 (1.41%) PowerApps
20 22 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.53%) Firewall
2 5 (0.29%) VPN
3 2 (0.12%) HTTP
4 1 (0.059%) 4G
4 1 (0.059%) 5G
4 1 (0.059%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.059%) DNS
4 1 (0.059%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.059%) SNMP
4 1 (0.059%) SSH
4 1 (0.059%) WAN
4 1 (0.059%) Wireless
4 1 (0.059%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 386 (22.63%) Power BI
2 268 (15.71%) Data Warehouse
3 211 (12.37%) Metadata
4 159 (9.32%) Data Lake
5 111 (6.51%) Tableau
6 94 (5.51%) SQL Server
7 82 (4.81%) Delta Lake
8 73 (4.28%) BigQuery
9 72 (4.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 60 (3.52%) Relational Database
11 56 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
12 50 (2.93%) Big Data
13 44 (2.58%) Snowflake Schema
14 36 (2.11%) Power Query
15 35 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
15 35 (2.05%) NoSQL
15 35 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
16 33 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 28 (1.64%) Star Schema
18 25 (1.47%) Looker
Development Applications
1 118 (6.92%) JIRA
2 113 (6.62%) Git
3 43 (2.52%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.99%) GitLab
5 18 (1.06%) ERwin
6 14 (0.82%) MLflow
7 9 (0.53%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.53%) Postman
8 8 (0.47%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
8 8 (0.47%) Selenium
9 7 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.35%) Ant
11 5 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.23%) LSMW
12 4 (0.23%) Newman
12 4 (0.23%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.23%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 525 (30.77%) Finance
2 503 (29.48%) Social Skills
3 396 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
4 191 (11.20%) Public Sector
5 136 (7.97%) Banking
6 46 (2.70%) Marketing
7 45 (2.64%) Retail
8 40 (2.34%) Manufacturing
8 40 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
9 39 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
10 33 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (1.70%) Legal
11 29 (1.70%) Local Government
12 26 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.11%) Military
14 18 (1.06%) Law
15 17 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.88%) Publishing
16 15 (0.88%) Telecoms
17 14 (0.82%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 408 (23.92%) Data Engineer
2 364 (21.34%) Analyst
3 206 (12.08%) Data Analyst
4 196 (11.49%) Senior
5 181 (10.61%) Lead
6 148 (8.68%) Architect
7 94 (5.51%) Business Analyst
8 91 (5.33%) Data Architect
9 88 (5.16%) Developer
10 82 (4.81%) Senior Data Engineer
11 56 (3.28%) Consultant
12 55 (3.22%) Data Manager
13 43 (2.52%) Administrator
14 37 (2.17%) Data Business Analyst
15 32 (1.88%) Project Manager
16 31 (1.82%) Data Scientist
17 30 (1.76%) Data Consultant
18 29 (1.70%) Data Migration Lead
18 29 (1.70%) Lead Data Engineer
19 28 (1.64%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (7.80%) PySpark
2 92 (5.39%) Kafka
3 43 (2.52%) Pandas
3 43 (2.52%) REST
4 38 (2.23%) JSON
5 28 (1.64%) Great Expectations
6 24 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
7 21 (1.23%) scikit-learn
7 21 (1.23%) Web Services
8 19 (1.11%) XML
9 17 (1.00%) Middleware
10 14 (0.82%) NumPy
10 14 (0.82%) SOAP
11 13 (0.76%) GeoJSON
11 13 (0.76%) HTML
11 13 (0.76%) pytest
12 12 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
12 12 (0.70%) PyTorch
13 10 (0.59%) Matplotlib
13 10 (0.59%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 133 (7.80%) Data Structures
2 105 (6.15%) Legacy Systems
3 96 (5.63%) Onboarding
4 85 (4.98%) Cloud Native
5 63 (3.69%) Management Information System
5 63 (3.69%) Product Ownership
6 55 (3.22%) CMDB
7 33 (1.93%) Reference Data
8 32 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 30 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (1.70%) AI Agents
11 24 (1.41%) Taxonomies
12 23 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
12 23 (1.35%) NHS
13 22 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.00%) Clustering
15 14 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.82%) Life Science
16 13 (0.76%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.64%) Unix
1 11 (0.64%) Windows
2 10 (0.59%) Linux
3 1 (0.059%) VMS
3 1 (0.059%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 684 (40.09%) Data Modelling
2 626 (36.69%) Analytics
3 550 (32.24%) Data Governance
4 495 (29.02%) ETL
5 483 (28.31%) Data Pipeline
6 480 (28.14%) Business Intelligence
7 413 (24.21%) Validation
8 396 (23.21%) Migration
9 379 (22.22%) Data Engineering
10 354 (20.75%) Agile
11 330 (19.34%) Decision-Making
12 321 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
13 319 (18.70%) CI/CD
14 306 (17.94%) AI
15 293 (17.17%) Stakeholder Management
16 250 (14.65%) Data Migration
17 249 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
18 243 (14.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 228 (13.36%) Data Architecture
19 228 (13.36%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 771 (45.19%) SQL
2 471 (27.61%) Python
3 57 (3.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 55 (3.22%) Java
5 42 (2.46%) Scala
6 37 (2.17%) T-SQL
7 30 (1.76%) PL/SQL
8 28 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 18 (1.06%) VBA
10 17 (1.00%) C#
11 13 (0.76%) JavaScript
11 13 (0.76%) R
11 13 (0.76%) Shell Script
12 12 (0.70%) Bicep
13 10 (0.59%) Bash
14 9 (0.53%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.53%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.41%) SOQL
16 6 (0.35%) SOSL
17 5 (0.29%) Korn
Qualifications
1 283 (16.59%) Security Cleared
2 221 (12.95%) SC Cleared
3 105 (6.15%) Degree
4 66 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (1.70%) Azure Certification
6 23 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.06%) AWS Certification
8 15 (0.88%) Master's Degree
9 13 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (0.64%) PMI Certification
11 9 (0.53%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.41%) ACCA
12 7 (0.41%) CIMA
12 7 (0.41%) PMP
12 7 (0.41%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.35%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.29%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.29%) PhD
14 5 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (8.62%) GDPR
2 106 (6.21%) QA
3 32 (1.88%) PMO
4 29 (1.70%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.00%) Solvency II
7 16 (0.94%) SLA
8 11 (0.64%) IFRS
8 11 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.47%) COREP
9 8 (0.47%) FINREP
9 8 (0.47%) GRC
10 7 (0.41%) NIST
11 5 (0.29%) NCSC
12 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.23%) BS7666
12 4 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.23%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 67 (3.93%) Docker
2 9 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.29%) etcd
4 1 (0.059%) HDFS
4 1 (0.059%) RACF
4 1 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 126 (7.39%) Terraform
2 71 (4.16%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.76%) Grafana
4 11 (0.64%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.47%) Ansible
6 6 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.29%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.29%) SCCM
8 4 (0.23%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.23%) Kibana
9 1 (0.059%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.059%) Control-M
9 1 (0.059%) Istio
9 1 (0.059%) logstash
9 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.059%) Nessus
9 1 (0.059%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.059%) Puppet
9 1 (0.059%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.059%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 273 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 261 (15.30%) Databricks
3 128 (7.50%) SAP
4 120 (7.03%) Oracle
5 78 (4.57%) Salesforce
6 74 (4.34%) Informatica
7 71 (4.16%) ServiceNow
8 42 (2.46%) Google
9 33 (1.93%) Talend
10 22 (1.29%) Denodo
11 19 (1.11%) Palantir
12 18 (1.06%) IBM
13 17 (1.00%) Workday
14 16 (0.94%) Foundry
15 15 (0.88%) Adobe
15 15 (0.88%) Alteryx
16 14 (0.82%) NEC
17 13 (0.76%) GoldenSource
18 12 (0.70%) OpenAI
19 10 (0.59%) Splunk