Data Quality Contracts in England

Data Quality
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Quality over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 111 154
Rank change year-on-year +10 +43 +57
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 615 753 875
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.53% 2.02% 1.73%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.95% 14.22% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 521 587
10th Percentile £325 £353 £338
25th Percentile £409 £450 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £531 £528
% change year-on-year -3.25% +0.57% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 30 16
10th Percentile £18.22 £13.92 -
25th Percentile £22.12 £15.39 £21.24
Median hourly rate £31.64 £22.56 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +40.26% +0.32% +13.88%
75th Percentile £34.73 £49.44 £29.69
90th Percentile £81.71 £62.45 £63.07
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £16.34 £22.49
% change year-on-year +93.69% -27.35% +21.54%

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 3,856 5,296 6,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.84% 14.23% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,477 3,372 4,584
10th Percentile £273 £300 £276
25th Percentile £400 £407 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 348 206
10th Percentile £17.78 £10.95 £13.94
25th Percentile £22.27 £13.14 £19.50
Median hourly rate £34.75 £22.42 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -45.98% +50.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.11 £67.41 £79.88
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £21.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.29% -44.00% +33.93%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in England over the 6 months to 30 April 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 30 April 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 -4 346 £525 -4.55% 417
North of England +10 75 £450 -10.00% 89
East of England +44 57 £600 +20.00% 18
North West -11 45 £465 -10.58% 65
Midlands +4 41 £475 -9.52% 46
South East +15 40 £511 +7.63% 99
Yorkshire +24 30 £275 -27.25% 16
South West +43 27 £525 +2.44% 33
West Midlands -10 23 £525 -4.55% 33
East Midlands +14 17 £447 +6.05% 13
Data Quality
UK

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 54 (8.78%) Apache Spark
2 35 (5.69%) Apache
3 30 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.76%) Confluence
5 14 (2.28%) SharePoint
6 9 (1.46%) SAS
7 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.33%) Luigi
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 66 (10.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.79%) Siemens NX
4 9 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.30%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.98%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.16%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 41 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.79%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.98%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.81%) SAP HR
5 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.33%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.16%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.16%) Endur
7 1 (0.16%) HFM
7 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.16%) Maximo
7 1 (0.16%) Murex MxG2000
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.16%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 159 (25.85%) Azure
2 119 (19.35%) Power Platform
3 103 (16.75%) AWS
4 62 (10.08%) GCP
5 45 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 36 (5.85%) Snowflake
7 23 (3.74%) dbt
8 20 (3.25%) Amazon S3
9 18 (2.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 18 (2.93%) Collibra
9 18 (2.93%) SaaS
10 17 (2.76%) Serverless
11 16 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (2.28%) GitHub
13 13 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (1.46%) IaaS
15 9 (1.46%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.49%) Unified Communications
1 3 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.16%) DNS
2 1 (0.16%) FTP
2 1 (0.16%) HTTP
2 1 (0.16%) Internet
2 1 (0.16%) Network Security
2 1 (0.16%) Skype
2 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (24.07%) Data Warehouse
2 119 (19.35%) Power BI
3 77 (12.52%) Tableau
4 73 (11.87%) Data Lake
5 55 (8.94%) Metadata
6 53 (8.62%) Big Data
7 33 (5.37%) Hadoop
8 28 (4.55%) Relational Database
8 28 (4.55%) SQL Server
9 25 (4.07%) BigQuery
9 25 (4.07%) NoSQL
10 24 (3.90%) Snowflake Schema
11 22 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (3.25%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (2.60%) Delta Lake
14 15 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (2.28%) MySQL
16 13 (2.11%) Oracle Database
16 13 (2.11%) SAP Data Services
17 12 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 31 (5.04%) JIRA
2 20 (3.25%) Git
3 12 (1.95%) ERwin
4 6 (0.98%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.65%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.65%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.49%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.49%) MLflow
7 2 (0.33%) LSMW
7 2 (0.33%) MagicDraw
7 2 (0.33%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.16%) Flyway
8 1 (0.16%) GitLab
8 1 (0.16%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.16%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.16%) Selenium
8 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.16%) webpack
General
1 232 (37.72%) Social Skills
2 172 (27.97%) Analytical Skills
3 151 (24.55%) Finance
4 58 (9.43%) Banking
5 41 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 24 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (3.09%) Investment Banking
7 19 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (3.09%) Retail
8 18 (2.93%) Pharmaceutical
9 17 (2.76%) Telecoms
10 16 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (2.28%) Marketing
12 13 (2.11%) Local Government
13 12 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.95%) Legal
14 11 (1.79%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.63%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.63%) Front Office
15 10 (1.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 131 (21.30%) Analyst
2 129 (20.98%) Data Engineer
3 88 (14.31%) Data Analyst
4 66 (10.73%) Lead
5 64 (10.41%) Architect
6 63 (10.24%) Senior
7 48 (7.80%) Developer
8 46 (7.48%) Data Architect
9 32 (5.20%) Consultant
10 25 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
11 19 (3.09%) Business Analyst
12 18 (2.93%) Data Consultant
13 14 (2.28%) Data Science Developer
14 13 (2.11%) AWS Data Engineer
14 13 (2.11%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (2.11%) Azure Engineer
14 13 (2.11%) Data Modeller
14 13 (2.11%) Project Manager
14 13 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
15 12 (1.95%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.04%) PySpark
2 29 (4.72%) Kafka
3 23 (3.74%) Pandas
3 23 (3.74%) PyTorch
3 23 (3.74%) TensorFlow
4 21 (3.41%) NumPy
4 21 (3.41%) scikit-learn
5 16 (2.60%) Matplotlib
5 16 (2.60%) Seaborn
6 15 (2.44%) REST
6 15 (2.44%) XML
7 11 (1.79%) JSON
8 9 (1.46%) React
9 7 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.14%) SOAP
10 5 (0.81%) .NET
10 5 (0.81%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (0.81%) Plotly
11 4 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.65%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.37%) Data Structures
2 30 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
3 28 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 27 (4.39%) Algorithms
5 25 (4.07%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.09%) Life Science
7 17 (2.76%) Reference Data
8 12 (1.95%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.30%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.14%) NHS
11 6 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (0.98%) CSOC
11 6 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.98%) Replication
11 6 (0.98%) Taxonomies
11 6 (0.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 5 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.46%) Unix
2 8 (1.30%) Linux
3 5 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (43.90%) Data Governance
2 191 (31.06%) Data Modelling
3 185 (30.08%) Analytics
4 183 (29.76%) Problem-Solving
5 179 (29.11%) ETL
6 150 (24.39%) Business Intelligence
7 140 (22.76%) Data Management
7 140 (22.76%) Migration
8 133 (21.63%) Visualisation
9 129 (20.98%) Data Analysis
10 121 (19.67%) Data Pipeline
11 105 (17.07%) Data Engineering
12 97 (15.77%) Decision-Making
13 89 (14.47%) Data Integration
14 87 (14.15%) Agile
15 86 (13.98%) Data Migration
15 86 (13.98%) Machine Learning
16 82 (13.33%) Data Science
17 81 (13.17%) Validation
18 76 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 257 (41.79%) SQL
2 198 (32.20%) Python
3 31 (5.04%) R
4 18 (2.93%) Scala
5 17 (2.76%) Java
6 12 (1.95%) PL/SQL
7 10 (1.63%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.63%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.30%) VBA
9 7 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.65%) ABAP
11 3 (0.49%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.33%) ANSI SQL
12 2 (0.33%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.33%) Bash
12 2 (0.33%) C#
12 2 (0.33%) PHP
12 2 (0.33%) SAS Macro
13 1 (0.16%) PROC SQL
13 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 89 (14.47%) Degree
2 73 (11.87%) Security Cleared
3 58 (9.43%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.72%) Master's Degree
5 23 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.95%) PhD
7 10 (1.63%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.30%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.30%) PMP
9 6 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.98%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.98%) GIAC
10 4 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.33%) CBAP
13 1 (0.16%) IIBA
13 1 (0.16%) NVQ Level 3
13 1 (0.16%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.46%) GDPR
2 38 (6.18%) QA
3 23 (3.74%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.46%) PMO
5 8 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.65%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.49%) SLA
8 2 (0.33%) EMIR
8 2 (0.33%) MiFID
8 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.16%) Basel III
9 1 (0.16%) COSHH
9 1 (0.16%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.16%) IFRS
9 1 (0.16%) LOINC
9 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (1.95%) Docker
2 6 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.33%) HDFS
4 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.16%) NFS
4 1 (0.16%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (3.58%) Terraform
2 10 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.65%) Kibana
3 4 (0.65%) logstash
4 3 (0.49%) Ansible
4 3 (0.49%) Grafana
4 3 (0.49%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.16%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 80 (13.01%) Microsoft
2 72 (11.71%) SAP
3 60 (9.76%) Databricks
4 43 (6.99%) Informatica
5 41 (6.67%) Oracle
6 36 (5.85%) Google
7 14 (2.28%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.11%) Ariba
9 11 (1.79%) Alteryx
9 11 (1.79%) IBM
9 11 (1.79%) Talend
10 6 (0.98%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.98%) Splunk
11 5 (0.81%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.81%) Sparx
12 4 (0.65%) MicroStrategy
12 4 (0.65%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.49%) Ab Initio
13 3 (0.49%) DocuSign
13 3 (0.49%) Hyperion