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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 106 113
Rank change year-on-year +56 +7 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,857 691 709
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.12% 2.52% 2.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.79% 14.76% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,219 451 506
10th Percentile £351 £343 £350
25th Percentile £421 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £590 £638 £713
90th Percentile £675 £745 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 18 11
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.08 £20.50
25th Percentile £20.98 £21.65 £24.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% -20.90% +29.03%
75th Percentile £61.50 £34.85 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £61.24 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £24.00
% change year-on-year +26.42% +31.83% -31.84%

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 7,806 4,681 4,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.32% 17.06% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,994 3,063 2,908
10th Percentile £350 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.89% -3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 215 306
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £10.95
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.21 £14.03
Median hourly rate £38.72 £31.64 £26.62
Median % change year-on-year +22.38% +18.86% -33.98%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £59.69
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.55 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.53 £25.00
% change year-on-year +45.30% +10.12% -29.58%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +60 975 £525 -4.55% 356
North of England +22 238 £475 +5.56% 137
Midlands +42 221 £475 +3.49% 102
South East +27 189 £464 -0.80% 146
West Midlands +39 178 £475 -5.00% 70
North West +9 130 £475 +5.56% 67
South West +23 104 £500 +17.65% 60
East of England +11 87 £565 -6.61% 33
Yorkshire +5 84 £463 +9.47% 39
East Midlands +7 43 £466 +3.79% 32
North East -19 25 £520 -15.10% 32
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 99 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (5.28%) Apache Spark
3 73 (3.93%) Apache
4 53 (2.85%) Confluence
4 53 (2.85%) SAS
5 37 (1.99%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.48%) CMS
7 9 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
8 8 (0.43%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.16%) Appian
10 3 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.054%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.054%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.054%) Luigi
Applications
1 135 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.70%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 64 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.65%) NEC Housing
3 12 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.48%) Sage X3
4 9 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 8 (0.43%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.43%) SAP MDG
6 7 (0.38%) iTrent
6 7 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.32%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.27%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.22%) Maximo
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.22%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
10 3 (0.16%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 495 (26.66%) Azure
2 415 (22.35%) Power Platform
3 321 (17.29%) AWS
4 157 (8.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 142 (7.65%) GCP
6 140 (7.54%) Snowflake
7 122 (6.57%) dbt
8 101 (5.44%) Azure DevOps
9 95 (5.12%) Amazon S3
10 91 (4.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 87 (4.68%) Serverless
12 74 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
12 74 (3.98%) GitHub
13 55 (2.96%) Collibra
14 41 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
14 41 (2.21%) Power Automate
15 38 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
15 38 (2.05%) SaaS
16 31 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
17 27 (1.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.48%) Firewall
2 5 (0.27%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) HTTP
4 1 (0.054%) 4G
4 1 (0.054%) 5G
4 1 (0.054%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.054%) DNS
4 1 (0.054%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.054%) SNMP
4 1 (0.054%) SSH
4 1 (0.054%) SSL
4 1 (0.054%) WAN
4 1 (0.054%) Wireless
4 1 (0.054%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 393 (21.16%) Power BI
2 307 (16.53%) Data Warehouse
3 237 (12.76%) Metadata
4 166 (8.94%) Data Lake
5 119 (6.41%) Tableau
6 91 (4.90%) SQL Server
7 80 (4.31%) BigQuery
7 80 (4.31%) Delta Lake
8 74 (3.98%) Amazon Redshift
9 67 (3.61%) Relational Database
10 57 (3.07%) Amazon Athena
11 55 (2.96%) Big Data
12 42 (2.26%) Snowflake Schema
13 41 (2.21%) NoSQL
14 38 (2.05%) Power Query
15 37 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 33 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
16 33 (1.78%) Star Schema
17 31 (1.67%) Looker
18 30 (1.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 121 (6.52%) JIRA
2 115 (6.19%) Git
3 44 (2.37%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.83%) GitLab
5 20 (1.08%) ERwin
6 13 (0.70%) ER Studio
7 11 (0.59%) MLflow
8 9 (0.48%) Eclipse
8 9 (0.48%) Postman
9 8 (0.43%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.38%) Selenium
10 7 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.32%) Ant
11 6 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.27%) Newman
12 5 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
13 4 (0.22%) LSMW
13 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.22%) Zephyr
14 3 (0.16%) Robot Framework
General
1 556 (29.94%) Finance
2 548 (29.51%) Social Skills
3 445 (23.96%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (11.25%) Public Sector
5 143 (7.70%) Banking
6 53 (2.85%) Marketing
7 51 (2.75%) Retail
8 46 (2.48%) Manufacturing
9 45 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
10 41 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 31 (1.67%) Local Government
13 30 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.45%) Legal
15 26 (1.40%) Military
16 21 (1.13%) Law
17 20 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
18 18 (0.97%) Publishing
19 17 (0.92%) Automotive
19 17 (0.92%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 425 (22.89%) Data Engineer
2 385 (20.73%) Analyst
3 218 (11.74%) Data Analyst
4 211 (11.36%) Senior
5 201 (10.82%) Lead
6 173 (9.32%) Architect
7 113 (6.09%) Data Architect
8 107 (5.76%) Developer
9 104 (5.60%) Business Analyst
10 89 (4.79%) Senior Data Engineer
11 63 (3.39%) Consultant
12 56 (3.02%) Data Manager
13 51 (2.75%) Administrator
14 46 (2.48%) Data Business Analyst
15 33 (1.78%) Azure Engineer
16 32 (1.72%) Data Consultant
17 31 (1.67%) AWS Engineer
17 31 (1.67%) Project Manager
18 30 (1.62%) Data Migration Lead
18 30 (1.62%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (7.70%) PySpark
2 91 (4.90%) Kafka
3 47 (2.53%) REST
4 44 (2.37%) JSON
5 40 (2.15%) Pandas
6 26 (1.40%) Great Expectations
7 24 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
7 24 (1.29%) Web Services
8 20 (1.08%) Middleware
9 18 (0.97%) XML
10 17 (0.92%) scikit-learn
11 15 (0.81%) HTML
12 14 (0.75%) SOAP
13 13 (0.70%) .NET
13 13 (0.70%) GeoJSON
13 13 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
14 10 (0.54%) Matplotlib
14 10 (0.54%) OAuth
14 10 (0.54%) pytest
14 10 (0.54%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 163 (8.78%) Data Structures
2 107 (5.76%) Onboarding
3 105 (5.65%) Legacy Systems
4 98 (5.28%) Cloud Native
5 81 (4.36%) Product Ownership
6 67 (3.61%) Management Information System
7 55 (2.96%) CMDB
8 42 (2.26%) Reference Data
9 32 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
11 28 (1.51%) AI Agents
12 26 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
13 25 (1.35%) Taxonomies
14 24 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
15 23 (1.24%) NHS
16 20 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
17 17 (0.92%) Clustering
18 16 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
18 16 (0.86%) Life Science
19 15 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.02%) Linux
1 19 (1.02%) Unix
2 13 (0.70%) Windows
3 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.054%) VMS
3 1 (0.054%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 736 (39.63%) Data Modelling
2 669 (36.03%) Analytics
3 617 (33.23%) Data Governance
4 535 (28.81%) Data Pipeline
5 527 (28.38%) ETL
6 502 (27.03%) Business Intelligence
7 459 (24.72%) Validation
8 431 (23.21%) Migration
9 408 (21.97%) Data Engineering
10 382 (20.57%) Agile
11 342 (18.42%) CI/CD
11 342 (18.42%) Decision-Making
12 335 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
13 334 (17.99%) Stakeholder Management
14 312 (16.80%) AI
15 281 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
16 275 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 268 (14.43%) Data Migration
18 256 (13.79%) Data Architecture
19 250 (13.46%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 828 (44.59%) SQL
2 502 (27.03%) Python
3 63 (3.39%) Java
4 56 (3.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 41 (2.21%) Scala
6 38 (2.05%) PL/SQL
7 34 (1.83%) T-SQL
8 33 (1.78%) PowerShell
9 23 (1.24%) Shell Script
10 21 (1.13%) C#
11 18 (0.97%) JavaScript
11 18 (0.97%) VBA
12 14 (0.75%) R
13 12 (0.65%) Bicep
14 11 (0.59%) Bash
14 11 (0.59%) TypeScript
15 10 (0.54%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.38%) SOQL
17 6 (0.32%) Cypher
17 6 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 318 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 242 (13.03%) SC Cleared
3 111 (5.98%) Degree
4 65 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.62%) Azure Certification
6 25 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 24 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 18 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (0.92%) AWS Certification
10 13 (0.70%) PMI Certification
11 9 (0.48%) PMP
12 8 (0.43%) ACCA
12 8 (0.43%) CIMA
13 6 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.32%) SnowPro
14 5 (0.27%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.27%) PhD
15 4 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (7.43%) GDPR
2 130 (7.00%) QA
3 35 (1.88%) Accessibility
4 33 (1.78%) PMO
5 24 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.86%) Solvency II
7 15 (0.81%) SLA
8 11 (0.59%) IFRS
8 11 (0.59%) NIST
9 10 (0.54%) COREP
9 10 (0.54%) FINREP
9 10 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.43%) GRC
11 7 (0.38%) NCSC
12 4 (0.22%) BS7666
12 4 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.22%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 73 (3.93%) Docker
2 20 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.27%) etcd
4 1 (0.054%) HDFS
4 1 (0.054%) RACF
4 1 (0.054%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 122 (6.57%) Terraform
2 77 (4.15%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.75%) Grafana
4 11 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.48%) Ansible
7 5 (0.27%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.27%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.27%) SCCM
8 4 (0.22%) Control-M
8 4 (0.22%) Kibana
9 1 (0.054%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.054%) Istio
9 1 (0.054%) logstash
9 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.054%) Nessus
9 1 (0.054%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.054%) Puppet
9 1 (0.054%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.054%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 294 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 274 (14.75%) Databricks
3 152 (8.19%) SAP
4 128 (6.89%) Oracle
5 84 (4.52%) Informatica
6 75 (4.04%) Salesforce
6 75 (4.04%) ServiceNow
7 47 (2.53%) Google
8 35 (1.88%) Talend
9 28 (1.51%) Workday
10 22 (1.18%) Adobe
10 22 (1.18%) Denodo
11 21 (1.13%) Palantir
12 20 (1.08%) IBM
13 19 (1.02%) Alteryx
14 17 (0.92%) Foundry
15 15 (0.81%) Splunk
16 14 (0.75%) Sage
17 13 (0.70%) GoldenSource
17 13 (0.70%) NEC