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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 109 120
Rank change year-on-year +30 +11 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,068 623 764
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.20% 2.38% 1.99%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.63% 16.21% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 733 409 518
10th Percentile £335 £307 £375
25th Percentile £413 £393 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £738 £747
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 41
10th Percentile £13.95 £21.94 £14.13
25th Percentile £18.23 £26.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £18.50 £35.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.14% +14.75% +35.65%
75th Percentile £30.49 £93.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £69.44 £97.50 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £35.00 £23.92
% change year-on-year -31.43% +46.35% +6.36%

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 5,734 3,844 5,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.18% 14.68% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,712 2,242 3,602
10th Percentile £325 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £640
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 148 305
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.70 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.04 £20.27 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year -20.81% +25.14% -11.57%
75th Percentile £63.45 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £75.92
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -11.14% +16.00% -9.09%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 8 February 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 +27 636 £531 +1.19% 306
North of England -7 139 £475 +18.75% 140
Midlands +2 97 £500 +23.08% 75
South East +8 79 £425 -26.09% 182
North West -2 76 £463 +8.82% 80
West Midlands -5 75 £515 +5.53% 54
South West +24 63 £500 +2.56% 49
Yorkshire -31 42 £500 +138.10% 41
East Midlands -13 23 £439 +26.01% 21
North East +4 22 £463 - 20
East of England -41 21 £650 +13.04% 34
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 (9.08%) Apache Spark
2 67 (6.27%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (4.03%) Apache
4 31 (2.90%) SAS
5 22 (2.06%) SharePoint
6 20 (1.87%) Confluence
7 8 (0.75%) Appian
7 8 (0.75%) GeoServer
7 8 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.75%) Smallworld
8 7 (0.66%) Oracle Application Server
9 3 (0.28%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.094%) Luigi
Applications
1 85 (7.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.31%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.28%) Trello
8 1 (0.094%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.094%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 41 (3.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (0.84%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.66%) SAP MDG
5 6 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.56%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.47%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.37%) Finacle
7 4 (0.37%) SAP MM
7 4 (0.37%) SystmOne
8 3 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle SCM
8 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.28%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.28%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (0.28%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 328 (30.71%) Azure
2 250 (23.41%) Power Platform
3 215 (20.13%) AWS
4 125 (11.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 106 (9.93%) GCP
6 93 (8.71%) Snowflake
7 73 (6.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 72 (6.74%) dbt
9 59 (5.52%) Amazon S3
10 56 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (4.68%) GitHub
12 47 (4.40%) Collibra
13 42 (3.93%) Serverless
14 29 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
15 28 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
16 26 (2.43%) Microsoft Purview
17 22 (2.06%) Power Automate
18 19 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
18 19 (1.78%) SaaS
19 16 (1.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.28%) DNS
2 2 (0.19%) Broadband
2 2 (0.19%) HTTP
2 2 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (0.19%) SSL
2 2 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (22.85%) Power BI
2 192 (17.98%) Data Warehouse
3 163 (15.26%) Metadata
4 100 (9.36%) Data Lake
5 74 (6.93%) SQL Server
6 56 (5.24%) Tableau
7 54 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 50 (4.68%) Delta Lake
9 48 (4.49%) Snowflake Schema
10 45 (4.21%) Big Data
11 42 (3.93%) NoSQL
12 40 (3.75%) Relational Database
13 37 (3.46%) BigQuery
14 32 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 31 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
16 30 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
16 30 (2.81%) Star Schema
17 27 (2.53%) Data Vault
18 24 (2.25%) Pentaho
19 19 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 113 (10.58%) Git
2 74 (6.93%) JIRA
3 41 (3.84%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.87%) ERwin
5 15 (1.40%) PowerDesigner
6 11 (1.03%) ER Studio
6 11 (1.03%) MLflow
7 6 (0.56%) DBeaver
8 4 (0.37%) GitLab
9 3 (0.28%) LSMW
9 3 (0.28%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.19%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.19%) Selenium
11 1 (0.094%) Deequ
11 1 (0.094%) Postman
11 1 (0.094%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.094%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.094%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.094%) Vite
11 1 (0.094%) webpack
General
1 357 (33.43%) Social Skills
2 309 (28.93%) Finance
3 232 (21.72%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 89 (8.33%) Banking
6 29 (2.72%) Marketing
7 26 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (2.43%) Retail
8 22 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (1.87%) Legal
10 16 (1.50%) Local Government
10 16 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.31%) Military
13 13 (1.22%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.12%) Publishing
15 11 (1.03%) Billing
15 11 (1.03%) Law
15 11 (1.03%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 272 (25.47%) Data Engineer
2 226 (21.16%) Analyst
3 137 (12.83%) Data Analyst
4 118 (11.05%) Lead
5 110 (10.30%) Senior
6 100 (9.36%) Architect
7 66 (6.18%) Business Analyst
8 60 (5.62%) Data Architect
9 58 (5.43%) Developer
10 51 (4.78%) Senior Data Engineer
11 48 (4.49%) Azure Engineer
12 40 (3.75%) Azure Data Engineer
13 37 (3.46%) Consultant
14 33 (3.09%) Data Business Analyst
15 29 (2.72%) Data Modeller
16 27 (2.53%) Data Manager
17 21 (1.97%) Project Manager
18 20 (1.87%) Governance Analyst
19 17 (1.59%) Senior Analyst
20 16 (1.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (9.18%) PySpark
2 75 (7.02%) Kafka
3 33 (3.09%) REST
4 20 (1.87%) Pandas
5 16 (1.50%) Great Expectations
6 15 (1.40%) NumPy
7 13 (1.22%) XML
8 12 (1.12%) Middleware
9 11 (1.03%) OAuth
9 11 (1.03%) Web Services
10 10 (0.94%) pytest
10 10 (0.94%) PyTorch
11 9 (0.84%) Flask
11 9 (0.84%) Hugging Face
11 9 (0.84%) JSON
11 9 (0.84%) scikit-learn
11 9 (0.84%) SOAP
11 9 (0.84%) TensorFlow
11 9 (0.84%) YAML
12 8 (0.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 94 (8.80%) Data Structures
2 78 (7.30%) Legacy Systems
3 44 (4.12%) Cloud Native
3 44 (4.12%) Management Information System
4 33 (3.09%) Onboarding
5 32 (3.00%) Product Ownership
6 30 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 28 (2.62%) CMDB
8 20 (1.87%) Reference Data
9 19 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (1.78%) Reinsurance
10 18 (1.69%) NHS
11 17 (1.59%) Clustering
12 15 (1.40%) Replication
13 14 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (0.94%) Taxonomies
15 9 (0.84%) Data Centre
15 9 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
16 8 (0.75%) Algorithms
16 8 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.40%) Linux
2 5 (0.47%) Unix
3 3 (0.28%) Windows
4 1 (0.094%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (42.98%) Data Modelling
2 412 (38.58%) Analytics
3 391 (36.61%) Data Governance
4 347 (32.49%) ETL
5 329 (30.81%) Business Intelligence
6 283 (26.50%) Data Pipeline
7 264 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
8 247 (23.13%) Agile
9 241 (22.57%) Data Engineering
10 202 (18.91%) Migration
11 189 (17.70%) CI/CD
12 187 (17.51%) Validation
13 174 (16.29%) Decision-Making
14 168 (15.73%) Data Architecture
15 159 (14.89%) AI
16 157 (14.70%) Data Management
17 149 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
18 145 (13.58%) Data Analysis
19 143 (13.39%) Data Integration
20 136 (12.73%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 527 (49.34%) SQL
2 337 (31.55%) Python
3 47 (4.40%) Scala
4 27 (2.53%) Java
5 24 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 24 (2.25%) PL/SQL
6 20 (1.87%) C#
6 20 (1.87%) R
7 19 (1.78%) T-SQL
8 16 (1.50%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.03%) Bicep
10 10 (0.94%) Bash
10 10 (0.94%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.66%) Apex Code
11 7 (0.66%) C++
11 7 (0.66%) PowerShell
11 7 (0.66%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.37%) ABAP
12 4 (0.37%) Korn
12 4 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 178 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 132 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 68 (6.37%) Degree
4 27 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (1.50%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.28%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.28%) PMP
10 3 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 3 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.19%) AAT
11 2 (0.19%) ACCA
11 2 (0.19%) CFA
11 2 (0.19%) CIMA
11 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (8.80%) GDPR
2 64 (5.99%) QA
3 42 (3.93%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.50%) PMO
5 14 (1.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 11 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (0.94%) SLA
8 7 (0.66%) Basel III
8 7 (0.66%) IFRS
8 7 (0.66%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.47%) ISO 19650
9 5 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.28%) FINREP
10 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.28%) MiFID
10 3 (0.28%) NIST
11 2 (0.19%) EMIR
11 2 (0.19%) FATCA
11 2 (0.19%) GRC
11 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 55 (5.15%) Docker
2 6 (0.56%) zsh
3 5 (0.47%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.094%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 65 (6.09%) Terraform
2 54 (5.06%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.37%) SCCM
4 3 (0.28%) Kibana
4 3 (0.28%) logstash
4 3 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.19%) Ansible
5 2 (0.19%) Grafana
6 1 (0.094%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.094%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.094%) Oozie
6 1 (0.094%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 201 (18.82%) Databricks
2 158 (14.79%) Microsoft
3 87 (8.15%) Oracle
4 73 (6.84%) SAP
5 57 (5.34%) Informatica
6 51 (4.78%) Salesforce
7 41 (3.84%) Google
7 41 (3.84%) ServiceNow
7 41 (3.84%) Talend
8 23 (2.15%) Denodo
9 14 (1.31%) Sparx
10 13 (1.22%) Palantir
11 10 (0.94%) Alteryx
12 9 (0.84%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.75%) Avaloq
13 8 (0.75%) ESRI
13 8 (0.75%) Foundry
13 8 (0.75%) Intergraph
13 8 (0.75%) Workday
14 7 (0.66%) Cognos