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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 99 118
Rank change year-on-year +53 +19 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 2,049 735 664
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.41% 2.65% 2.03%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.88% 15.33% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,311 477 459
10th Percentile £356 £336 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -8.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £713
90th Percentile £700 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £509 £511 £550
% change year-on-year -0.44% -7.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 14 9
10th Percentile £15.39 £23.84 £21.25
25th Percentile £19.06 £31.64 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £34.43 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -8.19% +5.25%
75th Percentile £60.75 £44.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.13 £97.50
UK median hourly rate £30.27 £37.49 £36.25
% change year-on-year -19.26% +3.42% +2.65%

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 8,237 4,794 4,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.74% 17.27% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,195 3,128 2,545
10th Percentile £331 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -4.76% -2.60%
75th Percentile £607 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 584 230 216
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.09 £17.96 £15.20
Median hourly rate £33.36 £32.50 £30.56
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% +6.35% -18.51%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £63.99
90th Percentile £76.00 £82.78 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.75 £30.00 £27.09
% change year-on-year +9.17% +10.74% -23.97%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +55 1,105 £525 -2.78% 1,684
North of England +37 285 £463 +2.78% 426
Midlands +28 220 £465 -7.00% 243
South East +32 210 £500 +2.56% 388
West Midlands +23 171 £465 -11.43% 178
North West +26 146 £525 +16.67% 272
Yorkshire +24 116 £450 -10.00% 112
South West +19 109 £500 +11.11% 147
East of England +11 83 £525 -13.15% 156
East Midlands +20 48 £466 +4.14% 65
North East -22 24 £491 +12.29% 43
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
1 124 (6.05%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (4.44%) Apache Spark
3 73 (3.56%) Apache
4 61 (2.98%) Confluence
5 49 (2.39%) SAS
6 43 (2.10%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.54%) CMS
9 10 (0.49%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.098%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.098%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.049%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.049%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.049%) Luigi
14 1 (0.049%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 154 (7.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
3 15 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (0.73%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.098%) CATIA
7 1 (0.049%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.049%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.049%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.049%) Trello
7 1 (0.049%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 68 (3.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.63%) Aladdin
5 11 (0.54%) NEC Housing
6 10 (0.49%) Workday HCM
7 9 (0.44%) SAP MDG
7 9 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 8 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
9 7 (0.34%) iTrent
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.29%) Maximo
10 6 (0.29%) SAP HR
10 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.24%) Shopify
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
12 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 518 (25.28%) Azure
2 428 (20.89%) Power Platform
3 371 (18.11%) AWS
4 174 (8.49%) GCP
5 162 (7.91%) Snowflake
6 147 (7.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 138 (6.73%) dbt
8 105 (5.12%) Amazon S3
9 103 (5.03%) Serverless
10 102 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
11 88 (4.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 84 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
13 80 (3.90%) GitHub
14 64 (3.12%) Microsoft Purview
15 60 (2.93%) Collibra
16 50 (2.44%) Power Automate
17 47 (2.29%) SaaS
18 44 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
19 43 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
20 40 (1.95%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.29%) Broadband
1 6 (0.29%) SD-WAN
1 6 (0.29%) WAN
2 5 (0.24%) Firewall
2 5 (0.24%) SNMP
2 5 (0.24%) Wireless
3 3 (0.15%) HTTP
4 2 (0.098%) DNS
4 2 (0.098%) Network Security
4 2 (0.098%) SSL
5 1 (0.049%) BGP
5 1 (0.049%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.049%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.049%) LAN
5 1 (0.049%) MPLS
5 1 (0.049%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.049%) OSPF
5 1 (0.049%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.049%) VLAN
5 1 (0.049%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 402 (19.62%) Power BI
2 335 (16.35%) Metadata
3 326 (15.91%) Data Warehouse
4 172 (8.39%) Data Lake
5 114 (5.56%) Tableau
6 94 (4.59%) SQL Server
7 89 (4.34%) BigQuery
8 84 (4.10%) Delta Lake
9 82 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 79 (3.86%) Relational Database
11 65 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
12 50 (2.44%) NoSQL
13 45 (2.20%) Big Data
14 41 (2.00%) Power Query
15 40 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
16 36 (1.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 35 (1.71%) Snowflake Schema
17 35 (1.71%) Star Schema
18 33 (1.61%) Looker
19 30 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 126 (6.15%) JIRA
2 124 (6.05%) Git
3 36 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.66%) GitLab
5 11 (0.54%) ERwin
5 11 (0.54%) Selenium
6 9 (0.44%) Eclipse
6 9 (0.44%) ER Studio
6 9 (0.44%) MLflow
6 9 (0.44%) Postman
7 8 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (0.29%) Ant
8 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.24%) Newman
9 5 (0.24%) RStudio
9 5 (0.24%) Terragrunt
10 4 (0.20%) TestRail
10 4 (0.20%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 653 (31.87%) Social Skills
2 628 (30.65%) Finance
3 493 (24.06%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (11.81%) Public Sector
5 179 (8.74%) Banking
6 66 (3.22%) Retail
7 59 (2.88%) Manufacturing
8 53 (2.59%) Marketing
9 52 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
10 51 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
11 43 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
11 43 (2.10%) Local Government
11 43 (2.10%) Military
12 39 (1.90%) Legal
13 37 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (1.22%) Billing
14 25 (1.22%) Law
15 24 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (1.12%) Automotive
16 23 (1.12%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 438 (21.38%) Data Engineer
2 424 (20.69%) Analyst
3 246 (12.01%) Lead
4 244 (11.91%) Senior
5 229 (11.18%) Data Analyst
6 212 (10.35%) Architect
7 138 (6.73%) Data Architect
8 115 (5.61%) Senior Data Engineer
9 113 (5.51%) Developer
10 112 (5.47%) Business Analyst
11 81 (3.95%) Consultant
12 66 (3.22%) Administrator
13 65 (3.17%) Data Manager
14 48 (2.34%) Data Consultant
15 46 (2.24%) Data Business Analyst
16 38 (1.85%) Databricks Engineer
17 35 (1.71%) AWS Engineer
17 35 (1.71%) Lead Data Engineer
18 33 (1.61%) Python Engineer
19 32 (1.56%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (8.69%) PySpark
2 134 (6.54%) Terraform
3 75 (3.66%) Kafka
4 57 (2.78%) REST
5 44 (2.15%) JSON
6 33 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (1.22%) Great Expectations
8 24 (1.17%) XML
9 23 (1.12%) Web Services
10 21 (1.02%) Pandas
11 20 (0.98%) Middleware
11 20 (0.98%) SOAP
12 18 (0.88%) HTML
13 17 (0.83%) .NET
14 14 (0.68%) pytest
15 12 (0.59%) OpenTelemetry
16 11 (0.54%) CSS
16 11 (0.54%) OAuth
16 11 (0.54%) OpenID
17 10 (0.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 186 (9.08%) Data Structures
2 136 (6.64%) Onboarding
3 112 (5.47%) Cloud Native
4 101 (4.93%) Legacy Systems
4 101 (4.93%) Product Ownership
5 93 (4.54%) Management Information System
6 59 (2.88%) CMDB
7 48 (2.34%) Reference Data
8 43 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
9 39 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (1.85%) AI Agents
11 28 (1.37%) Taxonomies
12 27 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
15 22 (1.07%) NHS
16 21 (1.02%) Life Science
17 18 (0.88%) Algorithms
18 17 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
19 16 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.32%) Unix
2 18 (0.88%) Linux
3 12 (0.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.049%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.049%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 811 (39.58%) Data Modelling
2 744 (36.31%) Analytics
3 735 (35.87%) Data Governance
4 567 (27.67%) Data Pipeline
5 544 (26.55%) Validation
6 537 (26.21%) ETL
7 530 (25.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 514 (25.09%) Business Intelligence
9 488 (23.82%) Migration
10 469 (22.89%) Data Engineering
11 423 (20.64%) Agile
12 408 (19.91%) AI
13 397 (19.38%) Decision-Making
14 387 (18.89%) CI/CD
14 387 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
15 331 (16.15%) Continuous Improvement
16 308 (15.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 298 (14.54%) Data Architecture
18 285 (13.91%) Data Migration
19 279 (13.62%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 887 (43.29%) SQL
2 550 (26.84%) Python
3 60 (2.93%) Java
4 59 (2.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 41 (2.00%) PL/SQL
6 32 (1.56%) T-SQL
7 31 (1.51%) Scala
8 30 (1.46%) Shell Script
9 29 (1.42%) PowerShell
10 27 (1.32%) JavaScript
11 23 (1.12%) C#
12 22 (1.07%) R
13 17 (0.83%) Bash
14 12 (0.59%) Bicep
15 9 (0.44%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.39%) SOQL
16 8 (0.39%) TypeScript
16 8 (0.39%) VBA
17 6 (0.29%) Cypher
17 6 (0.29%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 325 (15.86%) Security Cleared
2 251 (12.25%) SC Cleared
3 127 (6.20%) Degree
4 49 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.46%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 27 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.22%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.07%) PMI Certification
10 21 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 18 (0.88%) PMP
12 12 (0.59%) ACCA
12 12 (0.59%) CIMA
13 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 5 (0.24%) CIPD
15 5 (0.24%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (7.32%) QA
2 123 (6.00%) GDPR
3 41 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 33 (1.61%) PMO
5 22 (1.07%) SLA
6 20 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.78%) IFRS
8 15 (0.73%) NIST
9 14 (0.68%) NCSC
10 13 (0.63%) GRC
11 12 (0.59%) Solvency II
12 11 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.39%) COREP
13 8 (0.39%) FINREP
13 8 (0.39%) IFRS 17
13 8 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.34%) Basel III
14 7 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.24%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 74 (3.61%) Docker
2 19 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.098%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.049%) etcd
4 1 (0.049%) HDFS
4 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (3.56%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.73%) Grafana
3 14 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (0.59%) Ansible
5 9 (0.44%) Control-M
6 7 (0.34%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.24%) Kibana
8 4 (0.20%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.20%) SCCM
9 1 (0.049%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.049%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.049%) Istio
9 1 (0.049%) logstash
9 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.049%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.049%) Puppet
9 1 (0.049%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.049%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 387 (18.89%) Microsoft
2 300 (14.64%) Databricks
3 163 (7.96%) SAP
4 148 (7.22%) Oracle
5 94 (4.59%) ServiceNow
6 85 (4.15%) Informatica
7 77 (3.76%) Salesforce
8 68 (3.32%) Google
9 33 (1.61%) Workday
10 28 (1.37%) Adobe
11 25 (1.22%) IBM
12 24 (1.17%) Alteryx
12 24 (1.17%) Talend
13 22 (1.07%) Splunk
14 21 (1.02%) Palantir
15 19 (0.93%) Denodo
16 16 (0.78%) Foundry
17 13 (0.63%) Bloomberg
18 12 (0.59%) Teradata
19 11 (0.54%) NEC