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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 100 113
Rank change year-on-year +51 +13 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,932 720 679
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.23% 2.61% 2.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.12% 15.20% 15.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,249 467 474
10th Percentile £350 £341 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £713
90th Percentile £689 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 18 9
10th Percentile £16.23 £20.18 £21.10
25th Percentile £21.13 £27.24 £24.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.56 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% -35.53% +15.75%
75th Percentile £61.50 £44.37 £51.75
90th Percentile £75.75 £61.24 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £33.11 £24.00
% change year-on-year +20.81% +37.96% -44.99%

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 8,009 4,738 4,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.53% 17.20% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,085 3,095 2,705
10th Percentile £338 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 230 255
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £17.57 £18.59 £13.26
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +18.59% -24.85%
75th Percentile £69.87 £64.69 £62.83
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £29.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +22.27% +18.00% -28.57%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +58 1,026 £525 - 767
North of England +35 259 £463 +2.78% 224
Midlands +28 222 £470 -5.24% 113
South East +28 205 £500 +2.56% 140
West Midlands +31 175 £470 -9.35% 80
North West +18 142 £500 +5.26% 134
Yorkshire +25 98 £450 +2.86% 58
South West +11 95 £500 +17.65% 104
East of England +21 90 £565 -4.24% 74
East Midlands +7 46 £466 +3.79% 33
North East -24 20 £520 +18.86% 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
1 114 (5.90%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (4.87%) Apache Spark
3 71 (3.67%) Apache
4 54 (2.80%) Confluence
5 47 (2.43%) SAS
6 43 (2.23%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.57%) CMS
9 10 (0.52%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.10%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.10%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.052%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.052%) GeoServer
14 1 (0.052%) Luigi
14 1 (0.052%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 143 (7.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
3 19 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.78%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.10%) CATIA
9 1 (0.052%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.052%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.052%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 68 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.67%) Aladdin
3 13 (0.67%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.52%) NEC Housing
5 9 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 8 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.36%) iTrent
7 7 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.36%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.26%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.26%) Maximo
8 5 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.26%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.21%) Loan IQ
9 4 (0.21%) Shopify
9 4 (0.21%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 512 (26.50%) Azure
2 419 (21.69%) Power Platform
3 346 (17.91%) AWS
4 157 (8.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 153 (7.92%) Snowflake
6 149 (7.71%) GCP
7 126 (6.52%) dbt
8 110 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
9 94 (4.87%) Serverless
10 93 (4.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 92 (4.76%) Amazon S3
12 78 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
13 74 (3.83%) GitHub
14 55 (2.85%) Collibra
14 55 (2.85%) Microsoft Purview
15 45 (2.33%) SaaS
16 43 (2.23%) Power Automate
17 42 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
18 35 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
19 32 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.47%) Firewall
2 5 (0.26%) VPN
3 3 (0.16%) HTTP
4 2 (0.10%) Broadband
4 2 (0.10%) DNS
4 2 (0.10%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.10%) SNMP
4 2 (0.10%) SSL
4 2 (0.10%) WAN
4 2 (0.10%) Wireless
5 1 (0.052%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.052%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.052%) Network Security
5 1 (0.052%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.052%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 397 (20.55%) Power BI
2 323 (16.72%) Data Warehouse
3 293 (15.17%) Metadata
4 168 (8.70%) Data Lake
5 117 (6.06%) Tableau
6 97 (5.02%) SQL Server
7 84 (4.35%) Delta Lake
8 83 (4.30%) BigQuery
9 80 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
10 76 (3.93%) Relational Database
11 54 (2.80%) Amazon Athena
12 52 (2.69%) Big Data
13 49 (2.54%) NoSQL
14 41 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
15 37 (1.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 37 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
16 35 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 35 (1.81%) Star Schema
17 34 (1.76%) Looker
18 30 (1.55%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 118 (6.11%) JIRA
2 102 (5.28%) Git
3 39 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.76%) GitLab
5 16 (0.83%) ERwin
6 11 (0.57%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.52%) MLflow
7 10 (0.52%) Selenium
8 9 (0.47%) Eclipse
9 8 (0.41%) Postman
10 7 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.31%) Ant
11 6 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.26%) Newman
12 5 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
13 4 (0.21%) RStudio
13 4 (0.21%) Terragrunt
13 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.21%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 603 (31.21%) Social Skills
2 583 (30.18%) Finance
3 456 (23.60%) Analytical Skills
4 231 (11.96%) Public Sector
5 157 (8.13%) Banking
6 61 (3.16%) Retail
7 54 (2.80%) Marketing
8 50 (2.59%) Manufacturing
9 49 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
10 45 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
11 41 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
12 40 (2.07%) Local Government
13 36 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 32 (1.66%) Legal
14 32 (1.66%) Military
15 27 (1.40%) Law
16 24 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
17 21 (1.09%) Automotive
18 19 (0.98%) Front Office
19 18 (0.93%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 423 (21.89%) Data Engineer
2 403 (20.86%) Analyst
3 225 (11.65%) Lead
3 225 (11.65%) Senior
4 221 (11.44%) Data Analyst
5 198 (10.25%) Architect
6 130 (6.73%) Data Architect
7 108 (5.59%) Business Analyst
8 101 (5.23%) Developer
9 100 (5.18%) Senior Data Engineer
10 76 (3.93%) Consultant
11 60 (3.11%) Administrator
11 60 (3.11%) Data Manager
12 42 (2.17%) Data Consultant
13 41 (2.12%) Data Business Analyst
14 36 (1.86%) Lead Data Engineer
15 35 (1.81%) Python Engineer
16 32 (1.66%) Azure Engineer
17 30 (1.55%) AWS Engineer
17 30 (1.55%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (8.80%) PySpark
2 125 (6.47%) Terraform
3 88 (4.55%) Kafka
4 53 (2.74%) REST
5 43 (2.23%) JSON
6 30 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
7 28 (1.45%) Pandas
8 26 (1.35%) Great Expectations
9 21 (1.09%) Web Services
10 20 (1.04%) XML
11 19 (0.98%) Middleware
12 16 (0.83%) HTML
13 14 (0.72%) .NET
13 14 (0.72%) SOAP
14 12 (0.62%) OpenTelemetry
14 12 (0.62%) pytest
15 10 (0.52%) SailPoint
15 10 (0.52%) SAML
16 9 (0.47%) CSS
16 9 (0.47%) React
Miscellaneous
1 166 (8.59%) Data Structures
2 120 (6.21%) Onboarding
3 102 (5.28%) Cloud Native
4 101 (5.23%) Legacy Systems
5 93 (4.81%) Product Ownership
6 81 (4.19%) Management Information System
7 60 (3.11%) CMDB
8 48 (2.48%) Reference Data
9 37 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (1.45%) AI Agents
11 27 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
12 26 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (1.29%) Taxonomies
14 23 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
15 21 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
15 21 (1.09%) NHS
16 17 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
16 17 (0.88%) Life Science
17 16 (0.83%) SCADA
18 15 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.24%) Unix
2 20 (1.04%) Linux
3 13 (0.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.052%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 761 (39.39%) Data Modelling
2 683 (35.35%) Analytics
3 681 (35.25%) Data Governance
4 542 (28.05%) Data Pipeline
5 530 (27.43%) ETL
6 504 (26.09%) Validation
7 499 (25.83%) Business Intelligence
8 470 (24.33%) Migration
9 428 (22.15%) Stakeholder Management
10 427 (22.10%) Data Engineering
11 399 (20.65%) Agile
12 369 (19.10%) Decision-Making
13 359 (18.58%) CI/CD
14 356 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
15 345 (17.86%) AI
16 297 (15.37%) Continuous Improvement
17 286 (14.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 285 (14.75%) Data Migration
19 278 (14.39%) Data Architecture
20 266 (13.77%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 837 (43.32%) SQL
2 516 (26.71%) Python
3 63 (3.26%) Java
4 55 (2.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 39 (2.02%) PL/SQL
6 34 (1.76%) Scala
6 34 (1.76%) T-SQL
7 33 (1.71%) PowerShell
8 28 (1.45%) Shell Script
9 24 (1.24%) JavaScript
10 20 (1.04%) C#
11 18 (0.93%) R
12 13 (0.67%) Bash
13 12 (0.62%) Bicep
14 11 (0.57%) VBA
15 9 (0.47%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.41%) SOQL
17 7 (0.36%) TypeScript
18 6 (0.31%) Go
18 6 (0.31%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 318 (16.46%) Security Cleared
2 242 (12.53%) SC Cleared
3 118 (6.11%) Degree
4 49 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (1.24%) AWS Certification
7 24 (1.24%) DV Cleared
8 19 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (0.83%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.72%) PMI Certification
11 9 (0.47%) ACCA
11 9 (0.47%) CIMA
11 9 (0.47%) PMP
12 8 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.31%) SnowPro
14 5 (0.26%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (7.45%) QA
2 134 (6.94%) GDPR
3 36 (1.86%) Accessibility
4 31 (1.60%) PMO
5 24 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.09%) SLA
7 15 (0.78%) NIST
8 14 (0.72%) GRC
8 14 (0.72%) IFRS
9 13 (0.67%) Solvency II
10 12 (0.62%) NCSC
11 9 (0.47%) COREP
11 9 (0.47%) FINREP
11 9 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 5 (0.26%) IFRS 17
14 5 (0.26%) IFRS 9
15 4 (0.21%) BS7666
System Software
1 74 (3.83%) Docker
2 20 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.26%) etcd
4 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.052%) RACF
5 1 (0.052%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.67%) Grafana
3 11 (0.57%) Ansible
3 11 (0.57%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.41%) Control-M
6 5 (0.26%) Fluentd
6 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.21%) SCCM
8 3 (0.16%) Kibana
9 1 (0.052%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.052%) Istio
9 1 (0.052%) logstash
9 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.052%) Nessus
9 1 (0.052%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.052%) Puppet
9 1 (0.052%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.052%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 340 (17.60%) Microsoft
2 289 (14.96%) Databricks
3 164 (8.49%) SAP
4 137 (7.09%) Oracle
5 87 (4.50%) ServiceNow
6 85 (4.40%) Informatica
7 71 (3.67%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.90%) Google
9 30 (1.55%) Workday
10 26 (1.35%) Talend
11 25 (1.29%) IBM
12 24 (1.24%) Adobe
13 22 (1.14%) Alteryx
14 21 (1.09%) Palantir
15 19 (0.98%) Splunk
16 18 (0.93%) Denodo
17 17 (0.88%) Foundry
18 11 (0.57%) Bloomberg
18 11 (0.57%) ESRI
18 11 (0.57%) NEC