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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 106 115
Rank change year-on-year +42 +9 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,442 611 738
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.56% 2.51% 1.99%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.06% 15.75% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 986 420 512
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% -4.73% -
75th Percentile £590 £626 £676
90th Percentile £688 £725 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £531
% change year-on-year -2.44% -3.48% +0.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 19 30
10th Percentile £13.96 £18.22 £13.92
25th Percentile £17.48 £22.12 £15.39
Median hourly rate £35.75 £31.64 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year +12.99% +40.26% +0.32%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.73 £49.44
90th Percentile £81.93 £81.71 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £16.34
% change year-on-year +58.03% +93.69% -27.35%

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 6,847 3,879 5,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.92% 15.91% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,456 2,485 3,369
10th Percentile £340 £269 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 159 350
10th Percentile £14.05 £18.12 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.63 £13.18
Median hourly rate £30.58 £35.00 £22.42
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% +56.11% -45.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £77.88 £79.51 £67.39
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £34.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -2.22% +65.48% -44.00%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +51 797 £525 - 293
North of England +16 180 £495 +10.00% 129
Midlands +18 161 £500 +5.26% 97
West Midlands +21 127 £500 -4.76% 66
South East +12 119 £450 -12.20% 153
North West +17 105 £488 +4.84% 74
South West +21 81 £500 -4.76% 63
East of England -25 59 £581 -3.13% 45
Yorkshire -28 52 £500 +33.33% 40
East Midlands -16 35 £500 +10.38% 31
North East +3 23 £475 +13.10% 16
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
1 108 (7.49%) Apache Spark
2 74 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (3.61%) Apache
4 42 (2.91%) SAS
5 39 (2.70%) Confluence
6 38 (2.64%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.62%) Appian
8 6 (0.42%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.28%) CMS
9 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
10 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.069%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.069%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 133 (9.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
3 21 (1.46%) MS Visio
4 15 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.21%) Trello
6 1 (0.069%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 48 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.90%) Loan IQ
3 10 (0.69%) iTrent
4 9 (0.62%) NEC Housing
4 9 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.42%) Finacle
6 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.42%) SAP MDG
6 6 (0.42%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 6 (0.42%) SystmOne
7 5 (0.35%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.35%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.28%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 444 (30.79%) Azure
2 377 (26.14%) Power Platform
3 247 (17.13%) AWS
4 187 (12.97%) Azure Data Factory
5 122 (8.46%) GCP
6 113 (7.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 96 (6.66%) Azure DevOps
8 95 (6.59%) Snowflake
9 92 (6.38%) dbt
10 71 (4.92%) Amazon S3
11 66 (4.58%) GitHub
12 60 (4.16%) Collibra
13 54 (3.74%) Serverless
14 38 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
15 36 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
16 33 (2.29%) Power Automate
17 27 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
18 25 (1.73%) SaaS
19 18 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.49%) Firewall
2 5 (0.35%) VPN
3 3 (0.21%) HTTP
4 2 (0.14%) Broadband
4 2 (0.14%) DNS
4 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.14%) VoIP
5 1 (0.069%) 4G
5 1 (0.069%) 5G
5 1 (0.069%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 361 (25.03%) Power BI
2 249 (17.27%) Data Warehouse
3 205 (14.22%) Metadata
4 143 (9.92%) Data Lake
5 110 (7.63%) Tableau
6 100 (6.93%) SQL Server
7 78 (5.41%) Delta Lake
8 64 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 64 (4.44%) BigQuery
9 50 (3.47%) Relational Database
10 49 (3.40%) Big Data
10 49 (3.40%) Snowflake Schema
11 47 (3.26%) NoSQL
12 41 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
12 41 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 35 (2.43%) Amazon Athena
14 29 (2.01%) Star Schema
15 28 (1.94%) Power Query
16 27 (1.87%) OLAP
17 26 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 122 (8.46%) Git
2 108 (7.49%) JIRA
3 47 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.32%) GitLab
5 16 (1.11%) ERwin
5 16 (1.11%) MLflow
6 10 (0.69%) PowerDesigner
7 7 (0.49%) ER Studio
8 6 (0.42%) Selenium
9 5 (0.35%) LSMW
9 5 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.21%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.21%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.21%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.14%) Ant
12 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.14%) Postman
12 2 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 456 (31.62%) Social Skills
2 432 (29.96%) Finance
3 338 (23.44%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (11.17%) Public Sector
5 119 (8.25%) Banking
6 42 (2.91%) Marketing
7 37 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (2.50%) Retail
9 30 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (2.08%) Legal
10 27 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (1.73%) Local Government
12 22 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (1.46%) Military
14 19 (1.32%) Law
14 19 (1.32%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.18%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (0.97%) Investment Banking
17 13 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 387 (26.84%) Data Engineer
2 300 (20.80%) Analyst
3 178 (12.34%) Data Analyst
4 170 (11.79%) Senior
5 137 (9.50%) Lead
6 120 (8.32%) Architect
7 89 (6.17%) Business Analyst
8 76 (5.27%) Developer
9 72 (4.99%) Data Architect
9 72 (4.99%) Senior Data Engineer
10 47 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
10 47 (3.26%) Consultant
10 47 (3.26%) Data Manager
11 42 (2.91%) Azure Data Engineer
12 35 (2.43%) Data Business Analyst
13 29 (2.01%) Project Manager
14 28 (1.94%) Data Migration Lead
15 24 (1.66%) Data Scientist
15 24 (1.66%) Senior Analyst
16 22 (1.53%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (9.15%) PySpark
2 100 (6.93%) Kafka
3 46 (3.19%) Pandas
4 42 (2.91%) REST
5 31 (2.15%) Great Expectations
6 30 (2.08%) JSON
7 24 (1.66%) scikit-learn
8 19 (1.32%) NumPy
8 19 (1.32%) Web Services
9 16 (1.11%) PyTorch
10 15 (1.04%) Middleware
11 14 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
12 13 (0.90%) TensorFlow
13 12 (0.83%) OAuth
13 12 (0.83%) pytest
13 12 (0.83%) YAML
14 11 (0.76%) Flask
14 11 (0.76%) GeoJSON
14 11 (0.76%) SOAP
14 11 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.32%) Data Structures
2 101 (7.00%) Legacy Systems
3 77 (5.34%) Cloud Native
4 67 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 63 (4.37%) Management Information System
6 57 (3.95%) Product Ownership
7 43 (2.98%) CMDB
8 29 (2.01%) Reference Data
9 26 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
12 19 (1.32%) Clustering
13 18 (1.25%) NHS
14 17 (1.18%) AI Agents
15 16 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
16 15 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
17 13 (0.90%) Taxonomies
18 12 (0.83%) Fixed Income
19 11 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
20 10 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 10 (0.69%) Linux
1 10 (0.69%) Windows
2 9 (0.62%) Unix
3 1 (0.069%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 631 (43.76%) Data Modelling
2 545 (37.79%) Analytics
3 493 (34.19%) Data Governance
4 474 (32.87%) ETL
5 451 (31.28%) Business Intelligence
6 430 (29.82%) Data Pipeline
7 329 (22.82%) Agile
8 328 (22.75%) Data Engineering
8 328 (22.75%) Validation
9 323 (22.40%) Migration
10 300 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
11 284 (19.69%) Decision-Making
12 270 (18.72%) CI/CD
13 228 (15.81%) AI
14 219 (15.19%) Data Architecture
15 215 (14.91%) Data Migration
16 210 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
17 197 (13.66%) DevOps
18 196 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
19 189 (13.11%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 717 (49.72%) SQL
2 438 (30.37%) Python
3 57 (3.95%) Scala
4 49 (3.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 42 (2.91%) Java
6 37 (2.57%) T-SQL
7 30 (2.08%) PL/SQL
8 23 (1.60%) C#
9 22 (1.53%) R
10 19 (1.32%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.18%) VBA
12 14 (0.97%) Bicep
13 13 (0.90%) JavaScript
14 10 (0.69%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.49%) Bash
16 6 (0.42%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.35%) TypeScript
18 4 (0.28%) ABAP
18 4 (0.28%) Korn
18 4 (0.28%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 266 (18.45%) Security Cleared
2 203 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 82 (5.69%) Degree
4 49 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (1.46%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (0.83%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.76%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.55%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.35%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.28%) ACCA
11 4 (0.28%) CIMA
11 4 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.28%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.28%) PhD
11 4 (0.28%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.21%) PMP
13 2 (0.14%) CFA
13 2 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (8.25%) GDPR
2 89 (6.17%) QA
3 32 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.73%) PMO
5 17 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.11%) SLA
7 12 (0.83%) Solvency II
8 10 (0.69%) FINREP
9 9 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.62%) IFRS
10 8 (0.55%) COREP
11 7 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.42%) Basel III
12 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.42%) NIST
13 5 (0.35%) MiFID
14 4 (0.28%) BS7666
14 4 (0.28%) GRC
15 3 (0.21%) IFRS 9
16 2 (0.14%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 70 (4.85%) Docker
2 6 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.35%) etcd
4 1 (0.069%) HDFS
4 1 (0.069%) RACF
4 1 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 104 (7.21%) Terraform
2 78 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.76%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.69%) Grafana
5 8 (0.55%) Ansible
6 6 (0.42%) Kibana
7 5 (0.35%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.35%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.28%) SCCM
9 3 (0.21%) logstash
9 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.069%) Control-M
10 1 (0.069%) Istio
10 1 (0.069%) Nessus
10 1 (0.069%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 258 (17.89%) Databricks
2 237 (16.44%) Microsoft
3 116 (8.04%) SAP
4 102 (7.07%) Oracle
5 70 (4.85%) Salesforce
6 66 (4.58%) Informatica
7 60 (4.16%) ServiceNow
8 52 (3.61%) Google
9 41 (2.84%) Talend
10 27 (1.87%) Denodo
11 17 (1.18%) Workday
12 15 (1.04%) IBM
13 14 (0.97%) GoldenSource
14 12 (0.83%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.76%) Avaloq
16 10 (0.69%) NEC
17 9 (0.62%) Adobe
17 9 (0.62%) Automation Anywhere
17 9 (0.62%) ESRI
18 8 (0.55%) UiPath