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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 109 108
Rank change year-on-year +55 -1 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,638 618 763
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.81% 2.49% 2.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.50% 15.21% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,074 392 533
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £638 £688
90th Percentile £675 £725 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £519 £550
% change year-on-year -3.66% -5.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 20 26
10th Percentile £13.98 £18.22 £13.07
25th Percentile £17.23 £23.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £31.50 £31.64 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +67.14% -15.81%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.99 £42.50
90th Percentile £79.40 £78.83 £52.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £15.79
% change year-on-year +26.42% +100.38% -29.78%

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 7,279 4,062 5,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.93% 16.37% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,708 2,614 3,197
10th Percentile £345 £269 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -4.71% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% -3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 176 387
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.14 £12.84
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.66 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% +36.06% -43.53%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.75 £49.38
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £31.76 £23.30
% change year-on-year +13.35% +36.34% -37.88%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +71 899 £520 -5.45% 283
North of England +9 195 £478 +6.11% 112
Midlands +29 191 £500 +8.11% 76
West Midlands +33 155 £500 +7.53% 50
South East +21 147 £467 -6.65% 163
North West +14 117 £475 +5.56% 67
South West +29 91 £500 +17.65% 55
East of England -10 70 £575 -4.80% 40
Yorkshire -38 52 £498 +24.38% 32
East Midlands -3 36 £475 +3.09% 26
North East -13 26 £475 -22.45% 14
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 89 (5.43%) Apache Spark
2 87 (5.31%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (3.17%) Confluence
4 49 (2.99%) Apache
5 48 (2.93%) SAS
6 36 (2.20%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.61%) Appian
8 8 (0.49%) ArcGIS
8 8 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.24%) CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.12%) Smallworld
13 1 (0.061%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.061%) Mendix
Applications
1 122 (7.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
4 17 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.92%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
7 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) CATIA
9 1 (0.061%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.061%) Trello
Business Applications
1 45 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.79%) NEC Housing
3 10 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.61%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.55%) iTrent
4 9 (0.55%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.43%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.37%) Finacle
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.31%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.31%) SystmOne
8 4 (0.24%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.18%) Actimize
9 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 470 (28.69%) Azure
2 395 (24.11%) Power Platform
3 293 (17.89%) AWS
4 169 (10.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 126 (7.69%) GCP
6 116 (7.08%) dbt
6 116 (7.08%) Snowflake
7 108 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
8 103 (6.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 90 (5.49%) Amazon S3
10 81 (4.95%) Serverless
11 77 (4.70%) GitHub
12 64 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (3.24%) Collibra
14 37 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (2.26%) Power Automate
15 36 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
16 31 (1.89%) SaaS
17 22 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
17 22 (1.34%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.43%) Firewall
2 5 (0.31%) VPN
3 2 (0.12%) HTTP
4 1 (0.061%) 4G
4 1 (0.061%) 5G
4 1 (0.061%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 378 (23.08%) Power BI
2 262 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
3 211 (12.88%) Metadata
4 166 (10.13%) Data Lake
5 105 (6.41%) Tableau
6 103 (6.29%) SQL Server
7 79 (4.82%) Delta Lake
8 68 (4.15%) BigQuery
9 66 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 58 (3.54%) Relational Database
11 52 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
12 50 (3.05%) Big Data
13 47 (2.87%) Snowflake Schema
14 44 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
15 37 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 35 (2.14%) NoSQL
16 35 (2.14%) Power Query
17 33 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
18 26 (1.59%) Star Schema
19 23 (1.40%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 120 (7.33%) JIRA
2 113 (6.90%) Git
3 44 (2.69%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.95%) GitLab
5 18 (1.10%) ERwin
6 15 (0.92%) MLflow
7 8 (0.49%) ER Studio
7 8 (0.49%) Postman
7 8 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.43%) Eclipse
8 7 (0.43%) Selenium
8 7 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.37%) Ant
10 5 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.24%) LSMW
11 4 (0.24%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.24%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.18%) Newman
12 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 506 (30.89%) Finance
2 480 (29.30%) Social Skills
3 372 (22.71%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 134 (8.18%) Banking
6 44 (2.69%) Marketing
7 41 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 40 (2.44%) Retail
9 36 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 27 (1.65%) Local Government
13 25 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (1.53%) Legal
14 19 (1.16%) Military
15 18 (1.10%) Law
16 16 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.85%) Financial Institution
17 14 (0.85%) Publishing
18 13 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 411 (25.09%) Data Engineer
2 336 (20.51%) Analyst
3 198 (12.09%) Data Analyst
4 189 (11.54%) Senior
5 168 (10.26%) Lead
6 137 (8.36%) Architect
7 85 (5.19%) Senior Data Engineer
8 83 (5.07%) Data Architect
8 83 (5.07%) Developer
9 82 (5.01%) Business Analyst
10 55 (3.36%) Consultant
11 51 (3.11%) Data Manager
12 40 (2.44%) Administrator
13 31 (1.89%) Data Business Analyst
13 31 (1.89%) Data Migration Lead
13 31 (1.89%) Project Manager
14 30 (1.83%) Azure Engineer
15 28 (1.71%) AWS Engineer
15 28 (1.71%) Data Scientist
16 27 (1.65%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (8.00%) PySpark
2 88 (5.37%) Kafka
3 52 (3.17%) Pandas
4 50 (3.05%) REST
5 35 (2.14%) JSON
6 29 (1.77%) Great Expectations
7 25 (1.53%) scikit-learn
8 23 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
8 23 (1.40%) Web Services
9 20 (1.22%) NumPy
10 18 (1.10%) XML
11 17 (1.04%) Middleware
12 16 (0.98%) pytest
13 15 (0.92%) PyTorch
14 14 (0.85%) SOAP
15 13 (0.79%) GeoJSON
15 13 (0.79%) HTML
16 12 (0.73%) OAuth
16 12 (0.73%) TensorFlow
17 11 (0.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 128 (7.81%) Data Structures
2 111 (6.78%) Legacy Systems
3 87 (5.31%) Onboarding
4 81 (4.95%) Cloud Native
5 65 (3.97%) Product Ownership
6 62 (3.79%) Management Information System
7 51 (3.11%) CMDB
8 34 (2.08%) Reference Data
9 29 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 26 (1.59%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.22%) NHS
13 20 (1.22%) Taxonomies
14 19 (1.16%) Clustering
15 14 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (0.79%) Life Science
17 12 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
17 12 (0.73%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.67%) Unix
1 11 (0.67%) Windows
2 9 (0.55%) Linux
3 1 (0.061%) VMS
3 1 (0.061%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (41.39%) Data Modelling
2 610 (37.24%) Analytics
3 514 (31.38%) Data Governance
4 494 (30.16%) ETL
5 470 (28.69%) Business Intelligence
6 469 (28.63%) Data Pipeline
7 389 (23.75%) Validation
8 376 (22.95%) Migration
9 362 (22.10%) Data Engineering
10 334 (20.39%) Agile
11 317 (19.35%) Decision-Making
12 309 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
13 307 (18.74%) CI/CD
14 296 (18.07%) AI
15 264 (16.12%) Stakeholder Management
16 245 (14.96%) Data Migration
17 228 (13.92%) Data Architecture
18 226 (13.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 225 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
20 218 (13.31%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 769 (46.95%) SQL
2 469 (28.63%) Python
3 52 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 50 (3.05%) Java
5 40 (2.44%) Scala
5 40 (2.44%) T-SQL
6 35 (2.14%) PL/SQL
7 27 (1.65%) PowerShell
8 18 (1.10%) VBA
9 17 (1.04%) C#
10 15 (0.92%) Bicep
11 13 (0.79%) R
12 11 (0.67%) JavaScript
12 11 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.55%) Apex Code
13 9 (0.55%) Bash
14 8 (0.49%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.43%) SOQL
16 6 (0.37%) SOSL
17 5 (0.31%) Korn
Qualifications
1 282 (17.22%) Security Cleared
2 221 (13.49%) SC Cleared
3 92 (5.62%) Degree
4 62 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (0.92%) AWS Certification
8 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (0.79%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.55%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.49%) ACCA
11 8 (0.49%) CIMA
11 8 (0.49%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.37%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.37%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.31%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 4 (0.24%) PhD
14 4 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (8.49%) GDPR
2 103 (6.29%) QA
3 33 (2.01%) PMO
4 26 (1.59%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.10%) SLA
7 16 (0.98%) Solvency II
8 11 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.61%) IFRS
10 8 (0.49%) COREP
10 8 (0.49%) FINREP
11 7 (0.43%) GRC
11 7 (0.43%) NIST
12 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.24%) BS7666
12 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 68 (4.15%) Docker
2 10 (0.61%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.31%) etcd
4 1 (0.061%) HDFS
4 1 (0.061%) RACF
4 1 (0.061%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 123 (7.51%) Terraform
2 71 (4.33%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.67%) Grafana
4 10 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.49%) Ansible
6 6 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.31%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.31%) SCCM
8 4 (0.24%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.24%) Kibana
9 1 (0.061%) Control-M
9 1 (0.061%) Istio
9 1 (0.061%) logstash
9 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.061%) Nessus
9 1 (0.061%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.061%) Puppet
9 1 (0.061%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.061%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 268 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 254 (15.51%) Databricks
3 125 (7.63%) Oracle
4 118 (7.20%) SAP
5 78 (4.76%) Salesforce
6 73 (4.46%) ServiceNow
7 67 (4.09%) Informatica
8 41 (2.50%) Google
9 33 (2.01%) Talend
10 23 (1.40%) Denodo
11 20 (1.22%) IBM
12 17 (1.04%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.04%) Workday
13 15 (0.92%) Adobe
13 15 (0.92%) GoldenSource
14 14 (0.85%) NEC
14 14 (0.85%) Palantir
15 11 (0.67%) Avaloq
15 11 (0.67%) ESRI
15 11 (0.67%) Foundry