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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 109 106
Rank change year-on-year +58 -3 +52
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,676 630 772
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.86% 2.50% 2.07%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.68% 15.18% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 398 539
10th Percentile £350 £348 £360
25th Percentile £413 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £729 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -2.72% -6.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 22 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.52 £13.28
25th Percentile £17.23 £23.69 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% +51.52% -6.60%
75th Percentile £60.75 £35.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.21 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.82 £15.79
% change year-on-year +25.71% +101.52% -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 7,389 4,151 5,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.02% 16.47% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,767 2,682 3,175
10th Percentile £350 £270 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £709 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 491 176 380
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £11.00
25th Percentile £19.27 £21.81 £13.14
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £24.09
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% +34.91% -39.17%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £51.94
90th Percentile £82.25 £84.33 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £23.80
% change year-on-year +14.00% +32.94% -36.53%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +70 904 £520 -5.45% 280
Midlands +29 202 £500 +8.11% 87
North of England +13 202 £475 +5.56% 109
West Midlands +33 166 £500 +7.53% 51
South East +26 158 £471 -5.80% 166
North West +9 123 £475 +4.40% 62
South West +18 91 £500 +17.65% 36
East of England -7 74 £575 -4.49% 42
Yorkshire -24 54 £484 +20.94% 35
East Midlands +11 36 £475 +3.09% 36
North East -9 25 £475 -22.45% 12
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 90 (5.37%) Apache Spark
2 89 (5.31%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (3.16%) Apache
4 49 (2.92%) Confluence
4 49 (2.92%) SAS
5 36 (2.15%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.48%) Appian
7 8 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.42%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.24%) CMS
10 3 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.060%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.060%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.060%) Mendix
12 1 (0.060%) Smallworld
Applications
1 120 (7.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.95%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) CATIA
7 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 50 (2.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.78%) NEC Housing
3 12 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.54%) iTrent
5 9 (0.54%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.42%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.30%) Finacle
8 5 (0.30%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.24%) SAP PM
10 3 (0.18%) Actimize
10 3 (0.18%) Maximo
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 472 (28.16%) Azure
2 400 (23.87%) Power Platform
3 299 (17.84%) AWS
4 163 (9.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 129 (7.70%) GCP
6 120 (7.16%) Snowflake
7 118 (7.04%) dbt
8 105 (6.26%) Azure DevOps
9 101 (6.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 91 (5.43%) Amazon S3
11 81 (4.83%) Serverless
12 73 (4.36%) GitHub
13 66 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
14 54 (3.22%) Collibra
15 39 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
16 37 (2.21%) Power Automate
17 35 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
18 32 (1.91%) SaaS
19 22 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
20 21 (1.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.48%) Firewall
2 5 (0.30%) VPN
3 2 (0.12%) HTTP
4 1 (0.060%) 4G
4 1 (0.060%) 5G
4 1 (0.060%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.060%) DNS
4 1 (0.060%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.060%) SNMP
4 1 (0.060%) SSH
4 1 (0.060%) WAN
4 1 (0.060%) Wireless
4 1 (0.060%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 382 (22.79%) Power BI
2 266 (15.87%) Data Warehouse
3 213 (12.71%) Metadata
4 162 (9.67%) Data Lake
5 106 (6.32%) Tableau
6 96 (5.73%) SQL Server
7 78 (4.65%) Delta Lake
8 72 (4.30%) BigQuery
9 68 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 60 (3.58%) Relational Database
11 54 (3.22%) Amazon Athena
12 48 (2.86%) Big Data
13 47 (2.80%) Snowflake Schema
14 40 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
15 36 (2.15%) Power Query
16 34 (2.03%) NoSQL
16 34 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 33 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
18 26 (1.55%) Star Schema
19 25 (1.49%) Looker
Development Applications
1 118 (7.04%) JIRA
2 113 (6.74%) Git
3 44 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.97%) GitLab
5 18 (1.07%) ERwin
6 13 (0.78%) MLflow
7 9 (0.54%) Eclipse
8 8 (0.48%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.48%) Postman
8 8 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.42%) Selenium
9 7 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.36%) Ant
11 5 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.24%) LSMW
12 4 (0.24%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.24%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.18%) Newman
13 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) Terragrunt
General
1 515 (30.73%) Finance
2 496 (29.59%) Social Skills
3 387 (23.09%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (10.98%) Public Sector
5 135 (8.05%) Banking
6 46 (2.74%) Marketing
7 45 (2.68%) Retail
8 39 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
9 38 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
10 35 (2.09%) Manufacturing
11 33 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 28 (1.67%) Local Government
13 27 (1.61%) Legal
14 26 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.13%) Military
16 18 (1.07%) Law
17 17 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
18 15 (0.89%) Publishing
19 14 (0.84%) Financial Institution
20 13 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 408 (24.34%) Data Engineer
2 347 (20.70%) Analyst
3 201 (11.99%) Data Analyst
4 197 (11.75%) Senior
5 179 (10.68%) Lead
6 144 (8.59%) Architect
7 88 (5.25%) Data Architect
8 87 (5.19%) Business Analyst
8 87 (5.19%) Developer
9 82 (4.89%) Senior Data Engineer
10 54 (3.22%) Consultant
10 54 (3.22%) Data Manager
11 42 (2.51%) Administrator
12 34 (2.03%) Data Business Analyst
13 32 (1.91%) Project Manager
14 31 (1.85%) Data Scientist
15 30 (1.79%) Data Migration Lead
16 29 (1.73%) Azure Engineer
17 28 (1.67%) Lead Data Engineer
18 27 (1.61%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (8.00%) PySpark
2 89 (5.31%) Kafka
3 46 (2.74%) Pandas
4 45 (2.68%) REST
5 38 (2.27%) JSON
6 28 (1.67%) Great Expectations
7 24 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
8 23 (1.37%) scikit-learn
9 22 (1.31%) Web Services
10 19 (1.13%) XML
11 17 (1.01%) Middleware
12 16 (0.95%) NumPy
13 14 (0.84%) pytest
13 14 (0.84%) SOAP
14 13 (0.78%) GeoJSON
14 13 (0.78%) PyTorch
15 12 (0.72%) HTML
16 11 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
17 10 (0.60%) OAuth
17 10 (0.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 130 (7.76%) Data Structures
2 108 (6.44%) Legacy Systems
3 92 (5.49%) Onboarding
4 81 (4.83%) Cloud Native
5 64 (3.82%) Management Information System
6 63 (3.76%) Product Ownership
7 54 (3.22%) CMDB
8 33 (1.97%) Reference Data
9 31 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
11 27 (1.61%) AI Agents
12 24 (1.43%) Taxonomies
13 23 (1.37%) NHS
14 22 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
15 21 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
16 18 (1.07%) Clustering
17 14 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
18 13 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
18 13 (0.78%) Life Science
19 12 (0.72%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.66%) Unix
1 11 (0.66%) Windows
2 9 (0.54%) Linux
3 1 (0.060%) VMS
3 1 (0.060%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 679 (40.51%) Data Modelling
2 622 (37.11%) Analytics
3 530 (31.62%) Data Governance
4 492 (29.36%) ETL
5 478 (28.52%) Data Pipeline
6 477 (28.46%) Business Intelligence
7 399 (23.81%) Validation
8 387 (23.09%) Migration
9 373 (22.26%) Data Engineering
10 352 (21.00%) Agile
11 322 (19.21%) Decision-Making
12 320 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
13 312 (18.62%) CI/CD
14 301 (17.96%) AI
15 283 (16.89%) Stakeholder Management
16 249 (14.86%) Data Migration
17 236 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
18 233 (13.90%) Data Architecture
19 232 (13.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 224 (13.37%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 764 (45.58%) SQL
2 472 (28.16%) Python
3 55 (3.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 51 (3.04%) Java
5 40 (2.39%) Scala
5 40 (2.39%) T-SQL
6 33 (1.97%) PL/SQL
7 28 (1.67%) PowerShell
8 18 (1.07%) VBA
9 17 (1.01%) C#
10 12 (0.72%) Bicep
10 12 (0.72%) JavaScript
10 12 (0.72%) R
10 12 (0.72%) Shell Script
11 10 (0.60%) Bash
12 9 (0.54%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.48%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.42%) SOQL
15 6 (0.36%) SOSL
16 5 (0.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 286 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 223 (13.31%) SC Cleared
3 99 (5.91%) Degree
4 62 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (1.55%) Azure Certification
6 22 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (0.95%) AWS Certification
8 15 (0.89%) Master's Degree
9 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.60%) PMI Certification
11 9 (0.54%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.42%) ACCA
12 7 (0.42%) CIMA
12 7 (0.42%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.36%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.36%) PMP
14 5 (0.30%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.30%) PhD
14 5 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (8.53%) GDPR
2 103 (6.15%) QA
3 33 (1.97%) PMO
4 27 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.01%) Solvency II
7 16 (0.95%) SLA
8 11 (0.66%) IFRS
8 11 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.48%) COREP
9 8 (0.48%) FINREP
9 8 (0.48%) GRC
10 7 (0.42%) NIST
11 5 (0.30%) NCSC
12 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.24%) BS7666
12 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.24%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 69 (4.12%) Docker
2 10 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.30%) etcd
4 1 (0.060%) HDFS
4 1 (0.060%) RACF
4 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.060%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 124 (7.40%) Terraform
2 72 (4.30%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.78%) Grafana
4 11 (0.66%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.48%) Ansible
6 6 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.30%) Fluentd
7 5 (0.30%) SCCM
8 4 (0.24%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.24%) Kibana
9 1 (0.060%) Control-M
9 1 (0.060%) Istio
9 1 (0.060%) logstash
9 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.060%) Nessus
9 1 (0.060%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.060%) Puppet
9 1 (0.060%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 274 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 257 (15.33%) Databricks
3 123 (7.34%) Oracle
4 122 (7.28%) SAP
5 78 (4.65%) Salesforce
6 74 (4.42%) ServiceNow
7 71 (4.24%) Informatica
8 41 (2.45%) Google
9 34 (2.03%) Talend
10 23 (1.37%) Denodo
11 19 (1.13%) IBM
11 19 (1.13%) Palantir
12 16 (0.95%) Workday
13 14 (0.84%) Adobe
13 14 (0.84%) GoldenSource
13 14 (0.84%) NEC
13 14 (0.84%) OpenAI
14 13 (0.78%) Foundry
15 12 (0.72%) Alteryx
16 10 (0.60%) Splunk