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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 112 106
Rank change year-on-year +58 -6 +58
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,656 619 764
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.83% 2.48% 2.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.57% 15.08% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,088 391 534
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £638 £694
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 60 20 26
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.22 £13.07
25th Percentile £17.62 £23.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +67.14% -15.81%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.99 £42.50
90th Percentile £77.98 £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 7,338 4,105 5,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.97% 16.46% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,753 2,647 3,179
10th Percentile £348 £268 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £704 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.77% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 176 386
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £19.33 £22.14 £12.84
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.66 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% +37.21% -43.02%
75th Percentile £67.84 £67.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £84.33 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £31.76 £23.05
% change year-on-year +13.57% +37.82% -38.55%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +62 902 £520 -5.45% 232
North of England +11 199 £475 +5.56% 90
Midlands +30 197 £495 +6.99% 79
West Midlands +29 161 £495 +6.41% 49
South East +17 149 £471 -5.80% 158
North West +15 120 £475 +5.56% 54
South West +19 91 £500 +17.65% 37
East of England -8 72 £575 -4.80% 37
Yorkshire -31 53 £488 +21.88% 26
East Midlands +2 36 £475 +3.09% 30
North East -13 26 £475 -22.45% 11
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 91 (5.50%) Apache Spark
2 89 (5.37%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (3.14%) Apache
3 52 (3.14%) Confluence
4 49 (2.96%) SAS
5 37 (2.23%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.54%) Appian
6 9 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.48%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.24%) CMS
10 3 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.12%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.060%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.060%) Mendix
Applications
1 121 (7.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
4 17 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.91%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
7 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) CATIA
9 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (2.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.79%) NEC Housing
3 11 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.54%) iTrent
4 9 (0.54%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.42%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.36%) Finacle
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.30%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.24%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.24%) SystmOne
9 3 (0.18%) Actimize
9 3 (0.18%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 472 (28.50%) Azure
2 401 (24.21%) Power Platform
3 302 (18.24%) AWS
4 166 (10.02%) Azure Data Factory
5 128 (7.73%) GCP
6 119 (7.19%) dbt
6 119 (7.19%) Snowflake
7 108 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
8 103 (6.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 95 (5.74%) Amazon S3
10 85 (5.13%) Serverless
11 77 (4.65%) GitHub
12 68 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (3.20%) Collibra
14 38 (2.29%) Power Automate
15 37 (2.23%) Microsoft Purview
16 36 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
17 31 (1.87%) SaaS
18 22 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
19 21 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.42%) 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%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 384 (23.19%) Power BI
2 268 (16.18%) Data Warehouse
3 214 (12.92%) Metadata
4 167 (10.08%) Data Lake
5 106 (6.40%) Tableau
6 101 (6.10%) SQL Server
7 79 (4.77%) Delta Lake
8 69 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 69 (4.17%) BigQuery
9 60 (3.62%) Relational Database
10 55 (3.32%) Amazon Athena
11 50 (3.02%) Big Data
12 48 (2.90%) Snowflake Schema
13 42 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
14 37 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 36 (2.17%) Power Query
16 35 (2.11%) NoSQL
17 33 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
18 27 (1.63%) Star Schema
19 23 (1.39%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 121 (7.31%) JIRA
2 114 (6.88%) Git
3 44 (2.66%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.99%) GitLab
5 18 (1.09%) ERwin
6 14 (0.85%) MLflow
7 8 (0.48%) ER Studio
7 8 (0.48%) Postman
7 8 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.42%) Eclipse
8 7 (0.42%) Selenium
8 7 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.36%) Ant
10 5 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.24%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.24%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.18%) LSMW
12 3 (0.18%) Newman
12 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 512 (30.92%) Finance
2 483 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 377 (22.77%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 134 (8.09%) Banking
6 44 (2.66%) Marketing
7 42 (2.54%) Retail
8 41 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
9 36 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (1.87%) Manufacturing
11 30 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 28 (1.69%) Local Government
13 25 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (1.51%) Legal
14 19 (1.15%) Military
15 18 (1.09%) Law
16 16 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.91%) Publishing
18 14 (0.85%) Financial Institution
19 13 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 414 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 338 (20.41%) Analyst
3 199 (12.02%) Data Analyst
4 191 (11.53%) Senior
5 172 (10.39%) Lead
6 141 (8.51%) Architect
7 86 (5.19%) Data Architect
8 85 (5.13%) Developer
8 85 (5.13%) Senior Data Engineer
9 82 (4.95%) Business Analyst
10 54 (3.26%) Consultant
11 51 (3.08%) Data Manager
12 40 (2.42%) Administrator
13 32 (1.93%) Data Business Analyst
14 31 (1.87%) Data Migration Lead
15 30 (1.81%) Data Scientist
15 30 (1.81%) Project Manager
16 29 (1.75%) Azure Engineer
17 28 (1.69%) AWS Engineer
18 27 (1.63%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (7.97%) PySpark
2 90 (5.43%) Kafka
3 50 (3.02%) Pandas
4 48 (2.90%) REST
5 36 (2.17%) JSON
6 29 (1.75%) Great Expectations
7 24 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
7 24 (1.45%) scikit-learn
8 22 (1.33%) Web Services
9 19 (1.15%) NumPy
10 18 (1.09%) Middleware
10 18 (1.09%) XML
11 15 (0.91%) pytest
12 14 (0.85%) PyTorch
12 14 (0.85%) SOAP
13 13 (0.79%) GeoJSON
13 13 (0.79%) HTML
14 11 (0.66%) OAuth
14 11 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
14 11 (0.66%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 129 (7.79%) Data Structures
2 109 (6.58%) Legacy Systems
3 86 (5.19%) Onboarding
4 82 (4.95%) Cloud Native
5 65 (3.93%) Product Ownership
6 62 (3.74%) Management Information System
7 52 (3.14%) CMDB
8 34 (2.05%) Reference Data
9 30 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 29 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.57%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.27%) NHS
13 21 (1.27%) Taxonomies
14 19 (1.15%) Clustering
15 14 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (0.79%) Life Science
17 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
1 682 (41.18%) Data Modelling
2 618 (37.32%) Analytics
3 519 (31.34%) Data Governance
4 497 (30.01%) ETL
5 479 (28.93%) Business Intelligence
6 475 (28.68%) Data Pipeline
7 392 (23.67%) Validation
8 382 (23.07%) Migration
9 367 (22.16%) Data Engineering
10 340 (20.53%) Agile
11 321 (19.38%) Decision-Making
12 312 (18.84%) CI/CD
12 312 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
13 299 (18.06%) AI
14 267 (16.12%) Stakeholder Management
15 248 (14.98%) Data Migration
16 234 (14.13%) Data Architecture
17 229 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
17 229 (13.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 223 (13.47%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 772 (46.62%) SQL
2 473 (28.56%) Python
3 54 (3.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 51 (3.08%) Java
5 40 (2.42%) Scala
5 40 (2.42%) T-SQL
6 35 (2.11%) PL/SQL
7 27 (1.63%) PowerShell
8 18 (1.09%) VBA
9 17 (1.03%) C#
10 13 (0.79%) Bicep
10 13 (0.79%) R
11 11 (0.66%) JavaScript
11 11 (0.66%) Shell Script
12 9 (0.54%) Apex Code
12 9 (0.54%) Bash
13 8 (0.48%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.42%) SOQL
15 6 (0.36%) SOSL
16 5 (0.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 285 (17.21%) Security Cleared
2 224 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 95 (5.74%) Degree
4 62 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 23 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (0.97%) AWS Certification
8 15 (0.91%) Master's Degree
9 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (0.54%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.48%) ACCA
11 8 (0.48%) CIMA
11 8 (0.48%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.36%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.36%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.30%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 4 (0.24%) PhD
14 4 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (8.33%) GDPR
2 102 (6.16%) QA
3 33 (1.99%) PMO
4 26 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.09%) SLA
7 16 (0.97%) Solvency II
8 11 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.60%) IFRS
10 8 (0.48%) COREP
10 8 (0.48%) FINREP
11 7 (0.42%) GRC
11 7 (0.42%) NIST
12 5 (0.30%) NCSC
13 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.24%) BS7666
13 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.24%) GAAP
13 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 69 (4.17%) Docker
2 11 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.30%) etcd
4 1 (0.060%) HDFS
4 1 (0.060%) RACF
4 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 123 (7.43%) Terraform
2 72 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.72%) 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
1 268 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 252 (15.22%) Databricks
3 125 (7.55%) Oracle
4 121 (7.31%) SAP
5 79 (4.77%) Salesforce
6 74 (4.47%) ServiceNow
7 69 (4.17%) Informatica
8 41 (2.48%) Google
9 34 (2.05%) Talend
10 23 (1.39%) Denodo
11 19 (1.15%) IBM
12 17 (1.03%) Workday
13 16 (0.97%) OpenAI
13 16 (0.97%) Palantir
14 15 (0.91%) GoldenSource
15 14 (0.85%) Adobe
15 14 (0.85%) NEC
16 12 (0.72%) Foundry
17 11 (0.66%) Alteryx
17 11 (0.66%) Avaloq