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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 106 116
Rank change year-on-year +44 +10 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,501 615 719
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.64% 2.54% 1.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.90% 15.84% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,008 411 494
10th Percentile £350 £343 £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 £594 £628 £688
90th Percentile £688 £713 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 18 29
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.21 £13.71
25th Percentile £17.48 £22.99 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.64 £21.12
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +49.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £34.87 £42.50
90th Percentile £82.63 £84.13 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £15.81
% change year-on-year +58.03% +100.13% -29.69%

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 6,855 3,883 5,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.63% 16.03% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,454 2,505 3,293
10th Percentile £346 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £608 £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 432 160 349
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.58 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.24 £13.18
Median hourly rate £33.55 £34.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +54.44% -40.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.09 £45.00
90th Percentile £77.88 £78.83 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.04 £34.50 £21.06
% change year-on-year +4.45% +63.84% -39.84%

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 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 21 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 21 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 +64 843 £525 - 247
North of England +4 178 £498 +10.56% 123
Midlands +21 167 £500 +7.53% 57
West Midlands +23 134 £500 +5.04% 47
South East +9 120 £450 -11.76% 149
North West +19 110 £478 +2.69% 57
South West +18 85 £495 -5.71% 40
East of England -21 62 £588 -2.73% 50
Yorkshire -32 47 £514 +37.07% 48
East Midlands -10 34 £450 -1.96% 10
North East -4 21 £475 -7.99% 22
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
1 107 (7.13%) Apache Spark
2 74 (4.93%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (3.53%) Apache
4 42 (2.80%) Confluence
5 39 (2.60%) SAS
6 37 (2.47%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.60%) Appian
8 7 (0.47%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.27%) CMS
10 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.067%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.067%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.067%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 131 (8.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
3 21 (1.40%) MS Visio
4 20 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.20%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 46 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.73%) Loan IQ
2 11 (0.73%) NEC Housing
3 10 (0.67%) iTrent
4 8 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.40%) Finacle
5 6 (0.40%) Sage X3
5 6 (0.40%) SAP MM
6 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.33%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.33%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.33%) SystmOne
7 4 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.27%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.20%) Actimize
8 3 (0.20%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 448 (29.85%) Azure
2 383 (25.52%) Power Platform
3 250 (16.66%) AWS
4 182 (12.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 117 (7.79%) GCP
6 109 (7.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 99 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (6.60%) dbt
8 97 (6.46%) Snowflake
9 72 (4.80%) Amazon S3
10 68 (4.53%) GitHub
11 57 (3.80%) Collibra
11 57 (3.80%) Serverless
12 41 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
13 33 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
14 32 (2.13%) Power Automate
15 28 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
15 28 (1.87%) SaaS
16 26 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
17 18 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.47%) Firewall
2 5 (0.33%) VPN
3 2 (0.13%) Broadband
3 2 (0.13%) DNS
3 2 (0.13%) HTTP
3 2 (0.13%) VoIP
4 1 (0.067%) 4G
4 1 (0.067%) 5G
4 1 (0.067%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 367 (24.45%) Power BI
2 246 (16.39%) Data Warehouse
3 203 (13.52%) Metadata
4 148 (9.86%) Data Lake
5 109 (7.26%) Tableau
6 104 (6.93%) SQL Server
7 82 (5.46%) Delta Lake
8 66 (4.40%) BigQuery
9 62 (4.13%) Azure SQL Database
10 50 (3.33%) Relational Database
11 49 (3.26%) Big Data
12 47 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
13 45 (3.00%) NoSQL
14 41 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
15 40 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 39 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
17 33 (2.20%) Power Query
18 30 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
18 30 (2.00%) Star Schema
19 28 (1.87%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 117 (7.79%) Git
2 108 (7.20%) JIRA
3 44 (2.93%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.27%) GitLab
5 16 (1.07%) ERwin
5 16 (1.07%) MLflow
6 8 (0.53%) PowerDesigner
7 7 (0.47%) ER Studio
8 6 (0.40%) Selenium
9 5 (0.33%) LSMW
9 5 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.27%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.27%) Postman
10 4 (0.27%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.20%) Ant
11 3 (0.20%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.13%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.067%) REST Assured
General
1 463 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 452 (30.11%) Finance
3 351 (23.38%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (10.73%) Public Sector
5 127 (8.46%) Banking
6 41 (2.73%) Marketing
7 40 (2.66%) Retail
8 36 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
9 31 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
10 30 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 27 (1.80%) Local Government
12 25 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.53%) Legal
13 23 (1.53%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.40%) Military
15 18 (1.20%) Law
16 17 (1.13%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.93%) Investment Banking
18 13 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 386 (25.72%) Data Engineer
2 317 (21.12%) Analyst
3 184 (12.26%) Data Analyst
4 177 (11.79%) Senior
5 144 (9.59%) Lead
6 118 (7.86%) Architect
7 88 (5.86%) Business Analyst
8 77 (5.13%) Developer
9 76 (5.06%) Senior Data Engineer
10 72 (4.80%) Data Architect
11 52 (3.46%) Data Manager
12 51 (3.40%) Consultant
13 48 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
14 43 (2.86%) Azure Data Engineer
15 33 (2.20%) Data Business Analyst
16 31 (2.07%) Project Manager
17 29 (1.93%) Data Migration Lead
18 28 (1.87%) Administrator
19 25 (1.67%) Data Scientist
20 24 (1.60%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (8.99%) PySpark
2 100 (6.66%) Kafka
3 49 (3.26%) Pandas
4 41 (2.73%) REST
5 32 (2.13%) Great Expectations
6 30 (2.00%) JSON
7 25 (1.67%) scikit-learn
8 20 (1.33%) NumPy
9 18 (1.20%) Web Services
10 17 (1.13%) Middleware
11 16 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
11 16 (1.07%) PyTorch
12 13 (0.87%) pytest
12 13 (0.87%) TensorFlow
13 12 (0.80%) GeoJSON
14 11 (0.73%) Flask
14 11 (0.73%) OAuth
14 11 (0.73%) RESTful
14 11 (0.73%) YAML
15 10 (0.67%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 123 (8.19%) Data Structures
2 105 (7.00%) Legacy Systems
3 77 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 70 (4.66%) Onboarding
5 63 (4.20%) Product Ownership
6 58 (3.86%) Management Information System
7 46 (3.06%) CMDB
8 31 (2.07%) Reference Data
9 26 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 22 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.33%) AI Agents
12 20 (1.33%) Clustering
12 20 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (1.07%) NHS
14 15 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (0.87%) Taxonomies
16 12 (0.80%) Fixed Income
17 11 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
17 11 (0.73%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.73%) Windows
2 10 (0.67%) Linux
3 8 (0.53%) Unix
4 1 (0.067%) VMS
4 1 (0.067%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 644 (42.90%) Data Modelling
2 568 (37.84%) Analytics
3 503 (33.51%) Data Governance
4 474 (31.58%) ETL
5 454 (30.25%) Business Intelligence
6 433 (28.85%) Data Pipeline
7 346 (23.05%) Validation
8 332 (22.12%) Migration
9 328 (21.85%) Data Engineering
10 327 (21.79%) Agile
11 301 (20.05%) Decision-Making
12 296 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
13 272 (18.12%) CI/CD
14 241 (16.06%) AI
15 225 (14.99%) Data Architecture
16 224 (14.92%) Stakeholder Management
17 220 (14.66%) Data Migration
18 207 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
19 201 (13.39%) DevOps
20 197 (13.12%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 734 (48.90%) SQL
2 444 (29.58%) Python
3 56 (3.73%) Scala
4 54 (3.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 45 (3.00%) Java
6 41 (2.73%) T-SQL
7 36 (2.40%) PL/SQL
8 22 (1.47%) C#
9 19 (1.27%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.20%) R
11 17 (1.13%) VBA
12 14 (0.93%) Bicep
13 10 (0.67%) JavaScript
14 9 (0.60%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.47%) Bash
15 7 (0.47%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.40%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.33%) Korn
18 4 (0.27%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.27%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 264 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 202 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 90 (6.00%) Degree
4 49 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.67%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.47%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.40%) ACCA
11 6 (0.40%) CIMA
12 5 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.33%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.33%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.27%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.27%) PhD
14 3 (0.20%) PMP
15 2 (0.13%) CFA
15 2 (0.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (7.79%) GDPR
2 95 (6.33%) QA
3 31 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.87%) PMO
5 18 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.00%) SLA
7 11 (0.73%) Solvency II
8 10 (0.67%) FINREP
9 8 (0.53%) COREP
9 8 (0.53%) IFRS
9 8 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.47%) NIST
11 4 (0.27%) Basel III
11 4 (0.27%) BS7666
11 4 (0.27%) GRC
11 4 (0.27%) MiFID
12 2 (0.13%) CRD IV
12 2 (0.13%) FATCA
12 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 65 (4.33%) Docker
2 6 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.33%) etcd
4 1 (0.067%) HDFS
4 1 (0.067%) RACF
4 1 (0.067%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 104 (6.93%) Terraform
2 71 (4.73%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.73%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.67%) Grafana
5 8 (0.53%) Ansible
6 6 (0.40%) Kibana
7 5 (0.33%) Fluentd
8 4 (0.27%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.27%) SCCM
8 4 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.20%) logstash
10 1 (0.067%) Control-M
10 1 (0.067%) Istio
10 1 (0.067%) Nessus
10 1 (0.067%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.067%) Puppet
10 1 (0.067%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 257 (17.12%) Databricks
2 242 (16.12%) Microsoft
3 114 (7.59%) SAP
4 105 (7.00%) Oracle
5 69 (4.60%) Salesforce
6 66 (4.40%) ServiceNow
7 63 (4.20%) Informatica
8 48 (3.20%) Google
9 35 (2.33%) Talend
10 23 (1.53%) Denodo
11 17 (1.13%) Workday
12 15 (1.00%) IBM
12 15 (1.00%) OpenAI
13 14 (0.93%) GoldenSource
14 12 (0.80%) NEC
15 11 (0.73%) Adobe
15 11 (0.73%) Alteryx
15 11 (0.73%) Avaloq
16 10 (0.67%) ESRI
17 9 (0.60%) Automation Anywhere