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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 104 110
Rank change year-on-year +39 +6 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,321 608 765
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.52% 2.50% 2.03%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.24% 16.19% 14.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 903 427 518
10th Percentile £350 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £670
90th Percentile £688 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 35
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.22 £13.89
25th Percentile £17.48 £23.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £19.44 £31.64 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% +31.83% +6.74%
75th Percentile £55.31 £37.19 £45.79
90th Percentile £81.00 £93.75 £58.55
UK median hourly rate £30.75 £31.64 £20.74
% change year-on-year -2.83% +52.59% -7.78%

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 6,528 3,756 5,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.40% 15.47% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,234 2,426 3,426
10th Percentile £340 £263 £304
25th Percentile £413 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £704 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 161 335
10th Percentile £15.40 £17.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.41
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +36.17% -44.71%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.40 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £29.77 £31.76 £22.01
% change year-on-year -6.28% +44.30% -44.98%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +45 757 £525 +0.48% 261
North of England -5 158 £495 +10.74% 129
Midlands +5 144 £500 +8.23% 85
West Midlands +15 114 £513 +7.72% 58
South East +11 108 £456 -10.98% 147
North West +2 84 £475 +5.56% 61
South West +19 67 £500 -1.23% 58
Yorkshire -41 48 £500 +81.82% 57
East of England -35 43 £565 -5.83% 40
East Midlands -19 31 £450 +9.82% 27
North East - 26 £500 - 13
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
1 117 (8.86%) Apache Spark
2 72 (5.45%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (4.09%) Apache
4 43 (3.26%) SAS
5 32 (2.42%) Confluence
6 31 (2.35%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.68%) Appian
8 8 (0.61%) GeoServer
8 8 (0.61%) Smallworld
9 6 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (0.30%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.30%) CMS
12 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.23%) NetWeaver
13 2 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.076%) Jupyter
Applications
1 117 (8.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (1.36%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.23%) Trello
7 1 (0.076%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 44 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.91%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.53%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.45%) Finacle
6 6 (0.45%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.45%) SAP MDG
6 6 (0.45%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.45%) SystmOne
7 5 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.30%) Actimize
8 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.30%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.23%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 425 (32.17%) Azure
2 345 (26.12%) Power Platform
3 253 (19.15%) AWS
4 171 (12.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 120 (9.08%) GCP
6 112 (8.48%) Snowflake
7 103 (7.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 84 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
8 84 (6.36%) dbt
9 71 (5.37%) Amazon S3
10 66 (5.00%) GitHub
11 59 (4.47%) Collibra
12 58 (4.39%) Serverless
13 39 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
15 29 (2.20%) Power Automate
16 28 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
17 27 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (2.04%) SaaS
18 20 (1.51%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.38%) VPN
2 4 (0.30%) Firewall
3 2 (0.15%) Broadband
3 2 (0.15%) DNS
3 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.15%) SSL
3 2 (0.15%) VoIP
4 1 (0.076%) 4G
4 1 (0.076%) 5G
4 1 (0.076%) HTTP
4 1 (0.076%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (25.13%) Power BI
2 256 (19.38%) Data Warehouse
3 189 (14.31%) Metadata
4 126 (9.54%) Data Lake
5 87 (6.59%) Tableau
6 86 (6.51%) SQL Server
7 69 (5.22%) Delta Lake
8 66 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 56 (4.24%) BigQuery
10 52 (3.94%) Big Data
11 51 (3.86%) NoSQL
12 49 (3.71%) Relational Database
12 49 (3.71%) Snowflake Schema
13 43 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
14 41 (3.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 30 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
15 30 (2.27%) Star Schema
16 29 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
16 29 (2.20%) Pentaho
17 26 (1.97%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 126 (9.54%) Git
2 93 (7.04%) JIRA
3 53 (4.01%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.51%) ERwin
5 19 (1.44%) GitLab
6 16 (1.21%) MLflow
7 13 (0.98%) PowerDesigner
8 6 (0.45%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.38%) LSMW
9 5 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.38%) Selenium
10 4 (0.30%) DBeaver
11 3 (0.23%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.15%) Postman
12 2 (0.15%) Zephyr
13 1 (0.076%) Deequ
13 1 (0.076%) REST Assured
General
1 435 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 397 (30.05%) Finance
3 306 (23.16%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (11.28%) Public Sector
5 105 (7.95%) Banking
6 44 (3.33%) Marketing
7 36 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (2.50%) Retail
9 28 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (1.97%) Legal
11 25 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.44%) Manufacturing
13 18 (1.36%) Publishing
14 16 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.21%) Law
14 16 (1.21%) Local Government
15 15 (1.14%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.14%) Telecoms
16 14 (1.06%) Military
16 14 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 363 (27.48%) Data Engineer
2 275 (20.82%) Analyst
3 169 (12.79%) Data Analyst
4 138 (10.45%) Senior
5 133 (10.07%) Lead
6 128 (9.69%) Architect
7 85 (6.43%) Business Analyst
8 77 (5.83%) Data Architect
9 64 (4.84%) Developer
10 57 (4.31%) Senior Data Engineer
11 51 (3.86%) Azure Engineer
12 42 (3.18%) Azure Data Engineer
12 42 (3.18%) Consultant
13 39 (2.95%) Data Business Analyst
14 31 (2.35%) Data Manager
15 26 (1.97%) Data Modeller
16 23 (1.74%) Principal Engineer
16 23 (1.74%) Project Manager
16 23 (1.74%) Senior Analyst
17 21 (1.59%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (9.54%) PySpark
2 103 (7.80%) Kafka
3 41 (3.10%) Pandas
4 40 (3.03%) REST
5 23 (1.74%) Great Expectations
6 22 (1.67%) NumPy
6 22 (1.67%) scikit-learn
7 17 (1.29%) JSON
8 15 (1.14%) Web Services
9 13 (0.98%) OAuth
9 13 (0.98%) PyTorch
9 13 (0.98%) TensorFlow
9 13 (0.98%) XML
10 12 (0.91%) Middleware
10 12 (0.91%) pytest
11 11 (0.83%) Flask
11 11 (0.83%) GeoJSON
11 11 (0.83%) Matplotlib
12 10 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
12 10 (0.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 115 (8.71%) Data Structures
2 100 (7.57%) Legacy Systems
3 68 (5.15%) Cloud Native
4 57 (4.31%) Management Information System
5 54 (4.09%) Onboarding
6 45 (3.41%) Product Ownership
7 41 (3.10%) CMDB
8 35 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 27 (2.04%) Reference Data
10 21 (1.59%) NHS
11 19 (1.44%) Clustering
12 18 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
14 15 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (1.14%) Replication
14 15 (1.14%) Taxonomies
15 12 (0.91%) Fixed Income
15 12 (0.91%) Reinsurance
16 10 (0.76%) AI Agents
16 10 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.68%) Linux
1 9 (0.68%) Unix
1 9 (0.68%) Windows
2 1 (0.076%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 590 (44.66%) Data Modelling
2 511 (38.68%) Analytics
3 468 (35.43%) Data Governance
4 461 (34.90%) ETL
5 430 (32.55%) Business Intelligence
6 381 (28.84%) Data Pipeline
7 313 (23.69%) Data Engineering
8 302 (22.86%) Agile
9 288 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
10 280 (21.20%) Migration
11 279 (21.12%) Validation
12 255 (19.30%) CI/CD
13 236 (17.87%) Decision-Making
14 220 (16.65%) Data Architecture
15 198 (14.99%) AI
16 197 (14.91%) Data Migration
17 187 (14.16%) DevOps
18 186 (14.08%) Stakeholder Management
19 172 (13.02%) Data Integration
20 170 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 682 (51.63%) SQL
2 427 (32.32%) Python
3 60 (4.54%) Scala
4 41 (3.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 41 (3.10%) Java
5 27 (2.04%) PL/SQL
5 27 (2.04%) T-SQL
6 25 (1.89%) C#
7 22 (1.67%) R
8 15 (1.14%) Bicep
8 15 (1.14%) PowerShell
8 15 (1.14%) VBA
9 14 (1.06%) JavaScript
10 10 (0.76%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.45%) Bash
12 4 (0.30%) ABAP
12 4 (0.30%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.30%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
12 4 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 244 (18.47%) Security Cleared
2 182 (13.78%) SC Cleared
3 75 (5.68%) Degree
4 41 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.29%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.29%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.14%) AWS Certification
8 13 (0.98%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.30%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.23%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.23%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.23%) PhD
12 2 (0.15%) AAT
12 2 (0.15%) ACCA
12 2 (0.15%) CFA
12 2 (0.15%) CIMA
12 2 (0.15%) PMP
12 2 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (8.93%) GDPR
2 86 (6.51%) QA
3 35 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.82%) PMO
5 14 (1.06%) Solvency II
6 12 (0.91%) SLA
7 11 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.53%) IFRS
11 6 (0.45%) Basel III
11 6 (0.45%) FINREP
11 6 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.30%) COREP
12 4 (0.30%) MiFID
13 3 (0.23%) GRC
13 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.23%) NIST
14 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.15%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 70 (5.30%) Docker
2 6 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.38%) etcd
4 1 (0.076%) HDFS
4 1 (0.076%) RACF
4 1 (0.076%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 98 (7.42%) Terraform
2 76 (5.75%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.68%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.38%) Ansible
4 5 (0.38%) Fluentd
5 4 (0.30%) Grafana
5 4 (0.30%) HP ALM
5 4 (0.30%) Kibana
5 4 (0.30%) SCCM
6 3 (0.23%) logstash
7 1 (0.076%) Control-M
7 1 (0.076%) Nessus
7 1 (0.076%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.076%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 251 (19.00%) Databricks
2 204 (15.44%) Microsoft
3 102 (7.72%) SAP
4 100 (7.57%) Oracle
5 72 (5.45%) Informatica
6 67 (5.07%) Salesforce
7 60 (4.54%) ServiceNow
8 53 (4.01%) Talend
9 52 (3.94%) Google
10 30 (2.27%) Denodo
11 13 (0.98%) ESRI
12 12 (0.91%) OpenAI
12 12 (0.91%) Workday
13 11 (0.83%) GoldenSource
13 11 (0.83%) IBM
13 11 (0.83%) Palantir
14 10 (0.76%) Avaloq
15 9 (0.68%) Automation Anywhere
15 9 (0.68%) Sparx
16 8 (0.61%) UiPath