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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 110 105
Rank change year-on-year +57 -5 +55
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 1,674 624 764
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.85% 2.49% 2.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.68% 15.12% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,100 395 533
10th Percentile £350 £340 £353
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 £733 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £519 £550
% change year-on-year -3.66% -5.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 20 26
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.22 £13.07
25th Percentile £17.23 £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 £77.50 £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 7,380 4,127 5,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.99% 16.48% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,776 2,660 3,154
10th Percentile £346 £268 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £705 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 488 179 380
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £11.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £22.14 £12.96
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% +35.42% -39.26%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £51.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.78 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £31.70 £23.65
% change year-on-year +13.79% +34.04% -35.21%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +66 908 £520 -5.45% 319
Midlands +35 202 £500 +8.11% 83
North of England +5 202 £475 +5.56% 102
West Midlands +33 166 £500 +7.53% 50
South East +21 153 £471 -5.80% 166
North West +6 123 £475 +4.97% 61
South West +20 90 £500 +17.65% 38
East of England -8 74 £575 -4.49% 39
Yorkshire -28 53 £484 +20.94% 31
East Midlands +3 36 £475 +3.09% 33
North East -12 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 89 (5.32%) Apache Airflow
1 89 (5.32%) Apache Spark
2 51 (3.05%) Apache
3 50 (2.99%) Confluence
4 49 (2.93%) SAS
5 36 (2.15%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.54%) Appian
6 9 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.48%) ArcGIS
7 8 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.24%) CMS
9 3 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.12%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.060%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.060%) Mendix
Applications
1 120 (7.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) CATIA
8 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 51 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.78%) NEC Housing
3 11 (0.66%) 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
9 4 (0.24%) SystmOne
10 3 (0.18%) Actimize
10 3 (0.18%) Aladdin
10 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 477 (28.49%) Azure
2 403 (24.07%) Power Platform
3 300 (17.92%) AWS
4 166 (9.92%) Azure Data Factory
5 128 (7.65%) GCP
6 121 (7.23%) Snowflake
7 118 (7.05%) dbt
8 108 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
9 103 (6.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 92 (5.50%) Amazon S3
11 82 (4.90%) Serverless
12 76 (4.54%) GitHub
13 65 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (3.17%) Collibra
15 39 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
15 39 (2.33%) Power Automate
16 36 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
17 32 (1.91%) SaaS
18 22 (1.31%) PowerApps
19 21 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
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
1 385 (23.00%) Power BI
2 267 (15.95%) Data Warehouse
3 212 (12.66%) Metadata
4 165 (9.86%) Data Lake
5 105 (6.27%) Tableau
6 100 (5.97%) SQL Server
7 80 (4.78%) Delta Lake
8 69 (4.12%) BigQuery
9 68 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 60 (3.58%) Relational Database
11 54 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
12 48 (2.87%) Big Data
13 47 (2.81%) Snowflake Schema
14 41 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
15 36 (2.15%) Power Query
15 36 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 34 (2.03%) NoSQL
17 33 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
18 25 (1.49%) Star Schema
19 23 (1.37%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 118 (7.05%) JIRA
2 114 (6.81%) Git
3 44 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.97%) GitLab
5 18 (1.08%) ERwin
6 14 (0.84%) 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%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) Terragrunt
General
1 515 (30.76%) Finance
2 491 (29.33%) Social Skills
3 383 (22.88%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 136 (8.12%) Banking
6 45 (2.69%) Marketing
7 42 (2.51%) 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 24 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.14%) Military
16 18 (1.08%) Law
17 17 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
18 15 (0.90%) Publishing
19 14 (0.84%) Financial Institution
20 13 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 413 (24.67%) Data Engineer
2 340 (20.31%) Analyst
3 200 (11.95%) Data Analyst
4 194 (11.59%) Senior
5 177 (10.57%) Lead
6 146 (8.72%) Architect
7 89 (5.32%) Data Architect
8 86 (5.14%) Developer
9 84 (5.02%) Business Analyst
10 82 (4.90%) Senior Data Engineer
11 56 (3.35%) Consultant
12 53 (3.17%) Data Manager
13 40 (2.39%) Administrator
14 34 (2.03%) Data Business Analyst
15 31 (1.85%) Data Scientist
15 31 (1.85%) Project Manager
16 30 (1.79%) Azure Engineer
16 30 (1.79%) Data Migration Lead
17 27 (1.61%) Lead Data Engineer
17 27 (1.61%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (8.06%) PySpark
2 90 (5.38%) Kafka
3 48 (2.87%) Pandas
4 46 (2.75%) REST
5 37 (2.21%) JSON
6 28 (1.67%) Great Expectations
7 24 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
7 24 (1.43%) scikit-learn
8 22 (1.31%) Web Services
9 19 (1.14%) XML
10 18 (1.08%) Middleware
11 17 (1.02%) NumPy
12 15 (0.90%) pytest
13 14 (0.84%) PyTorch
13 14 (0.84%) SOAP
14 13 (0.78%) GeoJSON
15 12 (0.72%) HTML
16 11 (0.66%) OAuth
16 11 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
16 11 (0.66%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 131 (7.83%) Data Structures
2 110 (6.57%) Legacy Systems
3 91 (5.44%) Onboarding
4 81 (4.84%) Cloud Native
5 63 (3.76%) Management Information System
5 63 (3.76%) Product Ownership
6 51 (3.05%) CMDB
7 33 (1.97%) Reference Data
8 31 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
9 30 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (1.55%) AI Agents
11 24 (1.43%) NHS
12 22 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.31%) Taxonomies
13 21 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
14 19 (1.14%) Clustering
15 13 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (0.78%) Life Science
16 12 (0.72%) Reinsurance
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
1 685 (40.92%) Data Modelling
2 622 (37.16%) Analytics
3 528 (31.54%) Data Governance
4 495 (29.57%) ETL
5 480 (28.67%) Data Pipeline
6 479 (28.61%) Business Intelligence
7 398 (23.78%) Validation
8 390 (23.30%) Migration
9 376 (22.46%) Data Engineering
10 351 (20.97%) Agile
11 324 (19.35%) Decision-Making
12 317 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
13 316 (18.88%) CI/CD
14 300 (17.92%) AI
15 279 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
16 249 (14.87%) Data Migration
17 236 (14.10%) Data Architecture
18 233 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
19 231 (13.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 224 (13.38%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 769 (45.94%) SQL
2 473 (28.26%) Python
3 55 (3.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 51 (3.05%) Java
5 40 (2.39%) Scala
5 40 (2.39%) T-SQL
6 36 (2.15%) PL/SQL
7 29 (1.73%) PowerShell
8 18 (1.08%) VBA
9 16 (0.96%) C#
10 14 (0.84%) Bicep
11 12 (0.72%) R
12 11 (0.66%) JavaScript
12 11 (0.66%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.54%) Apex Code
13 9 (0.54%) Bash
14 8 (0.48%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.42%) SOQL
16 6 (0.36%) SOSL
17 5 (0.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 291 (17.38%) Security Cleared
2 227 (13.56%) SC Cleared
3 98 (5.85%) Degree
4 62 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (1.61%) Azure Certification
6 22 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (0.96%) AWS Certification
8 15 (0.90%) Master's Degree
8 15 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (0.54%) DV Cleared
9 9 (0.54%) PMI Certification
10 8 (0.48%) ACCA
10 8 (0.48%) CIMA
11 7 (0.42%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.36%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.30%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.30%) PhD
13 5 (0.30%) PMP
13 5 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (8.48%) GDPR
2 102 (6.09%) QA
3 33 (1.97%) PMO
4 26 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.02%) Solvency II
7 16 (0.96%) 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%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
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 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
4 1 (0.060%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 125 (7.47%) 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
1 278 (16.61%) Microsoft
2 259 (15.47%) Databricks
3 126 (7.53%) Oracle
4 123 (7.35%) SAP
5 78 (4.66%) Salesforce
6 71 (4.24%) ServiceNow
7 70 (4.18%) Informatica
8 41 (2.45%) Google
9 34 (2.03%) Talend
10 23 (1.37%) Denodo
11 20 (1.19%) IBM
11 20 (1.19%) Palantir
12 16 (0.96%) OpenAI
12 16 (0.96%) Workday
13 14 (0.84%) Adobe
13 14 (0.84%) GoldenSource
13 14 (0.84%) NEC
14 13 (0.78%) Foundry
15 12 (0.72%) Alteryx
16 11 (0.66%) ESRI