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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 114 123
Rank change year-on-year +29 +9 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 974 609 714
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.08% 2.27% 1.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.83% 15.91% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 401 490
10th Percentile £343 £306 £363
25th Percentile £413 £385 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £496 £550
% change year-on-year +0.78% -9.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 25
10th Percentile £17.64 £21.25 £17.22
25th Percentile £18.25 £22.55 £27.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £35.00 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year -44.29% -24.00% +104.83%
75th Percentile £37.11 £94.69 £61.75
90th Percentile £65.30 £97.50 £69.20
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £35.00 £46.06
% change year-on-year -31.43% -24.00% +104.83%

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 5,464 3,828 5,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.26% 14.29% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,549 2,230 3,426
10th Percentile £313 £263 £319
25th Percentile £409 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £541
Median % change year-on-year - -7.62% +3.10%
75th Percentile £614 £637 £650
90th Percentile £705 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 149 227
10th Percentile £15.66 £14.70 £13.11
25th Percentile £18.08 £20.50 £17.36
Median hourly rate £26.11 £30.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.97% -7.69% +31.10%
75th Percentile £61.79 £65.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £70.14 £75.00 £79.87
UK median hourly rate £26.34 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.17% -10.77% +35.42%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +26 582 £525 - 213
North of England -8 125 £473 +18.25% 92
Midlands +10 100 £515 +28.75% 64
West Midlands +8 73 £525 +10.29% 39
South East +1 71 £425 -27.66% 201
North West -8 66 £456 +8.96% 47
South West +6 47 £500 +2.56% 49
Yorkshire -15 45 £500 +81.82% 33
East Midlands -6 28 £430 +23.56% 24
East of England -32 17 £625 +15.74% 56
North East -2 15 £463 +86.87% 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 91 (9.34%) Apache Spark
2 57 (5.85%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (3.90%) SAS
4 35 (3.59%) Apache
5 18 (1.85%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.54%) Confluence
7 8 (0.82%) GeoServer
7 8 (0.82%) Smallworld
8 7 (0.72%) Oracle Application Server
9 5 (0.51%) Appian
10 3 (0.31%) Luigi
10 3 (0.31%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 91 (9.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.44%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.31%) Trello
8 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 37 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.62%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.62%) SAP MDG
5 4 (0.41%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.41%) SystmOne
6 3 (0.31%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.31%) Finacle
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
6 3 (0.31%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.31%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.31%) SAP MDG-F
6 3 (0.31%) SAP MDG-M
6 3 (0.31%) SAP MDG-S
7 2 (0.21%) iTrent
7 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 289 (29.67%) Azure
2 219 (22.48%) Power Platform
3 193 (19.82%) AWS
4 100 (10.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 95 (9.75%) GCP
6 80 (8.21%) Snowflake
7 63 (6.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 55 (5.65%) dbt
9 51 (5.24%) Amazon S3
10 47 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (4.72%) GitHub
12 45 (4.62%) Collibra
13 32 (3.29%) Serverless
14 30 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
16 20 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (1.85%) OCI
17 18 (1.85%) SaaS
18 15 (1.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
19 14 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.31%) DNS
2 2 (0.21%) Broadband
2 2 (0.21%) HTTP
2 2 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (0.21%) SSL
2 2 (0.21%) VoIP
3 1 (0.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (21.97%) Power BI
2 183 (18.79%) Data Warehouse
3 159 (16.32%) Metadata
4 86 (8.83%) Data Lake
5 65 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 58 (5.95%) Tableau
7 49 (5.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 47 (4.83%) Big Data
9 45 (4.62%) NoSQL
9 45 (4.62%) Relational Database
10 41 (4.21%) Snowflake Schema
11 35 (3.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 33 (3.39%) Pentaho
13 32 (3.29%) BigQuery
13 32 (3.29%) Delta Lake
14 28 (2.87%) Star Schema
15 27 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
17 21 (2.16%) Data Vault
18 20 (2.05%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 115 (11.81%) Git
2 72 (7.39%) JIRA
3 48 (4.93%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.85%) ERwin
5 15 (1.54%) PowerDesigner
6 11 (1.13%) ER Studio
7 8 (0.82%) MLflow
8 6 (0.62%) DBeaver
9 3 (0.31%) GitLab
9 3 (0.31%) LSMW
10 2 (0.21%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.21%) Selenium
10 2 (0.21%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.10%) Deequ
11 1 (0.10%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.10%) Postman
11 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.10%) Vite
General
1 326 (33.47%) Social Skills
2 291 (29.88%) Finance
3 216 (22.18%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (11.09%) Public Sector
5 87 (8.93%) Banking
6 35 (3.59%) Marketing
7 24 (2.46%) Retail
8 22 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.26%) Legal
9 21 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.54%) Local Government
12 14 (1.44%) Military
13 13 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.13%) Investment Banking
14 11 (1.13%) Publishing
14 11 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.03%) Billing
15 10 (1.03%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 236 (24.23%) Data Engineer
2 217 (22.28%) Analyst
3 136 (13.96%) Data Analyst
4 99 (10.16%) Architect
5 96 (9.86%) Lead
6 90 (9.24%) Senior
7 64 (6.57%) Business Analyst
8 57 (5.85%) Data Architect
9 55 (5.65%) Developer
10 44 (4.52%) Senior Data Engineer
11 43 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
12 36 (3.70%) Azure Data Engineer
13 33 (3.39%) Consultant
14 29 (2.98%) Data Business Analyst
15 27 (2.77%) Data Manager
16 25 (2.57%) Data Modeller
16 25 (2.57%) Governance Analyst
17 18 (1.85%) Project Manager
18 17 (1.75%) Salesforce Architect
19 16 (1.64%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (9.24%) PySpark
2 60 (6.16%) Kafka
3 35 (3.59%) REST
4 22 (2.26%) XML
5 18 (1.85%) Middleware
6 17 (1.75%) Pandas
7 14 (1.44%) SOAP
8 13 (1.33%) Lightning Web Components
8 13 (1.33%) Visualforce
9 11 (1.13%) Great Expectations
9 11 (1.13%) NumPy
10 9 (0.92%) JSON
11 8 (0.82%) OAuth
11 8 (0.82%) pytest
11 8 (0.82%) PyTorch
11 8 (0.82%) RESTful
12 7 (0.72%) TensorFlow
12 7 (0.72%) Web Services
12 7 (0.72%) YAML
13 6 (0.62%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 90 (9.24%) Data Structures
2 62 (6.37%) Legacy Systems
3 34 (3.49%) Onboarding
4 33 (3.39%) Management Information System
5 32 (3.29%) Cloud Native
6 30 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 30 (3.08%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.26%) CMDB
8 18 (1.85%) Reference Data
9 17 (1.75%) NHS
10 15 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.44%) Reinsurance
11 14 (1.44%) Replication
12 13 (1.33%) Data Centre
13 11 (1.13%) Clustering
13 11 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.03%) Taxonomies
15 9 (0.92%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.75%) Linux
2 4 (0.41%) Unix
3 1 (0.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (43.12%) Data Modelling
2 371 (38.09%) Data Governance
3 366 (37.58%) Analytics
4 324 (33.26%) ETL
5 301 (30.90%) Business Intelligence
6 257 (26.39%) Data Pipeline
7 253 (25.98%) Problem-Solving
8 242 (24.85%) Agile
9 204 (20.94%) Data Engineering
10 186 (19.10%) Migration
11 171 (17.56%) CI/CD
12 158 (16.22%) Validation
13 153 (15.71%) Decision-Making
14 152 (15.61%) Data Architecture
15 147 (15.09%) Data Management
16 141 (14.48%) Data Integration
17 136 (13.96%) Data Analysis
18 133 (13.66%) Data Migration
19 124 (12.73%) DevOps
20 123 (12.63%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 486 (49.90%) SQL
2 306 (31.42%) Python
3 42 (4.31%) Scala
4 26 (2.67%) Java
5 25 (2.57%) R
6 22 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 21 (2.16%) PL/SQL
8 19 (1.95%) T-SQL
9 18 (1.85%) C#
10 14 (1.44%) JavaScript
11 13 (1.33%) Apex Code
11 13 (1.33%) Bash
12 10 (1.03%) Bicep
13 8 (0.82%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.72%) C++
15 6 (0.62%) PowerShell
16 5 (0.51%) TypeScript
17 4 (0.41%) ABAP
17 4 (0.41%) Korn
17 4 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 162 (16.63%) Security Cleared
2 120 (12.32%) SC Cleared
3 66 (6.78%) Degree
4 32 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.95%) Master's Degree
6 14 (1.44%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.33%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.13%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.31%) PhD
11 3 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.31%) PMP
11 3 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.21%) AAT
12 2 (0.21%) ACCA
12 2 (0.21%) CFA
12 2 (0.21%) CIMA
13 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (9.34%) GDPR
2 60 (6.16%) QA
3 40 (4.11%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 14 (1.44%) PMO
6 12 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.82%) SLA
8 7 (0.72%) Basel III
8 7 (0.72%) IFRS
9 5 (0.51%) ISO 19650
9 5 (0.51%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.31%) FINREP
10 3 (0.31%) MiFID
11 2 (0.21%) CRD IV
11 2 (0.21%) EMIR
11 2 (0.21%) GRC
11 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.21%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (6.16%) Docker
2 8 (0.82%) zsh
3 5 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 59 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 50 (5.13%) Terraform
3 3 (0.31%) Hadoop YARN
3 3 (0.31%) Oozie
3 3 (0.31%) SCCM
4 2 (0.21%) Ansible
4 2 (0.21%) Kibana
4 2 (0.21%) logstash
5 1 (0.10%) Control-M
5 1 (0.10%) Grafana
5 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.10%) Puppet
5 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 177 (18.17%) Databricks
2 141 (14.48%) Microsoft
3 88 (9.03%) Oracle
4 63 (6.47%) SAP
5 49 (5.03%) Salesforce
6 46 (4.72%) Informatica
7 45 (4.62%) Talend
8 37 (3.80%) Google
8 37 (3.80%) ServiceNow
9 31 (3.18%) Denodo
10 13 (1.33%) Alteryx
10 13 (1.33%) Sparx
11 12 (1.23%) Palantir
12 8 (0.82%) ESRI
12 8 (0.82%) Intergraph
13 7 (0.72%) Foundry
13 7 (0.72%) Workday
14 6 (0.62%) Adobe
14 6 (0.62%) Avaloq
14 6 (0.62%) Guidewire