Data Quality Contracts in England

Data Quality
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Quality over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 108 158
Rank change year-on-year -3 +50 +62
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 619 767 743
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.48% 2.04% 1.58%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.10% 15.14% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 536 513
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £413 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £640
90th Percentile £725 £850 £736
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.64% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 26 16
10th Percentile £18.22 £13.07 £18.11
25th Percentile £23.00 £15.39 £21.24
Median hourly rate £31.64 £18.93 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +67.14% -15.81% -7.66%
75th Percentile £34.99 £42.50 £34.23
90th Percentile £78.83 £52.75 £63.07
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £15.79 £22.49
% change year-on-year +100.38% -29.78% -0.07%

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 4,100 5,067 6,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.42% 13.45% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,642 3,174 4,319
10th Percentile £268 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 385 231
10th Percentile £15.13 £10.95 £15.21
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.84 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.66 £23.80 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +37.21% -39.90% +44.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.07 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.33 £70.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £23.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +38.09% -36.55% +30.72%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in England over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in England over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

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 22 June 2025. 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 -21 323 £550 -4.35% 2,111
North of England +9 82 £450 -7.22% 511
Midlands +11 54 £463 -13.95% 289
East of England +43 53 £604 +15.05% 215
North West -1 51 £450 -8.72% 260
South East +35 47 £500 +5.26% 808
West Midlands +2 35 £465 -15.45% 172
South West +51 34 £425 -5.56% 198
Yorkshire +13 29 £400 +9.89% 183
East Midlands +9 16 £461 +9.31% 114
North East +3 3 £613 - 69
Data Quality
UK

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 51 (8.24%) Apache Spark
2 39 (6.30%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (5.65%) Apache
4 15 (2.42%) SharePoint
5 13 (2.10%) Confluence
6 5 (0.81%) SAS
7 3 (0.48%) IBM Domino
7 3 (0.48%) Luigi
7 3 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.16%) CMS
8 1 (0.16%) MS Project Server
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 65 (10.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (2.75%) Siemens NX
4 8 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.97%) Oracle Smart View
6 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.16%) Maple
8 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.16%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 36 (5.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.75%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.97%) SAP MDG
3 6 (0.97%) SAP PM
4 5 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.81%) SAP HR
5 3 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.32%) Actimize
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.16%) Endur
7 1 (0.16%) HFM
7 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.16%) Maximo
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.16%) Primavera
7 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 157 (25.36%) Azure
2 115 (18.58%) AWS
3 108 (17.45%) Power Platform
4 64 (10.34%) GCP
5 49 (7.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 44 (7.11%) Snowflake
7 36 (5.82%) dbt
8 33 (5.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (4.20%) Collibra
10 25 (4.04%) GitHub
11 23 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (3.72%) Serverless
12 21 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
13 20 (3.23%) Amazon S3
14 16 (2.58%) Microsoft Purview
15 11 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
17 9 (1.45%) SaaS
18 8 (1.29%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.48%) DNS
1 3 (0.48%) HTTP
2 2 (0.32%) Firewall
2 2 (0.32%) Internet
3 1 (0.16%) FTP
3 1 (0.16%) Network Security
3 1 (0.16%) Skype
3 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (22.46%) Data Warehouse
2 103 (16.64%) Power BI
3 70 (11.31%) Data Lake
4 67 (10.82%) Tableau
5 64 (10.34%) Metadata
6 49 (7.92%) Big Data
7 40 (6.46%) SQL Server
8 34 (5.49%) Relational Database
9 30 (4.85%) Delta Lake
10 28 (4.52%) BigQuery
10 28 (4.52%) Hadoop
11 26 (4.20%) NoSQL
12 22 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 21 (3.39%) Snowflake Schema
14 18 (2.91%) Oracle Database
15 15 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
16 14 (2.26%) Looker
16 14 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
17 13 (2.10%) SAP Data Services
18 11 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (4.20%) Git
1 26 (4.20%) JIRA
2 16 (2.58%) ERwin
3 10 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.13%) ER Studio
5 6 (0.97%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.81%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.48%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.48%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.48%) LSMW
7 3 (0.48%) Vite
7 3 (0.48%) webpack
8 2 (0.32%) GitLab
8 2 (0.32%) MagicDraw
9 1 (0.16%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.16%) Flyway
9 1 (0.16%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.16%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.16%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 237 (38.29%) Social Skills
2 174 (28.11%) Finance
3 164 (26.49%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (10.99%) Banking
5 36 (5.82%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
7 22 (3.55%) Investment Banking
8 21 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
9 20 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (3.07%) Retail
11 17 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.78%) Local Government
14 10 (1.62%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.62%) Front Office
14 10 (1.62%) Marketing
15 9 (1.45%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.45%) Retail Banking
15 9 (1.45%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 148 (23.91%) Analyst
2 123 (19.87%) Data Engineer
3 104 (16.80%) Data Analyst
4 71 (11.47%) Senior
5 68 (10.99%) Lead
6 66 (10.66%) Architect
7 47 (7.59%) Data Architect
7 47 (7.59%) Developer
8 33 (5.33%) Business Analyst
9 32 (5.17%) Senior Data Engineer
10 29 (4.68%) Consultant
11 18 (2.91%) Data Consultant
12 16 (2.58%) Applications Engineer
12 16 (2.58%) Configuration Engineer
12 16 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (2.42%) Azure Data Engineer
13 15 (2.42%) Azure Engineer
14 14 (2.26%) Data Business Analyst
14 14 (2.26%) Data Manager
14 14 (2.26%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (5.49%) Kafka
2 26 (4.20%) PySpark
3 21 (3.39%) XML
4 19 (3.07%) Pandas
5 17 (2.75%) NumPy
6 14 (2.26%) Matplotlib
6 14 (2.26%) PyTorch
6 14 (2.26%) TensorFlow
7 13 (2.10%) REST
7 13 (2.10%) scikit-learn
7 13 (2.10%) Seaborn
8 10 (1.62%) JSON
9 8 (1.29%) Apache NiFi
9 8 (1.29%) React
10 7 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (0.97%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.97%) SOAP
12 5 (0.81%) CSS
12 5 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (0.81%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.82%) Legacy Systems
2 32 (5.17%) Data Structures
3 27 (4.36%) Management Information System
4 24 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 20 (3.23%) Life Science
6 19 (3.07%) Reference Data
7 18 (2.91%) Cloud Native
8 17 (2.75%) Algorithms
9 14 (2.26%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.45%) IoT
11 8 (1.29%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (1.13%) Replication
13 6 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.97%) Market Risk
13 6 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
13 6 (0.97%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.78%) Linux
2 7 (1.13%) Unix
3 4 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (44.91%) Data Governance
2 206 (33.28%) Data Modelling
3 197 (31.83%) ETL
4 194 (31.34%) Analytics
5 167 (26.98%) Problem-Solving
6 152 (24.56%) Business Intelligence
7 130 (21.00%) Migration
8 123 (19.87%) Data Pipeline
9 122 (19.71%) Data Analysis
10 116 (18.74%) Data Management
11 115 (18.58%) Visualisation
12 111 (17.93%) Data Engineering
13 102 (16.48%) Agile
14 90 (14.54%) Decision-Making
15 89 (14.38%) Validation
16 88 (14.22%) Data Migration
17 83 (13.41%) Data Integration
18 82 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
19 79 (12.76%) Data Architecture
20 71 (11.47%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 268 (43.30%) SQL
2 197 (31.83%) Python
3 32 (5.17%) R
4 30 (4.85%) Java
5 25 (4.04%) Scala
6 12 (1.94%) PL/SQL
7 9 (1.45%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (1.29%) VBA
9 6 (0.97%) Apex Code
9 6 (0.97%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.65%) Bash
11 4 (0.65%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.65%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.48%) ABAP
12 3 (0.48%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.48%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.32%) Bicep
13 2 (0.32%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 84 (13.57%) Degree
2 78 (12.60%) Security Cleared
3 58 (9.37%) SC Cleared
4 28 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (4.20%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.62%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.45%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.45%) PhD
8 8 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.13%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.13%) PMP
10 5 (0.81%) GIAC
11 4 (0.65%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.32%) ACCA
12 2 (0.32%) CIMA
12 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.16%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.59%) GDPR
2 30 (4.85%) QA
3 24 (3.88%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.29%) PMO
5 6 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.81%) MiFID
7 3 (0.48%) EMIR
7 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.48%) SLA
7 3 (0.48%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.48%) WCAG
8 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.32%) FATCA
8 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.16%) Basel III
9 1 (0.16%) COSHH
9 1 (0.16%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.16%) GxP
9 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 15 (2.42%) Docker
2 4 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.32%) zsh
4 1 (0.16%) NFS
4 1 (0.16%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 36 (5.82%) Terraform
2 20 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.13%) Grafana
4 5 (0.81%) Kibana
4 5 (0.81%) logstash
4 5 (0.81%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.32%) Ansible
5 2 (0.32%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.16%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 74 (11.95%) SAP
2 73 (11.79%) Microsoft
3 64 (10.34%) Databricks
4 54 (8.72%) Informatica
5 53 (8.56%) Oracle
6 44 (7.11%) Google
7 13 (2.10%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.62%) Talend
9 9 (1.45%) Ariba
9 9 (1.45%) IBM
10 6 (0.97%) Alteryx
10 6 (0.97%) Amplitude
10 6 (0.97%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.81%) Liquidlogic
11 5 (0.81%) MicroStrategy
11 5 (0.81%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.81%) Sparx
12 4 (0.65%) DocuSign
12 4 (0.65%) Teradata
13 3 (0.48%) Workday