Data Quality Contracts in London

Data Quality
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 88 144
Rank change year-on-year -17 +56 +57
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 318 473 469
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.59% 2.71% 1.84%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.08% 19.37% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 350 308
10th Percentile £363 £369 £371
25th Percentile £425 £458 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £571
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.66% -0.65%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £650
90th Percentile £750 £850 £763
England median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 14
10th Percentile £31.31 £18.76 -
25th Percentile £38.79 £34.64 £21.24
Median hourly rate £52.50 £50.50 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +124.59% -59.49%
75th Percentile £73.75 £52.75 £23.73
90th Percentile £85.75 £61.25 £69.58
England median hourly rate £31.64 £21.06 £22.49
% change year-on-year +50.26% -6.35% -1.16%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,978 2,442 3,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.13% 13.99% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,313 1,725 2,460
10th Percentile £321 £350 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £798
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 63 37
10th Percentile £20.75 £12.90 £20.40
25th Percentile £22.51 £17.94 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £24.18 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.68% -8.75% -40.45%
75th Percentile £47.00 £46.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.36 £56.75 £81.00
England median hourly rate £34.50 £23.80 £42.50
% change year-on-year +44.96% -44.00% +53.26%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in London

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in London

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in London

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in London

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in London

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Central London -3 56 £535 -2.73% 25
West London +10 3 £450 - 9
North London -1 1 - -
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 24 (7.55%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.97%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (5.03%) Apache
4 8 (2.52%) Confluence
5 5 (1.57%) SAS
5 5 (1.57%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Luigi
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 35 (11.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.89%) Oracle Smart View
4 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.26%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.63%) Actimize
5 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.31%) Endur
5 1 (0.31%) HFM
5 1 (0.31%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.31%) Murex MxG2000
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.31%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.31%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 99 (31.13%) Azure
2 60 (18.87%) AWS
3 55 (17.30%) Power Platform
4 39 (12.26%) GCP
5 30 (9.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (6.29%) Snowflake
7 19 (5.97%) Collibra
8 18 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (5.66%) dbt
9 16 (5.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (4.09%) GitHub
11 9 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.83%) Serverless
12 8 (2.52%) Amazon S3
12 8 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (2.20%) Alation
14 5 (1.57%) OCI
14 5 (1.57%) Salsify
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.63%) DNS
1 2 (0.63%) HTTP
2 1 (0.31%) FTP
2 1 (0.31%) Internet
2 1 (0.31%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (24.84%) Data Warehouse
2 55 (17.30%) Power BI
3 45 (14.15%) Data Lake
4 41 (12.89%) Metadata
5 30 (9.43%) Tableau
6 28 (8.81%) SQL Server
7 20 (6.29%) Delta Lake
8 19 (5.97%) Snowflake Schema
9 18 (5.66%) Big Data
9 18 (5.66%) Relational Database
10 16 (5.03%) BigQuery
11 11 (3.46%) NoSQL
12 10 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (2.83%) Oracle Database
13 9 (2.83%) Power Query
13 9 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (2.52%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (2.52%) Qlik Sense
14 8 (2.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (5.35%) Git
2 16 (5.03%) JIRA
3 11 (3.46%) ERwin
4 6 (1.89%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (1.57%) Terragrunt
6 4 (1.26%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.94%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.94%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.63%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.63%) LSMW
8 2 (0.63%) MagicDraw
8 2 (0.63%) Vite
8 2 (0.63%) webpack
9 1 (0.31%) GitLab
9 1 (0.31%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.31%) MLflow
9 1 (0.31%) Postman
9 1 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.31%) Selenium
9 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 113 (35.53%) Social Skills
2 104 (32.70%) Finance
3 94 (29.56%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (16.98%) Banking
5 20 (6.29%) Investment Banking
6 15 (4.72%) Retail
7 13 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (3.77%) Public Sector
9 10 (3.14%) Financial Institution
9 10 (3.14%) Front Office
10 9 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.52%) Retail Banking
12 7 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.89%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.89%) Military
13 6 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.57%) Legal
14 5 (1.57%) Marketing
15 4 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (24.53%) Analyst
2 71 (22.33%) Data Engineer
3 55 (17.30%) Data Analyst
4 34 (10.69%) Architect
5 32 (10.06%) Lead
6 29 (9.12%) Senior
7 25 (7.86%) Data Architect
8 20 (6.29%) Business Analyst
9 16 (5.03%) Consultant
10 15 (4.72%) Developer
11 12 (3.77%) Data Consultant
11 12 (3.77%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
12 11 (3.46%) Data Business Analyst
12 11 (3.46%) Data Modeller
13 10 (3.14%) Azure Data Engineer
13 10 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (2.52%) Financial Analyst
14 8 (2.52%) Senior Data Analyst
15 7 (2.20%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.97%) PySpark
2 10 (3.14%) Kafka
3 7 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (1.57%) Pandas
4 5 (1.57%) REST
5 4 (1.26%) JSON
5 4 (1.26%) React
5 4 (1.26%) XML
6 3 (0.94%) NumPy
6 3 (0.94%) pytest
6 3 (0.94%) SOAP
7 2 (0.63%) CSS
7 2 (0.63%) GatsbyJS
7 2 (0.63%) Great Expectations
7 2 (0.63%) OpenCV
7 2 (0.63%) Parceljs
7 2 (0.63%) Plotly
7 2 (0.63%) pydantic
7 2 (0.63%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.63%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.66%) Data Structures
1 18 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (3.77%) Management Information System
2 12 (3.77%) Reference Data
3 7 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (1.89%) Onboarding
4 6 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.57%) Life Science
5 5 (1.57%) Market Risk
5 5 (1.57%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.26%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.94%) CMDB
7 3 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (0.94%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.63%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.63%) DTCC
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.89%) Linux
2 4 (1.26%) Unix
3 2 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (46.23%) Data Governance
2 123 (38.68%) Data Modelling
3 100 (31.45%) ETL
4 98 (30.82%) Problem-Solving
5 96 (30.19%) Analytics
6 81 (25.47%) Business Intelligence
7 68 (21.38%) Data Pipeline
8 63 (19.81%) Data Engineering
8 63 (19.81%) Data Management
9 58 (18.24%) Migration
10 54 (16.98%) Data Analysis
10 54 (16.98%) Visualisation
11 51 (16.04%) Validation
12 48 (15.09%) Agile
12 48 (15.09%) Data Integration
13 47 (14.78%) Data Architecture
13 47 (14.78%) Decision-Making
14 43 (13.52%) CI/CD
14 43 (13.52%) Stakeholder Management
15 39 (12.26%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 149 (46.86%) SQL
2 118 (37.11%) Python
3 15 (4.72%) Scala
4 9 (2.83%) Java
5 7 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (2.20%) PL/SQL
5 7 (2.20%) R
5 7 (2.20%) VBA
6 6 (1.89%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.57%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.57%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.94%) ABAP
8 3 (0.94%) Bash
8 3 (0.94%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.63%) C#
9 2 (0.63%) SAS Macro
10 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.31%) C++
10 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (16.35%) Degree
2 32 (10.06%) Security Cleared
3 29 (9.12%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.77%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.57%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.57%) PMP
8 3 (0.94%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.94%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.63%) ACCA
9 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.63%) CIMA
9 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.31%) CFA
10 1 (0.31%) CIPFA
10 1 (0.31%) MBA
10 1 (0.31%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.97%) QA
2 18 (5.66%) GDPR
3 15 (4.72%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (1.57%) MiFID
5 3 (0.94%) EMIR
5 3 (0.94%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.63%) SLA
6 2 (0.63%) WCAG
7 1 (0.31%) Basel III
7 1 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.31%) FATCA
7 1 (0.31%) GxP
7 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.31%) LOINC
7 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 8 (2.52%) Docker
2 3 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.63%) zsh
4 1 (0.31%) NFS
4 1 (0.31%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 23 (7.23%) Terraform
2 12 (3.77%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.94%) Grafana
3 3 (0.94%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.63%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.31%) Ansible
5 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.31%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 46 (14.47%) Databricks
2 35 (11.01%) Informatica
3 32 (10.06%) Microsoft
4 30 (9.43%) Oracle
5 28 (8.81%) SAP
6 25 (7.86%) Google
7 7 (2.20%) Talend
8 6 (1.89%) Alteryx
8 6 (1.89%) IBM
9 5 (1.57%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (1.57%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.57%) Sparx
10 3 (0.94%) Amplitude
10 3 (0.94%) DocuSign
10 3 (0.94%) Duck Creek
10 3 (0.94%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.63%) Ariba
11 2 (0.63%) Cognos
11 2 (0.63%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.31%) Murex