Data Quality Jobs

Data Quality
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Quality skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Quality over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 186 256 283
Rank change year-on-year +70 +27 +13
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 1,595 1,386 2,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.52% 1.46% 1.48%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.60% 7.98% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,034 887 1,132
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,775
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £94,688 £85,000 £79,063
90th Percentile £122,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.44%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

Data Quality is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,751 17,364 29,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.07% 18.32% 17.24%
Number of salaries quoted 9,220 8,453 13,464
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,100 £93,650 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% +1.05%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Quality.

Salary trend for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +71 1,466 £70,000 +7.69% 474
UK excluding London +72 903 £55,000 - 259
London +58 620 £85,000 +13.33% 221
Work from Home +69 573 £70,000 +12.00% 184
North of England +160 320 £64,000 +21.90% 89
South East +46 216 £60,000 -4.00% 49
North West +100 180 £75,000 +46.00% 46
Midlands -18 153 £51,500 +3.00% 44
West Midlands -39 110 £56,282 +9.13% 26
South West -33 85 £57,500 -4.56% 34
Yorkshire +80 83 £50,000 -5.66% 32
Scotland -24 65 £50,000 -5.61% 13
North East +26 57 £64,000 +64.10% 12
East of England +16 49 £43,000 -31.20% 17
East Midlands +17 43 £36,000 -10.00% 18
Wales +8 15 £45,000 -17.82% 4

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 156 (9.78%) Apache Airflow
2 146 (9.15%) Apache
3 99 (6.21%) SharePoint
4 71 (4.45%) Apache Spark
5 28 (1.76%) Confluence
5 28 (1.76%) SAS
6 6 (0.38%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.19%) Luigi
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
7 3 (0.19%) Smallworld
8 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.063%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.063%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.063%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 201 (12.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.19%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 18 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.56%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.31%) SAP GTS
5 4 (0.25%) Finacle
5 4 (0.25%) FLEXCUBE
5 4 (0.25%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.25%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.19%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.19%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
7 2 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.063%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.063%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 1 (0.063%) Lorenzo
8 1 (0.063%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.063%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 474 (29.72%) Azure
2 395 (24.76%) AWS
3 349 (21.88%) Power Platform
4 204 (12.79%) Snowflake
5 200 (12.54%) GCP
6 154 (9.66%) dbt
7 80 (5.02%) Azure Data Factory
8 70 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (3.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 43 (2.70%) Collibra
11 36 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
12 35 (2.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 33 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
13 33 (2.07%) Matillion
14 30 (1.88%) PowerApps
15 28 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
16 27 (1.69%) SaaS
17 23 (1.44%) Amazon Kinesis
18 20 (1.25%) IaaS
19 19 (1.19%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.00%) WPA
2 14 (0.88%) DNS
3 4 (0.25%) Internet
4 2 (0.13%) Intranet
4 2 (0.13%) Network Security
5 1 (0.063%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.063%) 5G
5 1 (0.063%) Skype
5 1 (0.063%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 373 (23.39%) Data Warehouse
2 339 (21.25%) Power BI
3 260 (16.30%) Data Lake
4 196 (12.29%) SQL Server
5 155 (9.72%) Metadata
6 143 (8.97%) BigQuery
7 131 (8.21%) Looker
8 125 (7.84%) Amazon Athena
9 116 (7.27%) Apache Arrow
9 116 (7.27%) Apache Ignite
9 116 (7.27%) Dremio
10 94 (5.89%) Tableau
11 74 (4.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 63 (3.95%) Big Data
13 56 (3.51%) Data Vault
14 46 (2.88%) Relational Database
15 45 (2.82%) NoSQL
16 41 (2.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 41 (2.57%) Star Schema
17 40 (2.51%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 129 (8.09%) JIRA
2 42 (2.63%) GitLab
3 32 (2.01%) Git
4 13 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 8 (0.50%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.38%) ERwin
6 6 (0.38%) RStudio
6 6 (0.38%) Toad
7 5 (0.31%) Spinnaker
8 3 (0.19%) Deequ
8 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.063%) JMeter
10 1 (0.063%) MLflow
10 1 (0.063%) Mockito
10 1 (0.063%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.063%) Postman
10 1 (0.063%) Zephyr
General
1 546 (34.23%) Finance
2 501 (31.41%) Social Skills
3 418 (26.21%) Analytical Skills
4 259 (16.24%) Banking
5 166 (10.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 128 (8.03%) Front Office
6 128 (8.03%) Investment Banking
7 116 (7.27%) Legal
8 75 (4.70%) Marketing
9 74 (4.64%) Law
10 71 (4.45%) Retail
11 37 (2.32%) Public Sector
12 33 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
13 29 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
13 29 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (1.44%) Local Government
15 22 (1.38%) Back Office
16 16 (1.00%) Games
16 16 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 330 (20.69%) Data Engineer
2 288 (18.06%) Analyst
3 275 (17.24%) Senior
4 221 (13.86%) Lead
5 218 (13.67%) Architect
6 198 (12.41%) Data Architect
7 191 (11.97%) Data Analyst
8 113 (7.08%) Data Manager
9 98 (6.14%) Software Engineer
10 83 (5.20%) Senior Software Engineer
11 80 (5.02%) AWS Engineer
12 62 (3.89%) Technical Leader
13 61 (3.82%) Developer
14 58 (3.64%) AWS Software Engineer
15 54 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
16 51 (3.20%) Senior Analyst
17 48 (3.01%) Python Engineer
18 45 (2.82%) Lead Data Engineer
19 41 (2.57%) Consultant
20 35 (2.19%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (7.71%) Pandas
2 117 (7.34%) NumPy
3 116 (7.27%) gRPC
3 116 (7.27%) Protocol Buffers
3 116 (7.27%) SciPy
4 81 (5.08%) PySpark
5 19 (1.19%) .NET
6 15 (0.94%) XML
7 12 (0.75%) Kafka
8 11 (0.69%) JSON
9 8 (0.50%) Great Expectations
9 8 (0.50%) HTML
10 6 (0.38%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (0.31%) J2EE
11 5 (0.31%) React
11 5 (0.31%) REST
11 5 (0.31%) Web Services
12 4 (0.25%) D3.js
12 4 (0.25%) MDX
12 4 (0.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 181 (11.35%) Self-Motivation
2 126 (7.90%) Hedge funds
3 125 (7.84%) Fixed Income
3 125 (7.84%) Management Information System
4 117 (7.34%) Equities
5 116 (7.27%) Derivative
5 116 (7.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 114 (7.15%) Data Structures
7 59 (3.70%) Reinsurance
8 45 (2.82%) Reference Data
9 44 (2.76%) Product Ownership
10 40 (2.51%) Public Cloud
11 33 (2.07%) Algorithms
12 27 (1.69%) Onboarding
13 22 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
13 22 (1.38%) Cloud Native
14 19 (1.19%) IoT
15 18 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
16 16 (1.00%) Taxonomies
17 15 (0.94%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.38%) Windows
2 15 (0.94%) Linux
3 7 (0.44%) Unix
4 2 (0.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.063%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 588 (36.87%) Data Governance
2 549 (34.42%) Data Modelling
3 519 (32.54%) Problem-Solving
4 501 (31.41%) Analytics
5 465 (29.15%) ETL
6 461 (28.90%) Data Management
7 445 (27.90%) Agile
8 402 (25.20%) Business Intelligence
9 378 (23.70%) Data Engineering
10 293 (18.37%) Data Architecture
11 285 (17.87%) Data Integration
12 260 (16.30%) Data Analysis
13 259 (16.24%) Mentoring
14 219 (13.73%) Decision-Making
15 218 (13.67%) Data Science
16 188 (11.79%) Data Pipeline
17 187 (11.72%) Visualisation
18 179 (11.22%) Data Strategy
19 175 (10.97%) Asset Management
20 165 (10.34%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 580 (36.36%) SQL
2 492 (30.85%) Python
3 219 (13.73%) Java
4 129 (8.09%) JavaScript
5 120 (7.52%) TypeScript
6 73 (4.58%) T-SQL
7 57 (3.57%) R
8 35 (2.19%) Scala
9 33 (2.07%) VBA
10 21 (1.32%) C#
11 20 (1.25%) Bash
12 14 (0.88%) Perl
13 10 (0.63%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.50%) C
16 6 (0.38%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.38%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.31%) PowerShell
18 4 (0.25%) Go
19 3 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 284 (17.81%) Degree
2 82 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 68 (4.26%) Master's Degree
4 24 (1.50%) Security Cleared
5 23 (1.44%) Numerate Degree
5 23 (1.44%) SC Cleared
6 21 (1.32%) MBA
7 17 (1.07%) DBS Check
8 11 (0.69%) PhD
9 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.50%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.38%) CISM
11 6 (0.38%) CISSP
11 6 (0.38%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.31%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.31%) PMP
13 3 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.13%) ECDL
14 2 (0.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (14.17%) GDPR
2 56 (3.51%) QA
3 41 (2.57%) Accessibility
4 14 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 11 (0.69%) SLA
6 7 (0.44%) COBIT
6 7 (0.44%) GRC
7 3 (0.19%) PMO
8 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.13%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.063%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.063%) CDISC
9 1 (0.063%) COREP
9 1 (0.063%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.063%) FINREP
9 1 (0.063%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.063%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.063%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 16 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.50%) Docker
5 3 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (1.44%) Terraform
2 8 (0.50%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.31%) logstash
4 3 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 230 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 163 (10.22%) Databricks
2 163 (10.22%) Google
3 94 (5.89%) Oracle
4 93 (5.83%) Informatica
5 69 (4.33%) SAP
6 30 (1.88%) Alteryx
7 20 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 18 (1.13%) Talend
9 16 (1.00%) VMware
10 12 (0.75%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.56%) Bloomberg
11 9 (0.56%) NEC
12 6 (0.38%) Civica
12 6 (0.38%) Facebook
12 6 (0.38%) Jitterbit
12 6 (0.38%) Workday
13 5 (0.31%) Cloudera
13 5 (0.31%) Computacenter
14 4 (0.25%) Ab Initio