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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 256 281
Rank change year-on-year +69 +25 +18
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 1,546 1,422 2,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.53% 1.44% 1.46%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.40% 7.68% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 990 904 1,124
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,787 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,313 £50,000 £46,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%

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 13,561 18,525 27,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.44% 18.81% 17.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,147 8,607 13,266
10th Percentile £26,750 £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 £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,602
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.04% +0.22%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +61 1,414 £68,500 +5.38% 541
UK excluding London +85 887 £55,000 - 344
London +60 586 £85,000 +17.24% 284
Work from Home +88 554 £70,000 +12.00% 206
North of England +146 302 £65,066 +29.51% 106
South East +63 217 £60,000 -4.00% 121
North West +108 175 £77,500 +50.87% 55
Midlands -31 151 £50,000 - 53
West Midlands -31 110 £55,641 +11.28% 36
South West -16 84 £56,250 -6.64% 28
Yorkshire +86 77 £50,000 -4.76% 39
Scotland -14 68 £50,000 -9.09% 9
East of England +31 51 £43,000 -31.20% 17
North East +23 50 £71,500 +60.67% 13
East Midlands +26 41 £35,000 -12.50% 17
Wales +12 15 £45,000 -17.82% 6

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
1 144 (9.31%) Apache Airflow
2 135 (8.73%) Apache
3 99 (6.40%) SharePoint
4 71 (4.59%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.75%) Confluence
6 18 (1.16%) SAS
7 6 (0.39%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.19%) Luigi
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
8 3 (0.19%) Smallworld
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.065%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.065%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 199 (12.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.19%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 18 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.52%) NEC Housing
4 7 (0.45%) SAP GTS
5 5 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.26%) Finacle
6 4 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
6 4 (0.26%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.26%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.19%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.19%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
8 2 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.13%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.13%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.065%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.065%) HFM
9 1 (0.065%) Lorenzo
9 1 (0.065%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.065%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 472 (30.53%) Azure
2 382 (24.71%) AWS
3 343 (22.19%) Power Platform
4 202 (13.07%) GCP
5 192 (12.42%) Snowflake
6 141 (9.12%) dbt
7 75 (4.85%) Azure Data Factory
8 70 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (3.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 44 (2.85%) Collibra
11 37 (2.39%) Microsoft Purview
12 35 (2.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 32 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
13 32 (2.07%) Matillion
14 29 (1.88%) PowerApps
15 28 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
15 28 (1.81%) SaaS
16 23 (1.49%) Amazon Kinesis
17 21 (1.36%) IaaS
18 19 (1.23%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.03%) WPA
2 14 (0.91%) DNS
3 4 (0.26%) Internet
4 2 (0.13%) Intranet
4 2 (0.13%) Network Security
5 1 (0.065%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.065%) 5G
5 1 (0.065%) Skype
5 1 (0.065%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (23.67%) Data Warehouse
2 333 (21.54%) Power BI
3 244 (15.78%) Data Lake
4 199 (12.87%) SQL Server
5 149 (9.64%) Metadata
6 145 (9.38%) BigQuery
7 131 (8.47%) Looker
8 113 (7.31%) Amazon Athena
9 104 (6.73%) Apache Arrow
9 104 (6.73%) Apache Ignite
9 104 (6.73%) Dremio
10 93 (6.02%) Tableau
11 74 (4.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 61 (3.95%) Big Data
13 56 (3.62%) Data Vault
14 47 (3.04%) Relational Database
15 44 (2.85%) NoSQL
16 42 (2.72%) Delta Lake
16 42 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 42 (2.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 128 (8.28%) JIRA
2 42 (2.72%) GitLab
3 30 (1.94%) Git
4 15 (0.97%) Jenkins
5 14 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (0.52%) Visual Studio
7 7 (0.45%) Spinnaker
8 6 (0.39%) ERwin
8 6 (0.39%) RStudio
8 6 (0.39%) Toad
9 3 (0.19%) Deequ
9 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.065%) JMeter
11 1 (0.065%) MLflow
11 1 (0.065%) Mockito
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.065%) Postman
11 1 (0.065%) Zephyr
General
1 534 (34.54%) Finance
2 494 (31.95%) Social Skills
3 419 (27.10%) Analytical Skills
4 246 (15.91%) Banking
5 165 (10.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 116 (7.50%) Investment Banking
7 114 (7.37%) Front Office
7 114 (7.37%) Legal
8 78 (5.05%) Marketing
9 76 (4.92%) Law
10 62 (4.01%) Retail
11 38 (2.46%) Public Sector
12 34 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
13 30 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (1.68%) Back Office
15 23 (1.49%) Local Government
16 16 (1.03%) Games
16 16 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
16 16 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 328 (21.22%) Data Engineer
2 264 (17.08%) Analyst
3 255 (16.49%) Senior
4 217 (14.04%) Architect
5 210 (13.58%) Lead
6 194 (12.55%) Data Architect
7 177 (11.45%) Data Analyst
8 109 (7.05%) Data Manager
9 93 (6.02%) Software Engineer
10 80 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
11 74 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
12 64 (4.14%) Developer
13 56 (3.62%) Technical Leader
14 52 (3.36%) AWS Software Engineer
15 50 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
16 45 (2.91%) Lead Data Engineer
17 44 (2.85%) Python Engineer
18 39 (2.52%) Consultant
18 39 (2.52%) Senior Analyst
19 36 (2.33%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (7.12%) Pandas
2 105 (6.79%) NumPy
3 104 (6.73%) gRPC
3 104 (6.73%) Protocol Buffers
3 104 (6.73%) SciPy
4 82 (5.30%) PySpark
5 20 (1.29%) .NET
6 14 (0.91%) XML
7 13 (0.84%) JSON
8 11 (0.71%) Kafka
9 8 (0.52%) Great Expectations
9 8 (0.52%) HTML
10 6 (0.39%) Lambda Expressions
10 6 (0.39%) REST
11 5 (0.32%) J2EE
11 5 (0.32%) React
11 5 (0.32%) Web Services
12 4 (0.26%) CSS
12 4 (0.26%) MDX
12 4 (0.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 182 (11.77%) Self-Motivation
2 121 (7.83%) Management Information System
3 115 (7.44%) Data Structures
4 112 (7.24%) Hedge funds
5 111 (7.18%) Fixed Income
6 105 (6.79%) Equities
7 104 (6.73%) Derivative
7 104 (6.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 59 (3.82%) Reinsurance
9 45 (2.91%) Product Ownership
10 42 (2.72%) Public Cloud
10 42 (2.72%) Reference Data
11 32 (2.07%) Algorithms
12 24 (1.55%) Cloud Native
12 24 (1.55%) Onboarding
13 22 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
14 20 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
15 19 (1.23%) IoT
16 16 (1.03%) Taxonomies
17 15 (0.97%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.42%) Windows
2 16 (1.03%) Linux
3 8 (0.52%) Unix
4 2 (0.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.065%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 576 (37.26%) Data Governance
2 536 (34.67%) Data Modelling
3 510 (32.99%) Problem-Solving
4 489 (31.63%) Analytics
5 469 (30.34%) ETL
6 440 (28.46%) Data Management
7 436 (28.20%) Agile
8 396 (25.61%) Business Intelligence
9 375 (24.26%) Data Engineering
10 285 (18.43%) Data Architecture
11 278 (17.98%) Data Integration
12 258 (16.69%) Mentoring
13 249 (16.11%) Data Analysis
14 218 (14.10%) Decision-Making
15 202 (13.07%) Data Science
16 179 (11.58%) Data Pipeline
17 174 (11.25%) Data Strategy
18 173 (11.19%) Visualisation
19 163 (10.54%) Data Analytics
20 162 (10.48%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 551 (35.64%) SQL
2 461 (29.82%) Python
3 211 (13.65%) Java
4 118 (7.63%) JavaScript
5 108 (6.99%) TypeScript
6 76 (4.92%) T-SQL
7 57 (3.69%) R
8 36 (2.33%) Scala
9 22 (1.42%) C#
9 22 (1.42%) VBA
10 20 (1.29%) Bash
11 14 (0.91%) Perl
12 11 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 9 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (0.52%) C
15 7 (0.45%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.39%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.26%) Go
17 4 (0.26%) PowerShell
18 3 (0.19%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 283 (18.31%) Degree
2 79 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 68 (4.40%) Master's Degree
4 23 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
4 23 (1.49%) Security Cleared
5 22 (1.42%) SC Cleared
6 21 (1.36%) MBA
7 16 (1.03%) DBS Check
8 11 (0.71%) PhD
9 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (0.58%) CISM
10 9 (0.58%) CISSP
10 9 (0.58%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.39%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.39%) PMP
12 5 (0.32%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.13%) ECDL
14 2 (0.13%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (14.42%) GDPR
2 56 (3.62%) QA
3 40 (2.59%) Accessibility
4 13 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (0.45%) COBIT
5 7 (0.45%) GRC
6 3 (0.19%) PMO
7 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.13%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.065%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.065%) CDISC
8 1 (0.065%) COREP
8 1 (0.065%) FINREP
8 1 (0.065%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.065%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.065%) NCSC
8 1 (0.065%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.065%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 16 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.32%) Docker
5 2 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (1.49%) Terraform
2 6 (0.39%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.32%) logstash
4 3 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 229 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 165 (10.67%) Google
3 159 (10.28%) Databricks
4 99 (6.40%) Oracle
5 89 (5.76%) Informatica
6 72 (4.66%) SAP
7 30 (1.94%) Alteryx
8 19 (1.23%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.23%) Talend
9 16 (1.03%) VMware
10 12 (0.78%) ServiceNow
11 8 (0.52%) NEC
12 7 (0.45%) Bloomberg
12 7 (0.45%) Computacenter
12 7 (0.45%) Facebook
13 6 (0.39%) Civica
13 6 (0.39%) Jitterbit
13 6 (0.39%) Workday
14 5 (0.32%) Cloudera
15 3 (0.19%) Sitecore