The first table below looks at the demand for Data Quality skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Quality over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Quality
Rank 173 174 162
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -12
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 14 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.333% 0.053% 0.075%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.965% 0.755% 1.587%
Number of salaries quoted 14 1 1
Average salary £52,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+31.25% +6.66%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year
-17.39% -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
282 265 189
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 6.706% 7.052% 4.726%
Number of salaries quoted 254 208 164
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,000 £21,350
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,153 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-2.80% +0.37%
Data Quality
North West

Data Quality
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Data Quality across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Manchester Data Quality Jobs Demand Trend

Data Quality
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Data Quality across the Manchester region.

Manchester Data Quality Salary Trend

Data Quality
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Data Quality across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Manchester Data Quality Salary Histogram

Data Quality
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Data Quality also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Data Quality.

1 14 (70.00%) Data Governance
2 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 12 (60.00%) Data Management
3 11 (55.00%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (45.00%) Analytics
5 7 (35.00%) Master Data Management
5 7 (35.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (35.00%) Quality Management
5 7 (35.00%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
7 5 (25.00%) Data Architecture
7 5 (25.00%) Banking
8 4 (20.00%) Retail
8 4 (20.00%) Information Management
8 4 (20.00%) Predictive Analytics
8 4 (20.00%) Data Security
8 4 (20.00%) ETL
8 4 (20.00%) SAS
8 4 (20.00%) SPSS
9 3 (15.00%) Oracle
9 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (10.00%) Neural Network
10 2 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
10 2 (10.00%) Degree
10 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
10 2 (10.00%) Open Source
10 2 (10.00%) Data Migration
10 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
10 2 (10.00%) Migration
10 2 (10.00%) HTTP

Data Quality
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Data Quality also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Data Quality. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.000%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) SPSS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.000%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) ERwin
2 1 (5.000%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Banking
3 4 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Analyst
2 7 (35.00%) Architect
2 7 (35.00%) Data Analyst
3 6 (30.00%) Quality Analyst
3 6 (30.00%) Data Quality Analyst
4 5 (25.00%) Data Architect
5 4 (20.00%) Business Analyst
6 3 (15.00%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (15.00%) Information Architect
6 3 (15.00%) Senior Data Analyst
7 2 (10.00%) SAS Analyst
7 2 (10.00%) Business Architect
7 2 (10.00%) Data Consultant
7 2 (10.00%) Data Analytics Architect
7 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Architect
7 2 (10.00%) SAS Architect
7 2 (10.00%) Strategy Manager
7 2 (10.00%) Consultant
7 2 (10.00%) Data Analytics Consultant
8 1 (5.000%) Data Integration Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Neural Network
1 2 (10.00%) Open Source
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.000%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.000%) UNIX
1 1 (5.000%) Windows
1 1 (5.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Data Governance
2 12 (60.00%) Data Management
3 11 (55.00%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (45.00%) Analytics
5 7 (35.00%) Master Data Management
5 7 (35.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (35.00%) Quality Management
6 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
7 5 (25.00%) Data Architecture
8 4 (20.00%) Information Management
8 4 (20.00%) Predictive Analytics
8 4 (20.00%) Data Security
8 4 (20.00%) ETL
9 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
10 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
10 2 (10.00%) Data Migration
10 2 (10.00%) Migration
10 2 (10.00%) CRM
10 2 (10.00%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.000%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) IBM
2 2 (10.00%) Informatica
3 1 (5.000%) Talend
3 1 (5.000%) Teradata
3 1 (5.000%) Ab Initio