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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 201 247 282
Rank change year-on-year +46 +35 +16
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 1,473 1,524 2,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.50% 1.47% 1.44%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.90% 7.77% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 927 952 1,156
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,691 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +7.82% +9.09%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,403
% change year-on-year - +4.96% +10.32%

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 13,508 19,614 26,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.71% 18.94% 16.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9,228 9,101 13,249
10th Percentile £27,000 £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 4 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 4 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 +50 1,343 £67,500 +3.85% 406
UK excluding London +69 865 £55,000 - 235
London +46 538 £80,000 +14.29% 171
Work from Home +49 503 £65,000 +4.00% 173
North of England +122 291 £65,000 +23.81% 77
South East +58 220 £62,500 - 51
North West +100 163 £75,000 +42.86% 41
Midlands -19 137 £44,100 -11.80% 54
West Midlands -37 97 £55,000 +10.00% 30
South West -22 82 £58,875 -2.28% 22
Yorkshire +89 77 £50,000 -5.66% 30
Scotland -29 68 £50,000 -9.09% 8
East of England +41 53 £43,000 -31.20% 24
North East +27 51 £68,250 +36.50% 7
East Midlands +17 40 £35,000 -14.63% 23
Wales +15 15 £45,000 -25.00% 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
1 100 (6.79%) Apache Airflow
2 99 (6.72%) SharePoint
3 89 (6.04%) Apache
4 67 (4.55%) Apache Spark
5 26 (1.77%) Confluence
6 14 (0.95%) SAS
7 6 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
9 3 (0.20%) Smallworld
10 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.068%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.068%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 191 (12.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.20%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 20 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.54%) NEC Housing
2 8 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.48%) SAP GTS
4 5 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.27%) Finacle
5 4 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
5 4 (0.27%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.27%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.20%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.20%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.14%) MIS ActiveH
7 2 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.14%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.068%) HFM
8 1 (0.068%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.068%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.068%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 473 (32.11%) Azure
2 342 (23.22%) AWS
3 338 (22.95%) Power Platform
4 204 (13.85%) GCP
5 154 (10.45%) Snowflake
6 102 (6.92%) dbt
7 73 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 44 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 38 (2.58%) Collibra
11 35 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 34 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
13 33 (2.24%) Matillion
13 33 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
14 31 (2.10%) PowerApps
15 29 (1.97%) SaaS
16 27 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
17 24 (1.63%) Amazon Kinesis
17 24 (1.63%) IaaS
18 19 (1.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.09%) WPA
2 15 (1.02%) DNS
3 4 (0.27%) Internet
4 2 (0.14%) Intranet
4 2 (0.14%) Network Security
5 1 (0.068%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.068%) 5G
5 1 (0.068%) Skype
5 1 (0.068%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 353 (23.96%) Data Warehouse
2 326 (22.13%) Power BI
3 196 (13.31%) Data Lake
4 194 (13.17%) SQL Server
5 150 (10.18%) BigQuery
6 135 (9.16%) Metadata
7 132 (8.96%) Looker
8 99 (6.72%) Tableau
9 73 (4.96%) Amazon Athena
10 70 (4.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 68 (4.62%) Apache Arrow
11 68 (4.62%) Apache Ignite
11 68 (4.62%) Dremio
12 57 (3.87%) Data Vault
13 51 (3.46%) Big Data
14 45 (3.05%) Star Schema
15 44 (2.99%) Delta Lake
15 44 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 42 (2.85%) NoSQL
17 41 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 136 (9.23%) JIRA
2 42 (2.85%) GitLab
3 30 (2.04%) Git
4 14 (0.95%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 8 (0.54%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.48%) Spinnaker
7 6 (0.41%) RStudio
7 6 (0.41%) Toad
8 5 (0.34%) ERwin
9 3 (0.20%) Deequ
9 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.14%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.068%) JMeter
11 1 (0.068%) Mockito
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.068%) Postman
11 1 (0.068%) Zephyr
General
1 483 (32.79%) Finance
2 478 (32.45%) Social Skills
3 397 (26.95%) Analytical Skills
4 206 (13.99%) Banking
5 158 (10.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 104 (7.06%) Legal
7 79 (5.36%) Investment Banking
8 76 (5.16%) Law
8 76 (5.16%) Marketing
9 72 (4.89%) Front Office
10 64 (4.34%) Retail
11 44 (2.99%) Public Sector
12 35 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
14 29 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
15 26 (1.77%) Local Government
16 25 (1.70%) Back Office
17 17 (1.15%) Games
17 17 (1.15%) Telecoms
18 14 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 310 (21.05%) Data Engineer
2 259 (17.58%) Analyst
3 230 (15.61%) Senior
4 217 (14.73%) Architect
5 193 (13.10%) Data Architect
6 184 (12.49%) Lead
7 175 (11.88%) Data Analyst
8 106 (7.20%) Data Manager
9 73 (4.96%) Software Engineer
10 65 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
11 63 (4.28%) Developer
12 56 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
13 44 (2.99%) Lead Data Engineer
13 44 (2.99%) Senior Data Engineer
14 39 (2.65%) Technical Leader
15 37 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
16 36 (2.44%) Consultant
17 35 (2.38%) Python Engineer
18 34 (2.31%) AWS Software Engineer
18 34 (2.31%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (5.09%) PySpark
2 71 (4.82%) Pandas
3 69 (4.68%) NumPy
4 68 (4.62%) gRPC
4 68 (4.62%) Protocol Buffers
4 68 (4.62%) SciPy
5 21 (1.43%) .NET
6 13 (0.88%) JSON
6 13 (0.88%) XML
7 10 (0.68%) Kafka
8 8 (0.54%) Great Expectations
8 8 (0.54%) HTML
9 6 (0.41%) EDI
9 6 (0.41%) Middleware
10 5 (0.34%) J2EE
10 5 (0.34%) REST
10 5 (0.34%) Web Services
11 4 (0.27%) D3.js
11 4 (0.27%) MDX
11 4 (0.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 183 (12.42%) Self-Motivation
2 117 (7.94%) Data Structures
2 117 (7.94%) Management Information System
3 70 (4.75%) Hedge funds
4 69 (4.68%) Equities
4 69 (4.68%) Fixed Income
5 68 (4.62%) Derivative
5 68 (4.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 56 (3.80%) Reinsurance
7 44 (2.99%) Public Cloud
8 39 (2.65%) Product Ownership
8 39 (2.65%) Reference Data
9 28 (1.90%) Algorithms
10 24 (1.63%) Cloud Native
11 22 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
11 22 (1.49%) IoT
12 21 (1.43%) Onboarding
13 19 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (1.02%) Blog
15 13 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.49%) Windows
2 12 (0.81%) Linux
3 7 (0.48%) Unix
4 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.068%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (37.88%) Data Governance
2 533 (36.18%) Data Modelling
3 492 (33.40%) Problem-Solving
4 465 (31.57%) ETL
5 461 (31.30%) Analytics
6 424 (28.78%) Data Management
7 397 (26.95%) Agile
8 386 (26.21%) Business Intelligence
9 357 (24.24%) Data Engineering
10 283 (19.21%) Data Architecture
11 278 (18.87%) Data Integration
12 257 (17.45%) Mentoring
13 252 (17.11%) Data Analysis
14 208 (14.12%) Decision-Making
15 196 (13.31%) Data Science
16 172 (11.68%) Visualisation
17 167 (11.34%) Data Pipeline
18 163 (11.07%) Data Strategy
19 160 (10.86%) Data Analytics
20 157 (10.66%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 531 (36.05%) SQL
2 408 (27.70%) Python
3 168 (11.41%) Java
4 81 (5.50%) JavaScript
5 74 (5.02%) T-SQL
6 72 (4.89%) TypeScript
7 57 (3.87%) R
8 34 (2.31%) Scala
9 23 (1.56%) C#
10 22 (1.49%) Bash
11 20 (1.36%) VBA
12 15 (1.02%) Perl
13 10 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.54%) C
15 8 (0.54%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.41%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.34%) PHP
17 5 (0.34%) PowerShell
18 4 (0.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 268 (18.19%) Degree
2 73 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 66 (4.48%) Master's Degree
4 29 (1.97%) Security Cleared
5 28 (1.90%) SC Cleared
6 22 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
7 21 (1.43%) MBA
8 13 (0.88%) DBS Check
9 12 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (0.75%) PhD
11 9 (0.61%) CISM
11 9 (0.61%) CISSP
11 9 (0.61%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.41%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.41%) PMP
13 4 (0.27%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.27%) MCP
14 3 (0.20%) HND
14 3 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (15.21%) GDPR
2 57 (3.87%) QA
3 39 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 12 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (0.48%) COBIT
6 6 (0.41%) GRC
7 3 (0.20%) PMO
8 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.14%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.068%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.068%) CDISC
9 1 (0.068%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.068%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.068%) NCSC
9 1 (0.068%) SLA
9 1 (0.068%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 17 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.41%) Docker
5 2 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (1.22%) Terraform
2 7 (0.48%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.34%) logstash
4 3 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.068%) Ansible
Vendors
1 226 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 169 (11.47%) Google
3 146 (9.91%) Databricks
4 105 (7.13%) Oracle
5 86 (5.84%) Informatica
6 69 (4.68%) SAP
7 31 (2.10%) Alteryx
8 19 (1.29%) VMware
9 18 (1.22%) Salesforce
10 17 (1.15%) Talend
11 11 (0.75%) ServiceNow
12 9 (0.61%) Computacenter
13 8 (0.54%) NEC
14 7 (0.48%) Facebook
15 6 (0.41%) Civica
15 6 (0.41%) Jitterbit
15 6 (0.41%) Workday
16 5 (0.34%) Cloudera
17 3 (0.20%) JD Edwards
17 3 (0.20%) Sitecore