Data Quality Job Trends in the City of London

Data Quality
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 121 98
Rank change year-on-year +43 -23 -1
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 58 44 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.51% 1.66% 2.50%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.06% 11.31% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 43 27 50
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,500 £55,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,625 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -10.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £104,500 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +18.52% -10.00% -6.25%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of 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 permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 340 389 448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 14.74% 14.65% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 253 206 401
10th Percentile £36,750 £45,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,450 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -3.40% +3.45%
75th Percentile £83,750 £89,375 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £71,200 £74,000
% change year-on-year -1.69% -3.78% +2.07%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Quality relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Quality job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Quality
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in the City of London

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.17%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.45%) Apache
4 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (20.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Actimize
1 1 (1.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (39.66%) Power Platform
2 9 (15.52%) Azure
3 8 (13.79%) AWS
4 6 (10.34%) Snowflake
5 5 (8.62%) GitHub
6 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.45%) Alation
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.45%) Cloud Composer
7 2 (3.45%) GCP
7 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.45%) Prefect
7 2 (3.45%) Serverless
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.72%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.72%) Dagster
8 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (39.66%) Power BI
2 8 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (10.34%) Metadata
3 6 (10.34%) Tableau
4 5 (8.62%) Data Lake
5 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
6 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (5.17%) Power Query
6 3 (5.17%) Star Schema
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (3.45%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (3.45%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.45%) DataStage
7 2 (3.45%) Looker
7 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.45%) QlikView
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.72%) Big Data
8 1 (1.72%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) ER Studio
2 2 (3.45%) ERwin
2 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.45%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (1.72%) Deequ
3 1 (1.72%) GitLab
General
1 34 (58.62%) Finance
2 27 (46.55%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (41.38%) Social Skills
4 11 (18.97%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (17.24%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (15.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (8.62%) Law
7 5 (8.62%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (6.90%) Banking
8 4 (6.90%) Legal
9 3 (5.17%) Marketing
9 3 (5.17%) Retail
10 2 (3.45%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.72%) Front Office
11 1 (1.72%) International Banking
11 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (27.59%) Analyst
2 14 (24.14%) Data Analyst
3 10 (17.24%) Senior
4 8 (13.79%) Business Analyst
4 8 (13.79%) Data Business Analyst
4 8 (13.79%) Insurance Business Analyst
4 8 (13.79%) Lead
5 6 (10.34%) Data Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Risk Manager
6 5 (8.62%) Senior Manager
6 5 (8.62%) Senior Risk Manager
7 4 (6.90%) Architect
7 4 (6.90%) Technology Risk Manager
8 3 (5.17%) Data Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Data Manager
8 3 (5.17%) Data Scientist
8 3 (5.17%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (3.45%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) PySpark
2 3 (5.17%) Kafka
3 2 (3.45%) AWS CDK
3 2 (3.45%) Pandas
4 1 (1.72%) Great Expectations
4 1 (1.72%) Keras
4 1 (1.72%) pytest
4 1 (1.72%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.72%) Streamlit
4 1 (1.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.62%) Reinsurance
3 4 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Equities
4 1 (1.72%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.72%) FMCG
4 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (56.90%) Analytics
2 27 (46.55%) Data Governance
3 25 (43.10%) Continuous Improvement
4 24 (41.38%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (34.48%) Decision-Making
6 19 (32.76%) Data Pipeline
7 17 (29.31%) Data Management
8 16 (27.59%) ETL
9 14 (24.14%) Data Engineering
9 14 (24.14%) Data Modelling
10 13 (22.41%) AI
10 13 (22.41%) Data Analytics
10 13 (22.41%) Migration
10 13 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (20.69%) Actionable Insight
11 12 (20.69%) Data Strategy
12 11 (18.97%) Validation
13 10 (17.24%) Data Science
14 9 (15.52%) Creative Thinking
14 9 (15.52%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 24 (41.38%) SQL
2 17 (29.31%) Python
3 4 (6.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.72%) C#
4 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (6.90%) CISA
1 4 (6.90%) CISM
1 4 (6.90%) CISSP
1 4 (6.90%) CRISC
1 4 (6.90%) Degree
2 3 (5.17%) Azure Certification
2 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.17%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.45%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.45%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (10.34%) GDPR
3 5 (8.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (3.45%) QA
5 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.72%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.72%) NIST
5 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Terraform
2 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.72%) Ansible
3 1 (1.72%) Grafana
3 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.79%) Databricks
3 2 (3.45%) Google
3 2 (3.45%) IBM
3 2 (3.45%) Informatica
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle
3 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.72%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.72%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.72%) Confluent
4 1 (1.72%) Dell
4 1 (1.72%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.72%) NVIDIA
4 1 (1.72%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.72%) Refinitiv
4 1 (1.72%) Workday