Data Quality Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data Quality
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Data Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 106 157
Rank change year-on-year -1 +51 -14
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 55 28 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.13% 1.39% 0.82%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.00% 9.33% 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 35 19 18
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £27,125
25th Percentile £41,573 £41,625 £32,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £44,100
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +9.98% +10.25%
75th Percentile £66,250 £50,250 £54,375
90th Percentile £77,500 £50,700 £78,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £73,395
% change year-on-year - -18.25% +8.73%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 423 300 660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.69% 14.92% 12.33%
Number of salaries quoted 293 181 415
10th Percentile £28,000 £24,000 £24,240
25th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -11.25% -16.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £50,625 £56,100
90th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £63,750
England median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.17% +9.52% -8.70%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Data Quality
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in the East Midlands

Data Quality
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 June 2026. 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
Nottinghamshire 0 26 £65,000 +52.94% 13
Leicestershire -31 13 £30,000 -38.14% 5
Derbyshire +11 9 £50,000 +40.85% 4
Northamptonshire +8 6 £59,000 -9.23% 4
Lincolnshire -20 1 £50,000 +92.31% 6
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.82%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.82%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.82%) SAP EHS
1 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (32.73%) Power Platform
2 8 (14.55%) Azure
3 7 (12.73%) SaaS
4 3 (5.45%) AWS
4 3 (5.45%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.64%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (3.64%) dbt
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.82%) Dagster
6 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.82%) GCP
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.82%) PaaS
6 1 (1.82%) Prefect
6 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.82%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (32.73%) Power BI
2 7 (12.73%) Power Query
3 6 (10.91%) Tableau
4 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.64%) Metadata
6 1 (1.82%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.82%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.82%) GIS
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.82%) QlikView
General
1 22 (40.00%) Finance
2 17 (30.91%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (29.09%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.82%) Advertising
6 1 (1.82%) Games
6 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Law
6 1 (1.82%) Local Government
6 1 (1.82%) Marketing
6 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Retail
6 1 (1.82%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 20 (36.36%) Junior
2 17 (30.91%) Analyst
3 12 (21.82%) Data Analyst
4 5 (9.09%) Data Manager
4 5 (9.09%) Senior
5 4 (7.27%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) Junior Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) Junior Data Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Administrator
6 3 (5.45%) Data Administrator
6 3 (5.45%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Power BI Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) SQL Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Analytics Consultant
7 2 (3.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Digital Analytics Consultant
7 2 (3.64%) Lead
7 2 (3.64%) Power BI Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.82%) Pandas
2 1 (1.82%) REST
2 1 (1.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.82%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.91%) Analytics
2 21 (38.18%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (23.64%) Decision-Making
5 12 (21.82%) Data Modelling
6 11 (20.00%) Data Governance
6 11 (20.00%) Validation
6 11 (20.00%) Visualisation
7 9 (16.36%) Actionable Insight
7 9 (16.36%) Data Management
7 9 (16.36%) ETL
8 6 (10.91%) Data Analysis
8 6 (10.91%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 6 (10.91%) Process Improvement
9 5 (9.09%) AI
9 5 (9.09%) Computer Science
9 5 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (9.09%) Dashboard Development
9 5 (9.09%) Data Science
9 5 (9.09%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 19 (34.55%) SQL
2 7 (12.73%) Python
3 5 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (7.27%) T-SQL
5 3 (5.45%) R
5 3 (5.45%) VBA
6 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.82%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.55%) GDPR
2 3 (5.45%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (5.45%) QA
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.82%) NIST
3 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) Databricks
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.45%) Oracle
4 2 (3.64%) Adobe
4 2 (3.64%) SYSPRO
5 1 (1.82%) Civica
5 1 (1.82%) Google
5 1 (1.82%) Northgate
5 1 (1.82%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.82%) Orchard
5 1 (1.82%) SAP