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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 100 146
Rank change year-on-year -3 +46 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 58 28 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.27% 1.54% 0.96%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.10% 9.18% 7.38%
Number of salaries quoted 38 20 15
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,925 £24,500
25th Percentile £44,834 £46,625 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,950 £48,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.24% +38.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £44,100
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,750 £52,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -8.15% +3.85%

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 384 305 542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.42% 16.80% 12.98%
Number of salaries quoted 247 182 379
10th Percentile £27,600 £25,500 £24,240
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,000 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% - -13.68%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,125 £54,188
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,375 £63,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +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 7 May 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 7 May 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 21 £65,000 +36.84% 9
Leicestershire -27 18 £34,000 -29.90% 5
Northamptonshire +8 10 £75,000 +15.38% 9
Derbyshire -14 8 £50,000 +40.85% 6
Lincolnshire - 1 £50,000 - 3
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 (1.72%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.72%) SAP EHS
1 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (27.59%) Power Platform
2 11 (18.97%) Azure
3 6 (10.34%) SaaS
4 3 (5.17%) AWS
4 3 (5.17%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.45%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.72%) dbt
6 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.72%) GCP
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.72%) PaaS
6 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.59%) Power BI
2 6 (10.34%) Power Query
2 6 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (10.34%) Tableau
3 3 (5.17%) Metadata
4 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
4 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
General
1 26 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 23 (39.66%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (32.76%) Finance
4 6 (10.34%) Marketing
5 3 (5.17%) Law
5 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Social Housing
7 1 (1.72%) Legal
7 1 (1.72%) Local Government
7 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (27.59%) Analyst
2 15 (25.86%) Junior
3 12 (20.69%) Data Analyst
4 6 (10.34%) Administrator
5 5 (8.62%) Head of CRM
5 5 (8.62%) Head of Development
5 5 (8.62%) Head of Software Development
6 4 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Data Manager
6 4 (6.90%) Junior Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Junior Data Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Senior
7 3 (5.17%) Data Administrator
7 3 (5.17%) Power BI Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) SQL Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Analytics Consultant
8 2 (3.45%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Digital Analytics Consultant
8 2 (3.45%) Power BI Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (3.45%) PySpark
2 1 (1.72%) Pandas
2 1 (1.72%) REST
2 1 (1.72%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (5.17%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.45%) CMDB
3 2 (3.45%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (51.72%) Analytics
2 19 (32.76%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (24.14%) Data Governance
3 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (22.41%) Decision-Making
5 11 (18.97%) Validation
6 10 (17.24%) ETL
6 10 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (17.24%) Visualisation
7 9 (15.52%) CRM
7 9 (15.52%) Data Management
7 9 (15.52%) Data Modelling
8 7 (12.07%) Agile
8 7 (12.07%) Data Science
9 6 (10.34%) Actionable Insight
9 6 (10.34%) Data Analysis
10 5 (8.62%) Process Improvement
10 5 (8.62%) Statistical Modelling
10 5 (8.62%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 20 (34.48%) SQL
2 9 (15.52%) Python
3 6 (10.34%) T-SQL
4 5 (8.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (6.90%) R
6 3 (5.17%) VBA
7 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (12.07%) Degree
2 4 (6.90%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.97%) GDPR
2 3 (5.17%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (5.17%) QA
3 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.72%) NIST
3 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Databricks
2 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.62%) Zoho
4 3 (5.17%) Oracle
5 2 (3.45%) Adobe
5 2 (3.45%) Civica
5 2 (3.45%) Google
5 2 (3.45%) Northgate
5 2 (3.45%) Orchard
5 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.72%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.72%) SAP