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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 113 125
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 -16
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 64 31 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.99% 1.34% 1.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.19% 8.66% 7.40%
Number of salaries quoted 35 27 22
10th Percentile £41,250 £34,750 £35,375
25th Percentile £46,875 £40,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £72,500 £50,250 £83,938
90th Percentile £85,000 £60,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +9.65% -26.45% +10.71%

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 525 358 649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.15% 15.44% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 369 248 204
10th Percentile £28,400 £26,250 £26,400
25th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -21.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £62,000 £50,063 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £61,250 £75,350
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.17%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -2 28 £70,000 +64.71% 22
Northamptonshire +3 12 £59,732 +121.23% 8
Derbyshire -2 9 £50,000 +24.22% 7
Leicestershire -42 8 £47,500 -2.06% 3
Lincolnshire -13 7 £42,500 +63.46% 5
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 2 (3.13%) Apache
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (21.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Infor M3
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.56%) SAP EHS
2 1 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (35.94%) Power Platform
2 7 (10.94%) SaaS
3 5 (7.81%) AWS
4 3 (4.69%) Azure
4 3 (4.69%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.13%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.56%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Databricks
6 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.56%) Dagster
6 1 (1.56%) dbt
6 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.56%) GCP
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.56%) PaaS
6 1 (1.56%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (35.94%) Power BI
2 9 (14.06%) Power Query
3 6 (9.38%) GIS
3 6 (9.38%) QlikView
3 6 (9.38%) Tableau
4 4 (6.25%) Crystal Reports
4 4 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.13%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (3.13%) Big Data
6 2 (3.13%) DTS
6 2 (3.13%) Metadata
7 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.56%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.56%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
General
1 30 (46.88%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (39.06%) Finance
3 20 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 16 (25.00%) Manufacturing
5 4 (6.25%) Social Housing
6 2 (3.13%) Advertising
6 2 (3.13%) Banking
6 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.13%) Marketing
6 2 (3.13%) Retail
7 1 (1.56%) Games
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (28.13%) Analyst
2 14 (21.88%) Data Manager
3 12 (18.75%) Junior
4 11 (17.19%) Data Analyst
5 9 (14.06%) Senior
6 7 (10.94%) Lead
7 6 (9.38%) Business Intelligence Manager
7 6 (9.38%) Business Manager
8 5 (7.81%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (6.25%) Architect
9 4 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 4 (6.25%) Data Architect
9 4 (6.25%) Performance Manager
10 3 (4.69%) Data Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Data Quality Manager
10 3 (4.69%) HR Analyst
10 3 (4.69%) Quality Manager
11 2 (3.13%) HR Business Analyst
11 2 (3.13%) Power BI Analyst
11 2 (3.13%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) EDI
2 3 (4.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (4.69%) PySpark
3 1 (1.56%) Middleware
3 1 (1.56%) REST
3 1 (1.56%) SOAP
3 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.31%) Management Information System
2 6 (9.38%) Data Structures
3 5 (7.81%) FMCG
4 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.56%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.56%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (45.31%) Analytics
2 25 (39.06%) Business Intelligence
3 21 (32.81%) Decision-Making
4 18 (28.13%) Data Management
5 17 (26.56%) Data Governance
5 17 (26.56%) ETL
5 17 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
6 16 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (25.00%) Validation
7 15 (23.44%) Data Modelling
8 14 (21.88%) Computer Science
8 14 (21.88%) ERP
9 13 (20.31%) Data Pipeline
10 12 (18.75%) Data Strategy
10 12 (18.75%) Master Data Management
10 12 (18.75%) Migration
11 10 (15.63%) Business Analytics
12 9 (14.06%) Data Transformation
12 9 (14.06%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (45.31%) SQL
2 4 (6.25%) Python
3 3 (4.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (4.69%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (32.81%) Degree
2 5 (7.81%) PMI Certification
2 5 (7.81%) PMP
3 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (3.13%) QA
3 1 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.56%) NIST
3 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (12.50%) SYSPRO
2 7 (10.94%) Oracle
3 5 (7.81%) Infor
3 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.13%) Databricks
4 2 (3.13%) SAP
5 1 (1.56%) Adobe
5 1 (1.56%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.56%) Xero