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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 86 131
Rank change year-on-year -23 +45 +17
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 36 35 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.21% 1.82% 0.74%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.09% 9.49% 5.90%
Number of salaries quoted 27 17 14
10th Percentile £30,000 £38,750 £32,725
25th Percentile £34,500 £42,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £44,100
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +13.38% -13.95%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £52,188
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% -

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 396 369 373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.26% 19.15% 12.55%
Number of salaries quoted 272 109 290
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,512 £24,204
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £30,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £53,951 £61,250 £53,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £67,750 £65,000
England median annual salary £59,527 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.79% +9.09% -4.35%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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
Leicestershire +6 21 £46,445 -33.65% 11
Northamptonshire +2 7 £75,000 +15.38% 5
Nottinghamshire -2 5 £38,000 -15.56% 8
Derbyshire -23 3 £55,000 +10.00% 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 (2.78%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) Azure
1 12 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (5.56%) AWS
2 2 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (5.56%) PaaS
2 2 (5.56%) SaaS
3 1 (2.78%) Alation
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.78%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (33.33%) Power BI
2 8 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (19.44%) Data Lake
3 7 (19.44%) SQL Server
3 7 (19.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (16.67%) Tableau
5 4 (11.11%) Metadata
6 2 (5.56%) Data Mining
6 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
6 2 (5.56%) Power Query
7 1 (2.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (2.78%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (2.78%) SAS EBI
General
1 23 (63.89%) Social Skills
2 22 (61.11%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (27.78%) Finance
4 6 (16.67%) Law
4 6 (16.67%) Marketing
5 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Social Housing
7 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Legal
7 1 (2.78%) Local Government
7 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Administrator
1 7 (19.44%) Analyst
2 6 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 6 (16.67%) DBA
3 5 (13.89%) Head of CRM
3 5 (13.89%) Head of Development
3 5 (13.89%) Head of Software Development
3 5 (13.89%) SQL DBA
4 4 (11.11%) Data Manager
4 4 (11.11%) Junior
4 4 (11.11%) Junior Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Junior Data Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Configuration Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Data Administrator
6 2 (5.56%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.56%) IT Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (5.56%) PySpark
1 2 (5.56%) REST
1 2 (5.56%) SOAP
2 1 (2.78%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 5 (13.89%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.56%) CMDB
3 2 (5.56%) Credit Risk
3 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) Analytics
2 15 (41.67%) Data Governance
3 14 (38.89%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (25.00%) CRM
6 9 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 9 (25.00%) ETL
6 9 (25.00%) Validation
6 9 (25.00%) Visualisation
7 8 (22.22%) Agile
8 7 (19.44%) Data Analysis
9 6 (16.67%) Data Management
9 6 (16.67%) Data Science
9 6 (16.67%) Reverse Engineering
9 6 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (13.89%) API Integration
10 5 (13.89%) Data Analytics
10 5 (13.89%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 21 (58.33%) SQL
2 8 (22.22%) Python
3 7 (19.44%) T-SQL
4 4 (11.11%) R
5 2 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (5.56%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (11.11%) DBS Check
3 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.78%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (19.44%) Databricks
3 5 (13.89%) Zoho
4 3 (8.33%) Oracle
5 2 (5.56%) Civica
5 2 (5.56%) Google
5 2 (5.56%) Northgate
5 2 (5.56%) Orchard
5 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.78%) Informatica
6 1 (2.78%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.78%) SAP