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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 111 120
Rank change year-on-year +12 +9 -16
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 83 30 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.23% 1.30% 1.25%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.46% 8.24% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 39 24 21
10th Percentile £40,750 £34,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £72,500 £50,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £62,125 £110,000
England median annual salary £63,750 £57,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +10.87% -25.81% +11.51%

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 574 364 651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.54% 15.73% 17.70%
Number of salaries quoted 385 253 170
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,250 £26,225
25th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -16.47% -22.73%
75th Percentile £62,000 £50,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £64,750 £78,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% -

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 October 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 October 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 -3 26 £70,000 +64.71% 18
Derbyshire +8 22 £50,000 +24.22% 4
Northamptonshire -2 17 £42,500 -22.37% 11
Leicestershire -38 12 £47,500 +11.76% 4
Lincolnshire -12 6 £42,500 +63.46% 2
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 (2.41%) Apache
2 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 21 (25.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (14.46%) Notion
Business Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Infor M3
2 1 (1.20%) SAP EHS
2 1 (1.20%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (44.58%) Power Platform
2 11 (13.25%) Azure
3 8 (9.64%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (7.23%) Entra ID
5 5 (6.02%) AWS
5 5 (6.02%) SaaS
6 4 (4.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 4 (4.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 4 (4.82%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (3.61%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.61%) Azure Databricks
7 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.41%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (2.41%) dbt
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.20%) GitHub
9 1 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.20%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (44.58%) Power BI
2 9 (10.84%) Power Query
3 8 (9.64%) GIS
4 6 (7.23%) QlikView
4 6 (7.23%) Tableau
5 5 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (6.02%) Relational Database
6 4 (4.82%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (4.82%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (4.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (3.61%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.61%) Delta Lake
7 3 (3.61%) Metadata
8 2 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.41%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (2.41%) Big Data
8 2 (2.41%) DTS
8 2 (2.41%) ThoughtSpot
9 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.20%) GitLab
General
1 43 (51.81%) Analytical Skills
2 41 (49.40%) Finance
3 30 (36.14%) Social Skills
4 18 (21.69%) Manufacturing
5 16 (19.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.82%) Social Housing
7 3 (3.61%) Retail
8 2 (2.41%) Advertising
8 2 (2.41%) Banking
8 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Marketing
9 1 (1.20%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (20.48%) Analyst
2 14 (16.87%) Data Manager
2 14 (16.87%) Junior
3 11 (13.25%) Data Analyst
4 9 (10.84%) Lead
5 8 (9.64%) Architect
5 8 (9.64%) Data Architect
5 8 (9.64%) Data Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) Senior
6 6 (7.23%) Business Intelligence Manager
6 6 (7.23%) Business Manager
7 5 (6.02%) Power BI Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) Administrator
8 4 (4.82%) Automation Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Junior Salesforce Administrator
8 4 (4.82%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.23%) PySpark
2 4 (4.82%) EDI
2 4 (4.82%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.20%) Middleware
3 1 (1.20%) REST
3 1 (1.20%) SOAP
3 1 (1.20%) Terraform
3 1 (1.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (26.51%) Management Information System
2 8 (9.64%) Data Structures
3 7 (8.43%) FMCG
4 6 (7.23%) AI Agents
5 5 (6.02%) Reference Data
6 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.20%) Pricing Data
8 1 (1.20%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (50.60%) Analytics
2 39 (46.99%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (42.17%) Data Modelling
4 34 (40.96%) Data Governance
4 34 (40.96%) Decision-Making
5 33 (39.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (38.55%) ETL
7 26 (31.33%) Validation
8 25 (30.12%) Data Management
9 23 (27.71%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (26.51%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (22.89%) AI
11 19 (22.89%) Data Transformation
12 18 (21.69%) Data Strategy
12 18 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (21.69%) Visualisation
13 17 (20.48%) Actionable Insight
13 17 (20.48%) Dashboard Development
13 17 (20.48%) Data Engineering
14 16 (19.28%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 46 (55.42%) SQL
2 13 (15.66%) Python
3 8 (9.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (28.92%) Degree
2 7 (8.43%) PMI Certification
2 7 (8.43%) PMP
3 6 (7.23%) ACCA
3 6 (7.23%) CIMA
4 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.66%) GDPR
2 12 (14.46%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.41%) SLA
4 1 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.20%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (7.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 23 (27.71%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.87%) Oracle
3 12 (14.46%) Salesforce
4 9 (10.84%) SAP
5 8 (9.64%) SYSPRO
6 7 (8.43%) Infor
7 6 (7.23%) Adaptive Insights
7 6 (7.23%) Anaplan
8 4 (4.82%) Databricks
9 1 (1.20%) HubSpot
9 1 (1.20%) Xero