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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 111 120
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 -18
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 71 33 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.06% 1.43% 1.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.86% 8.94% 7.65%
Number of salaries quoted 37 28 22
10th Percentile - £34,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,938 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £50,250 £83,938
90th Percentile £85,000 £61,625 £110,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £56,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +10.62% -27.10% +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 552 369 667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.24% 15.95% 17.23%
Number of salaries quoted 380 254 183
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,250 £26,350
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% -15.49%
75th Percentile £62,000 £50,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,250 £63,375 £77,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.77% -1.74% -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 29 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 29 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 27 £70,000 +64.71% 23
Northamptonshire +3 16 £55,000 +0.46% 9
Derbyshire -5 12 £50,000 +24.22% 11
Leicestershire -37 10 £47,500 -2.06% 13
Lincolnshire -10 6 £42,500 +63.46% 7
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 (2.82%) Apache
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 18 (25.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.82%) Notion
Business Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Infor M3
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.41%) SAP EHS
2 1 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (40.85%) Power Platform
2 7 (9.86%) SaaS
3 5 (7.04%) Azure
4 4 (5.63%) AWS
4 4 (5.63%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (5.63%) SuccessFactors
5 3 (4.23%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Databricks
6 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.41%) Dagster
7 1 (1.41%) dbt
7 1 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.41%) PaaS
7 1 (1.41%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (40.85%) Power BI
2 10 (14.08%) Power Query
3 8 (11.27%) GIS
4 6 (8.45%) QlikView
4 6 (8.45%) Tableau
5 4 (5.63%) Crystal Reports
5 4 (5.63%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (5.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.82%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (2.82%) Big Data
7 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.82%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.82%) DTS
7 2 (2.82%) Metadata
7 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.41%) Data Vault
General
1 36 (50.70%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (40.85%) Finance
3 24 (33.80%) Social Skills
4 18 (25.35%) Manufacturing
5 6 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.63%) Social Housing
7 2 (2.82%) Advertising
7 2 (2.82%) Banking
7 2 (2.82%) Marketing
7 2 (2.82%) Retail
8 1 (1.41%) Games
8 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (26.76%) Analyst
2 14 (19.72%) Data Manager
3 12 (16.90%) Data Analyst
3 12 (16.90%) Junior
4 9 (12.68%) Lead
5 8 (11.27%) Senior
6 6 (8.45%) Business Intelligence Manager
6 6 (8.45%) Business Manager
7 5 (7.04%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (5.63%) Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Data Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Performance Manager
9 3 (4.23%) Data Quality Manager
9 3 (4.23%) HR Analyst
9 3 (4.23%) Power BI Analyst
9 3 (4.23%) Quality Manager
10 2 (2.82%) Business Analyst
10 2 (2.82%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (5.63%) EDI
2 4 (5.63%) PySpark
3 1 (1.41%) Middleware
3 1 (1.41%) REST
3 1 (1.41%) SOAP
3 1 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.94%) Management Information System
2 8 (11.27%) Data Structures
3 7 (9.86%) FMCG
4 2 (2.82%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.41%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.41%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.41%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (46.48%) Analytics
2 31 (43.66%) Business Intelligence
3 24 (33.80%) Decision-Making
3 24 (33.80%) ETL
4 23 (32.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (30.99%) Data Governance
6 21 (29.58%) Data Management
7 20 (28.17%) Data Modelling
8 19 (26.76%) Validation
9 17 (23.94%) Actionable Insight
10 16 (22.54%) Computer Science
10 16 (22.54%) Data Pipeline
10 16 (22.54%) ERP
10 16 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (19.72%) Data Transformation
11 14 (19.72%) Master Data Management
11 14 (19.72%) Migration
11 14 (19.72%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (18.31%) Data Strategy
13 12 (16.90%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (50.70%) SQL
2 6 (8.45%) Python
3 5 (7.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (4.23%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (32.39%) Degree
2 7 (9.86%) PMI Certification
2 7 (9.86%) PMP
3 2 (2.82%) ACCA
3 2 (2.82%) CIMA
4 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.68%) GDPR
2 2 (2.82%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.82%) QA
3 1 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.41%) NIST
3 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (15.49%) Microsoft
1 11 (15.49%) Oracle
2 8 (11.27%) SYSPRO
3 7 (9.86%) Infor
4 4 (5.63%) SAP
5 2 (2.82%) Adaptive Insights
5 2 (2.82%) Anaplan
5 2 (2.82%) Databricks
5 2 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.41%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.41%) Xero