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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 96 109
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 +27
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 34 37 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.31% 1.72% 1.01%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.24% 8.85% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 24 16 15
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £33,050
25th Percentile £46,111 £42,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +21.05% -15.56%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,125 £65,000
90th Percentile - £78,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +1.15%

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 368 418 279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 14.15% 19.39% 12.19%
Number of salaries quoted 256 115 210
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,000 £24,776
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,250 £31,781
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - -8.63%
75th Percentile £53,951 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,125 £67,500 £66,375
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +9 15 £48,500 -30.71% 10
Northamptonshire +9 8 £75,000 +15.38% 5
Nottinghamshire +10 7 £42,500 -5.56% 6
Derbyshire -18 4 £57,500 +15.00% 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 (2.94%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (2.94%) SAP Business One
1 1 (2.94%) SAP MDG
1 1 (2.94%) SAP QM
1 1 (2.94%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (5.88%) dbt
3 2 (5.88%) PaaS
3 2 (5.88%) Power Automate
3 2 (5.88%) SaaS
4 1 (2.94%) Alation
4 1 (2.94%) AWS
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.94%) BigCommerce
4 1 (2.94%) Collibra
4 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.94%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Broadband
1 1 (2.94%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 7 (20.59%) Data Lake
2 7 (20.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (17.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (17.65%) SQL Server
4 5 (14.71%) Power BI
5 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (8.82%) Metadata
5 3 (8.82%) Tableau
6 2 (5.88%) BigQuery
6 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
6 2 (5.88%) Power Query
7 1 (2.94%) Data Mining
7 1 (2.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (2.94%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (2.94%) SAP HANA
7 1 (2.94%) SAS EBI
General
1 18 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 16 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (32.35%) Finance
4 6 (17.65%) Law
4 6 (17.65%) Marketing
5 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Legal
6 1 (2.94%) Local Government
6 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
6 1 (2.94%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Analyst
2 6 (17.65%) DBA
3 5 (14.71%) Administrator
3 5 (14.71%) Data Analyst
3 5 (14.71%) Head of CRM
3 5 (14.71%) Head of Development
3 5 (14.71%) Head of Software Development
3 5 (14.71%) SQL DBA
4 4 (11.76%) Data Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Lead
5 3 (8.82%) Senior
6 2 (5.88%) Configuration Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Data Quality Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) IT Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Oracle Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Oracle Data Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Quality Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (5.88%) PySpark
1 2 (5.88%) REST
1 2 (5.88%) SOAP
2 1 (2.94%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Data Structures
2 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.88%) CMDB
3 2 (5.88%) Credit Risk
3 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (52.94%) Analytics
2 13 (38.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (35.29%) Data Governance
4 11 (32.35%) ETL
5 10 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (23.53%) Agile
6 8 (23.53%) CRM
7 7 (20.59%) Decision-Making
7 7 (20.59%) Migration
8 6 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (17.65%) Data Management
8 6 (17.65%) Reverse Engineering
8 6 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (17.65%) Validation
9 5 (14.71%) API Integration
9 5 (14.71%) Data Analysis
9 5 (14.71%) Data Validation
9 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (14.71%) Visualisation
10 4 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) SQL
2 8 (23.53%) Python
3 6 (17.65%) T-SQL
4 2 (5.88%) PL/SQL
4 2 (5.88%) R
5 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) DBS Check
1 4 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.94%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Zoho
3 4 (11.76%) Databricks
4 3 (8.82%) SAP
5 2 (5.88%) Oracle
5 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.94%) Civica
6 1 (2.94%) Google
6 1 (2.94%) Informatica
6 1 (2.94%) Magma
6 1 (2.94%) Northgate
6 1 (2.94%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.94%) Orchard
6 1 (2.94%) Salesforce