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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 117 94
Rank change year-on-year +19 -23 +52
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 32 37 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.43% 1.08% 1.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.04% 6.36% 10.81%
Number of salaries quoted 24 19 14
10th Percentile £35,600 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £60,313 £91,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,250 £110,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £63,000 £70,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.95% +4.81% +12.50%

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 354 582 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.81% 17.04% 11.45%
Number of salaries quoted 257 141 143
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,750 £30,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% -19.05% +10.53%
75th Percentile £50,250 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 +27 14 £48,500 -3.00% 7
Nottinghamshire +8 9 £42,500 -50.00% 5
Northamptonshire - 6 £75,000 - 5
Derbyshire -15 3 £45,000 -10.00% 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 1 (3.13%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (3.13%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (3.13%) SAP Business One
1 1 (3.13%) SAP MDG
1 1 (3.13%) SAP QM
1 1 (3.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
2 7 (21.88%) Power Platform
3 3 (9.38%) Power Automate
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (6.25%) dbt
4 2 (6.25%) PaaS
4 2 (6.25%) SaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Alation
5 1 (3.13%) AWS
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.13%) BigCommerce
5 1 (3.13%) Collibra
5 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) BigQuery
1 6 (18.75%) Data Lake
1 6 (18.75%) Power BI
1 6 (18.75%) SQL Server
1 6 (18.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 6 (18.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 6 (18.75%) Tableau
2 5 (15.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (9.38%) Metadata
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (6.25%) Power Query
5 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.13%) MySQL
5 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.13%) SAP HANA
General
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (28.13%) Finance
4 6 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (15.63%) Law
6 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.25%) Marketing
7 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Analyst
2 8 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 6 (18.75%) Data Quality Analyst
3 6 (18.75%) Quality Analyst
4 5 (15.63%) DBA
5 4 (12.50%) Administrator
5 4 (12.50%) SQL DBA
6 3 (9.38%) Architect
6 3 (9.38%) Data Architect
6 3 (9.38%) Data Manager
6 3 (9.38%) Oracle Architect
6 3 (9.38%) Oracle Data Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Configuration Manager
7 2 (6.25%) Developer
7 2 (6.25%) IT Manager
7 2 (6.25%) Lead
7 2 (6.25%) Systems Analyst
8 1 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 1 (3.13%) QA Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (9.38%) REST
2 2 (6.25%) SOAP
3 1 (3.13%) JSON
3 1 (3.13%) Middleware
3 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Data Structures
2 3 (9.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (9.38%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.25%) CMDB
3 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) ETL
2 11 (34.38%) Analytics
2 11 (34.38%) Data Governance
2 11 (34.38%) Migration
3 9 (28.13%) Data Cleansing
3 9 (28.13%) Data Validation
3 9 (28.13%) Validation
4 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 7 (21.88%) Data Visualisation
5 7 (21.88%) Decision-Making
6 6 (18.75%) Data Management
6 6 (18.75%) Data Modelling
7 5 (15.63%) CRM
7 5 (15.63%) Data Analysis
7 5 (15.63%) Reverse Engineering
7 5 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (12.50%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) SQL
2 7 (21.88%) Python
3 5 (15.63%) T-SQL
4 2 (6.25%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) GDPR
2 2 (6.25%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle
2 3 (9.38%) SAP
3 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) Cognos
4 1 (3.13%) Databricks
4 1 (3.13%) IBM
4 1 (3.13%) Informatica
4 1 (3.13%) Magma
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) Zoho