Data Quality Job Trends in the East of England

Data Quality
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Data Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 157 174
Rank change year-on-year +35 +17 +18
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 64 16 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.02% 0.52% 0.68%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.59% 4.28% 6.71%
Number of salaries quoted 43 8 28
10th Percentile £37,000 £43,875 -
25th Percentile £50,618 £45,938 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £76,500 £44,649
Median % change year-on-year -22.29% +71.34% -28.56%
75th Percentile £78,750 £100,000 £48,393
90th Percentile £92,988 - -
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +3.70%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 552 374 700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 8.81% 12.27% 10.11%
Number of salaries quoted 330 206 474
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,750 £24,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £43,871
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -3.13% -23.70%
75th Percentile £64,863 £57,500 £62,188
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £76,175
England median annual salary £59,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.48% +9.52% -8.70%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Quality relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Data Quality job vacancy trend in the East of England

Data Quality
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in the East of England

Data Quality
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Cambridgeshire -4 21 £59,450 - 22
Hertfordshire -6 18 £75,000 +2.74% 20
Suffolk +30 9 £57,000 +34.12% 10
Essex -14 7 £95,000 -5.00% 27
Norfolk - 6 £50,000 - 12
Bedfordshire +12 3 £53,712 +19.36% 11
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 9 (14.06%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (14.06%) Apache Spark
2 8 (12.50%) SAS
3 7 (10.94%) Apache
4 2 (3.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) SAP MDG
1 2 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (32.81%) AWS
2 17 (26.56%) Power Platform
3 13 (20.31%) Azure
4 8 (12.50%) dbt
4 8 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 8 (12.50%) Serverless
5 7 (10.94%) Amazon S3
6 6 (9.38%) Dataform
6 6 (9.38%) Entra ID
6 6 (9.38%) Power Automate
6 6 (9.38%) PowerApps
7 5 (7.81%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (7.81%) GCP
8 4 (6.25%) AWS KMS
8 4 (6.25%) Boomi
8 4 (6.25%) Matillion
9 3 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) Broadband
2 1 (1.56%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 16 (25.00%) Tableau
2 11 (17.19%) Power BI
3 10 (15.63%) Big Data
4 7 (10.94%) Apache Hive
4 7 (10.94%) Impala
4 7 (10.94%) Oracle Database
4 7 (10.94%) Parquet
4 7 (10.94%) Spark SQL
5 6 (9.38%) Looker
5 6 (9.38%) Metabase
6 4 (6.25%) Pentaho
6 4 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (6.25%) Star Schema
7 3 (4.69%) BigQuery
7 3 (4.69%) Metadata
7 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.69%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Git
1 7 (10.94%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (4.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) ERwin
3 1 (1.56%) Toad
General
1 27 (42.19%) Finance
2 22 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (21.88%) Social Skills
4 9 (14.06%) Banking
5 7 (10.94%) Investment Banking
6 6 (9.38%) Legal
6 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
7 5 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (6.25%) Law
9 3 (4.69%) Manufacturing
9 3 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (3.13%) Aerospace
10 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (3.13%) Marketing
11 1 (1.56%) Billing
11 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.56%) German Language
11 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (15.63%) Analyst
2 9 (14.06%) Lead
3 8 (12.50%) Administrator
3 8 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
3 8 (12.50%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 8 (12.50%) Technical Leader
3 8 (12.50%) Technical Manager
3 8 (12.50%) Transformation Analyst
4 7 (10.94%) Banking Analyst
5 6 (9.38%) Data Engineer
5 6 (9.38%) Data Scientist
5 6 (9.38%) Principal Data Scientist
5 6 (9.38%) Senior
5 6 (9.38%) Senior Data Scientist
5 6 (9.38%) Systems Administrator
6 5 (7.81%) Developer
7 4 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.31%) PySpark
2 5 (7.81%) Pandas
3 3 (4.69%) Bootstrap
3 3 (4.69%) CSS
3 3 (4.69%) HTML
3 3 (4.69%) HTML5
3 3 (4.69%) jQuery
3 3 (4.69%) Node.js
3 3 (4.69%) PyTorch
3 3 (4.69%) TensorFlow
4 2 (3.13%) Matplotlib
4 2 (3.13%) NumPy
4 2 (3.13%) scikit-learn
4 2 (3.13%) Seaborn
5 1 (1.56%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.13%) Clustering
3 2 (3.13%) Housing Association
3 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.13%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (48.44%) Data Engineering
2 28 (43.75%) Analytics
3 25 (39.06%) CI/CD
4 24 (37.50%) Data Transformation
5 23 (35.94%) Agile
6 22 (34.38%) Data Management
7 21 (32.81%) Data Modelling
8 20 (31.25%) AI
8 20 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (29.69%) ETL
10 18 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (25.00%) Data Governance
12 15 (23.44%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (23.44%) DevOps
13 14 (21.88%) Collaborative Working
14 13 (20.31%) Change Control
14 13 (20.31%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (20.31%) Validation
15 12 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
15 12 (18.75%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 37 (57.81%) SQL
2 29 (45.31%) Python
3 8 (12.50%) R
4 6 (9.38%) Julia
5 3 (4.69%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (3.13%) Scala
6 2 (3.13%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (21.88%) DBS Check
1 14 (21.88%) Degree
2 11 (17.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (14.06%) Master's Degree
4 6 (9.38%) Security Cleared
5 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.19%) GDPR
2 8 (12.50%) HIPAA
3 7 (10.94%) QA
4 4 (6.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (6.25%) NIST
4 4 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) Ansible
1 2 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (23.44%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.19%) Oracle
3 7 (10.94%) Red Hat
4 5 (7.81%) Informatica
5 4 (6.25%) MuleSoft
5 4 (6.25%) Talend
6 3 (4.69%) Databricks
6 3 (4.69%) Salesforce
6 3 (4.69%) SAP
7 2 (3.13%) Splunk
8 1 (1.56%) Dell
8 1 (1.56%) NVIDIA
8 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow