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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 168 121
Rank change year-on-year +46 -47 +79
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 35 12 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.85% 0.34% 0.85%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.61% 2.21% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 25 3 6
10th Percentile - £42,450 £33,516
25th Percentile - £45,750 £34,012
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,370 £52,500 £35,640
Median % change year-on-year -42.15% +47.31% -35.20%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,625 £36,285
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,750 £42,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 330 543 295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 8.01% 15.44% 13.16%
Number of salaries quoted 234 172 200
10th Percentile £30,370 £28,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £34,063 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £60,563 £74,313 £68,125
90th Percentile £74,250 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.35%

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 4 January 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 4 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
Cambridgeshire +25 16 £30,370 -30.18% 13
Hertfordshire +16 9 £75,000 -11.76% 33
Essex -9 4 £57,500 - 18
Bedfordshire - 4 - - 11
Suffolk - 2 £41,250 - 7
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 2 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.71%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) AWS
2 6 (17.14%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) Power Platform
3 4 (11.43%) Boomi
3 4 (11.43%) GCP
3 4 (11.43%) Matillion
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
4 3 (8.57%) AWS KMS
4 3 (8.57%) Snowflake
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.71%) Serverless
5 2 (5.71%) Workato
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.86%) dbt
6 1 (2.86%) H2O.ai
6 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (17.14%) Power BI
3 4 (11.43%) Pentaho
3 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
3 4 (11.43%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (11.43%) Tableau
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (8.57%) Big Data
4 3 (8.57%) Metadata
4 3 (8.57%) Star Schema
5 2 (5.71%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.86%) MySQL
6 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.86%) QlikView
6 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
General
1 21 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (40.00%) German Language
3 13 (37.14%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
5 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
6 5 (14.29%) Finance
6 5 (14.29%) Law
7 4 (11.43%) Manufacturing
8 2 (5.71%) Electronics
8 2 (5.71%) Marketing
8 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
9 1 (2.86%) Games
9 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (14.29%) Data Engineer
1 5 (14.29%) Developer
2 4 (11.43%) Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 2 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Data Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Data Quality Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Data Science Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Quality Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Business Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Development Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Facilities Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Systems Development Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Pandas
1 4 (11.43%) PySpark
2 3 (8.57%) PyTorch
2 3 (8.57%) TensorFlow
3 2 (5.71%) JSON
3 2 (5.71%) Matplotlib
3 2 (5.71%) NumPy
3 2 (5.71%) scikit-learn
3 2 (5.71%) Seaborn
3 2 (5.71%) XML
4 1 (2.86%) FHIR
4 1 (2.86%) HTML
4 1 (2.86%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.71%) Reference Data
2 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.71%) Semantic Web
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.86%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) IoT
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Life Science
3 1 (2.86%) Omics
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) AI
2 17 (48.57%) Generative AI
3 16 (45.71%) LLM
4 14 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 14 (40.00%) Open Source
5 10 (28.57%) Data Engineering
6 9 (25.71%) ETL
7 8 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (22.86%) Data Transformation
8 7 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 7 (20.00%) Migration
9 6 (17.14%) Analytics
9 6 (17.14%) Data Extraction
9 6 (17.14%) Data Management
9 6 (17.14%) Machine Learning
9 6 (17.14%) Visualisation
10 5 (14.29%) Data Migration
10 5 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
11 4 (11.43%) Performance Tuning
11 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 16 (45.71%) SQL
2 14 (40.00%) Python
3 3 (8.57%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (48.57%) Degree
2 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
3 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) GDPR
2 4 (11.43%) HIPAA
3 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (8.57%) NIST
3 3 (8.57%) QA
3 3 (8.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.86%) CDISC
4 1 (2.86%) DICOM
4 1 (2.86%) HL7
4 1 (2.86%) SLA
4 1 (2.86%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Informatica
2 4 (11.43%) MuleSoft
2 4 (11.43%) Talend
3 3 (8.57%) Databricks
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle
4 2 (5.71%) SAP
5 1 (2.86%) Dell
5 1 (2.86%) Netezza
5 1 (2.86%) NVIDIA
5 1 (2.86%) StreamSets