Data Quality Jobs in England

Data Quality
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Quality over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 178 235
Rank change year-on-year -46 +57 +49
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 719 1,408 1,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.49% 1.63% 1.53%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.14% 11.83% 7.97%
Number of salaries quoted 372 910 849
10th Percentile £41,750 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,051 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,490 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +5.37% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £93,438 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,867 11,904 16,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.28% 13.74% 19.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4,094 8,301 7,811
10th Percentile £30,580 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,984 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,400 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in England.

Salary trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
London -58 237 £65,000 -23.53% 721
North of England -37 170 £55,000 -15.47% 517
South East +44 168 £65,000 +8.33% 716
North West -33 133 £52,250 -32.58% 264
Midlands +18 91 £52,900 +5.80% 424
West Midlands +23 61 £55,000 -1.15% 236
South West +51 30 £67,446 +19.90% 247
East Midlands +25 30 £48,500 +38.57% 163
Yorkshire +16 30 £57,500 +15.00% 188
East of England 0 13 £86,500 +101.16% 285
North East +7 9 £65,000 -9.09% 67
Data Quality
UK

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 76 (10.57%) SharePoint
2 42 (5.84%) Apache Spark
3 30 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (4.03%) Apache
5 9 (1.25%) Luigi
6 8 (1.11%) SAS
7 5 (0.70%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Confluence
9 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 87 (12.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.56%) ProjectWise
5 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 38 (5.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.11%) Primavera
3 6 (0.83%) Q-Pulse
4 4 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.42%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.28%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.28%) Raiser’s Edge
6 2 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 221 (30.74%) Power Platform
2 206 (28.65%) Azure
3 108 (15.02%) AWS
4 67 (9.32%) Snowflake
5 60 (8.34%) GCP
6 56 (7.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 45 (6.26%) PowerApps
8 42 (5.84%) Power Automate
9 40 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
10 35 (4.87%) Collibra
11 33 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 25 (3.48%) dbt
13 24 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
14 23 (3.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 22 (3.06%) Amazon S3
16 19 (2.64%) Serverless
17 14 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
17 14 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
17 14 (1.95%) PaaS
17 14 (1.95%) Salsify
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.14%) Intranet
1 1 (0.14%) LTE
1 1 (0.14%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (30.60%) Power BI
2 162 (22.53%) Data Warehouse
3 113 (15.72%) Metadata
4 108 (15.02%) Tableau
5 97 (13.49%) Data Lake
6 62 (8.62%) Big Data
7 42 (5.84%) SQL Server
8 40 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 25 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 25 (3.48%) Relational Database
10 24 (3.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 23 (3.20%) Hadoop
11 23 (3.20%) NoSQL
12 21 (2.92%) BigQuery
13 18 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
14 17 (2.36%) Metadata Repository
15 12 (1.67%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
16 10 (1.39%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (2.23%) Git
2 13 (1.81%) JIRA
3 10 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (0.83%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.70%) ERwin
5 5 (0.70%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.56%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.28%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.14%) GitLab
General
1 254 (35.33%) Social Skills
2 229 (31.85%) Finance
3 183 (25.45%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (18.36%) Law
5 73 (10.15%) Marketing
6 45 (6.26%) Banking
7 31 (4.31%) Retail
8 29 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
9 27 (3.76%) Public Sector
10 26 (3.62%) Legal
11 21 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.95%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.53%) Advertising
15 11 (1.53%) Military
16 9 (1.25%) Local Government
16 9 (1.25%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 155 (21.56%) Analyst
2 139 (19.33%) Senior
3 130 (18.08%) Data Engineer
4 126 (17.52%) Lead
5 100 (13.91%) Data Analyst
6 53 (7.37%) Data Manager
7 51 (7.09%) Senior Data Engineer
8 40 (5.56%) Architect
9 29 (4.03%) Senior Manager
10 27 (3.76%) Administrator
11 26 (3.62%) Procurement Analyst
12 25 (3.48%) Developer
13 24 (3.34%) Financial Analyst
14 23 (3.20%) Enterprise Architect
15 22 (3.06%) Systems Analyst
16 21 (2.92%) Salesforce Architect
17 19 (2.64%) Project Manager
18 17 (2.36%) Systems Administrator
19 16 (2.23%) Finance Systems Analyst
19 16 (2.23%) Insight Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.56%) PySpark
2 32 (4.45%) REST
3 29 (4.03%) Middleware
4 28 (3.89%) Lightning Web Components
5 24 (3.34%) SOAP
6 21 (2.92%) Kafka
7 14 (1.95%) XML
8 12 (1.67%) JSON
9 11 (1.53%) Pandas
10 6 (0.83%) PyArrow
11 5 (0.70%) Visualforce
12 4 (0.56%) .NET
12 4 (0.56%) Dask
12 4 (0.56%) HTML
12 4 (0.56%) MIDP
12 4 (0.56%) OAuth
12 4 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
12 4 (0.56%) Polars
12 4 (0.56%) XGBoost
13 3 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 101 (14.05%) Management Information System
2 29 (4.03%) Data Structures
3 28 (3.89%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.20%) FMCG
5 21 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.92%) Reference Data
6 15 (2.09%) Taxonomies
7 11 (1.53%) Cloud Native
8 10 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (0.83%) e-Learning
12 5 (0.70%) Driving Licence
12 5 (0.70%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.56%) Digital Media
13 4 (0.56%) Life Science
13 4 (0.56%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.39%) Linux
2 8 (1.11%) Unix
3 3 (0.42%) Windows
4 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (45.90%) Analytics
2 299 (41.59%) Data Management
3 291 (40.47%) Data Governance
4 235 (32.68%) Business Intelligence
5 200 (27.82%) Data Modelling
6 188 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
7 186 (25.87%) Data Analysis
8 182 (25.31%) Data Engineering
9 167 (23.23%) Decision-Making
9 167 (23.23%) ETL
10 142 (19.75%) Visualisation
11 140 (19.47%) Data Pipeline
12 132 (18.36%) Agile
13 129 (17.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 126 (17.52%) Data Science
15 114 (15.86%) Data Analytics
15 114 (15.86%) Mentoring
16 111 (15.44%) Stakeholder Management
17 105 (14.60%) Computer Science
18 104 (14.46%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 288 (40.06%) SQL
2 188 (26.15%) Python
3 28 (3.89%) Apex Code
4 24 (3.34%) T-SQL
5 21 (2.92%) C#
6 20 (2.78%) Scala
7 17 (2.36%) R
8 16 (2.23%) Java
9 15 (2.09%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (1.81%) JavaScript
12 11 (1.53%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.97%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.42%) Bash
15 2 (0.28%) C++
15 2 (0.28%) Go
15 2 (0.28%) PHP
15 2 (0.28%) Ruby
15 2 (0.28%) SHACL
15 2 (0.28%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 242 (33.66%) Degree
2 54 (7.51%) Master's Degree
3 53 (7.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 49 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (4.73%) ACCA
5 34 (4.73%) CIMA
6 30 (4.17%) Security Cleared
7 20 (2.78%) Azure Certification
8 19 (2.64%) SC Cleared
9 17 (2.36%) MBA
10 16 (2.23%) CCAB
11 13 (1.81%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.83%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.83%) PhD
13 4 (0.56%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.56%) PMP
14 3 (0.42%) DV Cleared
15 2 (0.28%) HNC
16 1 (0.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (10.15%) Accessibility
2 66 (9.18%) QA
3 49 (6.82%) GDPR
4 8 (1.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (0.70%) Good Clinical Practice
6 4 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.28%) MiFID
9 1 (0.14%) COBIT
9 1 (0.14%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.14%) EMIR
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) ITGC
9 1 (0.14%) PMO
9 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
9 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (2.23%) Docker
2 10 (1.39%) HDFS
3 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.14%) zsh
Systems Management
1 22 (3.06%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.09%) Terraform
3 2 (0.28%) Hadoop YARN
3 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.14%) Kibana
4 1 (0.14%) logstash
4 1 (0.14%) Matomo
4 1 (0.14%) Oozie
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 130 (18.08%) Microsoft
2 87 (12.10%) SAP
3 74 (10.29%) Databricks
4 45 (6.26%) Informatica
5 43 (5.98%) Salesforce
6 30 (4.17%) Google
7 28 (3.89%) ServiceNow
8 21 (2.92%) Oracle
8 21 (2.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 11 (1.53%) Capita
10 10 (1.39%) IBM
11 7 (0.97%) Talend
12 6 (0.83%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.70%) Cloudera
14 4 (0.56%) Bloomberg
14 4 (0.56%) Duck Creek
15 3 (0.42%) HubSpot
15 3 (0.42%) Optimizely
15 3 (0.42%) StreamSets
15 3 (0.42%) Xero