Data Quality Job Trends in Essex

Data Quality
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Essex 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 57 48 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 4 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 0.57% 0.65% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.70% 7.50% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £48,950 - -
25th Percentile £50,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £61,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £30,370 £52,500 £35,640
% change year-on-year -42.15% +47.31% -35.20%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 46 40 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 6.52% 8.70% 16.32%
Number of salaries quoted 34 14 41
10th Percentile £26,025 £28,050 -
25th Percentile £27,250 £35,813 £27,965
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £41,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.52% -27.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,219 £83,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £88,725 £90,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +8.00%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in Essex

Data Quality
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Data Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the Essex 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
Chelmsford - 2 £57,500 - 6
Basildon - 1 - - 6
Data Quality
East of England

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) dbt
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) Tableau
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (25.00%) QlikView
3 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 2 (50.00%) Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Financial Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) StreamSets