Data Quality Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Data Quality
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 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 82 98 66
Rank change year-on-year +16 -32 +56
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 9 6 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.55% 0.49% 1.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.98% 2.24% 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £66,500 - -
25th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 -
90th Percentile £88,750 - -
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
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 129 268 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 7.88% 22.04% 14.34%
Number of salaries quoted 97 57 73
10th Percentile £30,750 £26,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% -4.35% +11.65%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,650 £75,500 £73,750
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 Hertfordshire

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Data Quality
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Data Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in Hertfordshire

Data Quality
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage -1 6 £75,000 - 11
Watford - 1 £92,500 - 8
Data Quality
East of England

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Boomi
2 4 (44.44%) Matillion
3 3 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 3 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (11.11%) H2O.ai
5 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
5 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (44.44%) Pentaho
2 4 (44.44%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (33.33%) Star Schema
4 2 (22.22%) Big Data
4 2 (22.22%) Hadoop
4 2 (22.22%) Tableau
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
5 1 (11.11%) Metadata
5 1 (11.11%) MySQL
5 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 1 (11.11%) Power BI
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (44.44%) Law
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Games
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Science Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DataOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DataOps Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Head of Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) PySpark
2 3 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 3 (33.33%) TensorFlow
3 2 (22.22%) Matplotlib
3 2 (22.22%) NumPy
3 2 (22.22%) Pandas
3 2 (22.22%) scikit-learn
3 2 (22.22%) Seaborn
4 1 (11.11%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Data Structures
2 2 (22.22%) Algorithms
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (11.11%) IoT
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) ETL
3 4 (44.44%) AI
3 4 (44.44%) Data Extraction
3 4 (44.44%) Data Migration
3 4 (44.44%) Data Transformation
3 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
3 4 (44.44%) Migration
3 4 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Generative AI
4 3 (33.33%) RBAC
5 2 (22.22%) Data Munging
5 2 (22.22%) Data Science
5 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 2 (22.22%) Feature Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) LLM
5 2 (22.22%) Reinforcement Learning
5 2 (22.22%) Statistical Modelling
5 2 (22.22%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) GDPR
1 3 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (33.33%) NIST
1 3 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Informatica
1 4 (44.44%) MuleSoft
1 4 (44.44%) Talend
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Dell
2 1 (11.11%) NVIDIA
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle