Data Quality Job Trends in London

Data Quality
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 173 110
Rank change year-on-year +81 -63 +56
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 536 263 687
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.41% 2.09% 2.96%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.61% 12.00% 20.66%
Number of salaries quoted 346 156 543
10th Percentile £44,250 £45,750 £57,050
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -22.22% +24.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £110,625 £117,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -20.00% +15.38%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,043 2,192 3,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.66% 17.44% 14.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,986 1,381 2,349
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,800 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.86% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £118,750
England median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.87% +7.48% -6.96%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in London

Data Quality
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in London over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in London

Data Quality
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the London region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Central London +22 83 £87,500 +45.83% 79
West London +4 21 £45,000 -17.43% 50
South London +23 7 £54,150 +24.98% 4
East London - 7 £95,000 - 7
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 65 (12.13%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (11.38%) Apache Spark
3 55 (10.26%) Apache
4 11 (2.05%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.75%) Confluence
6 3 (0.56%) Appian
6 3 (0.56%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.37%) CMS
7 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.37%) SAS
8 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 21 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.87%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (3.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.49%) NetSuite
3 7 (1.31%) Oracle ERP
3 7 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.12%) SAP MDG
5 4 (0.75%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.56%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.56%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.56%) FLEXCUBE
6 3 (0.56%) iTrent
6 3 (0.56%) Misys Opics
6 3 (0.56%) Shopify
7 2 (0.37%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 2 (0.37%) Raiser’s Edge
7 2 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.37%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.37%) SAP Retail
8 1 (0.19%) FastStats
8 1 (0.19%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 161 (30.04%) Azure
2 121 (22.57%) Power Platform
3 105 (19.59%) AWS
4 56 (10.45%) GCP
5 54 (10.07%) Azure Data Factory
5 54 (10.07%) Snowflake
6 49 (9.14%) Amazon S3
7 38 (7.09%) Microsoft Purview
8 34 (6.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 33 (6.16%) SaaS
10 31 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (5.22%) dbt
12 23 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (3.54%) OpenShift
13 19 (3.54%) Serverless
14 18 (3.36%) Amazon EMR
14 18 (3.36%) GitHub
15 17 (3.17%) Power Automate
16 16 (2.99%) Collibra
17 13 (2.43%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.05%) Broadband
2 3 (0.56%) HTTP
3 2 (0.37%) 4G
3 2 (0.37%) 5G
3 2 (0.37%) DNS
3 2 (0.37%) Internet
3 2 (0.37%) Intranet
4 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (21.83%) Power BI
2 94 (17.54%) Data Warehouse
3 81 (15.11%) Metadata
4 76 (14.18%) Data Lake
5 54 (10.07%) Tableau
6 36 (6.72%) SQL Server
7 33 (6.16%) Relational Database
8 31 (5.78%) BigQuery
9 30 (5.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 29 (5.41%) Delta Lake
10 29 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
11 27 (5.04%) Oracle Database
12 21 (3.92%) Spark SQL
13 20 (3.73%) NoSQL
14 19 (3.54%) MySQL
15 18 (3.36%) Big Data
15 18 (3.36%) Parquet
15 18 (3.36%) Semantic Layer
16 16 (2.99%) Data Vault
16 16 (2.99%) Impala
Development Applications
1 46 (8.58%) Git
2 16 (2.99%) IBM UrbanCode
2 16 (2.99%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.05%) JIRA
4 7 (1.31%) MLflow
5 4 (0.75%) Selenium
6 3 (0.56%) Postman
7 2 (0.37%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.37%) TestRail
8 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.19%) Deequ
8 1 (0.19%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.19%) ERwin
8 1 (0.19%) GitLab
8 1 (0.19%) JUnit
8 1 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
General
1 211 (39.37%) Finance
2 177 (33.02%) Social Skills
3 128 (23.88%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (8.77%) Banking
5 29 (5.41%) Legal
6 28 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (5.22%) Marketing
6 28 (5.22%) Public Sector
7 24 (4.48%) Retail
8 22 (4.10%) Law
9 18 (3.36%) Investment Banking
10 16 (2.99%) Advertising
11 15 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.24%) Financial Institution
13 11 (2.05%) Front Office
14 8 (1.49%) Billing
15 7 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.31%) Telecoms
16 6 (1.12%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.12%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (23.69%) Data Engineer
2 91 (16.98%) Analyst
3 90 (16.79%) Senior
4 80 (14.93%) Lead
5 66 (12.31%) Architect
6 55 (10.26%) Data Analyst
7 48 (8.96%) Data Architect
8 34 (6.34%) Senior Data Engineer
9 26 (4.85%) Lead Data Engineer
10 23 (4.29%) Consultant
11 22 (4.10%) Data Manager
12 19 (3.54%) Business Analyst
12 19 (3.54%) Data Consultant
13 18 (3.36%) Python Engineer
14 17 (3.17%) Developer
15 14 (2.61%) Python Data Engineer
15 14 (2.61%) Transformation Analyst
16 13 (2.43%) Administrator
16 13 (2.43%) Platform Engineer
16 13 (2.43%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (9.89%) PySpark
2 43 (8.02%) Kafka
3 20 (3.73%) Pandas
4 12 (2.24%) .NET
4 12 (2.24%) Node.js
4 12 (2.24%) REST
5 11 (2.05%) NumPy
6 9 (1.68%) FastAPI
6 9 (1.68%) RESTful
7 7 (1.31%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.31%) React
7 7 (1.31%) scikit-learn
7 7 (1.31%) TensorFlow
8 6 (1.12%) Django
8 6 (1.12%) Flask
8 6 (1.12%) OpenAPI
8 6 (1.12%) pytest
8 6 (1.12%) Swagger
9 5 (0.93%) HTML
9 5 (0.93%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 49 (9.14%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.72%) Onboarding
3 30 (5.60%) Data Structures
4 28 (5.22%) Product Ownership
5 21 (3.92%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (2.99%) Distributed Computing
7 16 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.80%) Reinsurance
9 13 (2.43%) Reference Data
10 12 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (2.05%) Data Centre
12 9 (1.68%) Taxonomies
13 8 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (1.31%) Virtual Team
15 6 (1.12%) CMDB
15 6 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
16 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
16 5 (0.93%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.37%) Linux
2 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (47.20%) Analytics
2 216 (40.30%) Data Modelling
3 200 (37.31%) Data Governance
4 184 (34.33%) AI
5 172 (32.09%) Data Pipeline
6 161 (30.04%) Data Engineering
7 158 (29.48%) ETL
8 148 (27.61%) Business Intelligence
9 141 (26.31%) CI/CD
10 139 (25.93%) Decision-Making
11 136 (25.37%) Agile
12 122 (22.76%) Validation
13 115 (21.46%) Data Architecture
14 109 (20.34%) Roadmaps
15 107 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
16 96 (17.91%) Data Strategy
17 86 (16.04%) Mentoring
18 82 (15.30%) Machine Learning
19 76 (14.18%) Stakeholder Management
20 74 (13.81%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 252 (47.01%) SQL
2 211 (39.37%) Python
3 19 (3.54%) Scala
4 17 (3.17%) Java
5 13 (2.43%) C#
6 12 (2.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (1.87%) Bicep
7 10 (1.87%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.68%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.12%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.93%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.93%) R
11 4 (0.75%) Bash
12 3 (0.56%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.37%) SHACL
13 2 (0.37%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.19%) SOQL
14 1 (0.19%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 44 (8.21%) Degree
2 33 (6.16%) Security Cleared
3 20 (3.73%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.17%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.05%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.05%) SnowPro
7 9 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.31%) ACCA
8 7 (1.31%) CIMA
9 4 (0.75%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.56%) CFA
10 3 (0.56%) CIPD
10 3 (0.56%) CISA
11 2 (0.37%) ICAEW
11 2 (0.37%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (14.55%) GDPR
2 29 (5.41%) QA
3 10 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.68%) HIPAA
5 8 (1.49%) PMO
6 7 (1.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.93%) IFRS
7 5 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.75%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.56%) EU AI Act
9 3 (0.56%) GRC
9 3 (0.56%) IFRS 17
9 3 (0.56%) SLA
10 2 (0.37%) GxP
10 2 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.37%) NIST
10 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.19%) MiFID
11 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.19%) PERC
System Software
1 33 (6.16%) Docker
2 4 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.37%) IAG
Systems Management
1 45 (8.40%) Terraform
2 31 (5.78%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.05%) Grafana
4 5 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.56%) Ansible
6 2 (0.37%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 102 (19.03%) Microsoft
2 75 (13.99%) Databricks
3 52 (9.70%) Oracle
4 28 (5.22%) Salesforce
5 17 (3.17%) Google
5 17 (3.17%) Informatica
6 16 (2.99%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.80%) SAP
8 11 (2.05%) HubSpot
8 11 (2.05%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.49%) Intapp
9 8 (1.49%) Sage
10 7 (1.31%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.93%) Aderant
11 5 (0.93%) Foundry
11 5 (0.93%) Refinitiv
11 5 (0.93%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.56%) Automation Anywhere
12 3 (0.56%) HighQ
12 3 (0.56%) NVIDIA