Data Quality Job Trends in Manchester

Data Quality
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Data Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 99 123
Rank change year-on-year -6 +24 +54
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 25 53 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.87% 1.99% 0.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.92% 9.04% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 20 19 20
10th Percentile £41,875 £42,500 £34,560
25th Percentile £47,313 £49,375 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £57,625
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +30.15% +2.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £91,635
90th Percentile £81,375 £110,000 £96,539
North West median annual salary £49,250 £54,793 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.12% +15.35% -13.64%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 229 586 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 7.97% 22.03% 11.46%
Number of salaries quoted 141 190 215
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,000 £27,600
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £74,066 £73,750 £65,603
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,000 £80,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £46,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +12.90% -2.11% -5.00%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in Manchester

Data Quality
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in Manchester

Data Quality
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 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
Cheadle - 1 £55,000 -
Data Quality
North West

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (4.00%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) AWS
1 6 (24.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (16.00%) Azure
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (8.00%) Serverless
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (4.00%) Collibra
5 1 (4.00%) dbt
5 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (28.00%) Data Lake
3 6 (24.00%) Power BI
4 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (12.00%) DynamoDB
5 3 (12.00%) Metadata
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (8.00%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (8.00%) DB2
6 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
7 1 (4.00%) Neo4j
7 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
7 1 (4.00%) QlikView
7 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (4.00%) Tableau
General
1 16 (64.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Legal
4 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Billing
5 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing
5 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Senior
2 4 (16.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Ontologist
4 2 (8.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Data Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Data Scientist
4 2 (8.00%) Finance Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Commercial Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Data Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Insight Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Master Data Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Taxonomies
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (12.00%) Semantic Web
3 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Analytics
1 13 (52.00%) Data Governance
2 8 (32.00%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (32.00%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (32.00%) Validation
3 7 (28.00%) AI
3 7 (28.00%) Decision-Making
3 7 (28.00%) Ontologies
4 6 (24.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 6 (24.00%) Data Management
4 6 (24.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (20.00%) Agile
5 5 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 5 (20.00%) Data Science
5 5 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 5 (20.00%) Migration
5 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (16.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce