Data Quality Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Quality
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 162 153
Rank change year-on-year +61 -9 +31
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 223 74 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.43% 1.31% 1.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.39% 8.78% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 138 59 75
10th Percentile £32,350 £29,000 £34,900
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £56,282
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -24.49% +12.56%
75th Percentile £72,500 £52,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £84,125 £63,550 £80,145
England median annual salary £64,000 £57,435 £75,225
% change year-on-year +11.43% -23.65% +7.46%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,361 843 1,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.71% 14.94% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 919 548 621
10th Percentile £28,925 £28,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,580 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,250 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.53% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,100 £73,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £58,850
% change year-on-year -2.65% -3.99% -1.92%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Data Quality
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in the Midlands

Data Quality
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
West Midlands +49 148 £57,946 +33.98% 169
East Midlands +8 75 £50,000 +17.65% 73
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (1.35%) Apache
1 3 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.35%) SAS
2 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.45%) Confluence
2 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 30 (13.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.59%) Notion
3 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.35%) Navisworks
4 3 (1.35%) Revit
4 3 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.14%) Infor M3
2 4 (1.79%) Sage 50
2 4 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.45%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 72 (32.29%) Power Platform
2 52 (23.32%) Azure
3 17 (7.62%) AWS
4 11 (4.93%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (4.48%) Microsoft Purview
6 9 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.04%) GCP
7 8 (3.59%) SaaS
8 7 (3.14%) Amazon EMR
8 7 (3.14%) Azure Databricks
9 6 (2.69%) PaaS
10 5 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.24%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.79%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.79%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.79%) GitHub
11 4 (1.79%) Google Ads
11 4 (1.79%) Meta Ads
11 4 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.90%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (32.29%) Power BI
2 22 (9.87%) Power Query
3 20 (8.97%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (8.97%) Tableau
4 18 (8.07%) Data Lake
5 17 (7.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (7.17%) Metadata
7 11 (4.93%) Delta Lake
7 11 (4.93%) QlikView
7 11 (4.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (4.04%) Relational Database
8 9 (4.04%) Star Schema
9 8 (3.59%) GIS
10 7 (3.14%) Big Data
10 7 (3.14%) Metadata Repository
11 5 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (2.24%) Data Mining
11 5 (2.24%) Oracle BI EE
11 5 (2.24%) RDBMS
11 5 (2.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (5.38%) Git
2 4 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.90%) JIRA
4 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio
General
1 88 (39.46%) Analytical Skills
2 72 (32.29%) Social Skills
3 62 (27.80%) Finance
4 25 (11.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (10.76%) Public Sector
6 20 (8.97%) Manufacturing
7 13 (5.83%) Legal
8 10 (4.48%) Fire and Rescue
9 9 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.14%) Marketing
11 6 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.69%) Retail
12 5 (2.24%) Social Housing
13 3 (1.35%) Billing
14 2 (0.90%) Advertising
14 2 (0.90%) Banking
14 2 (0.90%) Games
15 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.45%) Automotive
15 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (15.70%) Analyst
2 32 (14.35%) Data Manager
3 31 (13.90%) Lead
4 28 (12.56%) Architect
4 28 (12.56%) Data Architect
4 28 (12.56%) Data Engineer
5 22 (9.87%) Senior
6 20 (8.97%) Data Analyst
7 14 (6.28%) Junior
8 12 (5.38%) Senior Architect
8 12 (5.38%) Senior Data Architect
9 11 (4.93%) Business Intelligence Lead
10 10 (4.48%) Data Governance Analyst
10 10 (4.48%) Data Governance Manager
10 10 (4.48%) Data Quality Manager
10 10 (4.48%) Governance Manager
10 10 (4.48%) Quality Manager
10 10 (4.48%) Team Leader
11 9 (4.04%) Business Manager
11 9 (4.04%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.07%) PySpark
2 7 (3.14%) REST
3 6 (2.69%) .NET
4 5 (2.24%) PyTorch
4 5 (2.24%) TensorFlow
5 4 (1.79%) EDI
5 4 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.35%) XML
7 2 (0.90%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.90%) JSON
7 2 (0.90%) RESTful
8 1 (0.45%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.45%) Kafka
8 1 (0.45%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.45%) Middleware
8 1 (0.45%) React
8 1 (0.45%) SOAP
8 1 (0.45%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.00%) Management Information System
2 18 (8.07%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.93%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (4.04%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.59%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.59%) Reference Data
6 7 (3.14%) FMCG
7 6 (2.69%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.69%) Taxonomies
8 5 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.24%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.79%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.35%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.90%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.90%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (43.95%) Analytics
2 93 (41.70%) Business Intelligence
3 88 (39.46%) Data Governance
4 86 (38.57%) Decision-Making
5 77 (34.53%) Data Management
6 71 (31.84%) Data Modelling
7 65 (29.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 65 (29.15%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (24.66%) AI
9 53 (23.77%) ETL
10 50 (22.42%) Data Architecture
11 43 (19.28%) Visualisation
12 40 (17.94%) Agile
12 40 (17.94%) Stakeholder Management
13 38 (17.04%) ERP
14 37 (16.59%) Data Engineering
14 37 (16.59%) Validation
15 33 (14.80%) Data Pipeline
16 32 (14.35%) Roadmaps
17 31 (13.90%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 89 (39.91%) SQL
2 51 (22.87%) Python
3 22 (9.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (4.93%) R
5 10 (4.48%) Java
6 6 (2.69%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.35%) C#
8 2 (0.90%) C++
8 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.45%) Bash
9 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (20.18%) Degree
2 9 (4.04%) PMI Certification
3 7 (3.14%) PMP
4 5 (2.24%) ACCA
4 5 (2.24%) CIMA
4 5 (2.24%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.79%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.35%) CIPD
6 3 (1.35%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (16.59%) GDPR
2 13 (5.83%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.35%) ISO 19650
6 3 (1.35%) QA
7 2 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.45%) NIST
8 1 (0.45%) PMO
8 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 43 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.31%) Databricks
3 14 (6.28%) Oracle
4 13 (5.83%) Salesforce
4 13 (5.83%) SAP
5 8 (3.59%) SYSPRO
6 7 (3.14%) Infor
7 6 (2.69%) Google
8 5 (2.24%) Sage
8 5 (2.24%) Xero
9 4 (1.79%) Adaptive Insights
9 4 (1.79%) Anaplan
10 3 (1.35%) Workday
11 1 (0.45%) Denodo
11 1 (0.45%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.45%) IFS