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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 152 159
Rank change year-on-year +51 +7 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 199 82 129
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.32% 1.45% 1.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.11% 9.57% 8.74%
Number of salaries quoted 130 67 73
10th Percentile £40,550 £32,450 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,366 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.92% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £63,750 £73,650
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -25.81% +10.71%

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 1,317 857 1,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.73% 15.14% 14.71%
Number of salaries quoted 915 553 713
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £30,580 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,201 £67,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,623 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.55% -1.53% -4.17%

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 +37 130 £60,000 +33.33% 118
East Midlands +2 68 £59,000 +38.82% 45
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 (1.51%) Apache
1 3 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.51%) SAS
1 3 (1.51%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 20 (10.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.01%) Navisworks
3 2 (1.01%) Revit
3 2 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.01%) Infor M3
2 4 (2.01%) Sage 50
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.50%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 60 (30.15%) Power Platform
2 43 (21.61%) Azure
3 22 (11.06%) AWS
4 14 (7.04%) GCP
5 10 (5.03%) Snowflake
6 9 (4.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (4.52%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (4.02%) SaaS
8 7 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (3.52%) Power Automate
9 6 (3.02%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.51%) PaaS
11 4 (2.01%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.01%) dbt
11 4 (2.01%) Google Ads
11 4 (2.01%) Meta Ads
12 2 (1.01%) Amazon MSK
12 2 (1.01%) Azure Databricks
12 2 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.01%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (30.15%) Power BI
2 17 (8.54%) Data Lake
2 17 (8.54%) Power Query
2 17 (8.54%) Tableau
3 14 (7.04%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (7.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (6.03%) Metadata
4 12 (6.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (5.03%) QlikView
6 7 (3.52%) Delta Lake
7 6 (3.02%) Big Data
7 6 (3.02%) GIS
7 6 (3.02%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.51%) Star Schema
9 4 (2.01%) Crystal Reports
9 4 (2.01%) Data Mining
9 4 (2.01%) Oracle BI EE
9 4 (2.01%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (4.02%) Git
2 4 (2.01%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (1.51%) JIRA
4 2 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 65 (32.66%) Analytical Skills
2 59 (29.65%) Social Skills
3 57 (28.64%) Finance
4 21 (10.55%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.54%) Manufacturing
6 13 (6.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.02%) Fire and Rescue
7 8 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.52%) Legal
9 6 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.02%) Marketing
10 5 (2.51%) Retail
11 4 (2.01%) Social Housing
12 3 (1.51%) Billing
13 2 (1.01%) Advertising
13 2 (1.01%) Banking
13 2 (1.01%) Games
14 1 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 33 (16.58%) Data Manager
2 32 (16.08%) Analyst
3 26 (13.07%) Architect
3 26 (13.07%) Data Architect
4 25 (12.56%) Lead
5 20 (10.05%) Data Engineer
5 20 (10.05%) Senior
6 17 (8.54%) Data Analyst
7 16 (8.04%) Junior
8 13 (6.53%) Data Quality Manager
8 13 (6.53%) Quality Manager
9 10 (5.03%) Data Governance Analyst
9 10 (5.03%) Data Governance Manager
9 10 (5.03%) Governance Manager
10 9 (4.52%) Business Intelligence Lead
10 9 (4.52%) Business Manager
11 8 (4.02%) Business Intelligence Manager
11 8 (4.02%) Senior Architect
11 8 (4.02%) Senior Data Architect
11 8 (4.02%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.04%) PySpark
2 7 (3.52%) .NET
2 7 (3.52%) REST
3 4 (2.01%) EDI
3 4 (2.01%) PyTorch
3 4 (2.01%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.51%) XML
5 2 (1.01%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.01%) JSON
5 2 (1.01%) RESTful
6 1 (0.50%) Kafka
6 1 (0.50%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.50%) Middleware
6 1 (0.50%) SOAP
6 1 (0.50%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.55%) Management Information System
2 12 (6.03%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.52%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (4.52%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.52%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.01%) FMCG
6 4 (2.01%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.01%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.01%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.01%) PMI
8 2 (1.01%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.01%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.50%) CMDB
9 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.50%) Pricing Data
9 1 (0.50%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (44.72%) Analytics
2 74 (37.19%) Business Intelligence
3 72 (36.18%) Decision-Making
4 67 (33.67%) Data Governance
5 61 (30.65%) Data Management
6 59 (29.65%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (28.14%) Data Modelling
8 49 (24.62%) AI
9 46 (23.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (20.60%) Data Architecture
11 37 (18.59%) ETL
12 33 (16.58%) ERP
12 33 (16.58%) Roadmaps
13 30 (15.08%) Agile
13 30 (15.08%) Visualisation
14 27 (13.57%) Actionable Insight
15 26 (13.07%) Data Engineering
15 26 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
16 25 (12.56%) Data Strategy
16 25 (12.56%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 68 (34.17%) SQL
2 39 (19.60%) Python
3 15 (7.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (5.53%) R
5 9 (4.52%) Java
6 7 (3.52%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.51%) C#
7 3 (1.51%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.01%) C++
9 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 42 (21.11%) Degree
2 6 (3.02%) PMI Certification
3 5 (2.51%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.01%) PMP
5 3 (1.51%) ACCA
5 3 (1.51%) CIMA
5 3 (1.51%) CIPD
5 3 (1.51%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.01%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.08%) GDPR
2 8 (4.02%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.02%) QA
5 3 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.01%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.50%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.50%) NIST
7 1 (0.50%) PMO
7 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (10.05%) Databricks
1 20 (10.05%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.52%) Oracle
2 9 (4.52%) SAP
3 8 (4.02%) SYSPRO
4 6 (3.02%) Google
5 5 (2.51%) Sage
5 5 (2.51%) Xero
6 4 (2.01%) Infor
7 3 (1.51%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.01%) Adobe
8 2 (1.01%) Workday
9 1 (0.50%) Denodo
9 1 (0.50%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow