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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 121 194
Rank change year-on-year -4 +73 -28
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 118 91 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.09% 1.88% 1.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.24% 10.85% 6.89%
Number of salaries quoted 97 76 55
10th Percentile £30,000 £43,250 £31,208
25th Percentile £44,196 £47,313 £33,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - +64.29% -30.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,813 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,625 £71,560
England median annual salary £63,076 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -3.85% +4.00%

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 1,152 839 1,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.61% 17.33% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 619 538 1,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,822 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,760 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -6.09%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -9 73 £60,000 - 59
East Midlands -21 44 £53,950 +11.24% 30
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 5 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.85%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (20.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (5.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.54%) SAP PP
3 2 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.85%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.85%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 38 (32.20%) Power Platform
2 30 (25.42%) Azure
3 12 (10.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (7.63%) AWS
5 8 (6.78%) Power Automate
6 7 (5.93%) GCP
7 5 (4.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.24%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.39%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.54%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.54%) PaaS
10 2 (1.69%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (1.69%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.69%) dbt
10 2 (1.69%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.69%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (1.69%) IaaS
11 1 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (32.20%) Power BI
2 18 (15.25%) Metadata
3 12 (10.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (8.47%) Tableau
5 9 (7.63%) Data Lake
6 8 (6.78%) Power Query
6 8 (6.78%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.69%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.69%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.69%) Looker
10 2 (1.69%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.85%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.85%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.85%) Parquet
11 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.54%) JIRA
2 2 (1.69%) Git
2 2 (1.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (39.83%) Social Skills
2 45 (38.14%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (28.81%) Finance
4 15 (12.71%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.47%) Marketing
6 5 (4.24%) Law
6 5 (4.24%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.39%) Legal
8 3 (2.54%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.69%) Banking
9 2 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.69%) Retail
9 2 (1.69%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.85%) Automotive
10 1 (0.85%) Billing
10 1 (0.85%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.85%) Local Government
10 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (22.03%) Analyst
2 21 (17.80%) Data Manager
3 16 (13.56%) Data Analyst
4 15 (12.71%) Senior
5 12 (10.17%) Governance Manager
6 11 (9.32%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 11 (9.32%) Data Engineer
6 11 (9.32%) Data Governance Analyst
6 11 (9.32%) Data Governance Manager
7 8 (6.78%) Architect
7 8 (6.78%) Data Architect
7 8 (6.78%) Developer
7 8 (6.78%) Junior
8 7 (5.93%) Administrator
8 7 (5.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (5.93%) Data Quality Manager
8 7 (5.93%) Quality Manager
8 7 (5.93%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) Business Developer
10 5 (4.24%) Head of Software Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.39%) PySpark
2 3 (2.54%) .NET
2 3 (2.54%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.85%) Pandas
3 1 (0.85%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.85%) REST
3 1 (0.85%) SOAP
3 1 (0.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.93%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (5.93%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.24%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (4.24%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.39%) Driving Licence
3 4 (3.39%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.39%) Reference Data
3 4 (3.39%) Web Conferencing
4 3 (2.54%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.54%) CMDB
4 3 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.69%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.85%) FMCG
6 1 (0.85%) Linked Data
6 1 (0.85%) NHS
6 1 (0.85%) Replication
6 1 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (53.39%) Analytics
2 45 (38.14%) Decision-Making
3 44 (37.29%) Business Intelligence
3 44 (37.29%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (36.44%) Data Governance
5 33 (27.97%) Data Modelling
6 29 (24.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (19.49%) CRM
8 22 (18.64%) Actionable Insight
8 22 (18.64%) Data Management
8 22 (18.64%) ETL
9 19 (16.10%) Data Analysis
10 17 (14.41%) Validation
11 16 (13.56%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 16 (13.56%) Metadata Management
11 16 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (12.71%) Visualisation
13 14 (11.86%) Agile
14 13 (11.02%) AI
14 13 (11.02%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 46 (38.98%) SQL
2 21 (17.80%) Python
3 12 (10.17%) T-SQL
4 8 (6.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.39%) R
5 4 (3.39%) Scala
6 3 (2.54%) VBA
7 2 (1.69%) Bicep
7 2 (1.69%) C#
8 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (11.86%) Degree
2 4 (3.39%) DBS Check
3 3 (2.54%) ACCA
3 3 (2.54%) CIMA
4 2 (1.69%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.69%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.85%) CISA
5 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.41%) GDPR
2 8 (6.78%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.39%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (3.39%) QA
4 1 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.39%) Terraform
2 1 (0.85%) Control-M
2 1 (0.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (17.80%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.56%) Databricks
3 11 (9.32%) SAP
4 5 (4.24%) Zoho
5 4 (3.39%) Civica
5 4 (3.39%) Google
6 3 (2.54%) Adobe
6 3 (2.54%) Oracle
6 3 (2.54%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.69%) Northgate
7 2 (1.69%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.69%) Orchard
7 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.69%) Talend
8 1 (0.85%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (0.85%) BMC
8 1 (0.85%) Denodo
8 1 (0.85%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.85%) IBM
8 1 (0.85%) Informatica