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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 165 168
Rank change year-on-year +44 +3 +18
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 89 95 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.45% 1.14% 1.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.83% 6.84% 7.24%
Number of salaries quoted 69 61 38
10th Percentile £28,400 £36,250 £21,426
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £21,695
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +21.21% -3.37%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,612 £89,500
England median annual salary £63,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.62% +4.62% +8.33%

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 822 1,389 704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.36% 16.67% 14.52%
Number of salaries quoted 540 564 578
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,119 £27,615
25th Percentile £30,580 £35,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £51,248 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £64,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,050 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +54 56 £43,250 -27.92% 37
East Midlands +19 33 £48,500 -3.00% 12
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 (3.37%) SAS
2 2 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (23.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.12%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.12%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.12%) Odoo
2 1 (1.12%) SAP Business One
2 1 (1.12%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.12%) SAP QM
2 1 (1.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (29.21%) Power Platform
2 21 (23.60%) Azure
3 7 (7.87%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (5.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.62%) Snowflake
5 4 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.37%) AWS
6 3 (3.37%) PaaS
6 3 (3.37%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.25%) dbt
7 2 (2.25%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.25%) SaaS
8 1 (1.12%) Alation
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.12%) BigCommerce
8 1 (1.12%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.12%) Collibra
8 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) PuTTY
1 1 (1.12%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (28.09%) Power BI
2 18 (20.22%) Metadata
3 16 (17.98%) Tableau
4 10 (11.24%) BigQuery
4 10 (11.24%) Data Lake
5 9 (10.11%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (8.99%) Power Query
6 8 (8.99%) SQL Server
6 8 (8.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (7.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (7.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (4.49%) Data Mining
9 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (2.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.25%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.25%) Oracle ODI
10 2 (2.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Git
2 2 (2.25%) JIRA
3 1 (1.12%) ERwin
3 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.12%) JUnit
3 1 (1.12%) Selenium
3 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.12%) TestComplete
General
1 34 (38.20%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (35.96%) Social Skills
3 20 (22.47%) Finance
4 10 (11.24%) Marketing
5 9 (10.11%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (6.74%) Law
7 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.25%) Banking
8 2 (2.25%) Legal
8 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Retail
8 2 (2.25%) Social Housing
8 2 (2.25%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.12%) Back Office
9 1 (1.12%) Billing
Job Titles
1 25 (28.09%) Analyst
2 15 (16.85%) Data Analyst
3 10 (11.24%) Data Manager
4 9 (10.11%) Data Quality Analyst
4 9 (10.11%) Quality Analyst
5 8 (8.99%) Data Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 7 (7.87%) Senior
7 6 (6.74%) Data Governance Analyst
7 6 (6.74%) Data Governance Manager
7 6 (6.74%) Governance Manager
7 6 (6.74%) Systems Support
8 5 (5.62%) Data Modeller
8 5 (5.62%) DBA
8 5 (5.62%) Developer
9 4 (4.49%) Administrator
9 4 (4.49%) Architect
9 4 (4.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (4.49%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.49%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.37%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (3.37%) REST
2 2 (2.25%) .NET
2 2 (2.25%) PySpark
2 2 (2.25%) SOAP
3 1 (1.12%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.12%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.12%) Kafka
3 1 (1.12%) Middleware
3 1 (1.12%) Plotly
3 1 (1.12%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.12%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.12%) Shiny
3 1 (1.12%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.11%) Data Structures
2 8 (8.99%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (7.87%) FMCG
4 6 (6.74%) Pricing Data
5 4 (4.49%) Driving Licence
5 4 (4.49%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.49%) Reference Data
5 4 (4.49%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.25%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.25%) CMDB
7 2 (2.25%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.12%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.49%) Windows
2 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (42.70%) Analytics
2 32 (35.96%) Business Intelligence
3 31 (34.83%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (31.46%) Decision-Making
5 26 (29.21%) Data Governance
6 25 (28.09%) Data Modelling
7 24 (26.97%) ETL
8 21 (23.60%) Data Cleansing
9 20 (22.47%) Data Management
10 19 (21.35%) Visualisation
11 18 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (19.10%) Migration
13 16 (17.98%) Validation
14 15 (16.85%) CRM
14 15 (16.85%) Data Visualisation
15 14 (15.73%) Data Validation
15 14 (15.73%) Metadata Management
16 13 (14.61%) Data Analysis
17 12 (13.48%) Actionable Insight
18 11 (12.36%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 49 (55.06%) SQL
2 25 (28.09%) Python
3 10 (11.24%) T-SQL
4 7 (7.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.49%) R
6 2 (2.25%) Bicep
6 2 (2.25%) C#
6 2 (2.25%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.25%) Scala
7 1 (1.12%) Bash
7 1 (1.12%) Java
7 1 (1.12%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (7.87%) Degree
2 3 (3.37%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.12%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.12%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.12%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.85%) GDPR
2 3 (3.37%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.37%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.12%) Apache Flume
1 1 (1.12%) Docker
1 1 (1.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (2.25%) Terraform
2 1 (1.12%) Kibana
2 1 (1.12%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.12%) logstash
2 1 (1.12%) Oozie
Vendors
1 24 (26.97%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.73%) Databricks
3 6 (6.74%) SAP
4 4 (4.49%) Oracle
4 4 (4.49%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.37%) Zoho
6 2 (2.25%) Adobe
6 2 (2.25%) Civica
6 2 (2.25%) HubSpot
6 2 (2.25%) Informatica
6 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.12%) Adaptive Insights
7 1 (1.12%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.12%) Google
7 1 (1.12%) Magma
7 1 (1.12%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.12%) Northgate
7 1 (1.12%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.12%) Orchard
7 1 (1.12%) Talend