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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 163 157
Rank change year-on-year +68 -6 +20
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 235 73 119
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.50% 1.32% 1.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.02% 8.89% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 147 58 74
10th Percentile £32,300 £29,000 £34,675
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.71% -22.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £53,125 £63,438
90th Percentile £85,000 £63,575 £80,734
England median annual salary £63,750 £57,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.87% -23.33% +7.14%

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 1,381 821 1,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.83% 14.81% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 932 537 614
10th Percentile £28,513 £28,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,580 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% -4.27% -2.50%

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 12 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 12 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 +47 156 £55,000 +27.17% 156
East Midlands +19 79 £50,000 +17.65% 66
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 (1.28%) Apache
1 3 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.28%) SAS
2 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.43%) Confluence
2 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (13.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.26%) Notion
3 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.28%) Navisworks
4 3 (1.28%) Revit
4 3 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.98%) Infor M3
2 4 (1.70%) Sage 50
2 4 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.43%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 77 (32.77%) Power Platform
2 53 (22.55%) Azure
3 18 (7.66%) AWS
4 13 (5.53%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (4.26%) GCP
5 10 (4.26%) Microsoft Purview
6 9 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.98%) Amazon EMR
7 7 (2.98%) Azure Databricks
8 6 (2.55%) PaaS
8 6 (2.55%) SaaS
8 6 (2.55%) Snowflake
9 5 (2.13%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.13%) GitHub
10 4 (1.70%) dbt
10 4 (1.70%) Meta Ads
10 4 (1.70%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (32.77%) Power BI
2 22 (9.36%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (9.36%) Power Query
3 21 (8.94%) Tableau
4 18 (7.66%) Data Lake
5 17 (7.23%) Relational Database
5 17 (7.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (6.81%) Metadata
7 11 (4.68%) Delta Lake
7 11 (4.68%) QlikView
7 11 (4.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (3.83%) Star Schema
9 8 (3.40%) GIS
10 7 (2.98%) Big Data
10 7 (2.98%) Metadata Repository
11 5 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (2.13%) Data Mining
11 5 (2.13%) Oracle BI EE
11 5 (2.13%) RDBMS
11 5 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (7.66%) Git
2 4 (1.70%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.85%) JIRA
4 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.43%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.43%) GitLab
General
1 98 (41.70%) Analytical Skills
2 76 (32.34%) Social Skills
3 67 (28.51%) Finance
4 27 (11.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (10.21%) Public Sector
6 20 (8.51%) Manufacturing
7 13 (5.53%) Legal
8 10 (4.26%) Fire and Rescue
9 9 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.98%) Marketing
10 7 (2.98%) Retail
11 5 (2.13%) Social Housing
12 3 (1.28%) Billing
13 2 (0.85%) Advertising
13 2 (0.85%) Banking
13 2 (0.85%) Games
14 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.43%) Automotive
14 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (15.74%) Data Engineer
2 35 (14.89%) Analyst
3 32 (13.62%) Lead
4 30 (12.77%) Data Manager
5 29 (12.34%) Architect
5 29 (12.34%) Data Architect
6 22 (9.36%) Senior
7 18 (7.66%) Data Analyst
8 14 (5.96%) Junior
9 12 (5.11%) Senior Architect
9 12 (5.11%) Senior Data Architect
10 11 (4.68%) Business Intelligence Lead
11 10 (4.26%) Data Governance Analyst
11 10 (4.26%) Data Governance Manager
11 10 (4.26%) Developer
11 10 (4.26%) Governance Manager
11 10 (4.26%) Team Leader
12 9 (3.83%) Business Manager
12 9 (3.83%) Systems Analyst
13 8 (3.40%) Business Intelligence Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.51%) PySpark
2 7 (2.98%) REST
3 6 (2.55%) .NET
4 5 (2.13%) PyTorch
4 5 (2.13%) TensorFlow
5 4 (1.70%) EDI
5 4 (1.70%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.28%) XML
7 2 (0.85%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.85%) JSON
7 2 (0.85%) RESTful
7 2 (0.85%) Terraform
8 1 (0.43%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.43%) Kafka
8 1 (0.43%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.43%) Middleware
8 1 (0.43%) React
8 1 (0.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (14.04%) Management Information System
2 18 (7.66%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.68%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.83%) Reference Data
6 8 (3.40%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.40%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.98%) FMCG
7 7 (2.98%) Taxonomies
8 6 (2.55%) AI Agents
9 5 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.13%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.70%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.85%) Sports Betting
12 2 (0.85%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (45.96%) Analytics
2 99 (42.13%) Business Intelligence
3 97 (41.28%) Decision-Making
4 92 (39.15%) Data Governance
5 85 (36.17%) Data Modelling
6 81 (34.47%) Data Management
7 74 (31.49%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (29.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 59 (25.11%) AI
10 58 (24.68%) ETL
11 54 (22.98%) Data Architecture
12 48 (20.43%) Data Engineering
13 45 (19.15%) Visualisation
14 44 (18.72%) Stakeholder Management
15 43 (18.30%) Data Pipeline
16 41 (17.45%) Agile
17 38 (16.17%) Data Transformation
17 38 (16.17%) ERP
17 38 (16.17%) Validation
18 33 (14.04%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 101 (42.98%) SQL
2 56 (23.83%) Python
3 23 (9.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (4.68%) R
5 10 (4.26%) Java
6 7 (2.98%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.28%) C#
8 2 (0.85%) C++
8 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.43%) Bash
9 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 46 (19.57%) Degree
2 9 (3.83%) PMI Certification
3 7 (2.98%) ACCA
3 7 (2.98%) CIMA
3 7 (2.98%) PMP
4 5 (2.13%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.70%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.28%) CIPD
6 3 (1.28%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (16.60%) GDPR
2 15 (6.38%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.70%) QA
6 3 (1.28%) ISO 19650
7 2 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.85%) SLA
8 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.43%) NIST
8 1 (0.43%) PERC
8 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 49 (20.85%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.06%) Databricks
3 16 (6.81%) Oracle
4 15 (6.38%) Salesforce
4 15 (6.38%) SAP
5 8 (3.40%) SYSPRO
6 7 (2.98%) Google
6 7 (2.98%) Infor
7 6 (2.55%) Adaptive Insights
7 6 (2.55%) Anaplan
8 5 (2.13%) Sage
8 5 (2.13%) Xero
9 3 (1.28%) Workday
10 1 (0.43%) Denodo
10 1 (0.43%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.43%) IFS