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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 144 199
Rank change year-on-year +46 +55 -29
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 182 82 129
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.36% 1.45% 1.01%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.15% 9.16% 7.15%
Number of salaries quoted 131 68 78
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,175 £32,195
25th Percentile £46,104 £42,375 £41,965
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,732 £48,500 £56,891
Median % change year-on-year +23.16% -14.75% +8.36%
75th Percentile £72,500 £56,563 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,875 £73,400
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -20.00% +15.38%

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 1,201 895 1,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.00% 15.87% 14.13%
Number of salaries quoted 804 562 1,135
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,750 £26,350
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,580 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £63,075
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +32 119 £61,988 +18.07% 38
East Midlands +22 62 £53,950 +23.31% 36
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 7 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.55%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 25 (13.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.20%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.55%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 55 (30.22%) Power Platform
2 36 (19.78%) Azure
3 18 (9.89%) AWS
4 14 (7.69%) GCP
5 13 (7.14%) Power Automate
6 11 (6.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (6.04%) Snowflake
7 9 (4.95%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (4.40%) SaaS
9 5 (2.75%) dbt
9 5 (2.75%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.65%) Google Ads
10 3 (1.65%) Meta Ads
10 3 (1.65%) PaaS
11 2 (1.10%) Adobe Analytics
11 2 (1.10%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (1.10%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.10%) Google Analytics
11 2 (1.10%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (30.22%) Power BI
2 17 (9.34%) Power Query
2 17 (9.34%) Tableau
3 13 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (6.04%) Data Lake
4 11 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (6.04%) Metadata
5 7 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.75%) QlikView
6 5 (2.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (2.75%) Star Schema
7 3 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.65%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.65%) MySQL
7 3 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.10%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.10%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.10%) DTS
8 2 (1.10%) Looker
Development Applications
1 5 (2.75%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (2.20%) Git
3 3 (1.65%) JIRA
4 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 56 (30.77%) Finance
2 55 (30.22%) Social Skills
3 45 (24.73%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (6.59%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.49%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.75%) Marketing
7 5 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.75%) Retail
8 3 (1.65%) Fire and Rescue
8 3 (1.65%) Legal
9 2 (1.10%) Advertising
9 2 (1.10%) Games
10 1 (0.55%) Automotive
10 1 (0.55%) Billing
10 1 (0.55%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.55%) Law
10 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 34 (18.68%) Analyst
1 34 (18.68%) Data Manager
2 22 (12.09%) Architect
2 22 (12.09%) Data Architect
3 21 (11.54%) Junior
4 17 (9.34%) Data Analyst
5 16 (8.79%) Data Quality Manager
5 16 (8.79%) Quality Manager
5 16 (8.79%) Senior
6 15 (8.24%) Data Engineer
7 13 (7.14%) Developer
8 12 (6.59%) Data Governance Analyst
8 12 (6.59%) Data Governance Manager
8 12 (6.59%) Governance Manager
9 8 (4.40%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 7 (3.85%) Administrator
10 7 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Supply Chain Controller
11 6 (3.30%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.30%) .NET
1 6 (3.30%) PySpark
1 6 (3.30%) REST
2 2 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.10%) RESTful
3 1 (0.55%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.55%) JSON
3 1 (0.55%) Kafka
3 1 (0.55%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.55%) Pandas
3 1 (0.55%) SOAP
3 1 (0.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.59%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.95%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.75%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.10%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.10%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.55%) CMDB
8 1 (0.55%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.55%) PMI
8 1 (0.55%) Replication
8 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (43.96%) Analytics
2 67 (36.81%) Business Intelligence
3 59 (32.42%) Decision-Making
4 57 (31.32%) Data Governance
5 56 (30.77%) Data Modelling
6 50 (27.47%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (23.63%) Data Management
8 42 (23.08%) AI
9 30 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (16.48%) Visualisation
10 29 (15.93%) ETL
11 27 (14.84%) ERP
11 27 (14.84%) Validation
12 26 (14.29%) Roadmaps
13 24 (13.19%) Actionable Insight
13 24 (13.19%) Data Architecture
14 23 (12.64%) CRM
14 23 (12.64%) Data Visualisation
15 22 (12.09%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 21 (11.54%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 59 (32.42%) SQL
2 27 (14.84%) Python
3 14 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (3.85%) T-SQL
5 6 (3.30%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.30%) R
6 3 (1.65%) VBA
7 2 (1.10%) Java
8 1 (0.55%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.55%) C#
8 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (14.84%) Degree
2 3 (1.65%) ACCA
2 3 (1.65%) CIMA
2 3 (1.65%) CIPD
2 3 (1.65%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.10%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.54%) GDPR
2 7 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (3.30%) QA
4 4 (2.20%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.55%) NIST
6 1 (0.55%) PMO
6 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.55%) SCCM
1 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.44%) Databricks
3 13 (7.14%) SAP
4 7 (3.85%) Google
4 7 (3.85%) SYSPRO
5 5 (2.75%) Sage
6 4 (2.20%) Oracle
6 4 (2.20%) Xero
7 2 (1.10%) Adobe
8 1 (0.55%) Civica
8 1 (0.55%) Northgate
8 1 (0.55%) Orchard
8 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.55%) Workday