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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 141 169
Rank change year-on-year +34 +28 -13
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 185 84 136
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.28% 1.46% 1.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.48% 9.34% 8.91%
Number of salaries quoted 131 69 81
10th Percentile £36,500 £41,200 £32,600
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £68,000 £73,250
England median annual salary £61,374 £57,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.74% -23.33% +11.11%

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 1,278 899 1,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.85% 15.63% 14.18%
Number of salaries quoted 859 584 864
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £64,900 £57,500 £63,563
90th Percentile £76,361 £70,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -8.33%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +26 119 £62,500 +37.36% 102
East Midlands +7 65 £55,000 +25.71% 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 3 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.62%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.54%) Apache
2 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.54%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (13.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.16%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.08%) Navisworks
4 2 (1.08%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (3.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.16%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.54%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 56 (30.27%) Power Platform
2 34 (18.38%) Azure
3 17 (9.19%) AWS
4 14 (7.57%) GCP
5 11 (5.95%) Snowflake
6 10 (5.41%) Power Automate
7 9 (4.86%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (4.32%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (4.32%) SaaS
9 6 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.16%) dbt
11 3 (1.62%) Google Ads
11 3 (1.62%) Meta Ads
12 2 (1.08%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (1.08%) Amazon MSK
12 2 (1.08%) Dagster
12 2 (1.08%) Google Tag Manager
12 2 (1.08%) PaaS
12 2 (1.08%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.08%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (30.27%) Power BI
2 20 (10.81%) Power Query
3 16 (8.65%) Tableau
4 14 (7.57%) Data Lake
5 13 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (7.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (5.41%) Metadata
6 10 (5.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (3.78%) QlikView
8 6 (3.24%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.70%) GIS
10 3 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.62%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (1.62%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.62%) MySQL
10 3 (1.62%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.62%) Star Schema
11 2 (1.08%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.08%) Looker
Development Applications
1 5 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (2.16%) Git
3 3 (1.62%) JIRA
General
1 56 (30.27%) Social Skills
2 53 (28.65%) Finance
3 52 (28.11%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.41%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.78%) Fire and Rescue
9 5 (2.70%) Marketing
9 5 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.16%) Retail
11 3 (1.62%) Legal
11 3 (1.62%) Social Housing
12 2 (1.08%) Advertising
12 2 (1.08%) Billing
12 2 (1.08%) Games
13 1 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 37 (20.00%) Data Manager
2 33 (17.84%) Analyst
3 23 (12.43%) Architect
3 23 (12.43%) Data Architect
4 19 (10.27%) Junior
5 17 (9.19%) Data Analyst
5 17 (9.19%) Data Quality Manager
5 17 (9.19%) Quality Manager
6 15 (8.11%) Senior
7 13 (7.03%) Data Engineer
8 12 (6.49%) Lead
9 10 (5.41%) Data Governance Analyst
9 10 (5.41%) Data Governance Manager
9 10 (5.41%) Governance Manager
10 9 (4.86%) Business Manager
10 9 (4.86%) Developer
11 8 (4.32%) Business Intelligence Manager
12 7 (3.78%) Business Intelligence Lead
12 7 (3.78%) Supply Chain Controller
12 7 (3.78%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.24%) .NET
1 6 (3.24%) PySpark
1 6 (3.24%) REST
2 3 (1.62%) EDI
2 3 (1.62%) XML
3 2 (1.08%) GraphQL
3 2 (1.08%) JSON
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.08%) RESTful
4 1 (0.54%) Kafka
4 1 (0.54%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.54%) Pandas
4 1 (0.54%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.54%) SOAP
4 1 (0.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.03%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.32%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (4.32%) Data Structures
3 7 (3.78%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.70%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.08%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.08%) PMI
8 2 (1.08%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.54%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.54%) CMDB
9 1 (0.54%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.54%) Pricing Data
9 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (45.95%) Analytics
2 69 (37.30%) Business Intelligence
3 64 (34.59%) Decision-Making
4 59 (31.89%) Data Governance
5 55 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (28.65%) Data Modelling
7 52 (28.11%) Data Management
8 44 (23.78%) AI
9 35 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (16.22%) Data Architecture
10 30 (16.22%) Roadmaps
10 30 (16.22%) Visualisation
11 27 (14.59%) Actionable Insight
11 27 (14.59%) ERP
11 27 (14.59%) ETL
11 27 (14.59%) Validation
12 25 (13.51%) Data Visualisation
13 23 (12.43%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 22 (11.89%) Dashboard Development
14 22 (11.89%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 62 (33.51%) SQL
2 30 (16.22%) Python
3 16 (8.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (3.24%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.24%) R
4 6 (3.24%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.16%) Java
6 2 (1.08%) VBA
7 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.54%) C#
7 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (18.92%) Degree
2 3 (1.62%) ACCA
2 3 (1.62%) CIMA
2 3 (1.62%) CIPD
2 3 (1.62%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.08%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.08%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (14.05%) GDPR
2 7 (3.78%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 5 (2.70%) QA
4 4 (2.16%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.08%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.54%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.54%) NIST
7 1 (0.54%) PMO
7 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.54%) SCCM
1 1 (0.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.19%) Databricks
3 12 (6.49%) SAP
4 8 (4.32%) SYSPRO
5 6 (3.24%) Google
5 6 (3.24%) Oracle
6 5 (2.70%) Sage
7 4 (2.16%) Xero
8 2 (1.08%) Adobe
9 1 (0.54%) Denodo
9 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.54%) Workday