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

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 168 180
Rank change year-on-year +31 +12 +4
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 77 102 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.38% 1.15% 0.96%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.53% 7.17% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 62 64 39
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £21,426
25th Percentile £40,250 £41,254 £22,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.78% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,188 £67,813 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £86,000 £79,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £69,688
% change year-on-year -20.00% +7.62% +16.15%

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 808 1,422 716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.44% 16.06% 14.06%
Number of salaries quoted 544 548 574
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,000 £27,753
25th Percentile £30,580 £31,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.42% -4.29% +8.25%
75th Percentile £58,750 £64,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,611 £77,500 £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 3 November 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 3 November 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 +29 47 £44,500 -24.26% 52
East Midlands +20 30 £42,500 -15.00% 26
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 2 (2.60%) SAS
1 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 21 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.30%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.30%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.30%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.30%) SAP Business One
2 1 (1.30%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.30%) SAP QM
2 1 (1.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 28 (36.36%) Power Platform
2 22 (28.57%) Azure
3 7 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (7.79%) Snowflake
5 5 (6.49%) Power Automate
6 4 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.90%) AWS
7 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.90%) PaaS
7 3 (3.90%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.60%) dbt
8 2 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.60%) GCP
8 2 (2.60%) SaaS
9 1 (1.30%) Alation
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.30%) BigCommerce
9 1 (1.30%) Collibra
9 1 (1.30%) IaaS
9 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) PuTTY
1 1 (1.30%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (35.06%) Power BI
2 14 (18.18%) Metadata
2 14 (18.18%) Tableau
3 10 (12.99%) BigQuery
4 9 (11.69%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (10.39%) Data Lake
5 8 (10.39%) Power Query
5 8 (10.39%) SQL Server
6 7 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (7.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (7.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (5.19%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.90%) Data Mining
10 2 (2.60%) MySQL
10 2 (2.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.60%) Oracle ODI
10 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (2.60%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.60%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (1.30%) ERwin
1 1 (1.30%) Git
1 1 (1.30%) JIRA
1 1 (1.30%) JUnit
1 1 (1.30%) Selenium
1 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (1.30%) TestComplete
General
1 28 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 25 (32.47%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (22.08%) Finance
4 9 (11.69%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (6.49%) Law
6 4 (5.19%) Marketing
6 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.60%) Legal
7 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Retail
8 1 (1.30%) Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Billing
8 1 (1.30%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 25 (32.47%) Analyst
2 13 (16.88%) Data Analyst
3 9 (11.69%) Data Quality Analyst
3 9 (11.69%) Quality Analyst
4 7 (9.09%) Data Manager
4 7 (9.09%) Developer
5 6 (7.79%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 6 (7.79%) Data Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Systems Support
6 5 (6.49%) Architect
6 5 (6.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 5 (6.49%) Data Modeller
6 5 (6.49%) Lead
7 4 (5.19%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.19%) DBA
7 4 (5.19%) Senior
8 3 (3.90%) Administrator
8 3 (3.90%) Business Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Data Governance Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.90%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (3.90%) REST
2 2 (2.60%) PySpark
2 2 (2.60%) SOAP
3 1 (1.30%) .NET
3 1 (1.30%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.30%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.30%) JSON
3 1 (1.30%) Kafka
3 1 (1.30%) Middleware
3 1 (1.30%) NumPy
3 1 (1.30%) Pandas
3 1 (1.30%) Plotly
3 1 (1.30%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.30%) Shiny
3 1 (1.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Analytical Mindset
1 8 (10.39%) Data Structures
2 6 (7.79%) FMCG
2 6 (7.79%) Pricing Data
3 4 (5.19%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.60%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.30%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.30%) NHS
5 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 26 (33.77%) Analytics
3 25 (32.47%) Data Governance
4 24 (31.17%) ETL
5 23 (29.87%) Decision-Making
6 22 (28.57%) Data Modelling
7 21 (27.27%) Visualisation
8 20 (25.97%) Data Management
8 20 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (22.08%) Data Cleansing
10 16 (20.78%) Data Visualisation
10 16 (20.78%) Migration
10 16 (20.78%) Validation
11 14 (18.18%) Data Validation
12 13 (16.88%) Data Analysis
13 12 (15.58%) Actionable Insight
14 11 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (12.99%) Data Strategy
15 10 (12.99%) Metadata Management
16 9 (11.69%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 45 (58.44%) SQL
2 21 (27.27%) Python
3 8 (10.39%) T-SQL
4 7 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.90%) R
6 2 (2.60%) C#
6 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.30%) Bash
7 1 (1.30%) Bicep
7 1 (1.30%) Java
7 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.30%) PROC SQL
7 1 (1.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (5.19%) Degree
2 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.30%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.30%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.30%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.30%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.29%) GDPR
2 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.90%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.30%) Apache Flume
1 1 (1.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.30%) Kibana
1 1 (1.30%) logstash
1 1 (1.30%) Oozie
1 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.88%) Databricks
3 5 (6.49%) Salesforce
3 5 (6.49%) SAP
4 3 (3.90%) Oracle
5 2 (2.60%) Adobe
5 2 (2.60%) HubSpot
5 2 (2.60%) Informatica
6 1 (1.30%) Adaptive Insights
6 1 (1.30%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.30%) Cognos
6 1 (1.30%) IBM
6 1 (1.30%) Magma
6 1 (1.30%) MicroStrategy