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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 139 192
Rank change year-on-year -4 +53 -18
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 86 105 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.01% 1.74% 0.96%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.20% 9.54% 6.64%
Number of salaries quoted 71 70 54
10th Percentile £29,000 £42,500 £21,426
25th Percentile £38,500 £47,500 £31,208
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +71.43% -30.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,286 £90,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £64,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.47% -1.54% +1.15%

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 1,049 1,101 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.37% 18.22% 14.47%
Number of salaries quoted 576 490 987
10th Percentile £28,313 £28,822 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,188 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,125 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £59,764 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.39% +9.09% -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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +10 54 £56,350 -6.08% 51
East Midlands -19 32 £48,500 -3.00% 19
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 4 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.33%) SAS
3 1 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 21 (24.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.49%) SAP PP
1 3 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.16%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.16%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 28 (32.56%) Power Platform
2 22 (25.58%) Azure
3 11 (12.79%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (5.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.65%) PaaS
6 3 (3.49%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.49%) AWS
7 2 (2.33%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.33%) IaaS
7 2 (2.33%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.33%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.33%) SaaS
8 1 (1.16%) Alation
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.16%) Collibra
8 1 (1.16%) dbt
8 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (32.56%) Power BI
2 15 (17.44%) Metadata
3 12 (13.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (11.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (10.47%) Data Lake
6 8 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (9.30%) SQL Server
7 7 (8.14%) Power Query
7 7 (8.14%) Tableau
8 4 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.33%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.33%) Star Schema
10 1 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.16%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (1.16%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (1.16%) Pentaho
10 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.16%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Git
1 2 (2.33%) JIRA
1 2 (2.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (38.37%) Social Skills
2 32 (37.21%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (23.26%) Finance
4 11 (12.79%) Marketing
4 11 (12.79%) Public Sector
5 7 (8.14%) Law
6 4 (4.65%) Legal
6 4 (4.65%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.49%) Spanish Language
8 2 (2.33%) Banking
9 1 (1.16%) Automotive
9 1 (1.16%) Back Office
9 1 (1.16%) Billing
9 1 (1.16%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Local Government
9 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Retail
9 1 (1.16%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 17 (19.77%) Analyst
2 15 (17.44%) Data Manager
3 13 (15.12%) Senior
4 11 (12.79%) Data Analyst
4 11 (12.79%) Governance Manager
5 10 (11.63%) Data Governance Analyst
5 10 (11.63%) Data Governance Manager
6 9 (10.47%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Administrator
7 6 (6.98%) DBA
7 6 (6.98%) Developer
7 6 (6.98%) Systems Support
8 5 (5.81%) Business Developer
8 5 (5.81%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 5 (5.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 5 (5.81%) Head of CRM
8 5 (5.81%) Head of Development
8 5 (5.81%) Head of Software Development
8 5 (5.81%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.65%) PySpark
2 3 (3.49%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (2.33%) .NET
3 2 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.33%) REST
3 2 (2.33%) SOAP
4 1 (1.16%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.16%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.16%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.30%) Data Structures
2 7 (8.14%) FMCG
2 7 (8.14%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.98%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.98%) Pricing Data
4 4 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (4.65%) Driving Licence
4 4 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.65%) Reference Data
4 4 (4.65%) Web Conferencing
5 3 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.33%) CMDB
6 2 (2.33%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.16%) Linked Data
7 1 (1.16%) NHS
7 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.16%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (51.16%) Analytics
2 35 (40.70%) Business Intelligence
3 32 (37.21%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (34.88%) Data Governance
4 30 (34.88%) Decision-Making
5 22 (25.58%) Data Management
6 20 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (23.26%) ETL
7 19 (22.09%) CRM
8 18 (20.93%) Data Modelling
9 15 (17.44%) Data Analysis
10 13 (15.12%) Metadata Management
10 13 (15.12%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (13.95%) Agile
11 12 (13.95%) Data Strategy
11 12 (13.95%) ERP
12 10 (11.63%) Data Engineering
12 10 (11.63%) Data Pipeline
12 10 (11.63%) Risk Management
12 10 (11.63%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 42 (48.84%) SQL
2 18 (20.93%) Python
3 8 (9.30%) T-SQL
4 4 (4.65%) Scala
5 3 (3.49%) R
6 2 (2.33%) Bicep
6 2 (2.33%) C#
6 2 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.33%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (12.79%) Degree
2 3 (3.49%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.16%) CISA
3 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.16%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.16%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.60%) GDPR
2 3 (3.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.16%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.65%) Terraform
2 1 (1.16%) Control-M
2 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (19.77%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.63%) Databricks
3 5 (5.81%) SAP
3 5 (5.81%) Zoho
4 4 (4.65%) Oracle
5 3 (3.49%) Civica
5 3 (3.49%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.33%) Adobe
6 2 (2.33%) HubSpot
6 2 (2.33%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.33%) Talend
7 1 (1.16%) Adaptive Insights
7 1 (1.16%) BMC
7 1 (1.16%) Denodo
7 1 (1.16%) Google
7 1 (1.16%) IBM
7 1 (1.16%) Informatica
7 1 (1.16%) Northgate
7 1 (1.16%) Orchard