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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 161 160
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +32
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 82 131 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.46% 1.30% 1.31%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.56% 8.57% 9.00%
Number of salaries quoted 68 74 51
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £21,426
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,254 £36,704
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,641 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.12% +2.09% -9.17%
75th Percentile £54,125 £63,438 £77,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £79,725 £95,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -25.81% +10.71% +16.67%

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 858 1,529 822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.30% 15.18% 14.57%
Number of salaries quoted 568 689 647
10th Percentile £28,750 £27,500 £27,650
25th Percentile £30,580 £30,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £65,503
90th Percentile £70,075 £75,000 £80,500
England median annual salary £57,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.87% -4.17% +7.14%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality 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 September 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 18 September 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 +15 50 £45,000 -20.04% 26
East Midlands +15 32 £42,500 -15.00% 26
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (10.98%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.44%) SAS
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 19 (23.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.22%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.22%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.22%) SAP Business One
2 1 (1.22%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.22%) SAP QM
2 1 (1.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 34 (41.46%) Power Platform
2 32 (39.02%) Azure
3 12 (14.63%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (14.63%) Power Automate
4 10 (12.20%) PowerApps
5 8 (9.76%) IaaS
5 8 (9.76%) PaaS
5 8 (9.76%) Snowflake
6 5 (6.10%) AWS
7 4 (4.88%) GCP
8 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.44%) dbt
9 2 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.22%) BigCommerce
10 1 (1.22%) GitHub
10 1 (1.22%) Lucidchart
10 1 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.22%) PuTTY
1 1 (1.22%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (40.24%) Power BI
2 16 (19.51%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (19.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 16 (19.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 16 (19.51%) Tableau
3 11 (13.41%) Data Lake
3 11 (13.41%) SQL Server
4 10 (12.20%) BigQuery
4 10 (12.20%) Metadata
5 8 (9.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (9.76%) Power Query
5 8 (9.76%) Star Schema
6 4 (4.88%) Big Data
6 4 (4.88%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.66%) Data Mining
7 3 (3.66%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.44%) MySQL
8 2 (2.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (9.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (2.44%) ERwin
3 1 (1.22%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.22%) Git
3 1 (1.22%) JIRA
3 1 (1.22%) JUnit
3 1 (1.22%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (1.22%) Selenium
3 1 (1.22%) TestComplete
General
1 26 (31.71%) Finance
2 25 (30.49%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (24.39%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.98%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (9.76%) Law
6 4 (4.88%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.44%) Banking
7 2 (2.44%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.44%) Marketing
7 2 (2.44%) Retail
7 2 (2.44%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.22%) Advertising
8 1 (1.22%) Billing
8 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.22%) Legal
8 1 (1.22%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 23 (28.05%) Analyst
2 13 (15.85%) Data Analyst
2 13 (15.85%) Developer
3 12 (14.63%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 10 (12.20%) Business Developer
5 9 (10.98%) Administrator
5 9 (10.98%) Data Quality Analyst
5 9 (10.98%) Power BI Developer
5 9 (10.98%) Quality Analyst
5 9 (10.98%) SQL Developer
6 8 (9.76%) ETL Developer
6 8 (9.76%) SQL BI Developer
7 7 (8.54%) DBA
7 7 (8.54%) SQL DBA
8 6 (7.32%) Data Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) Data Manager
8 6 (7.32%) Data Modeller
8 6 (7.32%) Lead
8 6 (7.32%) SSIS Developer
8 6 (7.32%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.66%) PySpark
2 2 (2.44%) NumPy
2 2 (2.44%) Pandas
3 1 (1.22%) .NET
3 1 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.22%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.22%) EDI
3 1 (1.22%) JSON
3 1 (1.22%) Kafka
3 1 (1.22%) Middleware
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.22%) Plotly
3 1 (1.22%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.22%) REST
3 1 (1.22%) Shiny
3 1 (1.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.85%) Management Information System
2 10 (12.20%) Data Structures
3 6 (7.32%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (7.32%) FMCG
3 6 (7.32%) Pricing Data
4 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.22%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (45.12%) Business Intelligence
2 36 (43.90%) ETL
3 31 (37.80%) Analytics
4 25 (30.49%) Data Governance
5 24 (29.27%) Decision-Making
6 22 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (26.83%) Visualisation
7 21 (25.61%) Data Modelling
8 19 (23.17%) Data Management
8 19 (23.17%) Validation
9 17 (20.73%) Data Visualisation
10 15 (18.29%) Migration
11 14 (17.07%) CRM
11 14 (17.07%) Data Analysis
11 14 (17.07%) Data Validation
12 13 (15.85%) Data Cleansing
13 10 (12.20%) Actionable Insight
13 10 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (12.20%) Data Mapping
13 10 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 52 (63.41%) SQL
2 22 (26.83%) Python
3 11 (13.41%) T-SQL
4 6 (7.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.66%) R
6 2 (2.44%) C#
7 1 (1.22%) Bash
7 1 (1.22%) Bicep
7 1 (1.22%) Java
7 1 (1.22%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.22%) PROC SQL
7 1 (1.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (4.88%) Degree
2 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.22%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.22%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.54%) GDPR
2 4 (4.88%) QA
3 2 (2.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.22%) Apache Flume
1 1 (1.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.22%) Kibana
1 1 (1.22%) logstash
1 1 (1.22%) Oozie
1 1 (1.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (25.61%) Microsoft
2 15 (18.29%) Databricks
3 6 (7.32%) Salesforce
4 5 (6.10%) SAP
5 2 (2.44%) Oracle
6 1 (1.22%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.22%) Cognos
6 1 (1.22%) IBM
6 1 (1.22%) Informatica
6 1 (1.22%) Magma
6 1 (1.22%) MicroStrategy