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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 159 155
Rank change year-on-year +51 -4 +20
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 217 77 130
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.38% 1.37% 1.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.03% 9.05% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 135 62 77
10th Percentile £34,100 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,250 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £42,500 £56,282
Median % change year-on-year +32.94% -24.49% +12.56%
75th Percentile £72,500 £51,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £63,400 £78,967
England median annual salary £62,500 £56,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.62% -24.67% +7.14%

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 1,354 851 1,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.59% 15.09% 16.02%
Number of salaries quoted 912 556 624
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,580 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,565 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.62% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,450 £73,125 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £58,465
% change year-on-year -2.65% -3.36% -2.56%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +49 144 £60,000 +36.36% 185
East Midlands +8 73 £50,000 +17.65% 90
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 (1.38%) Apache
1 3 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.38%) SAS
2 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.46%) Confluence
2 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 28 (12.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.76%) Notion
3 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.38%) Navisworks
4 3 (1.38%) Revit
4 3 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.23%) Infor M3
2 5 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.84%) Sage 50
4 3 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.46%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 71 (32.72%) Power Platform
2 52 (23.96%) Azure
3 18 (8.29%) AWS
4 10 (4.61%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (4.61%) GCP
4 10 (4.61%) Microsoft Purview
5 9 (4.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.69%) SaaS
7 7 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
7 7 (3.23%) Azure Databricks
8 6 (2.76%) PaaS
8 6 (2.76%) Snowflake
9 5 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.84%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.84%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.84%) GitHub
10 4 (1.84%) Google Ads
10 4 (1.84%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.84%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (32.72%) Power BI
2 22 (10.14%) Power Query
3 20 (9.22%) Tableau
4 19 (8.76%) Data Lake
4 19 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (7.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (7.37%) Metadata
7 12 (5.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (5.07%) Delta Lake
8 11 (5.07%) QlikView
9 9 (4.15%) Star Schema
10 8 (3.69%) GIS
10 8 (3.69%) Relational Database
11 7 (3.23%) Big Data
11 7 (3.23%) Metadata Repository
12 6 (2.76%) SQL Server
13 5 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (2.30%) Data Mining
13 5 (2.30%) Oracle BI EE
13 5 (2.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (5.53%) Git
2 4 (1.84%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.92%) JIRA
4 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (39.63%) Analytical Skills
2 67 (30.88%) Social Skills
3 60 (27.65%) Finance
4 24 (11.06%) Public Sector
5 21 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (9.22%) Manufacturing
7 13 (5.99%) Legal
8 10 (4.61%) Fire and Rescue
9 9 (4.15%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.76%) Marketing
10 6 (2.76%) Retail
11 5 (2.30%) Social Housing
12 3 (1.38%) Billing
13 2 (0.92%) Advertising
13 2 (0.92%) Banking
13 2 (0.92%) Games
14 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.46%) Automotive
14 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (15.67%) Analyst
2 32 (14.75%) Data Manager
3 31 (14.29%) Lead
4 29 (13.36%) Architect
4 29 (13.36%) Data Architect
5 27 (12.44%) Data Engineer
6 22 (10.14%) Senior
7 19 (8.76%) Data Analyst
8 14 (6.45%) Junior
9 12 (5.53%) Senior Architect
9 12 (5.53%) Senior Data Architect
10 11 (5.07%) Business Intelligence Lead
11 10 (4.61%) Data Governance Analyst
11 10 (4.61%) Data Governance Manager
11 10 (4.61%) Data Quality Manager
11 10 (4.61%) Governance Manager
11 10 (4.61%) Quality Manager
11 10 (4.61%) Team Leader
12 9 (4.15%) Business Manager
12 9 (4.15%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.29%) PySpark
2 7 (3.23%) REST
3 6 (2.76%) .NET
4 5 (2.30%) PyTorch
4 5 (2.30%) TensorFlow
5 4 (1.84%) EDI
5 4 (1.84%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.38%) XML
7 2 (0.92%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.92%) JSON
7 2 (0.92%) RESTful
8 1 (0.46%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.46%) Kafka
8 1 (0.46%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.46%) Middleware
8 1 (0.46%) React
8 1 (0.46%) SOAP
8 1 (0.46%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.44%) Management Information System
2 18 (8.29%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.07%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (4.15%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.69%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.69%) Reference Data
6 7 (3.23%) FMCG
7 6 (2.76%) Taxonomies
8 5 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.30%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.30%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.38%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.92%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.92%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (45.16%) Analytics
2 90 (41.47%) Business Intelligence
3 86 (39.63%) Data Governance
4 82 (37.79%) Decision-Making
5 75 (34.56%) Data Management
6 69 (31.80%) Data Modelling
7 63 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 63 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (24.88%) AI
9 51 (23.50%) Data Architecture
9 51 (23.50%) ETL
10 41 (18.89%) Visualisation
11 40 (18.43%) Agile
12 38 (17.51%) ERP
13 37 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
14 36 (16.59%) Data Engineering
15 34 (15.67%) Validation
16 33 (15.21%) Roadmaps
17 32 (14.75%) Data Pipeline
18 30 (13.82%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 87 (40.09%) SQL
2 50 (23.04%) Python
3 22 (10.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (5.07%) R
5 10 (4.61%) Java
6 6 (2.76%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.38%) C#
8 2 (0.92%) C++
8 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.92%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.46%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.46%) Bash
9 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (20.74%) Degree
2 9 (4.15%) PMI Certification
3 7 (3.23%) PMP
4 5 (2.30%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.84%) ACCA
5 4 (1.84%) CIMA
5 4 (1.84%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.38%) CIPD
6 3 (1.38%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (16.59%) GDPR
2 11 (5.07%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.84%) QA
6 3 (1.38%) ISO 19650
7 2 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.46%) NIST
8 1 (0.46%) PMO
8 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 37 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.06%) Databricks
3 13 (5.99%) Oracle
3 13 (5.99%) SAP
4 10 (4.61%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.69%) SYSPRO
6 7 (3.23%) Infor
7 6 (2.76%) Google
8 5 (2.30%) Sage
8 5 (2.30%) Xero
9 3 (1.38%) Adaptive Insights
9 3 (1.38%) Anaplan
9 3 (1.38%) Workday
10 1 (0.46%) Denodo
10 1 (0.46%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.46%) IFS