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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 149 180
Rank change year-on-year +45 +31 -15
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 186 87 134
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.35% 1.52% 1.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.27% 9.63% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 134 73 81
10th Percentile £36,325 - £32,600
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,866 £48,500 £56,282
Median % change year-on-year +23.44% -13.83% +7.20%
75th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £81,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £61,700 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.83% -20.00% +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 1,218 903 1,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.86% 15.82% 14.21%
Number of salaries quoted 814 573 980
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,750 £27,300
25th Percentile £35,875 £30,580 £30,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% -10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -5.17%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +32 120 £60,900 +18.83% 67
East Midlands +5 65 £54,575 +28.41% 29
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 6 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.54%) Apache
3 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 28 (15.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.15%) 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 58 (31.18%) Power Platform
2 37 (19.89%) Azure
3 19 (10.22%) AWS
4 14 (7.53%) GCP
5 13 (6.99%) Power Automate
6 11 (5.91%) Snowflake
7 10 (5.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (4.84%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (4.30%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (4.30%) SaaS
10 5 (2.69%) dbt
10 5 (2.69%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.61%) Google Ads
11 3 (1.61%) Meta Ads
11 3 (1.61%) PaaS
12 2 (1.08%) Adobe Analytics
12 2 (1.08%) Amazon EMR
12 2 (1.08%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.08%) Google Analytics
12 2 (1.08%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (31.18%) Power BI
2 20 (10.75%) Power Query
3 18 (9.68%) Tableau
4 14 (7.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (6.99%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (6.45%) Data Lake
7 11 (5.91%) Metadata
8 7 (3.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (3.23%) QlikView
9 6 (3.23%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.69%) Star Schema
11 3 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.61%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.61%) MySQL
11 3 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
12 2 (1.08%) Data Vault
12 2 (1.08%) Looker
12 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.69%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (2.15%) Git
3 3 (1.61%) JIRA
4 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 58 (31.18%) Finance
2 55 (29.57%) Social Skills
3 49 (26.34%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.91%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.69%) Fire and Rescue
8 5 (2.69%) Marketing
8 5 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.69%) Retail
9 4 (2.15%) Legal
10 2 (1.08%) Advertising
10 2 (1.08%) Games
11 1 (0.54%) Automotive
11 1 (0.54%) Billing
11 1 (0.54%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.54%) Law
11 1 (0.54%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 35 (18.82%) Analyst
2 34 (18.28%) Data Manager
3 23 (12.37%) Architect
3 23 (12.37%) Data Architect
4 21 (11.29%) Junior
5 19 (10.22%) Data Analyst
6 16 (8.60%) Data Quality Manager
6 16 (8.60%) Quality Manager
7 15 (8.06%) Data Engineer
7 15 (8.06%) Senior
8 12 (6.45%) Developer
9 11 (5.91%) Data Governance Analyst
9 11 (5.91%) Data Governance Manager
9 11 (5.91%) Governance Manager
10 9 (4.84%) Lead
11 8 (4.30%) Business Manager
12 7 (3.76%) Administrator
12 7 (3.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 7 (3.76%) Business Intelligence Manager
12 7 (3.76%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.23%) .NET
1 6 (3.23%) PySpark
1 6 (3.23%) REST
2 3 (1.61%) 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%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.45%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.30%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.76%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.69%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.08%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.08%) PMI
8 2 (1.08%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.54%) CMDB
9 1 (0.54%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.54%) Pricing Data
9 1 (0.54%) Replication
9 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (45.16%) Analytics
2 71 (38.17%) Business Intelligence
3 63 (33.87%) Decision-Making
4 60 (32.26%) Data Governance
5 57 (30.65%) Data Modelling
6 52 (27.96%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (24.73%) Data Management
8 43 (23.12%) AI
9 33 (17.74%) Visualisation
10 32 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (15.59%) ETL
12 28 (15.05%) ERP
12 28 (15.05%) Roadmaps
12 28 (15.05%) Validation
13 27 (14.52%) Data Architecture
14 26 (13.98%) Actionable Insight
14 26 (13.98%) Data Visualisation
15 24 (12.90%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 22 (11.83%) CRM
16 22 (11.83%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (34.41%) SQL
2 30 (16.13%) Python
3 15 (8.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (3.76%) T-SQL
5 6 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.69%) R
7 3 (1.61%) VBA
8 2 (1.08%) Java
9 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.54%) C#
9 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (16.13%) Degree
2 3 (1.61%) ACCA
2 3 (1.61%) CIMA
2 3 (1.61%) CIPD
2 3 (1.61%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.08%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.08%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.37%) GDPR
2 7 (3.76%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 5 (2.69%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (2.69%) QA
4 3 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.54%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.54%) NIST
5 1 (0.54%) PMO
5 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 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 (10.75%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.22%) Databricks
3 13 (6.99%) SAP
4 8 (4.30%) SYSPRO
5 7 (3.76%) Google
6 5 (2.69%) Sage
7 4 (2.15%) Xero
8 3 (1.61%) Oracle
9 2 (1.08%) Adobe
10 1 (0.54%) Civica
10 1 (0.54%) Northgate
10 1 (0.54%) Orchard
10 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.54%) Workday