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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 137 212
Rank change year-on-year +3 +75 -39
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 98 102 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.08% 1.75% 0.90%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.97% 9.38% 6.11%
Number of salaries quoted 80 69 51
10th Percentile £28,913 £42,500 £22,500
25th Percentile £36,813 £47,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,375 £60,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +71.43% -30.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £88,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% -

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 1,093 1,088 1,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.09% 18.68% 14.67%
Number of salaries quoted 596 494 1,012
10th Percentile £28,125 £28,822 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,000 £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 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £59,527 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.79% +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 21 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 21 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 0 62 £57,500 -4.17% 50
East Midlands -23 36 £48,500 -3.00% 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 4 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.04%) SAS
3 1 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 27 (27.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.06%) SAP PP
3 1 (1.02%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.02%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.71%) Power Platform
2 24 (24.49%) Azure
3 11 (11.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (5.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.10%) Power Automate
5 4 (4.08%) AWS
5 4 (4.08%) PaaS
5 4 (4.08%) PowerApps
6 3 (3.06%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.04%) IaaS
7 2 (2.04%) SaaS
8 1 (1.02%) Alation
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.02%) Collibra
8 1 (1.02%) dbt
8 1 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (35.71%) Power BI
2 18 (18.37%) Metadata
3 12 (12.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (10.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (10.20%) Tableau
5 9 (9.18%) Data Lake
5 9 (9.18%) Power Query
6 8 (8.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (8.16%) SQL Server
7 5 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.04%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.04%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.02%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (1.02%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (1.02%) Parquet
9 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Git
1 2 (2.04%) JIRA
1 2 (2.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (41.84%) Social Skills
2 37 (37.76%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (23.47%) Finance
4 13 (13.27%) Public Sector
5 11 (11.22%) Marketing
6 7 (7.14%) Law
7 5 (5.10%) Manufacturing
7 5 (5.10%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.08%) Legal
9 3 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.06%) Spanish Language
10 2 (2.04%) Banking
10 2 (2.04%) Social Housing
11 1 (1.02%) Automotive
11 1 (1.02%) Back Office
11 1 (1.02%) Billing
11 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.02%) Local Government
11 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (20.41%) Analyst
2 17 (17.35%) Data Manager
3 13 (13.27%) Data Analyst
3 13 (13.27%) Senior
4 11 (11.22%) Governance Manager
5 10 (10.20%) Data Governance Analyst
5 10 (10.20%) Data Governance Manager
6 9 (9.18%) Data Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) Developer
8 7 (7.14%) Administrator
8 7 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (6.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (6.12%) DBA
10 5 (5.10%) Business Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Head of CRM
10 5 (5.10%) Head of Development
10 5 (5.10%) Head of Software Development
10 5 (5.10%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) SQL DBA
10 5 (5.10%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.08%) PySpark
2 3 (3.06%) .NET
2 3 (3.06%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.04%) REST
3 2 (2.04%) SOAP
4 1 (1.02%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.02%) Pandas
4 1 (1.02%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.02%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.16%) Data Structures
2 7 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.12%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (6.12%) FMCG
3 6 (6.12%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.10%) Pricing Data
5 4 (4.08%) Driving Licence
5 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.08%) Reference Data
5 4 (4.08%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.04%) CMDB
7 2 (2.04%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.02%) Linked Data
8 1 (1.02%) NHS
8 1 (1.02%) Replication
8 1 (1.02%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (51.02%) Analytics
2 43 (43.88%) Business Intelligence
3 38 (38.78%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (35.71%) Decision-Making
5 34 (34.69%) Data Governance
6 24 (24.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (22.45%) Data Management
7 22 (22.45%) Data Modelling
7 22 (22.45%) ETL
8 21 (21.43%) CRM
9 17 (17.35%) Data Analysis
10 15 (15.31%) Metadata Management
10 15 (15.31%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (14.29%) Agile
11 14 (14.29%) Validation
12 13 (13.27%) ERP
12 13 (13.27%) Visualisation
13 12 (12.24%) Actionable Insight
13 12 (12.24%) Data Strategy
13 12 (12.24%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 50 (51.02%) SQL
2 21 (21.43%) Python
3 11 (11.22%) T-SQL
4 5 (5.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.08%) R
5 4 (4.08%) Scala
6 2 (2.04%) Bicep
6 2 (2.04%) C#
6 2 (2.04%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.04%) VBA
7 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (12.24%) Degree
2 4 (4.08%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.02%) CISA
4 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.02%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.02%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.33%) GDPR
2 4 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.04%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.04%) QA
4 1 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 1 (1.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.08%) Terraform
2 1 (1.02%) Control-M
2 1 (1.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (22.45%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.22%) Databricks
3 9 (9.18%) SAP
4 5 (5.10%) Zoho
5 4 (4.08%) Civica
5 4 (4.08%) Oracle
6 3 (3.06%) Google
6 3 (3.06%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.04%) Adobe
7 2 (2.04%) HubSpot
7 2 (2.04%) Northgate
7 2 (2.04%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.04%) Orchard
7 2 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.04%) Talend
8 1 (1.02%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (1.02%) BMC
8 1 (1.02%) Denodo
8 1 (1.02%) IBM
8 1 (1.02%) Informatica