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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 149 164
Rank change year-on-year +44 +15 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 189 86 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.36% 1.51% 1.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.21% 9.53% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 135 72 81
10th Percentile £36,350 - £32,600
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,000 £56,282
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% -16.49% +7.20%
75th Percentile £72,500 £57,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,375 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,900 £59,375 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.57% -20.83% +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 1,243 902 1,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.92% 15.82% 14.19%
Number of salaries quoted 835 574 950
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,750 £27,300
25th Percentile £36,000 £30,580 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £43,553 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.92% -12.90% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £63,688
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,950 £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 30 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 30 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 +34 120 £65,000 +26.83% 72
East Midlands +13 68 £54,150 +27.41% 30
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 5 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.53%) Apache
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 30 (15.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.12%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.53%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 59 (31.22%) Power Platform
2 36 (19.05%) Azure
3 19 (10.05%) AWS
4 14 (7.41%) GCP
5 13 (6.88%) Power Automate
6 11 (5.82%) Snowflake
7 9 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (4.23%) SaaS
9 5 (2.65%) dbt
9 5 (2.65%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.59%) Google Ads
10 3 (1.59%) Meta Ads
10 3 (1.59%) PaaS
11 2 (1.06%) Adobe Analytics
11 2 (1.06%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (1.06%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.06%) Google Analytics
11 2 (1.06%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (31.22%) Power BI
2 20 (10.58%) Power Query
3 18 (9.52%) Tableau
4 13 (6.88%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (6.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (6.35%) Data Lake
6 11 (5.82%) Metadata
7 8 (4.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (3.17%) QlikView
8 6 (3.17%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.65%) Star Schema
10 3 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.59%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.59%) MySQL
10 3 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.06%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.06%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.06%) Looker
11 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.65%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (2.12%) Git
3 3 (1.59%) JIRA
4 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 57 (30.16%) Finance
1 57 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 51 (26.98%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (5.82%) Manufacturing
4 11 (5.82%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.65%) Fire and Rescue
6 5 (2.65%) Marketing
6 5 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.65%) Retail
7 4 (2.12%) Legal
8 2 (1.06%) Advertising
8 2 (1.06%) Games
8 2 (1.06%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.53%) Automotive
9 1 (0.53%) Billing
9 1 (0.53%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 37 (19.58%) Data Manager
2 35 (18.52%) Analyst
3 23 (12.17%) Architect
3 23 (12.17%) Data Architect
4 21 (11.11%) Junior
5 19 (10.05%) Data Analyst
6 18 (9.52%) Data Quality Manager
6 18 (9.52%) Quality Manager
7 15 (7.94%) Data Engineer
7 15 (7.94%) Senior
8 11 (5.82%) Data Governance Analyst
8 11 (5.82%) Data Governance Manager
8 11 (5.82%) Developer
8 11 (5.82%) Governance Manager
9 9 (4.76%) Business Manager
9 9 (4.76%) Lead
10 8 (4.23%) Business Intelligence Manager
11 7 (3.70%) Administrator
11 7 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 7 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.17%) .NET
1 6 (3.17%) PySpark
1 6 (3.17%) REST
2 3 (1.59%) XML
3 2 (1.06%) GraphQL
3 2 (1.06%) JSON
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.06%) RESTful
4 1 (0.53%) EDI
4 1 (0.53%) Kafka
4 1 (0.53%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.53%) Pandas
4 1 (0.53%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.35%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.23%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.65%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.06%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.06%) PMI
8 2 (1.06%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.53%) CMDB
9 1 (0.53%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.53%) Pricing Data
9 1 (0.53%) Replication
9 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (44.44%) Analytics
2 72 (38.10%) Business Intelligence
3 64 (33.86%) Decision-Making
4 60 (31.75%) Data Governance
5 56 (29.63%) Data Modelling
6 53 (28.04%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (25.93%) Data Management
8 43 (22.75%) AI
9 33 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (16.93%) Visualisation
11 29 (15.34%) Validation
12 28 (14.81%) ERP
12 28 (14.81%) ETL
12 28 (14.81%) Roadmaps
13 27 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
13 27 (14.29%) Data Architecture
14 25 (13.23%) Data Visualisation
15 24 (12.70%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 22 (11.64%) Data Engineering
17 21 (11.11%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 65 (34.39%) SQL
2 30 (15.87%) Python
3 15 (7.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (3.70%) T-SQL
5 6 (3.17%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.65%) R
7 3 (1.59%) VBA
8 2 (1.06%) Java
9 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.53%) C#
9 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (15.87%) Degree
2 3 (1.59%) ACCA
2 3 (1.59%) CIMA
2 3 (1.59%) CIPD
2 3 (1.59%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.06%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.06%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.70%) GDPR
2 7 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 5 (2.65%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (2.65%) QA
4 3 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.53%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.53%) NIST
5 1 (0.53%) PMO
5 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.53%) SCCM
1 1 (0.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (10.58%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.05%) Databricks
3 13 (6.88%) SAP
4 8 (4.23%) SYSPRO
5 7 (3.70%) Google
6 5 (2.65%) Sage
7 4 (2.12%) Oracle
7 4 (2.12%) Xero
8 2 (1.06%) Adobe
9 1 (0.53%) Civica
9 1 (0.53%) Northgate
9 1 (0.53%) Orchard
9 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.53%) Workday