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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 169 174
Rank change year-on-year +27 +5 +9
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 90 98 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.26% 1.24% 1.01%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.38% 7.21% 6.99%
Number of salaries quoted 69 64 36
10th Percentile £28,400 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £21,426
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +20.00% -1.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,625
90th Percentile £77,500 £84,234 £92,500
England median annual salary £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.93% +3.85% +8.33%

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 960 1,360 701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.47% 17.24% 14.50%
Number of salaries quoted 545 562 577
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,119 £27,300
25th Percentile £30,580 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £51,248 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,560 £79,875 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +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 13 December 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 13 December 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 +29 55 £42,500 -29.17% 95
East Midlands +12 35 £48,500 -3.00% 66
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 (3.33%) SAS
2 2 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 21 (23.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.11%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.11%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.11%) Odoo
2 1 (1.11%) SAP Business One
2 1 (1.11%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.11%) SAP QM
2 1 (1.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (28.89%) Power Platform
2 19 (21.11%) Azure
3 5 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (5.56%) Snowflake
4 4 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (3.33%) AWS
5 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.22%) dbt
6 2 (2.22%) PaaS
6 2 (2.22%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.22%) SaaS
7 1 (1.11%) Alation
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.11%) BigCommerce
7 1 (1.11%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.11%) Collibra
7 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) PuTTY
1 1 (1.11%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (27.78%) Power BI
2 18 (20.00%) Metadata
3 16 (17.78%) Tableau
4 10 (11.11%) BigQuery
5 9 (10.00%) Data Lake
6 8 (8.89%) Power Query
7 7 (7.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (7.78%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (7.78%) SQL Server
7 7 (7.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (4.44%) Data Mining
10 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
11 2 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
11 2 (2.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (2.22%) Oracle Database
11 2 (2.22%) Oracle ODI
12 1 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (1.11%) Impala
Development Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Git
2 2 (2.22%) JIRA
3 1 (1.11%) ERwin
3 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (37.78%) Social Skills
3 20 (22.22%) Finance
4 11 (12.22%) Marketing
5 9 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (6.67%) Law
7 4 (4.44%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.22%) Banking
8 2 (2.22%) Legal
8 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Retail
8 2 (2.22%) Social Housing
8 2 (2.22%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.11%) Back Office
9 1 (1.11%) Billing
Job Titles
1 26 (28.89%) Analyst
2 16 (17.78%) Data Analyst
3 10 (11.11%) Data Manager
4 9 (10.00%) Data Quality Analyst
4 9 (10.00%) Quality Analyst
5 8 (8.89%) Data Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) Senior
6 7 (7.78%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 6 (6.67%) Data Governance Analyst
7 6 (6.67%) Data Governance Manager
7 6 (6.67%) Governance Manager
7 6 (6.67%) Systems Support
8 5 (5.56%) Data Modeller
8 5 (5.56%) DBA
9 4 (4.44%) Administrator
9 4 (4.44%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Head of CRM
9 4 (4.44%) Head of Development
9 4 (4.44%) Head of Software Development
9 4 (4.44%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (3.33%) PySpark
1 3 (3.33%) REST
2 2 (2.22%) .NET
2 2 (2.22%) SOAP
3 1 (1.11%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.11%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.11%) Kafka
3 1 (1.11%) Middleware
3 1 (1.11%) Plotly
3 1 (1.11%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.11%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.11%) Shiny
3 1 (1.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 8 (8.89%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (7.78%) FMCG
4 6 (6.67%) Pricing Data
5 4 (4.44%) Driving Licence
5 4 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.44%) Reference Data
5 4 (4.44%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (3.33%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.22%) CMDB
7 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.44%) Windows
2 1 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (42.22%) Analytics
2 32 (35.56%) Business Intelligence
3 30 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (30.00%) Decision-Making
5 25 (27.78%) Data Governance
5 25 (27.78%) Data Modelling
6 23 (25.56%) ETL
7 21 (23.33%) Data Cleansing
8 20 (22.22%) Data Management
9 19 (21.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (21.11%) Visualisation
10 16 (17.78%) Migration
11 15 (16.67%) CRM
11 15 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
11 15 (16.67%) Validation
12 14 (15.56%) Metadata Management
13 13 (14.44%) Data Analysis
13 13 (14.44%) Data Validation
14 12 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
14 12 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (55.56%) SQL
2 26 (28.89%) Python
3 10 (11.11%) T-SQL
4 7 (7.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.44%) R
6 2 (2.22%) Bicep
6 2 (2.22%) C#
6 2 (2.22%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.22%) Scala
7 1 (1.11%) Bash
7 1 (1.11%) Java
7 1 (1.11%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (8.89%) Degree
2 4 (4.44%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.11%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.67%) GDPR
2 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.11%) Apache Flume
1 1 (1.11%) Docker
1 1 (1.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (2.22%) Terraform
2 1 (1.11%) Kibana
2 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.11%) logstash
2 1 (1.11%) Oozie
Vendors
1 23 (25.56%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.67%) Databricks
3 5 (5.56%) SAP
4 4 (4.44%) Oracle
4 4 (4.44%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.44%) Zoho
5 3 (3.33%) Civica
6 2 (2.22%) Adobe
6 2 (2.22%) HubSpot
6 2 (2.22%) Informatica
6 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.11%) Adaptive Insights
7 1 (1.11%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.11%) Google
7 1 (1.11%) Magma
7 1 (1.11%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.11%) Northgate
7 1 (1.11%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.11%) Orchard
7 1 (1.11%) Talend