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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 138 182
Rank change year-on-year +10 +44 -31
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 147 94 139
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.14% 1.82% 1.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.84% 10.18% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 113 80 71
10th Percentile £32,850 £43,850 £31,208
25th Percentile £46,104 £46,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,344 £44,100
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +23.23% -11.80%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,625 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £88,125 £68,275
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +3.85%

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 1,242 923 1,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.66% 17.87% 14.64%
Number of salaries quoted 688 572 1,269
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,822 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,375 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £64,813 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -4 88 £57,500 +4.55% 53
East Midlands 0 58 £54,150 +11.65% 17
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 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (7.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.04%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.68%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.68%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 43 (29.25%) Power Platform
2 32 (21.77%) Azure
3 13 (8.84%) Power Automate
4 12 (8.16%) AWS
4 12 (8.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (6.80%) GCP
6 8 (5.44%) Snowflake
7 7 (4.76%) SaaS
8 5 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.40%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (2.04%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.04%) dbt
10 3 (2.04%) PaaS
11 2 (1.36%) Adobe Analytics
11 2 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.36%) Google Analytics
11 2 (1.36%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.36%) Internet
2 1 (0.68%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (29.25%) Power BI
2 13 (8.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 12 (8.16%) Metadata
4 11 (7.48%) Tableau
5 10 (6.80%) Data Lake
6 9 (6.12%) Power Query
7 8 (5.44%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (2.04%) Star Schema
11 2 (1.36%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.36%) Data Mining
11 2 (1.36%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.36%) Looker
11 2 (1.36%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.68%) IBM InfoSphere
12 1 (0.68%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (3.40%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (2.04%) Git
3 2 (1.36%) JIRA
3 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
General
1 46 (31.29%) Social Skills
2 44 (29.93%) Finance
3 43 (29.25%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.80%) Marketing
6 8 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.72%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.04%) Law
9 3 (2.04%) Legal
9 3 (2.04%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.36%) Retail
10 2 (1.36%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.68%) Automotive
11 1 (0.68%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.68%) Local Government
11 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (22.45%) Analyst
2 25 (17.01%) Data Manager
3 22 (14.97%) Data Analyst
4 16 (10.88%) Senior
5 15 (10.20%) Junior
6 13 (8.84%) Data Quality Manager
6 13 (8.84%) Developer
6 13 (8.84%) Quality Manager
7 12 (8.16%) Architect
7 12 (8.16%) Data Architect
8 11 (7.48%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 11 (7.48%) Data Engineer
8 11 (7.48%) Governance Manager
9 10 (6.80%) Data Governance Analyst
9 10 (6.80%) Data Governance Manager
10 8 (5.44%) Administrator
10 8 (5.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (4.76%) Business Developer
12 6 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (3.40%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.76%) .NET
1 7 (4.76%) PySpark
2 3 (2.04%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.36%) REST
4 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.68%) Pandas
4 1 (0.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.80%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.40%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.04%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.04%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.04%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (1.36%) CMDB
7 2 (1.36%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.36%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.68%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.68%) Linked Data
8 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.68%) Replication
8 1 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (48.30%) Analytics
2 54 (36.73%) Business Intelligence
3 44 (29.93%) Data Governance
4 43 (29.25%) Decision-Making
4 43 (29.25%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (27.89%) Data Modelling
6 35 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (17.69%) ETL
8 25 (17.01%) CRM
9 23 (15.65%) AI
10 22 (14.97%) Data Management
11 21 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
12 20 (13.61%) Validation
13 18 (12.24%) Data Analysis
13 18 (12.24%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 17 (11.56%) Visualisation
15 16 (10.88%) Roadmaps
16 15 (10.20%) Agile
16 15 (10.20%) Data Engineering
16 15 (10.20%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 50 (34.01%) SQL
2 24 (16.33%) Python
3 11 (7.48%) T-SQL
4 9 (6.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (4.08%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.08%) R
6 4 (2.72%) Scala
7 3 (2.04%) VBA
8 2 (1.36%) Bicep
8 2 (1.36%) C#
9 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (11.56%) Degree
2 6 (4.08%) DBS Check
3 3 (2.04%) ACCA
3 3 (2.04%) CIMA
4 2 (1.36%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.36%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.68%) CISA
5 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.24%) GDPR
2 9 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.40%) QA
4 4 (2.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (2.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.68%) NIST
6 1 (0.68%) PMO
6 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.72%) Terraform
2 1 (0.68%) Control-M
2 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.68%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.61%) Databricks
3 15 (10.20%) SAP
4 5 (3.40%) Google
4 5 (3.40%) Oracle
4 5 (3.40%) Zoho
5 4 (2.72%) Civica
6 2 (1.36%) Adobe
6 2 (1.36%) Northgate
6 2 (1.36%) Orchard
6 2 (1.36%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.36%) Talend
7 1 (0.68%) BMC
7 1 (0.68%) Denodo
7 1 (0.68%) IBM
7 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.68%) Sage
7 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.68%) Xero