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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 153 171
Rank change year-on-year +19 +18 -5
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 89 102 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.13% 1.51% 1.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.52% 8.11% 7.65%
Number of salaries quoted 70 67 44
10th Percentile £28,700 £37,750 £21,426
25th Percentile £40,313 £43,750 £24,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £60,000 £37,032
Median % change year-on-year -19.17% +62.02% -25.94%
75th Percentile £68,125 £70,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,967 £82,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,044 1,258 732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.22% 18.60% 14.44%
Number of salaries quoted 577 522 614
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,822 £27,300
25th Percentile £31,000 £36,250 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,543 £51,251 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.09% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £64,938
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,875 £75,000
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 27 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 27 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 +16 50 £48,125 -19.79% 112
East Midlands -1 39 £48,500 -25.38% 71
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 2 (2.25%) SAS
2 1 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 19 (21.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.12%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.12%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.12%) Odoo
2 1 (1.12%) SAP Business One
2 1 (1.12%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.12%) SAP PP
2 1 (1.12%) SAP QM
2 1 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.84%) Power Platform
2 15 (16.85%) Azure
3 6 (6.74%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (4.49%) Snowflake
6 3 (3.37%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.25%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (2.25%) AWS
7 2 (2.25%) dbt
7 2 (2.25%) PaaS
7 2 (2.25%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.25%) SaaS
8 1 (1.12%) Alation
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.12%) BigCommerce
8 1 (1.12%) Collibra
8 1 (1.12%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) Broadband
1 1 (1.12%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (24.72%) Power BI
2 18 (20.22%) Metadata
3 14 (15.73%) Tableau
4 11 (12.36%) Data Lake
5 9 (10.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (8.99%) BigQuery
6 8 (8.99%) Power Query
6 8 (8.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (7.87%) SQL Server
7 7 (7.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.37%) Data Mining
10 2 (2.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.25%) Oracle ODI
10 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
11 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.12%) DB2
11 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.12%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Git
1 2 (2.25%) JIRA
2 1 (1.12%) ERwin
2 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (37.08%) Analytical Skills
1 33 (37.08%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.35%) Finance
3 13 (14.61%) Marketing
4 8 (8.99%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (7.87%) Law
6 5 (5.62%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.37%) Legal
7 3 (3.37%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.37%) Spanish Language
8 2 (2.25%) Banking
8 2 (2.25%) Social Housing
9 1 (1.12%) Back Office
9 1 (1.12%) Billing
9 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (28.09%) Analyst
2 16 (17.98%) Data Analyst
3 11 (12.36%) Data Manager
3 11 (12.36%) Senior
4 8 (8.99%) Data Engineer
4 8 (8.99%) Data Quality Analyst
4 8 (8.99%) Quality Analyst
5 7 (7.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 7 (7.87%) Governance Manager
6 6 (6.74%) Data Governance Analyst
6 6 (6.74%) Data Governance Manager
6 6 (6.74%) DBA
6 6 (6.74%) Systems Support
7 5 (5.62%) Administrator
7 5 (5.62%) Head of CRM
7 5 (5.62%) Head of Development
7 5 (5.62%) Head of Software Development
7 5 (5.62%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) SQL DBA
8 4 (4.49%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.49%) PySpark
2 3 (3.37%) .NET
2 3 (3.37%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (3.37%) REST
3 2 (2.25%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.25%) SOAP
4 1 (1.12%) Middleware
4 1 (1.12%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.12%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.12%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.24%) Data Structures
2 7 (7.87%) FMCG
3 6 (6.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (6.74%) Pricing Data
4 4 (4.49%) Driving Licence
4 4 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.49%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.49%) Reference Data
4 4 (4.49%) Web Conferencing
5 3 (3.37%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.37%) Credit Risk
5 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.25%) CMDB
6 2 (2.25%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.12%) NHS
7 1 (1.12%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (47.19%) Analytics
2 31 (34.83%) Business Intelligence
3 28 (31.46%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (30.34%) Decision-Making
5 26 (29.21%) Data Governance
6 24 (26.97%) ETL
7 22 (24.72%) Data Management
8 20 (22.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (22.47%) Data Cleansing
8 20 (22.47%) Data Modelling
9 16 (17.98%) CRM
10 15 (16.85%) Metadata Management
10 15 (16.85%) Migration
10 15 (16.85%) Visualisation
11 14 (15.73%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (14.61%) Data Analysis
12 13 (14.61%) Validation
13 12 (13.48%) Agile
13 12 (13.48%) Data Pipeline
13 12 (13.48%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (53.93%) SQL
2 28 (31.46%) Python
3 11 (12.36%) T-SQL
4 5 (5.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (5.62%) Scala
5 3 (3.37%) Bicep
5 3 (3.37%) C#
5 3 (3.37%) R
6 2 (2.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (10.11%) Degree
2 4 (4.49%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.12%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.12%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (19.10%) GDPR
2 3 (3.37%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.25%) QA
4 1 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 1 (1.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.62%) Terraform
2 1 (1.12%) Control-M
2 1 (1.12%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (25.84%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.48%) Databricks
3 5 (5.62%) SAP
3 5 (5.62%) Zoho
4 4 (4.49%) Oracle
4 4 (4.49%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.37%) Civica
6 2 (2.25%) Adobe
6 2 (2.25%) HubSpot
6 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.25%) Talend
7 1 (1.12%) Adaptive Insights
7 1 (1.12%) BMC
7 1 (1.12%) Google
7 1 (1.12%) IBM
7 1 (1.12%) Informatica
7 1 (1.12%) Magma
7 1 (1.12%) Northgate
7 1 (1.12%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.12%) Orchard