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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 145 188
Rank change year-on-year +44 +43 -22
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 183 83 131
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.36% 1.47% 1.07%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.20% 9.34% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 132 69 79
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,200 £32,330
25th Percentile £46,104 £42,000 £42,677
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,732 £48,500 £56,282
Median % change year-on-year +23.16% -13.83% +7.20%
75th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,500 £73,350
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -20.00% +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 1,204 889 1,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.92% 15.74% 14.20%
Number of salaries quoted 804 563 1,074
10th Percentile £29,400 £28,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,580 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -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 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 21 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 +33 119 £64,038 +21.98% 48
East Midlands +13 63 £53,750 +26.47% 38
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 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.55%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 27 (14.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.19%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.55%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 55 (30.05%) Power Platform
2 35 (19.13%) Azure
3 18 (9.84%) AWS
4 14 (7.65%) GCP
5 13 (7.10%) Power Automate
6 11 (6.01%) Snowflake
7 10 (5.46%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (4.92%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (4.37%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (4.37%) SaaS
10 5 (2.73%) dbt
10 5 (2.73%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.64%) Google Ads
11 3 (1.64%) Meta Ads
11 3 (1.64%) PaaS
12 2 (1.09%) Adobe Analytics
12 2 (1.09%) Amazon EMR
12 2 (1.09%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (1.09%) Google Tag Manager
12 2 (1.09%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (30.05%) Power BI
2 17 (9.29%) Power Query
2 17 (9.29%) Tableau
3 12 (6.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (6.01%) Data Lake
4 11 (6.01%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (6.01%) Metadata
5 7 (3.83%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.73%) QlikView
6 5 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (2.73%) Star Schema
7 3 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.64%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.64%) MySQL
7 3 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.09%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.09%) DTS
8 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.73%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (2.19%) Git
3 3 (1.64%) JIRA
4 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 56 (30.60%) Finance
1 56 (30.60%) Social Skills
2 47 (25.68%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (7.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (6.01%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.46%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.73%) Marketing
6 5 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.73%) Retail
7 3 (1.64%) Fire and Rescue
7 3 (1.64%) Legal
8 2 (1.09%) Advertising
8 2 (1.09%) Games
9 1 (0.55%) Automotive
9 1 (0.55%) Billing
9 1 (0.55%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.55%) Law
9 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 35 (19.13%) Analyst
2 34 (18.58%) Data Manager
3 22 (12.02%) Architect
3 22 (12.02%) Data Architect
4 21 (11.48%) Junior
5 18 (9.84%) Data Analyst
6 16 (8.74%) Data Quality Manager
6 16 (8.74%) Quality Manager
6 16 (8.74%) Senior
7 15 (8.20%) Data Engineer
8 12 (6.56%) Data Governance Analyst
8 12 (6.56%) Data Governance Manager
8 12 (6.56%) Developer
8 12 (6.56%) Governance Manager
9 8 (4.37%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 7 (3.83%) Administrator
10 7 (3.83%) Business Manager
10 7 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (3.83%) Supply Chain Controller
11 6 (3.28%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.28%) .NET
1 6 (3.28%) PySpark
1 6 (3.28%) REST
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.09%) RESTful
2 2 (1.09%) XML
3 1 (0.55%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.55%) JSON
3 1 (0.55%) Kafka
3 1 (0.55%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.55%) Pandas
3 1 (0.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.56%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.92%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.83%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.73%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.09%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.09%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.55%) CMDB
8 1 (0.55%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.55%) PMI
8 1 (0.55%) Replication
8 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (43.72%) Analytics
2 68 (37.16%) Business Intelligence
3 60 (32.79%) Decision-Making
4 58 (31.69%) Data Governance
5 55 (30.05%) Data Modelling
6 50 (27.32%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (24.04%) Data Management
8 42 (22.95%) AI
9 31 (16.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (15.85%) Visualisation
11 28 (15.30%) ETL
11 28 (15.30%) Validation
12 27 (14.75%) ERP
13 26 (14.21%) Roadmaps
14 24 (13.11%) Actionable Insight
14 24 (13.11%) Data Architecture
15 22 (12.02%) CRM
15 22 (12.02%) Data Visualisation
15 22 (12.02%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 21 (11.48%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 60 (32.79%) SQL
2 27 (14.75%) Python
3 14 (7.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (3.83%) T-SQL
5 6 (3.28%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.28%) R
6 3 (1.64%) VBA
7 2 (1.09%) Java
8 1 (0.55%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.55%) C#
8 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (14.21%) Degree
2 3 (1.64%) ACCA
2 3 (1.64%) CIMA
2 3 (1.64%) CIPD
2 3 (1.64%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.09%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.48%) GDPR
2 7 (3.83%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (3.28%) QA
4 4 (2.19%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.55%) NIST
6 1 (0.55%) PMO
6 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.55%) SCCM
1 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (10.93%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.38%) Databricks
3 13 (7.10%) SAP
4 7 (3.83%) Google
4 7 (3.83%) SYSPRO
5 5 (2.73%) Sage
6 4 (2.19%) Oracle
6 4 (2.19%) Xero
7 2 (1.09%) Adobe
8 1 (0.55%) Civica
8 1 (0.55%) Northgate
8 1 (0.55%) Orchard
8 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.55%) Workday