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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 153 158
Rank change year-on-year +47 +5 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 216 77 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.37% 1.37% 1.30%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.77% 8.97% 8.40%
Number of salaries quoted 138 63 74
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,565
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,443 £45,000 £56,282
Median % change year-on-year +25.43% -20.04% +7.20%
75th Percentile £72,500 £52,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £63,300 £79,725
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,435 £77,500
% change year-on-year +8.82% -25.89% +10.71%

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 1,370 858 1,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.71% 15.26% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 930 564 651
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,580 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £63,200
90th Percentile £77,050 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,315 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.32% -0.32% -4.17%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +43 145 £57,223 +27.16% 193
East Midlands +7 71 £54,575 +28.41% 80
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 (1.39%) Apache
1 3 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.39%) SAS
2 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 24 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.39%) Navisworks
3 3 (1.39%) Revit
3 3 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.93%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (2.78%) Infor M3
2 5 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.85%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.46%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 68 (31.48%) Power Platform
2 49 (22.69%) Azure
3 18 (8.33%) AWS
4 10 (4.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (4.63%) GCP
5 9 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.70%) SaaS
7 7 (3.24%) Amazon EMR
7 7 (3.24%) Power Automate
7 7 (3.24%) Snowflake
8 6 (2.78%) Azure Databricks
8 6 (2.78%) PaaS
9 4 (1.85%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.85%) dbt
9 4 (1.85%) GitHub
9 4 (1.85%) Meta Ads
9 4 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (31.48%) Power BI
2 23 (10.65%) Power Query
3 20 (9.26%) Tableau
4 19 (8.80%) Data Lake
4 19 (8.80%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (7.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (6.94%) Metadata
8 11 (5.09%) Delta Lake
8 11 (5.09%) QlikView
9 9 (4.17%) SQL Server
10 8 (3.70%) GIS
10 8 (3.70%) Star Schema
11 7 (3.24%) Big Data
11 7 (3.24%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.78%) Metadata Repository
13 5 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (2.31%) Data Mining
13 5 (2.31%) Oracle BI EE
13 5 (2.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (5.09%) Git
2 4 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (0.93%) JIRA
3 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 84 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
2 65 (30.09%) Social Skills
3 56 (25.93%) Finance
4 26 (12.04%) Public Sector
5 19 (8.80%) Manufacturing
6 17 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (5.09%) Legal
8 10 (4.63%) Fire and Rescue
8 10 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.78%) Marketing
10 5 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.31%) Retail
10 5 (2.31%) Social Housing
11 3 (1.39%) Billing
12 2 (0.93%) Advertising
12 2 (0.93%) Banking
12 2 (0.93%) Games
13 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.46%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 35 (16.20%) Analyst
2 33 (15.28%) Data Manager
3 30 (13.89%) Lead
4 28 (12.96%) Architect
4 28 (12.96%) Data Architect
5 26 (12.04%) Data Engineer
6 22 (10.19%) Senior
7 18 (8.33%) Data Analyst
8 13 (6.02%) Junior
9 12 (5.56%) Data Quality Manager
9 12 (5.56%) Quality Manager
10 11 (5.09%) Business Intelligence Lead
10 11 (5.09%) Data Governance Analyst
10 11 (5.09%) Data Governance Manager
10 11 (5.09%) Governance Manager
10 11 (5.09%) Senior Architect
10 11 (5.09%) Senior Data Architect
11 10 (4.63%) Team Leader
12 9 (4.17%) Business Manager
12 9 (4.17%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.80%) PySpark
2 7 (3.24%) .NET
2 7 (3.24%) REST
3 5 (2.31%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.31%) PyTorch
3 5 (2.31%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.85%) EDI
5 3 (1.39%) XML
6 2 (0.93%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.93%) JSON
6 2 (0.93%) RESTful
7 1 (0.46%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.46%) Kafka
7 1 (0.46%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.46%) Middleware
7 1 (0.46%) React
7 1 (0.46%) SOAP
7 1 (0.46%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 16 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.09%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.78%) FMCG
6 6 (2.78%) Reference Data
7 5 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.31%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.85%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.93%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.93%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.93%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.93%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (43.98%) Analytics
2 88 (40.74%) Business Intelligence
3 80 (37.04%) Decision-Making
4 78 (36.11%) Data Governance
5 72 (33.33%) Data Management
6 67 (31.02%) Data Modelling
7 66 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (24.54%) AI
10 49 (22.69%) Data Architecture
11 48 (22.22%) ETL
12 39 (18.06%) Visualisation
13 37 (17.13%) ERP
14 36 (16.67%) Agile
15 34 (15.74%) Roadmaps
16 33 (15.28%) Data Engineering
17 31 (14.35%) Data Pipeline
17 31 (14.35%) Stakeholder Management
18 30 (13.89%) Data Strategy
18 30 (13.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 85 (39.35%) SQL
2 47 (21.76%) Python
3 21 (9.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (5.56%) R
5 10 (4.63%) Java
6 7 (3.24%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.85%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.39%) C#
9 2 (0.93%) C++
9 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.46%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.46%) Bash
10 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 46 (21.30%) Degree
2 8 (3.70%) PMI Certification
3 6 (2.78%) PMP
4 5 (2.31%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.85%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.39%) ACCA
6 3 (1.39%) CIMA
6 3 (1.39%) CIPD
7 2 (0.93%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.74%) GDPR
2 8 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.31%) QA
6 3 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.39%) ISO 19650
7 2 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.46%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.46%) NIST
8 1 (0.46%) PMO
8 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 31 (14.35%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.19%) Databricks
3 13 (6.02%) Oracle
4 11 (5.09%) SAP
5 8 (3.70%) SYSPRO
6 6 (2.78%) Google
6 6 (2.78%) Infor
7 5 (2.31%) Sage
7 5 (2.31%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.31%) Xero
8 3 (1.39%) Workday
9 1 (0.46%) Adaptive Insights
9 1 (0.46%) Adobe
9 1 (0.46%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.46%) Denodo
9 1 (0.46%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.46%) IFS