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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 149 159
Rank change year-on-year +45 +10 +7
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 190 85 138
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.35% 1.49% 1.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.02% 9.52% 8.98%
Number of salaries quoted 136 71 81
10th Percentile £36,250 - £32,600
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £48,500 £56,282
Median % change year-on-year +23.71% -13.83% +7.20%
75th Percentile £72,500 £57,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £61,924 £58,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.85% -22.00% +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 1,265 893 1,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.98% 15.63% 14.19%
Number of salaries quoted 853 580 889
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £27,300
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,580 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £42,618 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.50% -14.77% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,350 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,468 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.06% +4.49% -6.38%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +21 120 £62,500 +21.95% 97
East Midlands +8 69 £54,575 +28.41% 34
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 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.58%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.53%) Apache
2 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 28 (14.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.11%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.53%) Navisworks
5 1 (0.53%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (4.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.11%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.53%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 59 (31.05%) Power Platform
2 35 (18.42%) Azure
3 19 (10.00%) AWS
4 14 (7.37%) GCP
5 11 (5.79%) Power Automate
5 11 (5.79%) Snowflake
6 9 (4.74%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (4.21%) SaaS
8 6 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.63%) dbt
10 3 (1.58%) Google Ads
10 3 (1.58%) Meta Ads
10 3 (1.58%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.05%) Adobe Analytics
11 2 (1.05%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (1.05%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (1.05%) Dagster
11 2 (1.05%) Google Tag Manager
11 2 (1.05%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.05%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (31.05%) Power BI
2 22 (11.58%) Power Query
3 18 (9.47%) Tableau
4 13 (6.84%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (6.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (6.32%) Data Lake
6 11 (5.79%) Metadata
7 8 (4.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (3.16%) QlikView
8 6 (3.16%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.58%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.58%) GIS
9 3 (1.58%) MySQL
9 3 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.58%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.05%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.05%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.05%) Looker
Development Applications
1 5 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (2.11%) Git
3 3 (1.58%) JIRA
General
1 57 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 56 (29.47%) Finance
3 54 (28.42%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (7.37%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.79%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.68%) Fire and Rescue
6 7 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.63%) Marketing
7 5 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.11%) Retail
9 2 (1.05%) Advertising
9 2 (1.05%) Billing
9 2 (1.05%) Games
9 2 (1.05%) Legal
9 2 (1.05%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.53%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 36 (18.95%) Analyst
1 36 (18.95%) Data Manager
2 23 (12.11%) Architect
2 23 (12.11%) Data Architect
3 21 (11.05%) Junior
4 19 (10.00%) Data Analyst
5 17 (8.95%) Data Quality Manager
5 17 (8.95%) Quality Manager
6 16 (8.42%) Senior
7 14 (7.37%) Data Engineer
8 12 (6.32%) Lead
9 10 (5.26%) Data Governance Analyst
9 10 (5.26%) Data Governance Manager
9 10 (5.26%) Governance Manager
10 9 (4.74%) Business Manager
10 9 (4.74%) Developer
11 8 (4.21%) Business Intelligence Manager
12 7 (3.68%) Administrator
12 7 (3.68%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 7 (3.68%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.16%) .NET
1 6 (3.16%) PySpark
1 6 (3.16%) REST
2 3 (1.58%) XML
3 2 (1.05%) GraphQL
3 2 (1.05%) JSON
3 2 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.05%) RESTful
4 1 (0.53%) EDI
4 1 (0.53%) Kafka
4 1 (0.53%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.53%) Pandas
4 1 (0.53%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.79%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.21%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (4.21%) Data Structures
2 8 (4.21%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.11%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.05%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.05%) PMI
6 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.05%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.53%) CMDB
7 1 (0.53%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.53%) Pricing Data
7 1 (0.53%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (45.26%) Analytics
2 72 (37.89%) Business Intelligence
3 64 (33.68%) Decision-Making
4 62 (32.63%) Data Governance
5 56 (29.47%) Data Modelling
6 55 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (26.84%) Data Management
8 42 (22.11%) AI
9 36 (18.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (17.37%) Visualisation
11 30 (15.79%) Roadmaps
12 29 (15.26%) Data Architecture
12 29 (15.26%) Validation
13 28 (14.74%) ERP
14 27 (14.21%) Actionable Insight
15 26 (13.68%) Data Visualisation
15 26 (13.68%) ETL
16 24 (12.63%) Data-Driven Decision Making
17 23 (12.11%) Data Protection
18 21 (11.05%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 64 (33.68%) SQL
2 31 (16.32%) Python
3 17 (8.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (3.68%) T-SQL
5 6 (3.16%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.63%) R
7 3 (1.58%) VBA
8 2 (1.05%) Java
9 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.53%) C#
9 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (17.37%) Degree
2 3 (1.58%) ACCA
2 3 (1.58%) CIMA
2 3 (1.58%) CIPD
2 3 (1.58%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.05%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.05%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.68%) GDPR
2 7 (3.68%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 5 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (2.63%) QA
4 3 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.53%) ISO 19650
5 1 (0.53%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.53%) NIST
5 1 (0.53%) PMO
5 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.53%) SCCM
1 1 (0.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (11.05%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.47%) Databricks
3 14 (7.37%) SAP
4 8 (4.21%) SYSPRO
5 7 (3.68%) Google
6 5 (2.63%) Sage
7 4 (2.11%) Oracle
7 4 (2.11%) Xero
8 2 (1.05%) Adobe
9 1 (0.53%) Civica
9 1 (0.53%) Northgate
9 1 (0.53%) Orchard
9 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.53%) Workday