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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 172 176
Rank change year-on-year +39 +4 +13
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 89 98 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.47% 1.13% 1.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.66% 6.88% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 68 64 37
10th Percentile £28,550 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £21,426
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +22.45% -4.85%
75th Percentile £64,063 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £84,234 £80,500
England median annual salary £63,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.29% +7.69% +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 835 1,424 697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.77% 16.38% 14.28%
Number of salaries quoted 551 579 569
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,119 £27,300
25th Percentile £30,580 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.84% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £76,250
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 November 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 November 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 +59 55 £42,500 -29.17% 38
East Midlands +21 34 £47,500 -5.00% 25
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 (3.37%) SAS
2 2 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (24.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.37%) 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%) Dynamics NAV
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 QM
2 1 (1.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.58%) Power Platform
2 23 (25.84%) Azure
3 8 (8.99%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (5.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (5.62%) Snowflake
5 4 (4.49%) AWS
5 4 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.49%) Power Automate
6 3 (3.37%) PaaS
7 2 (2.25%) dbt
7 2 (2.25%) PowerApps
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%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.12%) Collibra
8 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) PuTTY
1 1 (1.12%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (31.46%) Power BI
2 18 (20.22%) Metadata
3 15 (16.85%) Tableau
4 10 (11.24%) BigQuery
4 10 (11.24%) Data Lake
4 10 (11.24%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (10.11%) SQL Server
6 8 (8.99%) Power Query
6 8 (8.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (7.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (7.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (4.49%) Data Mining
8 4 (4.49%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.37%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.25%) MySQL
10 2 (2.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.25%) Oracle ODI
10 2 (2.25%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Git
2 2 (2.25%) JIRA
3 1 (1.12%) ERwin
3 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.12%) JUnit
3 1 (1.12%) Selenium
3 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.12%) TestComplete
General
1 33 (37.08%) Social Skills
2 32 (35.96%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (23.60%) Finance
4 9 (10.11%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (7.87%) Marketing
6 6 (6.74%) Law
7 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.37%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.25%) Banking
9 2 (2.25%) Legal
9 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.25%) Retail
9 2 (2.25%) Social Housing
10 1 (1.12%) Back Office
10 1 (1.12%) Billing
10 1 (1.12%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 27 (30.34%) Analyst
2 15 (16.85%) Data Analyst
3 10 (11.24%) Data Manager
4 9 (10.11%) Data Quality Analyst
4 9 (10.11%) Quality Analyst
5 8 (8.99%) Data Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 6 (6.74%) Data Governance Analyst
7 6 (6.74%) Data Governance Manager
7 6 (6.74%) Developer
7 6 (6.74%) Governance Manager
7 6 (6.74%) Senior
7 6 (6.74%) Systems Support
8 5 (5.62%) Data Modeller
8 5 (5.62%) DBA
9 4 (4.49%) Architect
9 4 (4.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (4.49%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.49%) SQL DBA
10 3 (3.37%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.37%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (3.37%) REST
2 2 (2.25%) .NET
2 2 (2.25%) PySpark
2 2 (2.25%) SOAP
3 1 (1.12%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.12%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.12%) JSON
3 1 (1.12%) Kafka
3 1 (1.12%) Middleware
3 1 (1.12%) Plotly
3 1 (1.12%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.12%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.12%) Shiny
3 1 (1.12%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.11%) Data Structures
2 8 (8.99%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (7.87%) FMCG
4 6 (6.74%) Pricing Data
5 4 (4.49%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.49%) Reference Data
6 3 (3.37%) Driving Licence
6 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.37%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (2.25%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.25%) CMDB
7 2 (2.25%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.12%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.37%) Windows
2 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (41.57%) Analytics
2 35 (39.33%) Business Intelligence
3 30 (33.71%) Decision-Making
4 29 (32.58%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (29.21%) Data Governance
5 26 (29.21%) Data Modelling
5 26 (29.21%) ETL
6 20 (22.47%) Data Cleansing
6 20 (22.47%) Data Management
6 20 (22.47%) Visualisation
7 17 (19.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (17.98%) Migration
9 15 (16.85%) Data Visualisation
9 15 (16.85%) Validation
10 14 (15.73%) Data Validation
10 14 (15.73%) Metadata Management
11 13 (14.61%) Actionable Insight
11 13 (14.61%) Data Analysis
12 12 (13.48%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (13.48%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 52 (58.43%) SQL
2 24 (26.97%) Python
3 10 (11.24%) T-SQL
4 7 (7.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.49%) R
6 2 (2.25%) Bicep
6 2 (2.25%) C#
6 2 (2.25%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.25%) Scala
7 1 (1.12%) Bash
7 1 (1.12%) Java
7 1 (1.12%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (6.74%) Degree
2 3 (3.37%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.12%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.12%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.12%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.73%) GDPR
2 4 (4.49%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.37%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.12%) Apache Flume
1 1 (1.12%) Docker
1 1 (1.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (2.25%) Terraform
2 1 (1.12%) Kibana
2 1 (1.12%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.12%) logstash
2 1 (1.12%) Oozie
Vendors
1 25 (28.09%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.73%) Databricks
3 6 (6.74%) SAP
4 4 (4.49%) Oracle
5 3 (3.37%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.25%) Adobe
6 2 (2.25%) Civica
6 2 (2.25%) HubSpot
6 2 (2.25%) Informatica
6 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.25%) Zoho
7 1 (1.12%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.12%) Cognos
7 1 (1.12%) Google
7 1 (1.12%) IBM
7 1 (1.12%) Magma
7 1 (1.12%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.12%) Northgate
7 1 (1.12%) Orchard
7 1 (1.12%) Talend