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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 153 158
Rank change year-on-year +51 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 207 82 131
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.34% 1.46% 1.30%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.29% 9.52% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 134 68 74
10th Percentile £36,325 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,217 £41,250 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,693 £45,000 £55,641
Median % change year-on-year +23.76% -19.12% +2.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £54,125 £63,438
90th Percentile £83,750 £63,750 £79,725
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,468 £77,500
% change year-on-year +8.76% -25.85% +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 1,354 861 1,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.76% 15.38% 15.19%
Number of salaries quoted 933 568 687
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,580 £30,000
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 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,840 £70,075 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.88% -0.87% -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 17 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 17 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 +36 140 £57,946 +28.77% 181
East Midlands -7 66 £54,575 +28.41% 64
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 (1.45%) Apache
1 3 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.45%) SAS
2 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.97%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.48%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (10.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.45%) Navisworks
3 3 (1.45%) Revit
3 3 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.42%) Infor M3
3 4 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.93%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.48%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 64 (30.92%) Power Platform
2 45 (21.74%) Azure
3 21 (10.14%) AWS
4 14 (6.76%) GCP
5 9 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (3.86%) SaaS
6 8 (3.86%) Snowflake
7 7 (3.38%) Amazon EMR
7 7 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.38%) Power Automate
8 6 (2.90%) PaaS
9 4 (1.93%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.93%) Azure Databricks
9 4 (1.93%) Google Ads
9 4 (1.93%) Meta Ads
10 3 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.45%) Serverless
10 3 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.97%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (30.92%) Power BI
2 19 (9.18%) Data Lake
3 18 (8.70%) Power Query
3 18 (8.70%) Tableau
4 14 (6.76%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (6.28%) Metadata
5 13 (6.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (5.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (5.31%) QlikView
8 9 (4.35%) Delta Lake
9 7 (3.38%) Big Data
9 7 (3.38%) GIS
10 6 (2.90%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.90%) Star Schema
11 5 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (2.42%) Data Mining
11 5 (2.42%) Oracle BI EE
12 4 (1.93%) Crystal Reports
12 4 (1.93%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (1.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (4.35%) Git
2 4 (1.93%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (1.45%) JIRA
3 3 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 72 (34.78%) Analytical Skills
2 62 (29.95%) Social Skills
3 54 (26.09%) Finance
4 24 (11.59%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.21%) Manufacturing
6 14 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.35%) Legal
7 9 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.86%) Fire and Rescue
9 6 (2.90%) Marketing
10 5 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.42%) Social Housing
11 4 (1.93%) Retail
12 3 (1.45%) Billing
13 2 (0.97%) Advertising
13 2 (0.97%) Banking
13 2 (0.97%) Games
14 1 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 35 (16.91%) Analyst
2 33 (15.94%) Data Manager
3 27 (13.04%) Lead
4 26 (12.56%) Architect
4 26 (12.56%) Data Architect
5 23 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 21 (10.14%) Senior
7 18 (8.70%) Data Analyst
8 13 (6.28%) Junior
9 12 (5.80%) Data Quality Manager
9 12 (5.80%) Quality Manager
10 11 (5.31%) Data Governance Analyst
10 11 (5.31%) Data Governance Manager
10 11 (5.31%) Governance Manager
11 9 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Lead
11 9 (4.35%) Business Manager
11 9 (4.35%) Senior Architect
11 9 (4.35%) Senior Data Architect
12 8 (3.86%) Business Intelligence Manager
12 8 (3.86%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.21%) PySpark
2 7 (3.38%) .NET
2 7 (3.38%) REST
3 5 (2.42%) PyTorch
3 5 (2.42%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.93%) EDI
4 4 (1.93%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.45%) XML
6 2 (0.97%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.97%) JSON
6 2 (0.97%) RESTful
7 1 (0.48%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.48%) Kafka
7 1 (0.48%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.48%) Middleware
7 1 (0.48%) React
7 1 (0.48%) SOAP
7 1 (0.48%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.66%) Management Information System
2 15 (7.25%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.86%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.42%) FMCG
5 5 (2.42%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.42%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.93%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.97%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.97%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.97%) PMI
7 2 (0.97%) Sports Betting
7 2 (0.97%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (41.55%) Analytics
2 79 (38.16%) Business Intelligence
3 74 (35.75%) Decision-Making
4 70 (33.82%) Data Governance
5 66 (31.88%) Data Management
6 64 (30.92%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (29.47%) Data Modelling
8 54 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (25.60%) AI
10 43 (20.77%) Data Architecture
11 41 (19.81%) ETL
12 37 (17.87%) ERP
13 34 (16.43%) Roadmaps
14 33 (15.94%) Visualisation
15 32 (15.46%) Agile
16 30 (14.49%) Data Engineering
17 29 (14.01%) Stakeholder Management
18 28 (13.53%) Actionable Insight
18 28 (13.53%) Validation
19 27 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 75 (36.23%) SQL
2 44 (21.26%) Python
3 17 (8.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (5.80%) R
5 10 (4.83%) Java
6 7 (3.38%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.45%) C#
7 3 (1.45%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.97%) C++
9 1 (0.48%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.48%) Bash
9 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (20.77%) Degree
2 7 (3.38%) PMI Certification
3 6 (2.90%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.42%) PMP
5 4 (1.93%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.45%) ACCA
6 3 (1.45%) CIMA
6 3 (1.45%) CIPD
7 2 (0.97%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.98%) GDPR
2 7 (3.38%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.90%) QA
4 3 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.45%) ISO 19650
5 1 (0.48%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.48%) NIST
5 1 (0.48%) PMO
5 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.48%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.63%) Databricks
3 10 (4.83%) Oracle
3 10 (4.83%) SAP
4 8 (3.86%) SYSPRO
5 7 (3.38%) Google
6 5 (2.42%) Infor
6 5 (2.42%) Sage
6 5 (2.42%) Xero
7 3 (1.45%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.45%) Workday
8 1 (0.48%) Adobe
8 1 (0.48%) Denodo
8 1 (0.48%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow