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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 139 170
Rank change year-on-year +12 +31 -23
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 150 94 149
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.14% 1.82% 1.25%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.10% 10.23% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 116 81 79
10th Percentile £31,000 £42,500 £31,208
25th Percentile £44,022 £46,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,300 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% +6.60% -
75th Percentile £68,500 £63,750 £61,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £68,275
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,182 £68,490
% change year-on-year -1.93% -10.67% +5.37%

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 1,240 919 1,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.46% 17.75% 14.60%
Number of salaries quoted 694 575 1,269
10th Percentile £29,400 £28,822 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +5 94 £57,500 +4.55% 49
East Midlands -8 55 £54,150 +11.65% 20
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 7 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 20 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (7.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.00%) Sage 50
3 3 (2.00%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.67%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 46 (30.67%) Power Platform
2 31 (20.67%) Azure
3 13 (8.67%) Power Automate
4 12 (8.00%) AWS
5 11 (7.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (7.33%) GCP
6 9 (6.00%) Snowflake
7 7 (4.67%) Microsoft Purview
7 7 (4.67%) SaaS
8 5 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.33%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.00%) dbt
10 3 (2.00%) PaaS
11 2 (1.33%) Adobe Analytics
11 2 (1.33%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.33%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.33%) Google Analytics
11 2 (1.33%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (30.67%) Power BI
2 14 (9.33%) Tableau
3 12 (8.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (6.67%) Metadata
5 9 (6.00%) Data Lake
5 9 (6.00%) Power Query
6 7 (4.67%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (2.00%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.33%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.33%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.33%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.33%) Looker
9 2 (1.33%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.67%) DB2
10 1 (0.67%) Parquet
10 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.67%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 5 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (1.33%) JIRA
2 2 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.67%) Git
General
1 47 (31.33%) Finance
2 45 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 39 (26.00%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (6.00%) Marketing
7 5 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.67%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.00%) Legal
9 3 (2.00%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.33%) Law
10 2 (1.33%) Retail
10 2 (1.33%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.67%) Automotive
11 1 (0.67%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.67%) Local Government
11 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (22.67%) Analyst
2 28 (18.67%) Data Manager
3 22 (14.67%) Data Analyst
4 15 (10.00%) Junior
4 15 (10.00%) Senior
5 14 (9.33%) Architect
5 14 (9.33%) Data Architect
5 14 (9.33%) Data Quality Manager
5 14 (9.33%) Quality Manager
6 13 (8.67%) Developer
6 13 (8.67%) Governance Manager
7 12 (8.00%) Data Governance Analyst
7 12 (8.00%) Data Governance Manager
8 11 (7.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 8 (5.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (5.33%) Data Engineer
10 7 (4.67%) Administrator
10 7 (4.67%) Business Developer
11 5 (3.33%) Consultant
11 5 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.33%) PySpark
2 6 (4.00%) .NET
3 3 (2.00%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.33%) REST
5 1 (0.67%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.67%) Pandas
5 1 (0.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.33%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.67%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.33%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.33%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.33%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.33%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.33%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.67%) CMDB
7 1 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.67%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.67%) Linked Data
7 1 (0.67%) Replication
7 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (46.00%) Analytics
2 57 (38.00%) Business Intelligence
3 46 (30.67%) Data Governance
4 41 (27.33%) Decision-Making
5 40 (26.67%) Data Modelling
5 40 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (20.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (20.00%) AI
8 25 (16.67%) Data Management
9 23 (15.33%) CRM
9 23 (15.33%) ETL
10 21 (14.00%) Actionable Insight
11 20 (13.33%) Validation
11 20 (13.33%) Visualisation
12 19 (12.67%) Data Analysis
13 17 (11.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 17 (11.33%) Roadmaps
14 16 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (10.00%) Machine Learning
16 14 (9.33%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 48 (32.00%) SQL
2 23 (15.33%) Python
3 9 (6.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 9 (6.00%) T-SQL
4 7 (4.67%) R
5 6 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.00%) Scala
6 3 (2.00%) VBA
7 1 (0.67%) Bicep
7 1 (0.67%) C#
7 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (12.00%) Degree
2 6 (4.00%) DBS Check
3 3 (2.00%) ACCA
3 3 (2.00%) CIMA
4 2 (1.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.67%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.33%) GDPR
2 8 (5.33%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (4.00%) QA
4 4 (2.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.67%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.67%) NIST
6 1 (0.67%) PMO
6 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.00%) Terraform
2 1 (0.67%) Control-M
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (14.00%) Databricks
2 19 (12.67%) Microsoft
3 15 (10.00%) SAP
4 5 (3.33%) Google
5 4 (2.67%) Civica
5 4 (2.67%) Oracle
5 4 (2.67%) Zoho
6 3 (2.00%) Sage
6 3 (2.00%) Xero
7 2 (1.33%) Adobe
7 2 (1.33%) Northgate
7 2 (1.33%) Orchard
8 1 (0.67%) BMC
8 1 (0.67%) IBM
8 1 (0.67%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.67%) Talend