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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 152 157
Rank change year-on-year +43 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 200 84 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.31% 1.48% 1.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.88% 9.62% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 132 69 74
10th Percentile £36,650 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,217 £41,250 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £45,000 £55,641
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -19.12% +2.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £53,750 £63,438
90th Percentile £83,750 £63,750 £73,600
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,218 £77,500
% change year-on-year +9.23% -26.17% +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 1,344 873 1,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.80% 15.37% 15.02%
Number of salaries quoted 934 569 711
10th Percentile £29,825 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,541 £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 £64,500 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,201 £67,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,188 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.34% -2.28% -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 11 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 11 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 +36 133 £57,500 +27.78% 90
East Midlands -1 66 £59,000 +38.82% 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 (1.50%) Apache
1 3 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.50%) SAS
2 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (9.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.50%) Navisworks
3 3 (1.50%) Revit
3 3 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.00%) Infor M3
2 4 (2.00%) Sage 50
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.50%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 60 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 44 (22.00%) Azure
3 21 (10.50%) AWS
4 13 (6.50%) GCP
5 9 (4.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 9 (4.50%) Snowflake
6 8 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (4.00%) SaaS
7 7 (3.50%) Amazon EMR
7 7 (3.50%) Power Automate
8 6 (3.00%) PaaS
9 5 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.00%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.00%) dbt
10 4 (2.00%) Google Ads
10 4 (2.00%) Meta Ads
11 3 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.50%) Azure Databricks
11 3 (1.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (30.00%) Power BI
2 18 (9.00%) Data Lake
2 18 (9.00%) Tableau
3 17 (8.50%) Power Query
4 14 (7.00%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (6.50%) Metadata
5 13 (6.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (6.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (5.50%) QlikView
8 7 (3.50%) Big Data
8 7 (3.50%) Delta Lake
9 6 (3.00%) GIS
9 6 (3.00%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.00%) Star Schema
10 5 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.50%) Data Mining
10 5 (2.50%) Oracle BI EE
11 4 (2.00%) Crystal Reports
11 4 (2.00%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.00%) Git
2 4 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (1.50%) JIRA
4 2 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 67 (33.50%) Analytical Skills
2 59 (29.50%) Social Skills
3 55 (27.50%) Finance
4 21 (10.50%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.50%) Manufacturing
6 13 (6.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.50%) Legal
7 9 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.00%) Fire and Rescue
9 6 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.00%) Marketing
10 4 (2.00%) Retail
10 4 (2.00%) Social Housing
11 3 (1.50%) Billing
12 2 (1.00%) Advertising
12 2 (1.00%) Banking
12 2 (1.00%) Games
13 1 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 32 (16.00%) Data Manager
2 31 (15.50%) Analyst
3 26 (13.00%) Architect
3 26 (13.00%) Data Architect
3 26 (13.00%) Lead
4 21 (10.50%) Data Engineer
4 21 (10.50%) Senior
5 16 (8.00%) Data Analyst
6 14 (7.00%) Junior
7 12 (6.00%) Data Quality Manager
7 12 (6.00%) Quality Manager
8 10 (5.00%) Data Governance Analyst
8 10 (5.00%) Data Governance Manager
8 10 (5.00%) Governance Manager
9 9 (4.50%) Business Intelligence Lead
9 9 (4.50%) Business Manager
9 9 (4.50%) Senior Architect
9 9 (4.50%) Senior Data Architect
10 8 (4.00%) Consultant
10 8 (4.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.50%) PySpark
2 7 (3.50%) .NET
2 7 (3.50%) REST
3 5 (2.50%) PyTorch
3 5 (2.50%) TensorFlow
4 4 (2.00%) EDI
5 3 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.50%) XML
6 2 (1.00%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.00%) JSON
6 2 (1.00%) RESTful
7 1 (0.50%) Kafka
7 1 (0.50%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.50%) Middleware
7 1 (0.50%) SOAP
7 1 (0.50%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.00%) Management Information System
2 13 (6.50%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.50%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (4.50%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.50%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.50%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.00%) FMCG
6 4 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.00%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.00%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.00%) PMI
7 2 (1.00%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.00%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.50%) Autonomous Agent
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (43.00%) Analytics
2 75 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 72 (36.00%) Decision-Making
4 67 (33.50%) Data Governance
5 64 (32.00%) Data Management
6 61 (30.50%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (28.00%) Data Modelling
8 50 (25.00%) AI
9 47 (23.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (21.00%) Data Architecture
11 39 (19.50%) ETL
12 34 (17.00%) ERP
12 34 (17.00%) Roadmaps
13 32 (16.00%) Visualisation
14 30 (15.00%) Agile
15 28 (14.00%) Data Engineering
15 28 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
16 27 (13.50%) Actionable Insight
17 26 (13.00%) Data Strategy
17 26 (13.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 69 (34.50%) SQL
2 40 (20.00%) Python
3 16 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (6.00%) R
5 10 (5.00%) Java
6 7 (3.50%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.50%) C#
7 3 (1.50%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.00%) C++
9 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.50%) Bash
9 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 42 (21.00%) Degree
2 6 (3.00%) PMI Certification
2 6 (3.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.00%) PMP
3 4 (2.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.50%) ACCA
4 3 (1.50%) CIMA
4 3 (1.50%) CIPD
5 2 (1.00%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.00%) GDPR
2 8 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.00%) QA
5 3 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.50%) ISO 19650
6 2 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.50%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.50%) NIST
7 1 (0.50%) PMO
7 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (10.50%) Databricks
1 21 (10.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.50%) Oracle
3 8 (4.00%) SAP
3 8 (4.00%) SYSPRO
4 6 (3.00%) Google
5 5 (2.50%) Sage
5 5 (2.50%) Xero
6 4 (2.00%) Infor
7 3 (1.50%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.00%) Adobe
8 2 (1.00%) Workday
9 1 (0.50%) Denodo
9 1 (0.50%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow