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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 156 165
Rank change year-on-year +57 +9 -1
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 190 84 136
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.33% 1.46% 1.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.84% 9.34% 9.00%
Number of salaries quoted 135 70 79
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,225 £32,330
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,732 £45,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% -17.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £57,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £71,375 £73,350
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -23.33% +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 1,280 899 1,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.96% 15.67% 14.14%
Number of salaries quoted 859 583 863
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 £64,775 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,361 £69,950 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.77% +2.73% -8.33%

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 8 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 8 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 +34 121 £60,900 +27.54% 82
East Midlands +13 68 £54,150 +23.77% 27
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
2 1 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (14.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.05%) Navisworks
5 2 (1.05%) 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 34 (17.89%) Azure
3 18 (9.47%) 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 4 (2.11%) dbt
10 3 (1.58%) Google Ads
10 3 (1.58%) Meta Ads
10 3 (1.58%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.05%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (1.05%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (1.05%) Amazon S3
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 17 (8.95%) Tableau
4 14 (7.37%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (6.84%) Data Lake
5 13 (6.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (5.79%) Metadata
7 9 (4.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (3.16%) QlikView
8 6 (3.16%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.11%) GIS
10 3 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.58%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.58%) MySQL
10 3 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.58%) Star Schema
11 2 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.05%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.05%) Looker
11 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (2.11%) Git
3 3 (1.58%) JIRA
General
1 59 (31.05%) Social Skills
2 56 (29.47%) Finance
3 54 (28.42%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.42%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.79%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.68%) Fire and Rescue
9 5 (2.63%) Marketing
9 5 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.11%) Retail
11 3 (1.58%) Social Housing
12 2 (1.05%) Advertising
12 2 (1.05%) Billing
12 2 (1.05%) Games
12 2 (1.05%) Legal
13 1 (0.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 36 (18.95%) Data Manager
2 35 (18.42%) Analyst
3 24 (12.63%) Architect
3 24 (12.63%) Data Architect
4 20 (10.53%) Junior
5 18 (9.47%) Data Analyst
6 17 (8.95%) Data Quality Manager
6 17 (8.95%) Quality Manager
7 15 (7.89%) Senior
8 13 (6.84%) Data Engineer
9 12 (6.32%) Lead
10 10 (5.26%) Data Governance Analyst
10 10 (5.26%) Data Governance Manager
10 10 (5.26%) Governance Manager
11 9 (4.74%) Business Manager
11 9 (4.74%) Developer
12 8 (4.21%) Business Intelligence Manager
13 7 (3.68%) Administrator
13 7 (3.68%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 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%) EDI
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%) Kafka
4 1 (0.53%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.53%) Pandas
4 1 (0.53%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.32%) 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%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.05%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.05%) PMI
7 2 (1.05%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.53%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.53%) CMDB
8 1 (0.53%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.53%) Pricing Data
8 1 (0.53%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (45.79%) Analytics
2 72 (37.89%) Business Intelligence
3 66 (34.74%) Decision-Making
4 60 (31.58%) Data Governance
5 56 (29.47%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (28.95%) Data Modelling
7 52 (27.37%) Data Management
8 43 (22.63%) AI
9 37 (19.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (16.84%) Visualisation
11 30 (15.79%) Data Architecture
11 30 (15.79%) Roadmaps
12 29 (15.26%) Validation
13 28 (14.74%) Actionable Insight
13 28 (14.74%) ERP
14 27 (14.21%) ETL
15 26 (13.68%) Data Visualisation
16 24 (12.63%) Data-Driven Decision Making
17 23 (12.11%) Data Protection
18 22 (11.58%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 64 (33.68%) SQL
2 30 (15.79%) Python
3 17 (8.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (3.68%) T-SQL
5 6 (3.16%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.16%) R
6 3 (1.58%) Java
6 3 (1.58%) VBA
7 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.53%) C#
7 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (17.89%) Degree
2 3 (1.58%) ACCA
2 3 (1.58%) CIMA
2 3 (1.58%) CIPD
2 3 (1.58%) DBS Check
2 3 (1.58%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.05%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.21%) 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 2 (1.05%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.53%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.53%) NIST
6 1 (0.53%) PMO
6 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 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 22 (11.58%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.42%) Databricks
3 14 (7.37%) SAP
4 8 (4.21%) SYSPRO
5 7 (3.68%) Google
6 5 (2.63%) Oracle
6 5 (2.63%) Sage
7 4 (2.11%) Xero
8 2 (1.05%) Adobe
9 1 (0.53%) Civica
9 1 (0.53%) Denodo
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