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 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 145 200
Rank change year-on-year +36 +55 -41
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 181 86 135
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.37% 1.53% 1.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.03% 9.56% 7.25%
Number of salaries quoted 132 71 80
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £31,700
25th Percentile £46,104 £43,000 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,732 £48,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.16% -15.65% +15.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £56,875 £64,375
90th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £83,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -20.00% +13.21%

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 1,204 900 1,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.10% 16.06% 14.10%
Number of salaries quoted 811 567 1,212
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,580 £31,216
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £58,500 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +1.74% +6.48% -6.09%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 +30 119 £63,076 +20.14% 49
East Midlands +7 61 £53,950 +16.65% 45
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 (3.87%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.55%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 23 (12.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (4.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.21%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.55%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.55%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 53 (29.28%) Power Platform
2 35 (19.34%) Azure
3 18 (9.94%) AWS
4 14 (7.73%) GCP
5 13 (7.18%) Power Automate
6 12 (6.63%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (6.08%) Snowflake
8 9 (4.97%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (4.42%) SaaS
10 5 (2.76%) dbt
10 5 (2.76%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.66%) Google Ads
11 3 (1.66%) Meta Ads
11 3 (1.66%) PaaS
12 2 (1.10%) Adobe Analytics
12 2 (1.10%) Amazon EMR
12 2 (1.10%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.10%) Google Analytics
12 2 (1.10%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (29.28%) Power BI
2 16 (8.84%) Tableau
3 15 (8.29%) Power Query
4 13 (7.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (6.08%) Metadata
6 10 (5.52%) Data Lake
6 10 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.87%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.76%) Star Schema
9 4 (2.21%) QlikView
9 4 (2.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.66%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.66%) MySQL
10 3 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.10%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.10%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.10%) Looker
Development Applications
1 5 (2.76%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (2.21%) Git
3 3 (1.66%) JIRA
4 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 55 (30.39%) Finance
2 54 (29.83%) Social Skills
3 43 (23.76%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.73%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.97%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.76%) Marketing
8 4 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.21%) Retail
9 2 (1.10%) Advertising
9 2 (1.10%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (1.10%) Games
9 2 (1.10%) Legal
10 1 (0.55%) Automotive
10 1 (0.55%) Billing
10 1 (0.55%) Law
10 1 (0.55%) Local Government
10 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 35 (19.34%) Data Manager
2 33 (18.23%) Analyst
3 21 (11.60%) Architect
3 21 (11.60%) Data Architect
4 20 (11.05%) Junior
5 17 (9.39%) Data Analyst
5 17 (9.39%) Senior
6 16 (8.84%) Data Quality Manager
6 16 (8.84%) Quality Manager
7 15 (8.29%) Data Engineer
8 14 (7.73%) Data Governance Analyst
8 14 (7.73%) Data Governance Manager
8 14 (7.73%) Developer
8 14 (7.73%) Governance Manager
9 8 (4.42%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 8 (4.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (3.87%) Administrator
10 7 (3.87%) Business Developer
10 7 (3.87%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Supply Chain Controller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.31%) .NET
1 6 (3.31%) PySpark
1 6 (3.31%) REST
2 2 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.10%) RESTful
3 1 (0.55%) Kafka
3 1 (0.55%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.55%) Pandas
3 1 (0.55%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.52%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.97%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.87%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.76%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.10%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.10%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.55%) CMDB
9 1 (0.55%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.55%) Replication
9 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (43.65%) Analytics
2 65 (35.91%) Business Intelligence
3 58 (32.04%) Data Governance
4 57 (31.49%) Decision-Making
5 55 (30.39%) Data Modelling
6 49 (27.07%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (23.76%) AI
8 42 (23.20%) Data Management
9 30 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (16.02%) ETL
10 29 (16.02%) Visualisation
11 27 (14.92%) ERP
12 25 (13.81%) Roadmaps
12 25 (13.81%) Validation
13 24 (13.26%) Actionable Insight
14 23 (12.71%) CRM
15 22 (12.15%) Data Architecture
15 22 (12.15%) Data Strategy
16 21 (11.60%) Data Visualisation
16 21 (11.60%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 57 (31.49%) SQL
2 26 (14.36%) Python
3 13 (7.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (3.87%) R
4 7 (3.87%) T-SQL
5 6 (3.31%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.66%) VBA
7 2 (1.10%) Java
8 1 (0.55%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.55%) C#
8 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (13.26%) Degree
2 3 (1.66%) ACCA
2 3 (1.66%) CIMA
2 3 (1.66%) CIPD
2 3 (1.66%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.10%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.05%) GDPR
2 7 (3.87%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (3.31%) QA
4 4 (2.21%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.55%) NIST
6 1 (0.55%) PMO
6 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.55%) SCCM
1 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (11.05%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.94%) Databricks
3 14 (7.73%) SAP
4 7 (3.87%) Google
5 6 (3.31%) SYSPRO
6 5 (2.76%) Sage
7 4 (2.21%) Oracle
7 4 (2.21%) Xero
8 2 (1.10%) Adobe
9 1 (0.55%) Civica
9 1 (0.55%) Northgate
9 1 (0.55%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.55%) Orchard
9 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.55%) Workday