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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 155 163
Rank change year-on-year +48 +8 +3
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 186 84 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.27% 1.45% 1.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.52% 9.49% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 128 69 80
10th Percentile £38,525 £39,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £38,556
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,866 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.04% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £63,750 £73,300
England median annual salary £62,000 £57,500 £76,000
% change year-on-year +7.83% -24.34% +10.95%

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 1,281 885 1,510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.74% 15.23% 14.13%
Number of salaries quoted 871 576 834
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £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 £64,750 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,297 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.98% +0.54% -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 23 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 23 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 +32 120 £60,900 +35.33% 72
East Midlands +3 65 £59,000 +38.82% 21
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 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.61%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.54%) Apache
2 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.54%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (11.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.08%) Navisworks
4 2 (1.08%) Revit
5 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.15%) Sage 50
3 1 (0.54%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.54%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 56 (30.11%) Power Platform
2 36 (19.35%) Azure
3 17 (9.14%) AWS
4 13 (6.99%) GCP
5 11 (5.91%) Snowflake
6 9 (4.84%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (4.30%) Power Automate
7 8 (4.30%) SaaS
8 7 (3.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.15%) dbt
9 4 (2.15%) PaaS
10 3 (1.61%) Google Ads
10 3 (1.61%) Meta Ads
11 2 (1.08%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (1.08%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.08%) Dagster
11 2 (1.08%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (30.11%) Power BI
2 18 (9.68%) Power Query
3 16 (8.60%) Data Lake
3 16 (8.60%) Tableau
4 13 (6.99%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (6.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (5.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (4.84%) QlikView
7 8 (4.30%) Metadata
8 6 (3.23%) GIS
8 6 (3.23%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.15%) Crystal Reports
9 4 (2.15%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.61%) Big Data
10 3 (1.61%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.61%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.61%) MySQL
10 3 (1.61%) Oracle BI EE
10 3 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (2.69%) Git
2 4 (2.15%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 56 (30.11%) Social Skills
2 54 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
2 54 (29.03%) Finance
3 14 (7.53%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (6.45%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.76%) Fire and Rescue
8 6 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.69%) Legal
9 5 (2.69%) Marketing
9 5 (2.69%) Retail
10 4 (2.15%) Social Housing
11 2 (1.08%) Advertising
11 2 (1.08%) Billing
11 2 (1.08%) Games
12 1 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 36 (19.35%) Data Manager
2 30 (16.13%) Analyst
3 23 (12.37%) Architect
3 23 (12.37%) Data Architect
4 17 (9.14%) Junior
5 16 (8.60%) Lead
6 15 (8.06%) Data Analyst
6 15 (8.06%) Data Quality Manager
6 15 (8.06%) Quality Manager
6 15 (8.06%) Senior
7 14 (7.53%) Data Engineer
8 10 (5.38%) Data Governance Analyst
8 10 (5.38%) Data Governance Manager
8 10 (5.38%) Governance Manager
9 9 (4.84%) Business Manager
10 8 (4.30%) Business Intelligence Manager
11 7 (3.76%) Administrator
11 7 (3.76%) Consultant
11 7 (3.76%) Developer
11 7 (3.76%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.23%) PySpark
1 6 (3.23%) REST
2 5 (2.69%) .NET
3 4 (2.15%) EDI
4 3 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.61%) PyTorch
4 3 (1.61%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.61%) XML
5 2 (1.08%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.08%) JSON
5 2 (1.08%) RESTful
6 1 (0.54%) Kafka
6 1 (0.54%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.54%) Middleware
6 1 (0.54%) SOAP
6 1 (0.54%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.06%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.84%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.30%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.69%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.61%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.61%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.08%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.08%) PMI
8 2 (1.08%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.54%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.54%) CMDB
9 1 (0.54%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.54%) FMCG
9 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.54%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (44.62%) Analytics
2 68 (36.56%) Business Intelligence
3 63 (33.87%) Decision-Making
4 59 (31.72%) Data Governance
5 58 (31.18%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (29.57%) Data Management
7 51 (27.42%) Data Modelling
8 46 (24.73%) AI
9 36 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (17.74%) Data Architecture
11 32 (17.20%) Roadmaps
12 30 (16.13%) ERP
13 29 (15.59%) ETL
13 29 (15.59%) Visualisation
14 27 (14.52%) Actionable Insight
15 24 (12.90%) Data Visualisation
16 23 (12.37%) Dashboard Development
17 22 (11.83%) Data Strategy
17 22 (11.83%) Validation
18 21 (11.29%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 59 (31.72%) SQL
2 31 (16.67%) Python
3 14 (7.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (4.30%) R
5 6 (3.23%) Java
6 5 (2.69%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.15%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.54%) C#
8 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 38 (20.43%) Degree
2 3 (1.61%) ACCA
2 3 (1.61%) CIMA
2 3 (1.61%) CIPD
2 3 (1.61%) PMI Certification
2 3 (1.61%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.08%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.54%) PMP
4 1 (0.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.05%) GDPR
2 7 (3.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.15%) QA
5 3 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.08%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.54%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.54%) NIST
7 1 (0.54%) PMO
7 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.54%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (10.22%) Databricks
2 17 (9.14%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.38%) SAP
4 9 (4.84%) Oracle
5 8 (4.30%) SYSPRO
6 5 (2.69%) Google
6 5 (2.69%) Sage
6 5 (2.69%) Xero
7 3 (1.61%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.08%) Adobe
9 1 (0.54%) Denodo
9 1 (0.54%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.54%) Infor
9 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.54%) Workday