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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 146 151
Rank change year-on-year +42 +5 +22
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 214 77 130
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.36% 1.38% 1.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.65% 9.00% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 135 63 76
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,573 £41,125 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £44,000 £56,282
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% -21.82% +7.20%
75th Percentile £72,500 £50,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £63,300 £79,556
England median annual salary £62,500 £56,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +10.62% -27.10% +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 1,367 856 1,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.67% 15.38% 15.73%
Number of salaries quoted 923 560 639
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,580 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £63,200
90th Percentile £77,400 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.77% -1.74% -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 29 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 29 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 +38 143 £58,973 +31.05% 172
East Midlands -5 71 £50,000 +17.65% 72
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 (1.40%) Apache
1 3 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.40%) SAS
2 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 25 (11.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.40%) Navisworks
3 3 (1.40%) Revit
3 3 (1.40%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.93%) Notion
Business Applications
1 7 (3.27%) Infor M3
2 5 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.87%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.47%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 69 (32.24%) Power Platform
2 49 (22.90%) Azure
3 18 (8.41%) AWS
4 10 (4.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (4.67%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (4.67%) GCP
5 9 (4.21%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.74%) SaaS
7 7 (3.27%) Amazon EMR
7 7 (3.27%) Power Automate
7 7 (3.27%) Snowflake
8 6 (2.80%) Azure Databricks
8 6 (2.80%) PaaS
9 4 (1.87%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.87%) dbt
9 4 (1.87%) GitHub
9 4 (1.87%) Google Ads
9 4 (1.87%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (32.24%) Power BI
2 23 (10.75%) Power Query
3 20 (9.35%) Tableau
4 19 (8.88%) Data Lake
4 19 (8.88%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (7.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (7.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (7.01%) Metadata
8 11 (5.14%) Delta Lake
8 11 (5.14%) QlikView
9 9 (4.21%) SQL Server
10 8 (3.74%) GIS
10 8 (3.74%) Star Schema
11 7 (3.27%) Big Data
11 7 (3.27%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.80%) Metadata Repository
13 5 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (2.34%) Data Mining
13 5 (2.34%) Oracle BI EE
13 5 (2.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (5.14%) Git
2 4 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (1.87%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (0.93%) JIRA
3 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 84 (39.25%) Analytical Skills
2 64 (29.91%) Social Skills
3 56 (26.17%) Finance
4 26 (12.15%) Public Sector
5 20 (9.35%) Manufacturing
6 17 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (5.14%) Legal
8 10 (4.67%) Fire and Rescue
8 10 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.80%) Marketing
10 5 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.34%) Retail
10 5 (2.34%) Social Housing
11 3 (1.40%) Billing
12 2 (0.93%) Advertising
12 2 (0.93%) Banking
12 2 (0.93%) Games
13 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 34 (15.89%) Analyst
2 33 (15.42%) Data Manager
3 31 (14.49%) Lead
4 26 (12.15%) Architect
4 26 (12.15%) Data Architect
4 26 (12.15%) Data Engineer
5 22 (10.28%) Senior
6 17 (7.94%) Data Analyst
7 13 (6.07%) Junior
8 12 (5.61%) Data Quality Manager
8 12 (5.61%) Quality Manager
9 11 (5.14%) Business Intelligence Lead
9 11 (5.14%) Data Governance Analyst
9 11 (5.14%) Data Governance Manager
9 11 (5.14%) Governance Manager
9 11 (5.14%) Senior Architect
9 11 (5.14%) Senior Data Architect
10 10 (4.67%) Developer
10 10 (4.67%) Team Leader
11 9 (4.21%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.88%) PySpark
2 7 (3.27%) .NET
2 7 (3.27%) REST
3 5 (2.34%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.34%) PyTorch
3 5 (2.34%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.87%) EDI
5 3 (1.40%) XML
6 2 (0.93%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.93%) JSON
6 2 (0.93%) RESTful
7 1 (0.47%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.47%) Kafka
7 1 (0.47%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.47%) Middleware
7 1 (0.47%) React
7 1 (0.47%) SOAP
7 1 (0.47%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.15%) Management Information System
2 17 (7.94%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.14%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (4.21%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.74%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.27%) FMCG
7 6 (2.80%) Reference Data
8 5 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.34%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.87%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.87%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.93%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.93%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.93%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (44.39%) Analytics
2 89 (41.59%) Business Intelligence
3 79 (36.92%) Decision-Making
4 78 (36.45%) Data Governance
5 72 (33.64%) Data Management
6 65 (30.37%) Data Modelling
7 64 (29.91%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (28.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 54 (25.23%) AI
10 50 (23.36%) ETL
11 48 (22.43%) Data Architecture
12 40 (18.69%) Visualisation
13 38 (17.76%) ERP
14 37 (17.29%) Agile
15 33 (15.42%) Data Engineering
15 33 (15.42%) Roadmaps
15 33 (15.42%) Stakeholder Management
16 31 (14.49%) Data Pipeline
16 31 (14.49%) Validation
17 29 (13.55%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 86 (40.19%) SQL
2 48 (22.43%) Python
3 21 (9.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (5.61%) R
5 10 (4.67%) Java
6 7 (3.27%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.87%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.40%) C#
9 2 (0.93%) C++
9 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.47%) Bash
10 1 (0.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 47 (21.96%) Degree
2 9 (4.21%) PMI Certification
3 7 (3.27%) PMP
4 5 (2.34%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.87%) ACCA
5 4 (1.87%) CIMA
5 4 (1.87%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.40%) CIPD
7 2 (0.93%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.89%) GDPR
2 8 (3.74%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.34%) QA
6 3 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.40%) ISO 19650
7 2 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.47%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.47%) NIST
8 1 (0.47%) PMO
8 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 32 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.28%) Databricks
3 14 (6.54%) Oracle
4 12 (5.61%) SAP
5 8 (3.74%) SYSPRO
6 7 (3.27%) Infor
7 6 (2.80%) Google
8 5 (2.34%) Sage
8 5 (2.34%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.34%) Xero
9 3 (1.40%) Workday
10 2 (0.93%) Adaptive Insights
10 2 (0.93%) Anaplan
11 1 (0.47%) Denodo
11 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.47%) IFS