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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 125 181
Rank change year-on-year -4 +56 -26
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 144 95 134
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.13% 1.90% 1.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.57% 10.98% 8.03%
Number of salaries quoted 113 81 68
10th Percentile £30,400 £44,000 £31,208
25th Percentile £46,104 £46,750 £34,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £55,000 £42,125
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% +30.56% -15.75%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £68,275
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +3.85%

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 1,245 865 1,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.78% 17.31% 14.51%
Number of salaries quoted 682 567 1,252
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,822 £25,775
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,625 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,125 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -11 90 £58,750 +6.82% 59
East Midlands -19 53 £53,950 +11.24% 31
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 6 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.69%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (15.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.08%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (7.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.08%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.69%) Odoo
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.69%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.69%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 43 (29.86%) Power Platform
2 33 (22.92%) Azure
3 13 (9.03%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (9.03%) Power Automate
4 12 (8.33%) AWS
5 10 (6.94%) GCP
6 8 (5.56%) Snowflake
7 6 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.47%) PowerApps
8 5 (3.47%) SaaS
9 4 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.08%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.08%) dbt
10 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.39%) Adobe Analytics
11 2 (1.39%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (1.39%) Google Analytics
11 2 (1.39%) IaaS
11 2 (1.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) Broadband
1 1 (0.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (29.86%) Power BI
2 15 (10.42%) Metadata
3 13 (9.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (7.64%) Tableau
5 10 (6.94%) Data Lake
6 9 (6.25%) Power Query
7 8 (5.56%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.39%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.39%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.39%) Looker
10 2 (1.39%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.39%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.69%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.69%) MySQL
11 1 (0.69%) Parquet
11 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (3.47%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (2.08%) JIRA
3 2 (1.39%) Git
3 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
General
1 46 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 45 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (29.86%) Finance
4 16 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.25%) Marketing
6 5 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.47%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.08%) Law
7 3 (2.08%) Legal
7 3 (2.08%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.39%) Retail
8 2 (1.39%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.69%) Automotive
9 1 (0.69%) Back Office
9 1 (0.69%) Banking
9 1 (0.69%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.69%) Local Government
9 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (22.22%) Analyst
2 26 (18.06%) Data Manager
3 21 (14.58%) Data Analyst
4 16 (11.11%) Senior
5 13 (9.03%) Data Quality Manager
5 13 (9.03%) Developer
5 13 (9.03%) Governance Manager
5 13 (9.03%) Junior
5 13 (9.03%) Quality Manager
6 12 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 12 (8.33%) Data Governance Analyst
6 12 (8.33%) Data Governance Manager
7 11 (7.64%) Architect
7 11 (7.64%) Data Architect
7 11 (7.64%) Data Engineer
8 8 (5.56%) Administrator
8 8 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 7 (4.86%) Business Developer
9 7 (4.86%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (3.47%) Head of CRM
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.86%) .NET
2 5 (3.47%) PySpark
3 3 (2.08%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.69%) Pandas
4 1 (0.69%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.47%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.78%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.78%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.08%) CMDB
6 3 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.08%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.39%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.69%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.69%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.69%) FMCG
8 1 (0.69%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (49.31%) Analytics
2 53 (36.81%) Business Intelligence
3 46 (31.94%) Decision-Making
3 46 (31.94%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (31.25%) Data Governance
5 39 (27.08%) Data Modelling
6 36 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (18.06%) CRM
8 25 (17.36%) ETL
9 23 (15.97%) Data Management
10 21 (14.58%) Actionable Insight
10 21 (14.58%) AI
11 20 (13.89%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 20 (13.89%) Validation
12 19 (13.19%) Data Analysis
13 16 (11.11%) Roadmaps
13 16 (11.11%) Visualisation
14 15 (10.42%) Data Architecture
14 15 (10.42%) Data Pipeline
14 15 (10.42%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 49 (34.03%) SQL
2 23 (15.97%) Python
3 11 (7.64%) T-SQL
4 8 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.17%) R
6 4 (2.78%) Scala
7 3 (2.08%) VBA
8 2 (1.39%) Bicep
8 2 (1.39%) C#
9 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (11.81%) Degree
2 5 (3.47%) DBS Check
3 3 (2.08%) ACCA
3 3 (2.08%) CIMA
3 3 (2.08%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.39%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.69%) CISA
5 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.81%) GDPR
2 8 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.47%) QA
4 4 (2.78%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.69%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.69%) NIST
7 1 (0.69%) PMO
7 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.78%) Terraform
2 1 (0.69%) Control-M
2 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (15.97%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.19%) Databricks
3 16 (11.11%) SAP
4 5 (3.47%) Zoho
5 4 (2.78%) Civica
5 4 (2.78%) Google
5 4 (2.78%) Oracle
6 3 (2.08%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.39%) Adobe
7 2 (1.39%) Northgate
7 2 (1.39%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.39%) Orchard
7 2 (1.39%) Talend
8 1 (0.69%) BMC
8 1 (0.69%) Denodo
8 1 (0.69%) IBM
8 1 (0.69%) Sage
8 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.69%) Xero