Data Quality Job Trends in the North of England

Data Quality
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 156 162
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +104
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 131 112 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.03% 1.43% 1.52%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.66% 7.73% 11.42%
Number of salaries quoted 86 53 150
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,550 £29,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £37,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £59,123 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.69% -1.46% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,114 £87,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £66,250 £64,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.52% -1.54% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,035 1,448 1,655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.15% 18.43% 13.27%
Number of salaries quoted 577 561 1,222
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,716 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £49,995
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.01% -0.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £83,750
England median annual salary £59,527 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.79% +9.09% -4.35%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Quality relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Data Quality job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Quality
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in the North of England

Data Quality
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
North West +3 62 £55,000 +22.22% 57
Yorkshire -3 59 £67,500 +5.47% 29
North East -8 10 £33,750 -51.79% 16
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (3.82%) Apache
1 5 (3.82%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.29%) Confluence
3 3 (2.29%) SAS
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 20 (15.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.58%) Salesforce CRM
1 6 (4.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.29%) Maximo
2 3 (2.29%) SAP ERP
2 3 (2.29%) SAP MDG
2 3 (2.29%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.66%) AWS
2 29 (22.14%) Azure
2 29 (22.14%) Power Platform
3 12 (9.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 12 (9.16%) GCP
4 10 (7.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (7.63%) Snowflake
5 8 (6.11%) dbt
6 7 (5.34%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.82%) PowerApps
7 5 (3.82%) SaaS
8 4 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.05%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.05%) Serverless
9 3 (2.29%) Collibra
10 2 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.53%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (22.14%) Power BI
2 22 (16.79%) Metadata
3 19 (14.50%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (12.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 14 (10.69%) Data Lake
5 14 (10.69%) SQL Server
6 11 (8.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (6.87%) DynamoDB
7 9 (6.87%) Tableau
8 8 (6.11%) NoSQL
9 7 (5.34%) BigQuery
10 6 (4.58%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (4.58%) Relational Database
11 5 (3.82%) Apache Iceberg
11 5 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (3.05%) Data Vault
12 4 (3.05%) DB2
13 3 (2.29%) Star Schema
13 3 (2.29%) TIBCO EBX
14 2 (1.53%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (2.29%) JIRA
2 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.76%) Git
General
1 64 (48.85%) Social Skills
2 46 (35.11%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (25.19%) Finance
4 14 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.11%) Legal
5 8 (6.11%) Marketing
6 5 (3.82%) Banking
6 5 (3.82%) Billing
6 5 (3.82%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.53%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.53%) Law
9 2 (1.53%) Military
9 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.76%) Automotive
10 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.76%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 26 (19.85%) Senior
2 23 (17.56%) Architect
3 20 (15.27%) Data Engineer
4 18 (13.74%) Data Architect
4 18 (13.74%) Data Manager
5 17 (12.98%) Analyst
6 11 (8.40%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (5.34%) CRM Executive
7 7 (5.34%) Data Governance Analyst
7 7 (5.34%) Data Governance Manager
7 7 (5.34%) Governance Manager
7 7 (5.34%) Senior Manager
8 6 (4.58%) Salesforce Executive
9 5 (3.82%) Commercial Analyst
9 5 (3.82%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.82%) Data Scientist
9 5 (3.82%) Insight Analyst
9 5 (3.82%) Lead
10 4 (3.05%) IT Manager
10 4 (3.05%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.34%) PySpark
2 4 (3.05%) CSS
2 4 (3.05%) HTML
3 3 (2.29%) .NET
3 3 (2.29%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.29%) HTML5
3 3 (2.29%) jQuery
3 3 (2.29%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.53%) Pandas
5 1 (0.76%) JSON
5 1 (0.76%) Visualforce
5 1 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.74%) Management Information System
2 11 (8.40%) Data Structures
2 11 (8.40%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (7.63%) Taxonomies
4 6 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (3.82%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.05%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.05%) CMDB
7 3 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.29%) Semantic Web
8 2 (1.53%) IoT
8 2 (1.53%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.53%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.76%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.76%) Life Science
9 1 (0.76%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.76%) SCADA
9 1 (0.76%) Smart Home
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (54.96%) Data Governance
2 63 (48.09%) Analytics
3 53 (40.46%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (31.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 41 (31.30%) Decision-Making
5 39 (29.77%) Business Intelligence
6 38 (29.01%) Data Modelling
7 34 (25.95%) Data Management
8 28 (21.37%) Actionable Insight
9 27 (20.61%) ETL
10 23 (17.56%) Visualisation
11 22 (16.79%) Data Architecture
12 21 (16.03%) Data Strategy
13 20 (15.27%) Mentoring
13 20 (15.27%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (14.50%) Agile
14 19 (14.50%) Data Engineering
14 19 (14.50%) Validation
15 18 (13.74%) Data Pipeline
15 18 (13.74%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 42 (32.06%) SQL
2 22 (16.79%) Python
3 8 (6.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (2.29%) ABAP
4 3 (2.29%) Java
4 3 (2.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.53%) R
5 2 (1.53%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.76%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 14 (10.69%) Degree
2 5 (3.82%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.53%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.53%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.76%) HNC
5 1 (0.76%) HND
5 1 (0.76%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.56%) GDPR
2 7 (5.34%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (3.82%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.05%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.29%) SLA
6 2 (1.53%) QA
7 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.76%) Grafana
1 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (8.40%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.87%) Salesforce
2 9 (6.87%) SAP
3 6 (4.58%) Databricks
4 4 (3.05%) Google
4 4 (3.05%) Oracle
4 4 (3.05%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.29%) Ariba
5 3 (2.29%) Epicor
5 3 (2.29%) IFS
5 3 (2.29%) Informatica
5 3 (2.29%) Talend
5 3 (2.29%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.76%) Civica
6 1 (0.76%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.76%) Northgate
6 1 (0.76%) Orchard
6 1 (0.76%) Planon