Data Quality Jobs in the North of England

Data Quality
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Data Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Quality over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 152 287
Rank change year-on-year -32 +135 -37
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 173 300 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.47% 1.70% 0.86%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.51% 12.70% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 86 197 96
10th Percentile £40,000 £30,600 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £45,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +29.38% -8.66%
75th Percentile £67,500 £87,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,923 £85,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £68,490 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.40% +5.37% +8.33%

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 1,819 2,363 3,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.50% 13.36% 21.94%
Number of salaries quoted 797 1,637 1,161
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,306 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.70% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,548 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the North of England

Data Quality
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the North of England.

Salary trend for Data Quality in the North of England

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 20 May 2025.

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 20 May 2025. 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 -43 135 £52,000 -32.90% 70
Yorkshire +24 30 £57,500 +15.00% 39
North East +2 10 £65,000 -9.09% 28
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (18.50%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.20%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.47%) Apache
3 6 (3.47%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.58%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 47 (27.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (6.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 33 (19.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (4.62%) Primavera
3 4 (2.31%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.58%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.58%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 55 (31.79%) Power Platform
2 32 (18.50%) AWS
3 30 (17.34%) Azure
4 11 (6.36%) GCP
5 9 (5.20%) Serverless
5 9 (5.20%) Snowflake
6 8 (4.62%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.31%) Cloud Composer
10 3 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.16%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (1.16%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.16%) Azure Storage
11 2 (1.16%) Collibra
11 2 (1.16%) dbt
11 2 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.16%) SaaS
12 1 (0.58%) GitHub
12 1 (0.58%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.58%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (31.79%) Power BI
2 19 (10.98%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (8.67%) Tableau
4 10 (5.78%) Data Lake
5 8 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (4.05%) BigQuery
7 6 (3.47%) Dremio
7 6 (3.47%) Metadata
7 6 (3.47%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.73%) Big Data
9 3 (1.73%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.73%) MySQL
9 3 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.16%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.16%) Ataccama
10 2 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.16%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.47%) Git
2 3 (1.73%) JIRA
3 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 83 (47.98%) Finance
2 65 (37.57%) Social Skills
3 53 (30.64%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.40%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (6.36%) Banking
6 7 (4.05%) Marketing
7 4 (2.31%) Advertising
7 4 (2.31%) Back Office
7 4 (2.31%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.73%) Law
8 3 (1.73%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.73%) Military
8 3 (1.73%) Retail
9 2 (1.16%) Legal
9 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Front Office
10 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (39.88%) Analyst
2 42 (24.28%) Data Analyst
3 30 (17.34%) Data Engineer
4 26 (15.03%) Procurement Analyst
5 23 (13.29%) Senior
6 20 (11.56%) Financial Analyst
7 17 (9.83%) Systems Analyst
8 16 (9.25%) Administrator
8 16 (9.25%) Finance Systems Analyst
8 16 (9.25%) Systems Administrator
9 13 (7.51%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (6.36%) Lead
10 11 (6.36%) Project Manager
11 8 (4.62%) Data Manager
12 6 (3.47%) Insight Analyst
12 6 (3.47%) Lead Data Engineer
13 5 (2.89%) Data Scientist
13 5 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
14 4 (2.31%) Head of Engineering
15 3 (1.73%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.05%) PySpark
2 4 (2.31%) Kafka
3 3 (1.73%) PyTorch
3 3 (1.73%) scikit-learn
3 3 (1.73%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.16%) Middleware
5 1 (0.58%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.58%) Plotly
5 1 (0.58%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.58%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.58%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 42 (24.28%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.36%) FMCG
3 5 (2.89%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.31%) Equities
4 4 (2.31%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.73%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.73%) Life Science
6 2 (1.16%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.16%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.58%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.58%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.58%) NHS
7 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.58%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (39.88%) Analytics
2 66 (38.15%) Data Analysis
2 66 (38.15%) Process Improvement
3 63 (36.42%) ERP
4 56 (32.37%) Decision-Making
4 56 (32.37%) Visualisation
5 53 (30.64%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (29.48%) Data Management
7 48 (27.75%) Business Intelligence
8 39 (22.54%) Data Analytics
9 38 (21.97%) Economics
10 33 (19.08%) Data Governance
11 32 (18.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (15.03%) ETL
12 26 (15.03%) Indirect Procurement
12 26 (15.03%) Source to Pay
13 23 (13.29%) Agile
14 22 (12.72%) Data Engineering
14 22 (12.72%) Data Modelling
15 21 (12.14%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 46 (26.59%) SQL
2 33 (19.08%) Python
3 5 (2.89%) Java
4 4 (2.31%) Scala
5 2 (1.16%) Bash
6 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.58%) PROC SQL
6 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 84 (48.55%) Degree
2 43 (24.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 34 (19.65%) ACCA
3 34 (19.65%) CIMA
4 16 (9.25%) CCAB
5 13 (7.51%) Master's Degree
6 11 (6.36%) MBA
7 6 (3.47%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.16%) PhD
8 2 (1.16%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.58%) HNC
9 1 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.78%) QA
2 9 (5.20%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.73%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.73%) GDPR
4 1 (0.58%) ITGC
System Software
1 2 (1.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.58%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (1.16%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.58%) Kibana
2 1 (0.58%) logstash
2 1 (0.58%) Oozie
Vendors
1 73 (42.20%) SAP
2 19 (10.98%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.67%) Databricks
4 11 (6.36%) Capita
5 8 (4.62%) Google
5 8 (4.62%) Informatica
6 4 (2.31%) Bloomberg
6 4 (2.31%) Reuters
6 4 (2.31%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.73%) Oracle
8 2 (1.16%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.58%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.58%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.58%) Talend