Data Quality Jobs in the North West

Data Quality
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 129 243
Rank change year-on-year -44 +114 -36
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 131 176 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.67% 1.69% 0.68%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.50% 13.76% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 49 126 20
10th Percentile £38,951 £29,000 £45,355
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £75,000 £51,369
Median % change year-on-year -30.67% +46.00% -11.02%
75th Percentile £60,000 £90,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £77,500 £100,000 £68,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +8.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,248 1,279 1,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 15.90% 12.29% 21.92%
Number of salaries quoted 452 897 488
10th Percentile £30,125 £25,900 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £64,063
90th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £75,000
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the North West

Data Quality
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Data Quality in the North West

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in the North West

Data Quality
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Manchester +29 71 £55,000 -18.52% 36
Cumbria -34 41 £40,000 +1.27% 1
Cheshire +4 9 £34,755 -0.70% 13
Lancashire -68 6 £52,500 +52.17% 22
Merseyside -13 4 £45,000 -47.06% 6
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (24.43%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.53%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 43 (32.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (8.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 32 (24.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (6.11%) Primavera
3 1 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.76%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 48 (36.64%) Power Platform
2 21 (16.03%) AWS
3 17 (12.98%) Azure
4 7 (5.34%) GCP
5 4 (3.05%) Cloud Composer
5 4 (3.05%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.53%) Azure Functions
6 2 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.53%) Serverless
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.76%) Collibra
7 1 (0.76%) dbt
7 1 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.76%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.76%) SaaS
7 1 (0.76%) Stitch
7 1 (0.76%) Twilio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (36.64%) Power BI
2 7 (5.34%) Tableau
3 5 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.05%) BigQuery
4 4 (3.05%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.05%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.53%) Big Data
5 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.53%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.53%) MySQL
6 1 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.76%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.76%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.05%) Git
2 2 (1.53%) JIRA
General
1 73 (55.73%) Finance
2 50 (38.17%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (37.40%) Social Skills
4 18 (13.74%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (6.11%) Banking
6 3 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.29%) Retail
7 2 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.53%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.53%) Marketing
7 2 (1.53%) Military
7 2 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (45.80%) Analyst
2 34 (25.95%) Data Analyst
3 26 (19.85%) Procurement Analyst
4 20 (15.27%) Financial Analyst
5 17 (12.98%) Systems Analyst
6 16 (12.21%) Administrator
6 16 (12.21%) Finance Systems Analyst
6 16 (12.21%) Systems Administrator
7 14 (10.69%) Data Engineer
8 11 (8.40%) Project Manager
9 9 (6.87%) Senior
10 6 (4.58%) Insight Analyst
11 5 (3.82%) Data Manager
11 5 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Head of Engineering
12 4 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
13 3 (2.29%) Lead
13 3 (2.29%) Lead Data Engineer
14 2 (1.53%) Azure Data Engineer
14 2 (1.53%) Data Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.29%) PySpark
2 2 (1.53%) Middleware
3 1 (0.76%) Kafka
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 42 (32.06%) Management Information System
2 11 (8.40%) FMCG
3 3 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.29%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.53%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.53%) Life Science
5 1 (0.76%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (50.38%) Process Improvement
2 63 (48.09%) ERP
3 56 (42.75%) Analytics
4 55 (41.98%) Data Analysis
5 47 (35.88%) Decision-Making
6 44 (33.59%) Visualisation
7 42 (32.06%) Data Management
8 40 (30.53%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (28.24%) Economics
10 36 (27.48%) Business Intelligence
11 35 (26.72%) Data Analytics
12 30 (22.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (19.85%) Indirect Procurement
13 26 (19.85%) Source to Pay
14 17 (12.98%) Budgeting
14 17 (12.98%) Budgeting and Forecasting
14 17 (12.98%) Data Governance
14 17 (12.98%) Project Management
15 16 (12.21%) Financial Analysis
16 15 (11.45%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.03%) SQL
2 11 (8.40%) Python
3 2 (1.53%) Java
3 2 (1.53%) Scala
4 1 (0.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 77 (58.78%) Degree
2 43 (32.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 34 (25.95%) ACCA
3 34 (25.95%) CIMA
4 16 (12.21%) CCAB
5 13 (9.92%) Master's Degree
6 11 (8.40%) MBA
7 6 (4.58%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.53%) PhD
8 2 (1.53%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.76%) HNC
9 1 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.87%) QA
2 7 (5.34%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) ITGC
Vendors
1 70 (53.44%) SAP
2 17 (12.98%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.40%) Capita
4 8 (6.11%) Informatica
5 6 (4.58%) Google
6 4 (3.05%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.29%) Databricks
7 3 (2.29%) Oracle
8 2 (1.53%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.76%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.76%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.76%) Talend