Data Quality Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Data Quality
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Data Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 74 57
Rank change year-on-year +26 -17 +49
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 11 3 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 1.49% 0.38% 1.56%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.67% 3.49% 11.65%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 6
10th Percentile - £47,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £35,854 £58,125 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,929 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -48.48% +19.23% +21.03%
75th Percentile £70,625 £78,750 -
90th Percentile £73,000 - £70,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -17.86% +12.00% +4.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 75 86 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 10.16% 10.97% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 50 53 83
10th Percentile £27,000 £34,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,854 £51,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £63,125
90th Percentile £74,875 £78,750 £74,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £59,136 £52,397
% change year-on-year -11.22% +12.86% -0.30%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Data Quality
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Data Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in Oxfordshire

Data Quality
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Oxford +12 3 £35,854 -53.74% 4
Abingdon - 3 £39,929 - 1
Banbury - 3 £70,000 - 2
Bicester - 1 - -
Carterton - 1 - -
Data Quality
South East

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) dbt
3 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (18.18%) Airbyte
2 2 (18.18%) Power BI
2 2 (18.18%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (9.09%) Data Hub
3 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 1 (9.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Police
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Aviation
4 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Development Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Development Support Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
1 4 (36.36%) Support Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Systems Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Systems Development Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Systems Support
1 4 (36.36%) Systems Support Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Coordinator
3 1 (9.09%) Data Coordinator
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (18.18%) Snowpark
3 1 (9.09%) PySpark
3 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) e-Learning
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
2 1 (9.09%) Reference Data
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (54.55%) Decision-Making
3 5 (45.45%) Data Architecture
3 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
3 5 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (36.36%) AI
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (36.36%) ETL
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (36.36%) ITIL
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) Business Strategy
5 3 (27.27%) Change Control
5 3 (27.27%) Data Security
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Knowledge Management
5 3 (27.27%) Line Management
5 3 (27.27%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 3 (27.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft