Data Quality Job Trends in the South East

Data Quality
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 113 203
Rank change year-on-year -57 +90 +39
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 170 229 143
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.00% 2.60% 1.03%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.13% 16.24% 8.37%
Number of salaries quoted 124 53 76
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,854 £37,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £79,688
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,750
England median annual salary £61,847 £57,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.56% -23.33% +11.11%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,863 1,410 1,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 10.97% 16.02% 12.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,284 741 1,106
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £24,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -5.94%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,600 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,955
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -8.33%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Quality
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the South East over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in the South East

Data Quality
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
Thames Valley -73 72 £62,500 -6.95% 80
Hampshire -16 36 £65,000 -18.75% 28
Oxfordshire -3 27 £75,000 +109.18% 19
Surrey -12 23 £65,000 +8.33% 20
Berkshire -73 23 £55,000 -21.25% 33
Buckinghamshire +6 22 £52,500 -11.02% 29
East Sussex -2 14 £85,000 -5.56% 9
West Sussex -10 11 £57,500 -17.86% 6
Kent -18 8 £68,500 -21.71% 5
Middlesex +35 3 - - 7
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (5.29%) CMS
2 8 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.76%) Apache
3 3 (1.76%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.18%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.18%) Confluence
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (7.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.76%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.59%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 15 (8.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.53%) NetSuite
3 4 (2.35%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (2.35%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.59%) Maximo
4 1 (0.59%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (32.35%) Power Platform
2 50 (29.41%) Azure
3 18 (10.59%) AWS
4 16 (9.41%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (8.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (7.65%) SaaS
7 10 (5.88%) dbt
8 9 (5.29%) Snowflake
9 7 (4.12%) GCP
9 7 (4.12%) Google Data Studio
9 7 (4.12%) Google Tag Manager
10 6 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (3.53%) Fivetran
11 5 (2.94%) Collibra
11 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (2.35%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 4 (2.35%) Google Analytics
12 4 (2.35%) MailChimp
12 4 (2.35%) OCI
12 4 (2.35%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.18%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (30.00%) Power BI
2 26 (15.29%) Relational Database
3 23 (13.53%) Tableau
4 16 (9.41%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (8.24%) Metadata
6 12 (7.06%) SQL Server
7 10 (5.88%) Looker
8 7 (4.12%) MongoDB
8 7 (4.12%) NoSQL
8 7 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (4.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (3.53%) Airbyte
9 6 (3.53%) MySQL
10 4 (2.35%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (2.35%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.35%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.76%) Star Schema
12 2 (1.18%) Apache Hive
12 2 (1.18%) RDBMS
12 2 (1.18%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 13 (7.65%) Git
2 5 (2.94%) JIRA
3 2 (1.18%) GitLab
3 2 (1.18%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 60 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 56 (32.94%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (31.76%) Finance
4 21 (12.35%) Marketing
5 10 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (5.29%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.35%) Electronics
8 4 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.76%) Legal
10 2 (1.18%) Banking
10 2 (1.18%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.18%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.59%) Law
11 1 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (26.47%) Analyst
2 38 (22.35%) Data Engineer
3 20 (11.76%) Senior
4 19 (11.18%) Data Analyst
5 18 (10.59%) Lead
6 15 (8.82%) Architect
7 12 (7.06%) Data Architect
8 10 (5.88%) Administrator
8 10 (5.88%) Azure Architect
8 10 (5.88%) Azure Data Architect
8 10 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
9 8 (4.71%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (4.12%) Business Analyst
10 7 (4.12%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 7 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (4.12%) Technical Analyst
11 6 (3.53%) Support Analyst
12 5 (2.94%) Data Migration Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Migration Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.94%) Kafka
2 3 (1.76%) JSON
2 3 (1.76%) Middleware
2 3 (1.76%) PySpark
2 3 (1.76%) XML
3 2 (1.18%) RESTful
4 1 (0.59%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.59%) Pandas
4 1 (0.59%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.41%) Data Structures
2 13 (7.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (6.47%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.71%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (3.53%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.53%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.94%) Social Media
6 5 (2.94%) Web Conferencing
7 4 (2.35%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (2.35%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.76%) Life Science
9 2 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.18%) SystemC
9 2 (1.18%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.59%) Blog
10 1 (0.59%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.59%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (44.12%) Analytics
2 66 (38.82%) Data Governance
3 64 (37.65%) Data Modelling
4 58 (34.12%) Business Intelligence
5 57 (33.53%) ETL
6 54 (31.76%) Decision-Making
6 54 (31.76%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (25.29%) AI
7 43 (25.29%) Data Engineering
8 40 (23.53%) CRM
9 35 (20.59%) Data Pipeline
10 30 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (14.71%) Data Architecture
11 25 (14.71%) Data Management
11 25 (14.71%) ERP
12 23 (13.53%) Agile
12 23 (13.53%) Roadmaps
13 22 (12.94%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (11.76%) Validation
15 19 (11.18%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 68 (40.00%) SQL
2 46 (27.06%) Python
3 6 (3.53%) Java
4 4 (2.35%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.35%) Scala
5 3 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.18%) C#
6 2 (1.18%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.18%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.59%) ABAP
7 1 (0.59%) R
7 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (5.88%) ACCA
1 10 (5.88%) CIMA
1 10 (5.88%) Degree
2 5 (2.94%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.76%) ICAEW
4 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.59%) CBAP
5 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.18%) GDPR
2 5 (2.94%) PMO
2 5 (2.94%) QA
3 4 (2.35%) GRC
4 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.18%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.59%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.59%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 2 (1.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 24 (14.12%) Databricks
2 24 (14.12%) Oracle
3 21 (12.35%) SAP
4 15 (8.82%) Google
5 10 (5.88%) Sage
6 8 (4.71%) Salesforce
7 7 (4.12%) Braze
8 5 (2.94%) HubSpot
9 4 (2.35%) ConnectWise
9 4 (2.35%) YouTube
10 3 (1.76%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (1.18%) Confluent
11 2 (1.18%) Informatica
11 2 (1.18%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.59%) IBM
12 1 (0.59%) Remedy
12 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.59%) Talend