Data Quality Jobs in the South East

Data Quality
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 195 248
Rank change year-on-year +48 +53 +39
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 174 217 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.85% 1.29% 1.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.49% 8.90% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 49 98 80
10th Percentile £37,050 £34,000 £35,900
25th Percentile £49,134 £41,305 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £61,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% -2.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,500 £88,000 £85,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%

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 1,834 2,438 2,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 19.52% 14.50% 18.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,083 1,611 1,278
10th Percentile £36,250 £24,500 £29,400
25th Percentile £50,394 £31,500 £40,612
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £46,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -9.80% -2.86%
75th Percentile £70,600 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £81,250
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the South East

Data Quality
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the South East.

Salary trend for Data Quality in the South East

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 May 2025.

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 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
Thames Valley +51 121 £64,500 +7.50% 51
Berkshire +95 103 £64,500 +63.29% 31
Surrey +31 25 £65,000 +4.00% 15
Buckinghamshire -24 13 £65,250 -3.33% 11
Middlesex -7 10 - - 7
Hampshire +43 7 £40,000 -36.00% 18
East Sussex +26 5 - - 4
Oxfordshire +25 5 - - 21
Kent +21 5 £49,134 -38.58% 6
West Sussex +33 1 £42,500 -34.21% 4
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (18.39%) SharePoint
2 15 (8.62%) Apache Spark
3 13 (7.47%) Apache
4 7 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.57%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.15%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Q-Pulse
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 75 (43.10%) Azure
2 47 (27.01%) Power Platform
3 32 (18.39%) PowerApps
4 30 (17.24%) AWS
5 26 (14.94%) GCP
5 26 (14.94%) Power Automate
5 26 (14.94%) Snowflake
6 21 (12.07%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 14 (8.05%) Salsify
8 12 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (5.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (4.02%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.02%) GitHub
11 7 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (4.02%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (4.02%) OpenShift
11 7 (4.02%) SaaS
12 6 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.87%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (33.91%) Data Lake
2 51 (29.31%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (27.01%) Power BI
4 41 (23.56%) Metadata
5 39 (22.41%) Big Data
6 32 (18.39%) Tableau
7 11 (6.32%) Hadoop
8 10 (5.75%) NoSQL
9 8 (4.60%) Apache Iceberg
9 8 (4.60%) Delta Lake
10 7 (4.02%) Apache Hudi
10 7 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 4 (2.30%) Parquet
13 3 (1.72%) Apache Hive
13 3 (1.72%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.72%) Impala
13 3 (1.72%) MySQL
13 3 (1.72%) SQL Server
14 2 (1.15%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 7 (4.02%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.15%) JIRA
3 1 (0.57%) ERwin
General
1 100 (57.47%) Law
2 56 (32.18%) Social Skills
3 38 (21.84%) Marketing
4 31 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (10.34%) Finance
6 14 (8.05%) Legal
7 9 (5.17%) Retail
8 8 (4.60%) Automotive
9 7 (4.02%) Manufacturing
10 6 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.87%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.87%) Aviation
11 5 (2.87%) Military
11 5 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.30%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.72%) Public Sector
14 2 (1.15%) Electronics
14 2 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.57%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 64 (36.78%) Lead
2 59 (33.91%) Senior
3 23 (13.22%) Architect
4 21 (12.07%) Enterprise Architect
4 21 (12.07%) Salesforce Architect
4 21 (12.07%) Senior Manager
5 20 (11.49%) Data Engineer
6 14 (8.05%) Data Manager
7 11 (6.32%) Analyst
8 7 (4.02%) Data Analyst
8 7 (4.02%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (3.45%) Project Manager
9 6 (3.45%) Python Engineer
10 5 (2.87%) Design Engineer
10 5 (2.87%) Digital Project Manager
10 5 (2.87%) Python Data Engineer
10 5 (2.87%) Software Engineer
10 5 (2.87%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (2.87%) Systems Manager
11 4 (2.30%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.24%) REST
2 22 (12.64%) SOAP
3 21 (12.07%) Lightning Web Components
3 21 (12.07%) Middleware
4 9 (5.17%) XML
5 8 (4.60%) Kafka
5 8 (4.60%) PySpark
6 7 (4.02%) PyArrow
7 4 (2.30%) JSON
8 2 (1.15%) OAuth
8 2 (1.15%) Pandas
8 2 (1.15%) RESTful
8 2 (1.15%) Web Services
9 1 (0.57%) .NET
9 1 (0.57%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.07%) Enterprise Software
2 19 (10.92%) Management Information System
3 14 (8.05%) Taxonomies
4 6 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.87%) e-Learning
5 5 (2.87%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.72%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.15%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.15%) IoT
7 2 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.15%) SCADA
8 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.57%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.57%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.02%) Unix
2 1 (0.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (63.22%) Data Management
2 98 (56.32%) Analytics
3 96 (55.17%) Data Governance
4 74 (42.53%) Data Engineering
5 73 (41.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 61 (35.06%) Data Modelling
7 57 (32.76%) Business Intelligence
8 56 (32.18%) Agile
9 53 (30.46%) Computer Science
9 53 (30.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (30.46%) Master Data Management
10 47 (27.01%) Business Strategy
11 45 (25.86%) Data Architecture
11 45 (25.86%) Data Integration
12 44 (25.29%) Data Analysis
13 42 (24.14%) Mentoring
14 41 (23.56%) Data Strategy
14 41 (23.56%) Matrix Organization
15 40 (22.99%) Data Analytics
15 40 (22.99%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 56 (32.18%) SQL
2 50 (28.74%) Python
3 21 (12.07%) Apex Code
4 9 (5.17%) PL/SQL
5 7 (4.02%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.45%) C#
6 6 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (2.30%) Java
8 3 (1.72%) R
9 2 (1.15%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.15%) PHP
9 2 (1.15%) Ruby
10 1 (0.57%) C++
10 1 (0.57%) Scala
10 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (54.02%) Degree
2 29 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 27 (15.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.60%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.45%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.87%) MBA
7 3 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.15%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.57%) CRISC
9 1 (0.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (24.14%) Accessibility
2 25 (14.37%) QA
3 6 (3.45%) GDPR
4 1 (0.57%) COBIT
4 1 (0.57%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (5.75%) HDFS
2 2 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (5.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.15%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 41 (23.56%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.94%) ServiceNow
3 21 (12.07%) Salesforce
3 21 (12.07%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 10 (5.75%) Databricks
4 10 (5.75%) Informatica
5 7 (4.02%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.30%) Oracle
7 3 (1.72%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.72%) SAP
8 2 (1.15%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.15%) Google
8 2 (1.15%) MapR