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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 204 260
Rank change year-on-year +43 +56 +37
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 165 216 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.71% 1.23% 1.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.55% 8.72% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 43 96 75
10th Percentile £35,700 £34,000 £37,941
25th Percentile £55,750 £39,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,750 £86,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £68,969 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.00% +6.11% +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 1,929 2,476 2,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 20.02% 14.12% 17.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,127 1,611 1,211
10th Percentile £37,300 £24,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £32,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £45,250 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.02% -11.27% -2.86%
75th Percentile £70,600 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £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 30 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 30 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 +61 119 £69,840 +16.40% 274
Berkshire +98 104 £69,840 +76.81% 189
Surrey +22 21 £67,500 +8.00% 59
Middlesex -9 9 - -
Hampshire +55 8 £40,000 -36.00% 79
Buckinghamshire -34 8 £70,000 +3.70% 53
Oxfordshire +31 7 - - 34
Kent +21 4 - - 54
East Sussex +21 3 - - 37
West Sussex +33 1 £42,500 -23.55% 27
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 (19.39%) SharePoint
2 14 (8.48%) Apache Spark
3 12 (7.27%) Apache
4 6 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.61%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.61%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.24%) Q-Pulse
2 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.61%) Maximo
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 72 (43.64%) Azure
2 47 (28.48%) Power Platform
3 32 (19.39%) PowerApps
4 30 (18.18%) AWS
5 26 (15.76%) GCP
5 26 (15.76%) Power Automate
6 25 (15.15%) Snowflake
7 21 (12.73%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 14 (8.48%) Salsify
9 10 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (4.85%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (4.24%) SaaS
12 6 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.64%) GitHub
12 6 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.64%) OpenShift
13 5 (3.03%) Collibra
14 4 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (35.15%) Data Lake
2 47 (28.48%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (28.48%) Power BI
3 42 (25.45%) Metadata
4 39 (23.64%) Big Data
5 31 (18.79%) Tableau
6 10 (6.06%) Hadoop
7 8 (4.85%) NoSQL
8 7 (4.24%) Apache Iceberg
8 7 (4.24%) Delta Lake
9 6 (3.64%) Apache Hudi
9 6 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (3.64%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 4 (2.42%) Parquet
10 4 (2.42%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.82%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.82%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (1.82%) Impala
12 2 (1.21%) BigQuery
12 2 (1.21%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 6 (3.64%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.21%) JIRA
3 1 (0.61%) ERwin
3 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
General
1 98 (59.39%) Law
2 54 (32.73%) Social Skills
3 38 (23.03%) Marketing
4 30 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (13.94%) Finance
6 14 (8.48%) Legal
7 9 (5.45%) Retail
8 7 (4.24%) Aerospace
8 7 (4.24%) Aviation
8 7 (4.24%) Manufacturing
8 7 (4.24%) Military
9 6 (3.64%) Automotive
10 5 (3.03%) Games
10 5 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.82%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.21%) Electronics
13 2 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.21%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 67 (40.61%) Lead
2 56 (33.94%) Senior
3 24 (14.55%) Architect
4 22 (13.33%) Enterprise Architect
5 21 (12.73%) Salesforce Architect
6 19 (11.52%) Senior Manager
7 17 (10.30%) Data Engineer
8 11 (6.67%) Data Manager
9 8 (4.85%) Analyst
10 7 (4.24%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.24%) Systems Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (2.42%) Data Analyst
12 4 (2.42%) Design Engineer
12 4 (2.42%) Development Engineer
12 4 (2.42%) Lead Data Engineer
12 4 (2.42%) Python Data Engineer
12 4 (2.42%) Python Engineer
12 4 (2.42%) Research Analyst
12 4 (2.42%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.97%) REST
2 21 (12.73%) Lightning Web Components
2 21 (12.73%) Middleware
2 21 (12.73%) SOAP
3 8 (4.85%) Kafka
3 8 (4.85%) XML
4 7 (4.24%) PySpark
5 6 (3.64%) PyArrow
6 2 (1.21%) Pandas
7 1 (0.61%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.73%) Enterprise Software
2 19 (11.52%) Management Information System
3 14 (8.48%) Taxonomies
4 7 (4.24%) e-Learning
4 7 (4.24%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.24%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.21%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.21%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.21%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.21%) SCADA
6 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.64%) Unix
2 1 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (67.88%) Data Management
2 95 (57.58%) Data Governance
3 94 (56.97%) Analytics
4 73 (44.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 72 (43.64%) Data Engineering
6 61 (36.97%) Data Modelling
7 56 (33.94%) Business Intelligence
8 53 (32.12%) Agile
8 53 (32.12%) Computer Science
8 53 (32.12%) Master Data Management
9 52 (31.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (28.48%) Business Strategy
11 46 (27.88%) Data Integration
12 43 (26.06%) Data Analysis
12 43 (26.06%) Mentoring
13 41 (24.85%) Data Architecture
13 41 (24.85%) Matrix Organization
13 41 (24.85%) Metadata Management
14 40 (24.24%) Data Privacy
14 40 (24.24%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 54 (32.73%) SQL
2 46 (27.88%) Python
3 21 (12.73%) Apex Code
4 11 (6.67%) PL/SQL
5 6 (3.64%) C#
5 6 (3.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (3.64%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.03%) Java
7 2 (1.21%) Ruby
7 2 (1.21%) Scala
8 1 (0.61%) C++
8 1 (0.61%) R
8 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (56.36%) Degree
2 29 (17.58%) Master's Degree
3 27 (16.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.24%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.24%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.03%) MBA
6 3 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.61%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (24.85%) Accessibility
2 24 (14.55%) QA
3 6 (3.64%) GDPR
4 1 (0.61%) COBIT
4 1 (0.61%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (5.45%) HDFS
2 2 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.21%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 40 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 27 (16.36%) ServiceNow
3 22 (13.33%) Salesforce
4 21 (12.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 9 (5.45%) Databricks
5 9 (5.45%) Informatica
6 6 (3.64%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.03%) Oracle
8 3 (1.82%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.82%) SAP
9 2 (1.21%) Dataiku
9 2 (1.21%) Google
9 2 (1.21%) MapR
10 1 (0.61%) ESRI
10 1 (0.61%) IBM
10 1 (0.61%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.61%) Talend