Data Quality Job Trends in South London

Data Quality
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South London requiring Data Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 72 52
Rank change year-on-year +29 -20 +27
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 3 6 7
As % of all permanent jobs in South London 0.64% 1.06% 1.85%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.32% 10.17% 8.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £42,973 - £75,250
25th Percentile £44,544 £41,335 £91,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,975 £41,837 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.06% -58.16% +110.53%
75th Percentile £54,394 £42,338 £107,500
90th Percentile £56,558 - -
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South London

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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 41 59 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 8.80% 10.39% 21.64%
Number of salaries quoted 34 33 53
10th Percentile £34,250 £41,267 £27,965
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% - +27.78%
75th Percentile £51,250 £65,272 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,250 £98,750
London median annual salary £71,028 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.30% +7.14% +3.70%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in South London

Data Quality
Salary Trend in South London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Data Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in South London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in South London

Data Quality
Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Croydon +14 2 £48,975 - 4
Kingston Upon Thames +4 1 - - 2
Data Quality
London

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (33.33%) H2O.ai
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) DB2
2 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
2 1 (33.33%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Parquet
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) Keras
2 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata Management
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Business Development
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Product Management
3 1 (33.33%) SEO
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) BMC
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) NVIDIA
1 1 (33.33%) Talend