Data Quality Jobs in South Wales

Data Quality
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 97 91
Rank change year-on-year +45 -6 +17
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 11 9 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 1.44% 0.61% 1.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.48% 4.95% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 11
10th Percentile £58,875 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £68,438 £40,000 £47,099
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £42,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +85.29% -29.17% -6.89%
75th Percentile £82,500 £58,750 £71,875
90th Percentile - - £75,000
Wales median annual salary £78,750 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +75.00% -25.00% -6.89%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 147 182 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 19.19% 12.42% 14.51%
Number of salaries quoted 118 95 83
10th Percentile £41,500 £25,000 £26,391
25th Percentile £55,438 £28,290 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,250 £43,067 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +44.54% -1.00% -11.68%
75th Percentile £70,600 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £65,200
Wales median annual salary £62,000 £40,000 £43,067
% change year-on-year +55.00% -7.12% -8.85%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in South Wales

Data Quality
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Data Quality in South Wales

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in South Wales over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in South Wales

Data Quality
Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 10 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
Cardiff +36 10 £80,000 +67.54% 8
Glamorgan - 1 £77,500 - 5
Data Quality
Wales

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 2 (18.18%) Big Data
1 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
1 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (18.18%) Metadata
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Advertising
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Database Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Associate Director
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics Director
2 1 (9.09%) Data Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Data Governance Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Data Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Governance Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Head of Engineering
2 1 (9.09%) Insight Director
2 1 (9.09%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
2 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (27.27%) Data Management
2 3 (27.27%) Data Transformation
2 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
2 3 (27.27%) Quality Management
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (18.18%) Data Security
3 2 (18.18%) Data Stewardship
3 2 (18.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (18.18%) ETL
3 2 (18.18%) Metadata Management
3 2 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft