Data Quality Job Trends in the South West

Data Quality
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Data Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 137 167
Rank change year-on-year -14 +30 +38
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 26 52 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.51% 1.25% 1.07%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.42% 8.71% 7.23%
Number of salaries quoted 22 29 35
10th Percentile £33,234 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £41,419 £39,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.71% +26.84%
75th Percentile £81,875 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £98,875 £80,000 £74,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 588 597 705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.57% 14.40% 14.85%
Number of salaries quoted 334 263 532
10th Percentile £30,750 £33,800 £30,800
25th Percentile £41,419 £37,375 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,200 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,490 £82,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.69% +2.61%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in the South West

Data Quality
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the South West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in the South West

Data Quality
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Bristol -7 16 £50,000 -18.37% 14
Gloucestershire +25 3 £95,000 +160.27% 10
Somerset -15 3 £32,760 -37.60% 7
Wiltshire +1 2 £42,500 -46.88% 6
Devon - 2 £48,975 - 11
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (11.54%) Apache
2 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) Power Platform
2 8 (30.77%) Azure
3 6 (23.08%) AWS
3 6 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon SageMaker
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Stack
5 3 (11.54%) GCP
5 3 (11.54%) Snowflake
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (7.69%) Serverless
7 1 (3.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Tactical Data Link
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (42.31%) Power BI
2 4 (15.38%) Metadata
2 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.69%) Ataccama
3 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.69%) Delta Lake
3 2 (7.69%) MS Access
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle ODI
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (7.69%) Star Schema
4 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.85%) DB2
4 1 (3.85%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Parquet
4 1 (3.85%) Spark SQL
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) DBeaver
1 2 (7.69%) Git
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.69%) Marketing
6 1 (3.85%) Billing
6 1 (3.85%) Electronics
6 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Data Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Data Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) Insight Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Lead
3 3 (11.54%) Lead Data Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Performance Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Data Governance Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Data Governance Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Data Scientist
4 2 (7.69%) Governance Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Data Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) PySpark
2 3 (11.54%) Pandas
3 2 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (3.85%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (3.85%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
1 3 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.69%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.85%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Analytics
2 15 (57.69%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (46.15%) ETL
4 11 (42.31%) Data Engineering
4 11 (42.31%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (38.46%) Data Modelling
6 8 (30.77%) Decision-Making
7 6 (23.08%) Agile
7 6 (23.08%) Data Governance
7 6 (23.08%) Data Strategy
8 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
8 5 (19.23%) Data Analytics
8 5 (19.23%) Data Architecture
8 5 (19.23%) Data Science
8 5 (19.23%) DevOps
8 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (19.23%) Visualisation
9 4 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (15.38%) Line Management
9 4 (15.38%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) SQL
2 14 (53.85%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
3 2 (7.69%) Scala
3 2 (7.69%) VBA
4 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.85%) Groovy
4 1 (3.85%) Java
4 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Degree
3 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Control-M
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Databricks
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) BMC
4 1 (3.85%) Foundry
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) Palantir
4 1 (3.85%) SAP
4 1 (3.85%) Talend