Data Quality Job Trends in Staffordshire

Data Quality
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Data Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 63 40
Rank change year-on-year -2 -23 +23
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 10 3 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 1.02% 0.55% 2.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.81% 2.75% 12.86%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 9
10th Percentile - £43,619 £33,150
25th Percentile £23,500 £45,297 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,000 £49,344 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -47.31% +40.98% -33.33%
75th Percentile £37,500 £52,141 -
90th Percentile £65,450 £53,069 £57,750
West Midlands median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +71.43% -30.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 128 109 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 12.99% 20.04% 16.75%
Number of salaries quoted 53 86 60
10th Percentile £26,916 £28,119 £26,675
25th Percentile £30,580 £28,295 £27,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £31,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.97% -11.43% -36.07%
75th Percentile £50,000 £53,735 £53,125
90th Percentile £66,050 £63,250 £60,000
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Data Quality
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Data Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in Staffordshire

Data Quality
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 3 £26,000 - 5
Burton-upon-Trent -11 2 £64,500 +43.33%
Lichfield - 1 - -
Data Quality
West Midlands

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Marketing
2 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) CRM Officer
1 4 (40.00%) Support Officer
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Coordinator
3 2 (20.00%) CRM Coordinator
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Driving Licence
1 4 (40.00%) Onboarding
1 4 (40.00%) Web Conferencing
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Data Cleansing
2 6 (60.00%) CRM
2 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 5 (50.00%) Process Improvement
4 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) Analytics
5 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (30.00%) ETL
6 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
6 2 (20.00%) Data Science
6 2 (20.00%) DevOps
6 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 2 (20.00%) Metadata Management
7 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
7 1 (10.00%) Data Extraction
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Bicep
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Scala
3 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Adobe
2 2 (20.00%) Databricks
2 2 (20.00%) HubSpot
2 2 (20.00%) Salesforce