Data Quality Job Trends in Surrey

Data Quality
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Data Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 71 111
Rank change year-on-year -14 +40 +15
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 28 25 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.37% 2.47% 1.75%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.07% 13.30% 9.25%
Number of salaries quoted 20 22 25
10th Percentile - £37,725 £39,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile - £82,625 -
South East median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -4.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 253 188 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 12.35% 18.54% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 155 112 299
10th Percentile £31,750 £37,500 -
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +46.67% -33.33%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,450 £72,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +22.22% -10.00%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in Surrey

Data Quality
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Data Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in Surrey over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in Surrey

Data Quality
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Woking - 8 £42,500 -
Guildford -33 4 £57,500 +38.55% 1
Epsom +9 2 - - 2
Data Quality
South East

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 8 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (7.14%) Apache
3 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 11 (39.29%) Power Platform
3 8 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 8 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (28.57%) SaaS
4 7 (25.00%) AWS
5 5 (17.86%) GCP
6 4 (14.29%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 4 (14.29%) Prefect
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) MySQL
1 12 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (39.29%) Power BI
3 9 (32.14%) SQL Server
4 8 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (17.86%) Tableau
6 4 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
6 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
6 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
7 2 (7.14%) Apache Hive
7 2 (7.14%) Impala
7 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
7 2 (7.14%) Parquet
7 2 (7.14%) Spark SQL
8 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 15 (53.57%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Finance
4 3 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Legal
6 1 (3.57%) Marketing
6 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Analyst
2 11 (39.29%) Data Engineer
3 9 (32.14%) Data Analyst
4 8 (28.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 8 (28.57%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
4 8 (28.57%) SQL Analyst
4 8 (28.57%) SQL Data Analyst
4 8 (28.57%) SSRS Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Administrator
5 3 (10.71%) Data Administrator
5 3 (10.71%) Pricing Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Banking Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Transformation Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Support Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Data Business Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) IT Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) IT Support
7 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) SQL Support Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) JSON
1 8 (28.57%) XML
2 3 (10.71%) CSS
2 3 (10.71%) HTML
3 2 (7.14%) PySpark
4 1 (3.57%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Onboarding
2 8 (28.57%) Data Structures
3 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
3 3 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Analytics
1 13 (46.43%) Data Pipeline
1 13 (46.43%) ETL
2 12 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 11 (39.29%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (39.29%) Data Science
4 10 (35.71%) Database Optimisation
4 10 (35.71%) Validation
5 9 (32.14%) Data Validation
6 8 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
6 8 (28.57%) Decision-Making
6 8 (28.57%) Mathematics
6 8 (28.57%) Task Automation
7 6 (21.43%) Agile
7 6 (21.43%) Data Engineering
7 6 (21.43%) Scrum
7 6 (21.43%) Visualisation
8 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
9 4 (14.29%) Kanban
9 4 (14.29%) Operations Research
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) SQL
2 18 (64.29%) Python
3 8 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 8 (28.57%) T-SQL
4 4 (14.29%) Java
4 4 (14.29%) Scala
5 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.71%) VBA
6 1 (3.57%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (14.29%) GDPR
3 3 (10.71%) QA
4 1 (3.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (3.57%) HIPAA
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle
2 2 (7.14%) Red Hat