Data Quality Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Data Quality
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Data Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 160 134
Rank change year-on-year +113 -26 +24
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 169 34 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.42% 0.86% 1.31%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 27.80% 7.19% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 33 22 35
10th Percentile £35,854 £37,250 £45,100
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,813 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £69,840 £73,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,968 £88,875 £99,500
South East median annual salary £58,250 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.92% -4.00% +4.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 608 473 520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.92% 11.96% 15.90%
Number of salaries quoted 257 260 314
10th Percentile £27,300 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £81,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +1.85%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Data Quality
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in the Thames Valley

Data Quality
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 December 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
Berkshire +82 136 £69,840 +31.77% 45
Buckinghamshire +28 21 £49,000 -34.88% 24
Oxfordshire +37 12 £35,854 -53.74% 19
Data Quality
South East

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.18%) SAS
2 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 101 (59.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (3.55%) SAP CO
1 6 (3.55%) SAP FI
1 6 (3.55%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.59%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 97 (57.40%) Azure
2 82 (48.52%) Power Platform
3 25 (14.79%) AWS
4 21 (12.43%) GCP
5 6 (3.55%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.37%) dbt
8 3 (1.78%) Collibra
8 3 (1.78%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.18%) Fivetran
9 2 (1.18%) SaaS
10 1 (0.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.59%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.59%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.59%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (47.34%) Power BI
2 67 (39.64%) Data Lake
3 66 (39.05%) SAP BW
4 32 (18.93%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (13.02%) Metadata
6 10 (5.92%) SQL Server
7 8 (4.73%) Tableau
8 5 (2.96%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (2.96%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (1.78%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.78%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (1.78%) SAP HANA
9 3 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.18%) Airbyte
10 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.59%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.59%) MySQL
11 1 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.78%) ERwin
1 3 (1.78%) Git
1 3 (1.78%) PowerDesigner
General
1 89 (52.66%) Social Skills
2 41 (24.26%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (15.38%) Finance
4 22 (13.02%) Law
5 20 (11.83%) Marketing
6 7 (4.14%) Police
7 6 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.96%) Games
9 3 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.78%) Publishing
10 2 (1.18%) Banking
10 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.59%) Aviation
11 1 (0.59%) Military
11 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (37.87%) Lead
2 54 (31.95%) Analyst
3 34 (20.12%) Report Analyst
4 30 (17.75%) Business Intelligence Lead
4 30 (17.75%) Senior
5 28 (16.57%) Sustainability Analyst
6 19 (11.24%) Architect
6 19 (11.24%) Data Architect
6 19 (11.24%) Senior Architect
6 19 (11.24%) Senior Data Architect
7 9 (5.33%) Data Engineer
7 9 (5.33%) Data Manager
8 8 (4.73%) Senior Manager
9 7 (4.14%) Data Analyst
9 7 (4.14%) Development Analyst
9 7 (4.14%) Support Analyst
9 7 (4.14%) Systems Analyst
9 7 (4.14%) Systems Development Analyst
9 7 (4.14%) Systems Support
9 7 (4.14%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.14%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (2.96%) XML
3 4 (2.37%) JSON
3 4 (2.37%) REST
4 2 (1.18%) PySpark
4 2 (1.18%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.33%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.55%) Life Science
3 3 (1.78%) FMCG
3 3 (1.78%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.78%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.18%) NHS
5 1 (0.59%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.59%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.59%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.59%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (0.59%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.59%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.59%) Replication
5 1 (0.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (75.15%) Data Modelling
2 103 (60.95%) Problem-Solving
3 88 (52.07%) Analytics
4 84 (49.70%) Business Intelligence
5 73 (43.20%) Data Governance
6 62 (36.69%) Data Cleansing
7 59 (34.91%) ERP
8 45 (26.63%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 39 (23.08%) Master Data Management
10 36 (21.30%) ETL
11 35 (20.71%) Actionable Insight
11 35 (20.71%) Data Analysis
12 31 (18.34%) Roadmaps
12 31 (18.34%) Source to Pay
13 30 (17.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (17.75%) CRUD
13 30 (17.75%) Data Science
14 28 (16.57%) Decision-Making
14 28 (16.57%) GAP Analysis
14 28 (16.57%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.16%) SQL
2 15 (8.88%) Python
3 4 (2.37%) T-SQL
4 3 (1.78%) R
5 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 105 (62.13%) Degree
2 7 (4.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 5 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.37%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.78%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.78%) PMP
5 3 (1.78%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.51%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.78%) GDPR
3 1 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Systems Management
1 2 (1.18%) Terraform
2 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (55.03%) SAP
2 9 (5.33%) Databricks
2 9 (5.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.14%) Oracle
4 1 (0.59%) IBM
4 1 (0.59%) Informatica
4 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.59%) Talend