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 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 52 153 118
Rank change year-on-year +101 -35 +40
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 151 28 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.75% 0.83% 2.07%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 27.06% 6.93% 13.02%
Number of salaries quoted 36 18 39
10th Percentile £35,854 £48,050 £49,200
25th Percentile £37,500 £52,375 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% -7.31% +10.17%
75th Percentile £68,000 £77,813 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,125 £90,000 £100,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -17.86% +12.00% +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 558 404 630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.84% 11.94% 15.92%
Number of salaries quoted 240 221 368
10th Percentile £27,975 £33,125 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,280 £50,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £83,750 £67,813
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £59,136 £52,397
% change year-on-year -11.22% +12.86% -0.30%

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 14 January 2026.

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 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
Berkshire +72 119 £69,840 +16.40% 31
Buckinghamshire +21 21 £50,000 -44.44% 10
Oxfordshire +26 11 £39,929 -48.48% 7
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 4 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.32%) SAS
3 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 101 (66.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (3.97%) SAP CO
1 6 (3.97%) SAP FI
1 6 (3.97%) SAP FI/CO
2 5 (3.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.66%) Q-Pulse
3 1 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 84 (55.63%) Azure
2 82 (54.30%) Power Platform
3 12 (7.95%) AWS
4 8 (5.30%) GCP
5 5 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.65%) dbt
6 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.99%) Collibra
7 3 (1.99%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.32%) Fivetran
9 1 (0.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.66%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.66%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.66%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.66%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (51.66%) Power BI
2 66 (43.71%) Data Lake
2 66 (43.71%) SAP BW
3 19 (12.58%) Metadata
4 18 (11.92%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (5.30%) SQL Server
5 8 (5.30%) Tableau
6 5 (3.31%) Qlik Sense
7 3 (1.99%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.99%) Metadata Repository
7 3 (1.99%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.99%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.32%) Airbyte
8 2 (1.32%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.66%) Big Data
9 1 (0.66%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.66%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (1.99%) ERwin
1 3 (1.99%) Git
1 3 (1.99%) PowerDesigner
General
1 88 (58.28%) Social Skills
2 40 (26.49%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (16.56%) Finance
4 8 (5.30%) Marketing
5 7 (4.64%) Law
6 6 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.65%) Police
8 3 (1.99%) Games
8 3 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.99%) Publishing
9 2 (1.32%) Banking
10 1 (0.66%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.66%) Aviation
10 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.66%) Military
10 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (41.72%) Lead
2 51 (33.77%) Analyst
3 34 (22.52%) Report Analyst
4 30 (19.87%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 28 (18.54%) Sustainability Analyst
6 19 (12.58%) Senior
7 9 (5.96%) Data Manager
8 8 (5.30%) Data Engineer
8 8 (5.30%) Senior Manager
9 6 (3.97%) Architect
9 6 (3.97%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (3.97%) Data Architect
9 6 (3.97%) Senior Architect
9 6 (3.97%) Senior Data Architect
10 5 (3.31%) CRM Analyst
10 5 (3.31%) Developer
10 5 (3.31%) Salesforce Analyst
10 5 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (3.31%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (2.65%) Development Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.31%) XML
2 4 (2.65%) JSON
2 4 (2.65%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (2.65%) REST
3 2 (1.32%) PySpark
3 2 (1.32%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.64%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.97%) Life Science
3 3 (1.99%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.99%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.66%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.66%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.66%) e-Learning
4 1 (0.66%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (0.66%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.66%) NHS
4 1 (0.66%) Reference Data
4 1 (0.66%) Replication
4 1 (0.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (74.83%) Data Modelling
2 103 (68.21%) Problem-Solving
3 87 (57.62%) Analytics
4 81 (53.64%) Business Intelligence
5 63 (41.72%) Data Cleansing
6 59 (39.07%) ERP
7 57 (37.75%) Data Governance
8 40 (26.49%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 40 (26.49%) Master Data Management
9 35 (23.18%) Data Analysis
10 34 (22.52%) Actionable Insight
11 31 (20.53%) Source to Pay
12 28 (18.54%) GAP Analysis
12 28 (18.54%) Quality Management
13 27 (17.88%) CRUD
13 27 (17.88%) Data Conversion
13 27 (17.88%) Data Design
13 27 (17.88%) SAP Implementation
14 24 (15.89%) Decision-Making
14 24 (15.89%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 25 (16.56%) SQL
2 16 (10.60%) Python
3 4 (2.65%) T-SQL
4 3 (1.99%) R
5 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (68.21%) Degree
2 5 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (2.65%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.99%) PMI Certification
4 3 (1.99%) PMP
4 3 (1.99%) SAP Certification
5 1 (0.66%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.30%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.99%) GDPR
3 1 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.66%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (2.65%) Terraform
2 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 94 (62.25%) SAP
2 14 (9.27%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.64%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.31%) Databricks
4 5 (3.31%) MuleSoft
5 4 (2.65%) Oracle
6 1 (0.66%) IBM
6 1 (0.66%) Informatica
6 1 (0.66%) Talend