Data Quality Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Quality over the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 235 307
Rank change year-on-year +17 +72 +9
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 547 903 590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.38% 1.18% 1.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.33% 9.21% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 259 506 352
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,229 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,244 £36,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,114 £77,188 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £58,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.07% +3.85% +8.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,569 9,809 11,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.58% 12.87% 19.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,104 6,386 4,477
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,600 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £79,450
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
North of England -51 167 £55,000 -14.06% 144
South East +45 164 £67,420 +12.37% 118
North West -25 130 £52,000 -30.67% 75
Midlands +3 90 £52,500 +1.94% 89
Scotland +109 64 £52,000 +4.00% 52
West Midlands +15 59 £55,000 -2.28% 54
East Midlands +24 31 £48,500 +34.72% 32
Yorkshire +12 30 £57,500 +15.00% 44
South West +61 29 £66,367 +15.42% 65
East of England +15 16 £76,500 +77.91% 22
Wales +38 10 £80,000 +77.78% 10
North East +4 9 £65,000 +1.56% 26
Northern Ireland - 6 £30,000 - 16
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1
Data Quality
UK

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 74 (13.53%) SharePoint
2 31 (5.67%) Apache Spark
3 23 (4.20%) Apache
4 18 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.73%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.55%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.55%) SAS
7 2 (0.37%) Luigi
8 1 (0.18%) CMS
8 1 (0.18%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 99 (18.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 36 (6.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.46%) Primavera
3 7 (1.28%) Q-Pulse
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.37%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Maximo
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 152 (27.79%) Power Platform
2 150 (27.42%) Azure
3 91 (16.64%) AWS
4 57 (10.42%) Snowflake
5 51 (9.32%) GCP
6 42 (7.68%) PowerApps
7 37 (6.76%) Power Automate
8 32 (5.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 21 (3.84%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 20 (3.66%) Amazon S3
11 19 (3.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 17 (3.11%) Serverless
13 14 (2.56%) Collibra
13 14 (2.56%) Salsify
14 12 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (2.19%) IaaS
14 12 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
15 11 (2.01%) PaaS
15 11 (2.01%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.18%) Intranet
1 1 (0.18%) LTE
1 1 (0.18%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (27.61%) Power BI
2 112 (20.48%) Data Warehouse
3 107 (19.56%) Tableau
4 85 (15.54%) Data Lake
5 73 (13.35%) Metadata
6 57 (10.42%) Big Data
7 33 (6.03%) SQL Server
8 27 (4.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 23 (4.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 17 (3.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (3.11%) Metadata Repository
11 16 (2.93%) NoSQL
12 15 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (2.56%) Hadoop
14 12 (2.19%) BigQuery
15 11 (2.01%) Relational Database
16 9 (1.65%) Apache Iceberg
16 9 (1.65%) Star Schema
17 8 (1.46%) Microsoft Analysis Services
18 7 (1.28%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 42 (7.68%) JIRA
2 10 (1.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 8 (1.46%) Git
4 6 (1.10%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.73%) ERwin
6 3 (0.55%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.18%) Selenium
General
1 188 (34.37%) Social Skills
2 178 (32.54%) Finance
3 132 (24.13%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (21.02%) Law
5 52 (9.51%) Marketing
6 34 (6.22%) Banking
7 31 (5.67%) Retail
8 27 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
9 19 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (3.47%) Legal
10 16 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (2.19%) Manufacturing
11 12 (2.19%) Public Sector
12 11 (2.01%) Military
12 11 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.83%) Advertising
14 7 (1.28%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.28%) Aviation
14 7 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.10%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 108 (19.74%) Analyst
2 94 (17.18%) Senior
3 91 (16.64%) Lead
4 71 (12.98%) Data Engineer
5 69 (12.61%) Data Analyst
6 44 (8.04%) Data Manager
7 35 (6.40%) Principal Engineer
8 34 (6.22%) Architect
9 29 (5.30%) Senior Data Engineer
10 27 (4.94%) Administrator
11 26 (4.75%) Procurement Analyst
12 25 (4.57%) Financial Analyst
13 23 (4.20%) Enterprise Architect
14 22 (4.02%) Systems Analyst
15 21 (3.84%) Salesforce Architect
16 20 (3.66%) Developer
16 20 (3.66%) Senior Manager
17 18 (3.29%) Systems Administrator
18 16 (2.93%) Governance Manager
18 16 (2.93%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.12%) REST
2 24 (4.39%) PySpark
3 23 (4.20%) Middleware
4 21 (3.84%) Lightning Web Components
4 21 (3.84%) SOAP
5 14 (2.56%) Kafka
6 12 (2.19%) XML
7 11 (2.01%) JSON
8 9 (1.65%) Pandas
9 6 (1.10%) PyArrow
10 4 (0.73%) Dask
10 4 (0.73%) Polars
10 4 (0.73%) XGBoost
11 3 (0.55%) .NET
11 3 (0.55%) CSS
11 3 (0.55%) HTML
11 3 (0.55%) PyTorch
11 3 (0.55%) scikit-learn
11 3 (0.55%) TensorFlow
12 2 (0.37%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 88 (16.09%) Management Information System
2 21 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (3.66%) Data Structures
4 15 (2.74%) Taxonomies
5 12 (2.19%) FMCG
6 11 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.01%) Reference Data
7 10 (1.83%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.65%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.28%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.91%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.73%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.73%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.73%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.55%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.55%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.55%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.28%) Unix
2 5 (0.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (48.81%) Analytics
2 258 (47.17%) Data Management
3 224 (40.95%) Data Governance
4 168 (30.71%) Business Intelligence
5 154 (28.15%) Data Modelling
6 139 (25.41%) Data Analysis
7 121 (22.12%) Data Analytics
8 118 (21.57%) Data Engineering
8 118 (21.57%) Decision-Making
9 116 (21.21%) ETL
10 115 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
11 108 (19.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 98 (17.92%) Agile
13 97 (17.73%) Stakeholder Management
14 86 (15.72%) Data Pipeline
15 85 (15.54%) Visualisation
16 80 (14.63%) Mentoring
17 77 (14.08%) ERP
18 74 (13.53%) Computer Science
18 74 (13.53%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 186 (34.00%) SQL
2 116 (21.21%) Python
3 21 (3.84%) Apex Code
4 14 (2.56%) T-SQL
5 12 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 11 (2.01%) PL/SQL
7 10 (1.83%) C#
7 10 (1.83%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.65%) Java
8 9 (1.65%) R
9 8 (1.46%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.10%) Scala
11 2 (0.37%) Bash
11 2 (0.37%) Ruby
12 1 (0.18%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 190 (34.73%) Degree
2 48 (8.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 43 (7.86%) Master's Degree
4 34 (6.22%) ACCA
4 34 (6.22%) CIMA
4 34 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.11%) MBA
6 16 (2.93%) CCAB
7 12 (2.19%) Security Cleared
8 11 (2.01%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.83%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.55%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.37%) HNC
11 2 (0.37%) PhD
11 2 (0.37%) SC Cleared
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.18%) CRISC
12 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.33%) Accessibility
2 56 (10.24%) QA
3 28 (5.12%) GDPR
4 7 (1.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.37%) ITGC
7 1 (0.18%) COBIT
7 1 (0.18%) GRC
7 1 (0.18%) IFRS
7 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (1.83%) HDFS
2 5 (0.91%) Docker
3 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 14 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.73%) Terraform
3 2 (0.37%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.18%) Kibana
4 1 (0.18%) logstash
4 1 (0.18%) Oozie
Vendors
1 127 (23.22%) Microsoft
2 80 (14.63%) SAP
3 41 (7.50%) Databricks
4 34 (6.22%) Salesforce
5 29 (5.30%) ServiceNow
6 21 (3.84%) Informatica
6 21 (3.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 20 (3.66%) Oracle
8 14 (2.56%) Google
9 11 (2.01%) Capita
10 6 (1.10%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.10%) Talend
11 4 (0.73%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.73%) StreamSets
12 3 (0.55%) Cognos
12 3 (0.55%) IBM
12 3 (0.55%) Optimizely
13 2 (0.37%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.37%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.37%) Reuters