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 27 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 235 288
Rank change year-on-year +61 +53 +21
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 562 864 681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.54% 1.23% 1.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.99% 9.03% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 274 476 385
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,125 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £38,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.80%
75th Percentile £70,938 £75,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%

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 6,252 9,573 13,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.09% 13.65% 21.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,039 6,369 4,751
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,000 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -3 175 £55,000 -15.38% 116
South East +62 165 £65,000 +4.00% 173
North West +2 139 £50,000 -33.33% 94
Midlands +42 96 £55,000 +30.56% 64
West Midlands +25 69 £55,000 - 42
Scotland +125 65 £52,000 +0.97% 48
South West +64 32 £67,446 +17.30% 54
East Midlands +42 27 £48,500 +38.57% 20
Yorkshire +17 27 £57,500 +15.00% 14
Wales +34 11 £77,500 +72.22% 5
East of England +26 11 £73,000 +69.77% 27
North East +9 11 £70,000 +2.56% 8
Northern Ireland - 7 £30,000 - 14
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 (13.17%) SharePoint
2 31 (5.52%) Apache Spark
3 25 (4.45%) Apache
4 19 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.25%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.71%) Luigi
7 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.18%) CMS
8 1 (0.18%) Confluence
8 1 (0.18%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 107 (19.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.53%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.53%) ProjectWise
5 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 37 (6.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.42%) Primavera
3 5 (0.89%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.53%) Q-Pulse
5 2 (0.36%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.36%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.18%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.18%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 154 (27.40%) Power Platform
2 146 (25.98%) Azure
3 86 (15.30%) AWS
4 46 (8.19%) Snowflake
5 43 (7.65%) GCP
6 42 (7.47%) PowerApps
7 38 (6.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 36 (6.41%) Power Automate
9 24 (4.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 21 (3.74%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 18 (3.20%) Amazon S3
12 14 (2.49%) Collibra
12 14 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (2.49%) Serverless
13 12 (2.14%) IaaS
13 12 (2.14%) PaaS
14 11 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
14 11 (1.96%) SaaS
15 10 (1.78%) OpenShift
16 9 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.18%) Internet
1 1 (0.18%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (27.22%) Power BI
2 116 (20.64%) Data Warehouse
2 116 (20.64%) Tableau
3 86 (15.30%) Data Lake
4 67 (11.92%) Metadata
5 51 (9.07%) Big Data
6 32 (5.69%) SQL Server
7 30 (5.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 29 (5.16%) NoSQL
9 26 (4.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 19 (3.38%) Metadata Repository
11 18 (3.20%) Hadoop
12 17 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (2.31%) BigQuery
15 11 (1.96%) Apache Iceberg
15 11 (1.96%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.78%) Apache Hudi
17 9 (1.60%) Ataccama
17 9 (1.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (7.12%) JIRA
2 11 (1.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 10 (1.78%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.71%) ERwin
5 3 (0.53%) Git
6 2 (0.36%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.36%) Selenium
6 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.18%) JMeter
7 1 (0.18%) Mocha
General
1 197 (35.05%) Social Skills
2 189 (33.63%) Finance
3 134 (23.84%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (17.62%) Law
5 43 (7.65%) Marketing
6 30 (5.34%) Influencing Skills
6 30 (5.34%) Presentation Skills
7 29 (5.16%) Banking
8 25 (4.45%) Retail
9 14 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.31%) Legal
10 13 (2.31%) Public Sector
11 12 (2.14%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.78%) Advertising
12 10 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.60%) Automotive
13 9 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.42%) Military
15 6 (1.07%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.89%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 118 (21.00%) Analyst
2 93 (16.55%) Lead
3 92 (16.37%) Senior
4 81 (14.41%) Data Engineer
5 70 (12.46%) Data Analyst
6 45 (8.01%) Data Manager
7 38 (6.76%) Senior Data Engineer
8 37 (6.58%) Architect
9 35 (6.23%) Principal Engineer
10 27 (4.80%) Enterprise Architect
11 26 (4.63%) Administrator
11 26 (4.63%) Procurement Analyst
12 24 (4.27%) Financial Analyst
13 21 (3.74%) Salesforce Architect
13 21 (3.74%) Systems Analyst
14 19 (3.38%) Project Manager
15 18 (3.20%) Developer
16 17 (3.02%) Systems Administrator
17 16 (2.85%) Finance Systems Analyst
18 15 (2.67%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.34%) REST
2 23 (4.09%) Middleware
3 22 (3.91%) SOAP
4 21 (3.74%) Lightning Web Components
4 21 (3.74%) PySpark
5 14 (2.49%) Kafka
6 12 (2.14%) JSON
7 10 (1.78%) PyArrow
8 9 (1.60%) XML
9 8 (1.42%) Pandas
10 5 (0.89%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.71%) .NET
11 4 (0.71%) Dask
11 4 (0.71%) HTML
11 4 (0.71%) Polars
11 4 (0.71%) XGBoost
12 3 (0.53%) CSS
12 3 (0.53%) MIDP
12 3 (0.53%) PyTorch
12 3 (0.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 79 (14.06%) Management Information System
2 23 (4.09%) Data Structures
3 21 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (1.96%) FMCG
6 10 (1.78%) Reference Data
7 9 (1.60%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.42%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.25%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.07%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.07%) Taxonomies
11 5 (0.89%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.89%) Equities
12 4 (0.71%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.53%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.53%) Data Centre
13 3 (0.53%) e-Learning
13 3 (0.53%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.78%) Unix
2 6 (1.07%) Linux
3 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (47.86%) Analytics
2 266 (47.33%) Data Management
3 240 (42.70%) Data Governance
4 171 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
5 157 (27.94%) Data Modelling
6 141 (25.09%) Data Analysis
7 125 (22.24%) Data Analytics
8 122 (21.71%) Decision-Making
9 118 (21.00%) Data Engineering
10 112 (19.93%) Stakeholder Management
11 109 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 108 (19.22%) Agile
13 106 (18.86%) ETL
14 101 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
15 96 (17.08%) Data Architecture
16 87 (15.48%) Mentoring
17 86 (15.30%) Visualisation
18 85 (15.12%) Data Strategy
19 80 (14.23%) Data Pipeline
20 76 (13.52%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 176 (31.32%) SQL
2 114 (20.28%) Python
3 21 (3.74%) Apex Code
4 14 (2.49%) T-SQL
5 11 (1.96%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.78%) C#
6 10 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (1.78%) Java
6 10 (1.78%) R
7 9 (1.60%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.42%) PL/SQL
9 6 (1.07%) Scala
10 2 (0.36%) PHP
10 2 (0.36%) Ruby
11 1 (0.18%) Bash
11 1 (0.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 185 (32.92%) Degree
2 47 (8.36%) BPSS Clearance
3 43 (7.65%) Master's Degree
4 34 (6.05%) ACCA
4 34 (6.05%) CIMA
5 30 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.85%) CCAB
6 16 (2.85%) MBA
7 13 (2.31%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.14%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.96%) Security Cleared
10 4 (0.71%) SC Cleared
11 2 (0.36%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.36%) HNC
12 1 (0.18%) CRISC
12 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.18%) PhD
12 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (10.50%) Accessibility
2 49 (8.72%) QA
3 35 (6.23%) GDPR
4 15 (2.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.07%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.36%) ITGC
9 1 (0.18%) COBIT
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS
9 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (2.31%) HDFS
2 2 (0.36%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (2.85%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.89%) Terraform
3 2 (0.36%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 134 (23.84%) Microsoft
2 80 (14.23%) SAP
3 45 (8.01%) Databricks
4 34 (6.05%) ServiceNow
5 29 (5.16%) Salesforce
6 25 (4.45%) Informatica
7 21 (3.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 17 (3.02%) Oracle
9 14 (2.49%) Google
10 11 (1.96%) Capita
11 10 (1.78%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.89%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.89%) Reuters
12 5 (0.89%) Talend
13 4 (0.71%) Cloudera
14 3 (0.53%) Optimizely
15 2 (0.36%) Dataiku
15 2 (0.36%) JD Edwards
15 2 (0.36%) MapR
15 2 (0.36%) StreamSets