Data Quality Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 200 231
Rank change year-on-year +28 +31 +60
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 539 444 686
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.04% 1.48% 1.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.46% 9.12% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 354 220 405
10th Percentile £30,370 £39,975 £31,208
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +3.77%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,813 £73,250
90th Percentile £88,375 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £62,750
% change year-on-year +1.56% +1.99% +0.40%

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 5,155 4,866 7,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.98% 16.24% 14.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,768 2,294 5,570
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,500 £40,000 £32,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £47,615
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +13.41% -4.77%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,600 £63,750
90th Percentile £84,375 £83,750 £77,525
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Quality

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 7 March 2026.

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 7 March 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
South East +65 165 £57,500 -11.54% 178
North of England -4 153 £60,000 -1.33% 126
Midlands -1 103 £55,200 -8.00% 95
North West -15 79 £52,500 +10.53% 68
West Midlands +8 64 £60,000 - 65
Yorkshire -11 64 £65,000 +6.89% 41
East of England +43 45 £43,750 -49.42% 30
East Midlands -13 39 £48,500 -3.00% 29
South West -19 34 £70,000 +27.27% 61
Scotland -32 30 £90,000 +90.31% 27
Wales -11 10 £42,500 -44.26% 9
North East -17 10 £33,750 -50.00% 19
Northern Ireland -30 3 - - 1
Data Quality
UK

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 32 (5.94%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (4.27%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.97%) Apache
4 11 (2.04%) SAS
5 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.48%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.56%) CMS
7 2 (0.37%) Confluence
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 86 (15.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 20 (3.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (2.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.93%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.93%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.93%) SAP QM
5 4 (0.74%) Maximo
5 4 (0.74%) Shopify
6 3 (0.56%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.19%) Odoo
7 1 (0.19%) Primavera
7 1 (0.19%) Q-Pulse
7 1 (0.19%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 134 (24.86%) Azure
2 132 (24.49%) Power Platform
3 87 (16.14%) AWS
4 47 (8.72%) Azure Data Factory
4 47 (8.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 44 (8.16%) Snowflake
6 32 (5.94%) GCP
7 27 (5.01%) Amazon S3
8 25 (4.64%) dbt
9 20 (3.71%) SaaS
10 18 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (2.78%) Serverless
12 13 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (2.23%) OpenShift
14 10 (1.86%) Power Automate
15 9 (1.67%) GitHub
15 9 (1.67%) PowerApps
15 9 (1.67%) Veeva
16 8 (1.48%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.86%) Intranet
2 6 (1.11%) Wireless
3 2 (0.37%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.19%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (23.75%) Power BI
2 101 (18.74%) Metadata
3 71 (13.17%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (9.46%) SQL Server
5 42 (7.79%) Tableau
6 40 (7.42%) Data Lake
7 38 (7.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 30 (5.57%) Relational Database
9 22 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 21 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 21 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (2.97%) NoSQL
13 13 (2.41%) Oracle Database
13 13 (2.41%) Star Schema
14 11 (2.04%) BigQuery
14 11 (2.04%) Looker
14 11 (2.04%) MySQL
14 11 (2.04%) Parquet
14 11 (2.04%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 23 (4.27%) Git
2 9 (1.67%) IBM UrbanCode
3 5 (0.93%) JIRA
4 4 (0.74%) ERwin
5 3 (0.56%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.37%) DBeaver
6 2 (0.37%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.19%) GitLab
7 1 (0.19%) JMeter
7 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 229 (42.49%) Social Skills
2 196 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 146 (27.09%) Finance
4 42 (7.79%) Public Sector
5 32 (5.94%) Manufacturing
6 31 (5.75%) Marketing
7 30 (5.57%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (4.64%) Banking
9 21 (3.90%) Law
10 19 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (3.15%) Legal
11 17 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (2.60%) German Language
13 11 (2.04%) Billing
13 11 (2.04%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.86%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.67%) Military
16 7 (1.30%) Retail
17 6 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 6 (1.11%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 99 (18.37%) Analyst
2 85 (15.77%) Data Manager
3 70 (12.99%) Data Engineer
4 62 (11.50%) Senior
5 57 (10.58%) Architect
6 50 (9.28%) Data Architect
7 48 (8.91%) Data Analyst
8 35 (6.49%) Lead
9 25 (4.64%) Senior Manager
10 23 (4.27%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 21 (3.90%) Developer
12 20 (3.71%) Governance Manager
13 19 (3.53%) Data Governance Analyst
13 19 (3.53%) Data Governance Manager
14 18 (3.34%) Administrator
14 18 (3.34%) Senior Data Engineer
15 17 (3.15%) Systems Manager
16 16 (2.97%) Azure Architect
16 16 (2.97%) Azure Data Architect
17 13 (2.41%) Insight Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.31%) PySpark
2 15 (2.78%) XML
3 14 (2.60%) JSON
4 11 (2.04%) Pandas
4 11 (2.04%) REST
5 8 (1.48%) SAP Fiori
6 7 (1.30%) .NET
6 7 (1.30%) SOAP
7 6 (1.11%) CSS
7 6 (1.11%) HTML
7 6 (1.11%) Kafka
7 6 (1.11%) PyTorch
7 6 (1.11%) TensorFlow
8 3 (0.56%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.56%) HTML5
8 3 (0.56%) jQuery
8 3 (0.56%) Keras
8 3 (0.56%) NumPy
9 2 (0.37%) scikit-learn
9 2 (0.37%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 64 (11.87%) Management Information System
2 35 (6.49%) Data Structures
3 26 (4.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 25 (4.64%) Life Science
5 20 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (3.34%) Onboarding
7 17 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (2.78%) Cloud Native
9 11 (2.04%) Taxonomies
10 10 (1.86%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.67%) Biopharmaceutical
12 7 (1.30%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.11%) CMDB
13 6 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.11%) Reference Data
14 4 (0.74%) Driving Licence
14 4 (0.74%) Semantic Web
14 4 (0.74%) Web Conferencing
15 3 (0.56%) Data Centre
15 3 (0.56%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.74%) Linux
1 4 (0.74%) Unix
1 4 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (45.08%) Analytics
2 239 (44.34%) Data Governance
3 168 (31.17%) Business Intelligence
4 164 (30.43%) Data Modelling
5 163 (30.24%) Problem-Solving
6 158 (29.31%) Decision-Making
7 140 (25.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 130 (24.12%) ETL
9 109 (20.22%) Data Engineering
9 109 (20.22%) Data Management
10 87 (16.14%) AI
11 86 (15.96%) Agile
12 82 (15.21%) Data Pipeline
13 76 (14.10%) Data Architecture
14 72 (13.36%) Stakeholder Management
14 72 (13.36%) Validation
14 72 (13.36%) Visualisation
15 68 (12.62%) Actionable Insight
16 67 (12.43%) CRM
17 63 (11.69%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 222 (41.19%) SQL
2 149 (27.64%) Python
3 34 (6.31%) T-SQL
4 21 (3.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 11 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.04%) R
6 8 (1.48%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.30%) Java
7 7 (1.30%) Scala
8 6 (1.11%) VBA
9 5 (0.93%) ABAP
9 5 (0.93%) C#
10 4 (0.74%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.56%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.56%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.37%) Bicep
13 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.19%) Groovy
13 1 (0.19%) PROC SQL
13 1 (0.19%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 96 (17.81%) Degree
2 31 (5.75%) Master's Degree
3 21 (3.90%) DBS Check
4 19 (3.53%) Security Cleared
5 18 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.86%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.74%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.56%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.56%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.56%) PMP
9 3 (0.56%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.37%) CISA
10 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.19%) HNC
11 1 (0.19%) HND
11 1 (0.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.19%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (13.36%) GDPR
2 21 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.60%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.23%) NIST
5 11 (2.04%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (1.86%) HIPAA
6 10 (1.86%) QA
7 7 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (1.30%) EU AI Act
7 7 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 7 (1.30%) SLA
8 5 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.74%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.56%) PERC
11 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (1.48%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (2.60%) Terraform
2 6 (1.11%) Control-M
3 5 (0.93%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.19%) Grafana
Vendors
1 109 (20.22%) Microsoft
2 54 (10.02%) Databricks
3 40 (7.42%) SAP
4 33 (6.12%) Oracle
5 28 (5.19%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.97%) Informatica
7 13 (2.41%) Google
7 13 (2.41%) Talend
8 12 (2.23%) Workday
9 11 (2.04%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.67%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.30%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.93%) Civica
12 5 (0.93%) IBM
12 5 (0.93%) Zoho
13 3 (0.56%) Adobe
13 3 (0.56%) Confluent
13 3 (0.56%) Dell
13 3 (0.56%) Epicor
13 3 (0.56%) NVIDIA