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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 234 301
Rank change year-on-year +24 +67 +1
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 553 883 616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.42% 1.23% 1.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.52% 9.15% 5.10%
Number of salaries quoted 264 489 368
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,650 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,114 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,625 £90,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +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 6,488 9,647 12,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.67% 13.45% 20.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,043 6,322 4,546
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,500 £28,250
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% +5.04%
75th Percentile £70,600 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -33 170 £55,000 -15.47% 520
South East +37 167 £65,000 +6.12% 710
North West -35 133 £52,250 -34.69% 267
Midlands +4 91 £52,900 +2.72% 424
Scotland +121 65 £52,000 +4.00% 124
West Midlands +24 61 £55,000 -2.28% 236
South West +48 30 £67,446 +19.90% 243
Yorkshire +20 30 £57,500 +15.00% 190
East Midlands +18 30 £48,500 +38.57% 163
East of England +3 13 £86,500 +101.16% 290
Wales +39 10 £80,000 +77.78% 58
North East +4 9 £65,000 -9.09% 65
Northern Ireland - 7 £30,000 - 50
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 (13.38%) SharePoint
2 30 (5.42%) Apache Spark
3 22 (3.98%) Apache
4 19 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.90%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.72%) Luigi
7 3 (0.54%) SAS
8 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.18%) CMS
9 1 (0.18%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 99 (17.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.54%) ProjectWise
5 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 36 (6.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.45%) Primavera
3 6 (1.08%) Q-Pulse
4 3 (0.54%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.36%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 147 (26.58%) Power Platform
2 146 (26.40%) Azure
3 87 (15.73%) AWS
4 57 (10.31%) Snowflake
5 52 (9.40%) GCP
6 42 (7.59%) PowerApps
7 36 (6.51%) Power Automate
8 32 (5.79%) Azure Data Factory
9 21 (3.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 19 (3.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 18 (3.25%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.71%) Collibra
12 15 (2.71%) Serverless
13 14 (2.53%) Salsify
14 13 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
15 12 (2.17%) IaaS
16 11 (1.99%) PaaS
16 11 (1.99%) SaaS
17 10 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (1.81%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.18%) Intranet
1 1 (0.18%) LTE
1 1 (0.18%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (26.40%) Power BI
2 112 (20.25%) Data Warehouse
3 108 (19.53%) Tableau
4 86 (15.55%) Data Lake
5 74 (13.38%) Metadata
6 56 (10.13%) Big Data
7 30 (5.42%) SQL Server
8 29 (5.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 24 (4.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 17 (3.07%) Metadata Repository
11 16 (2.89%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (2.71%) Hadoop
13 14 (2.53%) BigQuery
14 13 (2.35%) NoSQL
15 9 (1.63%) Ataccama
15 9 (1.63%) Star Schema
16 8 (1.45%) Apache Iceberg
16 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 8 (1.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 41 (7.41%) JIRA
2 10 (1.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 8 (1.45%) Git
4 6 (1.08%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.72%) ERwin
6 3 (0.54%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.36%) Selenium
7 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.18%) JMeter
8 1 (0.18%) Mocha
General
1 186 (33.63%) Social Skills
2 176 (31.83%) Finance
3 131 (23.69%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (20.61%) Law
5 52 (9.40%) Marketing
6 35 (6.33%) Banking
7 30 (5.42%) Retail
8 27 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
9 19 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (3.44%) Legal
10 16 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.35%) Public Sector
12 12 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 12 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.99%) Military
14 10 (1.81%) Advertising
15 6 (1.08%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.08%) Automotive
15 6 (1.08%) Aviation
15 6 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (19.35%) Analyst
2 99 (17.90%) Senior
3 90 (16.27%) Lead
4 75 (13.56%) Data Engineer
5 69 (12.48%) Data Analyst
6 47 (8.50%) Data Manager
7 35 (6.33%) Principal Engineer
8 31 (5.61%) Architect
8 31 (5.61%) Senior Data Engineer
9 26 (4.70%) Administrator
9 26 (4.70%) Procurement Analyst
10 25 (4.52%) Financial Analyst
11 23 (4.16%) Senior Manager
12 22 (3.98%) Enterprise Architect
13 21 (3.80%) Salesforce Architect
13 21 (3.80%) Systems Analyst
14 18 (3.25%) Project Manager
15 17 (3.07%) Developer
15 17 (3.07%) Systems Administrator
16 16 (2.89%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.24%) REST
2 23 (4.16%) Middleware
3 22 (3.98%) PySpark
4 21 (3.80%) Lightning Web Components
4 21 (3.80%) SOAP
5 13 (2.35%) Kafka
6 12 (2.17%) JSON
6 12 (2.17%) XML
7 9 (1.63%) Pandas
8 6 (1.08%) PyArrow
9 4 (0.72%) .NET
9 4 (0.72%) Dask
9 4 (0.72%) Polars
9 4 (0.72%) XGBoost
10 3 (0.54%) CSS
10 3 (0.54%) HTML
10 3 (0.54%) MIDP
10 3 (0.54%) PyTorch
10 3 (0.54%) scikit-learn
10 3 (0.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 86 (15.55%) Management Information System
2 21 (3.80%) Data Structures
2 21 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (2.71%) Taxonomies
4 13 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (2.17%) FMCG
6 11 (1.99%) Reference Data
7 10 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.63%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.63%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.08%) e-Learning
9 6 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.90%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.72%) Life Science
11 4 (0.72%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.72%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.72%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.54%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.54%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.54%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.27%) Unix
2 6 (1.08%) Linux
3 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (49.91%) Analytics
2 263 (47.56%) Data Management
3 222 (40.14%) Data Governance
4 161 (29.11%) Business Intelligence
5 151 (27.31%) Data Modelling
6 140 (25.32%) Data Analysis
7 125 (22.60%) Data Analytics
8 119 (21.52%) Data Engineering
9 117 (21.16%) Decision-Making
10 112 (20.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 111 (20.07%) ETL
12 110 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
13 100 (18.08%) Stakeholder Management
14 97 (17.54%) Agile
15 87 (15.73%) Data Pipeline
16 84 (15.19%) Visualisation
17 80 (14.47%) Mentoring
18 78 (14.10%) Data Architecture
19 76 (13.74%) ERP
20 74 (13.38%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 178 (32.19%) SQL
2 114 (20.61%) Python
3 21 (3.80%) Apex Code
4 13 (2.35%) T-SQL
5 12 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 11 (1.99%) C#
6 11 (1.99%) R
7 10 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (1.81%) Java
7 10 (1.81%) PL/SQL
8 8 (1.45%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.90%) Scala
10 2 (0.36%) Bash
10 2 (0.36%) PHP
10 2 (0.36%) Ruby
11 1 (0.18%) C++
11 1 (0.18%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 191 (34.54%) Degree
2 48 (8.68%) BPSS Clearance
3 43 (7.78%) Master's Degree
4 34 (6.15%) ACCA
4 34 (6.15%) CIMA
5 33 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.07%) MBA
7 16 (2.89%) CCAB
8 13 (2.35%) Security Cleared
9 12 (2.17%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.99%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.54%) SC Cleared
12 2 (0.36%) HNC
12 2 (0.36%) PhD
13 1 (0.18%) CRISC
13 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (10.85%) Accessibility
2 58 (10.49%) QA
3 27 (4.88%) GDPR
4 7 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.36%) 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 (1.81%) HDFS
2 3 (0.54%) Docker
3 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 12 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.08%) Terraform
3 2 (0.36%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.18%) Kibana
4 1 (0.18%) logstash
4 1 (0.18%) Oozie
Vendors
1 123 (22.24%) Microsoft
2 81 (14.65%) SAP
3 41 (7.41%) Databricks
4 32 (5.79%) Salesforce
5 28 (5.06%) ServiceNow
6 21 (3.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 20 (3.62%) Informatica
8 17 (3.07%) Oracle
9 14 (2.53%) Google
10 11 (1.99%) Capita
11 6 (1.08%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.90%) Talend
13 4 (0.72%) Cloudera
14 3 (0.54%) Bloomberg
14 3 (0.54%) Optimizely
14 3 (0.54%) Reuters
14 3 (0.54%) StreamSets
15 2 (0.36%) Cognos
15 2 (0.36%) Dataiku
15 2 (0.36%) JD Edwards