Data Quality Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Quality
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Data Quality skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Quality over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 301 312
Rank change year-on-year +65 +11 -20
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 873 646 791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.23% 1.07% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.09% 5.21% 6.49%
Number of salaries quoted 478 372 465
10th Percentile £31,600 £35,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,250 £45,000 £41,503
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £75,938 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

Data Quality is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,600 12,400 12,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.53% 20.58% 17.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,348 4,621 6,917
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,665
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.90% +0.35%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 +131 298 £65,000 +23.81% 66
South East +62 216 £60,000 -4.00% 48
North West +100 167 £75,000 +42.86% 38
Midlands -24 142 £44,100 -11.80% 48
West Midlands -34 102 £55,000 +10.00% 30
South West -26 83 £60,249 - 23
Yorkshire +85 80 £50,000 -2.44% 22
Scotland -18 68 £50,000 -9.09% 4
East of England +32 52 £43,000 -31.20% 19
North East +25 51 £68,250 +36.50% 7
East Midlands +16 40 £35,000 -14.63% 17
Wales +12 15 £45,000 -25.00% 3
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 70 (8.02%) SharePoint
2 46 (5.27%) Apache Spark
3 17 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.15%) Confluence
5 7 (0.80%) SAS
6 6 (0.69%) Apache
7 5 (0.57%) Oracle Application Server
8 4 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.34%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) IBM Domino
11 1 (0.11%) Luigi
Applications
1 135 (15.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.80%) SAP GTS
2 6 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.46%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) HFM
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.11%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.11%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 286 (32.76%) Azure
2 199 (22.79%) Power Platform
3 191 (21.88%) AWS
4 139 (15.92%) GCP
5 64 (7.33%) Snowflake
6 54 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (4.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 32 (3.67%) Matillion
9 30 (3.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 24 (2.75%) SaaS
11 21 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (2.41%) Collibra
12 18 (2.06%) dbt
13 17 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
15 14 (1.60%) Amazon S3
15 14 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
15 14 (1.60%) Nutanix
16 12 (1.37%) IaaS
16 12 (1.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.37%) DNS
1 12 (1.37%) WPA
2 5 (0.57%) Internet
3 2 (0.23%) Intranet
4 1 (0.11%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.11%) 5G
4 1 (0.11%) Skype
4 1 (0.11%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (28.87%) Data Warehouse
2 196 (22.45%) Power BI
3 134 (15.35%) SQL Server
4 113 (12.94%) BigQuery
5 109 (12.49%) Looker
6 96 (11.00%) Data Lake
7 75 (8.59%) Metadata
8 61 (6.99%) Tableau
9 42 (4.81%) Data Vault
10 38 (4.35%) Star Schema
11 34 (3.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 32 (3.67%) Delta Lake
13 31 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
14 27 (3.09%) Big Data
15 25 (2.86%) Relational Database
16 18 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
16 18 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
17 17 (1.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 14 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 13 (1.49%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 104 (11.91%) JIRA
2 31 (3.55%) GitLab
3 15 (1.72%) Git
4 9 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.69%) RStudio
6 5 (0.57%) Spinnaker
6 5 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.46%) Toad
8 2 (0.23%) ERwin
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.11%) Zephyr
General
1 289 (33.10%) Social Skills
2 277 (31.73%) Analytical Skills
3 270 (30.93%) Finance
4 110 (12.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 95 (10.88%) Banking
6 92 (10.54%) Legal
7 70 (8.02%) Marketing
8 61 (6.99%) Law
9 45 (5.15%) Retail
10 28 (3.21%) Public Sector
11 20 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.95%) Games
13 16 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (1.37%) Back Office
17 11 (1.26%) Investment Banking
17 11 (1.26%) Local Government
18 10 (1.15%) Manufacturing
19 9 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 227 (26.00%) Data Engineer
2 149 (17.07%) Architect
3 141 (16.15%) Data Architect
4 121 (13.86%) Analyst
5 109 (12.49%) Lead
6 108 (12.37%) Senior
7 81 (9.28%) Data Analyst
8 73 (8.36%) Data Manager
9 41 (4.70%) Lead Data Engineer
10 34 (3.89%) Lead Software Engineer
10 34 (3.89%) Senior Software Engineer
10 34 (3.89%) Software Engineer
11 33 (3.78%) Developer
12 27 (3.09%) Security Engineer
12 27 (3.09%) Senior Data Engineer
13 22 (2.52%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 21 (2.41%) Informatica Engineer
15 20 (2.29%) AWS Engineer
16 19 (2.18%) Administrator
16 19 (2.18%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (6.87%) PySpark
2 6 (0.69%) .NET
3 5 (0.57%) HTML
3 5 (0.57%) Kafka
3 5 (0.57%) XML
4 4 (0.46%) EDI
4 4 (0.46%) JSON
5 3 (0.34%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.34%) Great Expectations
5 3 (0.34%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.34%) Pandas
5 3 (0.34%) REST
5 3 (0.34%) SOAP
5 3 (0.34%) Visualforce
6 2 (0.23%) Handlebars
6 2 (0.23%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.23%) PostGIS
6 2 (0.23%) Seaborn
7 1 (0.11%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 148 (16.95%) Self-Motivation
2 86 (9.85%) Data Structures
3 71 (8.13%) Management Information System
4 38 (4.35%) Reinsurance
5 35 (4.01%) Public Cloud
6 20 (2.29%) Algorithms
7 18 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (1.95%) Product Ownership
9 15 (1.72%) Cloud Native
10 14 (1.60%) IoT
11 13 (1.49%) Client/Server
11 13 (1.49%) Online Games
12 12 (1.37%) Reference Data
13 10 (1.15%) Blog
14 9 (1.03%) Taxonomies
15 8 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (0.92%) Digital Media
15 8 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (0.92%) FMCG
15 8 (0.92%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.95%) Windows
2 12 (1.37%) Linux
3 6 (0.69%) Unix
4 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (42.73%) Data Modelling
2 357 (40.89%) Problem-Solving
3 348 (39.86%) Data Governance
4 339 (38.83%) ETL
5 298 (34.14%) Data Engineering
6 277 (31.73%) Analytics
7 238 (27.26%) Data Management
8 224 (25.66%) Business Intelligence
9 213 (24.40%) Agile
10 208 (23.83%) Mentoring
11 195 (22.34%) Data Architecture
12 189 (21.65%) Data Integration
13 152 (17.41%) Decision-Making
14 138 (15.81%) Data Analysis
15 134 (15.35%) Coaching
16 131 (15.01%) Data Science
17 120 (13.75%) Machine Learning
18 119 (13.63%) Data Security
19 116 (13.29%) Platform Engineering
20 109 (12.49%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 271 (31.04%) SQL
2 200 (22.91%) Python
3 64 (7.33%) Java
4 33 (3.78%) T-SQL
5 26 (2.98%) R
6 19 (2.18%) Scala
7 16 (1.83%) Bash
8 12 (1.37%) Perl
9 10 (1.15%) C#
10 8 (0.92%) VBA
11 5 (0.57%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.57%) PHP
12 4 (0.46%) JavaScript
12 4 (0.46%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.34%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.34%) VB
13 3 (0.34%) X++
14 2 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.23%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 160 (18.33%) Degree
2 38 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (3.09%) Master's Degree
4 18 (2.06%) MBA
5 16 (1.83%) Numerate Degree
6 12 (1.37%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.26%) Security Cleared
8 10 (1.15%) SC Cleared
9 9 (1.03%) PhD
10 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.46%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.46%) MCP
11 4 (0.46%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.23%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.23%) ECDL
12 2 (0.23%) HND
13 1 (0.11%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.11%) CCA
13 1 (0.11%) CISM
13 1 (0.11%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (22.45%) GDPR
2 35 (4.01%) QA
3 29 (3.32%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.34%) GRC
6 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.23%) PMO
7 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.23%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (1.49%) Terraform
2 3 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 135 (15.46%) Google
2 118 (13.52%) Microsoft
3 96 (11.00%) Databricks
4 66 (7.56%) Informatica
5 64 (7.33%) Oracle
6 29 (3.32%) SAP
7 18 (2.06%) Alteryx
8 16 (1.83%) VMware
9 14 (1.60%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.26%) Talend
11 9 (1.03%) Computacenter
12 6 (0.69%) Jitterbit
13 4 (0.46%) Civica
13 4 (0.46%) Cloudera
13 4 (0.46%) Facebook
13 4 (0.46%) NEC
13 4 (0.46%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.34%) Adobe
14 3 (0.34%) TIBCO
15 2 (0.23%) Citrix