Data Quality Jobs

Data Quality
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 204 246
Rank change year-on-year +22 +42 +36
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 875 1,463 1,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.68% 1.49% 1.49%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.89% 10.80% 7.75%
Number of salaries quoted 441 924 968
10th Percentile £41,750 £35,000 £38,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.77%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 8,850 13,541 19,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.97% 13.77% 19.19%
Number of salaries quoted 4,598 9,268 9,195
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +5.04%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Quality.

Salary trend for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 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
England -4 746 £60,250 -10.74% 707
UK excluding London +50 559 £55,000 - 322
Work from Home +59 300 £57,500 -11.54% 368
London -36 258 £65,000 -16.13% 417
North of England -8 175 £55,000 -15.38% 89
South East +60 164 £65,000 +4.00% 99
North West -5 139 £50,000 -33.33% 65
Midlands +26 95 £55,000 +30.56% 46
West Midlands +24 68 £55,000 - 33
Scotland +124 65 £52,000 +4.00% 22
South West +66 32 £67,446 +14.56% 33
East Midlands +38 27 £48,500 +38.57% 13
Yorkshire +20 27 £57,500 +15.00% 16
East of England +16 11 £73,000 +69.77% 18
North East +12 11 £70,000 +2.56% 8
Wales +35 10 £78,750 +75.00% 5
Northern Ireland - 7 £30,000 - 13

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 75 (8.57%) SharePoint
2 52 (5.94%) Apache Spark
3 38 (4.34%) Apache
4 32 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.03%) Luigi
6 8 (0.91%) SAS
7 7 (0.80%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.23%) CMS
8 2 (0.23%) Confluence
9 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 141 (16.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.46%) ProjectWise
5 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.11%) Simulink
7 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 39 (4.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.91%) Primavera
4 6 (0.69%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.57%) Markit EDM
5 5 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.34%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.34%) Q-Pulse
8 2 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 260 (29.71%) Power Platform
2 236 (26.97%) Azure
3 128 (14.63%) AWS
4 73 (8.34%) Snowflake
5 67 (7.66%) Azure Data Factory
6 59 (6.74%) GCP
7 50 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 47 (5.37%) PowerApps
9 43 (4.91%) Power Automate
10 39 (4.46%) Microsoft Purview
11 34 (3.89%) Collibra
12 25 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
14 22 (2.51%) Amazon S3
14 22 (2.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 19 (2.17%) dbt
16 18 (2.06%) PaaS
17 17 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
18 16 (1.83%) Serverless
19 14 (1.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.46%) 5G
2 2 (0.23%) Internet
3 1 (0.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 255 (29.14%) Power BI
2 184 (21.03%) Data Warehouse
3 181 (20.69%) Tableau
4 118 (13.49%) Metadata
5 107 (12.23%) Data Lake
6 68 (7.77%) Big Data
7 55 (6.29%) SQL Server
8 52 (5.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 43 (4.91%) NoSQL
10 34 (3.89%) Relational Database
11 31 (3.54%) Hadoop
12 30 (3.43%) Amazon Redshift
13 29 (3.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 26 (2.97%) BigQuery
15 24 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
16 18 (2.06%) Metadata Repository
17 14 (1.60%) Delta Lake
18 12 (1.37%) Data Mining
19 11 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
20 10 (1.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 44 (5.03%) JIRA
2 13 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 9 (1.03%) Bitbucket
4 7 (0.80%) Git
5 5 (0.57%) ERwin
6 4 (0.46%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.46%) Rational Rhapsody
7 3 (0.34%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.23%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.23%) Selenium
8 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.11%) GitLab
9 1 (0.11%) JMeter
9 1 (0.11%) Mocha
General
1 324 (37.03%) Social Skills
2 296 (33.83%) Finance
3 228 (26.06%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (13.60%) Law
5 65 (7.43%) Marketing
6 42 (4.80%) Influencing Skills
7 40 (4.57%) Banking
8 35 (4.00%) Public Sector
9 33 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (2.97%) Legal
10 26 (2.97%) Retail
11 25 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (2.06%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.37%) Advertising
16 11 (1.26%) Local Government
16 11 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (1.14%) Automotive
18 9 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 186 (21.26%) Analyst
2 143 (16.34%) Data Engineer
3 139 (15.89%) Lead
4 130 (14.86%) Senior
5 114 (13.03%) Data Analyst
6 71 (8.11%) Data Manager
7 59 (6.74%) Architect
8 53 (6.06%) Senior Data Engineer
9 37 (4.23%) Principal Engineer
10 32 (3.66%) Enterprise Architect
11 28 (3.20%) Administrator
12 26 (2.97%) Procurement Analyst
13 25 (2.86%) Financial Analyst
14 23 (2.63%) Senior Manager
14 23 (2.63%) Systems Analyst
15 22 (2.51%) Data Architect
15 22 (2.51%) Developer
16 21 (2.40%) Project Manager
16 21 (2.40%) Salesforce Architect
17 18 (2.06%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (4.11%) PySpark
2 32 (3.66%) REST
3 31 (3.54%) Middleware
4 27 (3.09%) Lightning Web Components
5 24 (2.74%) SOAP
6 23 (2.63%) Kafka
7 19 (2.17%) JSON
8 12 (1.37%) XML
9 9 (1.03%) PyArrow
10 8 (0.91%) Pandas
11 7 (0.80%) HTML
12 6 (0.69%) .NET
12 6 (0.69%) MIDP
13 5 (0.57%) CSS
13 5 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
13 5 (0.57%) scikit-learn
13 5 (0.57%) Visualforce
14 4 (0.46%) Dask
14 4 (0.46%) Polars
14 4 (0.46%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 103 (11.77%) Management Information System
2 35 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 26 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (2.74%) Product Ownership
5 23 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (2.51%) Reference Data
7 17 (1.94%) FMCG
8 12 (1.37%) Cloud Native
8 12 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.03%) Onboarding
10 8 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (0.80%) IoT
11 7 (0.80%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.69%) Taxonomies
13 5 (0.57%) Driving Licence
13 5 (0.57%) Equities
14 4 (0.46%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.46%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.37%) Unix
2 9 (1.03%) Linux
3 5 (0.57%) Windows
4 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (45.03%) Data Management
2 390 (44.57%) Analytics
3 367 (41.94%) Data Governance
4 281 (32.11%) Business Intelligence
5 266 (30.40%) Data Modelling
6 208 (23.77%) Problem-Solving
7 203 (23.20%) Data Analysis
8 193 (22.06%) Decision-Making
9 190 (21.71%) Data Engineering
10 185 (21.14%) ETL
11 177 (20.23%) Visualisation
12 163 (18.63%) Agile
13 159 (18.17%) Data Analytics
14 146 (16.69%) Continuous Improvement
15 142 (16.23%) Data Architecture
16 135 (15.43%) Mentoring
17 134 (15.31%) Data Science
18 133 (15.20%) Stakeholder Management
19 132 (15.09%) Data Pipeline
20 130 (14.86%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 328 (37.49%) SQL
2 201 (22.97%) Python
3 33 (3.77%) T-SQL
4 27 (3.09%) Apex Code
5 26 (2.97%) C#
6 21 (2.40%) JavaScript
6 21 (2.40%) R
7 20 (2.29%) Scala
8 19 (2.17%) PowerShell
9 18 (2.06%) Java
10 14 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (1.60%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.80%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.23%) C++
12 2 (0.23%) Go
12 2 (0.23%) PHP
12 2 (0.23%) Ruby
12 2 (0.23%) SHACL
12 2 (0.23%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 258 (29.49%) Degree
2 61 (6.97%) Master's Degree
3 55 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 48 (5.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.77%) ACCA
5 33 (3.77%) CIMA
6 29 (3.31%) Security Cleared
7 25 (2.86%) Azure Certification
8 20 (2.29%) SC Cleared
9 16 (1.83%) CCAB
9 16 (1.83%) MBA
10 13 (1.49%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.69%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.57%) PhD
13 5 (0.57%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.46%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.46%) PMP
15 2 (0.23%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (8.80%) GDPR
2 76 (8.69%) Accessibility
3 67 (7.66%) QA
4 19 (2.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 11 (1.26%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (1.14%) Good Clinical Practice
7 6 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.23%) ITGC
10 1 (0.11%) COBIT
10 1 (0.11%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.11%) EMIR
10 1 (0.11%) GRC
10 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.11%) IFRS
10 1 (0.11%) MiFID
10 1 (0.11%) PMO
10 1 (0.11%) SLA
10 1 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (1.83%) HDFS
2 13 (1.49%) Docker
3 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.37%) Terraform
3 2 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.11%) Matomo
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 212 (24.23%) Microsoft
2 94 (10.74%) SAP
3 88 (10.06%) Databricks
4 56 (6.40%) Informatica
5 44 (5.03%) Salesforce
6 38 (4.34%) Google
6 38 (4.34%) ServiceNow
7 29 (3.31%) Oracle
8 21 (2.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 11 (1.26%) Capita
10 10 (1.14%) IBM
11 9 (1.03%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.80%) Cognos
12 7 (0.80%) Talend
13 6 (0.69%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.57%) Cloudera
14 5 (0.57%) Reuters
15 4 (0.46%) Blue Prism
15 4 (0.46%) Teradata
15 4 (0.46%) Xero