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

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 206 248
Rank change year-on-year +26 +42 +33
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 878 1,446 1,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.70% 1.47% 1.49%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.96% 10.69% 7.71%
Number of salaries quoted 443 920 981
10th Percentile £41,800 £35,000 £38,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £75,500 £87,500 £80,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.80%

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 8,811 13,523 20,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.07% 13.78% 19.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,578 9,285 9,304
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,050 £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 £77,500
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% +5.26%

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 26 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 26 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 -6 746 £60,454 -10.44% 1,192
UK excluding London +65 562 £55,000 - 489
Work from Home +48 303 £57,500 -11.54% 545
London -36 256 £65,000 -16.13% 803
North of England -4 175 £55,000 -15.38% 123
South East +65 165 £65,000 +4.00% 158
North West +1 139 £50,000 -33.33% 96
Midlands +37 96 £55,000 +30.56% 68
West Midlands +43 69 £55,000 - 44
Scotland +126 65 £52,000 +0.97% 49
South West +68 32 £67,446 +17.30% 52
East Midlands +48 27 £48,500 +38.57% 21
Yorkshire +20 27 £57,500 +15.00% 17
Wales +40 11 £77,500 +72.22% 5
East of England +21 11 £73,000 +69.77% 30
North East +12 11 £70,000 +2.56% 10
Northern Ireland - 7 £30,000 - 17

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 (8.54%) SharePoint
2 53 (6.04%) Apache Spark
3 39 (4.44%) Apache
4 33 (3.76%) 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 (16.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.46%) ProjectWise
5 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.11%) Simulink
7 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 40 (4.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.91%) Primavera
4 6 (0.68%) 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
8 2 (0.23%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
9 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 261 (29.73%) Power Platform
2 236 (26.88%) Azure
3 129 (14.69%) AWS
4 74 (8.43%) Snowflake
5 66 (7.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 60 (6.83%) GCP
7 51 (5.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 47 (5.35%) PowerApps
9 43 (4.90%) Power Automate
10 39 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
11 34 (3.87%) Collibra
12 24 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
13 22 (2.51%) Amazon S3
13 22 (2.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 19 (2.16%) dbt
15 18 (2.05%) PaaS
16 17 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
17 16 (1.82%) Serverless
18 14 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.57%) 5G
2 2 (0.23%) Internet
3 1 (0.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (29.16%) Power BI
2 186 (21.18%) Data Warehouse
3 181 (20.62%) Tableau
4 121 (13.78%) Metadata
5 109 (12.41%) Data Lake
6 69 (7.86%) Big Data
7 54 (6.15%) SQL Server
8 51 (5.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 44 (5.01%) NoSQL
10 34 (3.87%) Relational Database
11 32 (3.64%) Hadoop
12 31 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
13 29 (3.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 27 (3.08%) BigQuery
15 24 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
16 19 (2.16%) Metadata Repository
17 15 (1.71%) Delta Lake
18 12 (1.37%) Data Mining
19 11 (1.25%) Apache Iceberg
19 11 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (5.01%) JIRA
2 13 (1.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 10 (1.14%) 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
1 325 (37.02%) Social Skills
2 297 (33.83%) Finance
3 229 (26.08%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (13.78%) Law
5 65 (7.40%) Marketing
6 42 (4.78%) Influencing Skills
7 40 (4.56%) Banking
8 36 (4.10%) Public Sector
9 34 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (3.08%) Retail
11 26 (2.96%) Legal
12 24 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (2.05%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.48%) Telecoms
16 12 (1.37%) Advertising
17 11 (1.25%) Local Government
17 11 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
18 10 (1.14%) Automotive
18 10 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 184 (20.96%) Analyst
2 143 (16.29%) Data Engineer
3 140 (15.95%) Lead
4 132 (15.03%) Senior
5 112 (12.76%) Data Analyst
6 72 (8.20%) Data Manager
7 60 (6.83%) Architect
8 54 (6.15%) Senior Data Engineer
9 37 (4.21%) Principal Engineer
10 32 (3.64%) Enterprise Architect
11 28 (3.19%) Administrator
12 26 (2.96%) Procurement Analyst
13 25 (2.85%) Financial Analyst
14 23 (2.62%) Data Architect
14 23 (2.62%) Senior Manager
14 23 (2.62%) Systems Analyst
15 22 (2.51%) Developer
16 21 (2.39%) Project Manager
16 21 (2.39%) Salesforce Architect
17 19 (2.16%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (4.10%) PySpark
2 32 (3.64%) REST
3 31 (3.53%) Middleware
4 27 (3.08%) Lightning Web Components
5 24 (2.73%) Kafka
5 24 (2.73%) SOAP
6 18 (2.05%) JSON
7 10 (1.14%) PyArrow
7 10 (1.14%) XML
8 8 (0.91%) Pandas
9 7 (0.80%) HTML
10 6 (0.68%) .NET
10 6 (0.68%) MIDP
11 5 (0.57%) CSS
11 5 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
11 5 (0.57%) scikit-learn
11 5 (0.57%) Visualforce
12 4 (0.46%) Dask
12 4 (0.46%) Polars
12 4 (0.46%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 102 (11.62%) Management Information System
2 35 (3.99%) Data Structures
3 26 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (2.73%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.51%) Reference Data
6 17 (1.94%) FMCG
7 12 (1.37%) Cloud Native
7 12 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 8 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (0.91%) IoT
9 8 (0.91%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (0.68%) Taxonomies
11 5 (0.57%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.57%) Equities
11 5 (0.57%) Self-Driving Car
12 4 (0.46%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.48%) 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
1 396 (45.10%) Data Management
2 389 (44.31%) Analytics
3 372 (42.37%) Data Governance
4 282 (32.12%) Business Intelligence
5 266 (30.30%) Data Modelling
6 208 (23.69%) Problem-Solving
7 201 (22.89%) Data Analysis
8 191 (21.75%) Data Engineering
8 191 (21.75%) Decision-Making
9 188 (21.41%) ETL
10 175 (19.93%) Visualisation
11 161 (18.34%) Agile
12 158 (18.00%) Data Analytics
13 145 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
13 145 (16.51%) Data Architecture
14 137 (15.60%) Data Science
15 135 (15.38%) Mentoring
16 134 (15.26%) Data Pipeline
16 134 (15.26%) Stakeholder Management
17 131 (14.92%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 327 (37.24%) SQL
2 200 (22.78%) Python
3 32 (3.64%) T-SQL
4 27 (3.08%) Apex Code
5 26 (2.96%) C#
6 21 (2.39%) R
7 20 (2.28%) JavaScript
7 20 (2.28%) Scala
8 19 (2.16%) PowerShell
9 18 (2.05%) Java
10 15 (1.71%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (0.80%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.23%) C++
13 2 (0.23%) Go
13 2 (0.23%) PHP
13 2 (0.23%) Ruby
13 2 (0.23%) SHACL
13 2 (0.23%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 258 (29.38%) Degree
2 62 (7.06%) Master's Degree
3 56 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 48 (5.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.87%) ACCA
5 34 (3.87%) CIMA
6 28 (3.19%) Security Cleared
7 25 (2.85%) Azure Certification
8 19 (2.16%) SC Cleared
9 16 (1.82%) CCAB
9 16 (1.82%) MBA
10 13 (1.48%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.68%) 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 78 (8.88%) GDPR
2 77 (8.77%) Accessibility
3 68 (7.74%) QA
4 20 (2.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 11 (1.25%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (1.14%) Good Clinical Practice
7 5 (0.57%) 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 18 (2.05%) HDFS
2 13 (1.48%) Docker
3 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.25%) Terraform
3 2 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.11%) Matomo
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 212 (24.15%) Microsoft
2 95 (10.82%) SAP
3 90 (10.25%) Databricks
4 56 (6.38%) Informatica
5 43 (4.90%) Salesforce
6 39 (4.44%) Google
7 38 (4.33%) ServiceNow
8 30 (3.42%) Oracle
9 21 (2.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 11 (1.25%) Capita
11 10 (1.14%) IBM
11 10 (1.14%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.80%) Cognos
12 7 (0.80%) Talend
13 6 (0.68%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.57%) Cloudera
14 5 (0.57%) Reuters
14 5 (0.57%) Teradata
15 4 (0.46%) Blue Prism
15 4 (0.46%) Xero