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 6 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 225 236
Rank change year-on-year +54 +11 +20
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 1,181 837 1,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.65% 1.57% 1.56%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.60% 10.59% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 627 621 1,150
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,520 £36,225
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £46,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,797 £83,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,793 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.68% +10.09% +9.00%

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 11,144 7,901 22,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.58% 14.79% 17.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,583 5,801 11,871
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,874 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,245 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.39% +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 6 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Top 18 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 6 December 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
England +44 1,057 £67,500 +3.85% 419
UK excluding London +69 571 £54,793 -8.68% 245
Work from Home +55 570 £66,199 +1.84% 237
London +20 563 £80,000 +6.67% 202
North of England +34 162 £54,897 -8.51% 81
North West +39 116 £55,250 -8.30% 47
South East +6 108 £60,000 -4.00% 41
South West +45 104 £50,000 -17.01% 27
Midlands +13 98 £60,000 +20.00% 56
Scotland +25 68 £42,500 -30.89% 23
West Midlands -9 61 £60,000 +144.90% 40
East Midlands -8 37 £50,000 -13.04% 16
Yorkshire +6 36 £49,274 -3.86% 24
East of England -49 16 £49,814 +10.70% 14
North East -36 10 £70,000 +55.56% 10
Wales +25 6 £66,199 -14.87% 6
Northern Ireland +21 6 £57,500 +9.52% 3
Channel Islands - 3 £55,000 - 1

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 93 (7.87%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (7.28%) Apache
3 44 (3.73%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.69%) SAS
5 16 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.68%) ArcGIS
6 8 (0.68%) Confluence
7 4 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
8 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.25%) Luigi
9 2 (0.17%) CMS
9 2 (0.17%) Smallworld
Applications
1 84 (7.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.34%) ProjectWise
5 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.085%) Simulink
7 1 (0.085%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 19 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.02%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.59%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.42%) iTrent
6 4 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 4 (0.34%) SAP PM
7 3 (0.25%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.25%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.25%) SAP MDM
8 2 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.17%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.17%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.17%) SystmOne
9 1 (0.085%) CA PPM
9 1 (0.085%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.085%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 254 (21.51%) Azure
2 247 (20.91%) Power Platform
3 216 (18.29%) AWS
4 190 (16.09%) GCP
5 162 (13.72%) Collibra
6 122 (10.33%) Snowflake
7 92 (7.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 71 (6.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 68 (5.76%) dbt
10 37 (3.13%) Amazon S3
11 32 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (2.46%) GitHub
13 17 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (1.35%) OCI
14 16 (1.35%) Serverless
15 15 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (1.27%) PowerApps
16 14 (1.19%) Alation
17 13 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
18 12 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 143 (12.11%) Broadband
2 5 (0.42%) 5G
3 4 (0.34%) DNS
4 3 (0.25%) Internet
5 1 (0.085%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (22.02%) Metadata
2 235 (19.90%) Power BI
3 227 (19.22%) Data Warehouse
4 166 (14.06%) BigQuery
5 143 (12.11%) Data Hub
6 127 (10.75%) Data Lake
7 95 (8.04%) Tableau
8 79 (6.69%) SQL Server
9 59 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 58 (4.91%) Apache Iceberg
11 57 (4.83%) Amazon Athena
12 54 (4.57%) Dremio
13 51 (4.32%) Apache Arrow
13 51 (4.32%) Apache Ignite
14 46 (3.90%) NoSQL
15 43 (3.64%) Big Data
16 41 (3.47%) Relational Database
17 40 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
18 32 (2.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 28 (2.37%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 27 (2.29%) Git
2 19 (1.61%) JIRA
3 12 (1.02%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.68%) RStudio
5 7 (0.59%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.59%) GitLab
6 6 (0.51%) Terragrunt
7 4 (0.34%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.34%) ERwin
8 3 (0.25%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.17%) JMeter
9 2 (0.17%) MagicDraw
9 2 (0.17%) Mocha
9 2 (0.17%) Selenium
9 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.17%) Subversion
10 1 (0.085%) MLflow
10 1 (0.085%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.085%) Spinnaker
General
1 459 (38.87%) Social Skills
2 409 (34.63%) Finance
3 385 (32.60%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (7.20%) Front Office
5 81 (6.86%) Banking
6 65 (5.50%) Investment Banking
7 61 (5.17%) Marketing
8 57 (4.83%) Law
9 48 (4.06%) Influencing Skills
10 45 (3.81%) Retail
11 33 (2.79%) Legal
12 29 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 29 (2.46%) Public Sector
13 26 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
14 22 (1.86%) Publishing
15 20 (1.69%) Advertising
16 18 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (1.02%) Telecoms
18 10 (0.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 360 (30.48%) Analyst
2 325 (27.52%) Senior
3 263 (22.27%) Data Analyst
4 168 (14.23%) Senior Analyst
5 166 (14.06%) Data Engineer
6 161 (13.63%) Lead
7 101 (8.55%) Data Manager
8 84 (7.11%) Architect
9 64 (5.42%) Data Architect
10 54 (4.57%) Senior Data Engineer
11 52 (4.40%) Developer
12 46 (3.90%) Analytics Manager
13 43 (3.64%) Consultant
14 37 (3.13%) Data Analytics Manager
15 34 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
15 34 (2.88%) Data Consultant
16 31 (2.62%) AWS Software Engineer
16 31 (2.62%) Software Engineer
17 28 (2.37%) Python Engineer
17 28 (2.37%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (5.93%) Pandas
2 56 (4.74%) NumPy
3 51 (4.32%) gRPC
3 51 (4.32%) Protocol Buffers
3 51 (4.32%) SciPy
4 42 (3.56%) Kafka
5 31 (2.62%) PySpark
6 13 (1.10%) RESTful
7 9 (0.76%) pytest
8 8 (0.68%) HTML
8 8 (0.68%) REST
9 7 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (0.59%) PyArrow
10 6 (0.51%) MIDP
10 6 (0.51%) XML
11 5 (0.42%) Lightning Web Components
11 5 (0.42%) scikit-learn
12 4 (0.34%) CSS
12 4 (0.34%) JSON
12 4 (0.34%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 143 (12.11%) Over-the-Top Content
2 84 (7.11%) Fixed Income
3 83 (7.03%) Hedge funds
4 77 (6.52%) Management Information System
5 67 (5.67%) Equities
6 64 (5.42%) Derivative
6 64 (5.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 50 (4.23%) Product Ownership
8 34 (2.88%) Data Structures
9 25 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
10 23 (1.95%) Reference Data
11 21 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (1.35%) Cloud Native
12 16 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.10%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.10%) Reinsurance
14 12 (1.02%) IoT
15 11 (0.93%) Algorithms
16 10 (0.85%) Driving Licence
16 10 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.35%) Windows
2 10 (0.85%) Unix
3 7 (0.59%) Linux
4 4 (0.34%) Windows Vista
5 1 (0.085%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.085%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (45.30%) Analytics
2 513 (43.44%) Data Governance
3 462 (39.12%) Data Management
4 363 (30.74%) Problem-Solving
5 308 (26.08%) Business Intelligence
6 269 (22.78%) Agile
7 268 (22.69%) Data Modelling
8 232 (19.64%) ETL
9 207 (17.53%) Data Transformation
10 204 (17.27%) Metadata Management
11 201 (17.02%) Data Architecture
12 192 (16.26%) Data Engineering
13 190 (16.09%) Customer Experience
13 190 (16.09%) Decision-Making
14 171 (14.48%) Data Lineage
15 164 (13.89%) Roadmaps
16 161 (13.63%) Data Strategy
17 156 (13.21%) Visualisation
18 145 (12.28%) Data Analysis
19 137 (11.60%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 412 (34.89%) SQL
2 309 (26.16%) Python
3 70 (5.93%) Java
4 60 (5.08%) JavaScript
5 51 (4.32%) TypeScript
6 39 (3.30%) T-SQL
7 33 (2.79%) R
8 18 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 17 (1.44%) VBA
10 16 (1.35%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.19%) C#
12 13 (1.10%) Scala
13 12 (1.02%) Bash
14 9 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.51%) PHP
16 4 (0.34%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.34%) Perl
17 3 (0.25%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.085%) MATLAB
18 1 (0.085%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 193 (16.34%) Degree
2 62 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (3.81%) Security Cleared
4 37 (3.13%) Master's Degree
5 31 (2.62%) SC Cleared
6 14 (1.19%) Azure Certification
7 7 (0.59%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.51%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.42%) PMP
10 3 (0.25%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.085%) ACCA
12 1 (0.085%) CAPM
12 1 (0.085%) CIMA
12 1 (0.085%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.085%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (5.33%) GDPR
2 43 (3.64%) QA
3 39 (3.30%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 10 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (0.76%) CDISC
6 9 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.59%) Good Clinical Practice
8 4 (0.34%) SLA
9 3 (0.25%) PMO
10 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.17%) PERC
11 1 (0.085%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 25 (2.12%) Docker
2 11 (0.93%) HDFS
3 4 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.61%) Terraform
3 2 (0.17%) Ansible
3 2 (0.17%) Argo
3 2 (0.17%) Grafana
3 2 (0.17%) Matomo
3 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 189 (16.00%) Informatica
2 188 (15.92%) Oracle
3 173 (14.65%) Microsoft
4 145 (12.28%) Cloudera
5 119 (10.08%) Databricks
6 49 (4.15%) SAP
7 47 (3.98%) Google
8 38 (3.22%) Salesforce
9 35 (2.96%) Bloomberg
10 12 (1.02%) BISAM
11 11 (0.93%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.59%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.51%) MicroStrategy
14 5 (0.42%) Duck Creek
14 5 (0.42%) Facebook
14 5 (0.42%) TIBCO
15 4 (0.34%) Alteryx
15 4 (0.34%) Palantir
15 4 (0.34%) QAD
15 4 (0.34%) VMware