Data Quality
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 227 237 253
Rank change year-on-year +10 +16 +95
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 803 1,924 1,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.54% 1.57% 1.47%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.40% 8.85% 9.39%
Number of salaries quoted 597 1,141 1,323
10th Percentile £39,512 £36,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £52,250 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,797 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,125 £53,705 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.95% +7.41% +5.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,723 21,738 19,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.77% 17.78% 15.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5,686 11,782 12,692
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -3.06%

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 10 December 2023.

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 10 December 2023. 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 +14 728 £65,000 +8.33% 385
London +58 423 £75,000 +8.70% 215
Work from Home +71 411 £65,000 +8.33% 181
UK excluding London -29 315 £60,125 +11.95% 185
North of England +29 85 £60,000 +9.09% 48
South East +22 68 £62,500 +4.17% 62
South West +38 57 £60,249 +26.84% 15
Yorkshire +63 48 £50,000 -9.09% 13
Midlands +2 47 £50,000 -1.86% 26
Scotland +30 41 £61,500 +23.00% 13
North West +9 28 £60,859 +5.84% 31
West Midlands +5 28 £24,500 -51.00% 10
East Midlands +43 19 £57,500 - 16
East of England +87 11 £45,000 -18.18% 23
North East +41 9 £45,000 -18.18% 4
Northern Ireland +37 5 £70,000 +100.00%
Wales +3 3 £77,762 +88.51% 4

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 43 (5.35%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.49%) Confluence
3 20 (2.49%) SAS
4 13 (1.62%) Apache
5 11 (1.37%) Oracle Application Server
6 5 (0.62%) IBM HTTP Server
6 5 (0.62%) Luigi
7 2 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.25%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.25%) Appian
7 2 (0.25%) CMS
7 2 (0.25%) IIS
7 2 (0.25%) JBoss
7 2 (0.25%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 59 (7.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.12%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.25%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.75%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.50%) HFM
4 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.37%) SAP GTS
5 3 (0.37%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.25%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.25%) FastStats
6 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.12%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 261 (32.50%) Azure
2 236 (29.39%) Power Platform
3 127 (15.82%) AWS
4 93 (11.58%) GCP
5 60 (7.47%) Azure DevOps
6 56 (6.97%) Azure Data Factory
7 47 (5.85%) Snowflake
8 41 (5.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (3.24%) GitHub
10 24 (2.99%) SaaS
11 22 (2.74%) Google Analytics
12 20 (2.49%) Collibra
12 20 (2.49%) PowerApps
13 19 (2.37%) Serverless
14 15 (1.87%) Amazon S3
14 15 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (1.62%) Amazon Kinesis
15 13 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
16 12 (1.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.87%) DNS
2 3 (0.37%) DHCP
2 3 (0.37%) DMZ
2 3 (0.37%) VPN
3 1 (0.12%) Broadband
3 1 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (29.02%) Power BI
2 190 (23.66%) Data Warehouse
3 115 (14.32%) Tableau
4 110 (13.70%) Metadata
5 89 (11.08%) SQL Server
6 83 (10.34%) Data Lake
7 59 (7.35%) Big Data
8 45 (5.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 40 (4.98%) BigQuery
9 40 (4.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 39 (4.86%) Hadoop
10 39 (4.86%) Relational Database
11 25 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
11 25 (3.11%) NoSQL
12 24 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 24 (2.99%) Star Schema
13 22 (2.74%) Delta Lake
14 20 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
15 19 (2.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 18 (2.24%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 47 (5.85%) JIRA
2 27 (3.36%) Git
3 25 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.74%) ERwin
5 12 (1.49%) SonarQube
6 9 (1.12%) Selenium
6 9 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 8 (1.00%) Visual Studio
8 7 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.62%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (0.62%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.62%) IBM UrbanCode
9 5 (0.62%) Mocha
9 5 (0.62%) Subversion
9 5 (0.62%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.50%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.37%) Maven
11 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio Team System
12 2 (0.25%) Moq
General
1 260 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 238 (29.64%) Finance
3 193 (24.03%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (10.21%) Banking
5 58 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (6.60%) Marketing
7 47 (5.85%) Presentation Skills
8 46 (5.73%) Public Sector
9 45 (5.60%) Local Government
10 35 (4.36%) Retail
11 33 (4.11%) Legal
12 23 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (2.37%) Law
14 15 (1.87%) Advertising
14 15 (1.87%) Publishing
15 14 (1.74%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.25%) Manufacturing
17 9 (1.12%) Retail Finance
17 9 (1.12%) Telecoms
18 8 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 211 (26.28%) Analyst
2 142 (17.68%) Data Engineer
3 129 (16.06%) Data Analyst
4 103 (12.83%) Senior
5 80 (9.96%) Lead
6 66 (8.22%) Architect
7 51 (6.35%) Consultant
8 48 (5.98%) Data Architect
8 48 (5.98%) Data Manager
9 41 (5.11%) Developer
10 39 (4.86%) Data Consultant
10 39 (4.86%) Operations Analyst
10 39 (4.86%) Senior Data Engineer
11 34 (4.23%) Digital Analyst
12 31 (3.86%) Business Analyst
13 26 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
14 25 (3.11%) Azure Data Engineer
14 25 (3.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 24 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
16 22 (2.74%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (3.49%) JSON
2 25 (3.11%) REST
3 24 (2.99%) PySpark
4 23 (2.86%) HTML
5 14 (1.74%) Middleware
6 12 (1.49%) .NET
6 12 (1.49%) XML
7 11 (1.37%) Kafka
8 9 (1.12%) Pandas
8 9 (1.12%) Velocity
9 6 (0.75%) SOAP
10 5 (0.62%) ActiveMQ
10 5 (0.62%) CSS
10 5 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (0.50%) ASP.NET
11 4 (0.50%) EDI
11 4 (0.50%) SQLAlchemy
12 3 (0.37%) NumPy
12 3 (0.37%) OAuth
12 3 (0.37%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 84 (10.46%) Management Information System
2 28 (3.49%) Data Structures
3 23 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
4 20 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (2.37%) Data Fabric
5 19 (2.37%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.24%) Algorithms
6 18 (2.24%) Reinsurance
7 17 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.74%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.74%) Public Cloud
8 14 (1.74%) Reference Data
9 11 (1.37%) Digital Media
9 11 (1.37%) IoT
10 7 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (0.87%) NHS
10 7 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.49%) Windows
2 9 (1.12%) Linux
3 6 (0.75%) Unix
4 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (39.85%) Business Intelligence
2 312 (38.85%) Analytics
3 258 (32.13%) Data Modelling
4 249 (31.01%) Agile
5 237 (29.51%) Data Governance
6 226 (28.14%) Data Management
7 225 (28.02%) ETL
8 187 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
9 169 (21.05%) Visualisation
10 168 (20.92%) Data Analysis
11 134 (16.69%) Decision-Making
12 125 (15.57%) Data Visualisation
13 118 (14.69%) Data Integration
13 118 (14.69%) DevOps
14 117 (14.57%) Data Science
15 113 (14.07%) Migration
16 107 (13.33%) Roadmaps
17 102 (12.70%) Artificial Intelligence
17 102 (12.70%) Data Engineering
18 97 (12.08%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 365 (45.45%) SQL
2 214 (26.65%) Python
3 59 (7.35%) T-SQL
4 50 (6.23%) R
5 26 (3.24%) C#
6 24 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 21 (2.62%) Java
8 18 (2.24%) VBA
9 17 (2.12%) JavaScript
10 15 (1.87%) Bash
11 14 (1.74%) Scala
12 13 (1.62%) PowerShell
13 12 (1.49%) PHP
14 9 (1.12%) C
15 6 (0.75%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.62%) Perl
16 5 (0.62%) SOQL
17 4 (0.50%) C++
17 4 (0.50%) TypeScript
17 4 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 119 (14.82%) Degree
2 42 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 42 (5.23%) Security Cleared
3 41 (5.11%) SC Cleared
4 19 (2.37%) Master's Degree
5 16 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.50%) CISSP
7 4 (0.50%) HND
7 4 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (0.50%) Postgraduate
8 3 (0.37%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.37%) CISM
8 3 (0.37%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.37%) PMP
9 2 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.25%) MCP
9 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.12%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.85%) GDPR
2 45 (5.60%) QA
3 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.37%) PMO
5 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.12%) COBIT
6 1 (0.12%) COSHH
6 1 (0.12%) GRC
6 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.12%) NIST
6 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (1.62%) Docker
2 5 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (1.87%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.87%) Kibana
2 7 (0.87%) Prometheus
3 6 (0.75%) Puppet
4 5 (0.62%) Nagios
5 2 (0.25%) Grafana
5 2 (0.25%) Terraform
6 1 (0.12%) Ansible
Vendors
1 149 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 74 (9.22%) Oracle
3 72 (8.97%) Databricks
4 66 (8.22%) Informatica
5 62 (7.72%) Google
6 44 (5.48%) SAP
7 34 (4.23%) Capita
8 30 (3.74%) IBM
8 30 (3.74%) Salesforce
9 25 (3.11%) Talend
10 17 (2.12%) Alteryx
11 8 (1.00%) Adobe
12 6 (0.75%) Splunk
12 6 (0.75%) VMware
13 5 (0.62%) Computacenter
13 5 (0.62%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.62%) GoldenSource
13 5 (0.62%) New Relic
13 5 (0.62%) Veracode
14 4 (0.50%) Anaplan