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

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 208 251
Rank change year-on-year +20 +43 +26
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 795 1,337 1,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 1.44% 1.46%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.84% 10.28% 7.58%
Number of salaries quoted 423 857 1,003
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,500 £45,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +4.82%

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 8,083 13,004 21,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.99% 14.03% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,386 9,058 9,723
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,300 £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 £75,000 £70,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,250 £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 2 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 2 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 -11 666 £62,500 -3.85% 1,100
UK excluding London +54 487 £57,500 +4.55% 503
Work from Home +64 306 £62,500 - 543
London -52 252 £65,000 -13.33% 699
South East +46 132 £65,000 +4.00% 138
North of England -10 129 £59,123 -7.62% 147
Midlands +49 91 £57,500 +64.29% 66
North West -7 90 £52,500 -34.38% 103
Scotland +116 68 £52,000 -2.35% 37
West Midlands +22 68 £60,000 +71.43% 45
South West +68 40 £66,367 +32.73% 51
Yorkshire +27 30 £57,500 +15.00% 30
East Midlands +44 23 £48,500 +34.72% 20
Wales +42 12 £76,250 +69.44% 11
North East +6 11 £70,000 +9.38% 14
East of England +17 10 £86,500 +101.16% 39
Northern Ireland - 5 - - 18

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 55 (6.92%) Apache Spark
2 45 (5.66%) Apache
3 44 (5.53%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (3.90%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.26%) SAS
6 9 (1.13%) Luigi
7 7 (0.88%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.38%) Confluence
9 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 142 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.50%) ProjectWise
5 3 (0.38%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.13%) Simulink
7 1 (0.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.13%) Raiser’s Edge
3 7 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.63%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.50%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.38%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.25%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 240 (30.19%) Power Platform
2 216 (27.17%) Azure
3 122 (15.35%) AWS
4 65 (8.18%) Snowflake
5 62 (7.80%) Azure Data Factory
6 57 (7.17%) GCP
7 54 (6.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 35 (4.40%) PowerApps
9 27 (3.40%) Power Automate
10 24 (3.02%) dbt
11 23 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
12 22 (2.77%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 21 (2.64%) Amazon S3
14 19 (2.39%) Collibra
14 19 (2.39%) GitHub
15 17 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
16 15 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
16 15 (1.89%) Serverless
17 14 (1.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.63%) 5G
2 2 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (29.43%) Power BI
2 178 (22.39%) Data Warehouse
3 156 (19.62%) Tableau
4 98 (12.33%) Metadata
5 94 (11.82%) Data Lake
6 61 (7.67%) Big Data
7 53 (6.67%) SQL Server
8 48 (6.04%) NoSQL
9 41 (5.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 35 (4.40%) Hadoop
11 31 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
12 30 (3.77%) BigQuery
12 30 (3.77%) Relational Database
13 24 (3.02%) Metadata Repository
14 22 (2.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 21 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
16 15 (1.89%) Data Vault
16 15 (1.89%) Delta Lake
17 14 (1.76%) Apache Iceberg
17 14 (1.76%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 44 (5.53%) JIRA
2 13 (1.64%) Bitbucket
3 7 (0.88%) Git
4 6 (0.75%) ERwin
4 6 (0.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (0.75%) Terragrunt
5 4 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.50%) Rational Rhapsody
6 3 (0.38%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.25%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.25%) Selenium
8 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.13%) GitLab
8 1 (0.13%) JMeter
8 1 (0.13%) Mocha
8 1 (0.13%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 309 (38.87%) Social Skills
2 246 (30.94%) Finance
3 203 (25.53%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (11.07%) Law
5 55 (6.92%) Marketing
6 41 (5.16%) Banking
7 38 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
8 37 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
9 31 (3.90%) Public Sector
10 28 (3.52%) Retail
11 20 (2.52%) Legal
11 20 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.89%) Advertising
14 13 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.51%) Local Government
15 12 (1.51%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.26%) Automotive
17 8 (1.01%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 163 (20.50%) Analyst
2 151 (18.99%) Data Engineer
3 120 (15.09%) Senior
4 115 (14.47%) Data Analyst
5 111 (13.96%) Lead
6 72 (9.06%) Data Manager
7 62 (7.80%) Architect
8 61 (7.67%) Senior Data Engineer
9 35 (4.40%) Principal Engineer
10 33 (4.15%) Enterprise Architect
11 26 (3.27%) Procurement Analyst
12 24 (3.02%) Data Architect
13 21 (2.64%) Project Manager
13 21 (2.64%) Salesforce Architect
14 19 (2.39%) Developer
15 18 (2.26%) Consultant
16 16 (2.01%) Data Consultant
16 16 (2.01%) Data Quality Analyst
16 16 (2.01%) Lead Data Engineer
16 16 (2.01%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.15%) PySpark
2 31 (3.90%) REST
3 30 (3.77%) Middleware
4 27 (3.40%) Kafka
5 26 (3.27%) Lightning Web Components
6 23 (2.89%) SOAP
7 14 (1.76%) JSON
8 13 (1.64%) PyArrow
9 10 (1.26%) Pandas
10 8 (1.01%) CSS
11 7 (0.88%) HTML
11 7 (0.88%) XML
12 6 (0.75%) .NET
12 6 (0.75%) MIDP
12 6 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
13 5 (0.63%) scikit-learn
14 4 (0.50%) Dask
14 4 (0.50%) Polars
14 4 (0.50%) Visualforce
14 4 (0.50%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 70 (8.81%) Management Information System
2 28 (3.52%) Data Structures
2 28 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
3 27 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (2.77%) Product Ownership
5 18 (2.26%) Reference Data
6 17 (2.14%) FMCG
7 11 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.26%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.13%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.01%) IoT
10 8 (1.01%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.75%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (0.63%) Driving Licence
12 5 (0.63%) Equities
12 5 (0.63%) Self-Driving Car
13 4 (0.50%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.01%) Unix
2 10 (1.26%) Linux
3 6 (0.75%) Windows
4 3 (0.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (45.03%) Data Management
2 344 (43.27%) Analytics
3 343 (43.14%) Data Governance
4 258 (32.45%) Business Intelligence
5 252 (31.70%) Data Modelling
6 190 (23.90%) Data Engineering
7 179 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
8 178 (22.39%) ETL
9 175 (22.01%) Data Analysis
10 160 (20.13%) Decision-Making
11 157 (19.75%) Visualisation
12 152 (19.12%) Agile
13 141 (17.74%) Data Analytics
14 139 (17.48%) Data Science
15 135 (16.98%) Data Architecture
16 133 (16.73%) Data Pipeline
17 125 (15.72%) Mentoring
17 125 (15.72%) Stakeholder Management
18 124 (15.60%) Data Strategy
19 117 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 292 (36.73%) SQL
2 195 (24.53%) Python
3 26 (3.27%) Apex Code
3 26 (3.27%) C#
4 24 (3.02%) T-SQL
5 20 (2.52%) R
6 19 (2.39%) Java
6 19 (2.39%) PowerShell
7 16 (2.01%) JavaScript
7 16 (2.01%) Scala
8 14 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (1.51%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.88%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.25%) C++
11 2 (0.25%) Go
11 2 (0.25%) PHP
11 2 (0.25%) Ruby
11 2 (0.25%) SHACL
11 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 201 (25.28%) Degree
2 57 (7.17%) Master's Degree
3 49 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (2.77%) Azure Certification
5 16 (2.01%) Security Cleared
6 12 (1.51%) SC Cleared
7 11 (1.38%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.38%) MBA
8 7 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
9 6 (0.75%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.50%) PhD
12 3 (0.38%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.25%) PMP
14 1 (0.13%) ACCA
14 1 (0.13%) CIMA
14 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (7.67%) GDPR
2 59 (7.42%) Accessibility
2 59 (7.42%) QA
3 20 (2.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (1.38%) PCI DSS
4 11 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (1.26%) Good Clinical Practice
6 5 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.25%) CDISC
7 2 (0.25%) ITGC
8 1 (0.13%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.13%) EMIR
8 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS
8 1 (0.13%) MiFID
8 1 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (2.64%) HDFS
2 9 (1.13%) Docker
3 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (3.52%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.26%) Terraform
3 2 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.13%) Ansible
4 1 (0.13%) Argo
4 1 (0.13%) Matomo
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 187 (23.52%) Microsoft
2 94 (11.82%) Databricks
3 52 (6.54%) SAP
4 40 (5.03%) Salesforce
5 38 (4.78%) Informatica
6 33 (4.15%) Oracle
7 32 (4.03%) Google
7 32 (4.03%) ServiceNow
8 21 (2.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 13 (1.64%) Red Hat
10 11 (1.38%) Capita
11 7 (0.88%) Duck Creek
11 7 (0.88%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (0.75%) Cloudera
13 5 (0.63%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.63%) Reuters
13 5 (0.63%) Talend
13 5 (0.63%) Teradata
14 4 (0.50%) Cognos
14 4 (0.50%) NEC