Data Quality Job Trends in the West Midlands

Data Quality
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 159 147
Rank change year-on-year +41 -12 +13
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 50 55 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.42% 1.01% 0.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.09% 6.82% 6.41%
Number of salaries quoted 40 39 25
10th Percentile £28,850 £34,000 -
25th Percentile £31,625 £38,752 £21,426
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £57,500 £41,150
Median % change year-on-year -22.61% +39.73% -20.10%
75th Percentile £67,813 £67,075 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,125 £72,500 £68,250
England median annual salary £60,591 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -19.21% +11.11% +12.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 451 806 499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.85% 14.84% 14.64%
Number of salaries quoted 289 388 406
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,119 £27,150
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,625 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £79,125 £80,625
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Quality relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Data Quality job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Data Quality
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in the West Midlands

Data Quality
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
Birmingham +20 25 £42,500 -32.00% 34
Staffordshire +15 13 £45,000 -21.74% 10
Coventry +10 4 £67,500 +35.00% 3
Walsall - 4 £42,500 -
Warwickshire +51 3 £30,000 -33.33% 7
Shropshire -7 1 £70,000 +47.37% 5
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.00%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (34.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.00%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 15 (30.00%) Azure
3 5 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (10.00%) Snowflake
4 4 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.00%) AWS
6 2 (4.00%) GCP
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.00%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.00%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.00%) ChatGPT
7 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.00%) GitHub
7 1 (2.00%) IaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (40.00%) Power BI
2 14 (28.00%) Metadata
3 7 (14.00%) Tableau
4 6 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (12.00%) Power Query
5 4 (8.00%) BigQuery
6 3 (6.00%) Data Lake
6 3 (6.00%) Data Mining
6 3 (6.00%) Relational Database
6 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (4.00%) Big Data
7 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (2.00%) HBase
8 1 (2.00%) Impala
8 1 (2.00%) Neo4j
8 1 (2.00%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (2.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) ERwin
1 1 (2.00%) Git
1 1 (2.00%) JIRA
1 1 (2.00%) JUnit
1 1 (2.00%) Selenium
1 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (2.00%) TestComplete
General
1 19 (38.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Marketing
4 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.00%) Banking
5 2 (4.00%) Legal
5 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Back Office
6 1 (2.00%) Billing
6 1 (2.00%) Law
6 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.00%) Retail
6 1 (2.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Analyst
2 7 (14.00%) Data Manager
3 6 (12.00%) Data Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Data Governance Analyst
3 6 (12.00%) Data Governance Manager
3 6 (12.00%) Governance Manager
3 6 (12.00%) Systems Support
4 5 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) Data Modeller
5 4 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Business Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Data Quality Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Quality Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Senior
7 2 (4.00%) Analyst Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Coordinator
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) PySpark
2 1 (2.00%) .NET
2 1 (2.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (2.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.00%) Kafka
2 1 (2.00%) NumPy
2 1 (2.00%) Pandas
2 1 (2.00%) Plotly
2 1 (2.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.00%) Regular Expression
2 1 (2.00%) Shiny
2 1 (2.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) FMCG
2 6 (12.00%) Pricing Data
3 5 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (8.00%) Reference Data
5 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.00%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.00%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.00%) NHS
6 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.00%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Unix
1 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.00%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (42.00%) Analytics
2 21 (42.00%) Decision-Making
3 20 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (32.00%) Data Governance
4 16 (32.00%) Data Modelling
5 15 (30.00%) Data Management
6 13 (26.00%) ETL
6 13 (26.00%) Metadata Management
7 11 (22.00%) Visualisation
8 10 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
9 9 (18.00%) Data Cleansing
9 9 (18.00%) Master Data Management
10 8 (16.00%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (16.00%) Data Analysis
10 8 (16.00%) Data Strategy
10 8 (16.00%) Data Visualisation
10 8 (16.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 7 (14.00%) Data Analytics
11 7 (14.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 26 (52.00%) SQL
2 14 (28.00%) Python
3 6 (12.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (8.00%) T-SQL
5 3 (6.00%) R
6 2 (4.00%) C#
7 1 (2.00%) Bash
7 1 (2.00%) Bicep
7 1 (2.00%) Java
7 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.00%) PROC SQL
7 1 (2.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.00%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) GDPR
2 3 (6.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (2.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Kibana
1 1 (2.00%) logstash
1 1 (2.00%) Oozie
1 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (24.00%) Databricks
3 3 (6.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.00%) SAP
4 2 (4.00%) Adobe
4 2 (4.00%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.00%) Adaptive Insights
5 1 (2.00%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.00%) Informatica
5 1 (2.00%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (2.00%) OpenAI