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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 128 145
Rank change year-on-year +52 +17 +9
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 162 41 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.80% 1.28% 1.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.49% 9.03% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 114 32 50
10th Percentile £32,150 - £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £29,000 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -26.09% +27.57%
75th Percentile £69,688 £54,125 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £63,725 £72,500
England median annual salary £63,750 £57,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +10.87% -25.81% +11.51%

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 831 454 860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.23% 14.20% 15.28%
Number of salaries quoted 567 282 431
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,580 £28,119
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,875 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,800 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% -5.14% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £66,574
90th Percentile £76,201 £77,450 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% -

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 15 October 2026.

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 15 October 2026. 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 +8 70 £68,724 +61.70% 17
Shropshire -1 23 £51,356 -26.63% 3
Staffordshire +16 16 £58,250 +28.02% 5
Worcestershire - 13 £60,000 - 2
Warwickshire -16 12 £42,500 -19.05% 5
Coventry - 6 £38,000 - 5
Solihull - 5 £30,500 - 3
Wolverhampton - 4 £61,250 -
Stourbridge - 1 £45,000 -
Dudley - 1 £45,000 - 2
Kingswinford - 1 £45,000 -
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 3 (1.85%) SAS
2 2 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.62%) Apache
3 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.62%) Confluence
3 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.85%) Navisworks
3 3 (1.85%) Revit
3 3 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.47%) Sage 50
2 3 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (28.40%) Azure
2 44 (27.16%) Power Platform
3 13 (8.02%) AWS
4 10 (6.17%) GCP
4 10 (6.17%) Microsoft Purview
5 7 (4.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.70%) Azure Databricks
7 5 (3.09%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (3.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.09%) PaaS
7 5 (3.09%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.47%) GitHub
8 4 (2.47%) Google Ads
8 4 (2.47%) Meta Ads
9 3 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.85%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (27.16%) Power BI
2 18 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (9.88%) Data Lake
3 16 (9.88%) Tableau
4 15 (9.26%) Relational Database
5 14 (8.64%) Metadata
5 14 (8.64%) Power Query
6 13 (8.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (6.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (6.17%) Star Schema
9 9 (5.56%) Delta Lake
10 8 (4.94%) Metadata Repository
11 6 (3.70%) RDBMS
12 5 (3.09%) Big Data
12 5 (3.09%) Data Mining
12 5 (3.09%) Oracle BI EE
12 5 (3.09%) QlikView
12 5 (3.09%) SQL Server
13 4 (2.47%) Parquet
14 3 (1.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (11.73%) Git
2 4 (2.47%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.23%) JIRA
4 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.23%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.62%) Browser DevTools
General
1 61 (37.65%) Analytical Skills
2 46 (28.40%) Social Skills
3 31 (19.14%) Finance
4 24 (14.81%) Public Sector
5 14 (8.64%) Legal
6 13 (8.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (6.17%) Fire and Rescue
8 9 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (4.94%) Marketing
10 5 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (3.09%) Retail
11 3 (1.85%) Billing
12 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.62%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.62%) Automotive
13 1 (0.62%) Games
13 1 (0.62%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (20.37%) Data Engineer
2 23 (14.20%) Architect
2 23 (14.20%) Data Architect
2 23 (14.20%) Lead
3 20 (12.35%) Analyst
4 16 (9.88%) Data Manager
4 16 (9.88%) Senior
5 11 (6.79%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 11 (6.79%) Senior Architect
5 11 (6.79%) Senior Data Architect
6 10 (6.17%) Team Leader
7 9 (5.56%) Data Governance Analyst
7 9 (5.56%) Data Governance Manager
7 9 (5.56%) Governance Manager
8 8 (4.94%) Data Analyst
9 7 (4.32%) Developer
9 7 (4.32%) Supply Chain Controller
10 6 (3.70%) Azure Architect
10 6 (3.70%) Azure Data Architect
10 6 (3.70%) Databricks Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.88%) PySpark
2 6 (3.70%) .NET
2 6 (3.70%) REST
3 5 (3.09%) PyTorch
3 5 (3.09%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.23%) GraphQL
4 2 (1.23%) JSON
4 2 (1.23%) RESTful
4 2 (1.23%) XML
5 1 (0.62%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.62%) Kafka
5 1 (0.62%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.62%) React
5 1 (0.62%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.79%) Data Protection Act
1 11 (6.79%) Management Information System
1 11 (6.79%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (6.17%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.94%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.94%) Taxonomies
4 7 (4.32%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.32%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.09%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.09%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.47%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.23%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.23%) PMI
8 2 (1.23%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.62%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (44.44%) Analytics
2 68 (41.98%) Decision-Making
3 65 (40.12%) Business Intelligence
4 60 (37.04%) Data Governance
5 59 (36.42%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (35.80%) Data Modelling
7 57 (35.19%) Data Management
8 41 (25.31%) AI
8 41 (25.31%) Data Architecture
9 38 (23.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (22.22%) Data Engineering
11 30 (18.52%) Agile
11 30 (18.52%) ETL
12 29 (17.90%) Roadmaps
13 27 (16.67%) Visualisation
14 25 (15.43%) Data Pipeline
15 24 (14.81%) CRM
15 24 (14.81%) Data Integration
15 24 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
16 23 (14.20%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 62 (38.27%) SQL
2 45 (27.78%) Python
3 17 (10.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (6.79%) R
5 10 (6.17%) Java
6 7 (4.32%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.85%) C#
8 2 (1.23%) C++
9 1 (0.62%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.62%) Bash
9 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.62%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (13.58%) Degree
2 6 (3.70%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.09%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.85%) CIPD
4 3 (1.85%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.23%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.62%) ACCA
6 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.62%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.67%) GDPR
2 7 (4.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 5 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (3.09%) QA
4 4 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.85%) ISO 19650
6 2 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.62%) PERC
7 1 (0.62%) PMO
Vendors
1 31 (19.14%) Microsoft
2 26 (16.05%) Databricks
3 7 (4.32%) Google
3 7 (4.32%) SAP
4 6 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.09%) Sage
6 4 (2.47%) Xero
7 3 (1.85%) Workday
8 2 (1.23%) Oracle
9 1 (0.62%) Denodo
9 1 (0.62%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.62%) IFS