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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 129 169
Rank change year-on-year +8 +40 -22
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 59 69 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.00% 1.76% 1.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.75% 9.56% 6.60%
Number of salaries quoted 52 53 39
10th Percentile £26,300 £42,500 £21,426
25th Percentile £38,125 £50,300 £28,479
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +71.43% -30.00%
75th Percentile £68,188 £68,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,625 £90,322 £90,000
England median annual salary £67,000 £64,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.69% -1.54% -

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 674 722 849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.48% 18.40% 15.70%
Number of salaries quoted 309 380 701
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,822 £27,000
25th Percentile £41,163 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £65,640 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,250 £76,250
England median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -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 16 February 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 16 February 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 +11 31 £57,500 -4.17% 22
Staffordshire -3 10 £26,000 -51.57%
Coventry -1 6 £67,500 +8.00% 3
Walsall - 3 £40,000 - 2
Worcestershire -16 2 £67,000 -39.09% 7
Wolverhampton - 2 £67,500 -
Shropshire -24 1 - - 7
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 4 (6.78%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.69%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (33.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (5.08%) SAP PP
3 2 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.69%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.69%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 22 (37.29%) Power Platform
2 11 (18.64%) Azure
3 9 (15.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.08%) Power Automate
6 3 (5.08%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.39%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (3.39%) AWS
7 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.39%) IaaS
7 2 (3.39%) PaaS
8 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.69%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.69%) dbt
8 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (37.29%) Power BI
2 14 (23.73%) Metadata
3 7 (11.86%) Power Query
4 4 (6.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (6.78%) Tableau
5 3 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.39%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.69%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.69%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.69%) Parquet
7 1 (1.69%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.69%) SAP BW
7 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Git
1 2 (3.39%) JIRA
1 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (20.34%) Finance
4 9 (15.25%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.47%) Manufacturing
5 5 (8.47%) Marketing
6 3 (5.08%) Legal
6 3 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Spanish Language
7 2 (3.39%) Banking
7 2 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Automotive
8 1 (1.69%) Back Office
8 1 (1.69%) Billing
8 1 (1.69%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.69%) Law
8 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (22.03%) Data Manager
2 11 (18.64%) Analyst
2 11 (18.64%) Senior
3 10 (16.95%) Data Governance Analyst
3 10 (16.95%) Data Governance Manager
3 10 (16.95%) Governance Manager
4 9 (15.25%) Data Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Data Analyst
5 6 (10.17%) Systems Support
6 5 (8.47%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 5 (8.47%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Business Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (6.78%) CRM Officer
7 4 (6.78%) Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Senior Manager
7 4 (6.78%) Support Officer
8 3 (5.08%) Data Quality Manager
8 3 (5.08%) Quality Manager
8 3 (5.08%) SAP Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.08%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (3.39%) .NET
2 2 (3.39%) PySpark
3 1 (1.69%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.69%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) FMCG
2 6 (10.17%) Pricing Data
3 5 (8.47%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (6.78%) Driving Licence
4 4 (6.78%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.78%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.78%) Reference Data
4 4 (6.78%) Web Conferencing
5 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.69%) Linked Data
6 1 (1.69%) NHS
6 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.69%) Replication
6 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (49.15%) Analytics
2 27 (45.76%) Business Intelligence
3 26 (44.07%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (42.37%) Decision-Making
5 19 (32.20%) Data Governance
6 17 (28.81%) Data Management
7 15 (25.42%) Data Modelling
8 13 (22.03%) Metadata Management
9 12 (20.34%) ETL
10 11 (18.64%) CRM
10 11 (18.64%) Data Strategy
10 11 (18.64%) ERP
11 10 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (16.95%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 9 (15.25%) Collaborative Working
12 9 (15.25%) Data Analysis
13 8 (13.56%) Data Cleansing
13 8 (13.56%) Data Engineering
13 8 (13.56%) Data Pipeline
13 8 (13.56%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (47.46%) SQL
2 12 (20.34%) Python
3 4 (6.78%) Scala
4 3 (5.08%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.39%) Bicep
5 2 (3.39%) C#
5 2 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) Degree
2 1 (1.69%) CISA
2 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) GDPR
2 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) Terraform
2 1 (1.69%) Control-M
2 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.56%) SAP
3 4 (6.78%) Databricks
4 2 (3.39%) Adobe
4 2 (3.39%) Civica
4 2 (3.39%) HubSpot
4 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.39%) Talend
5 1 (1.69%) Adaptive Insights
5 1 (1.69%) BMC
5 1 (1.69%) Denodo
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle