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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 111 168
Rank change year-on-year +21 +57 -43
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 112 60 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.44% 1.98% 1.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.38% 10.54% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 86 52 60
10th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,104 £44,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -8.70% +11.49%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,125 £72,625
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £74,290
% change year-on-year +4.17% -19.24% +10.06%

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 728 569 1,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.39% 18.79% 13.98%
Number of salaries quoted 468 355 845
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,875 £34,089
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,068 £52,387 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -0.22% -
75th Percentile £67,250 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,765 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.17% +9.52% -8.70%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 54 £65,000 +10.70% 15
Worcestershire -2 15 £65,000 -40.91% 1
Warwickshire -10 7 £42,500 -19.05% 6
Shropshire -14 7 £46,428 -33.67% 7
Staffordshire -9 6 £43,000 -17.06% 6
Solihull +12 5 £30,500 -41.90% 4
Walsall +4 3 £44,000 +4.76%
Wolverhampton - 3 £67,500 - 2
Coventry - 1 £54,150 - 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 7 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 10 (8.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (8.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (3.57%) Sage 50
4 2 (1.79%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 29 (25.89%) Power Platform
2 25 (22.32%) Azure
3 14 (12.50%) AWS
4 12 (10.71%) GCP
5 10 (8.93%) Power Automate
6 9 (8.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (8.04%) Microsoft Purview
6 9 (8.04%) Snowflake
7 6 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (4.46%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.68%) dbt
10 2 (1.79%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.79%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.79%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (1.79%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.79%) Google Ads
10 2 (1.79%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (1.79%) IaaS
10 2 (1.79%) Meta Ads
10 2 (1.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (25.89%) Power BI
2 8 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 8 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (6.25%) Metadata
3 7 (6.25%) Tableau
4 5 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.57%) Power Query
5 4 (3.57%) Star Schema
6 3 (2.68%) MySQL
6 3 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.68%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.79%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.79%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.79%) Looker
8 1 (0.89%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.46%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (2.68%) JIRA
3 2 (1.79%) Git
3 2 (1.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 31 (27.68%) Finance
2 30 (26.79%) Social Skills
3 19 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (9.82%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.68%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.79%) Legal
7 2 (1.79%) Marketing
7 2 (1.79%) Retail
8 1 (0.89%) Automotive
8 1 (0.89%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.89%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.89%) Games
8 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (24.11%) Data Manager
2 18 (16.07%) Architect
2 18 (16.07%) Data Architect
3 15 (13.39%) Data Quality Manager
3 15 (13.39%) Quality Manager
4 13 (11.61%) Analyst
4 13 (11.61%) Data Governance Analyst
4 13 (11.61%) Data Governance Manager
4 13 (11.61%) Governance Manager
5 12 (10.71%) Developer
5 12 (10.71%) Senior
6 10 (8.93%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Business Developer
7 6 (5.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (5.36%) Data Analyst
7 6 (5.36%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 5 (4.46%) CRM Developer
8 5 (4.46%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
8 5 (4.46%) Supply Chain Controller
9 4 (3.57%) Associate Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.36%) .NET
2 5 (4.46%) PySpark
3 4 (3.57%) REST
4 2 (1.79%) RESTful
4 2 (1.79%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.89%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.04%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 6 (5.36%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.46%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.79%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.89%) CMDB
8 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.89%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.89%) Linked Data
8 1 (0.89%) Replication
8 1 (0.89%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (40.18%) Analytics
2 44 (39.29%) Data Governance
3 37 (33.04%) Business Intelligence
4 36 (32.14%) AI
4 36 (32.14%) Data Modelling
5 35 (31.25%) Decision-Making
6 31 (27.68%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (22.32%) Data Management
8 24 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (16.96%) Data Architecture
9 19 (16.96%) Roadmaps
10 16 (14.29%) CRM
11 15 (13.39%) Data Strategy
11 15 (13.39%) ETL
12 14 (12.50%) Data Engineering
12 14 (12.50%) ERP
13 13 (11.61%) Data Visualisation
13 13 (11.61%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 13 (11.61%) Visualisation
14 12 (10.71%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 32 (28.57%) SQL
2 17 (15.18%) Python
3 6 (5.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (5.36%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.57%) R
5 3 (2.68%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.79%) Java
7 1 (0.89%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.89%) C#
7 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (11.61%) Degree
2 3 (2.68%) ACCA
2 3 (2.68%) CIMA
2 3 (2.68%) CIPD
3 2 (1.79%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.79%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.89%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.82%) GDPR
2 7 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (2.68%) QA
4 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.89%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.89%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (0.89%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (12.50%) SAP
2 13 (11.61%) Databricks
2 13 (11.61%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.46%) Sage
4 4 (3.57%) Google
4 4 (3.57%) Xero
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle
5 1 (0.89%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.89%) Workday