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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 115 159
Rank change year-on-year +27 +44 -30
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 118 54 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.45% 1.60% 1.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.01% 9.63% 8.17%
Number of salaries quoted 89 46 58
10th Percentile £40,350 £41,250 £35,155
25th Percentile £46,104 £44,000 £42,378
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% -10.87% +9.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,688 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,625 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -20.00% +11.11%

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 737 561 1,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.05% 16.61% 14.53%
Number of salaries quoted 479 357 704
10th Percentile £30,580 £30,580 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,600 £51,400 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% -3.93% +1.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,750 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -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 23 July 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 23 July 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 52 £67,000 +48.89% 12
Worcestershire -2 15 £65,000 -21.21% 2
Shropshire -9 12 £51,356 -26.63% 6
Staffordshire -1 11 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Warwickshire -7 7 £42,500 -19.05% 12
Solihull +14 6 £30,500 -39.00% 6
Walsall +4 3 £44,000 +3.53% 1
Wolverhampton - 2 £60,000 -
Coventry - 1 £54,150 - 1
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 6 (5.08%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (10.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (5.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (3.39%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 34 (28.81%) Power Platform
2 29 (24.58%) Azure
3 15 (12.71%) AWS
4 13 (11.02%) GCP
5 10 (8.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (8.47%) Power Automate
5 10 (8.47%) Snowflake
6 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (4.24%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.54%) dbt
9 3 (2.54%) Google Ads
9 3 (2.54%) Meta Ads
10 2 (1.69%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.69%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.69%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.69%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.69%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (1.69%) IaaS
10 2 (1.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (28.81%) Power BI
2 11 (9.32%) Data Lake
3 10 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (8.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (7.63%) Metadata
5 7 (5.93%) Power Query
5 7 (5.93%) Tableau
6 6 (5.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (4.24%) Star Schema
8 3 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.54%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.54%) MySQL
8 3 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.69%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.69%) Looker
10 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.24%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (3.39%) Git
3 3 (2.54%) JIRA
4 2 (1.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 33 (27.97%) Social Skills
2 31 (26.27%) Finance
3 22 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.39%) Fire and Rescue
6 4 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.54%) Legal
7 3 (2.54%) Marketing
7 3 (2.54%) Retail
8 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Automotive
9 1 (0.85%) Billing
9 1 (0.85%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.85%) Games
9 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (20.34%) Data Manager
2 20 (16.95%) Architect
2 20 (16.95%) Data Architect
3 15 (12.71%) Data Quality Manager
3 15 (12.71%) Quality Manager
4 14 (11.86%) Analyst
5 12 (10.17%) Data Engineer
6 11 (9.32%) Developer
7 10 (8.47%) Data Governance Analyst
7 10 (8.47%) Data Governance Manager
7 10 (8.47%) Governance Manager
8 8 (6.78%) Senior
9 7 (5.93%) Supply Chain Controller
10 6 (5.08%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 6 (5.08%) Lead
11 5 (4.24%) Business Developer
11 5 (4.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 5 (4.24%) CRM Developer
11 5 (4.24%) Data Analyst
11 5 (4.24%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.08%) .NET
1 6 (5.08%) PySpark
2 5 (4.24%) REST
3 2 (1.69%) RESTful
4 1 (0.85%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.85%) JSON
4 1 (0.85%) Kafka
4 1 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.63%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.93%) Data Structures
2 7 (5.93%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.24%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.24%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.69%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.85%) CMDB
7 1 (0.85%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.85%) PMI
7 1 (0.85%) Replication
7 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.85%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (40.68%) Analytics
2 43 (36.44%) Business Intelligence
2 43 (36.44%) Data Governance
2 43 (36.44%) Decision-Making
3 39 (33.05%) Data Modelling
4 36 (30.51%) AI
5 33 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (26.27%) Data Management
7 25 (21.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (20.34%) Data Architecture
9 23 (19.49%) Roadmaps
10 19 (16.10%) CRM
11 17 (14.41%) Data Engineering
11 17 (14.41%) Data Protection
12 16 (13.56%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 16 (13.56%) ERP
12 16 (13.56%) ETL
13 15 (12.71%) Data Visualisation
13 15 (12.71%) Visualisation
14 14 (11.86%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 38 (32.20%) SQL
2 23 (19.49%) Python
3 10 (8.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.08%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.39%) R
6 3 (2.54%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.69%) Java
8 1 (0.85%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.85%) C#
8 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (12.71%) Degree
2 3 (2.54%) ACCA
2 3 (2.54%) CIMA
2 3 (2.54%) CIPD
3 2 (1.69%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.69%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.85%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.71%) GDPR
2 7 (5.93%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (2.54%) QA
4 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.85%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.85%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (0.85%) SCCM
1 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (12.71%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.86%) Databricks
3 12 (10.17%) SAP
4 6 (5.08%) Google
5 5 (4.24%) Sage
6 4 (3.39%) Xero
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle
7 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.85%) Workday