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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 122 139
Rank change year-on-year +38 +17 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 147 44 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.63% 1.35% 1.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.10% 9.09% 9.04%
Number of salaries quoted 101 35 53
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,125 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.77% -21.74% +9.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £53,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £63,650 £72,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £55,867 £77,500
% change year-on-year +11.87% -27.91% +10.71%

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 812 484 863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.98% 14.87% 14.85%
Number of salaries quoted 541 305 450
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,580 £28,119
25th Percentile £39,570 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £49,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.81% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.88% -0.87% -4.17%

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 1 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 1 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 +2 68 £67,000 +57.65% 83
Shropshire -2 22 £51,356 -26.63% 6
Staffordshire +8 12 £60,000 +25.65% 12
Worcestershire - 12 £65,000 - 18
Warwickshire -15 10 £42,500 -19.05% 26
Coventry - 5 £38,000 - 7
Solihull - 5 £30,500 - 8
Wolverhampton - 2 £62,500 - 10
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 (2.04%) SAS
2 2 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.68%) Apache
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.04%) Navisworks
3 3 (2.04%) Revit
3 3 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.72%) Sage 50
1 4 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 45 (30.61%) Azure
2 41 (27.89%) Power Platform
3 14 (9.52%) AWS
4 10 (6.80%) GCP
5 9 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (6.12%) Microsoft Purview
6 7 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.76%) Snowflake
7 6 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.40%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (3.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (3.40%) PaaS
9 4 (2.72%) Azure Databricks
9 4 (2.72%) GitHub
9 4 (2.72%) Google Ads
9 4 (2.72%) Meta Ads
9 4 (2.72%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (27.89%) Power BI
2 17 (11.56%) Data Lake
2 17 (11.56%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (9.52%) Tableau
4 13 (8.84%) Metadata
4 13 (8.84%) Power Query
4 13 (8.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (8.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (6.12%) Delta Lake
6 8 (5.44%) Star Schema
7 6 (4.08%) Metadata Repository
7 6 (4.08%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.40%) Big Data
8 5 (3.40%) Data Mining
8 5 (3.40%) Oracle BI EE
8 5 (3.40%) QlikView
8 5 (3.40%) RDBMS
8 5 (3.40%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.72%) Parquet
10 3 (2.04%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (8.16%) Git
2 4 (2.72%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (2.72%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.36%) JIRA
3 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 50 (34.01%) Analytical Skills
2 41 (27.89%) Social Skills
3 27 (18.37%) Finance
4 26 (17.69%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (7.48%) Legal
6 10 (6.80%) Fire and Rescue
6 10 (6.80%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.72%) Marketing
7 4 (2.72%) Retail
8 3 (2.04%) Billing
9 2 (1.36%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.68%) Automotive
10 1 (0.68%) Games
10 1 (0.68%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 23 (15.65%) Data Engineer
2 22 (14.97%) Architect
2 22 (14.97%) Data Architect
2 22 (14.97%) Lead
3 19 (12.93%) Data Manager
4 17 (11.56%) Analyst
5 14 (9.52%) Senior
6 11 (7.48%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 10 (6.80%) Data Governance Analyst
7 10 (6.80%) Data Governance Manager
7 10 (6.80%) Governance Manager
7 10 (6.80%) Team Leader
8 9 (6.12%) Data Quality Manager
8 9 (6.12%) Quality Manager
8 9 (6.12%) Senior Architect
8 9 (6.12%) Senior Data Architect
9 8 (5.44%) Developer
10 7 (4.76%) Data Analyst
10 7 (4.76%) Supply Chain Controller
11 6 (4.08%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.20%) PySpark
2 7 (4.76%) .NET
3 6 (4.08%) REST
4 5 (3.40%) PyTorch
4 5 (3.40%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.36%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.36%) JSON
5 2 (1.36%) RESTful
5 2 (1.36%) XML
6 1 (0.68%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.68%) Kafka
6 1 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.68%) React
6 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.48%) Data Protection Act
2 10 (6.80%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.12%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.44%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.40%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.40%) Reference Data
6 5 (3.40%) Taxonomies
7 4 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.04%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.36%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.36%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.36%) PMI
9 2 (1.36%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.68%) Autonomous Agent
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (42.18%) Analytics
2 59 (40.14%) Business Intelligence
3 58 (39.46%) Data Governance
4 56 (38.10%) Decision-Making
5 52 (35.37%) Data Management
6 51 (34.69%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (31.97%) Data Modelling
8 43 (29.25%) AI
9 39 (26.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 38 (25.85%) Data Architecture
11 30 (20.41%) Roadmaps
12 29 (19.73%) Agile
13 28 (19.05%) ETL
13 28 (19.05%) Visualisation
14 26 (17.69%) Data Engineering
15 22 (14.97%) Data Analysis
15 22 (14.97%) ERP
16 21 (14.29%) Data Integration
16 21 (14.29%) Data Protection
16 21 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 53 (36.05%) SQL
2 44 (29.93%) Python
3 16 (10.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (8.16%) R
5 10 (6.80%) Java
6 7 (4.76%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.04%) C#
8 2 (1.36%) C++
9 1 (0.68%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.68%) Bash
9 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (16.33%) Degree
2 5 (3.40%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.72%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.04%) CIPD
5 2 (1.36%) ACCA
5 2 (1.36%) CIMA
5 2 (1.36%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (17.01%) GDPR
2 7 (4.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.04%) ISO 19650
5 3 (2.04%) QA
6 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.68%) PMO
Vendors
1 22 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.29%) Databricks
3 8 (5.44%) SAP
4 6 (4.08%) Google
5 5 (3.40%) Sage
6 4 (2.72%) Xero
7 3 (2.04%) Oracle
7 3 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.04%) Workday
8 1 (0.68%) Denodo
8 1 (0.68%) IFS