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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 123 134
Rank change year-on-year +37 +11 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 133 50 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.51% 1.50% 1.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.58% 9.73% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 94 41 53
10th Percentile £36,325 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,132 £41,250 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £56,282
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -20.04% +5.20%
75th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £63,750 £72,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -25.81% +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 802 514 861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.13% 15.38% 14.24%
Number of salaries quoted 550 319 490
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,580 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -7.32% -4.21%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,281 £73,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.77% -1.74% -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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -1 61 £67,862 +50.80% 56
Shropshire -6 20 £51,356 -26.63% 10
Staffordshire +4 12 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Worcestershire -13 12 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Warwickshire -11 9 £42,500 -19.05% 15
Solihull - 5 £30,500 - 8
Wolverhampton - 3 £62,500 -
Coventry - 3 £46,075 - 6
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 (2.26%) SAS
1 3 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.75%) Apache
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.50%) Navisworks
2 2 (1.50%) Revit
2 2 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.01%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 41 (30.83%) Azure
2 39 (29.32%) Power Platform
3 17 (12.78%) AWS
4 13 (9.77%) GCP
5 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Purview
5 9 (6.77%) Snowflake
6 8 (6.02%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (4.51%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.76%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (3.76%) PaaS
9 4 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.01%) Google Ads
9 4 (3.01%) Meta Ads
9 4 (3.01%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.26%) Serverless
11 2 (1.50%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (29.32%) Power BI
2 18 (13.53%) Data Lake
3 13 (9.77%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (9.02%) Tableau
5 11 (8.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (7.52%) Metadata
7 8 (6.02%) Power Query
7 8 (6.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (4.51%) Delta Lake
9 5 (3.76%) Big Data
9 5 (3.76%) Data Mining
9 5 (3.76%) Oracle BI EE
9 5 (3.76%) QlikView
9 5 (3.76%) Star Schema
10 3 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.26%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (2.26%) MySQL
10 3 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.26%) Spark SQL
10 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (6.02%) Git
2 4 (3.01%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (2.26%) JIRA
4 2 (1.50%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 37 (27.82%) Analytical Skills
1 37 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.80%) Finance
3 21 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (6.77%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (6.02%) Fire and Rescue
6 8 (6.02%) Legal
7 4 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.01%) Marketing
8 3 (2.26%) Billing
9 2 (1.50%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Games
Job Titles
1 22 (16.54%) Architect
1 22 (16.54%) Data Architect
2 20 (15.04%) Lead
3 19 (14.29%) Data Manager
4 17 (12.78%) Data Engineer
5 12 (9.02%) Analyst
6 10 (7.52%) Data Quality Manager
6 10 (7.52%) Quality Manager
6 10 (7.52%) Senior
7 9 (6.77%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 9 (6.77%) Data Governance Analyst
7 9 (6.77%) Data Governance Manager
7 9 (6.77%) Governance Manager
8 8 (6.02%) Team Leader
9 7 (5.26%) Developer
9 7 (5.26%) Supply Chain Controller
10 6 (4.51%) Administrator
10 6 (4.51%) Senior Architect
10 6 (4.51%) Senior Data Architect
11 5 (3.76%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.02%) PySpark
2 7 (5.26%) .NET
3 6 (4.51%) REST
4 5 (3.76%) PyTorch
4 5 (3.76%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.50%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.50%) JSON
5 2 (1.50%) RESTful
5 2 (1.50%) XML
6 1 (0.75%) Kafka
6 1 (0.75%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.77%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (6.02%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.76%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.76%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.50%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.50%) PMI
7 2 (1.50%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.75%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.75%) CMDB
8 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.75%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (42.11%) Analytics
2 52 (39.10%) Data Governance
3 51 (38.35%) Business Intelligence
3 51 (38.35%) Decision-Making
4 46 (34.59%) Data Management
5 44 (33.08%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (32.33%) AI
7 42 (31.58%) Data Modelling
8 35 (26.32%) Data Architecture
9 31 (23.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (23.31%) Roadmaps
10 26 (19.55%) Agile
11 24 (18.05%) ETL
11 24 (18.05%) Visualisation
12 23 (17.29%) Data Engineering
13 21 (15.79%) Data Protection
14 20 (15.04%) ERP
15 19 (14.29%) Data Security
15 19 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
16 18 (13.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (31.58%) SQL
2 36 (27.07%) Python
3 13 (9.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (9.02%) R
5 10 (7.52%) Java
6 7 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.26%) C#
8 2 (1.50%) C++
9 1 (0.75%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.75%) Bash
9 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (17.29%) Degree
2 6 (4.51%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.01%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.26%) ACCA
4 3 (2.26%) CIMA
4 3 (2.26%) CIPD
5 2 (1.50%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.54%) GDPR
2 8 (6.02%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.01%) QA
6 3 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.50%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.75%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.75%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (0.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (14.29%) Databricks
2 15 (11.28%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.26%) SAP
4 6 (4.51%) Google
5 5 (3.76%) Sage
6 4 (3.01%) Xero
7 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.50%) Oracle
8 2 (1.50%) Workday
9 1 (0.75%) Denodo
9 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow