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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 129 135
Rank change year-on-year +45 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 145 47 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.61% 1.46% 1.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.68% 9.63% 9.44%
Number of salaries quoted 100 38 52
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,203 £41,250 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,223 £45,000 £56,891
Median % change year-on-year +27.16% -20.90% +6.34%
75th Percentile £72,500 £54,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £63,750 £69,665
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,218 £77,500
% change year-on-year +9.23% -26.17% +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 820 488 826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.09% 15.13% 14.17%
Number of salaries quoted 553 312 457
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,580 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,375 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £59,518 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,400 £74,207 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - - -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 23 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 23 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 +3 67 £67,000 +48.89% 93
Shropshire -1 21 £51,356 -26.63% 12
Staffordshire +8 12 £60,000 +20.00% 13
Worcestershire - 12 £65,000 - 20
Warwickshire -13 9 £42,500 -19.05% 25
Coventry - 5 £38,000 - 9
Solihull - 5 £30,500 - 10
Wolverhampton - 3 £62,500 - 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 3 (2.07%) SAS
2 2 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.69%) Apache
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.07%) Navisworks
3 3 (2.07%) Revit
3 3 (2.07%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.76%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 44 (30.34%) Azure
2 41 (28.28%) Power Platform
3 15 (10.34%) AWS
4 11 (7.59%) GCP
5 9 (6.21%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (6.21%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (5.52%) Snowflake
7 6 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.14%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.45%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (3.45%) PaaS
9 4 (2.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (2.76%) GitHub
9 4 (2.76%) Google Ads
9 4 (2.76%) Meta Ads
9 4 (2.76%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.07%) Azure Databricks
10 3 (2.07%) dbt
10 3 (2.07%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (28.28%) Power BI
2 18 (12.41%) Data Lake
3 15 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (8.97%) Tableau
5 12 (8.28%) Metadata
5 12 (8.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (7.59%) Power Query
6 11 (7.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (6.21%) Delta Lake
8 7 (4.83%) Star Schema
9 5 (3.45%) Big Data
9 5 (3.45%) Data Mining
9 5 (3.45%) Metadata Repository
9 5 (3.45%) Oracle BI EE
9 5 (3.45%) QlikView
9 5 (3.45%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.76%) Parquet
10 4 (2.76%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.76%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.07%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (7.59%) Git
2 4 (2.76%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (2.76%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.38%) JIRA
4 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (32.41%) Analytical Skills
2 42 (28.97%) Social Skills
3 29 (20.00%) Finance
4 25 (17.24%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (6.90%) Legal
6 10 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (6.21%) Fire and Rescue
8 4 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.76%) Marketing
9 3 (2.07%) Billing
9 3 (2.07%) Retail
10 2 (1.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.69%) Automotive
11 1 (0.69%) Games
11 1 (0.69%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 23 (15.86%) Architect
1 23 (15.86%) Data Architect
2 22 (15.17%) Data Engineer
3 21 (14.48%) Lead
4 19 (13.10%) Data Manager
5 15 (10.34%) Analyst
6 13 (8.97%) Senior
7 10 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 10 (6.90%) Data Governance Analyst
7 10 (6.90%) Data Governance Manager
7 10 (6.90%) Governance Manager
8 9 (6.21%) Data Quality Manager
8 9 (6.21%) Quality Manager
8 9 (6.21%) Team Leader
9 8 (5.52%) Senior Architect
9 8 (5.52%) Senior Data Architect
10 7 (4.83%) Developer
10 7 (4.83%) Supply Chain Controller
11 6 (4.14%) Administrator
11 6 (4.14%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.34%) PySpark
2 7 (4.83%) .NET
3 6 (4.14%) REST
4 5 (3.45%) PyTorch
4 5 (3.45%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.38%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.38%) JSON
5 2 (1.38%) RESTful
5 2 (1.38%) XML
6 1 (0.69%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.69%) Kafka
6 1 (0.69%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.69%) React
6 1 (0.69%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (6.21%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.52%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.52%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.83%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.45%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.45%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.07%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.38%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.38%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.38%) PMI
8 2 (1.38%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.69%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (42.07%) Analytics
2 57 (39.31%) Business Intelligence
2 57 (39.31%) Data Governance
2 57 (39.31%) Decision-Making
3 50 (34.48%) Data Management
4 49 (33.79%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (32.41%) Data Modelling
6 45 (31.03%) AI
7 40 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (26.21%) Data Architecture
9 31 (21.38%) Roadmaps
10 28 (19.31%) Agile
11 26 (17.93%) Data Engineering
11 26 (17.93%) ETL
11 26 (17.93%) Visualisation
12 23 (15.86%) ERP
13 21 (14.48%) Data Protection
14 20 (13.79%) Data Security
14 20 (13.79%) Data Visualisation
14 20 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (34.48%) SQL
2 41 (28.28%) Python
3 15 (10.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (8.28%) R
5 10 (6.90%) Java
6 7 (4.83%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.07%) C#
8 2 (1.38%) C++
9 1 (0.69%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.69%) Bash
9 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (15.86%) Degree
2 5 (3.45%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.76%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.07%) ACCA
4 3 (2.07%) CIMA
4 3 (2.07%) CIPD
5 2 (1.38%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.38%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.55%) GDPR
2 7 (4.83%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 5 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.07%) ISO 19650
4 3 (2.07%) QA
5 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.69%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.69%) PMO
Vendors
1 21 (14.48%) Databricks
1 21 (14.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.21%) SAP
3 6 (4.14%) Google
4 5 (3.45%) Sage
5 4 (2.76%) Xero
6 3 (2.07%) Oracle
6 3 (2.07%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.07%) Workday
7 1 (0.69%) Denodo
7 1 (0.69%) IFS