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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 155 140
Rank change year-on-year +29 -15 +17
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 55 61 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.18% 1.22% 0.92%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.17% 7.59% 5.95%
Number of salaries quoted 43 44 22
10th Percentile £26,000 £34,675 -
25th Percentile £29,000 £42,500 £21,426
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £60,000 £24,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +144.90% -51.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,313 £58,438
90th Percentile £69,750 £72,500 £70,819
England median annual salary £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.93% +3.85% +8.33%

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 600 804 504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.85% 16.13% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 296 409 416
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,119 £27,150
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £39,494
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +9.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,113 £65,313
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,250 £81,875
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +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 9 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +19 25 £53,500 -10.83% 15
Staffordshire - 17 £30,500 - 3
Walsall - 6 £42,500 -
Coventry +5 4 £67,500 +20.00% 2
Warwickshire +32 2 - - 5
Shropshire -11 1 - - 3
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 2 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.64%) SAS
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 19 (34.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.82%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.82%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.18%) Power Platform
2 12 (21.82%) Azure
3 5 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.27%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (7.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (7.27%) Snowflake
5 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.64%) AWS
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.82%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.82%) GCP
7 1 (1.82%) GitHub
7 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (38.18%) Power BI
2 15 (27.27%) Metadata
3 9 (16.36%) Tableau
4 6 (10.91%) Power Query
5 4 (7.27%) BigQuery
5 4 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.45%) Data Lake
6 3 (5.45%) Data Mining
6 3 (5.45%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.82%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.82%) Big Data
8 1 (1.82%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.82%) HBase
8 1 (1.82%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.82%) Pentaho
8 1 (1.82%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Git
2 2 (3.64%) JIRA
3 1 (1.82%) ERwin
3 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (34.55%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.55%) Finance
4 5 (9.09%) Marketing
5 3 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.64%) Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Legal
6 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.82%) Back Office
7 1 (1.82%) Billing
7 1 (1.82%) Law
7 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.82%) Retail
7 1 (1.82%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) Analyst
2 8 (14.55%) Data Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 7 (12.73%) Data Manager
4 6 (10.91%) Data Analyst
4 6 (10.91%) Data Governance Analyst
4 6 (10.91%) Data Governance Manager
4 6 (10.91%) Governance Manager
4 6 (10.91%) Systems Support
5 5 (9.09%) Data Modeller
5 5 (9.09%) Senior
6 4 (7.27%) CRM Officer
6 4 (7.27%) Support Officer
7 3 (5.45%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Data Quality Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Quality Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Analyst Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) .NET
2 1 (1.82%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.82%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.82%) Kafka
2 1 (1.82%) Plotly
2 1 (1.82%) PySpark
2 1 (1.82%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.82%) Regular Expression
2 1 (1.82%) Shiny
2 1 (1.82%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) FMCG
2 6 (10.91%) Pricing Data
3 5 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (7.27%) Driving Licence
4 4 (7.27%) Onboarding
4 4 (7.27%) Reference Data
4 4 (7.27%) Web Conferencing
5 2 (3.64%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.82%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.82%) NHS
6 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Windows
2 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (47.27%) Business Intelligence
1 26 (47.27%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (40.00%) Analytics
2 22 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 21 (38.18%) Data Modelling
4 15 (27.27%) Data Management
5 14 (25.45%) Data Governance
5 14 (25.45%) Metadata Management
6 13 (23.64%) ETL
7 12 (21.82%) Data Cleansing
8 11 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
8 11 (20.00%) Visualisation
9 9 (16.36%) Data Analysis
9 9 (16.36%) Master Data Management
10 8 (14.55%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (14.55%) Data Engineering
10 8 (14.55%) Data Strategy
10 8 (14.55%) Data Visualisation
10 8 (14.55%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 31 (56.36%) SQL
2 16 (29.09%) Python
3 6 (10.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (9.09%) T-SQL
5 3 (5.45%) R
6 2 (3.64%) Bicep
6 2 (3.64%) C#
6 2 (3.64%) Scala
7 1 (1.82%) Bash
7 1 (1.82%) Java
7 1 (1.82%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.82%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.82%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) GDPR
2 3 (5.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Apache Flume
1 1 (1.82%) Docker
1 1 (1.82%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (3.64%) Terraform
2 1 (1.82%) Kibana
2 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.82%) logstash
2 1 (1.82%) Oozie
Vendors
1 15 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 12 (21.82%) Databricks
3 3 (5.45%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.64%) Adobe
4 2 (3.64%) Civica
4 2 (3.64%) HubSpot
4 2 (3.64%) SAP
5 1 (1.82%) Adaptive Insights
5 1 (1.82%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.82%) Denodo
5 1 (1.82%) Informatica
5 1 (1.82%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.82%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle
5 1 (1.82%) Talend