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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 123 138
Rank change year-on-year +32 +15 -8
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 118 49 93
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.38% 1.42% 1.44%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.30% 9.25% 10.12%
Number of salaries quoted 88 41 61
10th Percentile £36,425 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,213 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,900 £45,000 £56,282
Median % change year-on-year +35.33% -20.04% +7.20%
75th Percentile £72,500 £58,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £67,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,500 £57,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +5.22% -25.81% +13.14%

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 771 530 919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.03% 15.41% 14.21%
Number of salaries quoted 516 337 579
10th Percentile £30,540 £30,580 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £64,375
90th Percentile £77,250 £73,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,298 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.98% +0.54% -8.33%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 0 48 £68,486 +52.19% 31
Shropshire -6 17 £51,356 -26.63% 12
Worcestershire -10 13 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Staffordshire +4 12 £60,000 +20.00% 6
Warwickshire -5 8 £42,500 -19.05% 11
Solihull - 6 £30,500 - 3
Coventry - 2 £46,075 - 8
Wolverhampton - 2 £62,500 - 2
Walsall +4 1 £44,000 +3.53%
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 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.69%) Navisworks
3 2 (1.69%) Revit
3 2 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (5.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.39%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 35 (29.66%) Power Platform
2 31 (26.27%) Azure
3 14 (11.86%) AWS
4 12 (10.17%) GCP
5 10 (8.47%) Snowflake
6 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Purview
7 7 (5.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (4.24%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (4.24%) Power Automate
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 MSK
10 2 (1.69%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.69%) dbt
10 2 (1.69%) PaaS
11 1 (0.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (29.66%) Power BI
2 15 (12.71%) Data Lake
3 12 (10.17%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (8.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (7.63%) Tableau
6 8 (6.78%) Power Query
7 7 (5.93%) Metadata
7 7 (5.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
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
8 3 (2.54%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.69%) Big Data
9 2 (1.69%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.69%) Oracle BI EE
9 2 (1.69%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 5 (4.24%) Git
2 4 (3.39%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (2.54%) JIRA
General
1 33 (27.97%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.73%) Finance
3 27 (22.88%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.86%) Public Sector
5 11 (9.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.93%) Fire and Rescue
7 5 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.39%) Legal
9 3 (2.54%) Marketing
9 3 (2.54%) Retail
10 2 (1.69%) Billing
11 1 (0.85%) Games
Job Titles
1 21 (17.80%) Architect
1 21 (17.80%) Data Architect
1 21 (17.80%) Data Manager
2 12 (10.17%) Data Quality Manager
2 12 (10.17%) Lead
2 12 (10.17%) Quality Manager
3 11 (9.32%) Analyst
3 11 (9.32%) Data Engineer
4 9 (7.63%) Data Governance Analyst
4 9 (7.63%) Data Governance Manager
4 9 (7.63%) Governance Manager
5 7 (5.93%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 7 (5.93%) Developer
5 7 (5.93%) Senior
5 7 (5.93%) Supply Chain Controller
5 7 (5.93%) Team Leader
6 5 (4.24%) Administrator
6 5 (4.24%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 4 (3.39%) Consultant
7 4 (3.39%) Implementation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.08%) PySpark
2 5 (4.24%) .NET
2 5 (4.24%) REST
3 2 (1.69%) GraphQL
3 2 (1.69%) JSON
3 2 (1.69%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.69%) RESTful
3 2 (1.69%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.69%) XML
4 1 (0.85%) Kafka
4 1 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.78%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (5.93%) Data Structures
2 7 (5.93%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (5.08%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.24%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.69%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.69%) PMI
7 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.69%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.85%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.85%) CMDB
8 1 (0.85%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.85%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (41.53%) Analytics
2 46 (38.98%) Data Governance
3 44 (37.29%) Business Intelligence
4 43 (36.44%) Decision-Making
5 39 (33.05%) Data Management
6 38 (32.20%) AI
6 38 (32.20%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (30.51%) Data Modelling
8 30 (25.42%) Data Architecture
9 28 (23.73%) Roadmaps
10 26 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (16.95%) Data Protection
12 18 (15.25%) Agile
12 18 (15.25%) Visualisation
13 17 (14.41%) ERP
14 16 (13.56%) CRM
14 16 (13.56%) Data Engineering
14 16 (13.56%) Data Visualisation
14 16 (13.56%) ETL
15 15 (12.71%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 35 (29.66%) SQL
2 27 (22.88%) Python
3 11 (9.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (5.93%) R
5 5 (4.24%) Java
5 5 (4.24%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.85%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.85%) C#
6 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (16.10%) Degree
2 3 (2.54%) ACCA
2 3 (2.54%) CIMA
2 3 (2.54%) CIPD
2 3 (2.54%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.69%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.69%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.10%) GDPR
2 7 (5.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (5.08%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.69%) ISO 19650
5 2 (1.69%) QA
6 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.85%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.85%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (0.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (13.56%) Databricks
2 13 (11.02%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.78%) SAP
4 5 (4.24%) Google
4 5 (4.24%) Sage
5 4 (3.39%) Xero
6 2 (1.69%) Oracle
6 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.85%) Denodo
7 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.85%) Workday