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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 138 143
Rank change year-on-year +15 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 50 81 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.54% 1.34% 1.42%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.12% 9.41% 9.43%
Number of salaries quoted 40 53 37
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £21,426
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,254 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,282 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.04% +3.27% -9.17%
75th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £64,125 £69,330 £93,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -25.81% +10.71% +16.67%

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 494 861 583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.17% 14.22% 15.07%
Number of salaries quoted 313 480 459
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,000 £26,920
25th Percentile £38,000 £30,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.87% -4.17% +7.14%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +12 28 £45,000 -20.04% 7
Staffordshire +8 9 £50,000 -13.04% 6
Warwickshire +48 7 £52,500 -0.94% 6
Walsall - 4 £42,500 -
Shropshire +6 1 £70,000 +16.18% 2
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (18.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.00%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (32.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.00%) Power Platform
2 22 (44.00%) Azure
3 10 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (18.00%) Power Automate
4 9 (18.00%) PowerApps
5 8 (16.00%) IaaS
5 8 (16.00%) PaaS
6 7 (14.00%) Snowflake
7 4 (8.00%) AWS
7 4 (8.00%) GCP
8 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (2.00%) GitHub
10 1 (2.00%) Lucidchart
10 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (48.00%) Power BI
2 13 (26.00%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (18.00%) Metadata
4 8 (16.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (16.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (16.00%) Star Schema
5 7 (14.00%) Tableau
6 6 (12.00%) Power Query
7 4 (8.00%) Big Data
7 4 (8.00%) BigQuery
8 3 (6.00%) Data Lake
8 3 (6.00%) Data Mining
8 3 (6.00%) Relational Database
8 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
9 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (4.00%) Hadoop
9 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
9 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (2.00%) Apache Hive
10 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (16.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (4.00%) ERwin
3 1 (2.00%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.00%) Git
3 1 (2.00%) JIRA
3 1 (2.00%) JUnit
3 1 (2.00%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (2.00%) Selenium
3 1 (2.00%) TestComplete
General
1 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (26.00%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (26.00%) Finance
3 3 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Banking
4 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.00%) Tech for Good
5 1 (2.00%) Advertising
5 1 (2.00%) Billing
5 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.00%) Law
5 1 (2.00%) Legal
5 1 (2.00%) Marketing
5 1 (2.00%) Retail
5 1 (2.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Analyst
1 11 (22.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 11 (22.00%) Developer
2 10 (20.00%) Business Developer
3 9 (18.00%) Power BI Developer
4 8 (16.00%) ETL Developer
4 8 (16.00%) SQL BI Developer
4 8 (16.00%) SQL Developer
5 6 (12.00%) Data Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Data Modeller
5 6 (12.00%) SSIS Developer
5 6 (12.00%) Systems Support
6 5 (10.00%) Data Analyst
7 4 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 4 (8.00%) Data Manager
7 4 (8.00%) Lead
8 3 (6.00%) Data Quality Analyst
8 3 (6.00%) Quality Analyst
9 2 (4.00%) Analyst Developer
9 2 (4.00%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) PySpark
2 2 (4.00%) NumPy
2 2 (4.00%) Pandas
3 1 (2.00%) .NET
3 1 (2.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.00%) EDI
3 1 (2.00%) Kafka
3 1 (2.00%) Plotly
3 1 (2.00%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.00%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (12.00%) FMCG
2 6 (12.00%) Pricing Data
3 4 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.00%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (54.00%) Business Intelligence
2 22 (44.00%) ETL
3 20 (40.00%) Analytics
3 20 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (36.00%) Decision-Making
5 17 (34.00%) Data Governance
5 17 (34.00%) Data Modelling
6 11 (22.00%) Data Management
6 11 (22.00%) Visualisation
7 10 (20.00%) Data Mapping
7 10 (20.00%) Validation
8 9 (18.00%) Collaborative Working
8 9 (18.00%) Customer Service
8 9 (18.00%) Data Visualisation
9 8 (16.00%) Actionable Insight
9 8 (16.00%) Case Management
9 8 (16.00%) Critical Thinking
9 8 (16.00%) CRM
9 8 (16.00%) Kimball Methodology
10 7 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 32 (64.00%) SQL
2 15 (30.00%) Python
3 5 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (8.00%) T-SQL
5 3 (6.00%) R
6 2 (4.00%) C#
7 1 (2.00%) Bash
7 1 (2.00%) Bicep
7 1 (2.00%) Java
7 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.00%) PROC SQL
7 1 (2.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.00%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) GDPR
2 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (2.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Kibana
1 1 (2.00%) logstash
1 1 (2.00%) Oozie
1 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (28.00%) Databricks
2 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.00%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.00%) Informatica
4 1 (2.00%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle