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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 101 149
Rank change year-on-year -10 +48 -32
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 98 60 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.15% 2.03% 1.41%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.30% 10.62% 9.36%
Number of salaries quoted 81 55 66
10th Percentile £38,750 £44,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,104 £47,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,641
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.15% +9.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £102,750 £71,013
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,841 £68,500
% change year-on-year -1.38% -11.18% +5.38%

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 867 565 1,164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.14% 19.16% 15.10%
Number of salaries quoted 438 347 876
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,822 £27,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,068 £52,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% -0.94% +3.41%
75th Percentile £65,640 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,765 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 45 £63,076 +5.13% 26
Worcestershire -21 15 £65,000 -40.91% 1
Staffordshire -10 7 £42,500 -20.84% 3
Solihull +7 5 £30,500 -44.55%
Walsall +4 5 £44,000 +4.76%
Warwickshire -18 3 £42,500 -19.05% 4
Coventry -18 3 £54,150 -13.36% 3
Wolverhampton - 3 £67,500 -
Shropshire -28 1 £41,500 -17.00% 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 7 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (11.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (10.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (5.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (4.08%) Sage 50
4 3 (3.06%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.61%) Power Platform
2 21 (21.43%) Azure
3 10 (10.20%) AWS
3 10 (10.20%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (10.20%) GCP
3 10 (10.20%) Power Automate
4 8 (8.16%) Microsoft Purview
4 8 (8.16%) Snowflake
5 5 (5.10%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (5.10%) PowerApps
6 3 (3.06%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (2.04%) dbt
7 2 (2.04%) Google Analytics
7 2 (2.04%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (2.04%) IaaS
7 2 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.04%) PaaS
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.04%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (30.61%) Power BI
2 8 (8.16%) Data Lake
2 8 (8.16%) Tableau
3 7 (7.14%) Metadata
3 7 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.06%) Power Query
4 3 (3.06%) Star Schema
5 2 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.04%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.04%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.04%) Looker
5 2 (2.04%) MySQL
5 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.02%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (2.04%) JIRA
2 2 (2.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.02%) Git
General
1 28 (28.57%) Finance
2 26 (26.53%) Social Skills
3 18 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.24%) Public Sector
5 11 (11.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.08%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Marketing
8 2 (2.04%) Legal
8 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Retail
8 2 (2.04%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.02%) Automotive
9 1 (1.02%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 26 (26.53%) Data Manager
2 15 (15.31%) Analyst
2 15 (15.31%) Data Quality Manager
2 15 (15.31%) Quality Manager
3 13 (13.27%) Architect
3 13 (13.27%) Data Architect
4 12 (12.24%) Data Governance Analyst
4 12 (12.24%) Data Governance Manager
4 12 (12.24%) Governance Manager
5 11 (11.22%) Developer
5 11 (11.22%) Senior
6 9 (9.18%) Data Analyst
7 7 (7.14%) Data Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Business Developer
8 6 (6.12%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 6 (6.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (5.10%) CRM Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 4 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.12%) .NET
1 6 (6.12%) PySpark
2 3 (3.06%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (2.04%) REST
4 1 (1.02%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.02%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.18%) Management Information System
2 7 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.08%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.06%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.04%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.02%) CMDB
8 1 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.02%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.02%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.02%) Linked Data
8 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.02%) Replication
8 1 (1.02%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (42.86%) Analytics
2 38 (38.78%) Business Intelligence
3 37 (37.76%) Data Governance
4 31 (31.63%) Data Modelling
5 29 (29.59%) AI
5 29 (29.59%) Decision-Making
6 28 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (22.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (19.39%) Data Management
9 15 (15.31%) CRM
9 15 (15.31%) ETL
10 14 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
11 13 (13.27%) Data Analysis
11 13 (13.27%) Data Architecture
11 13 (13.27%) ERP
11 13 (13.27%) Roadmaps
12 12 (12.24%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 12 (12.24%) Machine Learning
13 11 (11.22%) Data Visualisation
13 11 (11.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (29.59%) SQL
2 15 (15.31%) Python
3 6 (6.12%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (4.08%) R
4 4 (4.08%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.06%) Scala
6 1 (1.02%) Bicep
6 1 (1.02%) C#
6 1 (1.02%) Java
6 1 (1.02%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (12.24%) Degree
2 3 (3.06%) ACCA
2 3 (3.06%) CIMA
3 2 (2.04%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.04%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.02%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.20%) GDPR
2 7 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (3.06%) QA
5 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.02%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.02%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (3.06%) Terraform
2 1 (1.02%) Control-M
2 1 (1.02%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (14.29%) SAP
2 13 (13.27%) Databricks
2 13 (13.27%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.08%) Sage
3 4 (4.08%) Xero
4 3 (3.06%) Google
5 2 (2.04%) Civica
6 1 (1.02%) BMC
6 1 (1.02%) IBM
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle
6 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.02%) Talend