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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 128 132
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 50 70 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.94% 1.70% 1.35%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.52% 9.78% 8.90%
Number of salaries quoted 44 51 38
10th Percentile £26,000 £36,250 £21,426
25th Percentile £29,000 £46,875 £21,695
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,350 £60,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.08% +71.43% -30.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,125 £40,794
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 665 716 618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.44% 17.43% 15.20%
Number of salaries quoted 310 384 529
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,822 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,036 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £67,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,375 £73,750
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 17 January 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 17 January 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 24 £59,000 -1.67% 18
Staffordshire 0 10 £26,000 -42.22% 3
Coventry +2 6 £67,500 +8.00% 6
Walsall - 5 £42,500 -
Shropshire -21 1 - - 5
Wolverhampton - 1 £75,000 - 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 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.00%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (34.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) SAP PP
1 3 (6.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.00%) NetSuite
3 1 (2.00%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (12.00%) Azure
3 5 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.00%) Snowflake
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.00%) AWS
7 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.00%) ChatGPT
7 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (36.00%) Power BI
2 11 (22.00%) Metadata
3 6 (12.00%) Power Query
4 5 (10.00%) Tableau
5 3 (6.00%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.00%) Data Mining
6 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.00%) DB2
7 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.00%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.00%) Parquet
7 1 (2.00%) Pentaho
7 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Git
1 2 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.00%) Finance
4 6 (12.00%) Marketing
4 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Spanish Language
7 2 (4.00%) Banking
7 2 (4.00%) Legal
8 1 (2.00%) Back Office
8 1 (2.00%) Billing
8 1 (2.00%) Law
8 1 (2.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Analyst
2 10 (20.00%) Senior
3 9 (18.00%) Data Manager
4 8 (16.00%) Data Governance Analyst
4 8 (16.00%) Data Governance Manager
4 8 (16.00%) Governance Manager
5 7 (14.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 7 (14.00%) Data Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Data Analyst
6 6 (12.00%) Systems Support
7 4 (8.00%) CRM Officer
7 4 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Senior Manager
7 4 (8.00%) Support Officer
8 3 (6.00%) Master Data Analyst
8 3 (6.00%) SAP Analyst
8 3 (6.00%) SAP Data Analyst
8 3 (6.00%) SAP Master Data Analyst
9 2 (4.00%) Business Data Analyst
9 2 (4.00%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (4.00%) .NET
2 2 (4.00%) PySpark
3 1 (2.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) FMCG
2 6 (12.00%) Pricing Data
3 4 (8.00%) Driving Licence
3 4 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.00%) Reference Data
3 4 (8.00%) Web Conferencing
4 2 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.00%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.00%) Linked Data
5 1 (2.00%) NHS
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (52.00%) Analytics
2 24 (48.00%) Business Intelligence
3 23 (46.00%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (38.00%) Decision-Making
5 17 (34.00%) Data Management
6 16 (32.00%) Data Governance
7 13 (26.00%) Data Modelling
8 12 (24.00%) ETL
9 11 (22.00%) Metadata Management
10 10 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
10 10 (20.00%) Data Strategy
10 10 (20.00%) ERP
11 9 (18.00%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (18.00%) Data Cleansing
12 8 (16.00%) Data Analysis
13 7 (14.00%) CRM
13 7 (14.00%) Data Analytics
13 7 (14.00%) Data Engineering
13 7 (14.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (48.00%) SQL
2 14 (28.00%) Python
3 4 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (8.00%) Scala
3 4 (8.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.00%) Bicep
4 2 (4.00%) C#
4 2 (4.00%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.00%) CISA
2 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) GDPR
2 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.00%) Control-M
2 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) Databricks
3 4 (8.00%) SAP
4 3 (6.00%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.00%) Adobe
5 2 (4.00%) Civica
5 2 (4.00%) HubSpot
5 2 (4.00%) Talend
6 1 (2.00%) Adaptive Insights
6 1 (2.00%) BMC
6 1 (2.00%) Denodo
6 1 (2.00%) IBM
6 1 (2.00%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.00%) Oracle