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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 111 148
Rank change year-on-year -4 +37 -31
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 93 64 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.10% 2.01% 1.45%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.88% 10.67% 9.29%
Number of salaries quoted 77 59 64
10th Percentile £37,850 £44,000 £31,221
25th Percentile £43,500 £47,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,641
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -1.15% +11.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £62,813
90th Percentile £83,750 £96,750 £72,108
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,182 £68,275
% change year-on-year -1.93% -10.39% +5.04%

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 855 600 1,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.08% 18.88% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 432 379 876
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,467 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -1.87% +4.14%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £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 17 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 17 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 -2 42 £63,076 +5.13% 20
Worcestershire -12 13 £65,000 -40.91% 1
Staffordshire -8 7 £42,500 -20.84% 3
Walsall +6 5 £44,000 +4.76%
Solihull +11 4 £30,500 -44.55% 1
Warwickshire -15 3 £42,500 -19.05% 11
Coventry -20 3 £54,150 -13.36% 4
Wolverhampton - 3 £67,500 - 1
Shropshire -27 2 £41,500 -17.00% 6
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 (7.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.08%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (12.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (10.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (5.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (3.23%) Sage 50
3 3 (3.23%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 29 (31.18%) Power Platform
2 21 (22.58%) Azure
3 10 (10.75%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (10.75%) GCP
3 10 (10.75%) Power Automate
4 9 (9.68%) AWS
5 8 (8.60%) Snowflake
6 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (5.38%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (5.38%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.15%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.15%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (2.15%) dbt
9 2 (2.15%) Google Analytics
9 2 (2.15%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (2.15%) IaaS
9 2 (2.15%) PaaS
10 1 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.08%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (31.18%) Power BI
2 8 (8.60%) Data Lake
3 7 (7.53%) Metadata
3 7 (7.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (7.53%) Tableau
4 3 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.23%) Power Query
4 3 (3.23%) Star Schema
5 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.15%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.15%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.15%) Looker
5 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.08%) DB2
6 1 (1.08%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (1.08%) MySQL
6 1 (1.08%) Parquet
6 1 (1.08%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (3.23%) JIRA
3 2 (2.15%) Git
3 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.08%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (29.03%) Finance
2 22 (23.66%) Social Skills
3 18 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.90%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.30%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.30%) Marketing
7 3 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.23%) Spanish Language
8 2 (2.15%) Legal
8 2 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.15%) Retail
9 1 (1.08%) Automotive
9 1 (1.08%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 22 (23.66%) Data Manager
2 16 (17.20%) Analyst
3 13 (13.98%) Data Quality Manager
3 13 (13.98%) Quality Manager
4 12 (12.90%) Architect
4 12 (12.90%) Data Architect
5 11 (11.83%) Developer
6 10 (10.75%) Data Analyst
6 10 (10.75%) Data Governance Analyst
6 10 (10.75%) Data Governance Manager
6 10 (10.75%) Governance Manager
6 10 (10.75%) Senior
7 7 (7.53%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 7 (7.53%) Data Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Business Developer
8 6 (6.45%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (5.38%) CRM Developer
9 5 (5.38%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
9 5 (5.38%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 4 (4.30%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.45%) .NET
1 6 (6.45%) PySpark
2 3 (3.23%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.08%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.68%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.15%) Cyberattack
5 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.15%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.15%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (1.08%) CMDB
6 1 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.08%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.08%) Linked Data
6 1 (1.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (45.16%) Analytics
2 38 (40.86%) Business Intelligence
3 33 (35.48%) Data Governance
4 32 (34.41%) Data Modelling
5 29 (31.18%) Decision-Making
6 28 (30.11%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (27.96%) AI
8 21 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (16.13%) Actionable Insight
9 15 (16.13%) CRM
9 15 (16.13%) ETL
10 14 (15.05%) Data Management
11 13 (13.98%) Data Analysis
11 13 (13.98%) Roadmaps
12 12 (12.90%) Data Architecture
12 12 (12.90%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 12 (12.90%) Machine Learning
13 10 (10.75%) Data Engineering
13 10 (10.75%) Data Strategy
13 10 (10.75%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 30 (32.26%) SQL
2 14 (15.05%) Python
3 6 (6.45%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (4.30%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.23%) R
5 3 (3.23%) Scala
6 1 (1.08%) Bicep
6 1 (1.08%) C#
6 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (12.90%) Degree
2 3 (3.23%) ACCA
2 3 (3.23%) CIMA
3 2 (2.15%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.15%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.08%) CISA
4 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.60%) GDPR
2 7 (7.53%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (3.23%) QA
5 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.08%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.08%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.23%) Terraform
2 1 (1.08%) Control-M
2 1 (1.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.08%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (15.05%) Microsoft
1 14 (15.05%) SAP
2 13 (13.98%) Databricks
3 3 (3.23%) Google
3 3 (3.23%) Sage
3 3 (3.23%) Xero
4 2 (2.15%) Civica
4 2 (2.15%) Oracle
4 2 (2.15%) Talend
5 1 (1.08%) BMC
5 1 (1.08%) Denodo
5 1 (1.08%) IBM
5 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow