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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 132 137
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 50 67 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.95% 1.54% 1.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.67% 8.96% 7.21%
Number of salaries quoted 43 49 31
10th Percentile £26,000 £35,800 -
25th Percentile £29,000 £42,500 £21,426
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +71.43% -30.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £48,863
90th Percentile £71,250 £73,250 £58,750
England median annual salary £63,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.31% - +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 652 748 527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.40% 17.25% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 301 393 460
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,822 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,338 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% +9.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +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 1 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 1 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 +10 24 £56,250 -6.25% 15
Staffordshire -2 12 £26,000 -47.31% 2
Coventry +4 6 £67,500 +20.00% 4
Walsall - 5 £42,500 -
Shropshire -19 1 - - 2
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 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (4.00%) SAP PP
1 2 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.00%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (12.00%) Azure
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.00%) AWS
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.00%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (36.00%) Power BI
2 13 (26.00%) Metadata
3 7 (14.00%) Tableau
4 6 (12.00%) Power Query
5 4 (8.00%) Data Lake
6 3 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (4.00%) BigQuery
7 2 (4.00%) Data Mining
7 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.00%) DB2
8 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
8 1 (2.00%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.00%) Parquet
8 1 (2.00%) Pentaho
8 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Git
1 2 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) ERwin
2 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.00%) Finance
4 6 (12.00%) Marketing
5 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Spanish Language
7 2 (4.00%) Banking
7 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
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 14 (28.00%) Analyst
2 8 (16.00%) Data Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Senior
3 7 (14.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 7 (14.00%) Data Analyst
3 7 (14.00%) Data Manager
4 6 (12.00%) Data Governance Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Data Governance Manager
4 6 (12.00%) Governance Manager
4 6 (12.00%) Systems Support
5 5 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) CRM Officer
6 4 (8.00%) Support Officer
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Data Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) CRM Coordinator
7 2 (4.00%) Master Data Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Report Manager
7 2 (4.00%) SAP Master Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) .NET
2 2 (4.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.00%) PySpark
2 2 (4.00%) SAP Fiori
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%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.00%) NHS
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 24 (48.00%) Analytics
3 22 (44.00%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (38.00%) Decision-Making
5 15 (30.00%) Data Management
5 15 (30.00%) Data Modelling
6 13 (26.00%) Data Governance
6 13 (26.00%) ETL
6 13 (26.00%) Metadata Management
7 11 (22.00%) Data Cleansing
8 10 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
9 9 (18.00%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (18.00%) ERP
10 8 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (16.00%) Data Analysis
10 8 (16.00%) Data Engineering
10 8 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (16.00%) Data Strategy
11 7 (14.00%) Data Analytics
11 7 (14.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 27 (54.00%) SQL
2 17 (34.00%) Python
3 5 (10.00%) Scala
3 5 (10.00%) T-SQL
4 4 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (6.00%) Bicep
5 3 (6.00%) C#
6 2 (4.00%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (10.00%) Degree
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 5 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.00%) Control-M
2 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (26.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.00%) Databricks
3 3 (6.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.00%) SAP
4 2 (4.00%) Adobe
4 2 (4.00%) Civica
4 2 (4.00%) HubSpot
4 2 (4.00%) Talend
5 1 (2.00%) Adaptive Insights
5 1 (2.00%) BMC
5 1 (2.00%) Denodo
5 1 (2.00%) IBM
5 1 (2.00%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle