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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 123 164
Rank change year-on-year +2 +41 -25
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 64 65 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.01% 1.76% 1.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.14% 9.13% 6.51%
Number of salaries quoted 56 54 34
10th Percentile £27,500 £42,950 £23,475
25th Percentile £43,106 £50,850 £31,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - +71.43% -30.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £104,250 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 700 712 891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.99% 19.26% 15.74%
Number of salaries quoted 317 392 721
10th Percentile £30,832 £28,822 £27,300
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,134 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,459 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,250 £70,160 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +17 30 £58,750 -2.08% 26
Staffordshire -11 10 £26,000 -51.57% 5
Coventry -8 6 £67,500 +8.00% 3
Walsall +12 5 £44,000 +4.76% 1
Worcestershire -21 3 £67,000 -39.09% 9
Wolverhampton - 2 £67,500 - 2
Solihull 0 1 £71,500 +21.70% 7
Shropshire -27 1 - - 4
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 4 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.56%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (29.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (7.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.69%) SAP PP
3 1 (1.56%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.56%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 22 (34.38%) Power Platform
2 12 (18.75%) Azure
3 9 (14.06%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (9.38%) Power Automate
5 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (7.81%) PowerApps
6 4 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.69%) AWS
8 2 (3.13%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.13%) GCP
8 2 (3.13%) IaaS
8 2 (3.13%) PaaS
9 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.56%) dbt
9 1 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.56%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (1.56%) Serverless
9 1 (1.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (34.38%) Power BI
2 14 (21.88%) Metadata
3 6 (9.38%) Power Query
4 4 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (6.25%) Tableau
5 3 (4.69%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.13%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.56%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.56%) DB2
7 1 (1.56%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.56%) Looker
7 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.56%) Parquet
7 1 (1.56%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.56%) SAP BW
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Git
1 2 (3.13%) JIRA
1 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (21.88%) Finance
4 10 (15.63%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.81%) Manufacturing
5 5 (7.81%) Marketing
6 3 (4.69%) Legal
6 3 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Spanish Language
7 2 (3.13%) Banking
7 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Automotive
8 1 (1.56%) Back Office
8 1 (1.56%) Billing
8 1 (1.56%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (21.88%) Analyst
1 14 (21.88%) Data Manager
2 11 (17.19%) Senior
3 10 (15.63%) Data Governance Analyst
3 10 (15.63%) Data Governance Manager
3 10 (15.63%) Governance Manager
4 9 (14.06%) Data Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 7 (10.94%) Data Analyst
6 5 (7.81%) Developer
6 5 (7.81%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Business Developer
7 4 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (6.25%) CRM Officer
7 4 (6.25%) Data Quality Manager
7 4 (6.25%) Quality Manager
7 4 (6.25%) Senior Manager
7 4 (6.25%) Support Officer
8 3 (4.69%) SAP Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) SAP Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.69%) .NET
1 3 (4.69%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (3.13%) PySpark
3 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.56%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.25%) Driving Licence
2 4 (6.25%) FMCG
2 4 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.25%) Reference Data
2 4 (6.25%) Web Conferencing
3 3 (4.69%) Pricing Data
4 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.56%) Linked Data
5 1 (1.56%) NHS
5 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.56%) Replication
5 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (56.25%) Analytics
2 29 (45.31%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (43.75%) Business Intelligence
3 28 (43.75%) Decision-Making
4 23 (35.94%) Data Governance
5 19 (29.69%) Data Modelling
6 16 (25.00%) Data Management
7 14 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (20.31%) CRM
8 13 (20.31%) ETL
8 13 (20.31%) Metadata Management
9 11 (17.19%) Data Strategy
10 10 (15.63%) Actionable Insight
10 10 (15.63%) Data Analysis
10 10 (15.63%) Data Engineering
10 10 (15.63%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 9 (14.06%) Data Cleansing
12 8 (12.50%) Data Architecture
12 8 (12.50%) ERP
12 8 (12.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (43.75%) SQL
2 13 (20.31%) Python
3 5 (7.81%) T-SQL
4 4 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (6.25%) Scala
5 2 (3.13%) Bicep
5 2 (3.13%) C#
6 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (9.38%) Degree
2 1 (1.56%) CISA
2 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.50%) GDPR
2 3 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (1.56%) Control-M
2 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.06%) SAP
3 5 (7.81%) Databricks
4 2 (3.13%) Adobe
4 2 (3.13%) Civica
4 2 (3.13%) HubSpot
4 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.13%) Talend
5 1 (1.56%) Adaptive Insights
5 1 (1.56%) BMC
5 1 (1.56%) Denodo
5 1 (1.56%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) IBM
5 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle