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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 108 160
Rank change year-on-year +21 +52 -46
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 108 64 110
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.41% 2.12% 1.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.21% 10.98% 9.06%
Number of salaries quoted 83 55 67
10th Percentile £39,150 £42,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,104 £44,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £53,688 £56,282
Median % change year-on-year +17.49% -4.61% +7.20%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £102,750 £69,965
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +3.70%

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 710 583 1,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.28% 19.30% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 453 363 868
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £34,089
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,068 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% - -
75th Percentile £67,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £59,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.48% +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 June 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 June 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 +18 51 £65,000 +10.70% 20
Worcestershire -1 15 £65,000 -40.91% 1
Staffordshire -4 6 £43,000 -19.91% 8
Warwickshire -10 6 £42,500 -19.05% 7
Shropshire -15 6 £46,428 -22.62% 8
Solihull +12 5 £30,500 -44.55% 1
Walsall +3 3 £44,000 +4.76%
Wolverhampton - 3 £67,500 -
Coventry - 1 £54,150 - 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 (6.48%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 10 (9.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (9.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (3.70%) Sage 50
4 3 (2.78%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 29 (26.85%) Power Platform
2 23 (21.30%) Azure
3 12 (11.11%) AWS
4 11 (10.19%) GCP
5 10 (9.26%) Power Automate
6 9 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (7.41%) Snowflake
8 6 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (4.63%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.78%) dbt
11 2 (1.85%) Google Ads
11 2 (1.85%) Google Analytics
11 2 (1.85%) Google Tag Manager
11 2 (1.85%) IaaS
11 2 (1.85%) Meta Ads
11 2 (1.85%) PaaS
12 1 (0.93%) Amazon EMR
12 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (26.85%) Power BI
2 8 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (6.48%) Data Lake
3 7 (6.48%) Tableau
4 6 (5.56%) Metadata
5 5 (4.63%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.70%) Power Query
6 4 (3.70%) Star Schema
7 3 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.85%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.85%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.85%) Looker
8 2 (1.85%) MySQL
8 2 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.93%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (2.78%) JIRA
3 2 (1.85%) Git
3 2 (1.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 30 (27.78%) Finance
2 29 (26.85%) Social Skills
3 18 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (10.19%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Legal
8 2 (1.85%) Marketing
8 2 (1.85%) Retail
9 1 (0.93%) Automotive
9 1 (0.93%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.93%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.93%) Games
9 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (25.00%) Data Manager
2 15 (13.89%) Architect
2 15 (13.89%) Data Architect
2 15 (13.89%) Data Quality Manager
2 15 (13.89%) Quality Manager
3 14 (12.96%) Analyst
4 13 (12.04%) Data Governance Analyst
4 13 (12.04%) Data Governance Manager
4 13 (12.04%) Governance Manager
5 12 (11.11%) Developer
6 10 (9.26%) Senior
7 9 (8.33%) Data Engineer
8 7 (6.48%) Data Analyst
9 6 (5.56%) Business Developer
9 6 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 5 (4.63%) CRM Developer
10 5 (4.63%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
11 4 (3.70%) Associate Consultant
11 4 (3.70%) Supply Chain Controller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.56%) .NET
2 5 (4.63%) PySpark
3 3 (2.78%) REST
3 3 (2.78%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.93%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.93%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.85%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.93%) CMDB
7 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.93%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Linked Data
7 1 (0.93%) Replication
7 1 (0.93%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (38.89%) Analytics
1 42 (38.89%) Data Governance
2 37 (34.26%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (31.48%) AI
3 34 (31.48%) Decision-Making
4 32 (29.63%) Data Modelling
5 30 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (23.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (22.22%) Data Management
8 16 (14.81%) CRM
8 16 (14.81%) Data Architecture
8 16 (14.81%) Roadmaps
9 15 (13.89%) ERP
10 14 (12.96%) ETL
11 13 (12.04%) Data Engineering
11 13 (12.04%) Data Strategy
11 13 (12.04%) Data Visualisation
11 13 (12.04%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 13 (12.04%) Visualisation
12 12 (11.11%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 31 (28.70%) SQL
2 16 (14.81%) Python
3 6 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.70%) R
5 3 (2.78%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.93%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.93%) C#
6 1 (0.93%) Java
6 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (12.04%) Degree
2 3 (2.78%) ACCA
2 3 (2.78%) CIMA
3 2 (1.85%) CIPD
3 2 (1.85%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.85%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.93%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.19%) GDPR
2 7 (6.48%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (2.78%) QA
4 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.93%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.93%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (0.93%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (13.89%) SAP
2 13 (12.04%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.11%) Databricks
4 5 (4.63%) Sage
5 4 (3.70%) Google
5 4 (3.70%) Xero
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle
6 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.93%) Workday