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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 125 138
Rank change year-on-year +38 +13 -10
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 119 53 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.44% 1.56% 1.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.89% 9.55% 8.75%
Number of salaries quoted 90 45 59
10th Percentile £40,550 £41,250 £33,720
25th Percentile £46,313 £44,000 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,950 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.90% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £91,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -20.00% +11.11%

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 749 555 1,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.08% 16.32% 14.56%
Number of salaries quoted 489 352 661
10th Percentile £30,580 £30,580 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,938 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £51,424 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% -3.88% +1.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -5.17%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +9 52 £67,000 +48.89% 20
Worcestershire -3 15 £65,000 -21.21% 1
Shropshire -7 13 £51,356 -26.63% 14
Staffordshire 0 11 £60,000 +14.29% 5
Warwickshire -8 7 £42,500 -19.05% 18
Solihull +17 6 £30,500 -39.00% 5
Walsall +4 3 £44,000 +3.53% 1
Wolverhampton - 2 £60,000 -
Coventry - 1 £54,150 - 1
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 5 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.84%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (10.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (3.36%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 35 (29.41%) Power Platform
2 30 (25.21%) Azure
3 15 (12.61%) AWS
4 13 (10.92%) GCP
5 10 (8.40%) Power Automate
5 10 (8.40%) Snowflake
6 9 (7.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (7.56%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (5.04%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (4.20%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.52%) dbt
9 3 (2.52%) Google Ads
9 3 (2.52%) Meta Ads
10 2 (1.68%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.68%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.68%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.68%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.68%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (1.68%) IaaS
10 2 (1.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.68%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (29.41%) Power BI
2 12 (10.08%) Data Lake
3 11 (9.24%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (8.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (7.56%) Metadata
6 8 (6.72%) Power Query
7 7 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (5.88%) Tableau
8 5 (4.20%) Star Schema
9 3 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.52%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.52%) MySQL
9 3 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.52%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.68%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.68%) Looker
11 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (3.36%) Git
3 3 (2.52%) JIRA
4 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 33 (27.73%) Social Skills
2 31 (26.05%) Finance
3 23 (19.33%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (8.40%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.20%) Fire and Rescue
6 5 (4.20%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.36%) Legal
8 3 (2.52%) Marketing
8 3 (2.52%) Retail
9 2 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.84%) Automotive
10 1 (0.84%) Billing
10 1 (0.84%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.84%) Games
10 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (20.17%) Data Manager
2 21 (17.65%) Architect
2 21 (17.65%) Data Architect
3 15 (12.61%) Data Quality Manager
3 15 (12.61%) Quality Manager
4 14 (11.76%) Analyst
5 12 (10.08%) Data Engineer
6 10 (8.40%) Data Governance Analyst
6 10 (8.40%) Data Governance Manager
6 10 (8.40%) Developer
6 10 (8.40%) Governance Manager
7 8 (6.72%) Senior
8 7 (5.88%) Lead
8 7 (5.88%) Supply Chain Controller
9 6 (5.04%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 5 (4.20%) Business Intelligence Lead
10 5 (4.20%) CRM Developer
10 5 (4.20%) Data Analyst
10 5 (4.20%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
10 5 (4.20%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.04%) .NET
1 6 (5.04%) PySpark
2 5 (4.20%) REST
3 2 (1.68%) GraphQL
3 2 (1.68%) JSON
3 2 (1.68%) RESTful
3 2 (1.68%) XML
4 1 (0.84%) Kafka
4 1 (0.84%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.72%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 7 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.04%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (5.04%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.20%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.68%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.68%) PMI
7 1 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.84%) CMDB
7 1 (0.84%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.84%) Replication
7 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.84%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (41.18%) Analytics
2 44 (36.97%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (36.97%) Data Governance
2 44 (36.97%) Decision-Making
3 39 (32.77%) Data Modelling
4 36 (30.25%) AI
5 33 (27.73%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (26.89%) Data Management
7 26 (21.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (21.85%) Data Architecture
8 24 (20.17%) Roadmaps
9 18 (15.13%) CRM
9 18 (15.13%) Data Engineering
9 18 (15.13%) Data Protection
10 16 (13.45%) Agile
10 16 (13.45%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 16 (13.45%) ERP
11 15 (12.61%) Data Visualisation
11 15 (12.61%) ETL
11 15 (12.61%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 39 (32.77%) SQL
2 25 (21.01%) Python
3 11 (9.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.04%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.36%) R
6 3 (2.52%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.68%) Java
8 1 (0.84%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.84%) C#
8 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (12.61%) Degree
2 3 (2.52%) ACCA
2 3 (2.52%) CIMA
2 3 (2.52%) CIPD
3 2 (1.68%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.68%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.68%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.45%) GDPR
2 7 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (2.52%) QA
4 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.84%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.84%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (0.84%) SCCM
1 1 (0.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (12.61%) Databricks
1 15 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.08%) SAP
3 6 (5.04%) Google
4 5 (4.20%) Sage
5 4 (3.36%) Xero
6 1 (0.84%) Oracle
6 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.84%) Workday