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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 124 142
Rank change year-on-year +34 +18 +1
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 126 50 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.46% 1.47% 1.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.03% 9.67% 9.76%
Number of salaries quoted 90 41 58
10th Percentile £36,475 £41,000 £32,195
25th Percentile £46,132 £41,250 £37,501
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £56,891
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -20.90% +8.36%
75th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £63,750 £70,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -25.81% +10.71%

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 786 517 891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.13% 15.16% 14.14%
Number of salaries quoted 537 325 544
10th Percentile £30,982 £30,580 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -2.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,201 £73,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,037 £56,651
% change year-on-year +4.48% -2.85% -5.58%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 56 £67,862 +50.80% 56
Shropshire -6 19 £51,356 -26.63% 9
Staffordshire +12 12 £60,000 +20.00% 6
Worcestershire -13 11 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Warwickshire -11 9 £42,500 -19.05% 20
Solihull - 5 £30,500 - 7
Wolverhampton - 3 £62,500 -
Coventry - 3 £46,075 - 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 3 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.59%) SAS
3 1 (0.79%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.59%) Navisworks
3 2 (1.59%) Revit
3 2 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.17%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 37 (29.37%) Power Platform
2 36 (28.57%) Azure
3 17 (13.49%) AWS
4 13 (10.32%) GCP
5 9 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
5 9 (7.14%) Snowflake
6 8 (6.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.17%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (3.17%) Google Ads
8 4 (3.17%) Meta Ads
8 4 (3.17%) PaaS
8 4 (3.17%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.59%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (1.59%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.59%) dbt
10 2 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (29.37%) Power BI
2 16 (12.70%) Data Lake
3 12 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (8.73%) Tableau
5 10 (7.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (7.14%) Metadata
7 7 (5.56%) Power Query
7 7 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (3.97%) Delta Lake
9 4 (3.17%) Big Data
9 4 (3.17%) Data Mining
9 4 (3.17%) Oracle BI EE
9 4 (3.17%) QlikView
9 4 (3.17%) Star Schema
10 3 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.38%) MySQL
10 3 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.38%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.59%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (5.56%) Git
2 4 (3.17%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (2.38%) JIRA
4 1 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 37 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 32 (25.40%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (22.22%) Finance
4 19 (15.08%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (5.56%) Fire and Rescue
8 6 (4.76%) Legal
9 4 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.17%) Marketing
10 3 (2.38%) Billing
10 3 (2.38%) Retail
11 1 (0.79%) Games
Job Titles
1 21 (16.67%) Architect
1 21 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 19 (15.08%) Data Manager
3 18 (14.29%) Lead
4 15 (11.90%) Data Engineer
5 12 (9.52%) Analyst
6 10 (7.94%) Data Quality Manager
6 10 (7.94%) Quality Manager
7 9 (7.14%) Data Governance Analyst
7 9 (7.14%) Data Governance Manager
7 9 (7.14%) Governance Manager
7 9 (7.14%) Senior
8 8 (6.35%) Business Intelligence Lead
9 7 (5.56%) Developer
9 7 (5.56%) Supply Chain Controller
9 7 (5.56%) Team Leader
10 6 (4.76%) Administrator
11 5 (3.97%) Data Analyst
11 5 (3.97%) Senior Architect
11 5 (3.97%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.94%) PySpark
2 7 (5.56%) .NET
3 6 (4.76%) REST
4 4 (3.17%) PyTorch
4 4 (3.17%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.59%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.59%) JSON
5 2 (1.59%) RESTful
5 2 (1.59%) XML
6 1 (0.79%) Kafka
6 1 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.35%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 7 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.17%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.17%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.59%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.59%) PMI
8 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.79%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.79%) CMDB
8 1 (0.79%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.79%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (41.27%) Analytics
2 48 (38.10%) Business Intelligence
2 48 (38.10%) Data Governance
2 48 (38.10%) Decision-Making
3 41 (32.54%) Data Management
3 41 (32.54%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (31.75%) AI
5 38 (30.16%) Data Modelling
6 32 (25.40%) Data Architecture
7 28 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (22.22%) Roadmaps
8 24 (19.05%) Agile
9 21 (16.67%) ETL
10 20 (15.87%) Data Engineering
10 20 (15.87%) Data Protection
10 20 (15.87%) Visualisation
11 19 (15.08%) ERP
12 18 (14.29%) Data Security
13 17 (13.49%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (12.70%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 38 (30.16%) SQL
2 32 (25.40%) Python
3 11 (8.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (7.94%) R
5 9 (7.14%) Java
6 7 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.38%) C#
8 2 (1.59%) C++
9 1 (0.79%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (3.17%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.38%) ACCA
3 3 (2.38%) CIMA
3 3 (2.38%) CIPD
4 2 (1.59%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.59%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.67%) GDPR
2 8 (6.35%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.38%) QA
6 2 (1.59%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.79%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.79%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (0.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (13.49%) Databricks
2 14 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.56%) SAP
4 6 (4.76%) Google
5 5 (3.97%) Sage
6 4 (3.17%) Xero
7 3 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.59%) Oracle
8 2 (1.59%) Workday
9 1 (0.79%) Denodo
9 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow