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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 128 140
Rank change year-on-year +43 +12 +13
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 146 43 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.63% 1.31% 1.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.36% 9.01% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 100 34 54
10th Percentile £32,250 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,000 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £43,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.73% -24.78% +15.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £53,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £63,675 £71,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £56,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.62% -24.67% +7.14%

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 795 477 858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.86% 14.58% 15.07%
Number of salaries quoted 535 301 440
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,580 £28,119
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £58,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,300 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £58,465
% change year-on-year -2.65% -3.36% -2.56%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +14 65 £69,348 +63.17% 76
Shropshire +3 23 £51,356 -26.63% 15
Staffordshire +4 13 £60,000 +31.87% 11
Worcestershire - 12 £65,000 - 18
Warwickshire -14 11 £39,750 -24.29% 26
Coventry - 5 £38,000 - 10
Solihull - 5 £30,500 - 8
Wolverhampton - 2 £62,500 - 10
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 (2.05%) SAS
2 2 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.68%) Apache
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (7.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.05%) Navisworks
3 3 (2.05%) Revit
3 3 (2.05%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Sage 50
1 4 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (30.82%) Azure
2 40 (27.40%) Power Platform
3 14 (9.59%) AWS
4 10 (6.85%) GCP
4 10 (6.85%) Microsoft Purview
5 7 (4.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.11%) Snowflake
7 5 (3.42%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (3.42%) Azure Databricks
7 5 (3.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.42%) PaaS
8 4 (2.74%) GitHub
8 4 (2.74%) Google Ads
8 4 (2.74%) Meta Ads
9 3 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.05%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.05%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (27.40%) Power BI
2 17 (11.64%) Data Lake
3 16 (10.96%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (9.59%) Metadata
4 14 (9.59%) Tableau
5 13 (8.90%) Power Query
5 13 (8.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (7.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (6.16%) Delta Lake
7 9 (6.16%) Star Schema
8 7 (4.79%) Metadata Repository
9 5 (3.42%) Big Data
9 5 (3.42%) Data Mining
9 5 (3.42%) Oracle BI EE
9 5 (3.42%) QlikView
9 5 (3.42%) RDBMS
9 5 (3.42%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.42%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.74%) Parquet
11 3 (2.05%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (8.22%) Git
2 4 (2.74%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (2.05%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.37%) JIRA
4 2 (1.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 50 (34.25%) Analytical Skills
2 44 (30.14%) Social Skills
3 27 (18.49%) Finance
4 24 (16.44%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.90%) Legal
6 12 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (6.85%) Fire and Rescue
8 9 (6.16%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.74%) Marketing
10 4 (2.74%) Retail
11 3 (2.05%) Billing
12 2 (1.37%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.68%) Automotive
13 1 (0.68%) Games
13 1 (0.68%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (15.75%) Architect
1 23 (15.75%) Data Architect
1 23 (15.75%) Data Engineer
2 22 (15.07%) Lead
3 18 (12.33%) Data Manager
4 17 (11.64%) Analyst
5 14 (9.59%) Senior
6 11 (7.53%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 10 (6.85%) Senior Architect
7 10 (6.85%) Senior Data Architect
7 10 (6.85%) Team Leader
8 9 (6.16%) Data Governance Analyst
8 9 (6.16%) Data Governance Manager
8 9 (6.16%) Governance Manager
9 7 (4.79%) Data Analyst
9 7 (4.79%) Data Quality Manager
9 7 (4.79%) Quality Manager
9 7 (4.79%) Supply Chain Controller
10 6 (4.11%) Developer
10 6 (4.11%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.59%) PySpark
2 6 (4.11%) .NET
2 6 (4.11%) REST
3 5 (3.42%) PyTorch
3 5 (3.42%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.37%) GraphQL
4 2 (1.37%) JSON
4 2 (1.37%) RESTful
4 2 (1.37%) XML
5 1 (0.68%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.68%) Kafka
5 1 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.68%) React
5 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.53%) Data Protection Act
2 10 (6.85%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.16%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.48%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.79%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.11%) Taxonomies
7 5 (3.42%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.42%) Reference Data
8 4 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.74%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.05%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.37%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.37%) PMI
10 2 (1.37%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.68%) Autonomous Agent
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (42.47%) Analytics
2 60 (41.10%) Data Governance
3 59 (40.41%) Business Intelligence
4 56 (38.36%) Decision-Making
5 55 (37.67%) Data Management
6 50 (34.25%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (31.51%) Data Modelling
8 42 (28.77%) AI
9 39 (26.71%) Data Architecture
10 38 (26.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (20.55%) Agile
11 30 (20.55%) Roadmaps
12 27 (18.49%) Visualisation
13 26 (17.81%) Data Engineering
13 26 (17.81%) ETL
14 22 (15.07%) Data Analysis
14 22 (15.07%) ERP
14 22 (15.07%) Information Security
14 22 (15.07%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (14.38%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 50 (34.25%) SQL
2 43 (29.45%) Python
3 16 (10.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (7.53%) R
5 10 (6.85%) Java
6 6 (4.11%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.05%) C#
8 2 (1.37%) C++
9 1 (0.68%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.68%) Bash
9 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (15.07%) Degree
2 5 (3.42%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.74%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.05%) CIPD
4 3 (2.05%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.37%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.68%) ACCA
6 1 (0.68%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (17.12%) GDPR
2 7 (4.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 5 (3.42%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.05%) ISO 19650
5 3 (2.05%) QA
6 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.68%) PMO
Vendors
1 25 (17.12%) Microsoft
2 22 (15.07%) Databricks
3 8 (5.48%) SAP
4 6 (4.11%) Google
5 5 (3.42%) Sage
6 4 (2.74%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.74%) Xero
7 3 (2.05%) Workday
8 2 (1.37%) Oracle
9 1 (0.68%) Denodo
9 1 (0.68%) IFS