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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 119 143
Rank change year-on-year +30 +24 -12
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 121 53 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.43% 1.55% 1.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.59% 9.50% 9.68%
Number of salaries quoted 91 45 59
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £33,720
25th Percentile £46,500 £43,500 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £56,282
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.16% +7.20%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,000 £70,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -23.33% +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 776 558 940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.16% 16.35% 14.35%
Number of salaries quoted 513 356 595
10th Percentile £30,580 £30,580 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.27%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,629 £77,650
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,785 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.26% +3.25% -8.33%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -5 48 £69,973 +55.49% 28
Shropshire -5 16 £51,356 -26.63% 11
Worcestershire -5 15 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Staffordshire +5 12 £60,000 +14.29% 5
Warwickshire -13 7 £42,500 -19.05% 17
Solihull - 6 £30,500 - 5
Walsall +3 3 £44,000 +3.53% 2
Wolverhampton - 3 £61,250 - 2
Coventry - 1 £54,150 - 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 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) Apache
3 1 (0.83%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.83%) Navisworks
4 1 (0.83%) Revit
4 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (5.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (3.31%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 37 (30.58%) Power Platform
2 29 (23.97%) Azure
3 15 (12.40%) AWS
4 13 (10.74%) GCP
5 10 (8.26%) Snowflake
6 9 (7.44%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (6.61%) Power Automate
8 6 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (4.96%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.48%) dbt
9 3 (2.48%) Google Ads
9 3 (2.48%) Meta Ads
9 3 (2.48%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.65%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.65%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.65%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (1.65%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.65%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.65%) Google Tag Manager
11 1 (0.83%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.65%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (30.58%) Power BI
2 13 (10.74%) Data Lake
3 12 (9.92%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (8.26%) Metadata
4 10 (8.26%) Power Query
4 10 (8.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (5.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (5.79%) Tableau
6 3 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.48%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.48%) MySQL
6 3 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.48%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.48%) Star Schema
7 2 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.65%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.65%) Looker
8 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.83%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (3.31%) Git
3 3 (2.48%) JIRA
General
1 35 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 30 (24.79%) Finance
3 27 (22.31%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.57%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.79%) Fire and Rescue
7 6 (4.96%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.48%) Marketing
9 2 (1.65%) Billing
9 2 (1.65%) Legal
9 2 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Retail
10 1 (0.83%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.83%) Games
10 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (19.01%) Data Manager
2 22 (18.18%) Architect
2 22 (18.18%) Data Architect
3 14 (11.57%) Analyst
3 14 (11.57%) Data Quality Manager
3 14 (11.57%) Quality Manager
4 11 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 10 (8.26%) Lead
6 9 (7.44%) Data Governance Analyst
6 9 (7.44%) Data Governance Manager
6 9 (7.44%) Governance Manager
7 8 (6.61%) Developer
7 8 (6.61%) Senior
8 7 (5.79%) Business Intelligence Lead
8 7 (5.79%) Supply Chain Controller
8 7 (5.79%) Team Leader
9 6 (4.96%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 5 (4.13%) CRM Developer
10 5 (4.13%) Data Analyst
10 5 (4.13%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.96%) .NET
1 6 (4.96%) PySpark
2 5 (4.13%) REST
3 2 (1.65%) GraphQL
3 2 (1.65%) JSON
3 2 (1.65%) RESTful
3 2 (1.65%) XML
4 1 (0.83%) Kafka
4 1 (0.83%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.61%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (5.79%) Data Structures
2 7 (5.79%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.96%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.96%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.13%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.65%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.65%) PMI
6 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.83%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.83%) CMDB
7 1 (0.83%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.83%) Replication
7 1 (0.83%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (42.98%) Analytics
2 46 (38.02%) Business Intelligence
2 46 (38.02%) Data Governance
2 46 (38.02%) Decision-Making
3 40 (33.06%) Data Modelling
4 36 (29.75%) AI
4 36 (29.75%) Data Management
4 36 (29.75%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (23.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (23.97%) Data Architecture
6 26 (21.49%) Roadmaps
7 20 (16.53%) Data Protection
8 19 (15.70%) Agile
9 17 (14.05%) Data Engineering
9 17 (14.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 16 (13.22%) CRM
10 16 (13.22%) Data Visualisation
10 16 (13.22%) ERP
10 16 (13.22%) Visualisation
11 15 (12.40%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 39 (32.23%) SQL
2 26 (21.49%) Python
3 13 (10.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.96%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.13%) R
6 3 (2.48%) Java
6 3 (2.48%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.83%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.83%) C#
7 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (14.05%) Degree
2 3 (2.48%) ACCA
2 3 (2.48%) CIMA
2 3 (2.48%) CIPD
2 3 (2.48%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.65%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.65%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.83%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.88%) GDPR
2 7 (5.79%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (2.48%) QA
4 2 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.83%) ISO 19650
5 1 (0.83%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.83%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (0.83%) SCCM
1 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (13.22%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.57%) Databricks
3 12 (9.92%) SAP
4 6 (4.96%) Google
5 5 (4.13%) Sage
6 4 (3.31%) Xero
7 1 (0.83%) Denodo
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle
7 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.83%) Workday