Data Quality Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Data Quality
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Data Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 90 102
Rank change year-on-year +23 +12 +24
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 80 22 32
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.98% 1.41% 1.31%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.54% 15.60% 10.77%
Number of salaries quoted 67 22 13
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,763 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £42,370
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,117 £49,136
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% +12.17% -8.16%
75th Percentile £86,250 £58,750 £53,811
90th Percentile £92,000 £65,000 £57,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £49,274
% change year-on-year -4.55% +11.62% -6.14%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 326 141 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 8.08% 9.07% 12.13%
Number of salaries quoted 248 113 176
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,075 £32,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +16.69% -10.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,000 £60,741
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,750 £69,056
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Quality relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Data Quality job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Data Quality
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in West Yorkshire

Data Quality
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Leeds -4 53 £67,500 +17.39% 22
Elland - 17 £35,000 -
Wakefield -10 5 £56,500 +36.14%
Bradford - 2 - - 4
Pontefract - 1 £14,723 -
Data Quality
Yorkshire

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (2.50%) Apache
1 2 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.25%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (23.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (12.50%) SAP MDG
3 7 (8.75%) SAP MDG-BP
4 5 (6.25%) iTrent
5 4 (5.00%) SAP ERP
6 3 (3.75%) SAP MDG-F
7 2 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (1.25%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 29 (36.25%) Azure
2 21 (26.25%) AWS
3 19 (23.75%) GCP
4 12 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (15.00%) Power Platform
5 9 (11.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (6.25%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (5.00%) dbt
8 3 (3.75%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.50%) Alation
9 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.50%) Serverless
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.25%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (26.25%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (17.50%) Metadata
3 12 (15.00%) Power BI
4 8 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (8.75%) BigQuery
6 4 (5.00%) Data Lake
6 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.00%) Tableau
7 2 (2.50%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.50%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (2.50%) Spark SQL
7 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.50%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.25%) Big Data
8 1 (1.25%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.25%) Looker
8 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) GitLab
1 2 (2.50%) MLflow
2 1 (1.25%) JIRA
General
1 30 (37.50%) Finance
2 28 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 22 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 10 (12.50%) Retail
5 5 (6.25%) Legal
5 5 (6.25%) Local Government
6 4 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.75%) Banking
7 3 (3.75%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.50%) Marketing
9 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Games
9 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (21.25%) Architect
2 15 (18.75%) Analyst
2 15 (18.75%) Data Architect
3 12 (15.00%) Data Engineer
3 12 (15.00%) Lead
4 10 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 9 (11.25%) Administrator
5 9 (11.25%) Senior
6 8 (10.00%) SAP Architect
6 8 (10.00%) SAP Data Architect
7 7 (8.75%) Consultant
7 7 (8.75%) SAP Consultant
7 7 (8.75%) SAP MDG Consultant
8 6 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (6.25%) HR Analyst
9 5 (6.25%) HR Data Analyst
9 5 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (5.00%) Business Analyst
10 4 (5.00%) SAP MDM Architect
10 4 (5.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.25%) Middleware
2 4 (5.00%) PySpark
2 4 (5.00%) SAP ALE
2 4 (5.00%) Web Dynpro
3 2 (2.50%) JSON
3 2 (2.50%) XML
4 1 (1.25%) .NET
4 1 (1.25%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.25%) FHIR
4 1 (1.25%) HTML
4 1 (1.25%) REST
4 1 (1.25%) SAP PI
4 1 (1.25%) SOAP
4 1 (1.25%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.75%) Greenfield Project
1 7 (8.75%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (7.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.00%) Replication
5 2 (2.50%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.25%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.25%) NHS
6 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.25%) PMI
6 1 (1.25%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.25%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (42.50%) Data Modelling
2 28 (35.00%) Data Governance
3 25 (31.25%) ERP
4 22 (27.50%) Migration
4 22 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (26.25%) Analytics
5 21 (26.25%) Business Intelligence
6 20 (25.00%) Agile
7 19 (23.75%) CRM
8 18 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (22.50%) Data Architecture
9 16 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
9 16 (20.00%) Decision-Making
9 16 (20.00%) ETL
9 16 (20.00%) Mentoring
10 15 (18.75%) Master Data Management
10 15 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
11 14 (17.50%) Data Engineering
11 14 (17.50%) Data Migration
11 14 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (28.75%) SQL
2 20 (25.00%) Python
3 7 (8.75%) Java
4 6 (7.50%) Scala
5 4 (5.00%) ABAP
6 2 (2.50%) R
6 2 (2.50%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.25%) Bicep
7 1 (1.25%) C#
7 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (10.00%) Degree
2 5 (6.25%) SAP Certification
3 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.25%) CBAP
4 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.75%) GDPR
2 3 (3.75%) QA
3 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (28.75%) SAP
2 17 (21.25%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.75%) Google
4 5 (6.25%) Databricks
4 5 (6.25%) Oracle
5 4 (5.00%) Ariba
6 3 (3.75%) Foundry
6 3 (3.75%) TOWER Software
7 2 (2.50%) Dataiku
8 1 (1.25%) Palantir
8 1 (1.25%) Planon
8 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow