Data Quality Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Quality
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Data Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Quality over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 185 260
Rank change year-on-year -45 +75 +23
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 282 601 473
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.45% 1.69% 1.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.70% 13.66% 8.61%
Number of salaries quoted 177 495 335
10th Percentile £42,495 £35,000 £42,900
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,201 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.73% +20.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £106,250 £80,875
90th Percentile £97,000 £148,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £59,375 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -15.18% +7.69% +8.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,241 4,399 5,496
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.65% 12.35% 14.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,779 3,249 3,727
10th Percentile £36,450 £34,700 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

Data Quality
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Quality trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Quality
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Quality.

Data Quality salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Quality
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Quality over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Data Quality salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (8.87%) Apache Spark
2 16 (5.67%) Apache
2 16 (5.67%) SharePoint
3 12 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 56 (19.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.48%) Q-Pulse
2 6 (2.13%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.06%) Raiser’s Edge
3 3 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.71%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.71%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.35%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 106 (37.59%) Power Platform
2 80 (28.37%) Azure
3 41 (14.54%) AWS
4 36 (12.77%) Snowflake
5 24 (8.51%) Azure Data Factory
6 23 (8.16%) GCP
7 17 (6.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 16 (5.67%) Power Automate
8 16 (5.67%) PowerApps
9 12 (4.26%) Serverless
10 10 (3.55%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.55%) Collibra
10 10 (3.55%) dbt
10 10 (3.55%) GitHub
10 10 (3.55%) IaaS
10 10 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (3.55%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (3.55%) PaaS
11 9 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.35%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (37.23%) Power BI
2 69 (24.47%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (13.48%) Tableau
4 28 (9.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 26 (9.22%) Data Lake
5 26 (9.22%) Metadata
6 25 (8.87%) SQL Server
7 19 (6.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 15 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (4.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (4.96%) Hadoop
10 13 (4.61%) Big Data
11 12 (4.26%) BigQuery
12 10 (3.55%) Metadata Repository
12 10 (3.55%) Star Schema
13 9 (3.19%) Delta Lake
14 8 (2.84%) NoSQL
15 7 (2.48%) Relational Database
16 6 (2.13%) Apache Hudi
16 6 (2.13%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 10 (3.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 6 (2.13%) Bitbucket
3 5 (1.77%) JIRA
4 3 (1.06%) Git
5 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 131 (46.45%) Finance
2 113 (40.07%) Social Skills
3 69 (24.47%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.16%) Banking
5 22 (7.80%) Law
6 18 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (5.32%) Retail
8 11 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (3.19%) Military
10 8 (2.84%) Games
10 8 (2.84%) Local Government
10 8 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.48%) Aerospace
11 7 (2.48%) Aviation
11 7 (2.48%) Legal
11 7 (2.48%) Public Sector
12 6 (2.13%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.77%) Automotive
13 5 (1.77%) Tech for Good
14 4 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (23.40%) Data Engineer
2 65 (23.05%) Analyst
3 52 (18.44%) Data Analyst
4 44 (15.60%) Senior
5 27 (9.57%) Lead
6 26 (9.22%) Procurement Analyst
7 25 (8.87%) Data Manager
8 23 (8.16%) Senior Data Engineer
9 17 (6.03%) Developer
10 13 (4.61%) Architect
10 13 (4.61%) Data Architect
11 12 (4.26%) SQL Developer
12 11 (3.90%) Business Developer
13 10 (3.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 10 (3.55%) ETL Developer
13 10 (3.55%) Power BI Developer
13 10 (3.55%) SQL BI Developer
14 9 (3.19%) Administrator
14 9 (3.19%) Junior
15 8 (2.84%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.45%) PySpark
2 12 (4.26%) XML
3 11 (3.90%) Kafka
4 6 (2.13%) PyArrow
5 5 (1.77%) JSON
5 5 (1.77%) Pandas
6 4 (1.42%) Dask
6 4 (1.42%) Polars
6 4 (1.42%) XGBoost
7 3 (1.06%) .NET
7 3 (1.06%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.06%) REST
7 3 (1.06%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.06%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.71%) EDI
8 2 (0.71%) Middleware
9 1 (0.35%) HTML
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.35%) RESTful
9 1 (0.35%) TAPI
Miscellaneous
1 60 (21.28%) Management Information System
2 12 (4.26%) Data Structures
3 8 (2.84%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.48%) e-Learning
4 7 (2.48%) Reference Data
5 4 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.42%) Social Media
6 3 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.06%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.06%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.06%) Replication
6 3 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.06%) Smart City
7 2 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.71%) Digital Media
7 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.71%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (0.71%) Life Science
7 2 (0.71%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.13%) Unix
2 4 (1.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (46.81%) Analytics
2 104 (36.88%) Data Management
3 103 (36.52%) Data Governance
4 94 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 77 (27.30%) Visualisation
6 74 (26.24%) ETL
7 73 (25.89%) Data Analysis
8 70 (24.82%) Data Engineering
9 65 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (21.99%) Decision-Making
11 55 (19.50%) Data Modelling
12 52 (18.44%) Agile
13 49 (17.38%) Data Analytics
13 49 (17.38%) Migration
14 46 (16.31%) Data Science
15 43 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (14.54%) Data Pipeline
16 41 (14.54%) Mentoring
17 38 (13.48%) Data Visualisation
18 37 (13.12%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 142 (50.35%) SQL
2 76 (26.95%) Python
3 20 (7.09%) T-SQL
4 15 (5.32%) C#
5 12 (4.26%) PowerShell
6 11 (3.90%) PL/SQL
7 9 (3.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (2.84%) Java
9 7 (2.48%) Scala
10 6 (2.13%) R
11 2 (0.71%) Go
11 2 (0.71%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.35%) SHACL
12 1 (0.35%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 66 (23.40%) Degree
2 13 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (3.55%) Azure Certification
4 9 (3.19%) Security Cleared
5 6 (2.13%) DBS Check
5 6 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.06%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.71%) HNC
9 1 (0.35%) CRISC
9 1 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.35%) PMP
9 1 (0.35%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.80%) GDPR
2 21 (7.45%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.55%) QA
4 6 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.35%) COBIT
6 1 (0.35%) GRC
6 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (3.55%) HDFS
2 7 (2.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (3.90%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.13%) Terraform
3 1 (0.35%) Matomo
Vendors
1 63 (22.34%) Microsoft
2 40 (14.18%) SAP
3 35 (12.41%) Databricks
4 19 (6.74%) Google
5 14 (4.96%) Informatica
6 11 (3.90%) Salesforce
7 10 (3.55%) Cognos
8 8 (2.84%) Oracle
9 6 (2.13%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.42%) Talend
10 4 (1.42%) Teradata
10 4 (1.42%) Xero
11 3 (1.06%) IBM
11 3 (1.06%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.71%) NEC
13 1 (0.35%) Alteryx
13 1 (0.35%) Cloudera
13 1 (0.35%) Foundry
13 1 (0.35%) MicroStrategy
13 1 (0.35%) Palantir