Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 28 January 2022

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Data Quality skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Quality over the 6 months to 28 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Data Quality
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
28 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 296 248 241
Rank change year-on-year -48 -7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 280 99 39
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.94% 0.88% 0.53%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.58% 8.21% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 227 84 25
10th Percentile £35,779 £30,375 £31,450
25th Percentile £47,500 £36,250 £40,648
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -16.92% +17.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,125 £78,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

Data Quality is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,256 1,206 735
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.35% 10.71% 10.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,938 964 606
10th Percentile £33,320 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,250 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.05% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% +5.00%

Data Quality
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Quality trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Quality
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Data Quality over the 6 months to 28 January 2022.

Data Quality salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 28 January 2022, Data Quality job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Data Quality.

1 147 (52.50%) SQL
2 129 (46.07%) Business Intelligence
3 114 (40.71%) Analytics
4 111 (39.64%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (33.93%) ETL
6 91 (32.50%) Data Management
7 90 (32.14%) Data Warehouse
8 87 (31.07%) Data Modelling
9 77 (27.50%) Data Governance
9 77 (27.50%) Visualisation
10 74 (26.43%) Azure
11 73 (26.07%) Python
11 73 (26.07%) Social Skills
12 70 (25.00%) Power Platform
12 70 (25.00%) Power BI
13 66 (23.57%) Microsoft
14 64 (22.86%) Agile Software Development
15 63 (22.50%) Degree
16 62 (22.14%) Finance
17 61 (21.79%) Microsoft Excel
18 60 (21.43%) Data Architecture
19 58 (20.71%) Migration
20 57 (20.36%) Data Analysis
21 51 (18.21%) Data Visualisation
21 51 (18.21%) Data Science
22 50 (17.86%) Big Data
22 50 (17.86%) Data Analytics
23 48 (17.14%) AWS
24 45 (16.07%) Machine Learning
24 45 (16.07%) Oracle

Data Quality
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 15 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.86%) SAS
3 5 (1.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (1.79%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.07%) Apache
4 3 (1.07%) Confluence
4 3 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.71%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.36%) Camunda
6 1 (0.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 61 (21.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.50%) SPSS
4 6 (2.14%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.79%) Oracle BRM
2 3 (1.07%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.07%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.07%) SAP MDG
2 3 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.71%) Avolution ABACUS
4 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.36%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.36%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.36%) Salesforce.com CRM
4 1 (0.36%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 74 (26.43%) Azure
2 70 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 48 (17.14%) AWS
4 30 (10.71%) GCP
5 16 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (2.86%) Collibra
7 7 (2.50%) Amazon EMR
7 7 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.79%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.79%) Serverless
10 4 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.43%) Datadog
10 4 (1.43%) SaaS
11 3 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.07%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.07%) PaaS
11 3 (1.07%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.79%) Intranet
2 3 (1.07%) Broadband
3 1 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (32.14%) Data Warehouse
2 70 (25.00%) Power BI
3 50 (17.86%) Big Data
4 39 (13.93%) SQL Server
5 31 (11.07%) Data Lake
6 29 (10.36%) Metadata
7 27 (9.64%) Relational Database
8 26 (9.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 26 (9.29%) Tableau
9 25 (8.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (8.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 22 (7.86%) Hadoop
12 19 (6.79%) NoSQL
13 15 (5.36%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (5.36%) Spotfire
14 12 (4.29%) SQL Server 2012
15 10 (3.57%) MySQL
16 8 (2.86%) Apache Hive
17 7 (2.50%) Impala
17 7 (2.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (2.50%) Git (software)
1 7 (2.50%) Visual Studio
2 4 (1.43%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.43%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (1.07%) JIRA
3 3 (1.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.71%) ERwin
5 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.36%) Mocha
5 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 111 (39.64%) Analytical Skills
2 73 (26.07%) Social Skills
3 62 (22.14%) Finance
4 21 (7.50%) Retail
5 15 (5.36%) Pharmaceutical
6 14 (5.00%) Banking
7 12 (4.29%) Manufacturing
8 11 (3.93%) Local Government
9 9 (3.21%) Law
9 9 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.21%) Social Housing
10 8 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.86%) Marketing
11 5 (1.79%) Legal
11 5 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.43%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.71%) Advertising
13 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 79 (28.21%) Analyst
2 52 (18.57%) Data Analyst
3 50 (17.86%) Data Engineer
4 42 (15.00%) Architect
5 36 (12.86%) Data Architect
6 30 (10.71%) Developer
7 23 (8.21%) Consultant
8 22 (7.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 17 (6.07%) Data Consultant
10 16 (5.71%) Data Quality Analyst
11 15 (5.36%) Business Intelligence Lead
11 15 (5.36%) Quality Analyst
12 14 (5.00%) Data Manager
13 13 (4.64%) Enterprise Architect
13 13 (4.64%) Enterprise Data Architect
14 12 (4.29%) Lead Developer
15 10 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 10 (3.57%) Technical Architect
16 9 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
16 9 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.71%) Kafka
2 6 (2.14%) XML
3 5 (1.79%) Web Services
4 3 (1.07%) .NET
4 3 (1.07%) Ajax
4 3 (1.07%) JSON
4 3 (1.07%) React
4 3 (1.07%) Visualforce
5 2 (0.71%) Apache Avro
5 2 (0.71%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (0.71%) Apache Thrift
5 2 (0.71%) J2EE
5 2 (0.71%) Lucene
5 2 (0.71%) Middleware
5 2 (0.71%) Protocol Buffers
5 2 (0.71%) RESTful
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Camel
6 1 (0.36%) CSS
6 1 (0.36%) LDAP
6 1 (0.36%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 21 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (5.71%) Data Structures
4 14 (5.00%) Algorithms
5 13 (4.64%) Biotechnology
6 12 (4.29%) Virtual Team
7 11 (3.93%) Housing Association
8 9 (3.21%) User Experience
9 8 (2.86%) Reference Data
10 7 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.07%) Mashup
12 3 (1.07%) Social Media
13 2 (0.71%) Derivative
13 2 (0.71%) Equities
13 2 (0.71%) Fixed Income
13 2 (0.71%) OTC Derivatives
13 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.71%) Replication
13 2 (0.71%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.43%) Windows
2 3 (1.07%) Linux
3 2 (0.71%) Unix
4 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.36%) Windows Mobile
4 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (46.07%) Business Intelligence
2 114 (40.71%) Analytics
3 95 (33.93%) ETL
4 91 (32.50%) Data Management
5 87 (31.07%) Data Modelling
6 77 (27.50%) Data Governance
6 77 (27.50%) Visualisation
7 64 (22.86%) Agile Software Development
8 60 (21.43%) Data Architecture
9 58 (20.71%) Migration
10 57 (20.36%) Data Analysis
11 51 (18.21%) Data Science
11 51 (18.21%) Data Visualisation
12 50 (17.86%) Data Analytics
13 45 (16.07%) Machine Learning
14 39 (13.93%) Master Data Management
15 35 (12.50%) Data Strategy
16 34 (12.14%) Data Integration
17 31 (11.07%) Computer Science
18 30 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 147 (52.50%) SQL
2 73 (26.07%) Python
3 40 (14.29%) R
4 28 (10.00%) Java
5 24 (8.57%) T-SQL
6 8 (2.86%) Scala
7 7 (2.50%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.14%) Perl
8 6 (2.14%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.79%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.43%) C#
10 4 (1.43%) C++
10 4 (1.43%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.07%) Bash
11 3 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
11 3 (1.07%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.71%) Ruby
13 1 (0.36%) C
13 1 (0.36%) VBA
13 1 (0.36%) X++
Qualifications
1 63 (22.50%) Degree
2 8 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.79%) ACCA
3 5 (1.79%) CIMA
3 5 (1.79%) CIPD
4 4 (1.43%) PhD
5 3 (1.07%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.07%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.29%) QA
2 9 (3.21%) GDPR
3 7 (2.50%) PMO
4 5 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.79%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.36%) COBIT
System Software
1 14 (5.00%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 14 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.86%) Terraform
3 4 (1.43%) Puppet
4 2 (0.71%) Ansible
4 2 (0.71%) Opscode Chef
4 2 (0.71%) Rancher
4 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.36%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 66 (23.57%) Microsoft
2 45 (16.07%) Oracle
3 27 (9.64%) Salesforce.com
3 27 (9.64%) SAP
4 25 (8.93%) Informatica
5 19 (6.79%) Talend
6 14 (5.00%) Google
7 9 (3.21%) Birst
7 9 (3.21%) Databricks
7 9 (3.21%) IFS
7 9 (3.21%) Infor
8 8 (2.86%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.79%) IBM
10 3 (1.07%) Adobe
10 3 (1.07%) JD Edwards
10 3 (1.07%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (1.07%) StreamSets
11 2 (0.71%) BT
11 2 (0.71%) Trillium
12 1 (0.36%) Hyperion