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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 221 273
Rank change year-on-year +48 +52 +12
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 300 503 522
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.95% 1.49% 1.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.50% 11.75% 8.39%
Number of salaries quoted 186 412 363
10th Percentile £42,826 £35,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £44,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73,886 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £122,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 2,857 4,280 6,223
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.53% 12.67% 14.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,751 3,251 4,209
10th Percentile £37,170 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £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 5 May 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 31 (10.33%) Apache Spark
2 18 (6.00%) Apache
3 17 (5.67%) SharePoint
4 13 (4.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 54 (18.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.00%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.33%) Simulink
6 1 (0.33%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.67%) Raiser’s Edge
1 5 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (1.33%) Q-Pulse
2 4 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.67%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.67%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.33%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 110 (36.67%) Power Platform
2 84 (28.00%) Azure
3 47 (15.67%) AWS
4 35 (11.67%) Snowflake
5 27 (9.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 24 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 21 (7.00%) GCP
8 20 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (5.67%) PowerApps
10 16 (5.33%) Power Automate
11 11 (3.67%) GitHub
11 11 (3.67%) Serverless
12 10 (3.33%) PaaS
13 9 (3.00%) Amazon S3
13 9 (3.00%) dbt
13 9 (3.00%) IaaS
13 9 (3.00%) OpenShift
14 8 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.67%) Collibra
14 8 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.33%) 5G
1 1 (0.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (36.33%) Power BI
2 83 (27.67%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (14.00%) Tableau
4 34 (11.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 31 (10.33%) SQL Server
6 30 (10.00%) Data Lake
7 26 (8.67%) Metadata
8 21 (7.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 18 (6.00%) Hadoop
10 17 (5.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (5.33%) Big Data
12 14 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (4.33%) NoSQL
14 12 (4.00%) BigQuery
14 12 (4.00%) Relational Database
15 11 (3.67%) Delta Lake
15 11 (3.67%) Metadata Repository
16 9 (3.00%) Apache Hudi
16 9 (3.00%) Apache Iceberg
16 9 (3.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 9 (3.00%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.33%) JIRA
4 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.33%) Git
4 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 131 (43.67%) Finance
2 130 (43.33%) Social Skills
3 77 (25.67%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.67%) Banking
5 23 (7.67%) Law
6 19 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (4.00%) Retail
8 11 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.33%) Public Sector
10 9 (3.00%) Automotive
10 9 (3.00%) Local Government
11 8 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (2.00%) Military
14 5 (1.67%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.33%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.33%) Aviation
15 4 (1.33%) Marketing
15 4 (1.33%) Tech for Good
15 4 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (23.00%) Data Engineer
2 62 (20.67%) Analyst
3 50 (16.67%) Senior
4 49 (16.33%) Data Analyst
5 34 (11.33%) Data Manager
6 26 (8.67%) Procurement Analyst
6 26 (8.67%) Senior Data Engineer
7 24 (8.00%) Lead
8 18 (6.00%) Developer
9 16 (5.33%) Architect
9 16 (5.33%) Data Architect
10 11 (3.67%) SQL Developer
10 11 (3.67%) Systems Manager
11 10 (3.33%) Business Developer
11 10 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 10 (3.33%) Consultant
11 10 (3.33%) Data Consultant
11 10 (3.33%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (3.00%) ETL Developer
12 9 (3.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.67%) PySpark
2 15 (5.00%) Kafka
3 9 (3.00%) PyArrow
3 9 (3.00%) XML
4 6 (2.00%) Pandas
5 5 (1.67%) JSON
5 5 (1.67%) REST
5 5 (1.67%) scikit-learn
6 4 (1.33%) Dask
6 4 (1.33%) Polars
6 4 (1.33%) XGBoost
7 3 (1.00%) .NET
7 3 (1.00%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.00%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.67%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.67%) Flask
8 2 (0.67%) HTML
8 2 (0.67%) Middleware
8 2 (0.67%) NumPy
8 2 (0.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 55 (18.33%) Management Information System
2 15 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 8 (2.67%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.33%) e-Learning
6 4 (1.33%) IoT
6 4 (1.33%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.33%) Social Media
7 3 (1.00%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.00%) Life Science
7 3 (1.00%) Replication
8 2 (0.67%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.67%) Digital Media
8 2 (0.67%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.67%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.00%) Unix
2 5 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (46.67%) Analytics
2 107 (35.67%) Data Governance
2 107 (35.67%) Data Management
3 97 (32.33%) Business Intelligence
4 84 (28.00%) Visualisation
5 79 (26.33%) ETL
6 77 (25.67%) Data Engineering
6 77 (25.67%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (25.33%) Data Analysis
8 75 (25.00%) Decision-Making
9 63 (21.00%) Data Modelling
10 62 (20.67%) Agile
11 54 (18.00%) Data Science
12 52 (17.33%) Migration
13 50 (16.67%) Data Analytics
14 47 (15.67%) Data Strategy
15 45 (15.00%) Data Architecture
15 45 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
16 43 (14.33%) Data Integration
17 42 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 149 (49.67%) SQL
2 88 (29.33%) Python
3 27 (9.00%) T-SQL
4 20 (6.67%) C#
5 18 (6.00%) PowerShell
6 10 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (2.67%) Java
7 8 (2.67%) PL/SQL
7 8 (2.67%) R
8 7 (2.33%) Scala
9 2 (0.67%) Go
9 2 (0.67%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.33%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.33%) SHACL
10 1 (0.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 64 (21.33%) Degree
2 14 (4.67%) Azure Certification
3 12 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.00%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.33%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.00%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.00%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.67%) HNC
9 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.67%) PMP
10 1 (0.33%) CRISC
10 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.00%) Accessibility
1 24 (8.00%) GDPR
2 12 (4.00%) QA
3 5 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.33%) COBIT
5 1 (0.33%) GRC
5 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (4.33%) HDFS
2 6 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.67%) Terraform
3 1 (0.33%) Matomo
Vendors
1 72 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 40 (13.33%) SAP
3 37 (12.33%) Databricks
4 19 (6.33%) Google
5 11 (3.67%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.33%) Informatica
7 9 (3.00%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.33%) Oracle
9 6 (2.00%) Cognos
10 4 (1.33%) Teradata
10 4 (1.33%) Xero
11 3 (1.00%) Talend
12 2 (0.67%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.67%) NEC
12 2 (0.67%) Palantir
12 2 (0.67%) ServiceNow
13 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.33%) IBM
13 1 (0.33%) MicroStrategy
13 1 (0.33%) TippingPoint