Data Quality Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Quality
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Data Quality skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 120 119
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +120
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 52 36 69
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.41% 1.28% 1.63%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.61% 8.39% 11.08%
Number of salaries quoted 24 18 53
10th Percentile £40,956 £42,500 £35,350
25th Percentile £55,175 £47,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,038 £63,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% +26.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £73,125 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,875 £74,496 £91,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +0.24%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 382 429 623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.36% 15.27% 14.72%
Number of salaries quoted 209 170 460
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,622 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £64,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,776 £82,775 £83,750
England median annual salary £58,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% +9.09% -4.35%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Data Quality job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Data Quality
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Quality.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Quality

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in Yorkshire

Data Quality
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
West Yorkshire -9 42 £61,538 -3.85% 20
South Yorkshire -5 6 £67,500 +25.58% 6
North Yorkshire -7 1 £65,000 - 6
East Yorkshire - 1 £77,500 - 2
Data Quality
England

Data Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 4 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 4 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.77%) Apache
2 3 (5.77%) Confluence
3 2 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 11 (21.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Maximo
1 3 (5.77%) SAP MDG
1 3 (5.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (30.77%) AWS
2 13 (25.00%) Azure
3 12 (23.08%) Power Platform
4 5 (9.62%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (9.62%) GCP
5 4 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (7.69%) dbt
5 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.69%) Power Automate
5 4 (7.69%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (3.85%) Collibra
6 2 (3.85%) GitHub
6 2 (3.85%) IaaS
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (3.85%) PaaS
6 2 (3.85%) SaaS
6 2 (3.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.85%) Metadata
2 12 (23.08%) Power BI
3 7 (13.46%) DynamoDB
3 7 (13.46%) NoSQL
4 6 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (11.54%) Tableau
5 5 (9.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (7.69%) SQL Server
6 4 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (5.77%) Data Lake
7 3 (5.77%) Data Vault
7 3 (5.77%) TIBCO EBX
8 2 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (3.85%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (3.85%) Ataccama
8 2 (3.85%) BigQuery
8 2 (3.85%) Power Query
8 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) JIRA
2 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.92%) Git
General
1 29 (55.77%) Social Skills
2 21 (40.38%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (32.69%) Finance
4 6 (11.54%) Legal
4 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.69%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Billing
6 1 (1.92%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (25.00%) Data Manager
2 10 (19.23%) Architect
2 10 (19.23%) Senior
3 9 (17.31%) Data Engineer
4 8 (15.38%) Data Architect
5 7 (13.46%) Analyst
6 5 (9.62%) Data Analyst
6 5 (9.62%) HR Analyst
6 5 (9.62%) HR Data Analyst
6 5 (9.62%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Configuration Manager
7 4 (7.69%) IT Manager
8 3 (5.77%) Consultant
8 3 (5.77%) Data Governance Analyst
8 3 (5.77%) Data Governance Manager
8 3 (5.77%) Principal Consultant
8 3 (5.77%) Principal SAP Consultant
8 3 (5.77%) SAP Consultant
8 3 (5.77%) Senior Manager
8 3 (5.77%) Supply Chain Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) PySpark
2 2 (3.85%) Pandas
3 1 (1.92%) CSS
3 1 (1.92%) HTML
3 1 (1.92%) JSON
3 1 (1.92%) Visualforce
3 1 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 8 (15.38%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.69%) CMDB
4 3 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.77%) Taxonomies
5 2 (3.85%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.85%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.92%) IoT
6 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (65.38%) Data Governance
2 23 (44.23%) Analytics
3 22 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (40.38%) Data Modelling
5 18 (34.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (32.69%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (32.69%) Decision-Making
7 16 (30.77%) Data Management
7 16 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (26.92%) ETL
9 13 (25.00%) Agile
9 13 (25.00%) Visualisation
10 12 (23.08%) Data Architecture
11 10 (19.23%) Validation
12 9 (17.31%) Data Integration
13 8 (15.38%) Asset Management
13 8 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
13 8 (15.38%) Data Science
13 8 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
13 8 (15.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 19 (36.54%) SQL
2 8 (15.38%) Python
3 3 (5.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.85%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.92%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.92%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.69%) Degree
3 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.31%) GDPR
2 4 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.77%) Ariba
3 3 (5.77%) IFS
3 3 (5.77%) Informatica
3 3 (5.77%) SAP
3 3 (5.77%) Talend
3 3 (5.77%) TIBCO
4 2 (3.85%) Databricks
5 1 (1.92%) Google
5 1 (1.92%) Planon
5 1 (1.92%) Salesforce