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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 134 137
Rank change year-on-year +48 +3 +28
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 127 29 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.80% 0.83% 1.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.35% 9.97% 9.15%
Number of salaries quoted 108 28 24
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £44,146
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +11.62% -3.86%
75th Percentile £79,502 £61,375 £55,813
90th Percentile £90,000 £66,000 £78,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -20.00% +11.11%

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 544 291 645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.70% 8.31% 12.30%
Number of salaries quoted 412 220 367
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,188 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £75,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -5.17%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +28 90 £57,500 - 29
South Yorkshire -28 13 £47,500 +2.15% 6
North Yorkshire +20 12 £52,500 - 3
East Yorkshire - 1 £35,500 - 1
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 (3.15%) Apache
1 4 (3.15%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.79%) CMS
4 1 (0.79%) Confluence
4 1 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (11.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (14.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (7.87%) SAP MDG
3 7 (5.51%) SAP MDG-BP
4 5 (3.94%) iTrent
5 4 (3.15%) SAP ERP
6 3 (2.36%) SAP MDG-F
7 2 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.79%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 38 (29.92%) Azure
2 26 (20.47%) AWS
3 23 (18.11%) Power Platform
4 21 (16.54%) GCP
5 18 (14.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (9.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (5.51%) dbt
8 5 (3.94%) SaaS
8 5 (3.94%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.15%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.57%) IaaS
10 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.57%) PaaS
10 2 (1.57%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.57%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.57%) Serverless
11 1 (0.79%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.79%) GitHub
11 1 (0.79%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (23.62%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (18.11%) Power BI
3 16 (12.60%) Metadata
4 10 (7.87%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (7.09%) BigQuery
5 9 (7.09%) Semantic Layer
6 8 (6.30%) Data Lake
6 8 (6.30%) Star Schema
7 5 (3.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (3.15%) Big Data
8 4 (3.15%) Tableau
9 3 (2.36%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.36%) Spark SQL
9 3 (2.36%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.57%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (1.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.57%) Data Hub
10 2 (1.57%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.36%) JIRA
2 2 (1.57%) GitLab
2 2 (1.57%) MLflow
2 2 (1.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.79%) Git
3 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (35.43%) Analytical Skills
2 43 (33.86%) Finance
3 34 (26.77%) Social Skills
4 15 (11.81%) Manufacturing
5 11 (8.66%) Retail
6 8 (6.30%) Legal
6 8 (6.30%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.72%) Local Government
8 5 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.36%) Banking
10 3 (2.36%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.36%) Marketing
11 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.79%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.79%) Games
12 1 (0.79%) Legal Technology
12 1 (0.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 28 (22.05%) Data Engineer
2 21 (16.54%) Lead
3 18 (14.17%) Analyst
3 18 (14.17%) Architect
4 15 (11.81%) Data Architect
4 15 (11.81%) Senior
5 13 (10.24%) Data Analyst
6 9 (7.09%) Administrator
6 9 (7.09%) HR Analyst
6 9 (7.09%) HR Data Analyst
7 8 (6.30%) Data Manager
7 8 (6.30%) SAP Architect
7 8 (6.30%) SAP Data Architect
8 7 (5.51%) Consultant
8 7 (5.51%) SAP Consultant
8 7 (5.51%) SAP MDG Consultant
9 6 (4.72%) Lead Data Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.94%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.94%) Middleware
1 5 (3.94%) PySpark
2 4 (3.15%) .NET
2 4 (3.15%) HTML
2 4 (3.15%) SAP ALE
2 4 (3.15%) Web Dynpro
3 3 (2.36%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.36%) CSS
3 3 (2.36%) HTML5
3 3 (2.36%) jQuery
3 3 (2.36%) JSON
4 2 (1.57%) XML
5 1 (0.79%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.79%) FHIR
5 1 (0.79%) REST
5 1 (0.79%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.79%) SOAP
5 1 (0.79%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.81%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (9.45%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (7.87%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (5.51%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.94%) Operational Technology
6 4 (3.15%) Replication
7 2 (1.57%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.57%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.57%) NHS
8 1 (0.79%) Blog
8 1 (0.79%) CMDB
8 1 (0.79%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.79%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.79%) PMI
8 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.79%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (37.01%) Data Modelling
2 42 (33.07%) Analytics
3 38 (29.92%) Decision-Making
4 35 (27.56%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (26.77%) Data Governance
5 34 (26.77%) ERP
6 33 (25.98%) Business Intelligence
6 33 (25.98%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (24.41%) CRM
7 31 (24.41%) Data Pipeline
8 27 (21.26%) Migration
9 25 (19.69%) Data Engineering
10 23 (18.11%) ETL
10 23 (18.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (17.32%) Agile
11 22 (17.32%) Mentoring
12 20 (15.75%) Data Transformation
13 19 (14.96%) Data Architecture
14 17 (13.39%) Data Migration
14 17 (13.39%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 39 (30.71%) SQL
2 28 (22.05%) Python
3 8 (6.30%) Java
4 6 (4.72%) Scala
5 4 (3.15%) ABAP
6 3 (2.36%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.36%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.57%) C#
7 2 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.57%) R
7 2 (1.57%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.79%) Bicep
8 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (7.87%) Degree
2 9 (7.09%) DBS Check
3 5 (3.94%) SAP Certification
3 5 (3.94%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.36%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.79%) CBAP
6 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.81%) GDPR
2 3 (2.36%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.36%) QA
3 2 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (19.69%) Microsoft
2 24 (18.90%) SAP
3 11 (8.66%) Databricks
4 9 (7.09%) Workday
5 7 (5.51%) Google
6 5 (3.94%) Oracle
7 4 (3.15%) Ariba
8 3 (2.36%) Foundry
8 3 (2.36%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.79%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.79%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.79%) Palantir
9 1 (0.79%) Planon
9 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow