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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 114 136
Rank change year-on-year +32 +22 +85
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 122 30 79
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.87% 1.16% 1.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.22% 10.68% 10.41%
Number of salaries quoted 94 28 40
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £36,125
25th Percentile £35,313 £52,114 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +15.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £78,858 £66,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £73,929 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,841 £68,500
% change year-on-year -1.38% -11.18% +5.38%

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 549 281 759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.40% 10.84% 13.10%
Number of salaries quoted 378 193 515
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,313 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +8.70% -9.57%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +29 95 £62,500 +8.70% 33
North Yorkshire +9 13 £52,500 - 6
South Yorkshire -31 9 £45,000 -18.18% 10
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 5 (4.10%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.28%) Apache
2 4 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.46%) Confluence
4 1 (0.82%) CMS
4 1 (0.82%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.82%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (13.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 18 (14.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (8.20%) SAP MDG
3 7 (5.74%) SAP MDG-BP
4 4 (3.28%) SAP ERP
5 3 (2.46%) iTrent
5 3 (2.46%) Maximo
5 3 (2.46%) SAP MDG-F
6 1 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.82%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 35 (28.69%) Azure
2 31 (25.41%) AWS
3 24 (19.67%) Power Platform
4 18 (14.75%) GCP
5 13 (10.66%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (9.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (5.74%) dbt
8 6 (4.92%) SaaS
9 4 (3.28%) Power Automate
9 4 (3.28%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.46%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.46%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (1.64%) IaaS
11 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.64%) PaaS
12 1 (0.82%) Azure Event Grid
12 1 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (19.67%) Power BI
2 21 (17.21%) Metadata
3 20 (16.39%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (7.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (6.56%) BigQuery
5 8 (6.56%) Tableau
6 7 (5.74%) DynamoDB
6 7 (5.74%) NoSQL
6 7 (5.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (4.92%) Data Lake
7 6 (4.92%) Semantic Layer
7 6 (4.92%) Star Schema
8 4 (3.28%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.46%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (2.46%) Big Data
9 3 (2.46%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.46%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.64%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.64%) Looker
Development Applications
1 5 (4.10%) JIRA
2 2 (1.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.82%) Git
3 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (39.34%) Analytical Skills
2 44 (36.07%) Finance
3 43 (35.25%) Social Skills
4 11 (9.02%) Manufacturing
4 11 (9.02%) Retail
5 9 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.74%) Legal
7 3 (2.46%) Local Government
7 3 (2.46%) Marketing
7 3 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.64%) Banking
8 2 (1.64%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.82%) Police
Job Titles
1 25 (20.49%) Data Engineer
2 22 (18.03%) Architect
3 19 (15.57%) Senior
4 18 (14.75%) Data Architect
5 17 (13.93%) Analyst
6 16 (13.11%) Data Manager
7 12 (9.84%) Data Analyst
8 11 (9.02%) HR Analyst
8 11 (9.02%) HR Data Analyst
8 11 (9.02%) Lead
9 9 (7.38%) Administrator
10 8 (6.56%) SAP Architect
10 8 (6.56%) SAP Data Architect
11 7 (5.74%) Consultant
11 7 (5.74%) SAP Consultant
11 7 (5.74%) SAP MDG Consultant
11 7 (5.74%) Senior Data Engineer
12 6 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (4.10%) HR Manager
13 5 (4.10%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.74%) PySpark
2 5 (4.10%) Middleware
3 4 (3.28%) .NET
3 4 (3.28%) HTML
3 4 (3.28%) SAP ALE
3 4 (3.28%) Web Dynpro
4 3 (2.46%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.46%) CSS
4 3 (2.46%) HTML5
4 3 (2.46%) jQuery
5 2 (1.64%) JSON
5 2 (1.64%) XML
6 1 (0.82%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.82%) FHIR
6 1 (0.82%) REST
6 1 (0.82%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.82%) SOAP
6 1 (0.82%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.30%) Management Information System
2 13 (10.66%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (9.84%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (5.74%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (3.28%) Replication
7 3 (2.46%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.46%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.64%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.64%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.64%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.82%) CMDB
9 1 (0.82%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.82%) IoT
9 1 (0.82%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.82%) NHS
9 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.82%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (46.72%) Data Governance
2 52 (42.62%) Data Modelling
3 43 (35.25%) Analytics
4 39 (31.97%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (31.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 34 (27.87%) Decision-Making
7 33 (27.05%) Business Intelligence
8 31 (25.41%) ERP
9 29 (23.77%) CRM
10 26 (21.31%) Agile
11 25 (20.49%) Data Pipeline
12 24 (19.67%) Data Architecture
12 24 (19.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (18.85%) ETL
14 22 (18.03%) Data Engineering
15 21 (17.21%) Migration
16 18 (14.75%) Translating Business Requirements
17 17 (13.93%) Logical Data Model
17 17 (13.93%) Validation
18 16 (13.11%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (30.33%) SQL
2 25 (20.49%) Python
3 6 (4.92%) Java
4 4 (3.28%) ABAP
4 4 (3.28%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.46%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.46%) Scala
6 2 (1.64%) C#
6 2 (1.64%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.82%) Bicep
7 1 (0.82%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (7.38%) DBS Check
1 9 (7.38%) Degree
2 7 (5.74%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.10%) SAP Certification
4 4 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.28%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.46%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.64%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.82%) CBAP
7 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.75%) GDPR
2 4 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.46%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.46%) QA
4 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (0.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (17.21%) SAP
2 19 (15.57%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.38%) Workday
4 8 (6.56%) Databricks
5 6 (4.92%) Google
6 4 (3.28%) Ariba
7 3 (2.46%) IFS
7 3 (2.46%) Oracle
8 2 (1.64%) Planon
8 2 (1.64%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.82%) Foundry
9 1 (0.82%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.82%) Informatica
9 1 (0.82%) Palantir
9 1 (0.82%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.82%) TIBCO