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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 117 140
Rank change year-on-year +31 +23 +78
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 127 30 81
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.92% 1.14% 1.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.52% 10.45% 10.71%
Number of salaries quoted 99 28 40
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,975 £36,125
25th Percentile £35,625 £50,523 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £74,337 £66,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £67,684 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.41% -13.93% +7.69%

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 564 287 756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.54% 10.86% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 393 197 510
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,150 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +9.29% -10.06%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,000 £67,625
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 29 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 29 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 +31 99 £58,000 +0.87% 20
North Yorkshire +8 13 £52,500 - 6
South Yorkshire -29 10 £45,249 -17.73% 8
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 Airflow
1 4 (3.15%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.15%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.36%) Confluence
3 1 (0.79%) CMS
3 1 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (14.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (7.09%) Microsoft Office
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%) Maximo
6 3 (2.36%) SAP MDG-F
7 2 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.79%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 34 (26.77%) Azure
2 32 (25.20%) AWS
3 24 (18.90%) Power Platform
4 18 (14.17%) GCP
5 14 (11.02%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (8.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (5.51%) dbt
8 6 (4.72%) SaaS
9 5 (3.94%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (3.15%) Power Automate
10 4 (3.15%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.57%) IaaS
12 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (1.57%) PaaS
12 2 (1.57%) Snowflake
13 1 (0.79%) Azure Event Grid
13 1 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.90%) Power BI
2 23 (18.11%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (16.54%) Metadata
4 9 (7.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (6.30%) BigQuery
6 7 (5.51%) DynamoDB
6 7 (5.51%) NoSQL
6 7 (5.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (5.51%) Tableau
7 6 (4.72%) Data Lake
7 6 (4.72%) Semantic Layer
7 6 (4.72%) Star Schema
8 4 (3.15%) Big Data
8 4 (3.15%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.36%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (2.36%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.36%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.57%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (3.94%) JIRA
2 2 (1.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (38.58%) Analytical Skills
2 45 (35.43%) Finance
3 42 (33.07%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.45%) Manufacturing
5 11 (8.66%) Retail
6 9 (7.09%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.51%) Legal
8 4 (3.15%) Local Government
8 4 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.36%) Banking
9 3 (2.36%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.36%) Marketing
10 2 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.79%) Games
11 1 (0.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 29 (22.83%) Data Engineer
2 23 (18.11%) Architect
3 20 (15.75%) Senior
4 19 (14.96%) Analyst
4 19 (14.96%) Data Architect
5 16 (12.60%) Data Manager
6 13 (10.24%) Data Analyst
6 13 (10.24%) Lead
7 12 (9.45%) HR Analyst
7 12 (9.45%) HR Data Analyst
8 9 (7.09%) Administrator
9 8 (6.30%) SAP Architect
9 8 (6.30%) SAP Data Architect
9 8 (6.30%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Consultant
10 7 (5.51%) SAP Consultant
10 7 (5.51%) SAP MDG Consultant
11 6 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.94%) HR Manager
12 5 (3.94%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.51%) PySpark
2 5 (3.94%) Middleware
3 4 (3.15%) .NET
3 4 (3.15%) HTML
3 4 (3.15%) SAP ALE
3 4 (3.15%) Web Dynpro
4 3 (2.36%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.36%) CSS
4 3 (2.36%) HTML5
4 3 (2.36%) jQuery
5 2 (1.57%) JSON
5 2 (1.57%) XML
6 1 (0.79%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.79%) FHIR
6 1 (0.79%) REST
6 1 (0.79%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.79%) SOAP
6 1 (0.79%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.81%) Management Information System
2 13 (10.24%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (9.45%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (5.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (5.51%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.15%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.15%) Replication
6 3 (2.36%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.57%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.57%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.57%) Taxonomies
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%) NHS
8 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.79%) PMI
8 1 (0.79%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (43.31%) Data Modelling
2 54 (42.52%) Data Governance
3 42 (33.07%) Analytics
3 42 (33.07%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (30.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 35 (27.56%) Decision-Making
6 33 (25.98%) Business Intelligence
6 33 (25.98%) ERP
7 31 (24.41%) CRM
8 29 (22.83%) Data Pipeline
9 27 (21.26%) Agile
10 26 (20.47%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (19.69%) Data Architecture
11 25 (19.69%) Data Engineering
11 25 (19.69%) Migration
12 24 (18.90%) ETL
13 20 (15.75%) Translating Business Requirements
14 18 (14.17%) Logical Data Model
14 18 (14.17%) Validation
15 17 (13.39%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 39 (30.71%) SQL
2 27 (21.26%) Python
3 7 (5.51%) Java
4 4 (3.15%) ABAP
4 4 (3.15%) Scala
4 4 (3.15%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.36%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.57%) C#
6 2 (1.57%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.79%) Bicep
7 1 (0.79%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (7.09%) DBS Check
2 8 (6.30%) Degree
2 8 (6.30%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.94%) SAP Certification
4 4 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.15%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.15%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.57%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.79%) CBAP
6 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.39%) GDPR
2 4 (3.15%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.36%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.36%) QA
4 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (18.90%) SAP
2 20 (15.75%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.09%) Workday
4 8 (6.30%) Databricks
5 6 (4.72%) Google
6 5 (3.94%) Oracle
7 4 (3.15%) Ariba
8 3 (2.36%) IFS
8 3 (2.36%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.57%) Planon
10 1 (0.79%) Foundry
10 1 (0.79%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.79%) Informatica
10 1 (0.79%) Palantir
10 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.79%) TIBCO