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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 136 124
Rank change year-on-year +45 -12 +9
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 126 23 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.64% 0.69% 0.97%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.03% 8.16% 7.96%
Number of salaries quoted 106 21 18
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,750 £37,780
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £53,000 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% +7.56% -10.41%
75th Percentile £78,877 £57,500 £54,703
90th Percentile £90,000 £62,500 £58,925
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -25.81% +10.71%

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 547 282 603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.12% 8.51% 12.20%
Number of salaries quoted 423 193 262
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,520 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,125 £30,625 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,988 £47,500 £46,965
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% +1.14% -6.07%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,875 £60,556
90th Percentile £90,000 £74,550 £71,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.88% -0.87% -4.17%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +18 75 £56,500 +6.60% 65
South Yorkshire -20 23 £64,362 +152.40% 24
North Yorkshire +9 9 £48,000 - 7
East Yorkshire - 3 £34,750 - 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 (3.17%) Apache
1 4 (3.17%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.79%) CMS
3 1 (0.79%) Confluence
3 1 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 20 (15.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (8.73%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (15.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (7.94%) SAP MDG
3 7 (5.56%) SAP MDG-BP
4 5 (3.97%) iTrent
5 4 (3.17%) SAP ERP
6 3 (2.38%) SAP MDG-F
7 2 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.79%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 37 (29.37%) Azure
2 31 (24.60%) AWS
3 23 (18.25%) GCP
4 18 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 14 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (8.73%) dbt
7 10 (7.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (4.76%) Serverless
9 5 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.97%) Azure Databricks
9 5 (3.97%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (3.17%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (3.17%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.38%) SaaS
12 2 (1.59%) Alation
12 2 (1.59%) GitHub
12 2 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.59%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.63%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (19.05%) Metadata
3 18 (14.29%) Power BI
4 13 (10.32%) Semantic Layer
5 8 (6.35%) Star Schema
6 7 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (5.56%) BigQuery
6 7 (5.56%) Data Lake
6 7 (5.56%) Delta Lake
6 7 (5.56%) Spark SQL
7 6 (4.76%) Relational Database
8 5 (3.97%) Metadata Repository
9 4 (3.17%) Big Data
9 4 (3.17%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.38%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.38%) Tableau
11 2 (1.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.59%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Git
1 2 (1.59%) GitLab
1 2 (1.59%) JIRA
1 2 (1.59%) MLflow
2 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (40.48%) Analytical Skills
2 38 (30.16%) Social Skills
3 36 (28.57%) Finance
4 15 (11.90%) Manufacturing
5 14 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 13 (10.32%) Retail
7 10 (7.94%) Legal
8 8 (6.35%) Marketing
9 7 (5.56%) Local Government
10 6 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (2.38%) Banking
12 3 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.59%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.79%) Games
14 1 (0.79%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 35 (27.78%) Data Engineer
2 21 (16.67%) Architect
2 21 (16.67%) Lead
3 20 (15.87%) Data Architect
4 19 (15.08%) Senior
5 17 (13.49%) Analyst
6 13 (10.32%) Data Analyst
7 10 (7.94%) Administrator
8 8 (6.35%) HR Analyst
8 8 (6.35%) HR Data Analyst
8 8 (6.35%) SAP Architect
8 8 (6.35%) SAP Data Architect
8 8 (6.35%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Consultant
9 7 (5.56%) SAP Consultant
9 7 (5.56%) SAP MDG Consultant
10 6 (4.76%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (3.97%) Coordinator
11 5 (3.97%) Databricks Engineer
11 5 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.11%) PySpark
2 5 (3.97%) .NET
2 5 (3.97%) Middleware
3 4 (3.17%) SAP ALE
3 4 (3.17%) Web Dynpro
4 3 (2.38%) JSON
5 1 (0.79%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.79%) FHIR
5 1 (0.79%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.79%) Terraform
5 1 (0.79%) XBRL
5 1 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.94%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.97%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.17%) Replication
5 4 (3.17%) Taxonomies
6 3 (2.38%) NHS
7 2 (1.59%) Blog
7 2 (1.59%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.59%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.59%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.79%) PMI
8 1 (0.79%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 49 (38.89%) Analytics
3 42 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 41 (32.54%) Data Governance
5 39 (30.95%) Business Intelligence
6 34 (26.98%) Mentoring
7 30 (23.81%) Data Engineering
7 30 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
8 29 (23.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (23.02%) Migration
9 27 (21.43%) CRM
10 26 (20.63%) ERP
10 26 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (19.84%) Agile
12 24 (19.05%) CI/CD
12 24 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (18.25%) Data Architecture
13 23 (18.25%) ETL
14 22 (17.46%) Metadata Management
15 21 (16.67%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 43 (34.13%) SQL
2 24 (19.05%) Python
3 12 (9.52%) Java
4 6 (4.76%) C#
4 6 (4.76%) Scala
5 5 (3.97%) C++
5 5 (3.97%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.17%) ABAP
6 4 (3.17%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.59%) R
8 1 (0.79%) Bicep
8 1 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (7.14%) Degree
2 6 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.97%) DBS Check
3 5 (3.97%) SAP Certification
4 4 (3.17%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.79%) CBAP
6 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.94%) GDPR
2 3 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.59%) Docker
Vendors
1 30 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.46%) SAP
3 20 (15.87%) Databricks
4 7 (5.56%) Google
5 5 (3.97%) Oracle
5 5 (3.97%) Workday
6 4 (3.17%) Ariba
7 3 (2.38%) Foundry
8 2 (1.59%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.59%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.79%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.79%) Palantir
9 1 (0.79%) Planon
9 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow