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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 109 136
Rank change year-on-year +16 +27 +95
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 111 28 80
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.96% 1.22% 1.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.35% 9.27% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 78 27 42
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £35,000 £52,114 £42,391
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +15.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,750 £67,319
90th Percentile £86,625 £75,868 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%

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 520 302 784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 9.18% 13.19% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 335 212 548
10th Percentile £28,850 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,375 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -5.45%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £60,185
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,725 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +8.49% -7.83%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 +11 87 £57,500 - 36
North Yorkshire - 11 £52,500 - 6
South Yorkshire -25 9 £63,076 +18.45% 6
East Yorkshire - 1 £77,500 - 4
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 (4.50%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.60%) Apache
2 4 (3.60%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.90%) CMS
4 1 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.90%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (12.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (8.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.50%) SAP MDG
3 3 (2.70%) Maximo
3 3 (2.70%) SAP MDG-BP
4 2 (1.80%) iTrent
5 1 (0.90%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.90%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 27 (24.32%) AWS
2 25 (22.52%) Azure
3 19 (17.12%) Power Platform
4 13 (11.71%) GCP
5 7 (6.31%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (6.31%) dbt
6 6 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (5.41%) SaaS
7 4 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.60%) Power Automate
7 4 (3.60%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.60%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.80%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.80%) Collibra
9 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.80%) PaaS
9 2 (1.80%) Serverless
9 2 (1.80%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (19.82%) Metadata
2 19 (17.12%) Power BI
3 14 (12.61%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (7.21%) Tableau
5 7 (6.31%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (6.31%) DynamoDB
5 7 (6.31%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (4.50%) BigQuery
7 5 (4.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (3.60%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.60%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.70%) Spark SQL
9 3 (2.70%) Star Schema
9 3 (2.70%) TIBCO EBX
10 2 (1.80%) Ataccama
10 2 (1.80%) Big Data
10 2 (1.80%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.80%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (4.50%) JIRA
2 2 (1.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.90%) Git
General
1 45 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 40 (36.04%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (33.33%) Finance
4 9 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.21%) Legal
6 6 (5.41%) Banking
7 5 (4.50%) Retail
8 3 (2.70%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.80%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.80%) Marketing
9 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Billing
10 1 (0.90%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.90%) Local Government
10 1 (0.90%) Police
Job Titles
1 21 (18.92%) Data Manager
2 19 (17.12%) Senior
3 17 (15.32%) Data Engineer
4 16 (14.41%) Analyst
4 16 (14.41%) Architect
5 12 (10.81%) Data Architect
6 11 (9.91%) Data Analyst
7 10 (9.01%) HR Analyst
7 10 (9.01%) HR Data Analyst
8 9 (8.11%) Administrator
9 7 (6.31%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (5.41%) Lead
11 5 (4.50%) HR Manager
11 5 (4.50%) IT Manager
11 5 (4.50%) Systems Manager
12 4 (3.60%) Configuration Manager
12 4 (3.60%) Consultant
12 4 (3.60%) Data Governance Manager
12 4 (3.60%) Governance Manager
12 4 (3.60%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.31%) PySpark
2 4 (3.60%) .NET
2 4 (3.60%) HTML
3 3 (2.70%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.70%) CSS
3 3 (2.70%) HTML5
3 3 (2.70%) jQuery
4 2 (1.80%) JSON
4 2 (1.80%) Middleware
4 2 (1.80%) SAP ALE
4 2 (1.80%) Web Dynpro
4 2 (1.80%) XML
5 1 (0.90%) FHIR
5 1 (0.90%) Pandas
5 1 (0.90%) REST
5 1 (0.90%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.41%) Management Information System
2 12 (10.81%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (7.21%) Data Structures
4 7 (6.31%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (4.50%) CMDB
6 3 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.70%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.80%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.80%) Replication
8 1 (0.90%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.90%) IoT
8 1 (0.90%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.90%) NHS
8 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.90%) PMI
8 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (45.95%) Data Governance
2 38 (34.23%) Analytics
2 38 (34.23%) Data Modelling
3 37 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 36 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (27.03%) Decision-Making
6 28 (25.23%) Business Intelligence
6 28 (25.23%) ERP
7 27 (24.32%) CRM
8 26 (23.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (20.72%) Agile
10 20 (18.02%) Data Management
10 20 (18.02%) ETL
11 18 (16.22%) Data Architecture
12 16 (14.41%) Data Engineering
12 16 (14.41%) Data Pipeline
13 15 (13.51%) Validation
13 15 (13.51%) Visualisation
14 13 (11.71%) Mentoring
14 13 (11.71%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 29 (26.13%) SQL
2 19 (17.12%) Python
3 4 (3.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (2.70%) Java
4 3 (2.70%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.70%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.80%) ABAP
5 2 (1.80%) C#
6 1 (0.90%) R
6 1 (0.90%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (8.11%) Degree
2 8 (7.21%) DBS Check
3 6 (5.41%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.60%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.80%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.80%) SAP Certification
5 2 (1.80%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.90%) CBAP
6 1 (0.90%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.41%) GDPR
2 5 (4.50%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.70%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.70%) QA
4 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.90%) Docker
Vendors
1 15 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.81%) SAP
3 8 (7.21%) Workday
4 5 (4.50%) Databricks
5 4 (3.60%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.70%) Ariba
6 3 (2.70%) Google
6 3 (2.70%) IFS
6 3 (2.70%) Informatica
6 3 (2.70%) Talend
6 3 (2.70%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.80%) Oracle
7 2 (1.80%) Planon
7 2 (1.80%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.90%) Foundry
8 1 (0.90%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.90%) Palantir