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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 142 132
Rank change year-on-year +57 -10 +28
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 119 29 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.62% 0.81% 1.08%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.04% 9.60% 9.05%
Number of salaries quoted 98 28 22
10th Percentile £31,250 £39,400 £34,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,156 £42,962
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +11.62% -6.14%
75th Percentile £71,250 £58,750 £55,188
90th Percentile £90,000 £65,000 £74,250
England median annual salary £60,900 £57,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.91% -23.33% +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 540 302 630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.37% 8.48% 11.89%
Number of salaries quoted 413 228 343
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,875 £60,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £73,050 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -8.33%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +23 80 £56,500 +2.51% 31
South Yorkshire -29 13 £47,500 +13.10% 6
North Yorkshire +16 12 £52,500 - 7
East Yorkshire - 2 £34,750 - 2
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 (3.36%) Apache
1 4 (3.36%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.84%) CMS
3 1 (0.84%) Confluence
3 1 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.72%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (15.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (8.40%) SAP MDG
3 7 (5.88%) SAP MDG-BP
4 5 (4.20%) iTrent
5 4 (3.36%) SAP ERP
6 3 (2.52%) SAP MDG-F
7 2 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.84%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 35 (29.41%) Azure
2 25 (21.01%) AWS
3 21 (17.65%) GCP
4 19 (15.97%) Power Platform
5 15 (12.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (8.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (5.04%) dbt
8 5 (4.20%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.36%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.52%) SaaS
11 2 (1.68%) Alation
11 2 (1.68%) GitHub
11 2 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.68%) Serverless
11 2 (1.68%) Slack
12 1 (0.84%) Azure API Management
12 1 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.84%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (22.69%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (15.97%) Power BI
3 15 (12.61%) Metadata
4 8 (6.72%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (6.72%) Semantic Layer
5 7 (5.88%) BigQuery
5 7 (5.88%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.20%) Star Schema
7 4 (3.36%) Big Data
7 4 (3.36%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.36%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.36%) Tableau
8 3 (2.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.68%) Data Hub
9 2 (1.68%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.68%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.68%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.84%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 3 (2.52%) JIRA
2 2 (1.68%) Git
2 2 (1.68%) GitLab
2 2 (1.68%) MLflow
3 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (37.82%) Analytical Skills
2 41 (34.45%) Finance
3 31 (26.05%) Social Skills
4 15 (12.61%) Manufacturing
5 11 (9.24%) Retail
6 8 (6.72%) Legal
6 8 (6.72%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.88%) Local Government
8 5 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.52%) Banking
10 3 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.52%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.52%) Marketing
11 2 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.84%) Games
12 1 (0.84%) Legal Technology
12 1 (0.84%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (22.69%) Data Engineer
2 21 (17.65%) Lead
3 19 (15.97%) Analyst
4 17 (14.29%) Architect
5 15 (12.61%) Data Architect
6 14 (11.76%) Data Analyst
7 10 (8.40%) Senior
8 9 (7.56%) Administrator
8 9 (7.56%) HR Analyst
8 9 (7.56%) HR Data Analyst
9 8 (6.72%) SAP Architect
9 8 (6.72%) SAP Data Architect
10 7 (5.88%) Consultant
10 7 (5.88%) Data Manager
10 7 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
10 7 (5.88%) SAP MDG Consultant
11 6 (5.04%) Lead Data Engineer
11 6 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (4.20%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (4.20%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.20%) Middleware
1 5 (4.20%) PySpark
2 4 (3.36%) JSON
2 4 (3.36%) SAP ALE
2 4 (3.36%) Web Dynpro
3 2 (1.68%) XML
4 1 (0.84%) .NET
4 1 (0.84%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.84%) FHIR
4 1 (0.84%) HTML
4 1 (0.84%) REST
4 1 (0.84%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.84%) SOAP
4 1 (0.84%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.24%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (8.40%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (7.56%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.20%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.20%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.36%) Replication
6 3 (2.52%) NHS
7 2 (1.68%) Blog
7 2 (1.68%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.68%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.84%) CMDB
8 1 (0.84%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.84%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.84%) PMI
8 1 (0.84%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (37.82%) Data Modelling
2 38 (31.93%) Analytics
3 36 (30.25%) Decision-Making
4 33 (27.73%) Data Governance
5 32 (26.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (25.21%) Data Pipeline
6 30 (25.21%) ERP
7 28 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
7 28 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (22.69%) Migration
9 25 (21.01%) CRM
10 24 (20.17%) Data Engineering
11 23 (19.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 22 (18.49%) Agile
13 20 (16.81%) Data Transformation
13 20 (16.81%) ETL
14 19 (15.97%) Mentoring
15 18 (15.13%) Data Architecture
16 17 (14.29%) Data Migration
16 17 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (30.25%) SQL
2 26 (21.85%) Python
3 7 (5.88%) Java
4 6 (5.04%) Scala
5 4 (3.36%) ABAP
5 4 (3.36%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.68%) C#
6 2 (1.68%) R
6 2 (1.68%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.84%) Bicep
7 1 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.84%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (8.40%) Degree
2 9 (7.56%) DBS Check
3 6 (5.04%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.20%) SAP Certification
5 4 (3.36%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.84%) CBAP
7 1 (0.84%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.24%) GDPR
2 3 (2.52%) QA
3 2 (1.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (1.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (21.01%) Microsoft
2 23 (19.33%) SAP
3 11 (9.24%) Databricks
4 9 (7.56%) Workday
5 7 (5.88%) Google
6 5 (4.20%) Oracle
7 4 (3.36%) Ariba
8 3 (2.52%) Foundry
8 3 (2.52%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.68%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.84%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.84%) Palantir
10 1 (0.84%) Planon
10 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow