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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 110 135
Rank change year-on-year -3 +25 +97
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 59 35 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.46% 1.41% 1.47%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.75% 8.97% 10.38%
Number of salaries quoted 31 23 46
10th Percentile £46,104 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £60,511 £52,114 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £64,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +28.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,623 £87,500
England median annual salary £66,250 £64,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.52% -1.54% -

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 400 390 636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 9.91% 15.69% 14.17%
Number of salaries quoted 220 163 454
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,025 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,700 £83,750
England median annual salary £59,527 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.79% +9.09% -4.35%

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 February 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 February 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 -9 50 £65,000 +1.56% 17
South Yorkshire -12 5 £67,500 +25.58% 5
North Yorkshire - 1 £65,000 - 4
East Yorkshire - 1 £77,500 -
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 (8.47%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.78%) Apache
2 4 (6.78%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.08%) Confluence
4 1 (1.69%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (16.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Maximo
1 3 (5.08%) SAP MDG
1 3 (5.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (30.51%) AWS
2 14 (23.73%) Azure
2 14 (23.73%) Power Platform
3 7 (11.86%) GCP
4 6 (10.17%) dbt
5 5 (8.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (8.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (8.47%) SaaS
6 4 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (6.78%) Power Automate
6 4 (6.78%) PowerApps
7 3 (5.08%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.39%) GitHub
8 2 (3.39%) IaaS
8 2 (3.39%) PaaS
8 2 (3.39%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.12%) Metadata
2 14 (23.73%) Power BI
3 8 (13.56%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (11.86%) DynamoDB
4 7 (11.86%) NoSQL
4 7 (11.86%) Tableau
5 6 (10.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (8.47%) Data Lake
6 5 (8.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (6.78%) BigQuery
7 4 (6.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (5.08%) Data Vault
8 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
8 3 (5.08%) Star Schema
8 3 (5.08%) TIBCO EBX
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (3.39%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (3.39%) Ataccama
9 2 (3.39%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (5.08%) JIRA
2 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.69%) Git
General
1 30 (50.85%) Social Skills
2 23 (38.98%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (30.51%) Finance
4 6 (10.17%) Legal
4 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.78%) Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Billing
6 1 (1.69%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 16 (27.12%) Senior
2 14 (23.73%) Data Manager
3 11 (18.64%) Architect
3 11 (18.64%) Data Engineer
4 8 (13.56%) Data Architect
5 7 (11.86%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) Configuration Manager
7 4 (6.78%) Data Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) HR Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) HR Data Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) IT Manager
8 3 (5.08%) Data Governance Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) E-Commerce Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) E-Commerce Support
8 3 (5.08%) Governance Manager
8 3 (5.08%) Principal SAP Consultant
8 3 (5.08%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Applications Support
8 3 (5.08%) Supply Chain Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.78%) CSS
1 4 (6.78%) HTML
2 3 (5.08%) .NET
2 3 (5.08%) AngularJS
2 3 (5.08%) HTML5
2 3 (5.08%) jQuery
3 2 (3.39%) Pandas
3 2 (3.39%) PySpark
4 1 (1.69%) JSON
4 1 (1.69%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.34%) Management Information System
2 8 (13.56%) Data Structures
3 7 (11.86%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (6.78%) CMDB
5 3 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.08%) Taxonomies
6 2 (3.39%) Low-Code
6 2 (3.39%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.69%) Housing Association
7 1 (1.69%) IoT
7 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (59.32%) Data Governance
2 27 (45.76%) Analytics
2 27 (45.76%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (38.98%) Data Modelling
4 20 (33.90%) Business Intelligence
5 19 (32.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (28.81%) Data Management
7 16 (27.12%) Decision-Making
7 16 (27.12%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (25.42%) ETL
9 14 (23.73%) Agile
10 13 (22.03%) Data Architecture
10 13 (22.03%) Visualisation
11 10 (16.95%) CRM
12 9 (15.25%) Data Engineering
12 9 (15.25%) Data Integration
12 9 (15.25%) Data Pipeline
12 9 (15.25%) Data Visualisation
12 9 (15.25%) Mentoring
12 9 (15.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.90%) SQL
2 11 (18.64%) Python
3 4 (6.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.39%) Java
5 2 (3.39%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.69%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 4 (6.78%) Degree
1 4 (6.78%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
2 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (22.03%) GDPR
2 4 (6.78%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.78%) SAP
2 4 (6.78%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.08%) Ariba
3 3 (5.08%) Databricks
3 3 (5.08%) IFS
3 3 (5.08%) Informatica
3 3 (5.08%) Talend
3 3 (5.08%) TIBCO
4 2 (3.39%) Google
5 1 (1.69%) Planon
5 1 (1.69%) Salesforce