Data Quality Jobs

Data Quality
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Quality skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Quality over the 6 months to 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 252 285
Rank change year-on-year +69 +33 +13
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 1,610 1,371 2,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.51% 1.47% 1.47%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.67% 8.05% 8.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,047 879 1,125
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,450
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +9.38%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

Data Quality is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,798 17,021 29,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.96% 18.22% 17.23%
Number of salaries quoted 9,206 8,336 13,443
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% +2.11%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Quality.

Salary trend for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the UK over the 6 months to 5 June 2024. 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
England +61 1,482 £70,000 +7.69% 412
UK excluding London +80 905 £55,000 - 239
London +57 633 £87,500 +20.69% 175
Work from Home +69 584 £71,500 +14.40% 176
North of England +146 322 £64,000 +20.75% 85
South East +52 218 £60,000 -4.00% 49
North West +110 181 £75,000 +49.29% 41
Midlands -20 154 £53,000 +6.00% 47
West Midlands -43 111 £56,282 +8.16% 24
Yorkshire +82 84 £50,000 -6.54% 33
South West -42 84 £60,637 +0.64% 28
Scotland -30 64 £50,000 -5.61% 6
North East +21 57 £64,000 +64.10% 12
East of England +5 48 £43,000 -31.20% 14
East Midlands +11 43 £36,000 -10.00% 21
Wales +7 15 £45,000 -17.82% 4

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 164 (10.19%) Apache Airflow
2 154 (9.57%) Apache
3 99 (6.15%) SharePoint
4 70 (4.35%) Apache Spark
5 31 (1.93%) SAS
6 27 (1.68%) Confluence
7 6 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.19%) Luigi
8 3 (0.19%) Smallworld
9 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.062%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.062%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.062%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 200 (12.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.99%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.19%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 18 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.56%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.25%) Finacle
5 4 (0.25%) FLEXCUBE
5 4 (0.25%) SAP GTS
5 4 (0.25%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.25%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.19%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.19%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.12%) MIS ActiveH
7 2 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.12%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.062%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.062%) HFM
8 1 (0.062%) Lorenzo
8 1 (0.062%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.062%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.062%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 476 (29.57%) Azure
2 403 (25.03%) AWS
3 349 (21.68%) Power Platform
4 211 (13.11%) Snowflake
5 197 (12.24%) GCP
6 162 (10.06%) dbt
7 80 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 70 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 42 (2.61%) Collibra
11 35 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 35 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
12 33 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
12 33 (2.05%) Matillion
13 30 (1.86%) PowerApps
14 28 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
15 27 (1.68%) SaaS
16 23 (1.43%) Amazon Kinesis
16 23 (1.43%) IaaS
17 18 (1.12%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.06%) DNS
2 16 (0.99%) WPA
3 4 (0.25%) Internet
4 2 (0.12%) Intranet
4 2 (0.12%) Network Security
5 1 (0.062%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.062%) 5G
5 1 (0.062%) Skype
5 1 (0.062%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 374 (23.23%) Data Warehouse
2 339 (21.06%) Power BI
3 268 (16.65%) Data Lake
4 196 (12.17%) SQL Server
5 154 (9.57%) Metadata
6 141 (8.76%) BigQuery
7 133 (8.26%) Amazon Athena
8 131 (8.14%) Looker
9 124 (7.70%) Apache Arrow
9 124 (7.70%) Apache Ignite
9 124 (7.70%) Dremio
10 93 (5.78%) Tableau
11 74 (4.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 62 (3.85%) Big Data
13 56 (3.48%) Data Vault
14 46 (2.86%) Relational Database
15 45 (2.80%) NoSQL
16 41 (2.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 40 (2.48%) Delta Lake
17 40 (2.48%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 128 (7.95%) JIRA
2 42 (2.61%) GitLab
3 32 (1.99%) Git
4 13 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 12 (0.75%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.50%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.37%) ERwin
7 6 (0.37%) RStudio
7 6 (0.37%) Toad
8 4 (0.25%) Spinnaker
9 3 (0.19%) Deequ
9 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.062%) JMeter
11 1 (0.062%) MLflow
11 1 (0.062%) Mockito
11 1 (0.062%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.062%) Postman
11 1 (0.062%) Zephyr
General
1 560 (34.78%) Finance
2 500 (31.06%) Social Skills
3 420 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
4 267 (16.58%) Banking
5 165 (10.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 138 (8.57%) Front Office
7 136 (8.45%) Investment Banking
8 116 (7.20%) Legal
9 73 (4.53%) Law
9 73 (4.53%) Marketing
10 70 (4.35%) Retail
11 37 (2.30%) Public Sector
12 32 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
13 29 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
13 29 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (1.43%) Local Government
15 22 (1.37%) Back Office
16 16 (0.99%) Games
16 16 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 329 (20.43%) Data Engineer
2 293 (18.20%) Analyst
3 283 (17.58%) Senior
4 226 (14.04%) Lead
5 218 (13.54%) Architect
6 198 (12.30%) Data Architect
7 193 (11.99%) Data Analyst
8 114 (7.08%) Data Manager
9 101 (6.27%) Software Engineer
10 85 (5.28%) Senior Software Engineer
11 84 (5.22%) AWS Engineer
12 66 (4.10%) Technical Leader
13 62 (3.85%) AWS Software Engineer
14 61 (3.79%) Developer
15 56 (3.48%) Senior Data Engineer
16 54 (3.35%) Senior Analyst
17 50 (3.11%) Python Engineer
18 44 (2.73%) Lead Data Engineer
19 41 (2.55%) Consultant
20 36 (2.24%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (8.07%) Pandas
2 125 (7.76%) NumPy
3 124 (7.70%) gRPC
3 124 (7.70%) Protocol Buffers
3 124 (7.70%) SciPy
4 80 (4.97%) PySpark
5 19 (1.18%) .NET
6 15 (0.93%) XML
7 12 (0.75%) Kafka
8 11 (0.68%) JSON
9 8 (0.50%) Great Expectations
10 7 (0.43%) HTML
11 6 (0.37%) Lambda Expressions
12 5 (0.31%) J2EE
12 5 (0.31%) React
12 5 (0.31%) REST
12 5 (0.31%) Web Services
13 4 (0.25%) MDX
13 4 (0.25%) Middleware
13 4 (0.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 180 (11.18%) Self-Motivation
2 136 (8.45%) Hedge funds
3 135 (8.39%) Fixed Income
4 125 (7.76%) Equities
4 125 (7.76%) Management Information System
5 124 (7.70%) Derivative
5 124 (7.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 114 (7.08%) Data Structures
7 61 (3.79%) Reinsurance
8 47 (2.92%) Reference Data
9 45 (2.80%) Product Ownership
10 40 (2.48%) Public Cloud
11 33 (2.05%) Algorithms
12 29 (1.80%) Onboarding
13 22 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
13 22 (1.37%) IoT
14 21 (1.30%) Cloud Native
15 18 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
16 16 (0.99%) Taxonomies
17 15 (0.93%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.55%) Windows
2 15 (0.93%) Linux
3 7 (0.43%) Unix
4 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.062%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 590 (36.65%) Data Governance
2 553 (34.35%) Data Modelling
3 521 (32.36%) Problem-Solving
4 501 (31.12%) Analytics
5 466 (28.94%) Data Management
6 464 (28.82%) ETL
7 448 (27.83%) Agile
8 401 (24.91%) Business Intelligence
9 377 (23.42%) Data Engineering
10 293 (18.20%) Data Architecture
11 287 (17.83%) Data Integration
12 265 (16.46%) Data Analysis
13 258 (16.02%) Mentoring
14 221 (13.73%) Decision-Making
15 220 (13.66%) Data Science
16 188 (11.68%) Data Pipeline
16 188 (11.68%) Visualisation
17 185 (11.49%) Asset Management
18 182 (11.30%) Data Strategy
19 167 (10.37%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 588 (36.52%) SQL
2 506 (31.43%) Python
3 226 (14.04%) Java
4 137 (8.51%) JavaScript
5 128 (7.95%) TypeScript
6 71 (4.41%) T-SQL
7 56 (3.48%) R
8 35 (2.17%) Scala
8 35 (2.17%) VBA
9 23 (1.43%) Bash
10 21 (1.30%) C#
11 17 (1.06%) Perl
12 10 (0.62%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.50%) C
13 8 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.37%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.37%) VB.NET
15 5 (0.31%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.25%) Go
17 3 (0.19%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 283 (17.58%) Degree
2 82 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 68 (4.22%) Master's Degree
4 24 (1.49%) Security Cleared
5 23 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
5 23 (1.43%) SC Cleared
6 21 (1.30%) MBA
7 17 (1.06%) DBS Check
8 11 (0.68%) PhD
9 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.50%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.37%) CISM
11 6 (0.37%) CISSP
11 6 (0.37%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.31%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.31%) PMP
13 3 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.12%) ECDL
14 2 (0.12%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (14.04%) GDPR
2 56 (3.48%) QA
3 42 (2.61%) Accessibility
4 14 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 12 (0.75%) SLA
6 7 (0.43%) COBIT
6 7 (0.43%) GRC
7 3 (0.19%) PMO
8 2 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.12%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.12%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.062%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.062%) CDISC
9 1 (0.062%) COREP
9 1 (0.062%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.062%) FINREP
9 1 (0.062%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.062%) NCSC
9 1 (0.062%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 19 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.50%) Docker
5 3 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (1.43%) Terraform
2 8 (0.50%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.31%) logstash
4 3 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.12%) Ansible
Vendors
1 230 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 163 (10.12%) Databricks
3 161 (10.00%) Google
4 95 (5.90%) Informatica
5 93 (5.78%) Oracle
6 68 (4.22%) SAP
7 30 (1.86%) Alteryx
8 20 (1.24%) Salesforce
9 19 (1.18%) VMware
10 18 (1.12%) Talend
11 12 (0.75%) ServiceNow
12 11 (0.68%) Bloomberg
13 9 (0.56%) NEC
14 6 (0.37%) Civica
14 6 (0.37%) Facebook
14 6 (0.37%) Jitterbit
14 6 (0.37%) Workday
15 5 (0.31%) Cloudera
16 4 (0.25%) Ab Initio
16 4 (0.25%) Computacenter