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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 256 284
Rank change year-on-year +60 +28 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 1,523 1,447 2,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.52% 1.46% 1.46%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.20% 7.72% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 968 918 1,133
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,206 £36,350
25th Percentile £46,297 £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 £90,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%

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 13,596 18,747 27,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.61% 18.90% 17.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,193 8,688 13,219
10th Percentile £27,000 £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% +3.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,626
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.98% +0.27%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +60 1,390 £68,490 +5.37% 483
UK excluding London +65 880 £55,000 - 270
London +55 569 £85,000 +17.65% 246
Work from Home +73 539 £69,000 +10.40% 186
North of England +148 300 £65,000 +29.38% 86
South East +63 217 £60,000 -4.00% 73
North West +110 172 £77,500 +50.87% 41
Midlands -27 149 £50,000 - 54
West Midlands -30 108 £55,641 +11.28% 34
South West -29 81 £63,773 +5.85% 21
Yorkshire +86 78 £50,000 -2.44% 34
Scotland -19 68 £50,000 -9.09% 8
East of England +23 51 £43,000 -31.20% 19
North East +23 50 £71,500 +60.67% 12
East Midlands +22 41 £35,000 -14.63% 20
Wales +10 15 £45,000 -17.82% 6

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
1 129 (8.47%) Apache Airflow
2 120 (7.88%) Apache
3 99 (6.50%) SharePoint
4 69 (4.53%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.77%) Confluence
6 16 (1.05%) SAS
7 6 (0.39%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Application Server
9 3 (0.20%) Smallworld
10 2 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.066%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.066%) IBM Domino
11 1 (0.066%) Luigi
Applications
1 199 (13.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.12%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.20%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 18 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.53%) NEC Housing
4 7 (0.46%) SAP GTS
5 5 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.26%) Finacle
6 4 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
6 4 (0.26%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.26%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.20%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.20%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
8 2 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.13%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.13%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.066%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.066%) HFM
9 1 (0.066%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.066%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 470 (30.86%) Azure
2 369 (24.23%) AWS
3 345 (22.65%) Power Platform
4 201 (13.20%) GCP
5 178 (11.69%) Snowflake
6 129 (8.47%) dbt
7 73 (4.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 72 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (3.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 45 (2.95%) Collibra
11 37 (2.43%) Microsoft Purview
12 35 (2.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 33 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
14 32 (2.10%) Matillion
15 30 (1.97%) PowerApps
16 29 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
17 28 (1.84%) SaaS
18 23 (1.51%) Amazon Kinesis
19 20 (1.31%) GitHub
19 20 (1.31%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.05%) WPA
2 13 (0.85%) DNS
3 5 (0.33%) Internet
4 2 (0.13%) Intranet
4 2 (0.13%) Network Security
5 1 (0.066%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.066%) 5G
5 1 (0.066%) Skype
5 1 (0.066%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (24.03%) Data Warehouse
2 335 (22.00%) Power BI
3 227 (14.90%) Data Lake
4 199 (13.07%) SQL Server
5 147 (9.65%) Metadata
6 145 (9.52%) BigQuery
7 131 (8.60%) Looker
8 101 (6.63%) Amazon Athena
9 95 (6.24%) Tableau
10 92 (6.04%) Apache Arrow
10 92 (6.04%) Apache Ignite
10 92 (6.04%) Dremio
11 72 (4.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 56 (3.68%) Big Data
12 56 (3.68%) Data Vault
13 47 (3.09%) Relational Database
14 43 (2.82%) Delta Lake
14 43 (2.82%) NoSQL
14 43 (2.82%) Star Schema
15 42 (2.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 133 (8.73%) JIRA
2 42 (2.76%) GitLab
3 29 (1.90%) Git
4 15 (0.98%) Jenkins
5 14 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (0.53%) Spinnaker
6 8 (0.53%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.39%) ERwin
7 6 (0.39%) RStudio
7 6 (0.39%) Toad
8 3 (0.20%) Deequ
8 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.066%) JMeter
10 1 (0.066%) Mockito
10 1 (0.066%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.066%) Postman
10 1 (0.066%) Zephyr
General
1 522 (34.27%) Finance
2 491 (32.24%) Social Skills
3 415 (27.25%) Analytical Skills
4 232 (15.23%) Banking
5 163 (10.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 115 (7.55%) Legal
7 104 (6.83%) Investment Banking
8 100 (6.57%) Front Office
9 79 (5.19%) Marketing
10 77 (5.06%) Law
11 63 (4.14%) Retail
12 39 (2.56%) Public Sector
13 34 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
14 31 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
15 30 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
16 26 (1.71%) Back Office
17 24 (1.58%) Local Government
18 17 (1.12%) Telecoms
19 16 (1.05%) Games
20 15 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 321 (21.08%) Data Engineer
2 257 (16.87%) Analyst
3 244 (16.02%) Senior
4 217 (14.25%) Architect
5 204 (13.39%) Lead
6 194 (12.74%) Data Architect
7 174 (11.42%) Data Analyst
8 108 (7.09%) Data Manager
9 87 (5.71%) Software Engineer
10 75 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
11 68 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
12 63 (4.14%) Developer
13 51 (3.35%) Technical Leader
14 47 (3.09%) Senior Data Engineer
15 46 (3.02%) AWS Software Engineer
16 45 (2.95%) Lead Data Engineer
17 41 (2.69%) Consultant
18 40 (2.63%) Python Engineer
19 37 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
20 36 (2.36%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (6.30%) Pandas
2 93 (6.11%) NumPy
3 92 (6.04%) gRPC
3 92 (6.04%) Protocol Buffers
3 92 (6.04%) SciPy
4 79 (5.19%) PySpark
5 22 (1.44%) .NET
6 13 (0.85%) XML
7 12 (0.79%) JSON
8 10 (0.66%) Kafka
9 8 (0.53%) Great Expectations
9 8 (0.53%) HTML
10 6 (0.39%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (0.33%) J2EE
11 5 (0.33%) Middleware
11 5 (0.33%) REST
11 5 (0.33%) Web Services
12 4 (0.26%) D3.js
12 4 (0.26%) EDI
12 4 (0.26%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 182 (11.95%) Self-Motivation
2 121 (7.94%) Management Information System
3 116 (7.62%) Data Structures
4 98 (6.43%) Hedge funds
5 97 (6.37%) Fixed Income
6 93 (6.11%) Equities
7 92 (6.04%) Derivative
7 92 (6.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 57 (3.74%) Reinsurance
9 45 (2.95%) Product Ownership
10 43 (2.82%) Public Cloud
11 42 (2.76%) Reference Data
12 30 (1.97%) Algorithms
13 25 (1.64%) Cloud Native
14 23 (1.51%) Onboarding
15 22 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
16 20 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
17 18 (1.18%) IoT
18 16 (1.05%) Taxonomies
19 15 (0.98%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.38%) Windows
2 15 (0.98%) Linux
3 7 (0.46%) Unix
4 2 (0.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.066%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (37.56%) Data Governance
2 534 (35.06%) Data Modelling
3 501 (32.90%) Problem-Solving
4 479 (31.45%) Analytics
5 465 (30.53%) ETL
6 441 (28.96%) Data Management
7 423 (27.77%) Agile
8 397 (26.07%) Business Intelligence
9 371 (24.36%) Data Engineering
10 285 (18.71%) Data Architecture
11 276 (18.12%) Data Integration
12 259 (17.01%) Mentoring
13 248 (16.28%) Data Analysis
14 213 (13.99%) Decision-Making
15 195 (12.80%) Data Science
16 175 (11.49%) Data Pipeline
16 175 (11.49%) Data Strategy
17 171 (11.23%) Visualisation
18 162 (10.64%) Data Analytics
19 156 (10.24%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 540 (35.46%) SQL
2 440 (28.89%) Python
3 198 (13.00%) Java
4 106 (6.96%) JavaScript
5 96 (6.30%) TypeScript
6 74 (4.86%) T-SQL
7 59 (3.87%) R
8 34 (2.23%) Scala
9 24 (1.58%) C#
10 21 (1.38%) VBA
11 19 (1.25%) Bash
12 13 (0.85%) Perl
13 11 (0.72%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.53%) C
16 7 (0.46%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.39%) VB.NET
18 4 (0.26%) Go
18 4 (0.26%) PHP
18 4 (0.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 277 (18.19%) Degree
2 75 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 66 (4.33%) Master's Degree
4 23 (1.51%) Security Cleared
5 22 (1.44%) Numerate Degree
5 22 (1.44%) SC Cleared
6 21 (1.38%) MBA
7 16 (1.05%) DBS Check
8 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (0.72%) PhD
10 9 (0.59%) CISM
10 9 (0.59%) CISSP
10 9 (0.59%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.39%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.39%) PMP
12 5 (0.33%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.20%) MCP
13 3 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.13%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (14.71%) GDPR
2 58 (3.81%) QA
3 39 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 13 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (0.46%) COBIT
5 7 (0.46%) GRC
6 3 (0.20%) PMO
7 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.13%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.066%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.066%) CDISC
8 1 (0.066%) COREP
8 1 (0.066%) FINREP
8 1 (0.066%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.066%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.066%) SLA
8 1 (0.066%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 15 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.33%) Docker
5 2 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (1.44%) Terraform
2 6 (0.39%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.33%) logstash
4 3 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.066%) Ansible
Vendors
1 232 (15.23%) Microsoft
2 167 (10.97%) Google
3 154 (10.11%) Databricks
4 104 (6.83%) Oracle
5 90 (5.91%) Informatica
6 73 (4.79%) SAP
7 29 (1.90%) Alteryx
8 20 (1.31%) Salesforce
9 19 (1.25%) Talend
10 16 (1.05%) VMware
11 12 (0.79%) ServiceNow
12 8 (0.53%) Computacenter
12 8 (0.53%) NEC
13 7 (0.46%) Facebook
14 6 (0.39%) Civica
14 6 (0.39%) Jitterbit
14 6 (0.39%) Workday
15 5 (0.33%) Bloomberg
15 5 (0.33%) Cloudera
16 3 (0.20%) Sparx