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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 247 283
Rank change year-on-year +50 +36 +19
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 1,504 1,482 2,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.52% 1.46% 1.44%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.06% 7.74% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 946 931 1,133
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,066 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £97,500 £93,750
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 13,602 19,143 26,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.72% 18.89% 16.91%
Number of salaries quoted 9,263 8,888 13,070
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% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,650
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.93% +0.32%

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 9 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 9 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 1,372 £67,500 +3.85% 396
UK excluding London +76 870 £55,000 - 206
London +51 561 £80,000 +14.29% 187
Work from Home +55 521 £67,500 +8.00% 153
North of England +139 296 £65,000 +23.81% 63
South East +46 216 £60,000 -4.00% 46
North West +109 166 £75,000 +42.86% 35
Midlands -34 142 £44,100 -11.80% 49
West Midlands -41 102 £55,000 +10.00% 29
South West -22 82 £60,637 +0.64% 24
Yorkshire +94 79 £50,000 -2.44% 22
Scotland -25 68 £50,000 -9.09% 4
East of England +40 52 £43,000 -31.20% 17
North East +24 51 £68,250 +36.50% 7
East Midlands +13 40 £35,000 -14.63% 19
Wales +7 15 £45,000 -25.00% 3

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
1 118 (7.85%) Apache Airflow
2 107 (7.11%) Apache
3 99 (6.58%) SharePoint
4 68 (4.52%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.80%) Confluence
6 16 (1.06%) SAS
7 6 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.33%) 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 (13.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.20%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 19 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.53%) NEC Housing
4 7 (0.47%) SAP GTS
5 5 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.27%) Finacle
6 4 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
6 4 (0.27%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.27%) 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%) HFM
9 1 (0.066%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.066%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.066%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 469 (31.18%) Azure
2 359 (23.87%) AWS
3 341 (22.67%) Power Platform
4 203 (13.50%) GCP
5 168 (11.17%) Snowflake
6 118 (7.85%) dbt
7 72 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
9 45 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 42 (2.79%) Collibra
11 36 (2.39%) Microsoft Purview
12 35 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 33 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
14 32 (2.13%) Matillion
15 31 (2.06%) PowerApps
16 30 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
17 29 (1.93%) SaaS
18 23 (1.53%) Amazon Kinesis
19 21 (1.40%) IaaS
20 20 (1.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.06%) WPA
2 12 (0.80%) 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
1 360 (23.94%) Data Warehouse
2 329 (21.88%) Power BI
3 214 (14.23%) Data Lake
4 196 (13.03%) SQL Server
5 146 (9.71%) BigQuery
6 144 (9.57%) Metadata
7 132 (8.78%) Looker
8 99 (6.58%) Tableau
9 89 (5.92%) Amazon Athena
10 80 (5.32%) Apache Arrow
10 80 (5.32%) Apache Ignite
10 80 (5.32%) Dremio
11 71 (4.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 58 (3.86%) Data Vault
13 55 (3.66%) Big Data
14 48 (3.19%) Relational Database
15 45 (2.99%) Star Schema
16 44 (2.93%) Delta Lake
17 42 (2.79%) NoSQL
17 42 (2.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 136 (9.04%) JIRA
2 42 (2.79%) GitLab
3 30 (1.99%) Git
4 15 (1.00%) Jenkins
5 14 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (0.53%) Spinnaker
6 8 (0.53%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.40%) ERwin
7 6 (0.40%) RStudio
7 6 (0.40%) 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
1 507 (33.71%) Finance
2 488 (32.45%) Social Skills
3 412 (27.39%) Analytical Skills
4 218 (14.49%) Banking
5 162 (10.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 113 (7.51%) Legal
7 91 (6.05%) Investment Banking
8 86 (5.72%) Front Office
9 79 (5.25%) Marketing
10 78 (5.19%) Law
11 65 (4.32%) Retail
12 40 (2.66%) Public Sector
13 32 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
14 31 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
14 31 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
15 25 (1.66%) Back Office
16 24 (1.60%) Local Government
17 17 (1.13%) Games
17 17 (1.13%) Telecoms
18 15 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 317 (21.08%) Data Engineer
2 264 (17.55%) Analyst
3 235 (15.63%) Senior
4 218 (14.49%) Architect
5 195 (12.97%) Lead
6 194 (12.90%) Data Architect
7 177 (11.77%) Data Analyst
8 106 (7.05%) Data Manager
9 81 (5.39%) Software Engineer
10 70 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
11 62 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
12 61 (4.06%) Developer
13 45 (2.99%) Lead Data Engineer
13 45 (2.99%) Senior Data Engineer
13 45 (2.99%) Technical Leader
14 40 (2.66%) AWS Software Engineer
15 39 (2.59%) Python Engineer
16 38 (2.53%) Consultant
17 37 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
18 36 (2.39%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (5.59%) Pandas
2 81 (5.39%) NumPy
3 80 (5.32%) gRPC
3 80 (5.32%) Protocol Buffers
3 80 (5.32%) SciPy
4 76 (5.05%) PySpark
5 21 (1.40%) .NET
6 13 (0.86%) JSON
6 13 (0.86%) XML
7 10 (0.66%) Kafka
8 8 (0.53%) Great Expectations
8 8 (0.53%) HTML
9 6 (0.40%) Lambda Expressions
9 6 (0.40%) Middleware
10 5 (0.33%) J2EE
10 5 (0.33%) REST
10 5 (0.33%) Web Services
11 4 (0.27%) D3.js
11 4 (0.27%) EDI
11 4 (0.27%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 182 (12.10%) Self-Motivation
2 119 (7.91%) Management Information System
3 118 (7.85%) Data Structures
4 84 (5.59%) Hedge funds
5 83 (5.52%) Fixed Income
6 81 (5.39%) Equities
7 80 (5.32%) Derivative
7 80 (5.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 56 (3.72%) Reinsurance
9 45 (2.99%) Public Cloud
10 44 (2.93%) Product Ownership
11 41 (2.73%) Reference Data
12 29 (1.93%) Algorithms
13 25 (1.66%) Cloud Native
14 23 (1.53%) Onboarding
15 21 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
16 20 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
17 18 (1.20%) IoT
18 15 (1.00%) Blog
19 14 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.26%) Windows
2 14 (0.93%) Linux
3 7 (0.47%) Unix
4 2 (0.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.066%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (37.83%) Data Governance
2 536 (35.64%) Data Modelling
3 495 (32.91%) Problem-Solving
4 473 (31.45%) Analytics
5 465 (30.92%) ETL
6 432 (28.72%) Data Management
7 415 (27.59%) Agile
8 391 (26.00%) Business Intelligence
9 364 (24.20%) Data Engineering
10 286 (19.02%) Data Architecture
11 279 (18.55%) Data Integration
12 259 (17.22%) Mentoring
13 255 (16.95%) Data Analysis
14 206 (13.70%) Decision-Making
15 196 (13.03%) Data Science
16 175 (11.64%) Visualisation
17 174 (11.57%) Data Pipeline
18 169 (11.24%) Data Strategy
19 161 (10.70%) Data Analytics
20 158 (10.51%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 538 (35.77%) SQL
2 427 (28.39%) Python
3 185 (12.30%) Java
4 93 (6.18%) JavaScript
5 84 (5.59%) TypeScript
6 74 (4.92%) T-SQL
7 59 (3.92%) R
8 34 (2.26%) Scala
9 23 (1.53%) C#
10 22 (1.46%) VBA
11 18 (1.20%) Bash
12 12 (0.80%) Perl
13 10 (0.66%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.53%) C
14 8 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (0.53%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.40%) VB.NET
16 5 (0.33%) PHP
16 5 (0.33%) PowerShell
17 4 (0.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 274 (18.22%) Degree
2 76 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 66 (4.39%) Master's Degree
4 25 (1.66%) Security Cleared
5 24 (1.60%) SC Cleared
6 22 (1.46%) Numerate Degree
7 21 (1.40%) MBA
8 15 (1.00%) DBS Check
9 13 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (0.73%) PhD
11 9 (0.60%) CISM
11 9 (0.60%) CISSP
11 9 (0.60%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.40%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.40%) PMP
13 5 (0.33%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.27%) MCP
15 3 (0.20%) HND
15 3 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (15.09%) GDPR
2 56 (3.72%) QA
3 39 (2.59%) Accessibility
4 13 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (0.47%) COBIT
5 7 (0.47%) 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 14 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.40%) Docker
5 2 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (1.33%) Terraform
2 7 (0.47%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.33%) logstash
4 3 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.066%) Ansible
Vendors
1 233 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 170 (11.30%) Google
3 152 (10.11%) Databricks
4 106 (7.05%) Oracle
5 87 (5.78%) Informatica
6 71 (4.72%) SAP
7 30 (1.99%) Alteryx
8 20 (1.33%) Salesforce
9 18 (1.20%) Talend
10 16 (1.06%) VMware
11 12 (0.80%) ServiceNow
12 9 (0.60%) Computacenter
13 8 (0.53%) NEC
14 7 (0.47%) Facebook
15 6 (0.40%) Civica
15 6 (0.40%) Jitterbit
15 6 (0.40%) Workday
16 5 (0.33%) Cloudera
17 3 (0.20%) Ab Initio
17 3 (0.20%) Sitecore