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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 257 276
Rank change year-on-year +73 +19 +28
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 1,621 1,369 2,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.49% 1.47% 1.47%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.66% 8.12% 8.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,057 890 1,126
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,475 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,250 £46,063
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 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year - +4.27% +10.88%

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 13,908 16,850 29,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.82% 18.10% 17.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,231 8,352 13,447
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 £93,250 £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 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in the UK

Data Quality
Top 17 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 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 +63 1,494 £70,000 +3.70% 408
UK excluding London +68 911 £55,000 - 235
London +52 638 £90,000 +24.14% 180
Work from Home +77 591 £72,900 +16.64% 175
North of England +151 326 £64,000 +19.63% 85
South East +58 220 £60,000 -4.00% 45
North West +110 186 £75,000 +49.29% 42
Midlands -39 155 £51,500 +3.00% 38
West Midlands -43 111 £56,282 +7.20% 19
South West -31 84 £60,637 +0.64% 26
Yorkshire +81 83 £50,000 -6.54% 32
Scotland -24 62 £50,750 -4.19% 10
North East +23 57 £64,000 +64.10% 13
East of England +11 48 £43,000 -31.20% 18
East Midlands 0 44 £36,000 -10.00% 17
Wales +16 15 £45,000 -17.82% 7
Northern Ireland +17 1 £87,500 +169.23% 7

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
1 168 (10.36%) Apache Airflow
2 157 (9.69%) Apache
3 100 (6.17%) SharePoint
4 68 (4.19%) Apache Spark
5 33 (2.04%) SAS
6 29 (1.79%) 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%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.062%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 203 (12.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.99%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.19%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 18 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.80%) 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%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.12%) MIS ActiveH
7 2 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.12%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.062%) Lorenzo
8 1 (0.062%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.062%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.062%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.062%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 476 (29.36%) Azure
2 403 (24.86%) AWS
3 351 (21.65%) Power Platform
4 215 (13.26%) Snowflake
5 196 (12.09%) GCP
6 166 (10.24%) dbt
7 82 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 72 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (3.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 43 (2.65%) Collibra
11 36 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
12 35 (2.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 33 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
13 33 (2.04%) Matillion
14 30 (1.85%) PowerApps
15 28 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
16 27 (1.67%) SaaS
17 23 (1.42%) Amazon Kinesis
17 23 (1.42%) IaaS
18 20 (1.23%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.05%) 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
1 377 (23.26%) Data Warehouse
2 341 (21.04%) Power BI
3 274 (16.90%) Data Lake
4 194 (11.97%) SQL Server
5 159 (9.81%) Metadata
6 141 (8.70%) BigQuery
7 137 (8.45%) Amazon Athena
8 130 (8.02%) Looker
9 128 (7.90%) Apache Arrow
9 128 (7.90%) Apache Ignite
9 128 (7.90%) Dremio
10 92 (5.68%) Tableau
11 75 (4.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 63 (3.89%) Big Data
13 56 (3.45%) Data Vault
14 46 (2.84%) NoSQL
14 46 (2.84%) Relational Database
15 40 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 40 (2.47%) Star Schema
16 39 (2.41%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 130 (8.02%) JIRA
2 42 (2.59%) GitLab
3 32 (1.97%) Git
4 12 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 7 (0.43%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.37%) ERwin
6 6 (0.37%) RStudio
6 6 (0.37%) Toad
7 4 (0.25%) Spinnaker
8 3 (0.19%) Deequ
8 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.062%) JMeter
10 1 (0.062%) MLflow
10 1 (0.062%) Mockito
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.062%) Postman
10 1 (0.062%) Zephyr
General
1 567 (34.98%) Finance
2 500 (30.85%) Social Skills
3 422 (26.03%) Analytical Skills
4 272 (16.78%) Banking
5 164 (10.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 142 (8.76%) Front Office
7 140 (8.64%) Investment Banking
8 116 (7.16%) Legal
9 70 (4.32%) Law
9 70 (4.32%) Marketing
9 70 (4.32%) Retail
10 36 (2.22%) Public Sector
11 32 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
13 29 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.36%) Back Office
14 22 (1.36%) Local Government
15 16 (0.99%) Games
15 16 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 332 (20.48%) Data Engineer
2 299 (18.45%) Analyst
3 290 (17.89%) Senior
4 226 (13.94%) Lead
5 220 (13.57%) Architect
6 200 (12.34%) Data Architect
7 194 (11.97%) Data Analyst
8 114 (7.03%) Data Manager
9 100 (6.17%) Software Engineer
10 86 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
11 84 (5.18%) Senior Software Engineer
12 68 (4.19%) Technical Leader
13 64 (3.95%) AWS Software Engineer
14 61 (3.76%) Developer
15 60 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
16 58 (3.58%) Senior Analyst
17 50 (3.08%) Python Engineer
18 44 (2.71%) Lead Data Engineer
19 41 (2.53%) Consultant
20 37 (2.28%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (8.27%) Pandas
2 129 (7.96%) NumPy
3 128 (7.90%) gRPC
3 128 (7.90%) Protocol Buffers
3 128 (7.90%) SciPy
4 79 (4.87%) PySpark
5 19 (1.17%) .NET
6 14 (0.86%) XML
7 12 (0.74%) Kafka
8 10 (0.62%) JSON
9 8 (0.49%) 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 (11.10%) Self-Motivation
2 140 (8.64%) Hedge funds
3 139 (8.57%) Fixed Income
4 129 (7.96%) Equities
5 128 (7.90%) Derivative
5 128 (7.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 127 (7.83%) Management Information System
7 115 (7.09%) Data Structures
8 60 (3.70%) Reinsurance
9 47 (2.90%) Reference Data
10 44 (2.71%) Product Ownership
11 39 (2.41%) Public Cloud
12 33 (2.04%) Algorithms
13 31 (1.91%) Onboarding
14 23 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
15 22 (1.36%) IoT
16 20 (1.23%) Cloud Native
17 19 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
18 16 (0.99%) Taxonomies
19 15 (0.93%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.54%) 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
1 596 (36.77%) Data Governance
2 555 (34.24%) Data Modelling
3 520 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
4 504 (31.09%) Analytics
5 469 (28.93%) Data Management
6 463 (28.56%) ETL
7 451 (27.82%) Agile
8 402 (24.80%) Business Intelligence
9 375 (23.13%) Data Engineering
10 296 (18.26%) Data Architecture
11 286 (17.64%) Data Integration
12 267 (16.47%) Data Analysis
13 258 (15.92%) Mentoring
14 222 (13.70%) Data Science
15 219 (13.51%) Decision-Making
16 190 (11.72%) Data Pipeline
17 189 (11.66%) Asset Management
17 189 (11.66%) Visualisation
18 184 (11.35%) Data Strategy
19 168 (10.36%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 594 (36.64%) SQL
2 511 (31.52%) Python
3 226 (13.94%) Java
4 141 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 132 (8.14%) TypeScript
6 70 (4.32%) T-SQL
7 57 (3.52%) R
8 39 (2.41%) VBA
9 35 (2.16%) Scala
10 23 (1.42%) Bash
11 21 (1.30%) C#
12 17 (1.05%) Perl
13 10 (0.62%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.49%) C
14 8 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.37%) VB.NET
16 5 (0.31%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.31%) PowerShell
17 4 (0.25%) Go
18 3 (0.19%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 285 (17.58%) Degree
2 84 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 68 (4.19%) Master's Degree
4 23 (1.42%) Numerate Degree
4 23 (1.42%) Security Cleared
5 22 (1.36%) SC Cleared
6 21 (1.30%) MBA
7 17 (1.05%) DBS Check
8 11 (0.68%) PhD
9 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.49%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.37%) CISM
11 6 (0.37%) CISSP
12 5 (0.31%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.31%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.31%) PMP
13 2 (0.12%) ECDL
13 2 (0.12%) MCP
13 2 (0.12%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (13.88%) GDPR
2 54 (3.33%) QA
3 42 (2.59%) Accessibility
4 14 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 12 (0.74%) SLA
6 7 (0.43%) COBIT
6 7 (0.43%) GRC
7 4 (0.25%) 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%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.062%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.062%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 19 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.49%) Docker
5 3 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (1.42%) Terraform
2 8 (0.49%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.31%) logstash
4 3 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.12%) Ansible
Vendors
1 229 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 164 (10.12%) Databricks
3 161 (9.93%) Google
4 101 (6.23%) Informatica
5 92 (5.68%) Oracle
6 68 (4.19%) SAP
7 30 (1.85%) Alteryx
8 20 (1.23%) Salesforce
9 19 (1.17%) VMware
10 17 (1.05%) Talend
11 12 (0.74%) 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
15 5 (0.31%) TIBCO
16 4 (0.25%) Cognos