Data Quality Analyst

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

A Data Quality Analyst is responsible for analyzing the quality assurance test results of a product or service. May be responsible for developing testing plans, test cases and testing scripts.

Job Outlook

There were 89 Data Quality Analyst job postings in North Carolina in the past year and 2267 in the United States.

In combination with other careers in the Data / Data Mining Analyst industry, which includes the Data Quality Analyst career, the following graph shows the number of people employed for each year since 2015:

Salary

Many new Data Quality Analyst jobs have salaries estimated to be in the following ranges, based on the requirements and responsibilities listed in job postings from the past year.

National

The average estimated salary in the United States for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $68,986.

State

The average estimated salary in North Carolina for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $67,272.

Percentiles represent the percentage that is lower than the value. For example, 25% of estimated salaries for Data Quality Analyst postings in the United States in the past year were lower than $54,366.

Education and Experience

Posted Data Quality Analyst jobs typically require the following level of education. The numbers below are based on job postings in the United States from the past year. Not all job postings list education requirements.

Education Level	Percentage
Associate's Degree	0%
Bachelor's Degree	67.31%
Master's Degree	21%
Doctoral Degree	1.01%
Other	5.87%

Posted Data Quality Analyst jobs typically require the following number of years of experience. The numbers below are based on job postings in the United States from the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Years of Experience	Percentage
0 to 2 years	30.78%
3 to 5 years	50.68%
6 to 8 years	14.45%
9+ years	4.08%

Skills

Below are listings of the most common general and specialized skills Data Quality Analyst positions expect applicants to have as well as the most common skills that distinguish individuals from their peers. The percentage of job postings that specifically mention each skill is also listed.

Baseline Skills

A skill that is required across a broad range of occupations, including this one.

Communication (49.45%)
Management (41.02%)
Detail Oriented (37.1%)
Problem Solving (32.51%)
Microsoft Excel (27%)
Leadership (23.78%)
Writing (19.45%)
Research (18.04%)
Quality Assurance (17.56%)
Operations (16.5%)

Defining Skills

A core skill for this occupation, it occurs frequently in job postings.

Dashboard (23.66%)
Data Quality (70.44%)
Computer Science (21.75%)
Data Management (32.97%)
Data Analysis (59.58%)
SQL (Programming Language) (45.41%)

Necessary Skills

A skill that is requested frequently in this occupation but isn’t specific to it.

Workflow Management (13.58%)
Statistical Analysis (9.13%)
Agile Methodology (7.99%)
Business Process (8.54%)
Quality Improvement (8.54%)
Auditing (18.71%)
Automation (8.81%)
Microsoft Access (7.08%)
Business Intelligence (11.17%)
Business Requirements (9.31%)
Data Integrity (9.58%)
JIRA (9.63%)
Python (Programming Language) (21.48%)
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) (8.04%)
Extract Transform Load (ETL) (10.04%)
Data Cleansing (8.81%)
Data Governance (24.48%)
Data Modeling (8.54%)
Data Collection (10.54%)
Data Visualization (11.9%)
Information Systems (7.95%)
Data Entry (5.77%)
Relational Databases (5%)
R (Programming Language) (12.72%)
Data Warehousing (10.9%)
Data Profiling (9.58%)
Quality Management (11.26%)
Metadata (8.81%)
Project Management (17.8%)
Microsoft SQL Servers (2.68%)
Process Improvement (10.81%)
Root Cause Analysis (8.72%)
Power BI (16.49%)
Statistics (13.44%)
Data Science (8.9%)
Tableau (Business Intelligence Software) (19.8%)

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills. The percentage of job postings that specifically mention each skill is listed.

Computer Science (36.23%)
Data Governance (40.77%)
SQL (Programming Language) (75.64%)

Alternative Job Titles

Sometimes employers post jobs with Data Quality Analyst skills but a different job title. Some common alternative job titles include:

Data Quality Assurance Analyst
Data Quality Lead
Quality Analyst
Water Quality Analyst
Data Quality Specialist
Neurofeedback Technician
Data Governance Analyst
Quality Improvement Analyst
Data Quality Manager

Similar Occupations

If you are interested in exploring occupations with similar skills, you may want to research the following job titles. Note that we only list occupations that have at least one corresponding NC State Online and Distance Education program.

Common Employers

Here are the employers that have posted the most Data Quality Analyst jobs in the past year along with how many they have posted.

United States

Citigroup (59)
Cadmus International Limited (54)
Volt (36)
Motion Recruitment (35)
Stiftelsen Norstella (30)
TechnoSphere (25)
Allegis Group (23)
Careoregon (21)
Denken Solutions (20)
TEKsystems (19)

North Carolina

TEKsystems (4)
First Citizens Bank (4)
Allegis Group (3)
RTI International (3)
Partners Health Management (3)
TechnoSphere (2)
Moody's (2)
Insight Global (2)
USAA (2)
The Matlen Silver Group (2)

NC State Programs Relevant to this Career

If you are interested in preparing for a career in this field, the following NC State Online and Distance Education programs offer a great place to start!

All wages, job posting statistics, employment trend projections, and information about skill desirability on this page represents historical data and does not guarantee future conditions. Data is provided by and downloaded regularly from Lightcast. For more information about how Lightcast gathers data and what it represents, see Lightcast Data: Basic Overview on Lightcast's Knowledge Base website.

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