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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

data quality

351 live US technical postings name data quality in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 351 postings naming data quality that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Engineer55.8%
  2. 2Data Analyst16%
  3. 3Software Engineer12%
  4. 4Data Scientist10.8%
  5. 5Machine Learning Engineer1.7%
  6. 6DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.4%
  7. 7AI Engineer1.1%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where data quality is named
n = 178
10th
$115k
25th
$141k
Median
$175k
75th
$205k
90th
$254k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote15.4%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA14%
  3. 3New York, NY12.5%
  4. 4Washington, DC6%
  5. 5Silicon Valley, CA5.4%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.8%
  7. 7Austin, TX2.3%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA2%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.