Scotland Data Cleansing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Data Cleansing (Data Scrubbing) skills within the Scotland region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Cleansing over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Data Cleansing (Data Scrubbing)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bristol Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Clapham Coventry Crawley East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Gatwick Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Leeds Leicestershire London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Norfolk North West Norwich Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	92	124
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching contract IT job ads	8	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	1.347 %	0.462 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£267	-
Average daily rate	£295	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£323	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£364	£356
% change on same period last year	+2.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£22.50
Average hourly rate	-	£22.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£12.67	£15.39
% change on same period last year	-17.67 %
Database & Business Intelligence Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	594	866
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.792 %	0.876 %
Daily rates quoted	107	171
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£305
Average daily rate	£323	£320
% change on same period last year	+0.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.27	£33.23
Average hourly rate	£29.78	£34.89
% change on same period last year	-14.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.30	£36.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
Data Cleansing UK

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Data Cleansing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Data Cleansing across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Cleansing across the Scotland region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Cleansing across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Cleansing across the Scotland region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Cleansing within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Edinburgh	+12	4	£250	-
Glasgow	+12	3	£385	-

Data Cleansing UK

Data Cleansing
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Data Cleansing also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Data Cleansing.

1 7 (43.75 %) Data Management 2 5 (31.25 %) Finance 3 2 (12.50 %) Bloomberg 3 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 3 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 3 2 (12.50 %) Migration 3 2 (12.50 %) Derivative 3 2 (12.50 %) Investment Management 3 2 (12.50 %) Asset Management 4 1 (6.250 %) Data Migration 4 1 (6.250 %) Use Case 4 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 1 (6.250 %) Banking 4 1 (6.250 %) Visual Studio

4 1 (6.250 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (6.250 %) WebServices 4 1 (6.250 %) XML 4 1 (6.250 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft 4 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (6.250 %) SQL 4 1 (6.250 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (6.250 %) .NET 4 1 (6.250 %) GIS 4 1 (6.250 %) Financial Institution

Data Cleansing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Data Cleansing also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Data Cleansing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (6.250 %) .NET 1 1 (6.250 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (6.250 %) WebServices 1 1 (6.250 %) XML	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2 1 (6.250 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (6.250 %) GIS 2 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) Visual Studio	General 1 5 (31.25 %) Finance 2 1 (6.250 %) Banking 2 1 (6.250 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 12 (75.00 %) Analyst 2 8 (50.00 %) Data Analyst 3 3 (18.75 %) Business Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) SQL Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (43.75 %) Data Management 2 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 2 2 (12.50 %) Migration 2 2 (12.50 %) Asset Management 2 2 (12.50 %) Investment Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Data Migration 3 1 (6.250 %) Use Case	Programming Languages 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL 1 1 (6.250 %) Transact-SQL
Vendors 1 2 (12.50 %) Bloomberg 2 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft