Data Cleansing Contracts

Data Cleansing (Data Cleaning, Data Scrubbing)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Cleansing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Cleansing over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 426 466
Rank change year-on-year +58 +40 -17
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 219 286 440
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.49% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.55% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 188 307
10th Percentile £325 £321 £353
25th Percentile £356 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% +4.75% +8.11%
75th Percentile £549 £620 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 9
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.83 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.61 £22.16 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% -13.10% -36.25%
75th Percentile £25.65 £22.40 £45.75
90th Percentile £31.86 £25.04 £55.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.49 £22.16 £17.50
% change year-on-year -25.59% +26.63% -59.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Cleansing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

Data Cleansing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Cleansing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Cleansing.

Daily rate trend for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Cleansing over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Cleansing.

Hourly rate trend for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Cleansing over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Cleansing within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +51 186 £438 -16.62% 152
London +42 101 £425 -23.08% 58
Work from Home +82 91 £445 -13.96% 68
UK excluding London +68 88 £475 - 93
North of England +32 29 £475 +15.85% 20
North West +35 25 £475 +15.85% 11
South East +15 22 £365 -30.48% 14
Midlands +37 19 £425 -10.53% 18
West Midlands +24 14 £438 -7.89% 13
Scotland +53 9 £525 +5.00% 3
East Midlands +29 6 £383 -59.74% 5
East of England +11 6 £488 - 14
Yorkshire +19 4 £450 -10.00% 5
South West -4 3 £441 -7.11% 19

Data Cleansing
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 19 (8.68%) SAS
2 9 (4.11%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.83%) Apache
3 4 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.37%) Confluence
5 2 (0.91%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.46%) IIS
6 1 (0.46%) JBoss
6 1 (0.46%) WildFly
Applications
1 22 (10.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.74%) SPSS
3 5 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.28%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (7.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (1.83%) SAP FI
2 4 (1.83%) SAP PP
3 3 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.37%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.37%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.37%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.37%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.91%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.91%) Movex
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.91%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.46%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.46%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 32 (14.61%) Power Platform
2 31 (14.16%) Azure
3 21 (9.59%) AWS
4 9 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (3.65%) OCI
5 8 (3.65%) Power Automate
5 8 (3.65%) Snowflake
6 7 (3.20%) Collibra
6 7 (3.20%) GCP
7 6 (2.74%) Serverless
8 5 (2.28%) SaaS
9 4 (1.83%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.83%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.37%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.83%) Intranet
2 1 (0.46%) Internet
2 1 (0.46%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.46%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (14.61%) Power BI
2 25 (11.42%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (8.68%) Tableau
4 18 (8.22%) Data Lake
5 16 (7.31%) SQL Server
6 13 (5.94%) Data Mining
7 12 (5.48%) Qlik Sense
8 10 (4.57%) SAP Data Services
9 8 (3.65%) Ataccama
10 5 (2.28%) Big Data
10 5 (2.28%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.28%) Hadoop
10 5 (2.28%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.37%) Apache Hive
12 3 (1.37%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (1.37%) KDB
12 3 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (1.37%) SAP BW
12 3 (1.37%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (2.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (1.83%) ERwin
2 4 (1.83%) Git
2 4 (1.83%) JIRA
2 4 (1.83%) LSMW
3 3 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.46%) GitLab
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.46%) Toad
4 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 59 (26.94%) Finance
3 51 (23.29%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.02%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.57%) Pharmaceutical
6 9 (4.11%) Banking
6 9 (4.11%) Marketing
6 9 (4.11%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.65%) Legal
8 7 (3.20%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.20%) Retail
9 6 (2.74%) Law
10 5 (2.28%) Local Government
11 4 (1.83%) Billing
11 4 (1.83%) Games
11 4 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.91%) Czech Language
13 2 (0.91%) French Language
Job Titles
1 76 (34.70%) Analyst
2 60 (27.40%) Data Analyst
3 26 (11.87%) Data Engineer
4 23 (10.50%) Consultant
5 17 (7.76%) Senior
6 15 (6.85%) Lead
7 13 (5.94%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (5.02%) Architect
8 11 (5.02%) Developer
9 10 (4.57%) Business Analyst
10 9 (4.11%) Data Quality Analyst
10 9 (4.11%) Quality Analyst
11 8 (3.65%) Data Manager
12 7 (3.20%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.20%) Senior Data Analyst
12 7 (3.20%) SQL Analyst
12 7 (3.20%) SQL Data Analyst
13 6 (2.74%) Data Consultant
13 6 (2.74%) Financial Analyst
13 6 (2.74%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (3.65%) PySpark
3 7 (3.20%) REST
4 6 (2.74%) D3.js
5 5 (2.28%) HTML
5 5 (2.28%) Kafka
6 4 (1.83%) BAPI
6 4 (1.83%) CSS
6 4 (1.83%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.83%) Visualforce
7 2 (0.91%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.46%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.46%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.46%) EDI
8 1 (0.46%) IDoc
8 1 (0.46%) JSON
8 1 (0.46%) ODBC
8 1 (0.46%) Pandas
8 1 (0.46%) PostGIS
8 1 (0.46%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (5.02%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.74%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.28%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.83%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.37%) Freedom of Information
6 3 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.91%) FMCG
7 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.91%) NHS
7 2 (0.91%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.91%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.46%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.46%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.46%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.46%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.20%) Windows
2 2 (0.91%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (30.59%) Migration
2 61 (27.85%) Data Analysis
3 55 (25.11%) Data Migration
4 48 (21.92%) Data Modelling
5 46 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (20.09%) Data Management
7 41 (18.72%) ETL
8 40 (18.26%) Analytics
9 37 (16.89%) Validation
10 36 (16.44%) Visualisation
11 35 (15.98%) Data Governance
12 34 (15.53%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (10.50%) Agile
14 20 (9.13%) Data Integration
14 20 (9.13%) Data Visualisation
15 19 (8.68%) ERP
16 18 (8.22%) Data Pipeline
17 17 (7.76%) Stakeholder Management
17 17 (7.76%) User Acceptance Testing
18 16 (7.31%) Data Extraction
Programming Languages
1 68 (31.05%) SQL
2 43 (19.63%) Python
3 13 (5.94%) R
4 6 (2.74%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.83%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.83%) Scala
6 3 (1.37%) Java
6 3 (1.37%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.37%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.37%) VBA
7 2 (0.91%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.46%) ABAP
8 1 (0.46%) Bash
8 1 (0.46%) C#
8 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (6.39%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.94%) Degree
3 12 (5.48%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.74%) ACCA
4 6 (2.74%) CIMA
4 6 (2.74%) PMP
5 2 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.91%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.91%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.91%) SAP Certification
5 2 (0.91%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.46%) CCA
6 1 (0.46%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.46%) ECDL
6 1 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (37.90%) Data Quality
2 22 (10.05%) QA
3 6 (2.74%) GDPR
4 3 (1.37%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.37%) IFRS
5 2 (0.91%) GxP
5 2 (0.91%) PMO
5 2 (0.91%) SLA
6 1 (0.46%) CDISC
6 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.46%) NIST
6 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (4.57%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.91%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (3.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.46%) Grafana
2 1 (0.46%) Kibana
2 1 (0.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (19.18%) SAP
2 25 (11.42%) Oracle
3 21 (9.59%) Microsoft
4 20 (9.13%) Salesforce
5 13 (5.94%) Databricks
6 6 (2.74%) Alteryx
6 6 (2.74%) Dataiku
6 6 (2.74%) Trillium
7 4 (1.83%) Embarcadero
7 4 (1.83%) Informatica
7 4 (1.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.37%) Ariba
8 3 (1.37%) Concur
8 3 (1.37%) Google
8 3 (1.37%) Marketo
8 3 (1.37%) Pardot
9 2 (0.91%) Ceridian
9 2 (0.91%) Talend
9 2 (0.91%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.91%) Workday