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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 437 486
Rank change year-on-year +78 +49 -34
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 233 278 421
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.49% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.55% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 180 291
10th Percentile £325 £353 £350
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £612 £581
90th Percentile £645 £688 £683
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 £21.17
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +4.68% -47.08%
75th Percentile £25.65 £22.40 £37.50
90th Percentile £31.86 £25.04 £55.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.49 £22.16 £19.34
% change year-on-year -25.59% +14.61% -55.55%

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 36,645 50,890 79,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.73% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,625 35,239 56,102
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +8.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,484 1,674 1,897
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +41.73% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +68 200 £450 -14.29% 163
London +63 112 £439 -20.18% 83
Work from Home +88 93 £438 -16.57% 63
UK excluding London +43 91 £475 - 111
North of England +46 29 £475 +15.85% 16
North West +43 24 £475 +31.03% 11
South East +15 22 £365 -30.48% 49
Midlands +20 16 £438 -12.50% 19
West Midlands +10 11 £451 -9.90% 12
Scotland +45 9 £525 +5.00% 5
South West -5 8 £638 +34.25% 9
East of England +18 7 £550 - 10
East Midlands +22 6 £383 -59.74% 7
Yorkshire +17 5 £450 -10.00% 2

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 18 (7.73%) SAS
2 9 (3.86%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.72%) Apache
3 4 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.29%) Confluence
5 2 (0.86%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.43%) IIS
6 1 (0.43%) JBoss
6 1 (0.43%) WildFly
Applications
1 20 (8.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.58%) SPSS
3 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.86%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (8.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.15%) SAP ERP
2 5 (2.15%) SAP FI
2 5 (2.15%) SAP Payroll
3 4 (1.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.72%) SAP PP
4 3 (1.29%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.29%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.29%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.29%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.86%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.86%) Movex
5 2 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.86%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.86%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.43%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 40 (17.17%) Azure
2 36 (15.45%) Power Platform
3 19 (8.15%) AWS
4 11 (4.72%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (3.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (3.86%) Snowflake
6 8 (3.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (3.43%) OCI
6 8 (3.43%) Power Automate
7 7 (3.00%) Collibra
7 7 (3.00%) GCP
8 6 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.58%) SuccessFactors
9 5 (2.15%) SaaS
10 4 (1.72%) Serverless
11 3 (1.29%) PaaS
12 2 (0.86%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.72%) Intranet
2 1 (0.43%) Internet
2 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (15.45%) Power BI
2 26 (11.16%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (9.87%) Tableau
4 18 (7.73%) Data Lake
5 15 (6.44%) SQL Server
6 13 (5.58%) Data Mining
7 12 (5.15%) Qlik Sense
8 11 (4.72%) SAP Data Services
9 8 (3.43%) Ataccama
9 8 (3.43%) Big Data
9 8 (3.43%) BusinessObjects
9 8 (3.43%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.58%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.15%) BigQuery
11 5 (2.15%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 5 (2.15%) Hadoop
11 5 (2.15%) Tableau Server
12 4 (1.72%) KDB
12 4 (1.72%) SAP BW
12 4 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (3.00%) Git
2 6 (2.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (2.15%) LSMW
4 4 (1.72%) ERwin
4 4 (1.72%) JIRA
5 1 (0.43%) GitLab
5 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.43%) Toad
5 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (29.18%) Social Skills
2 62 (26.61%) Finance
3 50 (21.46%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.58%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.72%) Marketing
6 10 (4.29%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (3.86%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.43%) Banking
9 7 (3.00%) Local Government
9 7 (3.00%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.00%) Retail
10 6 (2.58%) Law
11 5 (2.15%) Legal
12 4 (1.72%) Billing
12 4 (1.72%) Games
12 4 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.86%) Czech Language
13 2 (0.86%) French Language
Job Titles
1 77 (33.05%) Analyst
2 59 (25.32%) Data Analyst
3 31 (13.30%) Data Engineer
4 24 (10.30%) Consultant
5 18 (7.73%) Lead
5 18 (7.73%) Senior
6 14 (6.01%) Senior Analyst
7 13 (5.58%) Developer
8 11 (4.72%) Architect
9 10 (4.29%) Business Analyst
10 9 (3.86%) Data Manager
10 9 (3.86%) Data Quality Analyst
10 9 (3.86%) Quality Analyst
11 8 (3.43%) Financial Analyst
12 7 (3.00%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.00%) SAP Consultant
12 7 (3.00%) Senior Data Analyst
12 7 (3.00%) SQL Analyst
12 7 (3.00%) SQL Data Analyst
13 6 (2.58%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.58%) PySpark
2 8 (3.43%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (3.00%) REST
4 6 (2.58%) D3.js
5 5 (2.15%) BAPI
5 5 (2.15%) HTML
5 5 (2.15%) Kafka
6 4 (1.72%) CSS
6 4 (1.72%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.72%) Visualforce
7 2 (0.86%) pytest
7 2 (0.86%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.43%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.43%) EDI
8 1 (0.43%) IDoc
8 1 (0.43%) JSON
8 1 (0.43%) ODBC
8 1 (0.43%) Pandas
8 1 (0.43%) PostGIS
8 1 (0.43%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.58%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (4.29%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.15%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.72%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.72%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.29%) Smart Meter
6 2 (0.86%) FMCG
6 2 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.86%) NHS
6 2 (0.86%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.43%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.43%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.43%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.43%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.43%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.58%) Windows
2 2 (0.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (30.47%) Migration
2 60 (25.75%) Data Migration
3 59 (25.32%) Data Analysis
4 50 (21.46%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (21.03%) Data Modelling
6 48 (20.60%) Analytics
7 44 (18.88%) Data Management
8 39 (16.74%) ETL
8 39 (16.74%) Visualisation
9 37 (15.88%) Business Intelligence
10 36 (15.45%) Data Governance
10 36 (15.45%) Validation
11 27 (11.59%) Agile
12 26 (11.16%) User Acceptance Testing
13 23 (9.87%) ERP
14 22 (9.44%) Data Analytics
15 21 (9.01%) Data Integration
15 21 (9.01%) Data Pipeline
16 19 (8.15%) Data Transformation
16 19 (8.15%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 70 (30.04%) SQL
2 46 (19.74%) Python
3 11 (4.72%) R
4 6 (2.58%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.72%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.72%) Scala
6 3 (1.29%) Java
6 3 (1.29%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.29%) VBA
7 2 (0.86%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.43%) ABAP
8 1 (0.43%) Bash
8 1 (0.43%) C#
8 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (7.30%) Degree
2 14 (6.01%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.58%) ACCA
4 6 (2.58%) CIMA
4 6 (2.58%) PMP
5 5 (2.15%) CIPD
6 3 (1.29%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.86%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.86%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.86%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (0.86%) SAP Certification
7 2 (0.86%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) CCA
8 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.43%) ECDL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (39.06%) Data Quality
2 21 (9.01%) QA
3 6 (2.58%) GDPR
4 3 (1.29%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.29%) IFRS
5 2 (0.86%) PMO
5 2 (0.86%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) CDISC
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.43%) GxP
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.43%) NIST
6 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (3.43%) Docker
2 4 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.86%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (2.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.43%) Grafana
2 1 (0.43%) Kibana
2 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (22.75%) SAP
2 27 (11.59%) Oracle
3 23 (9.87%) Microsoft
4 22 (9.44%) Salesforce
5 17 (7.30%) Databricks
6 6 (2.58%) Alteryx
6 6 (2.58%) Dataiku
6 6 (2.58%) Trillium
7 4 (1.72%) Ariba
7 4 (1.72%) Embarcadero
7 4 (1.72%) Informatica
7 4 (1.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.29%) Concur
8 3 (1.29%) Google
8 3 (1.29%) Marketo
8 3 (1.29%) OpenText
8 3 (1.29%) Pardot
9 2 (0.86%) Ceridian
9 2 (0.86%) Talend
9 2 (0.86%) TIBCO