Data Cleansing (Data Cleaning, Data Scrubbing)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Cleansing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Cleansing over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 647 652
Rank change year-on-year +59 +5 -60
Permanent jobs citing Data Cleansing 327 358 700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.35% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.37% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 200 228 374
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,232 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% +1.39% +10.53%
75th Percentile £71,416 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,750 £85,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,828 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.34% - +25.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,921 96,445 150,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.59% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 59,902 56,808 82,456
10th Percentile £29,010 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Cleansing over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Cleansing within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +53 301 £55,000 +4.76% 144
UK excluding London +27 177 £45,828 -8.34% 89
Work from Home +138 167 £55,000 +10.00% 64
London +90 135 £62,500 +8.70% 56
South East +54 74 £40,000 -20.00% 15
Midlands -21 44 £47,500 -9.52% 17
East Midlands - 28 £44,100 - 5
North of England +15 27 £50,000 - 18
West Midlands -32 16 £65,000 +23.81% 12
Yorkshire +65 13 £56,250 +12.50% 4
South West -26 13 £27,500 -27.15% 18
North West -1 12 £50,000 -13.79% 10
Scotland -51 11 £75,000 - 3
East of England +24 6 £37,000 -64.76% 13
North East -5 2 £24,000 -48.16% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 5

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 16 (4.89%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.67%) SAS
3 11 (3.36%) CMS
3 11 (3.36%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.92%) Apache
4 3 (0.92%) Confluence
4 3 (0.92%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.31%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.31%) Documentum
Applications
1 65 (19.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (12.54%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (6.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (6.73%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.53%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.61%) SPSS
6 1 (0.31%) InVision
6 1 (0.31%) Sketch
6 1 (0.31%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 9 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.22%) SAP SD
3 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.61%) Primavera
3 2 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.61%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 2 (0.61%) SAP PLM
3 2 (0.61%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.31%) Data Workbench
4 1 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.31%) Endur
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.31%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 104 (31.80%) Power Platform
2 69 (21.10%) Azure
3 31 (9.48%) AWS
4 28 (8.56%) SaaS
5 21 (6.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (3.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (3.36%) PowerApps
7 10 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (3.06%) Blackbaud
8 8 (2.45%) Google Analytics
9 7 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (2.14%) GCP
9 7 (2.14%) Mavenlink
9 7 (2.14%) PaaS
10 6 (1.83%) IaaS
10 6 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.83%) Serverless
11 5 (1.53%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.53%) Firewall
1 5 (1.53%) Network Security
2 4 (1.22%) Internet
2 4 (1.22%) Intranet
2 4 (1.22%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (31.80%) Power BI
2 57 (17.43%) Tableau
3 45 (13.76%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (5.50%) SQL Server
5 17 (5.20%) Big Data
6 16 (4.89%) Data Lake
6 16 (4.89%) Relational Database
7 15 (4.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (3.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (3.06%) Data Mining
9 10 (3.06%) Qlik Sense
9 10 (3.06%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (2.45%) RDBMS
11 7 (2.14%) Metadata
11 7 (2.14%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (2.14%) Power Query
11 7 (2.14%) QlikView
12 6 (1.83%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.83%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (5.50%) JIRA
2 8 (2.45%) Git
3 3 (0.92%) ER Studio
3 3 (0.92%) ERwin
General
1 128 (39.14%) Social Skills
2 86 (26.30%) Finance
3 65 (19.88%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (16.82%) Legal
5 15 (4.59%) Law
5 15 (4.59%) Marketing
6 14 (4.28%) Banking
6 14 (4.28%) Public Sector
7 13 (3.98%) Retail
8 12 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.36%) Games
10 10 (3.06%) Investment Banking
11 9 (2.75%) Billing
12 8 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.53%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.53%) Publishing
15 4 (1.22%) Military
16 3 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (19.27%) Analyst
2 38 (11.62%) Senior
3 36 (11.01%) Data Engineer
4 34 (10.40%) Data Analyst
5 28 (8.56%) Consultant
6 22 (6.73%) Lead
7 20 (6.12%) Data Consultant
7 20 (6.12%) Product Manager
8 19 (5.81%) Administrator
9 14 (4.28%) Data Manager
10 12 (3.67%) Junior
11 11 (3.36%) Data Scientist
11 11 (3.36%) SAP Consultant
11 11 (3.36%) Systems Analyst
12 9 (2.75%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (2.75%) Developer
13 8 (2.45%) Analytics Manager
13 8 (2.45%) Data Analytics Manager
13 8 (2.45%) Technical Analyst
14 7 (2.14%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.20%) Web Services
2 8 (2.45%) JSON
2 8 (2.45%) XML
3 6 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.22%) ADO
4 4 (1.22%) D3.js
4 4 (1.22%) React
4 4 (1.22%) Redux
4 4 (1.22%) YAML
5 3 (0.92%) CSS
5 3 (0.92%) Google Chart
5 3 (0.92%) HTML
5 3 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (0.92%) REST
6 2 (0.61%) .NET
6 2 (0.61%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.61%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.61%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.61%) Pandas
6 2 (0.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 64 (19.57%) Data Structures
2 62 (18.96%) Algorithms
3 60 (18.35%) Management Information System
4 28 (8.56%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (6.73%) Product Ownership
6 16 (4.89%) Taxonomies
7 10 (3.06%) Renewable Energy
8 9 (2.75%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.14%) Credit Risk
9 7 (2.14%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.83%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.83%) Market Risk
11 5 (1.53%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.53%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.22%) Cyberattack
12 4 (1.22%) Educational Technology
12 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.06%) Linux
2 9 (2.75%) Windows
3 7 (2.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (38.53%) Problem-Solving
1 126 (38.53%) Visualisation
2 113 (34.56%) ETL
3 103 (31.50%) Data Management
4 99 (30.28%) Analytics
5 93 (28.44%) Data Visualisation
6 89 (27.22%) Business Intelligence
7 86 (26.30%) Data Analysis
8 77 (23.55%) Agile
9 76 (23.24%) Decision-Making
10 71 (21.71%) Data Modelling
11 64 (19.57%) Data Integration
12 60 (18.35%) Migration
13 57 (17.43%) Data Strategy
14 55 (16.82%) Validation
15 52 (15.90%) Data Migration
15 52 (15.90%) Data Science
16 51 (15.60%) Data Interpretation
17 49 (14.98%) Data Analytics
18 46 (14.07%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 135 (41.28%) SQL
2 98 (29.97%) Python
3 33 (10.09%) R
4 21 (6.42%) Java
5 15 (4.59%) C#
6 12 (3.67%) Go
6 12 (3.67%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.45%) C
8 7 (2.14%) Ruby
9 6 (1.83%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.53%) Scala
11 3 (0.92%) C++
11 3 (0.92%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.61%) VBA
13 1 (0.31%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 77 (23.55%) Degree
2 29 (8.87%) Master's Degree
3 15 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.67%) DBS Check
4 12 (3.67%) Security Cleared
5 11 (3.36%) MBA
6 10 (3.06%) Numerate Degree
7 8 (2.45%) SC Cleared
8 5 (1.53%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.92%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.61%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.31%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.31%) MCP
11 1 (0.31%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (22.94%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.73%) QA
3 18 (5.50%) GDPR
4 9 (2.75%) GMP
5 5 (1.53%) IFRS
6 4 (1.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.22%) PMO
6 4 (1.22%) SLA
7 3 (0.92%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.31%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 4 (1.22%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 79 (24.16%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.87%) SAP
3 25 (7.65%) Salesforce
4 21 (6.42%) Databricks
5 17 (5.20%) Google
5 17 (5.20%) Oracle
6 11 (3.36%) Alteryx
7 7 (2.14%) Pega
8 6 (1.83%) Informatica
8 6 (1.83%) UiPath
9 5 (1.53%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.22%) Marketo
11 3 (0.92%) Embarcadero
11 3 (0.92%) VMware
12 2 (0.61%) Adobe
12 2 (0.61%) Ariba
12 2 (0.61%) BMC
12 2 (0.61%) Cognos
12 2 (0.61%) IBM
12 2 (0.61%) MicroStrategy