Data Cleansing Contracts in England

Data Cleansing (Data Cleaning, Data Scrubbing)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Cleansing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Cleansing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 357 416
Rank change year-on-year +23 +59 +58
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 151 187 249
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.50% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.58% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 124 158
10th Percentile £325 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £359 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £524
Median % change year-on-year +12.30% -14.99% +4.23%
75th Percentile £616 £538 £619
90th Percentile £700 £659 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile £16.73 £15.84 £14.50
25th Percentile £21.99 £17.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £38.11 £19.61 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year +94.31% -11.50% -26.74%
75th Percentile £83.50 £25.65 -
90th Percentile £102.00 £31.86 £24.40
UK median hourly rate £38.11 £19.61 £22.16
% change year-on-year +94.31% -11.50% -26.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Cleansing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Cleansing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Cleansing in England

Data Cleansing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Cleansing in England

Data Cleansing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Cleansing in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Cleansing in England

Data Cleansing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Cleansing in England

Data Cleansing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Cleansing in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Cleansing in England

Data Cleansing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +24 83 £500 +13.90% 117
South East +45 20 £500 +36.99% 133
North of England +7 19 £550 +15.79% 128
North West +8 16 £550 +15.79% 62
East of England +29 9 £700 +51.35% 80
Midlands +11 8 £550 +29.41% 109
South West +50 7 £450 +1.98% 72
West Midlands +5 5 £550 +25.71% 59
East Midlands +7 3 £494 +29.15% 43
Yorkshire +5 3 - - 51
Data Cleansing
UK

Data Cleansing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (4.64%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.99%) Apache
2 3 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.66%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (12.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.65%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (10.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.97%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (3.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.32%) Movex
4 2 (1.32%) NEC Housing
4 2 (1.32%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.66%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.66%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.66%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.66%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.66%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.66%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.66%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.66%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.66%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 29 (19.21%) Power Platform
2 22 (14.57%) Azure
3 10 (6.62%) AWS
4 8 (5.30%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (5.30%) Snowflake
5 7 (4.64%) Power Automate
6 6 (3.97%) GCP
6 6 (3.97%) PowerApps
7 5 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (3.31%) WhatsApp
8 4 (2.65%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.65%) dbt
8 4 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.65%) Serverless
9 3 (1.99%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (1.99%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.99%) SaaS
9 3 (1.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.66%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.56%) Power BI
2 16 (10.60%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (6.62%) Big Data
4 9 (5.96%) Tableau
5 8 (5.30%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.64%) Hadoop
6 7 (4.64%) Metadata
7 6 (3.97%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.31%) Power Query
9 4 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.99%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.99%) SAP Data Services
11 2 (1.32%) Apache Hive
11 2 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.32%) Cognos Query Studio
11 2 (1.32%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (1.32%) MySQL
11 2 (1.32%) SAP HANA
11 2 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.64%) Git
2 6 (3.97%) ERwin
3 4 (2.65%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.99%) LSMW
5 2 (1.32%) JIRA
5 2 (1.32%) MagicDraw
6 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (28.48%) Social Skills
2 40 (26.49%) Finance
3 38 (25.17%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.95%) Pharmaceutical
5 10 (6.62%) Manufacturing
6 9 (5.96%) Banking
6 9 (5.96%) Retail
7 7 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.31%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.65%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.65%) Marketing
10 3 (1.99%) Legal
10 3 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.32%) Automotive
11 2 (1.32%) Aviation
11 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.32%) Local Government
11 2 (1.32%) Publishing
12 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (29.80%) Analyst
2 42 (27.81%) Data Analyst
3 23 (15.23%) Consultant
4 22 (14.57%) Data Engineer
5 14 (9.27%) Senior
6 13 (8.61%) Data Consultant
7 11 (7.28%) Developer
7 11 (7.28%) Lead
8 7 (4.64%) Administrator
9 6 (3.97%) Architect
9 6 (3.97%) SAP Analyst
10 5 (3.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (3.31%) Data Manager
10 5 (3.31%) Data Migration Analyst
10 5 (3.31%) Migration Analyst
10 5 (3.31%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.31%) SAP Data Analyst
11 4 (2.65%) Associate Director
11 4 (2.65%) Tableau Analyst
11 4 (2.65%) Tableau Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.64%) TensorFlow
2 4 (2.65%) PyTorch
3 3 (1.99%) PySpark
3 3 (1.99%) scikit-learn
4 2 (1.32%) FHIR
4 2 (1.32%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (1.32%) NumPy
4 2 (1.32%) Pandas
4 2 (1.32%) Plotly
4 2 (1.32%) React
4 2 (1.32%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.66%) BAPI
5 1 (0.66%) D3.js
5 1 (0.66%) OLE
5 1 (0.66%) Prophet
5 1 (0.66%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.66%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.95%) Algorithms
2 10 (6.62%) Data Structures
2 10 (6.62%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.31%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.65%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.66%) CMDB
6 1 (0.66%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.66%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.66%) IoT
6 1 (0.66%) NHS
6 1 (0.66%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.66%) SCADA
6 1 (0.66%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (52.98%) Migration
2 51 (33.77%) Data Migration
3 48 (31.79%) Validation
4 46 (30.46%) Data Management
5 42 (27.81%) Data Governance
6 40 (26.49%) Business Intelligence
7 32 (21.19%) Data Modelling
7 32 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (19.21%) Data Analysis
9 28 (18.54%) Analytics
10 20 (13.25%) Data Security
10 20 (13.25%) ETL
10 20 (13.25%) Visualisation
11 18 (11.92%) Data Integration
11 18 (11.92%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (11.26%) Agile
12 17 (11.26%) Data Validation
12 17 (11.26%) Decision-Making
12 17 (11.26%) Machine Learning
13 16 (10.60%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 57 (37.75%) SQL
2 36 (23.84%) Python
3 9 (5.96%) R
4 4 (2.65%) VBA
5 3 (1.99%) Apex Code
5 3 (1.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.99%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.99%) Scala
5 3 (1.99%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.32%) ABAP
6 2 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.66%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (6.62%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.96%) Degree
3 8 (5.30%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.32%) PhD
7 1 (0.66%) AAT
7 1 (0.66%) ACCA
7 1 (0.66%) CIMA
7 1 (0.66%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (41.72%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.96%) QA
3 6 (3.97%) GDPR
4 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.32%) GAAP
4 2 (1.32%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.66%) IFRS
5 1 (0.66%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.66%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (3.31%) Docker
2 3 (1.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.31%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.65%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 28 (18.54%) Microsoft
1 28 (18.54%) SAP
2 12 (7.95%) Oracle
3 11 (7.28%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.97%) Informatica
5 4 (2.65%) Databricks
6 3 (1.99%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.99%) Ariba
6 3 (1.99%) Google
7 2 (1.32%) Blue Prism
7 2 (1.32%) Cognizant
7 2 (1.32%) Cognos
7 2 (1.32%) NEC
7 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.66%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (0.66%) Concur
8 1 (0.66%) Conga
8 1 (0.66%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.66%) Workday
8 1 (0.66%) Zuora