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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 351 421
Rank change year-on-year +30 +70 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 159 194 238
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.67% 0.53% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.62% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 132 152
10th Percentile £325 £316 £314
25th Percentile £395 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £603 £550 £620
90th Percentile £688 £644 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.05% -14.24% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 8
10th Percentile £16.36 £15.84 £16.83
25th Percentile £20.10 £17.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £32.31 £19.61 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year +64.72% -11.50% -13.10%
75th Percentile £58.28 £25.65 £22.40
90th Percentile £65.00 £31.86 £25.04
UK median hourly rate £32.31 £19.61 £22.16
% change year-on-year +64.72% -11.50% -13.10%

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 21,762 31,336 43,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 86.24% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,222 20,550 30,257
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £412 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 920 2,253 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.95 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +37 85 £500 +17.65% 152
South East +52 23 £519 +42.12% 208
North of England +4 19 £550 +15.79% 182
North West 0 17 £550 +15.79% 86
Midlands +11 10 £475 +10.14% 156
East of England +32 9 £605 +9.91% 133
South West +37 7 £450 -29.43% 94
West Midlands +7 6 £550 +23.87% 83
East Midlands +9 4 £400 +4.58% 64
Yorkshire +12 2 - - 76
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 (4.40%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.89%) Apache
4 2 (1.26%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) Smallworld
Applications
1 20 (12.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.52%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (11.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.40%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (2.52%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (2.52%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.89%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (1.26%) NEC Housing
5 2 (1.26%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.63%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.63%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.63%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.63%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.63%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.63%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.63%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 28 (17.61%) Power Platform
2 21 (13.21%) Azure
3 12 (7.55%) AWS
4 9 (5.66%) GCP
4 9 (5.66%) Snowflake
5 6 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (3.14%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.14%) dbt
6 5 (3.14%) OCI
6 5 (3.14%) Power Automate
6 5 (3.14%) Serverless
7 4 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.52%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.52%) SaaS
8 3 (1.89%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (1.89%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (1.89%) Google Gemini
8 3 (1.89%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (16.35%) Power BI
2 16 (10.06%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (7.55%) Big Data
4 10 (6.29%) Tableau
5 8 (5.03%) Metadata
5 8 (5.03%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.40%) Hadoop
6 7 (4.40%) SAP Data Services
7 6 (3.77%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.14%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (3.14%) Power Query
9 4 (2.52%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.89%) GIS
10 3 (1.89%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.89%) SAP HANA
11 2 (1.26%) Apache Hive
11 2 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.26%) MySQL
11 2 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (5.03%) Git
2 6 (3.77%) ERwin
3 4 (2.52%) LSMW
3 4 (2.52%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.89%) JIRA
5 2 (1.26%) MagicDraw
6 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 52 (32.70%) Social Skills
2 48 (30.19%) Finance
3 43 (27.04%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.81%) Pharmaceutical
5 12 (7.55%) Manufacturing
6 9 (5.66%) Banking
6 9 (5.66%) Retail
7 8 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.14%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.52%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.52%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.89%) Legal
11 3 (1.89%) Marketing
12 2 (1.26%) Aviation
12 2 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.26%) Local Government
12 2 (1.26%) Publishing
13 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (31.45%) Analyst
2 46 (28.93%) Data Analyst
3 24 (15.09%) Consultant
4 22 (13.84%) Data Engineer
5 15 (9.43%) Data Consultant
5 15 (9.43%) Senior
6 13 (8.18%) Lead
7 7 (4.40%) Data Migration Analyst
7 7 (4.40%) Migration Analyst
8 6 (3.77%) SAP Analyst
9 5 (3.14%) Architect
9 5 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (3.14%) Data Manager
9 5 (3.14%) Data Migration Consultant
9 5 (3.14%) Developer
9 5 (3.14%) Migration Consultant
9 5 (3.14%) Oracle Consultant
9 5 (3.14%) Programme Manager
9 5 (3.14%) Tableau Analyst
9 5 (3.14%) Tableau Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.40%) TensorFlow
2 4 (2.52%) PyTorch
3 3 (1.89%) NumPy
3 3 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.89%) Pandas
3 3 (1.89%) PySpark
3 3 (1.89%) scikit-learn
4 2 (1.26%) FHIR
4 2 (1.26%) JSON
4 2 (1.26%) Plotly
4 2 (1.26%) React
4 2 (1.26%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.63%) D3.js
5 1 (0.63%) ggplot2
5 1 (0.63%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.63%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.63%) Prophet
5 1 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.63%) Shiny
5 1 (0.63%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.55%) Algorithms
1 12 (7.55%) Data Structures
2 10 (6.29%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.89%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.89%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.26%) IoT
5 2 (1.26%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.63%) CMDB
6 1 (0.63%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.63%) EPoS
6 1 (0.63%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.63%) NHS
6 1 (0.63%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.63%) SCADA
6 1 (0.63%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (54.72%) Migration
2 57 (35.85%) Data Migration
3 52 (32.70%) Validation
4 41 (25.79%) Business Intelligence
4 41 (25.79%) Data Governance
5 40 (25.16%) Data Management
6 33 (20.75%) Data Analysis
7 32 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (18.87%) Data Modelling
9 28 (17.61%) Analytics
10 24 (15.09%) Visualisation
11 21 (13.21%) Data Validation
12 20 (12.58%) Agile
12 20 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (11.95%) Data Integration
13 19 (11.95%) ETL
14 18 (11.32%) Data Mapping
14 18 (11.32%) ERP
14 18 (11.32%) Machine Learning
15 16 (10.06%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 66 (41.51%) SQL
2 37 (23.27%) Python
3 9 (5.66%) R
4 4 (2.52%) VBA
5 3 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.89%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.89%) Scala
5 3 (1.89%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.26%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.26%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.63%) ABAP
7 1 (0.63%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 10 (6.29%) Degree
2 9 (5.66%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.40%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.26%) PhD
7 2 (1.26%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.63%) AAT
8 1 (0.63%) ACCA
8 1 (0.63%) CIMA
8 1 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (40.25%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.03%) QA
3 6 (3.77%) GDPR
4 4 (2.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.89%) SLA
6 2 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.26%) GAAP
6 2 (1.26%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.63%) COBIT
7 1 (0.63%) GRC
7 1 (0.63%) IFRS
7 1 (0.63%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.63%) NIST
7 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.63%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (3.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.52%) CEMLI
3 2 (1.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (21.38%) SAP
2 26 (16.35%) Microsoft
3 19 (11.95%) Oracle
4 5 (3.14%) Google
4 5 (3.14%) Informatica
4 5 (3.14%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.52%) Databricks
6 3 (1.89%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.89%) Ariba
7 2 (1.26%) Blue Prism
7 2 (1.26%) Cognos
7 2 (1.26%) NEC
7 2 (1.26%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.63%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (0.63%) Concur
8 1 (0.63%) Conga
8 1 (0.63%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.63%) ESRI
8 1 (0.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) Workday