Data Cleansing Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Data Cleansing (Data Cleaning, Data Scrubbing)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Data Cleansing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 66 96
Rank change year-on-year -12 +30 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 5 16 13
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.50% 1.36% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.56% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 13
10th Percentile £271 £435 -
25th Percentile £275 £444 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £478 £375
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% +27.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £500 £522 £530
90th Percentile - £546 £586
North West median daily rate £418 £462 £375
% change year-on-year -9.63% +23.20% +66.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 892 1,025 1,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.83% 87.16% 87.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 588 1,068
10th Percentile £300 £313 £270
25th Percentile £393 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% -2.75% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £594
90th Percentile £678 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 36 63
10th Percentile £15.71 £15.96 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.02 £24.51 £16.46
Median hourly rate £22.63 £36.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% +84.62% -3.13%
75th Percentile £35.50 £63.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £64.13 £83.75 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £31.77
% change year-on-year -40.84% +33.77% +35.83%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Cleansing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Data Cleansing job vacancy trend in Manchester

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Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Cleansing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Cleansing

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Cleansing in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Cleansing in Manchester

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Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Cleansing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Cleansing

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Retail
3 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) API Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Data Extraction
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (40.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Debt
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow