Data Cleansing Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Cleansing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 130 111
Rank change year-on-year -38 -19 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 25 12 20
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.53% 0.48% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.55% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 14
10th Percentile £338 £270 £347
25th Percentile £391 £300 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £368 £444
Median % change year-on-year +34.51% -17.12% -6.53%
75th Percentile £591 £425 £590
90th Percentile £650 £548 £612
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,907 2,187 2,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.76% 87.55% 81.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,372 1,397 1,468
10th Percentile £313 £231 £270
25th Percentile £405 £358 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £671 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 181 94
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.62 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.72 £16.35 £14.70
Median hourly rate £25.00 £21.39 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% +4.34% -25.45%
75th Percentile £43.96 £27.21 £36.88
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £53.71
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

Data Cleansing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Data Cleansing job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Data Cleansing
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Cleansing

Data Cleansing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Cleansing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Cleansing in the Midlands

Data Cleansing
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Cleansing

Data Cleansing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 August 2026. 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
West Midlands -39 14 £425 +54.55% 18
East Midlands -2 10 £500 +25.00% 15
Data Cleansing
England

Data Cleansing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (4.00%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (8.00%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (4.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (16.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) OCI
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.00%) Lucidchart
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Power BI
2 3 (12.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.00%) Power Query
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Eclipse
General
1 12 (48.00%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (28.00%) Finance
4 5 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (12.00%) Local Government
6 2 (8.00%) Retail
7 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (4.00%) Legal
7 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (4.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Lead
3 4 (16.00%) Data Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Business Data Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Business Support Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Support Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Coordinator
5 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Data Migration Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Project Coordinator
5 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Migration Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.00%) Itk
2 1 (4.00%) JSON
2 1 (4.00%) Matplotlib
2 1 (4.00%) NumPy
2 1 (4.00%) Pandas
2 1 (4.00%) PySpark
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) Seaborn
2 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Data Structures
1 6 (24.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) Migration
2 18 (72.00%) Validation
3 16 (64.00%) Data Migration
4 9 (36.00%) Data Mapping
4 9 (36.00%) Data Modelling
5 8 (32.00%) ETL
5 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (32.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (28.00%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (24.00%) Analytics
7 6 (24.00%) Data Extraction
7 6 (24.00%) Decision-Making
7 6 (24.00%) ERP
8 5 (20.00%) AI
8 5 (20.00%) Visualisation
8 5 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
9 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (16.00%) Data Analysis
9 4 (16.00%) Data Governance
9 4 (16.00%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Python
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) ABAP
2 1 (4.00%) C
2 1 (4.00%) C++
2 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (4.00%) Java
2 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (4.00%) ACCA
2 1 (4.00%) CCAB
2 1 (4.00%) CIMA
2 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 1 (4.00%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (36.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (16.00%) QA
3 2 (8.00%) GDPR
3 2 (8.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (28.00%) Oracle
3 6 (24.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) Databricks
4 1 (4.00%) JD Edwards
4 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow