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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 132 109
Rank change year-on-year -40 -23 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 23 11 22
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.49% 0.44% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.50% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 15
10th Percentile £363 £270 £349
25th Percentile £391 £300 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £368 £451
Median % change year-on-year +34.51% -18.31% +2.44%
75th Percentile £591 £425 £606
90th Percentile £650 £548 £612
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +3.90%

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 3,887 2,201 2,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.18% 87.51% 81.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,282 1,425 1,465
10th Percentile £306 £235 £263
25th Percentile £405 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £563 £612
90th Percentile £670 £647 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 177 91
10th Percentile £13.14 £12.62 £12.75
25th Percentile £15.19 £16.35 £14.85
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.39 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% +6.95% -27.27%
75th Percentile £42.98 £26.51 £37.50
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £52.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 26 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 26 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 -53 12 £425 +54.55% 9
East Midlands -9 10 £500 +25.00% 9
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 (4.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (4.35%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (13.04%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (4.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Power Platform
2 3 (13.04%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (13.04%) OCI
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.35%) Lucidchart
4 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Power BI
2 3 (13.04%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Eclipse
General
1 11 (47.83%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
4 4 (17.39%) Local Government
5 2 (8.70%) Retail
6 1 (4.35%) Legal
6 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Analyst
2 5 (21.74%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) Business Data Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Business Support Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Coordinator
3 3 (13.04%) Data Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Project Coordinator
3 3 (13.04%) Support Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Migration Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.35%) Itk
2 1 (4.35%) JSON
2 1 (4.35%) PySpark
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (21.74%) Data Structures
2 5 (21.74%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.70%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) Migration
2 17 (73.91%) Validation
3 15 (65.22%) Data Migration
4 9 (39.13%) Data Mapping
5 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (30.43%) Data Modelling
6 7 (30.43%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (21.74%) Data Extraction
7 5 (21.74%) Decision-Making
7 5 (21.74%) ERP
7 5 (21.74%) ETL
7 5 (21.74%) Workshop Facilitation
8 4 (17.39%) Analytics
8 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (17.39%) Data Analysis
8 4 (17.39%) Data Governance
8 4 (17.39%) Data Validation
8 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (17.39%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) ABAP
3 1 (4.35%) C
3 1 (4.35%) C++
3 1 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (4.35%) ACCA
2 1 (4.35%) CCAB
2 1 (4.35%) CIMA
2 1 (4.35%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 1 (4.35%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (39.13%) Data Quality
2 5 (21.74%) QA
3 2 (8.70%) PMO
4 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) Oracle
3 5 (21.74%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) JD Edwards
4 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow