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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 110 115
Rank change year-on-year -49 +5 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 25 9 19
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.58% 0.45% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.51% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 9
10th Percentile £321 £370 £398
25th Percentile £400 £373 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +11.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £579 £456
90th Percentile - £610 £505
England median daily rate £493 £500 £441
% change year-on-year -1.50% +13.51% -16.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.21 £14.50 -
Median hourly rate £25.42 £15.00 £14.87
Median % change year-on-year +69.43% +0.87% -
75th Percentile £25.62 £15.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.50 £51.56 £19.61
% change year-on-year -64.12% +162.87% -11.50%

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 3,517 1,758 2,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.81% 87.94% 82.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,194 1,152 1,487
10th Percentile £300 £200 £234
25th Percentile £400 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £600
90th Percentile £661 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 96 169
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £11.06
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.68 £13.91
Median hourly rate £24.13 £18.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.65% +4.18% -18.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 £25.04 £33.25
90th Percentile £70.78 £45.99 £55.00
England median hourly rate £46.11 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.37% -21.23% -1.75%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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
East Midlands -19 14 £500 +25.00% 10
West Midlands -46 11 £400 -27.27% 6
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
1 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (4.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (16.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.00%) OCI
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.00%) Lucidchart
5 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (56.00%) Power BI
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (12.00%) Tableau
3 2 (8.00%) Power Query
4 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.00%) General Ledger
5 2 (8.00%) Retail
6 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Local Government
6 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Analyst
2 7 (28.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Administrator
3 3 (12.00%) Business Data Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Business Support Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Data Administrator
3 3 (12.00%) Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) Support Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Data Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Data Migration Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Data Migration Lead
4 2 (8.00%) Data Migration Specialist
4 2 (8.00%) Migration Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Migration Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Migration Specialist
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.00%) Itk
2 1 (4.00%) Matplotlib
2 1 (4.00%) NumPy
2 1 (4.00%) Pandas
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Data Structures
2 6 (24.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Validation
2 15 (60.00%) Migration
3 14 (56.00%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (56.00%) Data Migration
4 12 (48.00%) Data Modelling
5 10 (40.00%) ETL
6 8 (32.00%) Data Mapping
7 7 (28.00%) Analytics
7 7 (28.00%) Decision-Making
7 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (24.00%) AI
8 6 (24.00%) Data Analysis
8 6 (24.00%) Visualisation
9 5 (20.00%) Data Extraction
9 5 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
9 5 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (16.00%) Data Security
10 4 (16.00%) ERP
11 3 (12.00%) Project Management
11 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Python
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (4.00%) C
3 1 (4.00%) C++
3 1 (4.00%) Java
3 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.00%) R
3 1 (4.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 1 (4.00%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.00%) GDPR
3 2 (8.00%) PMO
3 2 (8.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (28.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.00%) SAP
3 3 (12.00%) Databricks
4 1 (4.00%) JD Edwards
4 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow