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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 116 115
Rank change year-on-year -41 -1 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 16 9 19
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.48% 0.41% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.47% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 10
10th Percentile £216 £390 £400
25th Percentile £400 £600 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £612 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.13% +44.00% -5.56%
75th Percentile £603 £738 £449
90th Percentile £624 - £450
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
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 £47.75 £15.52
% change year-on-year -61.26% +207.67% -29.96%

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 2,854 1,904 2,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.55% 87.30% 84.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,791 1,174 1,469
10th Percentile £248 £225 £250
25th Percentile £391 £375 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 70 141
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.80 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% -5.24% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.00 £31.65 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -26.03% -9.93% +8.51%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -44 9 £425 -30.56% 9
East Midlands -22 7 £563 - 11
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 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Synapse
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Receivables
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Power BI
2 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Power Query
3 1 (6.25%) Spark SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Tableau
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) General Ledger
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Law
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Military
5 1 (6.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Consultant
1 3 (18.75%) Data Consultant
1 3 (18.75%) Data Migration Consultant
1 3 (18.75%) Migration Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Administrator
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Data Administrator
2 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Data Migration Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Data Migration Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Data Steward
2 2 (12.50%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Migration Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Report Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (6.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (31.25%) Data Structures
3 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 8 (50.00%) Migration
2 7 (43.75%) Data Modelling
2 7 (43.75%) ETL
3 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (37.50%) Validation
4 5 (31.25%) Analytics
4 5 (31.25%) Data Mapping
5 3 (18.75%) Data Security
5 3 (18.75%) Dependency Management
5 3 (18.75%) Process Improvement
5 3 (18.75%) Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (18.75%) Project Management
5 3 (18.75%) Technology Transformation
6 2 (12.50%) CRM
6 2 (12.50%) Data Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) Data Extraction
6 2 (12.50%) ERP
6 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (6.25%) R
3 1 (6.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) SLA
3 1 (6.25%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Databricks
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Sage
4 1 (6.25%) SAP
4 1 (6.25%) Workday
4 1 (6.25%) Xero