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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 110 122
Rank change year-on-year -26 +12 +51
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 10 22 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.38% 0.80% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.98% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 10
10th Percentile £270 £363 £404
25th Percentile £300 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.70% +9.94%
75th Percentile £450 £612 £484
90th Percentile £558 - £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%

All Process and 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 2,331 2,255 2,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.80% 82.30% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,512 1,440 1,715
10th Percentile £235 £255 £250
25th Percentile £360 £377 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 73 96
10th Percentile £13.56 £12.90 £13.08
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.39 £21.59 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -21.49% +52.78%
75th Percentile £26.51 £42.25 £51.50
90th Percentile £45.80 £55.00 £68.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

Data Cleansing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Data Cleansing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Cleansing 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 -16 7 £300 -42.86% 20
East Midlands -10 3 £510 +20.00% 12
Data Cleansing
England

Data Cleansing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Data Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Data Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Data Migration Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Data Migration Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Migration Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Migration Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Cleansing Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Junior
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) NumPy
1 1 (10.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) EPoS
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Validation
2 5 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (30.00%) Data Transformation
4 3 (30.00%) ETL
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Content Management
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Data Collection
5 2 (20.00%) Data Management
5 2 (20.00%) Data Mapping
5 2 (20.00%) Data Validation
5 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Content Management
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) OpenText
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Workday