Data Cleansing Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Data Cleansing (Data Cleaning, Data Scrubbing)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Data Cleansing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.51% 0.68% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.74% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £670 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 £250 -
Median % change year-on-year +176.00% - -
75th Percentile £710 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 155 136 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 78.28% 91.89% 75.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 80 59
10th Percentile £325 £150 £205
25th Percentile £390 £295 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £519 £538 £575
90th Percentile £600 £626 £655
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 20
10th Percentile £13.66 £22.50 -
25th Percentile £19.10 £24.18 £12.25
Median hourly rate £36.72 £35.25 £13.47
Median % change year-on-year +4.16% +161.79% -13.13%
75th Percentile £53.75 £62.50 £23.54
90th Percentile - £78.47 £31.88
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -10.48%

Data Cleansing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Data Cleansing job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Data Cleansing
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Data Cleansing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Data Cleansing

Data Cleansing
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 31 March 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
County Antrim +3 1 £690 +176.00% 1
Data Cleansing
UK

Data Cleansing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Impala
1 1 (100.00%) KDB
1 1 (100.00%) Kdb+
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality