Data Cleansing Contracts in Scotland

Data Cleansing (Data Cleaning, Data Scrubbing)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Cleansing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Cleansing over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 107 150
Rank change year-on-year +1 +43 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 13 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.77% 0.38% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.43% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 3
10th Percentile - £433 £460
25th Percentile £325 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £465 £538 £569
90th Percentile £506 - £610
UK median daily rate £500 £516 £500
% change year-on-year -3.15% +3.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.59 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £28.55 £17.63
% change year-on-year +127.71% +61.91% -16.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,542 1,619 2,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.46% 86.95% 92.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 847 1,004 1,581
10th Percentile £264 £211 £250
25th Percentile £375 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £540 £550
90th Percentile £599 £668 £626
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 58 55
10th Percentile £16.65 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.13 £13.14
Median hourly rate £19.99 £19.59 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +2.02% +3.49% -4.63%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £58.75
90th Percentile £27.99 £55.75 £64.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £40.59
% change year-on-year -38.57% +0.86% +53.17%

Data Cleansing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Cleansing in Scotland

Data Cleansing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Cleansing in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Data Cleansing in Scotland

Data Cleansing
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Cleansing in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Cleansing in Scotland

Data Cleansing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Cleansing in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Data Cleansing in Scotland

Data Cleansing
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Edinburgh +6 8 £350 -22.22% 3
Glasgow -15 5 £429 -18.29% 3
Data Cleansing
UK

Data Cleansing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.69%) Dagster
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
1 2 (15.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Accountant
1 6 (46.15%) Systems Accountant
2 4 (30.77%) Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Data Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) HR Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) HR Data Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle HRMS Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) CRM Manager
5 1 (7.69%) CRM Project Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Data Migration Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM Project Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.69%) boto
2 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
2 1 (7.69%) Hugging Face
2 1 (7.69%) JWT
2 1 (7.69%) NumPy
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) OpenCV
2 1 (7.69%) Pandas
2 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Migration
2 7 (53.85%) Workflow
3 6 (46.15%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (30.77%) Validation
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) ETL
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
6 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
6 2 (15.38%) Identity Management
6 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
6 2 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
7 1 (7.69%) Analytics
7 1 (7.69%) Deep Learning
7 1 (7.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 3 (23.08%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Grafana
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Alteryx
2 1 (7.69%) Teradata