Data Cleansing Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Data Cleansing (Data Cleaning, Data Scrubbing)
Wales > South Wales

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.85% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £455 - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £700 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 270 275 295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 76.70% 88.71% 85.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 164 220
10th Percentile £206 £182 £165
25th Percentile £290 £250 £249
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £515 £586 £578
90th Percentile £650 £688 £668
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £420
% change year-on-year -2.94% +1.19% -11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 27
10th Percentile £12.64 £15.20 £13.03
25th Percentile £15.08 £20.12 £21.30
Median hourly rate £18.69 £22.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.02% -31.54% +72.73%
75th Percentile £26.83 £28.44 £55.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £45.00 £86.72
Wales median hourly rate £18.18 £22.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -19.20% -30.77% +72.73%

Data Cleansing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Data Cleansing job vacancy trend in South Wales

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Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Data Cleansing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Data Cleansing

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Cleansing in South Wales over the 6 months to 31 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Cleansing in South Wales

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Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Data Cleansing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Data Cleansing

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 31 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
Cardiff - 3 £700 - 1
Data Cleansing
Wales

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Pipelines
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks