Data Cleansing Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Cleansing (Data Cleaning, Data Scrubbing)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Cleansing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 284 297
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 106 70 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.47% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.54% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 46 70
10th Percentile £251 £250 £153
25th Percentile £325 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £639 £609 £536
90th Percentile £675 £700 £600
UK median daily rate £481 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.75% +5.26% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 2
10th Percentile £13.76 - £15.57
25th Percentile £17.78 £19.59 £15.64
Median hourly rate £53.21 £60.80 £15.76
Median % change year-on-year -12.48% +285.76% +8.69%
75th Percentile £81.00 £102.00 £15.88
90th Percentile - - £15.95
UK median hourly rate £18.50 £49.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year -62.24% +206.25% -27.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,635 13,009 17,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.98% 87.13% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,537 7,651 11,208
10th Percentile £220 £238 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,774 755 1,215
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.02 £31.52 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% -29.17% +42.58%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

Data Cleansing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data Cleansing job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Cleansing
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Cleansing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Cleansing

Data Cleansing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Cleansing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Cleansing in the UK excluding London

Data Cleansing
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Cleansing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Cleansing

Data Cleansing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Cleansing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Cleansing in the UK excluding London

Data Cleansing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
South East +12 43 £621 +38.06% 38
Scotland +23 22 £429 -22.00% 3
North of England -47 18 £358 -24.63% 27
Midlands -39 12 £450 -25.74% 16
North West -23 11 £345 -29.23% 15
West Midlands -33 8 £400 -34.64% 8
South West -2 7 £350 -25.93% 7
Yorkshire -50 6 £600 +29.73% 8
Northern Ireland -4 4 £600 +140.00%
East Midlands -18 4 £588 +38.24% 8
Wales - 3 £700 -
North East - 1 £488 - 4
Data Cleansing
UK

Data Cleansing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (7.55%) Apache
2 6 (5.66%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.66%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 4 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.77%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (18.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.89%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (12.26%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (7.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (2.83%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (1.89%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.94%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle CRM
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.94%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.94%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 26 (24.53%) Power Platform
2 16 (15.09%) Azure
3 14 (13.21%) OCI
4 10 (9.43%) AWS
5 8 (7.55%) GCP
6 6 (5.66%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.83%) Serverless
8 3 (2.83%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.83%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.89%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.83%) HTTP
2 2 (1.89%) 2G
2 2 (1.89%) 5G
2 2 (1.89%) LTE
2 2 (1.89%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (1.89%) VoIP
3 1 (0.94%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (24.53%) Power BI
2 13 (12.26%) Tableau
3 9 (8.49%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (6.60%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (4.72%) Big Data
5 5 (4.72%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.72%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.77%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.77%) SAP Data Services
6 4 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.83%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 3 (2.83%) Impala
7 3 (2.83%) KDB
7 3 (2.83%) Kdb+
7 3 (2.83%) Metadata
7 3 (2.83%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.89%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.94%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.94%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.94%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Git
2 2 (1.89%) JIRA
3 1 (0.94%) LSMW
3 1 (0.94%) MLflow
General
1 58 (54.72%) Social Skills
2 27 (25.47%) Finance
3 25 (23.58%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.26%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.66%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.72%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.77%) Banking
8 3 (2.83%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.83%) Marketing
8 3 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.89%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.89%) Electronics
9 2 (1.89%) Law
10 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.94%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.94%) Military
10 1 (0.94%) Retail
10 1 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (27.36%) Analyst
2 28 (26.42%) Lead
3 22 (20.75%) Data Analyst
4 16 (15.09%) Data Migration Lead
5 9 (8.49%) Data Engineer
6 7 (6.60%) Accountant
6 7 (6.60%) Consultant
6 7 (6.60%) Systems Accountant
7 6 (5.66%) Business Analyst
8 5 (4.72%) Data Scientist
8 5 (4.72%) Migration Consultant
8 5 (4.72%) SAP Data Migration Lead
8 5 (4.72%) Senior
9 4 (3.77%) Business Data Analyst
9 4 (3.77%) Data Consultant
9 4 (3.77%) Data Migration Consultant
9 4 (3.77%) Security Analyst
10 3 (2.83%) Developer
10 3 (2.83%) Junior
10 3 (2.83%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.15%) Pandas
2 12 (11.32%) NumPy
3 10 (9.43%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (5.66%) PySpark
5 5 (4.72%) boto
5 5 (4.72%) Hugging Face
5 5 (4.72%) OpenCV
5 5 (4.72%) PyTorch
5 5 (4.72%) REST
5 5 (4.72%) scikit-learn
5 5 (4.72%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (2.83%) AWS CDK
6 3 (2.83%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.83%) JWT
6 3 (2.83%) OAuth
7 1 (0.94%) Faiss
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.70%) Data Structures
2 14 (13.21%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (11.32%) Algorithms
4 7 (6.60%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (5.66%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.83%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.83%) Equities
8 2 (1.89%) CMDB
8 2 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.89%) IoT
8 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.94%) AS400
9 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.94%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.94%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.89%) Linux
2 1 (0.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (48.11%) Migration
2 36 (33.96%) Data Migration
3 31 (29.25%) Business Intelligence
3 31 (29.25%) Data Modelling
4 30 (28.30%) Validation
5 28 (26.42%) Data Analysis
6 27 (25.47%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (23.58%) ETL
8 24 (22.64%) Agile
8 24 (22.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (20.75%) Visualisation
10 19 (17.92%) Analytics
11 18 (16.98%) Data Mapping
12 17 (16.04%) Data Visualisation
13 15 (14.15%) Data Validation
13 15 (14.15%) Decision-Making
14 14 (13.21%) Actionable Insight
14 14 (13.21%) Collaborative Working
14 14 (13.21%) Data Extraction
14 14 (13.21%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 33 (31.13%) Python
2 31 (29.25%) SQL
3 5 (4.72%) R
4 2 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (1.89%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (12.26%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.60%) Degree
3 6 (5.66%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.77%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.83%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.94%) CBAP
6 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.94%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.94%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (29.25%) Data Quality
2 17 (16.04%) GDPR
3 16 (15.09%) QA
4 7 (6.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (4.72%) Accessibility
6 4 (3.77%) COBIT
6 4 (3.77%) NIST
7 3 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.89%) PMO
8 2 (1.89%) SLA
9 1 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.94%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.83%) Grafana
1 3 (2.83%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (19.81%) Oracle
2 20 (18.87%) SAP
3 14 (13.21%) Microsoft
4 12 (11.32%) Databricks
5 3 (2.83%) Google
5 3 (2.83%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.83%) Workday
6 2 (1.89%) Foundry
6 2 (1.89%) Palantir
6 2 (1.89%) Sage
6 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.94%) Adobe
7 1 (0.94%) Ariba
7 1 (0.94%) Cisco
7 1 (0.94%) Concur
7 1 (0.94%) Juniper
7 1 (0.94%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.94%) Snow
7 1 (0.94%) Xero