Data Cleansing Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 301 354
Rank change year-on-year +41 +53 -21
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 80 91 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.44% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.53% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 62 59
10th Percentile £368 £325 £300
25th Percentile £452 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% - -
75th Percentile £605 £550 £563
90th Percentile £700 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.19 £17.50
25th Percentile £16.36 £15.68 £18.67
Median hourly rate £18.22 £16.49 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year +10.49% -25.59% +4.68%
75th Percentile £22.74 £17.30 -
90th Percentile £25.44 £17.79 £22.64
UK median hourly rate £32.31 £19.61 £22.16
% change year-on-year +64.72% -11.50% -5.04%

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 11,716 17,285 20,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.51% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,290 10,280 13,964
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.87%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 847 2,123 1,246
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

Data Cleansing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Cleansing in the UK excluding London

Data Cleansing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Cleansing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Cleansing in the UK excluding London

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 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Cleansing in the UK excluding London

Data Cleansing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Cleansing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend 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 30 May 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 +60 24 £538 +47.26% 237
North of England +3 20 £550 +15.79% 185
North West +3 17 £550 +15.79% 85
Midlands +12 11 £400 -8.57% 170
Scotland +7 10 £475 -9.52% 37
East of England +35 9 £605 +9.91% 125
South West +43 7 £450 -29.43% 101
West Midlands +12 7 £425 -5.66% 86
East Midlands +8 4 £400 +4.58% 74
Yorkshire +17 3 - - 79
Northern Ireland - 1 £250 - 11
Data Cleansing
UK

Data Cleansing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.75%) Apache
3 2 (2.50%) Confluence
3 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.25%) Smallworld
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (11.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (6.25%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (5.00%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (5.00%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (3.75%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (1.25%) SAP CAR
6 1 (1.25%) SAP POS DM
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.00%) AWS
2 8 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (7.50%) Azure
3 6 (7.50%) GCP
3 6 (7.50%) SaaS
4 4 (5.00%) OCI
5 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.75%) Anthropic Claude
5 3 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.75%) Azure AI
5 3 (3.75%) Google Gemini
5 3 (3.75%) Serverless
6 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.50%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.25%) GitHub
7 1 (1.25%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.25%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.25%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) Big Data
1 8 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (10.00%) Power BI
2 7 (8.75%) Metadata
2 7 (8.75%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.00%) Hadoop
3 4 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.75%) Neo4j
4 3 (3.75%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.50%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (2.50%) Tableau
6 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.25%) GIS
6 1 (1.25%) Impala
6 1 (1.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (1.25%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.25%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 4 (5.00%) ERwin
1 4 (5.00%) Git
1 4 (5.00%) PowerDesigner
2 2 (2.50%) JIRA
3 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
General
1 38 (47.50%) Social Skills
2 23 (28.75%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (26.25%) Finance
4 13 (16.25%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (8.75%) Retail
6 6 (7.50%) Manufacturing
6 6 (7.50%) Public Sector
7 5 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (5.00%) Telecoms
9 3 (3.75%) Legal
9 3 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Automotive
10 1 (1.25%) Aviation
10 1 (1.25%) Banking
10 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Games
10 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.25%) Law
10 1 (1.25%) Local Government
10 1 (1.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (26.25%) Analyst
2 16 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 11 (13.75%) Consultant
4 9 (11.25%) Senior
5 8 (10.00%) Data Consultant
5 8 (10.00%) Lead
6 6 (7.50%) Data Migration Lead
7 5 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Associate Director
8 4 (5.00%) Data Manager
8 4 (5.00%) Data Modeller
8 4 (5.00%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Data Migration Consultant
9 3 (3.75%) Migration Consultant
9 3 (3.75%) Programme Manager
10 2 (2.50%) Data Migration Project Manager
10 2 (2.50%) Migration Analyst
10 2 (2.50%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.00%) TensorFlow
2 3 (3.75%) PyTorch
3 2 (2.50%) NumPy
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.50%) Pandas
3 2 (2.50%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.25%) ggplot2
4 1 (1.25%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.25%) JSON
4 1 (1.25%) Middleware
4 1 (1.25%) OLE
4 1 (1.25%) Prophet
4 1 (1.25%) SAP PI
4 1 (1.25%) Shiny
4 1 (1.25%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 7 (8.75%) Data Structures
2 7 (8.75%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.25%) CMDB
4 1 (1.25%) EPoS
4 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.25%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.25%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (51.25%) Migration
2 31 (38.75%) Data Migration
3 29 (36.25%) Validation
4 18 (22.50%) Data Governance
5 16 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 16 (20.00%) Data Management
5 16 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (18.75%) Data Mapping
6 15 (18.75%) Data Modelling
6 15 (18.75%) ETL
6 15 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (16.25%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (16.25%) Data Transformation
7 13 (16.25%) ERP
8 12 (15.00%) Agile
9 11 (13.75%) Data Architecture
9 11 (13.75%) Data Science
10 10 (12.50%) Analytics
10 10 (12.50%) Data Validation
11 9 (11.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (38.75%) SQL
2 14 (17.50%) Python
3 3 (3.75%) Scala
4 2 (2.50%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.50%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (15.00%) Degree
2 7 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.75%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) AAT
6 1 (1.25%) ACCA
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.25%) CIMA
6 1 (1.25%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (28.75%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.50%) QA
3 5 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (5.00%) SLA
5 2 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (2.50%) GDPR
6 1 (1.25%) COBIT
6 1 (1.25%) GAAP
6 1 (1.25%) IFRS
6 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.25%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (23.75%) SAP
2 15 (18.75%) Oracle
3 6 (7.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.50%) Google
4 2 (2.50%) OpenText
4 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.25%) Adaptive Insights
5 1 (1.25%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.25%) Ariba
5 1 (1.25%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.25%) Capita
5 1 (1.25%) ESRI
5 1 (1.25%) Informatica
5 1 (1.25%) NCR
5 1 (1.25%) Teradata
5 1 (1.25%) Toshiba
5 1 (1.25%) Workday