Data Cleansing Contracts

Data Cleansing (Data Cleaning, Data Scrubbing)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 362 437
Rank change year-on-year +17 +75 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 181 225 294
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.52% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.60% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 145 186
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £363 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £601 £550 £617
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile £16.73 £15.84 £14.50
25th Percentile £21.99 £17.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £38.11 £19.61 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year +94.31% -11.50% -26.74%
75th Percentile £83.50 £25.65 -
90th Percentile £102.00 £31.86 £24.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 £16.49 £22.16
% change year-on-year +60.70% -25.59% +42.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Data Cleansing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Cleansing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Cleansing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +23 151 £500 +12.30% 189
London +24 83 £500 +13.90% 96
Work from Home +23 81 £500 +11.11% 95
UK excluding London +38 72 £500 +5.26% 107
South East +45 20 £500 +36.99% 28
North of England +7 19 £550 +15.79% 29
North West +8 16 £550 +15.79% 18
Scotland +10 10 £475 -9.52% 2
East of England +29 9 £700 +51.35% 9
Midlands +11 8 £550 +29.41% 20
South West +50 7 £450 +1.98% 18
West Midlands +5 5 £550 +25.71% 12
East Midlands +7 3 £494 +29.15% 7
Yorkshire +5 3 - - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £250 - 2

Data Cleansing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (3.87%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.66%) Apache
4 2 (1.10%) Confluence
5 1 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 21 (11.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.76%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.55%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 18 (9.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.31%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.66%) SAP MDG
4 2 (1.10%) Movex
4 2 (1.10%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.55%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.55%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.55%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.55%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.55%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.55%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.55%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.55%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.55%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 32 (17.68%) Power Platform
2 24 (13.26%) Azure
3 18 (9.94%) AWS
4 8 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (4.42%) Snowflake
5 7 (3.87%) Amazon S3
5 7 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (3.87%) GCP
5 7 (3.87%) Power Automate
5 7 (3.87%) Serverless
6 6 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (3.31%) PowerApps
7 5 (2.76%) WhatsApp
8 4 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.21%) dbt
8 4 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.66%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (1.66%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (1.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.55%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.47%) Power BI
2 25 (13.81%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (6.08%) Tableau
4 10 (5.52%) Big Data
5 8 (4.42%) Metadata
5 8 (4.42%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.87%) Hadoop
7 6 (3.31%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.76%) Oracle Database
8 5 (2.76%) Power Query
9 4 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.21%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.66%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.66%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.66%) SAP Data Services
11 2 (1.10%) Cognos Query Studio
11 2 (1.10%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.10%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (1.10%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (4.42%) Git
2 6 (3.31%) ERwin
3 4 (2.21%) JIRA
3 4 (2.21%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.66%) LSMW
5 2 (1.10%) MagicDraw
6 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (32.60%) Social Skills
2 46 (25.41%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (24.86%) Finance
4 12 (6.63%) Pharmaceutical
5 11 (6.08%) Banking
5 11 (6.08%) Manufacturing
6 10 (5.52%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.52%) Retail
7 7 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.76%) Marketing
9 4 (2.21%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.21%) Legal
10 3 (1.66%) Local Government
10 3 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Automotive
11 2 (1.10%) Aviation
11 2 (1.10%) Games
11 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (29.28%) Analyst
2 49 (27.07%) Data Analyst
3 25 (13.81%) Consultant
3 25 (13.81%) Data Engineer
4 15 (8.29%) Developer
4 15 (8.29%) Senior
5 14 (7.73%) Data Consultant
6 12 (6.63%) Lead
7 9 (4.97%) Administrator
8 7 (3.87%) Data Scientist
8 7 (3.87%) Project Manager
8 7 (3.87%) SAP Analyst
9 6 (3.31%) Architect
9 6 (3.31%) Data Manager
9 6 (3.31%) Salesforce Developer
9 6 (3.31%) SAP Data Analyst
10 5 (2.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (2.76%) Data Migration Analyst
10 5 (2.76%) Programme Manager
10 5 (2.76%) Salesforce Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.87%) TensorFlow
2 5 (2.76%) scikit-learn
3 4 (2.21%) Pandas
3 4 (2.21%) PySpark
3 4 (2.21%) PyTorch
4 3 (1.66%) NumPy
4 3 (1.66%) Plotly
4 3 (1.66%) XML
5 2 (1.10%) FHIR
5 2 (1.10%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.10%) Matplotlib
5 2 (1.10%) React
5 2 (1.10%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.55%) BAPI
6 1 (0.55%) D3.js
6 1 (0.55%) OLE
6 1 (0.55%) Prophet
6 1 (0.55%) REST
6 1 (0.55%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.55%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.29%) Algorithms
2 11 (6.08%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.52%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.76%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.76%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.21%) NHS
6 2 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.55%) CMDB
7 1 (0.55%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.55%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.55%) IoT
7 1 (0.55%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.55%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.55%) SCADA
7 1 (0.55%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (48.62%) Migration
2 57 (31.49%) Validation
3 55 (30.39%) Data Migration
4 53 (29.28%) Data Management
5 47 (25.97%) Data Governance
6 46 (25.41%) Business Intelligence
7 45 (24.86%) Analytics
8 37 (20.44%) Data Modelling
8 37 (20.44%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (19.89%) Data Analysis
10 33 (18.23%) ETL
11 28 (15.47%) Visualisation
12 26 (14.36%) Stakeholder Management
13 22 (12.15%) Data Science
13 22 (12.15%) Machine Learning
14 21 (11.60%) Data Security
14 21 (11.60%) Decision-Making
15 19 (10.50%) Data Integration
16 18 (9.94%) Data Mapping
16 18 (9.94%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 74 (40.88%) SQL
2 45 (24.86%) Python
3 9 (4.97%) R
4 5 (2.76%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.21%) VBA
6 3 (1.66%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (1.66%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.66%) Scala
6 3 (1.66%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.10%) ABAP
7 2 (1.10%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.55%) C#
8 1 (0.55%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (12.15%) Degree
2 13 (7.18%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (6.08%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.10%) PhD
5 2 (1.10%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.55%) AAT
6 1 (0.55%) ACCA
6 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.55%) CIMA
6 1 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (41.99%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.63%) QA
3 6 (3.31%) GDPR
4 3 (1.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.10%) GAAP
5 2 (1.10%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.10%) IFRS
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.55%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (2.76%) Docker
2 3 (1.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.76%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.21%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 30 (16.57%) SAP
2 29 (16.02%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.84%) Oracle
4 14 (7.73%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.87%) Informatica
6 6 (3.31%) Databricks
7 4 (2.21%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.21%) Google
8 3 (1.66%) Ariba
9 2 (1.10%) Adobe
9 2 (1.10%) Blue Prism
9 2 (1.10%) Cognizant
9 2 (1.10%) Cognos
9 2 (1.10%) NEC
9 2 (1.10%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.55%) Concur
10 1 (0.55%) Conga
10 1 (0.55%) DocuSign
10 1 (0.55%) Workday
10 1 (0.55%) Zuora