Data Cleansing Contracts

Data Cleansing (Data Cleaning, Data Scrubbing)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Cleansing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Cleansing over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 431 468
Rank change year-on-year +67 +37 -31
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 224 297 445
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.49% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.55% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 187 308
10th Percentile £325 £348 £361
25th Percentile £363 £428 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £549 £610 £588
90th Percentile £674 £700 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 8
10th Percentile £15.84 £14.13 £12.17
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.94 £15.41
Median hourly rate £19.61 £20.58 £30.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% -31.97% -27.54%
75th Percentile £25.65 £22.16 £48.06
90th Percentile £31.86 £24.36 £56.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.49 £20.58 £15.54
% change year-on-year -19.87% +32.43% -64.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Cleansing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,651 54,096 80,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,333 37,469 56,726
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,787 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.34 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Top 14 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 24 April 2024. 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 +66 187 £450 -14.08% 114
Work from Home +86 98 £450 -11.76% 48
London +46 98 £440 -20.00% 51
UK excluding London +65 95 £475 - 72
North of England +53 30 £475 +8.57% 21
North West +31 24 £475 +12.09% 13
South East +13 22 £380 -27.62% 12
Midlands +40 17 £425 -10.53% 11
Scotland +40 13 £525 +10.53% 3
West Midlands +32 13 £431 -9.21% 4
East of England +21 10 £463 -7.50% 13
Yorkshire +27 6 £450 -10.00% 4
East Midlands +16 5 £383 -59.74% 7
South West -2 3 £441 -7.11% 12

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 19 (8.48%) SAS
2 9 (4.02%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.23%) Apache
4 4 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.79%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.89%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.89%) Confluence
6 1 (0.45%) IIS
6 1 (0.45%) JBoss
6 1 (0.45%) Luigi
6 1 (0.45%) WildFly
Applications
1 26 (11.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.68%) Spreadsheet
2 6 (2.68%) SPSS
3 3 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.45%) CATIA
4 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.45%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 20 (8.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.68%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.79%) SAP CO
4 3 (1.34%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (1.34%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.34%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.34%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (1.34%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.34%) SAP PP
5 2 (0.89%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.89%) Movex
5 2 (0.89%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.45%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.45%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 37 (16.52%) Power Platform
2 33 (14.73%) Azure
3 21 (9.38%) AWS
4 10 (4.46%) OCI
5 8 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (3.57%) GCP
5 8 (3.57%) Power Automate
5 8 (3.57%) Snowflake
6 6 (2.68%) Collibra
6 6 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (2.68%) Serverless
7 4 (1.79%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.79%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.79%) SaaS
8 3 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.34%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.34%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.79%) Intranet
2 1 (0.45%) Internet
2 1 (0.45%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (16.52%) Power BI
2 23 (10.27%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (8.93%) Tableau
4 17 (7.59%) Data Lake
4 17 (7.59%) SQL Server
5 13 (5.80%) Data Mining
6 12 (5.36%) Qlik Sense
7 10 (4.46%) SAP Data Services
8 6 (2.68%) Ataccama
8 6 (2.68%) Big Data
8 6 (2.68%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.23%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.23%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (2.23%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.34%) Apache Hive
10 3 (1.34%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.34%) SAP BW
10 3 (1.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (1.79%) ERwin
2 4 (1.79%) LSMW
3 3 (1.34%) Git
3 3 (1.34%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.34%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.89%) JIRA
5 1 (0.45%) GitLab
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.45%) Toad
General
1 72 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 58 (25.89%) Finance
3 52 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.46%) Marketing
6 9 (4.02%) Pharmaceutical
6 9 (4.02%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.57%) Banking
7 8 (3.57%) Legal
7 8 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.57%) Retail
8 5 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.23%) Law
8 5 (2.23%) Local Government
8 5 (2.23%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.79%) Games
9 4 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.34%) Billing
10 3 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Czech Language
Job Titles
1 81 (36.16%) Analyst
2 62 (27.68%) Data Analyst
3 26 (11.61%) Data Engineer
4 22 (9.82%) Consultant
5 18 (8.04%) Lead
5 18 (8.04%) Senior
6 16 (7.14%) Developer
7 14 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
8 10 (4.46%) Business Analyst
9 9 (4.02%) Architect
9 9 (4.02%) Data Migration Lead
9 9 (4.02%) Data Quality Analyst
9 9 (4.02%) Quality Analyst
9 9 (4.02%) SQL Analyst
10 8 (3.57%) SQL Data Analyst
11 7 (3.13%) Data Manager
11 7 (3.13%) SAP Consultant
11 7 (3.13%) Senior Data Analyst
12 6 (2.68%) Administrator
12 6 (2.68%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
1 8 (3.57%) PySpark
2 7 (3.13%) REST
3 6 (2.68%) D3.js
4 5 (2.23%) HTML
5 4 (1.79%) BAPI
5 4 (1.79%) CSS
5 4 (1.79%) Kafka
5 4 (1.79%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (1.79%) Visualforce
6 2 (0.89%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.45%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.45%) EDI
7 1 (0.45%) IDoc
7 1 (0.45%) JSON
7 1 (0.45%) NumPy
7 1 (0.45%) ODBC
7 1 (0.45%) Pandas
7 1 (0.45%) PostGIS
7 1 (0.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 11 (4.91%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.68%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.34%) Freedom of Information
6 3 (1.34%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.89%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.89%) FMCG
7 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.89%) NHS
7 2 (0.89%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.45%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.13%) Windows
2 2 (0.89%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (33.04%) Migration
2 64 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 58 (25.89%) Data Migration
4 51 (22.77%) Data Modelling
5 47 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (19.64%) ETL
7 42 (18.75%) Validation
8 39 (17.41%) Business Intelligence
9 37 (16.52%) Data Management
10 36 (16.07%) Analytics
10 36 (16.07%) Visualisation
11 28 (12.50%) Data Governance
12 21 (9.38%) Agile
12 21 (9.38%) ERP
12 21 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (8.48%) Data Visualisation
14 18 (8.04%) Data Enrichment
15 17 (7.59%) Decision-Making
16 16 (7.14%) Data Engineering
16 16 (7.14%) Data Extraction
Programming Languages
1 71 (31.70%) SQL
2 44 (19.64%) Python
3 13 (5.80%) R
4 6 (2.68%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.79%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.79%) Java
5 4 (1.79%) Scala
6 3 (1.34%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.34%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.34%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.89%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.89%) VBA
8 1 (0.45%) ABAP
8 1 (0.45%) Bash
8 1 (0.45%) C#
8 1 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (7.59%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.70%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.80%) Degree
4 6 (2.68%) ACCA
4 6 (2.68%) CIMA
4 6 (2.68%) PMP
5 3 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.34%) SAP Certification
6 2 (0.89%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.89%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.89%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) CCA
7 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.45%) ECDL
7 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (35.27%) Data Quality
2 27 (12.05%) QA
3 7 (3.13%) GDPR
4 4 (1.79%) PMO
5 3 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.34%) IFRS
6 2 (0.89%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.89%) GxP
6 2 (0.89%) SLA
7 1 (0.45%) CDISC
7 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.45%) NIST
7 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (4.46%) Docker
2 4 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.89%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.45%) Grafana
2 1 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 47 (20.98%) SAP
2 27 (12.05%) Oracle
3 21 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 20 (8.93%) Salesforce
5 14 (6.25%) Databricks
6 8 (3.57%) Alteryx
7 7 (3.13%) Dataiku
8 6 (2.68%) Trillium
9 4 (1.79%) Embarcadero
9 4 (1.79%) Informatica
9 4 (1.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 3 (1.34%) Concur
10 3 (1.34%) Google
10 3 (1.34%) Marketo
10 3 (1.34%) Pardot
10 3 (1.34%) Talend
11 2 (0.89%) Ariba
11 2 (0.89%) Ceridian
11 2 (0.89%) Workday
12 1 (0.45%) Cloudera