Data Cleansing Contract Job Trends in Wales

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in 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 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.65% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% - -
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 - - -
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +2.50% +11.11% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 363 324 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 78.57% 86.86% 84.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 202 269
10th Percentile £195 £167 £175
25th Percentile £290 £234 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £420
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +1.19% -11.58%
75th Percentile £509 £550 £563
90th Percentile £645 £650 £653
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 34 27
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.08 £13.03
25th Percentile £15.08 £20.12 £21.30
Median hourly rate £18.18 £22.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.20% -30.77% +72.73%
75th Percentile £23.50 £29.69 £55.25
90th Percentile £36.00 £43.88 £86.72
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.62% +12.38%

Data Cleansing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Data Cleansing job vacancy trend in Wales

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Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Cleansing in Wales

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Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in 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 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
South Wales - 3 £700 - 1
Data Cleansing
UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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