Data Cleansing Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Data Cleansing (Data Cleaning, Data Scrubbing)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Cleansing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 95 104
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 6 16 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.34% 0.84% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 1.04% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 9
10th Percentile £255 £363 £395
25th Percentile £263 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £513 £430
Median % change year-on-year -46.34% +19.32% +5.79%
75th Percentile £288 £612 £488
90th Percentile £295 - £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,565 1,541 1,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.07% 81.32% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 1,009 1,236
10th Percentile £250 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £663 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 43 47
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.83 £14.27
25th Percentile £15.56 £15.07 £20.24
Median hourly rate £24.34 £21.59 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.74% -21.49% +62.60%
75th Percentile £35.30 £36.25 £38.66
90th Percentile £50.00 £54.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

Data Cleansing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Cleansing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Cleansing in the West Midlands

Data Cleansing
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Cleansing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Cleansing

Data Cleansing
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Cleansing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Cleansing

Data Cleansing
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 September 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
Warwickshire -3 3 £300 -20.00% 2
Birmingham -4 2 £250 -47.40% 2
Data Cleansing
England

Data Cleansing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) Metadata
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Data Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Data Migration Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Data Migration Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Migration Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Migration Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) NumPy
1 1 (16.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (66.67%) Validation
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Content Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Data Collection
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Content Management
3 2 (33.33%) Metadata Management
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) OpenText
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce