Data Cleansing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Cleansing (Data Cleaning, Data Scrubbing)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 254 338
Rank change year-on-year +33 +84 +83
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 81 98 133
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.82% 0.64% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.73% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 61 80
10th Percentile £266 £325 £368
25th Percentile £363 £350 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £670 £673 £655
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 8
10th Percentile £15.99 - £14.13
25th Percentile £18.22 - £16.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £20.58
75th Percentile £102.00 - £22.16
90th Percentile - - £22.45
UK median hourly rate £49.31 £19.61 £22.16
% change year-on-year +151.40% -11.50% -26.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,023 13,505 23,232
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.03% 87.83% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,195 9,015 16,421
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 573 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £24.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -22.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Data Cleansing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Cleansing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Cleansing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Cleansing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Cleansing.

Data Cleansing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Cleansing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Cleansing over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Data Cleansing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Cleansing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Cleansing.

Data Cleansing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Cleansing
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Cleansing over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Data Cleansing hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Cleansing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.23%) Siemens NX
3 1 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.47%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.47%) SAP MDG
4 1 (1.23%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (1.23%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (1.23%) NEC Housing
4 1 (1.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.23%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (1.23%) SAP MDM
4 1 (1.23%) SAP MM
4 1 (1.23%) SAP PM
4 1 (1.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.35%) Azure
1 10 (12.35%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.17%) AWS
2 5 (6.17%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (4.94%) Power Automate
3 4 (4.94%) PowerApps
3 4 (4.94%) WhatsApp
4 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.47%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.47%) Fivetran
5 2 (2.47%) GCP
5 2 (2.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (2.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (2.47%) Serverless
5 2 (2.47%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.23%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (8.64%) Power BI
3 4 (4.94%) Data Mining
4 3 (3.70%) Hadoop
4 3 (3.70%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.70%) Power Query
4 3 (3.70%) Tableau
5 2 (2.47%) Big Data
5 2 (2.47%) Metadata
5 2 (2.47%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.23%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.23%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.23%) Impala
6 1 (1.23%) MySQL
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.23%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (1.23%) Git
2 1 (1.23%) LSMW
2 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
1 21 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.69%) Finance
3 6 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.94%) Banking
4 4 (4.94%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.94%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.70%) Retail
6 2 (2.47%) Automotive
6 2 (2.47%) Local Government
6 2 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.23%) Aviation
7 1 (1.23%) Billing
7 1 (1.23%) Front Office
7 1 (1.23%) German Language
7 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (24.69%) Analyst
2 17 (20.99%) Data Analyst
2 17 (20.99%) Data Engineer
3 13 (16.05%) Consultant
4 12 (14.81%) Developer
5 10 (12.35%) Data Consultant
6 7 (8.64%) Administrator
7 6 (7.41%) Lead
7 6 (7.41%) Salesforce Developer
8 5 (6.17%) Data Scientist
8 5 (6.17%) Salesforce Administrator
9 3 (3.70%) Senior
10 2 (2.47%) Administration Assistant
10 2 (2.47%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (2.47%) Data Entry Assistant
10 2 (2.47%) Data Governance Consultant
10 2 (2.47%) Data Quality Consultant
10 2 (2.47%) Data Steward
10 2 (2.47%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 2 (2.47%) Master Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.70%) XML
2 2 (2.47%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (2.47%) NumPy
2 2 (2.47%) Pandas
2 2 (2.47%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.23%) BAPI
3 1 (1.23%) Matplotlib
3 1 (1.23%) Plotly
3 1 (1.23%) PySpark
3 1 (1.23%) REST
3 1 (1.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.64%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (6.17%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.94%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.70%) NHS
5 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.23%) CMDB
5 1 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.23%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.23%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.23%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.23%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (43.21%) Data Management
1 35 (43.21%) Migration
2 32 (39.51%) Validation
3 26 (32.10%) Data Governance
4 25 (30.86%) Data Migration
5 24 (29.63%) Analytics
5 24 (29.63%) ETL
6 17 (20.99%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (14.81%) Data Mapping
8 12 (14.81%) Data Modelling
8 12 (14.81%) Data Security
8 12 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (13.58%) Data Analysis
10 10 (12.35%) Data Engineering
10 10 (12.35%) Visualisation
11 9 (11.11%) Data Integration
11 9 (11.11%) Data Science
12 8 (9.88%) Data Transformation
12 8 (9.88%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 35 (43.21%) SQL
2 24 (29.63%) Python
3 3 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.47%) Apex Code
4 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.47%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.23%) ABAP
5 1 (1.23%) C#
5 1 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (11.11%) Degree
2 5 (6.17%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (6.17%) SC Cleared
2 5 (6.17%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.23%) AAT
4 1 (1.23%) ACCA
4 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.23%) CIMA
4 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.23%) PhD
4 1 (1.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (49.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (3.70%) GDPR
3 2 (2.47%) GAAP
3 2 (2.47%) IFRS
3 2 (2.47%) QA
4 1 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.23%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 10 (12.35%) Salesforce
2 9 (11.11%) SAP
3 7 (8.64%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.64%) Oracle
4 5 (6.17%) Informatica
5 2 (2.47%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.47%) Google
6 1 (1.23%) Adobe
6 1 (1.23%) Databricks
6 1 (1.23%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.23%) NEC
6 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.23%) Siemens
6 1 (1.23%) Zuora