Data Cleansing Job Trends in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Cleansing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 428 489
Rank change year-on-year +37 +61 +162
Permanent jobs citing Data Cleansing 220 247 197
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.51% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.56% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 103 85 123
10th Percentile £26,500 £38,050 £36,300
25th Percentile £32,010 £47,500 £43,090
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £54,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,250 £97,500 £78,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -29.17% +9.09% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Data Cleansing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,077 43,814 44,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.14% 90.86% 89.76%
Number of salaries quoted 25,929 21,493 34,060
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £79,563
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Cleansing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Data Cleansing job vacancy trend in England

Data Cleansing
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Cleansing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Cleansing

Data Cleansing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Cleansing in England over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Cleansing in England

Data Cleansing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Cleansing within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +91 86 £45,000 +5.88% 36
London +15 69 £45,000 -40.00% 26
Midlands +14 40 £34,750 -42.08% 15
West Midlands +9 25 £32,500 -45.83% 7
East Midlands -8 15 £40,000 -51.52% 8
North of England -15 13 £42,500 -22.58% 19
East of England +22 8 £41,250 -31.25% 9
Yorkshire -10 8 £42,500 -29.17% 6
North West -3 4 £71,500 +27.68% 10
South West -2 3 £45,000 -14.29% 12
North East +8 1 £29,000 +16.00% 3
Data Cleansing
UK

Data Cleansing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.09%) Appian
2 3 (1.36%) Moodle
2 3 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 137 (62.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (10.91%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.73%) SAP CO
2 6 (2.73%) SAP FI
2 6 (2.73%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.91%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.45%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.45%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.45%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 73 (33.18%) Power Platform
2 58 (26.36%) Azure
3 11 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
3 11 (5.00%) Power Automate
4 10 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (4.09%) Anthropic Claude
5 9 (4.09%) Azure AI
5 9 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.09%) Snowflake
6 8 (3.64%) AWS
7 7 (3.18%) GCP
8 6 (2.73%) dbt
9 5 (2.27%) Zapier
10 3 (1.36%) SaaS
11 2 (0.91%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.91%) Workato
12 1 (0.45%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.45%) Collibra
12 1 (0.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (32.73%) Power BI
2 37 (16.82%) Data Lake
3 35 (15.91%) SAP BW
4 26 (11.82%) Tableau
5 14 (6.36%) SQL Server
6 13 (5.91%) Data Mining
7 10 (4.55%) Metadata
7 10 (4.55%) Relational Database
7 10 (4.55%) Spotfire
8 9 (4.09%) Pinecone
9 8 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (3.18%) BigQuery
11 6 (2.73%) Power Query
12 3 (1.36%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (1.36%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.36%) SAP Data Services
12 3 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.91%) DB2
13 2 (0.91%) PowerPivot
13 2 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (4.09%) MLflow
2 5 (2.27%) Git
3 3 (1.36%) JIRA
4 2 (0.91%) LSMW
General
1 130 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 67 (30.45%) Finance
3 61 (27.73%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.64%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (6.82%) Marketing
6 13 (5.91%) Manufacturing
7 12 (5.45%) Legal
8 11 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (3.64%) Public Sector
11 7 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.27%) Retail
12 5 (2.27%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.82%) Electronics
14 3 (1.36%) Law
14 3 (1.36%) Publishing
15 2 (0.91%) Banking
15 2 (0.91%) Local Government
16 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (29.55%) Lead
2 52 (23.64%) Analyst
3 31 (14.09%) Data Analyst
4 29 (13.18%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 24 (10.91%) Junior
6 13 (5.91%) Junior Analyst
7 12 (5.45%) Data Manager
7 12 (5.45%) Trainee
8 10 (4.55%) Data Insight Analyst
8 10 (4.55%) Insight Analyst
8 10 (4.55%) Insight Data Analyst
9 9 (4.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (4.09%) Automation Engineer
9 9 (4.09%) Data Engineer
10 8 (3.64%) Administrator
10 8 (3.64%) Data Quality Analyst
10 8 (3.64%) Developer
10 8 (3.64%) Quality Analyst
10 8 (3.64%) Senior
10 8 (3.64%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.91%) Pandas
2 12 (5.45%) Hugging Face
2 12 (5.45%) PyTorch
2 12 (5.45%) TensorFlow
3 9 (4.09%) Django
3 9 (4.09%) Faiss
3 9 (4.09%) FastAPI
3 9 (4.09%) Flask
3 9 (4.09%) JWT
3 9 (4.09%) NumPy
3 9 (4.09%) OAuth
3 9 (4.09%) OpenAPI
3 9 (4.09%) pytest
3 9 (4.09%) REST
3 9 (4.09%) RESTful
3 9 (4.09%) scikit-learn
3 9 (4.09%) Swagger
3 9 (4.09%) Web Services
4 5 (2.27%) PySpark
5 2 (0.91%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.36%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.09%) Low-Code
4 8 (3.64%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.18%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.73%) Reinsurance
7 5 (2.27%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.82%) Web Conferencing
9 3 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.36%) Blog
9 3 (1.36%) Podcast
10 2 (0.91%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.91%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.91%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.91%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.45%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.55%) Windows
2 2 (0.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (41.36%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (39.55%) Data Modelling
3 79 (35.91%) ERP
4 76 (34.55%) Business Intelligence
5 62 (28.18%) Analytics
6 54 (24.55%) Validation
7 51 (23.18%) Actionable Insight
8 49 (22.27%) Data Analysis
9 46 (20.91%) Migration
10 45 (20.45%) Data Governance
11 36 (16.36%) Visualisation
12 35 (15.91%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 32 (14.55%) Master Data Management
14 31 (14.09%) Decision-Making
15 28 (12.73%) ETL
16 27 (12.27%) CRUD
16 27 (12.27%) Data Conversion
16 27 (12.27%) Data Migration
16 27 (12.27%) Machine Learning
16 27 (12.27%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 71 (32.27%) SQL
2 44 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (1.36%) R
3 3 (1.36%) VBA
4 2 (0.91%) Scala
5 1 (0.45%) ABAP
5 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.45%) Java
5 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 85 (38.64%) Degree
2 5 (2.27%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.91%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.45%) ACCA
4 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (53.64%) Data Quality
2 17 (7.73%) QA
3 12 (5.45%) GDPR
4 10 (4.55%) Good Clinical Practice
5 4 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.82%) PMO
6 2 (0.91%) GMP
7 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (4.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 78 (35.45%) SAP
2 61 (27.73%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.82%) Salesforce
4 9 (4.09%) Automation Anywhere
4 9 (4.09%) OpenAI
4 9 (4.09%) UiPath
5 6 (2.73%) Databricks
5 6 (2.73%) HubSpot
5 6 (2.73%) Oracle
6 4 (1.82%) Cisco
7 3 (1.36%) Avid
8 2 (0.91%) Adobe
8 2 (0.91%) Workday
9 1 (0.45%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.45%) Apple
9 1 (0.45%) Foundry
9 1 (0.45%) Informatica
9 1 (0.45%) Netezza
9 1 (0.45%) Palantir
9 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow