Data Cleansing Job Trends in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Cleansing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 189 185
Rank change year-on-year +12 -4 +106
Permanent jobs citing Data Cleansing 39 47 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.50% 0.74% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.81% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 35 17 21
10th Percentile £23,580 £44,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £26,500 £57,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £60,000 £42,430
Median % change year-on-year -42.50% +41.41% -15.14%
75th Percentile £43,750 £86,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,250 - £72,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -29.17% +9.09% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,306 5,768 4,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.32% 90.45% 86.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,486 2,526 4,080
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,153
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Cleansing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Data Cleansing job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Data Cleansing
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Cleansing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Cleansing

Data Cleansing
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Cleansing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Cleansing in the Midlands

Data Cleansing
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Cleansing within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Midlands +11 24 £32,500 -45.83% 6
East Midlands -3 15 £40,000 -51.52% 9
Data Cleansing
England

Data Cleansing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 23 (58.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (12.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.56%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.64%) Dynamics 365
2 8 (20.51%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.13%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) Relational Database
1 7 (17.95%) Tableau
2 5 (12.82%) Power BI
3 4 (10.26%) BigQuery
4 3 (7.69%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.56%) Metadata
5 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
General
1 19 (48.72%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
3 11 (28.21%) Finance
4 8 (20.51%) Manufacturing
5 5 (12.82%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (10.26%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (7.69%) Marketing
7 3 (7.69%) Retail
8 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.56%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 17 (43.59%) Analyst
2 5 (12.82%) Data Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) CRM Officer
3 4 (10.26%) Data Quality Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) ERP Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) ERP Support
3 4 (10.26%) Quality Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) Support Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) Support Officer
3 4 (10.26%) Trainee
4 3 (7.69%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (7.69%) 1st Line Support Technician
4 3 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) IT Support
4 3 (7.69%) IT Support Technician
4 3 (7.69%) IT Technician
4 3 (7.69%) Support Technician
4 3 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Credit Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) Middleware
1 1 (2.56%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Driving Licence
1 5 (12.82%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.26%) Web Conferencing
3 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.13%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (38.46%) Validation
3 14 (35.90%) Migration
4 13 (33.33%) ERP
5 12 (30.77%) Analytics
6 10 (25.64%) CRM
6 10 (25.64%) Mentoring
7 9 (23.08%) Decision-Making
7 9 (23.08%) Process Improvement
7 9 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (20.51%) Data Analysis
8 8 (20.51%) Mathematics
9 7 (17.95%) Visualisation
10 6 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (15.38%) Business Process Analysis
10 6 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
11 5 (12.82%) Data Science
11 5 (12.82%) ETL
11 5 (12.82%) Machine Learning
11 5 (12.82%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 22 (56.41%) SQL
2 11 (28.21%) Python
3 3 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (7.69%) R
4 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (41.03%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.56%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 29 (74.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) Salesforce
2 4 (10.26%) SAP
3 2 (5.13%) Adobe
3 2 (5.13%) HubSpot
4 1 (2.56%) Databricks