Data Cleansing Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West 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 172 179 190
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 +93
Permanent jobs citing Data Cleansing 4 31 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.063% 0.61% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.67% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile £55,350 £43,200 £37,625
25th Percentile £61,125 £51,147 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £56,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.68% -6.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £81,125 £60,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,450 £66,500 -
England median annual salary £42,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -29.17% +9.09% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,124 4,598 3,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.28% 91.14% 87.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,497 2,248 3,064
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,113 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,285 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
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 North West

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

Data Cleansing job vacancy trend in the North West

Data Cleansing
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Cleansing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Cleansing

Data Cleansing
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Data Cleansing in the North West

Data Cleansing
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Cleansing within the North West 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
Manchester +1 2 £90,000 +38.46% 7
Lancashire +14 1 - - 3
Merseyside - 1 £53,000 - 1
Data Cleansing
England

Data Cleansing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) dbt
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) LSMW
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Quality Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Data Mapping
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Model Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Data Flow Diagram
4 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) SAP