Data Cleansing Jobs in Scotland

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Cleansing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Cleansing over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 260 206
Rank change year-on-year +95 -54 +34
Permanent jobs citing Data Cleansing 3 13 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.097% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.21% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £41,250 £53,297
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,063 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - +66.67%
75th Percentile £58,750 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile - - £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,771 6,118 4,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.03% 88.68% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,253 2,611 2,024
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,342 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%

Data Cleansing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Data Cleansing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Cleansing in Scotland

Data Cleansing
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Cleansing in Scotland.

Salary trend for Data Cleansing in Scotland

Data Cleansing
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Cleansing within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +30 2 - - 15
Glasgow +137 1 £52,500 -30.00% 9
Data Cleansing
UK

Data Cleansing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) HR Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Insight Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Alteryx
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) StreamSets