Data Cleansing Job Trends in the South East

Data Cleansing (Data Cleaning, Data Scrubbing)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data Cleansing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 274 270
Rank change year-on-year +86 -4 +104
Permanent jobs citing Data Cleansing 85 22 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.82% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.28% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 13
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £44,188
25th Percentile £36,563 £41,250 £44,942
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £63,688 £63,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £67,875 £73,750 £74,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -29.17% +9.09% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,306 7,897 7,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.19% 88.14% 88.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,952 3,758 5,459
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
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 South East

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

Data Cleansing job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Cleansing
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Cleansing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Cleansing

Data Cleansing
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Cleansing in the South East over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Cleansing in the South East

Data Cleansing
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Cleansing within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 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
Thames Valley +69 66 £50,000 +28.21% 9
Berkshire +49 65 £57,500 +47.44% 7
Surrey - 12 - - 3
Hampshire +31 6 £51,500 +21.18% 4
Buckinghamshire +3 1 £42,500 -
Middlesex - 1 - -
Data Cleansing
England

Data Cleansing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 76 (89.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (7.06%) SAP CO
1 6 (7.06%) SAP FI
1 6 (7.06%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.18%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (44.71%) Azure
1 38 (44.71%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.18%) AWS
2 1 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (1.18%) GCP
2 1 (1.18%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (44.71%) Power BI
2 36 (42.35%) Data Lake
3 35 (41.18%) SAP BW
4 10 (11.76%) Spotfire
5 3 (3.53%) Tableau
6 2 (2.35%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.18%) Metadata
7 1 (1.18%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (1.18%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Git
General
1 70 (82.35%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.65%) Finance
3 11 (12.94%) Pharmaceutical
4 7 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.35%) Marketing
5 2 (2.35%) Retail
6 1 (1.18%) Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Law
6 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (69.41%) Lead
2 29 (34.12%) Business Intelligence Lead
3 10 (11.76%) Analyst
3 10 (11.76%) Data Manager
3 10 (11.76%) Junior
4 6 (7.06%) Report Analyst
5 4 (4.71%) Data Analyst
6 2 (2.35%) Trainee
7 1 (1.18%) Business Data Analyst
7 1 (1.18%) Data Engineer
7 1 (1.18%) Data Migration Lead
7 1 (1.18%) Database Manager
7 1 (1.18%) SAP Data Migration Lead
7 1 (1.18%) SAP Financial Leader
7 1 (1.18%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.18%) Middleware
1 1 (1.18%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.18%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (75.29%) Data Modelling
1 64 (75.29%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (69.41%) ERP
3 39 (45.88%) Business Intelligence
4 38 (44.71%) Analytics
5 33 (38.82%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 32 (37.65%) Actionable Insight
6 32 (37.65%) Data Governance
7 29 (34.12%) Data Analysis
8 28 (32.94%) Master Data Management
9 27 (31.76%) CRUD
9 27 (31.76%) Data Conversion
9 27 (31.76%) Data Design
9 27 (31.76%) SAP Implementation
10 13 (15.29%) Validation
11 11 (12.94%) Data Management
11 11 (12.94%) Data Visualisation
11 11 (12.94%) Visualisation
12 10 (11.76%) Clinical Data Management
12 10 (11.76%) Digital Transformation Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.06%) SQL
2 2 (2.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 72 (84.71%) Degree
2 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (77.65%) Data Quality
2 10 (11.76%) Good Clinical Practice
3 2 (2.35%) GMP
4 1 (1.18%) QA
Vendors
1 64 (75.29%) SAP
2 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.18%) Foundry
3 1 (1.18%) IFS
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle
3 1 (1.18%) Palantir
3 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow