Data Cleansing Job Trends

Data Cleansing (Data Cleaning, Data Scrubbing)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data Cleansing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 466 587
Rank change year-on-year -66 +121 +27
Permanent jobs citing Data Cleansing 209 199 330
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.45% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.48% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 121 86 216
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £70,313
90th Percentile £76,250 £93,778 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £45,828
% change year-on-year -23.64% +20.01% -11.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,776 41,096 86,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 92.88% 82.94%
Number of salaries quoted 45,490 21,754 61,656
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -9.09%

Data Cleansing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data Cleansing job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Cleansing
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Cleansing

Data Cleansing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Cleansing over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Cleansing within the UK over the 6 months to 7 June 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
England -42 180 £48,250 -12.27% 114
UK excluding London -22 131 £42,000 -23.64% 88
London -25 56 £60,000 -12.73% 44
Work from Home -15 55 £53,000 +1.92% 41
North of England -22 39 £58,250 +37.06% 18
South East -19 38 £29,000 -51.05% 17
North West +2 31 £60,000 +20.00% 6
Midlands -44 19 £67,500 +12.50% 13
East of England -13 14 £37,500 -31.82% 22
South West -41 13 £28,750 - 10
East Midlands -24 11 £67,500 - 7
West Midlands -33 8 £45,000 -25.00% 6
Yorkshire -47 8 £52,500 +25.00% 11
Scotland +10 7 £42,000 - 4
Wales - 1 £53,171 - 5

Data Cleansing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 8 (3.83%) Appian
2 3 (1.44%) Apache
2 3 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.44%) SAS
2 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.96%) IIS
4 1 (0.48%) CMS
Applications
1 67 (32.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (7.18%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
1 19 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (6.22%) SAP ERP
3 9 (4.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 7 (3.35%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (2.87%) Sage 200
6 5 (2.39%) Raiser’s Edge
7 4 (1.91%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (1.44%) Elite 3E
8 3 (1.44%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.96%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.96%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.48%) Exchequer
10 1 (0.48%) MIS ActiveH
10 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.48%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 41 (19.62%) Power Platform
2 37 (17.70%) Azure
3 15 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (7.18%) Dynamics 365
4 14 (6.70%) Power Automate
5 9 (4.31%) AWS
5 9 (4.31%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (3.83%) Anthropic Claude
6 8 (3.83%) Azure AI
7 7 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.39%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.39%) GCP
9 4 (1.91%) dbt
10 3 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.44%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.44%) OCI
10 3 (1.44%) Serverless
11 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.96%) SMS
2 1 (0.48%) FTP
2 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (19.62%) Power BI
2 29 (13.88%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.78%) Spotfire
3 10 (4.78%) Tableau
4 9 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.31%) Metadata
4 9 (4.31%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.83%) Pinecone
6 4 (1.91%) Db2
6 4 (1.91%) Looker
7 3 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.44%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.44%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (0.96%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.96%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.96%) Oracle Discoverer
8 2 (0.96%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 8 (3.83%) MLflow
2 5 (2.39%) Git
2 5 (2.39%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.48%) LSMW
3 1 (0.48%) Toad
General
1 97 (46.41%) Social Skills
2 79 (37.80%) Finance
3 48 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 23 (11.00%) Manufacturing
6 11 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.78%) Banking
7 10 (4.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (3.35%) General Ledger
8 7 (3.35%) Marketing
8 7 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.39%) Advertising
9 5 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.39%) Law
9 5 (2.39%) Legal
10 3 (1.44%) French Language
10 3 (1.44%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.44%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (30.62%) Analyst
2 28 (13.40%) Data Analyst
2 28 (13.40%) Developer
3 23 (11.00%) Senior
4 16 (7.66%) Systems Analyst
5 14 (6.70%) Data Engineer
5 14 (6.70%) Junior
6 13 (6.22%) Data Manager
6 13 (6.22%) Planning Manager
7 11 (5.26%) Administrator
7 11 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (5.26%) SAP Manager
8 10 (4.78%) Senior Analyst
9 9 (4.31%) Analyst Developer
9 9 (4.31%) Architect
9 9 (4.31%) Data Architect
9 9 (4.31%) Data Migration Analyst
9 9 (4.31%) Financial Analyst
9 9 (4.31%) Support Analyst
9 9 (4.31%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.57%) .NET
2 18 (8.61%) CSS
2 18 (8.61%) HTML
3 12 (5.74%) Ajax
3 12 (5.74%) CSS3
3 12 (5.74%) HTML5
3 12 (5.74%) jQuery
3 12 (5.74%) LESS
3 12 (5.74%) Sass
4 11 (5.26%) REST
5 9 (4.31%) Django
5 9 (4.31%) FastAPI
5 9 (4.31%) Flask
6 8 (3.83%) JWT
6 8 (3.83%) OAuth
6 8 (3.83%) OpenAPI
6 8 (3.83%) Pandas
6 8 (3.83%) PyTorch
6 8 (3.83%) RESTful
6 8 (3.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.48%) Management Information System
2 14 (6.70%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.83%) Algorithms
4 8 (3.83%) Low-Code
5 7 (3.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.87%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.44%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.44%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.44%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.96%) EPoS
8 2 (0.96%) NHS
8 2 (0.96%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.48%) LIMS
9 1 (0.48%) Replication
9 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.44%) Android
1 3 (1.44%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.96%) Windows
2 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (36.84%) Validation
2 75 (35.89%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (34.93%) Migration
4 58 (27.75%) Data Migration
5 55 (26.32%) Visualisation
6 54 (25.84%) Business Intelligence
7 48 (22.97%) Decision-Making
8 47 (22.49%) Data Modelling
9 44 (21.05%) Data Visualisation
10 42 (20.10%) Analytics
10 42 (20.10%) ETL
11 41 (19.62%) ERP
12 38 (18.18%) AI
13 35 (16.75%) Data Analysis
14 32 (15.31%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (14.83%) CRM
16 30 (14.35%) Machine Learning
17 29 (13.88%) Data Management
18 27 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
18 27 (12.92%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 77 (36.84%) SQL
2 55 (26.32%) Python
3 23 (11.00%) JavaScript
4 13 (6.22%) C#
5 3 (1.44%) VBA
6 1 (0.48%) ABAP
6 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.48%) Java
6 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.48%) PROC SQL
6 1 (0.48%) R
6 1 (0.48%) SAS Macro
6 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (22.01%) Degree
2 16 (7.66%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.83%) ACCA
3 8 (3.83%) CIMA
3 8 (3.83%) HNC
4 7 (3.35%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.87%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.39%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.91%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (38.28%) Data Quality
2 24 (11.48%) GDPR
3 10 (4.78%) Good Clinical Practice
4 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.44%) QA
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.48%) PERC
5 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (3.83%) Docker
2 5 (2.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (4.31%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.44%) Terraform
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 51 (24.40%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.92%) SAP
3 19 (9.09%) Oracle
4 13 (6.22%) Workday
5 9 (4.31%) Cognos
5 9 (4.31%) IBM
6 8 (3.83%) Automation Anywhere
6 8 (3.83%) OpenAI
6 8 (3.83%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.83%) UiPath
7 7 (3.35%) Databricks
8 6 (2.87%) Google
8 6 (2.87%) Sage
9 1 (0.48%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.48%) Cisco
9 1 (0.48%) IFS
9 1 (0.48%) Informatica
9 1 (0.48%) Talend
9 1 (0.48%) Teradata