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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 423 519
Rank change year-on-year +15 +96 +129
Permanent jobs citing Data Cleansing 247 297 211
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.55% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.61% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 123 95 138
10th Percentile £28,200 £38,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £33,125 £48,125 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £83,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £72,250 £97,000 £77,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £56,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +12.00% -3.85%

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 48,096 48,629 50,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.07% 90.53% 89.95%
Number of salaries quoted 28,289 23,726 38,360
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Top 16 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 11 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
England +45 220 £42,500 -29.17% 103
UK excluding London +65 160 £42,000 -25.00% 97
South East +92 84 £50,000 +17.65% 36
London -5 67 £45,000 -40.00% 27
Midlands +15 41 £35,000 -41.67% 14
Work from Home -1 34 £45,000 -30.77% 49
West Midlands +23 25 £32,500 -45.83% 6
East Midlands -2 16 £40,000 -51.52% 8
North of England -7 15 £42,500 -22.58% 20
Yorkshire -13 9 £42,500 -29.17% 6
East of England +13 8 £41,250 -31.25% 9
Scotland 0 7 £42,000 -23.64% 6
North West -1 5 £53,000 -5.36% 11
South West +2 3 £45,000 -18.18% 12
Wales -1 2 £40,000 -39.62% 3
North East +3 1 £29,000 +16.00% 3

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 9 (3.64%) Appian
2 3 (1.21%) Moodle
2 3 (1.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 145 (58.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (9.72%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (4.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.43%) Sage 200
2 6 (2.43%) SAP CO
2 6 (2.43%) SAP FI
2 6 (2.43%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (1.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.81%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.81%) Raiser’s Edge
4 2 (0.81%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 75 (30.36%) Power Platform
2 57 (23.08%) Azure
3 12 (4.86%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (4.45%) Power Automate
5 10 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (3.64%) Anthropic Claude
6 9 (3.64%) Azure AI
6 9 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.24%) AWS
7 8 (3.24%) Snowflake
8 7 (2.83%) GCP
9 5 (2.02%) dbt
9 5 (2.02%) Zapier
10 3 (1.21%) SaaS
11 2 (0.81%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.81%) Workato
12 1 (0.40%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.40%) Collibra
12 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (29.96%) Power BI
2 37 (14.98%) Data Lake
3 35 (14.17%) SAP BW
4 34 (13.77%) Tableau
5 15 (6.07%) Data Mining
6 14 (5.67%) SQL Server
7 11 (4.45%) BigQuery
8 10 (4.05%) Metadata
8 10 (4.05%) Relational Database
8 10 (4.05%) Spotfire
9 9 (3.64%) Pinecone
10 8 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.43%) Power Query
11 6 (2.43%) SAP Data Services
12 3 (1.21%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (1.21%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.81%) DB2
13 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.64%) MLflow
2 5 (2.02%) Git
3 3 (1.21%) JIRA
4 2 (0.81%) LSMW
General
1 139 (56.28%) Social Skills
2 85 (34.41%) Finance
3 64 (25.91%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 17 (6.88%) Marketing
6 16 (6.48%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.26%) Manufacturing
8 12 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (4.86%) Legal
9 11 (4.45%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (4.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.43%) General Ledger
12 5 (2.02%) Retail
12 5 (2.02%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.62%) Electronics
14 3 (1.21%) Publishing
15 2 (0.81%) Banking
15 2 (0.81%) Law
15 2 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 67 (27.13%) Lead
2 57 (23.08%) Analyst
3 35 (14.17%) Data Analyst
4 29 (11.74%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 24 (9.72%) Junior
6 14 (5.67%) Trainee
7 13 (5.26%) Data Quality Analyst
7 13 (5.26%) Junior Analyst
7 13 (5.26%) Quality Analyst
8 12 (4.86%) Data Manager
9 11 (4.45%) Senior
10 10 (4.05%) Administrator
10 10 (4.05%) Data Insight Analyst
10 10 (4.05%) Insight Analyst
10 10 (4.05%) Insight Data Analyst
11 9 (3.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 9 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (3.64%) Support Officer
12 8 (3.24%) Data Engineer
13 7 (2.83%) Salesforce Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.26%) Pandas
2 12 (4.86%) Hugging Face
2 12 (4.86%) PyTorch
2 12 (4.86%) TensorFlow
3 9 (3.64%) Django
3 9 (3.64%) Faiss
3 9 (3.64%) FastAPI
3 9 (3.64%) Flask
3 9 (3.64%) JWT
3 9 (3.64%) NumPy
3 9 (3.64%) OAuth
3 9 (3.64%) OpenAPI
3 9 (3.64%) pytest
3 9 (3.64%) REST
3 9 (3.64%) RESTful
3 9 (3.64%) scikit-learn
3 9 (3.64%) Swagger
3 9 (3.64%) Web Services
4 5 (2.02%) PySpark
5 2 (0.81%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (4.86%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.64%) Low-Code
5 8 (3.24%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.43%) Reinsurance
7 5 (2.02%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.62%) Web Conferencing
9 3 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.21%) Blog
9 3 (1.21%) Podcast
10 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.81%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.40%) Social Media
11 1 (0.40%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.05%) Windows
2 2 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (39.68%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (35.22%) Data Modelling
3 84 (34.01%) ERP
4 78 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
5 67 (27.13%) Migration
6 66 (26.72%) Analytics
6 66 (26.72%) Validation
7 53 (21.46%) Data Analysis
8 51 (20.65%) Actionable Insight
9 50 (20.24%) Data Governance
10 42 (17.00%) Visualisation
11 36 (14.57%) Data Migration
11 36 (14.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 33 (13.36%) Decision-Making
13 31 (12.55%) Data Management
13 31 (12.55%) Master Data Management
14 30 (12.15%) CRM
14 30 (12.15%) ETL
15 29 (11.74%) Machine Learning
16 27 (10.93%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 81 (32.79%) SQL
2 48 (19.43%) Python
3 3 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (1.21%) R
4 2 (0.81%) Scala
4 2 (0.81%) VBA
5 1 (0.40%) ABAP
5 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.40%) Java
5 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (34.01%) Degree
2 7 (2.83%) ACCA
3 6 (2.43%) CIMA
4 5 (2.02%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.62%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (49.80%) Data Quality
2 19 (7.69%) QA
3 17 (6.88%) GDPR
4 10 (4.05%) Good Clinical Practice
5 4 (1.62%) PMO
6 3 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.81%) GMP
8 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (3.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (4.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 80 (32.39%) SAP
2 64 (25.91%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.10%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.64%) Automation Anywhere
4 9 (3.64%) OpenAI
4 9 (3.64%) UiPath
5 8 (3.24%) HubSpot
5 8 (3.24%) Oracle
6 7 (2.83%) Sage
7 6 (2.43%) Databricks
8 4 (1.62%) Cisco
9 3 (1.21%) Avid
10 2 (0.81%) Adobe
10 2 (0.81%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.81%) Workday
11 1 (0.40%) Apple
11 1 (0.40%) Foundry
11 1 (0.40%) Google
11 1 (0.40%) Informatica
11 1 (0.40%) Netezza