Data Cleansing Contracts

Data Cleansing (Data Cleaning, Data Scrubbing)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Cleansing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Cleansing over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 428 463
Rank change year-on-year +58 +35 -39
Contract jobs citing Data Cleansing 221 270 437
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.47% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.53% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 178 302
10th Percentile £325 £325 £351
25th Percentile £356 £433 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £550 £619 £581
90th Percentile £674 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 9
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.83 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.61 £22.16 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% -13.10% -36.25%
75th Percentile £25.65 £22.40 £45.75
90th Percentile £31.86 £25.04 £55.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.49 £22.16 £17.50
% change year-on-year -25.59% +26.63% -59.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Cleansing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

Data Cleansing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Cleansing.

Daily rate trend for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Cleansing over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Cleansing.

Hourly rate trend for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Cleansing over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Cleansing in the UK

Data Cleansing
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Cleansing within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +71 186 £438 -16.67% 139
London +60 101 £425 -22.73% 57
Work from Home +91 92 £450 -14.29% 62
UK excluding London +60 89 £475 - 85
North of England +37 29 £475 +15.85% 18
North West +30 25 £475 +15.85% 10
South East +13 22 £365 -30.48% 14
Midlands +32 19 £425 -10.53% 19
West Midlands +28 14 £438 -7.89% 13
Scotland +42 10 £525 +5.00% 2
East Midlands +18 6 £383 -59.74% 6
East of England +13 6 £488 - 9
Yorkshire +14 4 £450 -12.20% 5
South West -9 3 £441 -7.11% 17

Data Cleansing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (8.60%) SAS
2 9 (4.07%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.81%) Apache
3 4 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.81%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.36%) Confluence
5 2 (0.90%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.45%) IIS
6 1 (0.45%) JBoss
6 1 (0.45%) WildFly
Applications
1 23 (10.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.71%) SPSS
3 5 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.26%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (8.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (1.81%) SAP FI
2 4 (1.81%) SAP PP
3 3 (1.36%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.36%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.36%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.36%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.36%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.90%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.90%) Movex
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.90%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.45%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.45%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.45%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 33 (14.93%) Power Platform
2 32 (14.48%) Azure
3 21 (9.50%) AWS
4 10 (4.52%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (4.07%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (4.07%) OCI
6 8 (3.62%) Power Automate
6 8 (3.62%) Snowflake
7 7 (3.17%) Collibra
7 7 (3.17%) GCP
8 6 (2.71%) Serverless
9 5 (2.26%) SaaS
10 4 (1.81%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.81%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.36%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.81%) Intranet
2 1 (0.45%) Internet
2 1 (0.45%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.93%) Power BI
2 25 (11.31%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (8.60%) Tableau
4 18 (8.14%) Data Lake
5 15 (6.79%) SQL Server
6 13 (5.88%) Data Mining
7 12 (5.43%) Qlik Sense
8 10 (4.52%) SAP Data Services
9 8 (3.62%) Ataccama
10 7 (3.17%) Big Data
11 5 (2.26%) BigQuery
11 5 (2.26%) Hadoop
11 5 (2.26%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.36%) Apache Hive
13 3 (1.36%) BusinessObjects
13 3 (1.36%) KDB
13 3 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (1.36%) SAP BW
13 3 (1.36%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (2.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (1.81%) ERwin
2 4 (1.81%) Git
2 4 (1.81%) JIRA
2 4 (1.81%) LSMW
3 3 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.45%) GitLab
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.45%) Toad
4 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (29.86%) Social Skills
2 60 (27.15%) Finance
3 50 (22.62%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.43%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.52%) Pharmaceutical
6 9 (4.07%) Banking
6 9 (4.07%) Marketing
6 9 (4.07%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.62%) Legal
8 7 (3.17%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.17%) Retail
9 6 (2.71%) Law
10 5 (2.26%) Local Government
11 4 (1.81%) Billing
11 4 (1.81%) Games
11 4 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.90%) Czech Language
13 2 (0.90%) French Language
Job Titles
1 77 (34.84%) Analyst
2 61 (27.60%) Data Analyst
3 27 (12.22%) Data Engineer
4 22 (9.95%) Consultant
5 17 (7.69%) Senior
6 15 (6.79%) Lead
7 13 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (4.98%) Architect
8 11 (4.98%) Developer
9 10 (4.52%) Business Analyst
10 9 (4.07%) Data Manager
10 9 (4.07%) Data Quality Analyst
10 9 (4.07%) Quality Analyst
11 7 (3.17%) Data Architect
11 7 (3.17%) Financial Analyst
11 7 (3.17%) Senior Data Analyst
11 7 (3.17%) SQL Analyst
11 7 (3.17%) SQL Data Analyst
12 6 (2.71%) Data Consultant
12 6 (2.71%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.52%) PySpark
2 9 (4.07%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (3.17%) REST
4 6 (2.71%) D3.js
5 5 (2.26%) HTML
5 5 (2.26%) Kafka
6 4 (1.81%) BAPI
6 4 (1.81%) CSS
6 4 (1.81%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.81%) Visualforce
7 2 (0.90%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.45%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.45%) EDI
8 1 (0.45%) IDoc
8 1 (0.45%) JSON
8 1 (0.45%) ODBC
8 1 (0.45%) Pandas
8 1 (0.45%) PostGIS
8 1 (0.45%) pytest
8 1 (0.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (4.98%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.71%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.26%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.81%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.36%) Freedom of Information
6 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.90%) FMCG
7 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.90%) NHS
7 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.17%) Windows
2 2 (0.90%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (31.22%) Migration
2 60 (27.15%) Data Analysis
3 58 (26.24%) Data Migration
4 48 (21.72%) Data Modelling
5 45 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (19.91%) Data Management
7 40 (18.10%) Analytics
7 40 (18.10%) ETL
8 37 (16.74%) Validation
9 36 (16.29%) Visualisation
10 35 (15.84%) Data Governance
11 34 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
12 23 (10.41%) Agile
13 20 (9.05%) Data Integration
13 20 (9.05%) Data Visualisation
14 19 (8.60%) ERP
15 18 (8.14%) Data Pipeline
16 17 (7.69%) Data Analytics
16 17 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
16 17 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 68 (30.77%) SQL
2 44 (19.91%) Python
3 13 (5.88%) R
4 6 (2.71%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.81%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.81%) Scala
6 3 (1.36%) Java
6 3 (1.36%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.36%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.36%) VBA
7 2 (0.90%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.45%) ABAP
8 1 (0.45%) Bash
8 1 (0.45%) C#
8 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (6.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.88%) Degree
3 12 (5.43%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.71%) ACCA
4 6 (2.71%) CIMA
4 6 (2.71%) PMP
5 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.90%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.90%) SAP Certification
5 2 (0.90%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.45%) CCA
6 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.45%) ECDL
6 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (37.10%) Data Quality
2 22 (9.95%) QA
3 6 (2.71%) GDPR
4 3 (1.36%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.36%) IFRS
5 2 (0.90%) PMO
5 2 (0.90%) SLA
6 1 (0.45%) CDISC
6 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.45%) GxP
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.45%) NIST
6 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (4.52%) Docker
2 4 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.90%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.45%) Grafana
2 1 (0.45%) Kibana
2 1 (0.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (19.00%) SAP
2 27 (12.22%) Oracle
3 22 (9.95%) Microsoft
4 20 (9.05%) Salesforce
5 14 (6.33%) Databricks
6 6 (2.71%) Alteryx
6 6 (2.71%) Dataiku
6 6 (2.71%) Trillium
7 4 (1.81%) Ariba
7 4 (1.81%) Embarcadero
7 4 (1.81%) Informatica
7 4 (1.81%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.36%) Concur
8 3 (1.36%) Google
8 3 (1.36%) Marketo
8 3 (1.36%) Pardot
9 2 (0.90%) Ceridian
9 2 (0.90%) Talend
9 2 (0.90%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.90%) Workday