Data Munging Contracts in England

Data Munging (Data Wrangling)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Munging skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Munging over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 523 612
Rank change year-on-year +74 +89 +64
Contract jobs citing Data Munging 36 19 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.051% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.059% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 14 24
10th Percentile £461 £290 £389
25th Percentile £510 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £534 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +6.79% -16.00%
75th Percentile £675 £656 £538
90th Percentile - £727 £576
UK median daily rate £560 £534 £490
% change year-on-year +4.88% +8.96% -16.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.44 -
UK median hourly rate - £32.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Munging falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Munging as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Munging in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Munging in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Munging in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Munging in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Munging in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Munging within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +48 19 £520 +0.41% 29
East of England - 16 £650 - 24
South West - 1 £475 - 19
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Data Munging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (38.89%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.56%) Apache
2 2 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (80.56%) AWS
2 21 (58.33%) Azure
3 10 (27.78%) Amazon S3
4 9 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 9 (25.00%) AWS CodeCommit
4 9 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (25.00%) Cloud9 IDE
4 9 (25.00%) Serverless
4 9 (25.00%) Textract
5 7 (19.44%) GCP
6 4 (11.11%) Snowflake
7 2 (5.56%) GitHub
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (58.33%) Tableau
2 14 (38.89%) Big Data
2 14 (38.89%) Hadoop
3 9 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (22.22%) Oracle Database
5 5 (13.89%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (5.56%) BigQuery
7 2 (5.56%) Looker
7 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (2.78%) Data Mining
8 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
8 1 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Git
General
1 12 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.33%) Finance
4 3 (8.33%) Military
4 3 (8.33%) Retail
5 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
6 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Developer
2 15 (41.67%) Senior
3 14 (38.89%) Data Science Developer
4 12 (33.33%) Senior Developer
5 10 (27.78%) Data Scientist
6 7 (19.44%) Analyst
7 6 (16.67%) Data Analyst
8 4 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 2 (5.56%) Architect
9 2 (5.56%) Business Data Analyst
9 2 (5.56%) Data Architect
9 2 (5.56%) Gen AI Developer
9 2 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (5.56%) Senior Architect
9 2 (5.56%) Senior Data Architect
9 2 (5.56%) Snowflake Developer
10 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Engineer
10 1 (2.78%) Business Analyst
10 1 (2.78%) Business Architect
10 1 (2.78%) Legal Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (69.44%) NumPy
1 25 (69.44%) Pandas
1 25 (69.44%) PyTorch
1 25 (69.44%) scikit-learn
1 25 (69.44%) TensorFlow
2 16 (44.44%) Matplotlib
2 16 (44.44%) Seaborn
3 9 (25.00%) OpenCV
3 9 (25.00%) pydantic
3 9 (25.00%) SciPy
4 1 (2.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (47.22%) Algorithms
2 6 (16.67%) Data Structures
3 4 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (86.11%) Visualisation
2 27 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 26 (72.22%) Data Science
4 23 (63.89%) Decision-Making
5 22 (61.11%) Machine Learning
6 21 (58.33%) Data Analysis
7 19 (52.78%) Analytics
8 18 (50.00%) Data Analytics
9 16 (44.44%) Generative AI
9 16 (44.44%) LLM
9 16 (44.44%) Statistical Modelling
10 15 (41.67%) Time Series Forecasting
11 14 (38.89%) Predictive Analytics
11 14 (38.89%) Reinforcement Learning
12 12 (33.33%) Computer Science
12 12 (33.33%) Feature Engineering
13 9 (25.00%) Computer Vision
13 9 (25.00%) Data Modelling
13 9 (25.00%) Deep Learning
13 9 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 32 (88.89%) Python
2 20 (55.56%) R
2 20 (55.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) Degree
1 12 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 12 (33.33%) PhD
2 10 (27.78%) SC Cleared
2 10 (27.78%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) SnowPro
3 2 (5.56%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (58.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (8.33%) Foundry
2 3 (8.33%) Palantir
3 2 (5.56%) Google
3 2 (5.56%) Informatica
3 2 (5.56%) Talend
4 1 (2.78%) Aderant
4 1 (2.78%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.78%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce