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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 531 583
Rank change year-on-year +70 +52 +106
Contract jobs citing Data Munging 27 24 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.064% 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.075% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 28
10th Percentile £414 £290 £381
25th Percentile £475 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £518 £520
Median % change year-on-year +11.03% -0.41% -13.33%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £530
90th Percentile - £699 £540
UK median daily rate £560 £518 £523
% change year-on-year +8.14% -0.89% -12.92%
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 22,816 32,099 42,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.35% 85.18% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,745 20,761 29,621
10th Percentile £300 £303 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,095 2,397 1,542
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £15.66
Median hourly rate £26.45 £38.12 £35.02
Median % change year-on-year -30.61% +8.87% +36.35%
75th Percentile £55.13 £61.50 £64.50
90th Percentile £74.50 £72.50 £75.74
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +51 13 £525 +5.76% 106
East of England - 13 £650 - 13
South West - 1 £475 - 6
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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 11 (40.74%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.41%) Apache
2 2 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (70.37%) Azure
2 18 (66.67%) AWS
3 8 (29.63%) GCP
4 6 (22.22%) Snowflake
5 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.41%) GitHub
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (70.37%) Tableau
2 11 (40.74%) Big Data
2 11 (40.74%) Hadoop
3 7 (25.93%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (14.81%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (11.11%) Power BI
6 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
6 2 (7.41%) Looker
6 2 (7.41%) Power Query
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (3.70%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (3.70%) Delta Lake
7 1 (3.70%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (3.70%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 9 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
4 3 (11.11%) Retail
5 2 (7.41%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.70%) Legal
6 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Developer
2 11 (40.74%) Data Science Developer
2 11 (40.74%) Senior
3 10 (37.04%) Analyst
4 9 (33.33%) Data Analyst
5 8 (29.63%) Senior Developer
6 5 (18.52%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Business Data Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Data Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Gen AI Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Power BI Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Snowflake Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) Matplotlib
1 14 (51.85%) NumPy
1 14 (51.85%) Pandas
2 13 (48.15%) PyTorch
2 13 (48.15%) scikit-learn
2 13 (48.15%) Seaborn
2 13 (48.15%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.70%) JSON
3 1 (3.70%) Kafka
3 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (48.15%) Algorithms
2 6 (22.22%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) FMCG
3 1 (3.70%) IoT
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Data Analysis
1 20 (74.07%) Visualisation
2 19 (70.37%) Decision-Making
3 18 (66.67%) Analytics
4 16 (59.26%) Artificial Intelligence
5 15 (55.56%) Data Analytics
5 15 (55.56%) Machine Learning
6 14 (51.85%) Data Science
7 13 (48.15%) Generative AI
7 13 (48.15%) LLM
8 12 (44.44%) Statistical Modelling
8 12 (44.44%) Time Series Forecasting
9 11 (40.74%) Predictive Analytics
9 11 (40.74%) Reinforcement Learning
10 9 (33.33%) Computer Science
10 9 (33.33%) Data Modelling
10 9 (33.33%) Feature Engineering
11 8 (29.63%) Actionable Insight
12 6 (22.22%) Data Governance
12 6 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 23 (85.19%) Python
2 17 (62.96%) R
3 14 (51.85%) SQL
4 2 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Degree
1 9 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 9 (33.33%) PhD
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) SnowPro
3 2 (7.41%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (59.26%) Data Quality
2 3 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Foundry
1 3 (11.11%) Palantir
2 2 (7.41%) Google
2 2 (7.41%) Informatica
2 2 (7.41%) Talend
3 1 (3.70%) Aderant
3 1 (3.70%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce