Data Munging Contracts in Scotland

Data Munging (Data Wrangling)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 - 159
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing Data Munging 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% - 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% - 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £518 £525
% change year-on-year +6.21% -1.36% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,569 1,780 2,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 92.29% 86.96% 92.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 886 1,093 1,708
10th Percentile £255 £213 £254
25th Percentile £368 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £453 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -4.63% -
75th Percentile £538 £558 £550
90th Percentile £600 £644 £625
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.57% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 90 62
10th Percentile £16.43 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.13 £12.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.55 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +28.21% -59.27%
75th Percentile £25.15 £46.24 £34.38
90th Percentile £50.48 £60.93 £60.40
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Data Munging
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Munging in Scotland

Data Munging
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Munging in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Edinburgh - 3 £425 - 10
Data Munging
UK

Data Munging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kibana
2 1 (33.33%) logstash