Data Munging Contract Job Trends in the South East

Data Munging (Data Wrangling)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data Munging skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 - 200
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Contract jobs citing Data Munging 1 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.018% - 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £525
75th Percentile £538 - £659
90th Percentile - - £744
England median daily rate £508 £600 £518
% change year-on-year -15.42% +15.86% +5.68%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,578 2,738 4,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.31% 91.76% 86.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,989 1,756 2,862
10th Percentile £285 £257 £225
25th Percentile £410 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% +0.90% -0.20%
75th Percentile £613 £608 £615
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 156 428
10th Percentile £15.59 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.97 £16.95 £18.32
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.35% -36.67% -2.70%
75th Percentile £81.00 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.71% -11.83%

Data Munging
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Munging relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Data Munging job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Munging
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Munging.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Munging

Data Munging
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 4 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire - 1 £525 - 1
Thames Valley - 1 £525 - 1
Data Munging
England

Data Munging
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL