Data Munging Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Munging (Data Wrangling)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 319 392 447
Rank change year-on-year +73 +55 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Munging 17 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.034% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.040% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 9
10th Percentile £525 - £411
25th Percentile £606 £290 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -19.05% -
75th Percentile £675 £702 £531
90th Percentile - £744 £561
UK median daily rate £560 £534 £490
% change year-on-year +4.88% +8.96% -16.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.37 -
UK median hourly rate - £32.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Munging
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Munging as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Munging in the UK excluding London

Data Munging
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Munging in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Munging in the UK excluding London

Data Munging
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Munging in the UK excluding London

Data Munging
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Munging in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Munging in the UK excluding London

Data Munging
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
East of England - 16 £650 - 24
South West - 1 £475 - 19
Data Munging
UK

Data Munging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (82.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) AWS
1 14 (82.35%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (100.00%) Tableau
2 14 (82.35%) Big Data
2 14 (82.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 12 (70.59%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) Developer
2 14 (82.35%) Data Science Developer
3 10 (58.82%) Senior
3 10 (58.82%) Senior Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Gen AI Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (94.12%) Matplotlib
1 16 (94.12%) NumPy
1 16 (94.12%) Pandas
1 16 (94.12%) PyTorch
1 16 (94.12%) scikit-learn
1 16 (94.12%) Seaborn
1 16 (94.12%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (94.12%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 17 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 16 (94.12%) Artificial Intelligence
2 16 (94.12%) Data Science
2 16 (94.12%) Generative AI
2 16 (94.12%) LLM
2 16 (94.12%) Machine Learning
3 15 (88.24%) Analytics
3 15 (88.24%) Data Analytics
3 15 (88.24%) Decision-Making
4 14 (82.35%) Predictive Analytics
4 14 (82.35%) Reinforcement Learning
4 14 (82.35%) Statistical Modelling
4 14 (82.35%) Time Series Forecasting
5 12 (70.59%) Computer Science
5 12 (70.59%) Feature Engineering
6 1 (5.88%) Actionable Insight
6 1 (5.88%) Data Integration
6 1 (5.88%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 1 (5.88%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Python
1 17 (100.00%) R
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) Degree
1 12 (70.59%) Master's Degree
1 12 (70.59%) PhD
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (94.12%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Foundry
1 1 (5.88%) OpenAI
1 1 (5.88%) Palantir