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

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 392 423
Rank change year-on-year +52 +31 +59
Contract jobs citing Data Munging 17 13 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.061% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.074% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 13
10th Percentile £507 £290 £469
25th Percentile £525 £330 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £675 £569 £530
90th Percentile - £744 £546
UK median daily rate £550 £518 £525
% change year-on-year +6.21% -1.36% -12.50%
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 12,263 17,517 20,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.50% 82.49% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,515 10,272 13,899
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £367 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,008 2,194 1,271
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.50 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.04 £38.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.32% +17.29% +54.76%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.60 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 24 June 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 24 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
East of England - 15 £650 - 3
South West - 1 £475 -
Wales - 1 - -
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 12 (70.59%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) Azure
2 12 (70.59%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (94.12%) Tableau
2 12 (70.59%) Big Data
2 12 (70.59%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
General
1 11 (64.71%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Developer
2 13 (76.47%) Data Science Developer
3 7 (41.18%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 6 (35.29%) Senior
4 6 (35.29%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Gen AI Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (88.24%) Matplotlib
1 15 (88.24%) PyTorch
1 15 (88.24%) scikit-learn
1 15 (88.24%) Seaborn
1 15 (88.24%) TensorFlow
2 14 (82.35%) NumPy
2 14 (82.35%) Pandas
3 1 (5.88%) Anaconda
Miscellaneous
1 14 (82.35%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) VMS
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Artificial Intelligence
1 16 (94.12%) Data Science
1 16 (94.12%) Machine Learning
1 16 (94.12%) Visualisation
2 15 (88.24%) Data Analysis
2 15 (88.24%) Generative AI
3 14 (82.35%) LLM
4 13 (76.47%) Analytics
4 13 (76.47%) Statistical Modelling
5 12 (70.59%) Data Analytics
5 12 (70.59%) Decision-Making
5 12 (70.59%) Predictive Analytics
5 12 (70.59%) Reinforcement Learning
5 12 (70.59%) Time Series Forecasting
6 11 (64.71%) Feature Engineering
7 10 (58.82%) Computer Science
8 1 (5.88%) Data Governance
8 1 (5.88%) Data Integration
8 1 (5.88%) Data Visualisation
8 1 (5.88%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Python
2 16 (94.12%) R
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Degree
1 10 (58.82%) Master's Degree
1 10 (58.82%) PhD
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (76.47%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Foundry
1 1 (5.88%) OpenAI
1 1 (5.88%) Palantir