Data Munging Contracts

Data Munging (Data Wrangling)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 482 560 669
Rank change year-on-year +78 +109 +54
Contract jobs citing Data Munging 38 22 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.051% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.059% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 14 29
10th Percentile £463 £290 £401
25th Percentile £510 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £534 £490
Median % change year-on-year +4.88% +8.96% -16.98%
75th Percentile £675 £656 £531
90th Percentile - £727 £558
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +52.94% -19.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £32.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £30.37 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Data Munging
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Munging in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Munging in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Munging in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Munging.

Hourly rate trend for Data Munging in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

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 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
England +74 36 £575 +7.69% 30
London +48 19 £520 +0.41% 23
UK excluding London +73 17 £650 +52.94% 9
East of England - 16 £650 -
Work from Home +38 6 £520 +48.57% 16
South West - 1 £475 - 1

Data Munging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (36.84%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.26%) Apache
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 30 (78.95%) AWS
2 21 (55.26%) Azure
3 11 (28.95%) Amazon S3
4 10 (26.32%) Amazon SageMaker
4 10 (26.32%) AWS CodeCommit
4 10 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (26.32%) Cloud9 IDE
4 10 (26.32%) Serverless
4 10 (26.32%) Textract
5 7 (18.42%) GCP
6 4 (10.53%) Snowflake
7 2 (5.26%) GitHub
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (55.26%) Tableau
2 14 (36.84%) Big Data
2 14 (36.84%) Hadoop
3 10 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (23.68%) Oracle Database
5 5 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (10.53%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (5.26%) BigQuery
7 2 (5.26%) Looker
7 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.63%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (2.63%) Data Mining
8 1 (2.63%) Delta Lake
8 1 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Git
General
1 12 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.89%) Finance
4 3 (7.89%) Military
4 3 (7.89%) Retail
5 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.63%) Legal
6 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (47.37%) Developer
2 15 (39.47%) Senior
3 14 (36.84%) Data Science Developer
4 12 (31.58%) Data Scientist
4 12 (31.58%) Senior Developer
5 7 (18.42%) Analyst
6 6 (15.79%) Data Analyst
7 4 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Business Data Analyst
8 2 (5.26%) Data Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Gen AI Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Data Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Snowflake Developer
9 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Business Analyst
9 1 (2.63%) Business Architect
9 1 (2.63%) Legal Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (68.42%) NumPy
1 26 (68.42%) Pandas
1 26 (68.42%) PyTorch
1 26 (68.42%) scikit-learn
1 26 (68.42%) TensorFlow
2 16 (42.11%) Matplotlib
2 16 (42.11%) Seaborn
3 10 (26.32%) OpenCV
3 10 (26.32%) pydantic
3 10 (26.32%) SciPy
4 1 (2.63%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (44.74%) Algorithms
2 6 (15.79%) Data Structures
3 4 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (86.84%) Visualisation
2 29 (76.32%) Artificial Intelligence
3 28 (73.68%) Data Science
4 24 (63.16%) Decision-Making
5 23 (60.53%) Machine Learning
6 22 (57.89%) Data Analysis
7 20 (52.63%) Analytics
8 18 (47.37%) Data Analytics
9 16 (42.11%) Generative AI
9 16 (42.11%) LLM
9 16 (42.11%) Statistical Modelling
10 15 (39.47%) Time Series Forecasting
11 14 (36.84%) Predictive Analytics
11 14 (36.84%) Reinforcement Learning
12 12 (31.58%) Computer Science
12 12 (31.58%) Feature Engineering
13 10 (26.32%) Computer Vision
13 10 (26.32%) Deep Learning
13 10 (26.32%) Natural Language Processing
13 10 (26.32%) Statistical Inference
Programming Languages
1 34 (89.47%) Python
2 22 (57.89%) SQL
3 20 (52.63%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) Degree
1 13 (34.21%) Master's Degree
1 13 (34.21%) PhD
2 11 (28.95%) Security Cleared
3 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) SnowPro
4 2 (5.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (55.26%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.89%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Oracle
2 3 (7.89%) Foundry
2 3 (7.89%) Palantir
3 2 (5.26%) Google
3 2 (5.26%) Informatica
3 2 (5.26%) Talend
4 1 (2.63%) Aderant
4 1 (2.63%) Databricks
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce