Data Munging Contracts

Data Munging (Data Wrangling)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Munging skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Munging over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 660 719
Rank change year-on-year +99 +59 -113
Contract jobs citing Data Munging 21 52 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.086% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.096% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 30 64
10th Percentile £290 £404 £408
25th Percentile £350 £451 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £495 £590
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -16.14% +18.05%
75th Percentile £675 £536 £650
90th Percentile £733 £589 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -19.05% - +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £30.63 - £44.75
25th Percentile £31.03 - £47.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 - £53.00
75th Percentile £33.75 - £60.00
90th Percentile - - £62.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.37 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Munging is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,651 54,096 80,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,333 37,469 56,726
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,787 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.34 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%

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 24 April 2024.

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 7 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 24 April 2024. 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 +100 18 £518 +3.57% 35
Work from Home +112 9 £350 -33.33% 24
London +82 8 £496 +0.29% 16
UK excluding London +50 7 £425 -19.05% 20
South East +15 6 £425 -19.05% 4
Midlands +35 1 - - 3
West Midlands +29 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 10 (47.62%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (19.05%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.76%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) GCP
2 10 (47.62%) GitHub
2 10 (47.62%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 4 (19.05%) Serverless
4 3 (14.29%) Azure
4 3 (14.29%) Snowflake
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon Neptune
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (9.52%) PaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.76%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (76.19%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (57.14%) BigQuery
3 11 (52.38%) Data Lake
4 10 (47.62%) Metadata
5 4 (19.05%) Data Mining
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (14.29%) Big Data
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (9.52%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
7 2 (9.52%) Parquet
7 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (9.52%) Power Query
7 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
8 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
8 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
8 1 (4.76%) Neo4j
8 1 (4.76%) Power BI
8 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Deequ
1 2 (9.52%) kappa
General
1 9 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Czech Language
2 2 (9.52%) Retail
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (76.19%) Data Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) GCP Data Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Lead
2 3 (14.29%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Data Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 1 (4.76%) Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) .NET
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Avro
1 2 (9.52%) ARM Templates
1 2 (9.52%) Great Expectations
1 2 (9.52%) JSON
1 2 (9.52%) JSON Schema
1 2 (9.52%) PySpark
2 1 (4.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Digital Media
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Data Engineering
2 12 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 10 (47.62%) Data Science
4 8 (38.10%) Analytics
5 7 (33.33%) Data Modelling
6 6 (28.57%) Agile
6 6 (28.57%) DevOps
6 6 (28.57%) ETL
7 5 (23.81%) Data Analysis
7 5 (23.81%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (19.05%) Kimball Methodology
8 4 (19.05%) Migration
9 3 (14.29%) Scrum
9 3 (14.29%) SDLC
9 3 (14.29%) Visualisation
10 2 (9.52%) Data Visualisation
10 2 (9.52%) Natural Language Processing
10 2 (9.52%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 18 (85.71%) Python
2 15 (71.43%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Scala
4 2 (9.52%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) QA
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) Alteryx
2 2 (9.52%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow