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

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 550 643
Rank change year-on-year +40 +93 +110
Contract jobs citing Data Munging 29 30 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.097% 0.069% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.081% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 30
10th Percentile £415 £290 £381
25th Percentile £488 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £518 £523
Median % change year-on-year +8.14% -0.89% -12.92%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £536
90th Percentile - £699 £540
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +27.45% -2.86% -
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 27,318 37,049 49,725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.00% 84.91% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,274 23,584 34,309
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,292 2,612 1,701
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.70 £11.50
25th Percentile £17.75 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £38.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -34.22% +17.29% +54.76%

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 23 June 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 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 23 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
England +73 27 £575 +11.03% 150
UK excluding London +41 15 £650 +27.45% 78
London +57 13 £525 +5.76% 95
East of England - 13 £650 - 8
Work from Home +21 5 £505 +26.25% 71
South West - 1 £475 - 3
Wales - 1 - - 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 11 (37.93%) Apache Spark
2 3 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (6.90%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (68.97%) Azure
2 18 (62.07%) AWS
3 8 (27.59%) GCP
4 6 (20.69%) Snowflake
5 3 (10.34%) GitHub
5 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (65.52%) Tableau
2 11 (37.93%) Big Data
2 11 (37.93%) Hadoop
3 7 (24.14%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (13.79%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (10.34%) Power BI
6 2 (6.90%) BigQuery
6 2 (6.90%) Looker
6 2 (6.90%) Power Query
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
7 1 (3.45%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (3.45%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
General
1 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Finance
4 3 (10.34%) Retail
5 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.45%) Legal
6 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Developer
2 11 (37.93%) Data Science Developer
2 11 (37.93%) Senior
3 10 (34.48%) Analyst
4 9 (31.03%) Data Analyst
5 8 (27.59%) Senior Developer
6 5 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Business Data Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Data Scientist
7 2 (6.90%) Gen AI Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Power BI Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Data Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Snowflake Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (48.28%) Matplotlib
1 14 (48.28%) NumPy
1 14 (48.28%) Pandas
2 13 (44.83%) PyTorch
2 13 (44.83%) scikit-learn
2 13 (44.83%) Seaborn
2 13 (44.83%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.45%) Anaconda
3 1 (3.45%) JSON
3 1 (3.45%) Kafka
3 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (44.83%) Algorithms
2 6 (20.69%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) FMCG
4 1 (3.45%) IoT
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) VMS
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) Data Analysis
1 21 (72.41%) Visualisation
2 20 (68.97%) Decision-Making
3 19 (65.52%) Analytics
4 18 (62.07%) Artificial Intelligence
5 17 (58.62%) Machine Learning
6 16 (55.17%) Data Science
7 15 (51.72%) Data Analytics
8 13 (44.83%) Generative AI
8 13 (44.83%) LLM
9 12 (41.38%) Statistical Modelling
9 12 (41.38%) Time Series Forecasting
10 11 (37.93%) Predictive Analytics
10 11 (37.93%) Reinforcement Learning
11 9 (31.03%) Computer Science
11 9 (31.03%) Data Modelling
11 9 (31.03%) Feature Engineering
12 8 (27.59%) Actionable Insight
13 6 (20.69%) Business Intelligence
13 6 (20.69%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 25 (86.21%) Python
2 17 (58.62%) R
3 16 (55.17%) SQL
4 2 (6.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Degree
1 10 (34.48%) Master's Degree
1 10 (34.48%) PhD
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) SnowPro
3 2 (6.90%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (55.17%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.34%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
1 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Foundry
1 3 (10.34%) Palantir
2 2 (6.90%) Google
2 2 (6.90%) Informatica
2 2 (6.90%) Talend
3 1 (3.45%) Aderant
3 1 (3.45%) Databricks
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce