Data Munging Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Munging (Data Wrangling)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 298 336 460
Rank change year-on-year +38 +124 +99
Contract jobs citing Data Munging 6 9 17
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.059% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.067% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 9
10th Percentile - - £443
25th Percentile £510 £290 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £350 £525
Median % change year-on-year +48.57% -33.33% -13.58%
75th Percentile £545 £438 -
90th Percentile £554 £591 £538
UK median daily rate £560 £534 £490
% change year-on-year +4.88% +8.96% -16.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Munging
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Munging as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Munging trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Munging
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Munging.

Data Munging daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Munging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (50.00%) AWS CodeCommit
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (50.00%) Cloud9 IDE
3 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 3 (50.00%) Textract
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Science Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) NumPy
1 4 (66.67%) Pandas
1 4 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 4 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 4 (66.67%) TensorFlow
2 3 (50.00%) OpenCV
2 3 (50.00%) pydantic
2 3 (50.00%) SciPy
3 1 (16.67%) Matplotlib
3 1 (16.67%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Data Science
1 5 (83.33%) Visualisation
2 4 (66.67%) Decision-Making
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Vision
3 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Deep Learning
3 3 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 3 (50.00%) Statistical Inference
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 1 (16.67%) Business Forecasting
5 1 (16.67%) DataOps
5 1 (16.67%) Feature Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Gradient Boosting
5 1 (16.67%) Pricing Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 2 (33.33%) PhD
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce