Data Munging Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Munging (Data Wrangling)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 454 547
Rank change year-on-year +117 +93 -90
Contract jobs citing Data Munging 9 17 73
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.066% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.074% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 35
10th Percentile - £453 £453
25th Percentile £290 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £525 £608
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -13.58% +31.35%
75th Percentile £438 - £700
90th Percentile £591 £538 £750
UK median daily rate £534 £495 £590
% change year-on-year +7.86% -16.14% +18.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,390 22,975 40,674
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.75% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,954 16,256 29,514
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 528 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.00 £30.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Data Munging
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Munging as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Munging trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Munging
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Munging.

Data Munging daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Munging
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Munging over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Data Munging daily rate histogram 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 6 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) GCP
2 6 (66.67%) GitHub
2 6 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (22.22%) PaaS
3 2 (22.22%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) BigQuery
1 8 (88.89%) Data Lake
1 8 (88.89%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (66.67%) Metadata
3 2 (22.22%) Data Mining
4 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 1 (11.11%) Parquet
4 1 (11.11%) Power Query
4 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Deequ
General
1 6 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Czech Language
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) GCP Data Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Avro
1 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
1 1 (11.11%) Great Expectations
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) JSON Schema
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Data Engineering
1 8 (88.89%) Data Science
2 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 6 (66.67%) DevOps
4 5 (55.56%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (33.33%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) Analytics
5 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (33.33%) ETL
6 2 (22.22%) Batch Processing
6 2 (22.22%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (22.22%) Data Extraction
6 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
6 2 (22.22%) Natural Language Processing
6 2 (22.22%) Open Source
6 2 (22.22%) Scrum
6 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
7 1 (11.11%) Exploratory Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Scala
3 2 (22.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Databricks