Hybrid/Remote Data Munging Contract Job Trends

Data Munging (Data Wrangling)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Munging skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 313 373
Rank change year-on-year +12 +60 +154
Contract jobs citing Data Munging 16 4 8
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 0.034% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.038% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 6
10th Percentile £350 £393 £423
25th Percentile £489 £398 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -12.20% +13.89%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £534
90th Percentile £581 £578 £544
UK median daily rate £508 £612 £525
% change year-on-year -17.08% +16.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £15.52
UK median hourly rate - - £15.52

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 9,307 10,398 15,211
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.96% 89.03% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,155 6,534 10,383
10th Percentile £330 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 212 370
10th Percentile £15.27 £17.58 £19.91
25th Percentile £20.47 £22.00 £27.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.86% -30.84% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.63 £71.44
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.85
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.88% +25.29%

Data Munging
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Munging and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data Munging job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Munging
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Munging.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Munging

Data Munging
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Munging over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Data Munging daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data Munging
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 3 (18.75%) GitHub
3 3 (18.75%) Serverless
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.25%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (18.75%) MySQL
2 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
2 3 (18.75%) RDBMS
2 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 3 (18.75%) Tableau
3 2 (12.50%) Big Data
3 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (12.50%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 2 (12.50%) QGIS
3 2 (12.50%) Spatial Data
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
4 1 (6.25%) KDB
4 1 (6.25%) Kdb+
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
1 3 (18.75%) PyCharm
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Data Science Developer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) KDB Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) Pandas
2 10 (62.50%) NumPy
3 7 (43.75%) scikit-learn
4 6 (37.50%) TensorFlow
5 3 (18.75%) Matplotlib
5 3 (18.75%) Plotly
5 3 (18.75%) PyTorch
6 2 (12.50%) Dask
6 2 (12.50%) GeoJSON
6 2 (12.50%) GeoPandas
6 2 (12.50%) PostGIS
6 2 (12.50%) Seaborn
6 2 (12.50%) Statsmodels
6 2 (12.50%) Streamlit
6 2 (12.50%) XGBoost
7 1 (6.25%) ADO
7 1 (6.25%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Algorithms
2 2 (12.50%) Clustering
2 2 (12.50%) Online Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Equities
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Data Science
1 14 (87.50%) Machine Learning
2 11 (68.75%) AI
3 9 (56.25%) Analytics
4 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (43.75%) Feature Engineering
5 7 (43.75%) LLM
6 6 (37.50%) Natural Language Processing
6 6 (37.50%) Use Case
6 6 (37.50%) Visualisation
7 5 (31.25%) Data Analysis
7 5 (31.25%) Data Governance
7 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
8 4 (25.00%) Agile
8 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
8 4 (25.00%) Data Security
8 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
8 4 (25.00%) MLOps
8 4 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
8 4 (25.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) R
4 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 2 (12.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks