Data Munging Job Trends in England

Data Munging (Data Wrangling)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Munging skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 662 643
Rank change year-on-year +88 -19 +247
Permanent jobs citing Data Munging 26 14 23
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.050% 0.028% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.031% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 17 8 20
10th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £48,138
25th Percentile £41,250 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% -2.08% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,938 £80,313
90th Percentile £92,000 £91,925 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £58,750 £58,750
% change year-on-year -10.64% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Data Munging falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,728 44,744 41,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.15% 90.24% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 25,461 22,347 32,089
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Munging
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Munging relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Data Munging job vacancy trend in England

Data Munging
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Munging.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Munging

Data Munging
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Munging in England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Munging in England

Data Munging
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Munging within the England region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +35 10 £47,500 -5.00% 7
London +30 8 £52,500 -34.38% 11
East of England +26 4 £42,500 -34.62% 1
North of England +26 2 £95,000 +13.77% 2
North West - 2 £95,000 - 2
Midlands +20 1 £60,000 +2.13% 3
West Midlands +17 1 £60,000 +2.13% 2
South West - 1 £42,500 - 1
Data Munging
UK

Data Munging
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 3 (11.54%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) Azure
2 13 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 10 (38.46%) Azure Machine Learning
4 9 (34.62%) AWS
5 7 (26.92%) GCP
6 5 (19.23%) SaaS
7 4 (15.38%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (15.38%) dbt
7 4 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (15.38%) Fivetran
7 4 (15.38%) GitHub
7 4 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (15.38%) Google Data Studio
7 4 (15.38%) Snowflake
8 2 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (7.69%) Dagster
8 2 (7.69%) Prefect
9 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) Power BI
2 8 (30.77%) Tableau
3 6 (23.08%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (23.08%) Metadata
4 4 (15.38%) BigQuery
4 4 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (15.38%) Looker
4 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
5 3 (11.54%) Big Data
5 3 (11.54%) Hadoop
5 3 (11.54%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
General
1 20 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 13 (50.00%) Finance
3 10 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (23.08%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (15.38%) Marketing
5 4 (15.38%) Retail
6 2 (7.69%) Games
6 2 (7.69%) Legal
7 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Senior
2 6 (23.08%) Operations Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Data Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Data Science Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Manager
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Python Data Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Python Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Data Science Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Data Scientist
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) scikit-learn
2 7 (26.92%) NumPy
2 7 (26.92%) Pandas
3 5 (19.23%) Hugging Face
4 4 (15.38%) TensorFlow
5 3 (11.54%) Matplotlib
5 3 (11.54%) PyTorch
5 3 (11.54%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 12 (46.15%) Algorithms
2 6 (23.08%) Life Science
3 5 (19.23%) Onboarding
4 2 (7.69%) Client/Server
4 2 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) Analytics
2 18 (69.23%) Data Science
3 17 (65.38%) Machine Learning
4 13 (50.00%) ETL
5 12 (46.15%) Visualisation
6 11 (42.31%) Data Management
7 10 (38.46%) AI
7 10 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (38.46%) DevOps
8 9 (34.62%) Decision-Making
8 9 (34.62%) Statistical Modelling
9 8 (30.77%) Agile
9 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
9 8 (30.77%) Data Visualisation
10 7 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (26.92%) Data Analysis
10 7 (26.92%) MLOps
11 6 (23.08%) Biotechnology
11 6 (23.08%) Data Stewardship
11 6 (23.08%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 20 (76.92%) Python
2 17 (65.38%) SQL
3 4 (15.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (11.54%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (53.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Alteryx
2 4 (15.38%) Google
2 4 (15.38%) HubSpot
2 4 (15.38%) OpenAI
2 4 (15.38%) Salesforce
2 4 (15.38%) Talend
2 4 (15.38%) Zoho