Data Munging Job Trends in the South East

Data Munging (Data Wrangling)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data Munging skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 305 291
Rank change year-on-year +44 -14 +124
Permanent jobs citing Data Munging 9 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.087% 0.011% 0.045%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.013% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £40,420
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +23.70% -32.63%
75th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £42,710
90th Percentile £52,250 - -
England median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.00% +8.70% -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,324 7,915 7,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.21% 88.16% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,975 3,773 5,421
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Munging
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Data Munging job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Munging
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Munging.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Munging

Data Munging
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Munging within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 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
Thames Valley +17 8 £42,500 -15.00% 4
Berkshire -2 6 - - 4
Buckinghamshire - 1 £42,500 -
Hampshire - 1 £52,500 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £42,500 -
Data Munging
England

Data Munging
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) SaaS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (22.22%) dbt
2 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (22.22%) Fivetran
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (22.22%) Google Data Studio
2 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Metadata
2 3 (33.33%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
3 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (22.22%) Looker
3 2 (22.22%) Power BI
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 2 (22.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Marketing
3 2 (22.22%) Retail
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Science Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Hugging Face
1 3 (33.33%) scikit-learn
2 2 (22.22%) NumPy
2 2 (22.22%) Pandas
3 1 (11.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Life Science
2 3 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Analytics
2 7 (77.78%) Data Science
3 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 6 (66.67%) Biomedicine
3 6 (66.67%) Biotechnology
3 6 (66.67%) Data Management
3 6 (66.67%) Data Stewardship
3 6 (66.67%) Hematology
3 6 (66.67%) Immunology
3 6 (66.67%) Metadata Management
3 6 (66.67%) Process Improvement
4 3 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (33.33%) Change Management
4 3 (33.33%) Customer Insight
4 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 3 (33.33%) Data Sharing
4 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) A/B Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Segmentation Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Alteryx
1 2 (22.22%) Google
1 2 (22.22%) HubSpot
1 2 (22.22%) OpenAI
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
1 2 (22.22%) Talend
1 2 (22.22%) Zoho