Data Munging Jobs

Data Munging (Data Wrangling)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Data Munging skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Munging over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 682 831 851
Rank change year-on-year +149 +20 +35
Permanent jobs citing Data Munging 26 83 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.081% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.096% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8 32 59
10th Percentile £50,125 £38,550 £47,973
25th Percentile £57,813 £49,383 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -0.27%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £80,625
90th Percentile £70,500 £81,250 £103,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -9.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,417 86,448 93,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.74% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,323 60,550 54,986
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

Data Munging
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Munging as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Munging in the UK

Data Munging
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Munging.

Salary trend for Data Munging in the UK

Data Munging
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Munging over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Munging in the UK

Data Munging
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Munging within the UK over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. 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
England +120 26 £60,000 +4.35% 113
London +56 18 £75,000 -3.23% 28
Work from Home +72 15 £58,750 +13.30% 36
UK excluding London +182 7 £60,000 +4.35% 103
South East +96 3 £60,000 +41.18% 30
Midlands +50 2 £65,000 +13.04% 17
West Midlands +46 2 £65,000 +13.04% 10
South West +116 1 £50,000 -24.53% 10
East of England - 1 £65,000 - 12

Data Munging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.85%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Power Platform
2 5 (19.23%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) Azure
3 4 (15.38%) Adobe Analytics
4 3 (11.54%) GCP
4 3 (11.54%) Snowflake
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CodeCommit
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud9 IDE
6 1 (3.85%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) Tableau
2 6 (23.08%) Power BI
3 4 (15.38%) Power Query
3 4 (15.38%) PowerPivot
4 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (11.54%) Metadata
5 2 (7.69%) Big Data
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Git
General
1 15 (57.69%) Social Skills
2 11 (42.31%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (34.62%) Marketing
4 6 (23.08%) Finance
5 5 (19.23%) Games
6 4 (15.38%) Retail
7 1 (3.85%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Senior
2 10 (38.46%) Data Scientist
3 9 (34.62%) Principal Data Scientist
3 9 (34.62%) Senior Data Scientist
4 6 (23.08%) Data Engineer
5 5 (19.23%) Analyst
6 4 (15.38%) Analytics Manager
7 2 (7.69%) Data Analyst
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Data Analyst
8 1 (3.85%) Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Business Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Business Data Analyst
8 1 (3.85%) Data Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Python Data Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Python Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Senior Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (46.15%) Pandas
2 11 (42.31%) PySpark
3 10 (38.46%) scikit-learn
3 10 (38.46%) TensorFlow
4 3 (11.54%) NumPy
5 1 (3.85%) OpenCV
5 1 (3.85%) pydantic
5 1 (3.85%) PyTorch
5 1 (3.85%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Algorithms
2 9 (34.62%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (88.46%) Visualisation
2 19 (73.08%) Decision-Making
3 14 (53.85%) Actionable Insight
3 14 (53.85%) Analytics
4 13 (50.00%) Data Science
5 11 (42.31%) Machine Learning
6 10 (38.46%) Artificial Intelligence
6 10 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (38.46%) Natural Language Processing
7 9 (34.62%) Demand Forecasting
7 9 (34.62%) Mathematics
7 9 (34.62%) MLOps
7 9 (34.62%) Neural Network
7 9 (34.62%) Physics
7 9 (34.62%) Predictive Modelling
7 9 (34.62%) Propensity Modelling
7 9 (34.62%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (34.62%) Statistics
7 9 (34.62%) Storytelling
7 9 (34.62%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 25 (96.15%) Python
2 24 (92.31%) SQL
3 5 (19.23%) R
4 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) Degree
2 9 (34.62%) DBS Check
2 9 (34.62%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Databricks
2 4 (15.38%) Adobe
2 4 (15.38%) TikTok
3 3 (11.54%) YouTube
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.85%) Google
5 1 (3.85%) Informatica
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle
5 1 (3.85%) Talend