Data Munging (Data Wrangling)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Munging skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Munging over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 840 844 913
Rank change year-on-year +4 +69 -201
Permanent jobs citing Data Munging 74 120 328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.12% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.12% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 33 64 148
10th Percentile £38,850 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £55,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,938 £84,063
90th Percentile £81,250 £102,500 £103,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £61,750
% change year-on-year +9.52% -14.98% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Munging is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Munging in the UK

Data Munging
Top 8 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 5 May 2024. 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 +62 73 £57,500 +2.22% 28
London +125 52 £77,500 +31.91% 11
Work from Home +74 51 £51,853 -9.82% 19
UK excluding London -26 21 £57,500 +9.52% 20
West Midlands +21 13 £57,500 +9.52%
Midlands +18 13 £57,500 +9.52% 3
South East +28 6 £42,500 -8.60% 4
South West -29 2 £66,250 -17.19% 4

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 3 (4.05%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (18.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 26 (35.14%) Azure
2 23 (31.08%) Power Platform
3 12 (16.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 7 (9.46%) AWS
5 6 (8.11%) Snowflake
6 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.05%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.05%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.70%) GCP
7 2 (2.70%) SaaS
8 1 (1.35%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.35%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.35%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.35%) PaaS
8 1 (1.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.70%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (67.57%) Tableau
2 23 (31.08%) Power BI
3 6 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (5.41%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (2.70%) Looker
5 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.35%) Big Data
6 1 (1.35%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.35%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.35%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.35%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.35%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 39 (52.70%) Git
2 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.35%) JIRA
3 1 (1.35%) Spinnaker
3 1 (1.35%) Subversion
General
1 48 (64.86%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.11%) Finance
4 5 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.41%) Banking
5 4 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.05%) Multimedia
6 3 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Law
7 1 (1.35%) Legal
7 1 (1.35%) Local Government
7 1 (1.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 56 (75.68%) Senior
2 40 (54.05%) Data Scientist
3 36 (48.65%) Senior Data Scientist
4 17 (22.97%) Analyst
5 14 (18.92%) Data Analyst
6 12 (16.22%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (12.16%) Customer Analyst
7 9 (12.16%) Operations Analyst
7 9 (12.16%) Senior Data Analyst
7 9 (12.16%) Senior Operations Analyst
8 6 (8.11%) Data Engineer
9 5 (6.76%) Azure Data Engineer
9 5 (6.76%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Financial Analyst
10 4 (5.41%) Python Data Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Python Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Service Analyst
11 3 (4.05%) Developer
11 3 (4.05%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (48.65%) scikit-learn
1 36 (48.65%) TensorFlow
2 35 (47.30%) Pandas
2 35 (47.30%) PySpark
3 3 (4.05%) HTML5 Canvas
3 3 (4.05%) JSON
4 2 (2.70%) Matplotlib
4 2 (2.70%) Seaborn
5 1 (1.35%) Kafka
5 1 (1.35%) Keras
5 1 (1.35%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.35%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 38 (51.35%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.05%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.05%) Social Media
2 3 (4.05%) Taxonomies
2 3 (4.05%) Wiki
3 2 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.35%) Acoustics
4 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.35%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.05%) Windows
2 2 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (82.43%) Machine Learning
2 53 (71.62%) Data Science
3 48 (64.86%) Actionable Insight
4 43 (58.11%) Statistics
5 41 (55.41%) Visualisation
6 40 (54.05%) Artificial Intelligence
7 38 (51.35%) Decision-Making
7 38 (51.35%) Storytelling
8 37 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
8 37 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
9 36 (48.65%) Mathematics
10 35 (47.30%) Customer Experience
10 35 (47.30%) Demand Forecasting
10 35 (47.30%) Generative AI
10 35 (47.30%) MLOps
10 35 (47.30%) Neural Network
10 35 (47.30%) Physics
10 35 (47.30%) Propensity Modelling
10 35 (47.30%) Root Cause Analysis
10 35 (47.30%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 65 (87.84%) SQL
2 64 (86.49%) Python
3 6 (8.11%) Java
3 6 (8.11%) R
4 4 (5.41%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.70%) Bash
5 2 (2.70%) C++
5 2 (2.70%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.70%) Scala
6 1 (1.35%) C
Qualifications
1 53 (71.62%) Degree
2 37 (50.00%) DBS Check
3 35 (47.30%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.70%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.70%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.27%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.76%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.35%) Ansible
1 1 (1.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (71.62%) Databricks
2 19 (25.68%) Alteryx
3 16 (21.62%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.05%) Oracle
5 2 (2.70%) Blue Prism
5 2 (2.70%) Google
5 2 (2.70%) SAP
6 1 (1.35%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.35%) Hortonworks
6 1 (1.35%) Salesforce