Data Munging Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Munging (Data Wrangling)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 545 621
Rank change year-on-year +148 +76 +85
Permanent jobs citing Data Munging 16 44 50
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 12
10th Percentile £53,500 £33,375 -
25th Percentile £56,875 £41,250 £40,532
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,853 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.36% -5.72% -15.38%
75th Percentile £76,375 £70,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £81,700 - £62,125
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% - -4.17%

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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,938 31,020 41,026
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.13% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 23,575 28,496
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Data Munging
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Munging as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Munging trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Munging
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Munging.

Data Munging salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Munging
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Munging over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Data Munging salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Munging
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (6.25%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (68.75%) Tableau
2 4 (25.00%) Power Query
2 4 (25.00%) PowerPivot
3 2 (12.50%) Power BI
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) Git
General
1 13 (81.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Games
2 5 (31.25%) Marketing
3 4 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Data Scientist
1 10 (62.50%) Senior
1 10 (62.50%) Senior Data Scientist
2 9 (56.25%) Principal Data Scientist
3 4 (25.00%) Analytics Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Data Scientist
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) Pandas
1 9 (56.25%) PySpark
1 9 (56.25%) scikit-learn
1 9 (56.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Algorithms
1 9 (56.25%) Credit Risk
2 1 (6.25%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Decision-Making
2 14 (87.50%) Visualisation
3 11 (68.75%) Actionable Insight
3 11 (68.75%) Machine Learning
4 10 (62.50%) Customer Experience
4 10 (62.50%) Data Science
4 10 (62.50%) Statistics
4 10 (62.50%) Storytelling
5 9 (56.25%) Artificial Intelligence
5 9 (56.25%) Demand Forecasting
5 9 (56.25%) Generative AI
5 9 (56.25%) Mathematics
5 9 (56.25%) MLOps
5 9 (56.25%) Natural Language Processing
5 9 (56.25%) Neural Network
5 9 (56.25%) Physics
5 9 (56.25%) Predictive Modelling
5 9 (56.25%) Propensity Modelling
5 9 (56.25%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (56.25%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) SQL
2 15 (93.75%) Python
3 5 (31.25%) R
4 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) DBS Check
1 9 (56.25%) Degree
1 9 (56.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Databricks
2 4 (25.00%) Adobe
2 4 (25.00%) TikTok
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft