Data Munging Contracts

Data Munging (Data Wrangling)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Munging skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Munging over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 547 647 744
Rank change year-on-year +100 +97 -112
Contract jobs citing Data Munging 23 43 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.076% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.085% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 61
10th Percentile £290 £391 £408
25th Percentile £350 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £638 £525 £700
90th Percentile £721 £538 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £30.63 - -
25th Percentile £31.03 - £58.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 - £61.50
75th Percentile £33.75 - £64.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.37 - -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Munging in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Munging over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Munging in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Munging in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Munging within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +74 19 £518 +3.57% 11
Work from Home +118 11 £350 -33.33% 7
London +81 8 £518 +15.08% 4
UK excluding London +47 8 £500 -4.76% 9
South East +16 6 £425 -19.05% 3
Midlands +29 1 - - 1
North of England +26 1 £500 +5.26% 1
Yorkshire +18 1 £500 - 1
West Midlands +12 1 - -

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 10 (43.48%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (17.39%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.35%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) GCP
2 10 (43.48%) GitHub
2 10 (43.48%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (21.74%) Serverless
4 4 (17.39%) AWS
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (13.04%) Azure
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon Neptune
6 2 (8.70%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (8.70%) PaaS
6 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
7 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.35%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (65.22%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (56.52%) BigQuery
3 11 (47.83%) Data Lake
4 10 (43.48%) Metadata
5 4 (17.39%) Data Mining
6 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (8.70%) Big Data
7 2 (8.70%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
7 2 (8.70%) Parquet
7 2 (8.70%) Power Query
8 1 (4.35%) Data Vault
8 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (4.35%) Power BI
8 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Deequ
1 2 (8.70%) Git
1 2 (8.70%) kappa
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 9 (39.13%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.04%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Czech Language
3 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.70%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Law
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Data Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) GCP Data Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) GCP Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Lead
2 3 (13.04%) Lead Data Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Data Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Data Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Programmer
4 1 (4.35%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Python Programmer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) .NET
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Avro
1 2 (8.70%) ARM Templates
1 2 (8.70%) Great Expectations
1 2 (8.70%) JSON
1 2 (8.70%) JSON Schema
1 2 (8.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Digital Media
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) CI/CD
1 13 (56.52%) Data Engineering
2 12 (52.17%) Data Science
3 8 (34.78%) Agile
3 8 (34.78%) Analytics
4 7 (30.43%) Data Modelling
4 7 (30.43%) DevOps
5 5 (21.74%) Data Analysis
5 5 (21.74%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (21.74%) ETL
5 5 (21.74%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (17.39%) Kimball Methodology
6 4 (17.39%) Migration
6 4 (17.39%) Visualisation
7 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning
7 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.04%) Scrum
7 3 (13.04%) SDLC
8 2 (8.70%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 20 (86.96%) Python
2 17 (73.91%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) Scala
3 3 (13.04%) T-SQL
4 2 (8.70%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) R
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) QA
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Argo
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Alteryx
2 2 (8.70%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow