Data Munging Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Munging (Data Wrangling)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 439 558
Rank change year-on-year +102 +119 -77
Contract jobs citing Data Munging 12 20 68
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.082% 0.083% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.094% 0.092% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 40
10th Percentile - £393 £405
25th Percentile £290 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -14.29% +32.43%
75th Percentile £500 - £700
90th Percentile £559 £534 £750
UK median daily rate £509 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +1.79% -16.67% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,824 21,734 40,250
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,646 15,426 29,289
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 517
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Data Munging
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Munging as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Munging trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Munging
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Munging.

Data Munging daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Munging
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Munging over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Data Munging daily rate 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 6 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) GCP
2 6 (50.00%) GitHub
2 6 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (25.00%) Serverless
4 2 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (16.67%) PaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (8.33%) AWS
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) BigQuery
2 8 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 8 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (50.00%) Metadata
4 2 (16.67%) Data Mining
5 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (8.33%) Data Vault
5 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (8.33%) Parquet
5 1 (8.33%) Power BI
5 1 (8.33%) Power Query
5 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Deequ
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Czech Language
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Programmer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Programmer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Avro
1 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (8.33%) Great Expectations
1 1 (8.33%) JSON
1 1 (8.33%) JSON Schema
1 1 (8.33%) PySpark
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Data Science
2 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) Data Engineering
3 7 (58.33%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (33.33%) Agile
5 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
6 3 (25.00%) Analytics
6 3 (25.00%) ETL
6 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
7 2 (16.67%) Batch Processing
7 2 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
7 2 (16.67%) Data Extraction
7 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
7 2 (16.67%) Open Source
7 2 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
1 11 (91.67%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Scala
3 2 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Argo
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Alteryx
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft