Data Transformation Contracts in England

Data Transformation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Transformation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Transformation over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 406 451
Rank change year-on-year +43 +45 -92
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 196 245 360
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.50% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.55% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 179 249
10th Percentile £413 £418 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £603 £700 £650
90th Percentile £745 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £37.80 £37.60 £35.57
25th Percentile £48.94 £49.75 £36.43
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £39.21
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +78.54% +5.97%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £43.34
90th Percentile - £78.00 £45.01
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £39.21
% change year-on-year -3.57% +78.54% -1.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Transformation 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,870 44,294 64,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,878 31,074 45,519
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 1,569 1,736
10th Percentile £12.90 £10.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Transformation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Transformation in England

Data Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Transformation in England

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in England

Data Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Transformation in England

Data Transformation
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Transformation in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Transformation in England

Data Transformation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Transformation within the England region over the 6 months to 8 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
London +69 125 £550 -15.38% 45
Midlands +39 18 £575 -4.17% 13
South East +3 16 £450 -12.20% 7
North of England +28 15 £500 -9.09% 10
West Midlands +34 14 £570 +1.33% 8
North West +30 10 £500 +14.29% 7
East of England +3 6 £600 +13.21% 2
Yorkshire +21 5 £550 -10.57% 1
South West +9 5 £575 +3.14% 7
East Midlands +19 4 £625 +4.17% 5
Data Transformation
UK

Data Transformation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (6.63%) Apache
2 4 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.02%) Confluence
3 2 (1.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.53%) SAP MDG
2 3 (1.53%) SAP MDM
2 3 (1.53%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (1.02%) Shopify
3 2 (1.02%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.51%) Endur
4 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 79 (40.31%) Azure
2 46 (23.47%) Power Platform
3 29 (14.80%) AWS
4 27 (13.78%) Azure Logic Apps
5 26 (13.27%) Dynamics 365
6 25 (12.76%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (9.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (9.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (8.16%) Azure API Management
9 16 (8.16%) Serverless
10 13 (6.63%) Amazon Kinesis
11 12 (6.12%) Snowflake
12 9 (4.59%) Amazon S3
12 9 (4.59%) dbt
13 8 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (4.08%) GCP
14 7 (3.57%) Power Automate
14 7 (3.57%) PowerApps
15 6 (3.06%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (3.06%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.51%) NAS
1 1 (0.51%) Network Security
1 1 (0.51%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (25.51%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (20.41%) Power BI
3 37 (18.88%) Data Lake
4 13 (6.63%) SQL Server
4 13 (6.63%) Tableau
5 11 (5.61%) Big Data
5 11 (5.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 10 (5.10%) Metadata
7 9 (4.59%) Flink
8 8 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (4.08%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.06%) Looker
10 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 5 (2.55%) OLAP
10 5 (2.55%) Parquet
10 5 (2.55%) Power Query
10 5 (2.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (2.04%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (2.04%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.04%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (3.06%) Git
2 5 (2.55%) JIRA
3 4 (2.04%) ERwin
4 2 (1.02%) kappa
General
1 60 (30.61%) Finance
2 47 (23.98%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.61%) Retail
5 9 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.59%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.06%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.55%) Banking
8 5 (2.55%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.04%) Local Government
10 3 (1.53%) Marketing
10 3 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.02%) Legal
12 1 (0.51%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.51%) Law
12 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (26.02%) Data Engineer
2 30 (15.31%) Lead
3 29 (14.80%) Analyst
4 20 (10.20%) Developer
4 20 (10.20%) Project Manager
5 19 (9.69%) Architect
6 15 (7.65%) Business Analyst
6 15 (7.65%) Data Architect
7 14 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (6.63%) Azure Data Engineer
9 12 (6.12%) Consultant
10 10 (5.10%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 9 (4.59%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
11 9 (4.59%) Data Analyst
11 9 (4.59%) Power BI Analyst
12 7 (3.57%) Data Consultant
12 7 (3.57%) Data Manager
12 7 (3.57%) Data Migration Manager
12 7 (3.57%) Migration Manager
12 7 (3.57%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.73%) XML
2 19 (9.69%) JSON
3 14 (7.14%) PySpark
4 13 (6.63%) Kafka
5 7 (3.57%) ADO
6 6 (3.06%) Pandas
7 5 (2.55%) RESTful
8 4 (2.04%) Flask
8 4 (2.04%) REST
8 4 (2.04%) YAML
9 2 (1.02%) .NET
9 2 (1.02%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.02%) Lambda Expressions
9 2 (1.02%) Node.js
9 2 (1.02%) NumPy
9 2 (1.02%) SOAP
10 1 (0.51%) Apache Avro
10 1 (0.51%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.51%) Gherkin
10 1 (0.51%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.61%) Data Structures
2 4 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.04%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.04%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.04%) Reference Data
3 3 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (1.53%) Taxonomies
3 3 (1.53%) Wiki
4 2 (1.02%) FMCG
4 2 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.51%) Blog
5 1 (0.51%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.51%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.51%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (33.16%) Data Modelling
2 55 (28.06%) Analytics
3 50 (25.51%) ETL
4 46 (23.47%) Business Intelligence
5 41 (20.92%) DevOps
6 39 (19.90%) Data Pipeline
7 37 (18.88%) Migration
8 35 (17.86%) Data Governance
9 33 (16.84%) Data Integration
10 30 (15.31%) Agile
10 30 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (13.27%) Data Engineering
11 26 (13.27%) Data Migration
12 25 (12.76%) Test Strategy
13 23 (11.73%) Decision-Making
13 23 (11.73%) Technical Leadership
14 22 (11.22%) Data Management
15 21 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (10.20%) Project Management
17 19 (9.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (31.63%) SQL
2 39 (19.90%) Python
3 23 (11.73%) C#
4 7 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (3.57%) Java
5 6 (3.06%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.55%) R
6 5 (2.55%) X++
7 4 (2.04%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.04%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.02%) Bash
8 2 (1.02%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.02%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.02%) VBA
9 1 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (9.18%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.67%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.65%) Degree
4 3 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.27%) Data Quality
2 20 (10.20%) QA
3 4 (2.04%) PMO
4 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.02%) GDPR
5 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.51%) NIST
5 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (5.10%) Terraform
2 4 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.51%) Podman
Vendors
1 33 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.27%) Databricks
3 16 (8.16%) SAP
4 10 (5.10%) Google
5 6 (3.06%) Alteryx
6 4 (2.04%) Informatica
6 4 (2.04%) Oracle
7 3 (1.53%) Adobe
7 3 (1.53%) Embarcadero
7 3 (1.53%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.53%) Workday
8 2 (1.02%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.02%) UiPath
9 1 (0.51%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.51%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.51%) Ceridian
9 1 (0.51%) Concur
9 1 (0.51%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.51%) Sparx
9 1 (0.51%) Talend