Data Transformation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Transformation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 370 388
Rank change year-on-year +54 +18 -58
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 80 77 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.33% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.37% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 53 86
10th Percentile £379 £392 £391
25th Percentile £428 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £543
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -2.30% +8.50%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £663 £688 £794
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £37.80 - -
25th Percentile £48.94 £29.50 £40.71
Median hourly rate £67.50 £31.00 £43.42
Median % change year-on-year +117.74% -28.60% +47.17%
75th Percentile - £32.50 £46.12
90th Percentile - - -
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Transformation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Transformation in the UK excluding London

Data Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Transformation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Transformation in the UK excluding London

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in the UK excluding London

Data Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Transformation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Transformation in the UK excluding London

Data Transformation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Transformation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Transformation in the UK excluding London

Data Transformation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Scotland +57 19 £475 +26.67%
Midlands +43 18 £575 -4.17% 12
South East +18 16 £450 -12.20% 8
North of England +29 15 £500 -9.09% 10
West Midlands +30 14 £570 +1.33% 8
North West +22 10 £500 +3.90% 7
East of England +6 6 £600 +13.21% 2
Yorkshire +13 5 £550 -10.57% 1
South West +5 5 £575 +3.14% 8
East Midlands +24 4 £625 +4.17% 4
Wales +17 1 £625 +31.58% 1
Data Transformation
UK

Data Transformation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) SAP MDG
1 3 (3.75%) SAP MDM
1 3 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.50%) Shopify
3 1 (1.25%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.25%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 28 (35.00%) Azure
2 14 (17.50%) Power Platform
3 13 (16.25%) Dynamics 365
4 12 (15.00%) AWS
5 8 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 8 (10.00%) Snowflake
6 7 (8.75%) AWS CodePipeline
6 7 (8.75%) Serverless
7 6 (7.50%) Amazon S3
7 6 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (7.50%) Power Automate
8 5 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (6.25%) PowerApps
9 4 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.00%) dbt
10 3 (3.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (3.75%) Google Analytics
10 3 (3.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) 4G
1 1 (1.25%) 5G
1 1 (1.25%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (1.25%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (13.75%) Data Lake
3 9 (11.25%) Power BI
4 8 (10.00%) Tableau
5 6 (7.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 6 (7.50%) Metadata
5 6 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (5.00%) Oracle Database
6 4 (5.00%) Oracle Database 12c
6 4 (5.00%) Oracle8/8i Database
7 3 (3.75%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (3.75%) Data Mining
7 3 (3.75%) OLAP
7 3 (3.75%) OLTP
8 2 (2.50%) DataStage
8 2 (2.50%) GIS
8 2 (2.50%) Looker
9 1 (1.25%) Big Data
9 1 (1.25%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) GitLab
2 3 (3.75%) ERwin
2 3 (3.75%) Git
2 3 (3.75%) JIRA
3 2 (2.50%) ER Studio
3 2 (2.50%) kappa
General
1 28 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.00%) Finance
3 15 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.50%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.00%) Local Government
6 4 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.00%) Retail
7 3 (3.75%) Legal
7 3 (3.75%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Marketing
9 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 20 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 13 (16.25%) Lead
3 11 (13.75%) Analyst
4 10 (12.50%) Developer
5 9 (11.25%) Project Manager
6 6 (7.50%) Architect
6 6 (7.50%) Consultant
7 5 (6.25%) Data Architect
7 5 (6.25%) Data Consultant
7 5 (6.25%) Integration Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Data Integration Manager
8 4 (5.00%) DBA
8 4 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Integration Manager
8 4 (5.00%) Integration Project Manager
8 4 (5.00%) Oracle DBA
9 3 (3.75%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Python Data Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.00%) REST
2 7 (8.75%) ADO
3 6 (7.50%) AWS CDK
3 6 (7.50%) JSON
4 5 (6.25%) XML
5 4 (5.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 3 (3.75%) Flask
6 3 (3.75%) Pandas
6 3 (3.75%) PostGIS
7 2 (2.50%) PySpark
7 2 (2.50%) RESTful
7 2 (2.50%) SOAP
8 1 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.50%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.25%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.25%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.25%) NHS
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Linux
1 4 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (35.00%) Migration
2 25 (31.25%) Analytics
3 22 (27.50%) Data Migration
4 19 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (22.50%) Agile
6 17 (21.25%) Data Integration
7 16 (20.00%) ETL
8 15 (18.75%) Data Modelling
8 15 (18.75%) DevOps
9 13 (16.25%) Actionable Insight
9 13 (16.25%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (16.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (12.50%) Decision-Making
11 9 (11.25%) Data Governance
11 9 (11.25%) Data Management
11 9 (11.25%) Project Delivery
11 9 (11.25%) Roadmaps
11 9 (11.25%) Scrum
12 8 (10.00%) Data Analysis
12 8 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (31.25%) SQL
2 17 (21.25%) Python
3 5 (6.25%) C#
3 5 (6.25%) X++
4 4 (5.00%) Shell Script
4 4 (5.00%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.50%) R
6 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (10.00%) Degree
2 4 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 4 (5.00%) PMO
2 2 (2.50%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (10.00%) Docker
2 4 (5.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (5.00%) Data Guard
1 4 (5.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (2.50%) Grafana
2 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.50%) Alteryx
3 6 (7.50%) Databricks
3 6 (7.50%) Informatica
4 5 (6.25%) Oracle
4 5 (6.25%) SAP
5 4 (5.00%) Cognizant
6 3 (3.75%) Google
7 2 (2.50%) IDERA
8 1 (1.25%) Adobe
8 1 (1.25%) Anaplan
8 1 (1.25%) Ceridian
8 1 (1.25%) Concur
8 1 (1.25%) Embarcadero
8 1 (1.25%) Progress
8 1 (1.25%) Workday