Data Transformation Contracts

Data Transformation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 442 444
Rank change year-on-year +65 +2 -65
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 228 294 487
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.49% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.55% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 213 339
10th Percentile £410 £413 £413
25th Percentile £459 £488 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £650
90th Percentile £731 £798 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £530 £543
% change year-on-year -5.66% -2.30% +8.50%
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% -1.98%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £43.34
90th Percentile - £78.00 £45.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £31.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year +117.74% -28.60% +47.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Transformation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +79 199 £525 -12.50% 79
London +65 129 £538 -17.31% 46
Work from Home +99 103 £556 +1.14% 35
UK excluding London +60 74 £500 -5.66% 36
Midlands +29 17 £575 -4.17% 14
South East +20 16 £450 -14.29% 4
Scotland +45 15 £450 +20.00% 1
North of England +30 14 £500 -9.09% 8
West Midlands +36 13 £570 +14.00% 6
North West +21 9 £500 +14.29% 2
East of England +16 7 £600 +13.21% 2
Yorkshire +13 5 £550 -11.29% 3
East Midlands +18 4 £625 +4.17% 8
South West +11 4 £581 +4.26% 6
Wales +14 1 £625 +31.58% 2

Data Transformation
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 15 (6.58%) Apache
2 7 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.88%) Confluence
4 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.44%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.32%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.32%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.88%) SAP MDM
4 2 (0.88%) Shopify
4 2 (0.88%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 78 (34.21%) Azure
2 46 (20.18%) AWS
2 46 (20.18%) Power Platform
3 27 (11.84%) Dynamics 365
4 26 (11.40%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (10.96%) Azure Logic Apps
6 21 (9.21%) Serverless
7 19 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (7.89%) Amazon S3
9 16 (7.02%) Azure API Management
9 16 (7.02%) Snowflake
10 14 (6.14%) Amazon Kinesis
11 13 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (5.26%) GCP
13 11 (4.82%) dbt
14 8 (3.51%) AWS CodePipeline
15 7 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (3.07%) Power Automate
15 7 (3.07%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.44%) NAS
1 1 (0.44%) Network Security
1 1 (0.44%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (27.19%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (17.11%) Power BI
3 33 (14.47%) Data Lake
4 14 (6.14%) Metadata
5 13 (5.70%) SQL Server
6 12 (5.26%) Tableau
7 11 (4.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (3.95%) Flink
8 9 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (3.51%) Big Data
9 8 (3.51%) Relational Database
10 7 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (2.63%) NoSQL
12 5 (2.19%) Looker
12 5 (2.19%) Power Query
13 4 (1.75%) Oracle Database
13 4 (1.75%) Oracle Database 12c
13 4 (1.75%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (3.07%) ERwin
1 7 (3.07%) Git
1 7 (3.07%) JIRA
2 6 (2.63%) GitLab
3 2 (0.88%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.88%) kappa
General
1 57 (25.00%) Finance
2 56 (24.56%) Social Skills
3 24 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.70%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.82%) Retail
6 10 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.07%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.19%) Legal
9 5 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.75%) Banking
10 4 (1.75%) Local Government
11 3 (1.32%) Marketing
11 3 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.44%) French Language
12 1 (0.44%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.44%) Law
12 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (29.39%) Data Engineer
2 34 (14.91%) Analyst
3 31 (13.60%) Lead
4 20 (8.77%) Architect
5 19 (8.33%) Developer
5 19 (8.33%) Project Manager
6 16 (7.02%) Business Analyst
7 15 (6.58%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (6.14%) Azure Data Engineer
8 14 (6.14%) Data Analyst
8 14 (6.14%) Data Architect
9 12 (5.26%) Consultant
10 11 (4.82%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 10 (4.39%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
11 10 (4.39%) Data Manager
11 10 (4.39%) Power BI Analyst
12 8 (3.51%) Data Consultant
12 8 (3.51%) Python Data Engineer
12 8 (3.51%) Python Engineer
13 7 (3.07%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.09%) XML
2 20 (8.77%) JSON
3 14 (6.14%) Kafka
4 13 (5.70%) PySpark
5 10 (4.39%) REST
6 8 (3.51%) Pandas
7 7 (3.07%) ADO
8 6 (2.63%) AWS CDK
9 4 (1.75%) Flask
9 4 (1.75%) NumPy
9 4 (1.75%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 4 (1.75%) RESTful
9 4 (1.75%) YAML
10 3 (1.32%) .NET
10 3 (1.32%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (1.32%) PostGIS
11 2 (0.88%) GraphQL
11 2 (0.88%) Middleware
11 2 (0.88%) Node.js
12 1 (0.44%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.02%) Data Structures
2 6 (2.63%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.75%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.75%) Reference Data
4 4 (1.75%) Taxonomies
5 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.32%) FMCG
5 3 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.32%) Wiki
6 1 (0.44%) Blog
6 1 (0.44%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.44%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.44%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.44%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.44%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.44%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.75%) Linux
1 4 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (34.65%) Data Modelling
2 62 (27.19%) Analytics
3 61 (26.75%) ETL
4 50 (21.93%) Migration
5 46 (20.18%) Business Intelligence
6 44 (19.30%) Data Integration
6 44 (19.30%) DevOps
7 42 (18.42%) Data Pipeline
8 40 (17.54%) Agile
8 40 (17.54%) Data Governance
9 38 (16.67%) Data Migration
10 33 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (13.16%) Data Engineering
12 26 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (10.96%) Test Strategy
14 24 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
15 23 (10.09%) Data Management
15 23 (10.09%) Decision-Making
16 22 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (9.65%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 80 (35.09%) SQL
2 50 (21.93%) Python
3 23 (10.09%) C#
4 7 (3.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (3.07%) R
5 6 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.63%) T-SQL
6 5 (2.19%) Java
6 5 (2.19%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.19%) X++
7 4 (1.75%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.88%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.88%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.44%) Scala
9 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.46%) Degree
4 5 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (14.04%) Data Quality
2 22 (9.65%) QA
3 4 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.75%) PMO
4 2 (0.88%) GDPR
5 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.44%) NIST
5 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (4.82%) Docker
2 4 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.95%) Terraform
2 5 (2.19%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.75%) Data Guard
3 4 (1.75%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.88%) Grafana
5 1 (0.44%) Podman
Vendors
1 38 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 28 (12.28%) Databricks
3 16 (7.02%) Google
4 15 (6.58%) SAP
5 9 (3.95%) Oracle
6 6 (2.63%) Alteryx
6 6 (2.63%) Informatica
7 4 (1.75%) Adobe
7 4 (1.75%) Embarcadero
7 4 (1.75%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.32%) Workday
9 2 (0.88%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.88%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.88%) IDERA
9 2 (0.88%) Sparx
9 2 (0.88%) Talend
9 2 (0.88%) UiPath
10 1 (0.44%) Ariba
10 1 (0.44%) Ceridian
10 1 (0.44%) Progress