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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 424 456
Rank change year-on-year +55 +32 -66
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 223 287 452
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.49% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.55% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 206 307
10th Percentile £413 £422 £412
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £650
90th Percentile £743 £781 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £528 £543
% change year-on-year -0.47% -2.76% +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 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 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 +54 193 £550 -8.33% 81
London +56 124 £550 -15.38% 44
Work from Home +101 101 £581 +1.09% 52
UK excluding London +66 74 £525 -0.47% 38
Midlands +41 18 £575 -4.17% 12
South East +13 16 £450 -12.20% 7
Scotland +56 14 £450 +20.00% 1
West Midlands +33 14 £570 +1.33% 7
North of England +23 14 £500 -9.09% 9
North West +28 9 £500 +14.29% 7
East of England +2 6 £600 +13.21% 2
Yorkshire +20 5 £550 -10.57% 1
South West +6 5 £575 +3.14% 7
East Midlands +20 4 £625 +4.17% 5
Wales +17 1 £625 +31.58% 1

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 13 (5.83%) Apache
2 6 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.90%) Confluence
4 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.79%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.35%) SAP MDM
4 3 (1.35%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.90%) Shopify
5 2 (0.90%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.45%) Endur
6 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 79 (35.43%) Azure
2 48 (21.52%) Power Platform
3 42 (18.83%) AWS
4 27 (12.11%) Dynamics 365
5 26 (11.66%) Azure Logic Apps
6 25 (11.21%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (8.97%) Serverless
8 19 (8.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (8.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 17 (7.62%) Amazon S3
11 16 (7.17%) Azure API Management
12 15 (6.73%) Snowflake
13 13 (5.83%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (5.38%) dbt
15 9 (4.04%) GCP
16 8 (3.59%) AWS CodePipeline
17 7 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
17 7 (3.14%) Power Automate
17 7 (3.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) NAS
1 1 (0.45%) Network Security
1 1 (0.45%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (25.56%) Data Warehouse
2 42 (18.83%) Power BI
3 37 (16.59%) Data Lake
4 14 (6.28%) Metadata
4 14 (6.28%) Tableau
5 13 (5.83%) SQL Server
6 11 (4.93%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 10 (4.48%) Big Data
8 9 (4.04%) Flink
8 9 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (3.59%) Relational Database
10 7 (3.14%) Looker
11 6 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 5 (2.24%) OLAP
12 5 (2.24%) Parquet
12 5 (2.24%) Power Query
12 5 (2.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (1.79%) Oracle8/8i Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.14%) ERwin
1 7 (3.14%) Git
2 6 (2.69%) GitLab
2 6 (2.69%) JIRA
3 2 (0.90%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.90%) kappa
General
1 61 (27.35%) Finance
2 49 (21.97%) Social Skills
3 20 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.83%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.93%) Retail
6 9 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.14%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.69%) Banking
8 6 (2.69%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.79%) Legal
9 4 (1.79%) Local Government
10 3 (1.35%) Marketing
10 3 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.45%) French Language
11 1 (0.45%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Law
11 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (28.25%) Data Engineer
2 33 (14.80%) Analyst
3 30 (13.45%) Lead
4 20 (8.97%) Architect
4 20 (8.97%) Developer
5 19 (8.52%) Project Manager
6 16 (7.17%) Business Analyst
7 15 (6.73%) Data Architect
8 14 (6.28%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (5.83%) Azure Data Engineer
10 12 (5.38%) Consultant
10 12 (5.38%) Data Analyst
11 10 (4.48%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 9 (4.04%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
12 9 (4.04%) Data Manager
12 9 (4.04%) Power BI Analyst
13 8 (3.59%) Data Consultant
13 8 (3.59%) Senior
14 7 (3.14%) Python Data Engineer
14 7 (3.14%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.31%) XML
2 19 (8.52%) JSON
3 13 (5.83%) Kafka
3 13 (5.83%) PySpark
4 10 (4.48%) REST
5 7 (3.14%) ADO
6 6 (2.69%) AWS CDK
6 6 (2.69%) Pandas
7 5 (2.24%) RESTful
8 4 (1.79%) Flask
8 4 (1.79%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 4 (1.79%) YAML
9 3 (1.35%) PostGIS
10 2 (0.90%) .NET
10 2 (0.90%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.90%) Lambda Expressions
10 2 (0.90%) Node.js
10 2 (0.90%) NumPy
10 2 (0.90%) SOAP
11 1 (0.45%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.17%) Data Structures
2 6 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.24%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.79%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.79%) Reference Data
4 4 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
4 4 (1.79%) Taxonomies
5 3 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (1.35%) Wiki
6 2 (0.90%) FMCG
7 1 (0.45%) Blog
7 1 (0.45%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.45%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.45%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.45%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.45%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.79%) Linux
1 4 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (33.63%) Data Modelling
2 60 (26.91%) Analytics
3 56 (25.11%) ETL
4 48 (21.52%) Migration
5 47 (21.08%) Business Intelligence
6 45 (20.18%) DevOps
7 43 (19.28%) Data Pipeline
8 42 (18.83%) Data Integration
9 38 (17.04%) Agile
10 36 (16.14%) Data Governance
11 35 (15.70%) Data Migration
12 31 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (13.45%) Data Engineering
14 25 (11.21%) Test Strategy
15 24 (10.76%) Technical Leadership
16 23 (10.31%) Data Management
16 23 (10.31%) Decision-Making
17 22 (9.87%) CI/CD
17 22 (9.87%) Scrum
17 22 (9.87%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (32.29%) SQL
2 48 (21.52%) Python
3 24 (10.76%) C#
4 8 (3.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (3.59%) Java
5 6 (2.69%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.24%) R
6 5 (2.24%) X++
7 4 (1.79%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.79%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.79%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.90%) Bash
8 2 (0.90%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.90%) Scala
8 2 (0.90%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.90%) VBA
9 1 (0.45%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (8.52%) Security Cleared
2 18 (8.07%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.73%) Degree
4 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.90%) Data Quality
2 23 (10.31%) QA
3 4 (1.79%) PMO
4 3 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.90%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.45%) NIST
6 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (5.38%) Docker
2 4 (1.79%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (4.48%) Terraform
2 5 (2.24%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.79%) Data Guard
3 4 (1.79%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.90%) Grafana
5 1 (0.45%) Podman
Vendors
1 36 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 28 (12.56%) Databricks
3 16 (7.17%) SAP
4 12 (5.38%) Google
5 8 (3.59%) Oracle
6 6 (2.69%) Alteryx
6 6 (2.69%) Informatica
7 4 (1.79%) Embarcadero
8 3 (1.35%) Adobe
8 3 (1.35%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.35%) Workday
9 2 (0.90%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.90%) IDERA
9 2 (0.90%) Sparx
9 2 (0.90%) UiPath
10 1 (0.45%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.45%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.45%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.45%) Concur
10 1 (0.45%) Talend