Data Transformation Contracts in Central London

Data Transformation
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Data Transformation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Transformation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 115 146
Rank change year-on-year +5 +31 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 19 18 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.95% 0.74% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.81% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 20
10th Percentile £442 £501 £461
25th Percentile £480 £544 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £633 £694
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% -8.83% +6.73%
75th Percentile £675 £733 £836
90th Percentile £725 £835 £875
London median daily rate £585 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +6.36% -15.38% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Transformation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Transformation in Central London

Data Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Transformation in Central London

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in Central London

Data Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Transformation in Central London

Data Transformation
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +11 19 £600 -6.25% 9
Data Transformation
London

Data Transformation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (10.53%) Apache
1 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) Anypoint
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.26%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Power Platform
3 3 (15.79%) AWS
4 2 (10.53%) dbt
4 2 (10.53%) Serverless
4 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.26%) Alation
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) Google Analytics
5 1 (5.26%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Power BI
2 3 (15.79%) Data Lake
2 3 (15.79%) Relational Database
2 3 (15.79%) Snowflake Schema
2 3 (15.79%) Tableau
3 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.53%) Tableau Server
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.26%) Data Vault
4 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.26%) Looker
4 1 (5.26%) Metadata
4 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.26%) MySQL
4 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.26%) Parquet
4 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 2 (10.53%) Retail
6 1 (5.26%) Back Office
6 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.26%) French Language
6 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Marketing
6 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Data Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Transformation Manager
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Data Scientist
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Change Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Insight Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Investment Management Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Transformation Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Tableau Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) PySpark
2 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Analytics
2 7 (36.84%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (31.58%) Data Modelling
3 6 (31.58%) ETL
4 5 (26.32%) Agile
4 5 (26.32%) Data Governance
4 5 (26.32%) Migration
5 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
5 4 (21.05%) DevOps
5 4 (21.05%) Visualisation
6 3 (15.79%) Data Integration
6 3 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (15.79%) Data Science
6 3 (15.79%) RBAC
6 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) DataWeave
3 1 (5.26%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.53%) PMO
3 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Databricks
2 2 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) Workday