Data Transformation Contracts in the City of London

Data Transformation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 104 140
Rank change year-on-year +12 +36 +31
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 24 20 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.41% 0.93% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.02% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 18
10th Percentile £442 £475 £459
25th Percentile £480 £506 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £640 £688
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -6.91% -11.29%
75th Percentile £675 £728 £756
90th Percentile £725 £775 £836
Central London median daily rate £600 £633 £688
% change year-on-year -5.14% -8.00% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,589 1,953 3,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.58% 90.75% 91.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,008 1,368 2,128
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £452 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.80%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 23
10th Percentile £18.15 £19.92 £14.45
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.06
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -25.00% -13.58%
75th Percentile £41.48 £40.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £59.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -14.63%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Transformation in the City of London

Data Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Transformation in the City of London

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in the City of London

Data Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Transformation in the City of London

Data Transformation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (12.50%) Apache
1 3 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) Anypoint
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) Power Platform
3 3 (12.50%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) GCP
3 3 (12.50%) Snowflake
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Composer
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Functions
4 2 (8.33%) dbt
4 2 (8.33%) Google Compute Engine
4 2 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (8.33%) Serverless
5 1 (4.17%) Alation
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Power BI
2 6 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 4 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (12.50%) BigQuery
4 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 3 (12.50%) Tableau
5 2 (8.33%) Big Data
5 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (8.33%) Power Query
5 2 (8.33%) Tableau Server
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.17%) Data Vault
6 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
6 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.17%) MySQL
6 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) Terragrunt
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.33%) Retail
6 1 (4.17%) Back Office
6 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.17%) French Language
6 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Marketing
6 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) GCP Data Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Transformation Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Governance Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (4.17%) PySpark
2 1 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Analytics
2 9 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 8 (33.33%) Agile
3 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
4 7 (29.17%) Data Engineering
4 7 (29.17%) Data Governance
5 6 (25.00%) Data Integration
5 6 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 6 (25.00%) ETL
6 5 (20.83%) DevOps
6 5 (20.83%) Migration
6 5 (20.83%) Visualisation
7 4 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (16.67%) Data Analytics
7 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (4.17%) DataWeave
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) ACCA
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.17%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) PMO
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Databricks
1 4 (16.67%) Google
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.17%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) Workday