Data Transformation Contracts in England

Data Transformation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 345 405
Rank change year-on-year +101 +60 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 254 203 254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.04% 0.55% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.63% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 129 189
10th Percentile £360 £413 £413
25th Percentile £413 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -9.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £667 £606 £700
90th Percentile £750 £754 £778
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -2.38% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile - £37.80 £37.60
25th Percentile - £48.94 £49.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +78.54%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +78.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,183 32,201 45,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.14% 86.52% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,119 31,974
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 2,240 1,592
10th Percentile £14.67 £12.91 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.44 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Transformation in England

Data Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Transformation in England

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in England

Data Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Transformation in England

Data Transformation
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
London +61 157 £585 +6.36% 131
South East +54 27 £550 +22.22% 28
North of England +40 27 £400 -20.00% 32
Midlands +31 24 £475 -17.39% 22
North West +20 18 £400 -20.00% 26
West Midlands +17 14 £475 -16.67% 17
East Midlands +16 10 £443 -29.20% 5
South West +47 6 £525 -9.68% 14
North East - 5 £358 - 1
East of England +30 4 £525 -12.50% 6
Yorkshire +13 4 £475 -13.64% 5
Data Transformation
UK

Data Transformation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (5.91%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.12%) Confluence
3 11 (4.33%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.97%) Apache
4 5 (1.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.18%) Oracle Service Bus
6 2 (0.79%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.39%) Luigi
7 1 (0.39%) Mule
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 6 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (5.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.97%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.18%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.79%) Magento
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.79%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.79%) Shopify
5 2 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 94 (37.01%) Azure
2 50 (19.69%) AWS
2 50 (19.69%) Power Platform
3 38 (14.96%) Snowflake
4 31 (12.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 26 (10.24%) GCP
6 20 (7.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 19 (7.48%) dbt
8 11 (4.33%) Serverless
9 7 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.76%) GitHub
10 6 (2.36%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.97%) Fivetran
12 4 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.57%) Azure Functions
12 4 (1.57%) Collibra
12 4 (1.57%) Matillion
12 4 (1.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (18.50%) Power BI
2 38 (14.96%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (11.42%) Data Lake
4 24 (9.45%) Tableau
5 16 (6.30%) SQL Server
6 15 (5.91%) Big Data
6 15 (5.91%) NoSQL
7 12 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (4.72%) Snowflake Schema
8 11 (4.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (4.33%) Metadata
9 10 (3.94%) BigQuery
9 10 (3.94%) BusinessObjects
10 9 (3.54%) Hadoop
10 9 (3.54%) MySQL
11 8 (3.15%) Relational Database
12 7 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (2.36%) Power Query
13 6 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 21 (8.27%) JIRA
2 11 (4.33%) GitLab
3 6 (2.36%) ERwin
3 6 (2.36%) Git
3 6 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.97%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.57%) CA Release Automation
5 4 (1.57%) Gradle
5 4 (1.57%) HP UFT
5 4 (1.57%) IntelliJ
5 4 (1.57%) JUnit
5 4 (1.57%) Maven
5 4 (1.57%) NetBeans
5 4 (1.57%) Selenium
5 4 (1.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.57%) Subversion
6 3 (1.18%) Liquibase
6 3 (1.18%) Terragrunt
General
1 75 (29.53%) Finance
2 66 (25.98%) Social Skills
3 52 (20.47%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.69%) Retail
5 15 (5.91%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.51%) Banking
7 10 (3.94%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.54%) Marketing
9 8 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.15%) Law
10 5 (1.97%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.18%) Local Government
12 3 (1.18%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.79%) Front Office
13 2 (0.79%) Legal
13 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (25.98%) Data Engineer
2 46 (18.11%) Analyst
3 31 (12.20%) Architect
4 29 (11.42%) Developer
5 27 (10.63%) Data Architect
6 23 (9.06%) Senior
7 22 (8.66%) Business Analyst
8 20 (7.87%) Lead
9 19 (7.48%) Consultant
10 17 (6.69%) Data Analyst
11 11 (4.33%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (4.33%) Data Business Analyst
11 11 (4.33%) Data Consultant
12 9 (3.54%) AWS Data Engineer
13 8 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (3.15%) Project Manager
14 7 (2.76%) Azure Data Engineer
14 7 (2.76%) Integration Developer
14 7 (2.76%) Python Engineer
14 7 (2.76%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.24%) PySpark
2 20 (7.87%) Kafka
3 15 (5.91%) Web Services
4 11 (4.33%) REST
5 6 (2.36%) SOAP
6 5 (1.97%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.57%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.57%) J2EE
7 4 (1.57%) Middleware
7 4 (1.57%) SAP Fiori
7 4 (1.57%) Spring
7 4 (1.57%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.57%) Spring Integration
7 4 (1.57%) Spring MVC
8 3 (1.18%) .NET
8 3 (1.18%) Ajax
8 3 (1.18%) Bootstrap
8 3 (1.18%) CSS
8 3 (1.18%) HTML
8 3 (1.18%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.69%) Data Structures
2 14 (5.51%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.57%) Equities
4 4 (1.57%) Fixed Income
4 4 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.57%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (1.18%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.18%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.79%) Derivative
6 2 (0.79%) Educational Technology
6 2 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.79%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.79%) NHS
6 2 (0.79%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.79%) Social Media
7 1 (0.39%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.51%) Linux
2 4 (1.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (33.07%) Data Modelling
2 83 (32.68%) ETL
3 66 (25.98%) Analytics
4 63 (24.80%) Migration
5 57 (22.44%) Agile
6 55 (21.65%) Business Intelligence
6 55 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (19.69%) Data Pipeline
8 48 (18.90%) Data Governance
9 36 (14.17%) Data Engineering
9 36 (14.17%) Data Migration
10 34 (13.39%) Data Integration
11 32 (12.60%) Data Architecture
12 31 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
13 30 (11.81%) Validation
14 29 (11.42%) Data Science
15 28 (11.02%) Decision-Making
16 27 (10.63%) Visualisation
17 26 (10.24%) CI/CD
18 25 (9.84%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 116 (45.67%) SQL
2 66 (25.98%) Python
3 19 (7.48%) Java
4 12 (4.72%) PL/SQL
5 10 (3.94%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.36%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.97%) BeanShell
8 4 (1.57%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.18%) ABAP
9 3 (1.18%) C#
9 3 (1.18%) Scala
9 3 (1.18%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.79%) R
10 2 (0.79%) VBA
11 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.39%) Bash
11 1 (0.39%) C
11 1 (0.39%) Go
11 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (11.02%) Security Cleared
2 23 (9.06%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.91%) Degree
4 4 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.18%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.18%) PMP
6 2 (0.79%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.39%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) IIBA
7 1 (0.39%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (18.90%) Data Quality
2 18 (7.09%) QA
3 13 (5.12%) GDPR
4 7 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.76%) HL7
5 3 (1.18%) IFRS
5 3 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.18%) PMO
5 3 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.79%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.39%) Basel III
7 1 (0.39%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.39%) LOINC
7 1 (0.39%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (5.51%) Terraform
2 10 (3.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.57%) Progress Chef
3 4 (1.57%) Puppet
4 2 (0.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 33 (12.99%) Databricks
2 31 (12.20%) Microsoft
3 24 (9.45%) SAP
4 20 (7.87%) Oracle
5 15 (5.91%) Google
6 14 (5.51%) Informatica
7 13 (5.12%) Salesforce
8 10 (3.94%) Talend
9 5 (1.97%) Adobe
9 5 (1.97%) IBM
9 5 (1.97%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.57%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.57%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.18%) Alteryx
11 3 (1.18%) Marketo
11 3 (1.18%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (1.18%) Splunk
11 3 (1.18%) Workday
12 2 (0.79%) NCR
12 2 (0.79%) Sparx