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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 348 403
Rank change year-on-year +117 +55 +59
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 257 197 246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.07% 0.54% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 0.63% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 130 179
10th Percentile £369 £413 £423
25th Percentile £450 £457 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £655 £600 £700
90th Percentile £755 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £509 £534 £600
% change year-on-year -4.68% -11.04% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 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 21,900 31,359 43,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.26% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,297 20,563 30,348
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £767
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 2,244 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.47 £16.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%
75th Percentile £61.69 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

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 22 May 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 22 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
London +77 160 £585 +6.36% 219
South East +56 25 £588 +30.56% 84
North of England +28 25 £400 -20.00% 49
Midlands +13 22 £460 -16.36% 28
North West +21 19 £400 -20.00% 28
West Midlands +8 10 £460 -19.30% 16
East Midlands +7 10 £443 -1.67% 12
South West +35 8 £525 -8.70% 13
East of England +25 6 £501 -23.00% 7
Yorkshire +8 4 £475 -13.64% 11
North East - 2 £358 - 12
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 14 (5.45%) Confluence
2 13 (5.06%) Apache Spark
3 11 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (3.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (2.33%) Apache
6 5 (1.95%) Oracle Service Bus
7 3 (1.17%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.78%) Mule
8 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.39%) Luigi
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (5.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (3.11%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.17%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.78%) Magento
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (0.78%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.78%) Shopify
4 2 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 87 (33.85%) Azure
2 54 (21.01%) AWS
3 44 (17.12%) Power Platform
4 39 (15.18%) Snowflake
5 28 (10.89%) GCP
6 20 (7.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (7.78%) dbt
7 14 (5.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (4.28%) Serverless
9 8 (3.11%) GitHub
10 6 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.33%) Fivetran
10 6 (2.33%) OCI
11 5 (1.95%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.56%) Collibra
12 4 (1.56%) Matillion
12 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (15.95%) Power BI
2 34 (13.23%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (9.34%) Data Lake
4 17 (6.61%) Tableau
5 16 (6.23%) Big Data
6 15 (5.84%) NoSQL
6 15 (5.84%) SQL Server
7 13 (5.06%) Metadata
8 12 (4.67%) BigQuery
8 12 (4.67%) Snowflake Schema
9 11 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (3.89%) BusinessObjects
11 9 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (3.50%) Hadoop
11 9 (3.50%) MySQL
12 7 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (2.72%) Relational Database
13 6 (2.33%) Delta Lake
13 6 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (1.95%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 20 (7.78%) JIRA
2 13 (5.06%) GitLab
3 7 (2.72%) Git
4 6 (2.33%) ERwin
4 6 (2.33%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.56%) CA Release Automation
5 4 (1.56%) Gradle
5 4 (1.56%) HP UFT
5 4 (1.56%) IntelliJ
5 4 (1.56%) JUnit
5 4 (1.56%) Liquibase
5 4 (1.56%) Maven
5 4 (1.56%) NetBeans
5 4 (1.56%) Selenium
5 4 (1.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.56%) Subversion
5 4 (1.56%) Terragrunt
5 4 (1.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 81 (31.52%) Finance
2 71 (27.63%) Social Skills
3 49 (19.07%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.61%) Banking
5 16 (6.23%) Retail
6 12 (4.67%) Financial Institution
6 12 (4.67%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.11%) Law
8 6 (2.33%) Marketing
9 5 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.95%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.17%) Local Government
11 3 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.78%) Front Office
12 2 (0.78%) Legal
12 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (22.57%) Data Engineer
2 47 (18.29%) Analyst
3 34 (13.23%) Developer
4 33 (12.84%) Architect
5 29 (11.28%) Data Architect
6 23 (8.95%) Lead
7 22 (8.56%) Business Analyst
8 20 (7.78%) Consultant
8 20 (7.78%) Senior
9 17 (6.61%) Data Analyst
10 12 (4.67%) Data Consultant
11 10 (3.89%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (3.89%) Data Business Analyst
11 10 (3.89%) Project Manager
12 8 (3.11%) AWS Data Engineer
12 8 (3.11%) Integration Developer
13 7 (2.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 7 (2.72%) SailPoint Developer
13 7 (2.72%) Senior Data Engineer
13 7 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.78%) Kafka
2 19 (7.39%) Web Services
3 16 (6.23%) REST
4 15 (5.84%) PySpark
5 11 (4.28%) SOAP
6 7 (2.72%) SailPoint
7 5 (1.95%) JSON
7 5 (1.95%) SAP Fiori
8 4 (1.56%) EDI
8 4 (1.56%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.56%) J2EE
8 4 (1.56%) Middleware
8 4 (1.56%) OAuth
8 4 (1.56%) Spring
8 4 (1.56%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.56%) Spring Integration
8 4 (1.56%) Spring MVC
8 4 (1.56%) XML
9 3 (1.17%) .NET
9 3 (1.17%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.17%) Data Structures
2 15 (5.84%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.11%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.56%) Equities
4 4 (1.56%) Fixed Income
4 4 (1.56%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (1.17%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.78%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.78%) Clustering
6 2 (0.78%) Derivative
6 2 (0.78%) DTCC
6 2 (0.78%) Educational Technology
6 2 (0.78%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.78%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.78%) Social Media
6 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.84%) Linux
2 4 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (33.85%) Data Modelling
2 86 (33.46%) ETL
3 66 (25.68%) Migration
4 61 (23.74%) Agile
4 61 (23.74%) Analytics
5 57 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (19.46%) Business Intelligence
6 50 (19.46%) Data Governance
7 45 (17.51%) Data Pipeline
8 39 (15.18%) Data Integration
9 38 (14.79%) Data Migration
10 36 (14.01%) Data Architecture
11 35 (13.62%) Stakeholder Management
11 35 (13.62%) Validation
12 33 (12.84%) Data Engineering
13 31 (12.06%) CI/CD
14 25 (9.73%) Decision-Making
15 24 (9.34%) Artificial Intelligence
16 23 (8.95%) Data Science
17 22 (8.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 110 (42.80%) SQL
2 63 (24.51%) Python
3 22 (8.56%) Java
4 16 (6.23%) PL/SQL
5 12 (4.67%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.72%) BeanShell
7 6 (2.33%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.95%) ABAP
9 4 (1.56%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.17%) C#
10 3 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.17%) Scala
10 3 (1.17%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.78%) DataWeave
11 2 (0.78%) Groovy
11 2 (0.78%) VBA
12 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.39%) LookML
12 1 (0.39%) R
12 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (11.28%) Security Cleared
2 24 (9.34%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.84%) Degree
4 3 (1.17%) PMI Certification
4 3 (1.17%) PMP
5 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.39%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.39%) IIBA
6 1 (0.39%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (19.07%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.61%) GDPR
3 16 (6.23%) QA
4 7 (2.72%) HL7
5 6 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.56%) IFRS
6 4 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.17%) IFRS 9
7 3 (1.17%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.17%) PMO
8 2 (0.78%) Basel III
8 2 (0.78%) EMIR
8 2 (0.78%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.78%) MiFID
9 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.39%) GRC
9 1 (0.39%) LOINC
9 1 (0.39%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (6.23%) Terraform
2 11 (4.28%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.56%) Progress Chef
3 4 (1.56%) Puppet
4 2 (0.78%) Ansible
5 1 (0.39%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 31 (12.06%) Databricks
2 29 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.28%) SAP
3 26 (10.12%) Oracle
4 17 (6.61%) Google
5 15 (5.84%) Salesforce
6 13 (5.06%) Informatica
7 11 (4.28%) Talend
8 6 (2.33%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.95%) Adobe
9 5 (1.95%) IBM
10 4 (1.56%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.56%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (1.56%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (1.17%) Marketo
11 3 (1.17%) Workday
12 2 (0.78%) NCR
12 2 (0.78%) Sparx
12 2 (0.78%) Splunk
12 2 (0.78%) VeriFone