Dataform Contract Job Trends in England

Google Cloud Dataform
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Dataform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 496 543
Rank change year-on-year -37 +47 +180
Contract jobs citing Dataform 8 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.025% 0.014% 0.006%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.066% 0.039% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile - £316 -
25th Percentile £363 £317 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £318 £100
Median % change year-on-year +19.89% +218.00% -83.33%
75th Percentile £483 £319 -
90th Percentile £643 £319 -
UK median daily rate £419 £318 £100
% change year-on-year +31.68% +218.00% -83.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Dataform falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12,086 10,364 12,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.18% 36.62% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,343 6,943 9,151
10th Percentile £304 £313 £280
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 138 245
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.60 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.10 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +20.52% +3.48%
75th Percentile £56.50 £47.17 £53.50
90th Percentile £77.25 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.38
% change year-on-year -1.05% +8.35% +12.80%

Dataform
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dataform in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Dataform in England

Dataform
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 Dataform within the England region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
North West - 5 £550 -
North of England - 5 £550 -
London - 1 £388 -
South East - 1 - -
Dataform
UK

Dataform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) GCP
2 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (25.00%) dbt
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (12.50%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) BigQuery
2 4 (50.00%) Power BI
3 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (37.50%) Tableau
4 2 (25.00%) Looker
5 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (12.50%) Power Query
5 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
3 2 (25.00%) Automotive
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 4 (50.00%) GCP Architect
1 4 (50.00%) GCP Data Architect
2 3 (37.50%) BigQuery Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) ETL Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Cloud Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Data Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Power BI Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Data Integration
1 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
1 5 (62.50%) ETL
2 4 (50.00%) AI
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 3 (37.50%) Digital Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) Digital Innovation
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) LookML
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Google
2 3 (37.50%) Hitachi
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft