Data Transformation Contracts in London

Data Transformation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 200 261 334
Rank change year-on-year +61 +73 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 157 132 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.25% 0.74% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 0.84% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 87 127
10th Percentile £375 £418 £450
25th Percentile £463 £463 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £690 £616 £738
90th Percentile £771 £775 £832
England median daily rate £525 £545 £600
% change year-on-year -3.67% -9.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £71.00
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £79.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +78.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,566 15,789 24,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.13% 88.49% 91.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,853 11,316 17,713
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 325 278
10th Percentile £16.37 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.75 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £28.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +19.30% -25.25% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £46.86 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.30 £76.78
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Transformation in London

Data Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Transformation in London

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in London

Data Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Transformation in London

Data Transformation
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +9 19 £600 -5.14% 10
South London - 3 £738 - 3
West London +14 2 £563 +60.71% 4
East London - 1 £700 - 2
North London - 1 £650 -
Data Transformation
England

Data Transformation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 12 (7.64%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.10%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.91%) Apache
3 3 (1.91%) Confluence
4 2 (1.27%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.64%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.64%) Mule
Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (6.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.91%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.27%) Magento
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (1.27%) SAP CX
4 2 (1.27%) Shopify
5 1 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 62 (39.49%) Azure
2 39 (24.84%) AWS
3 35 (22.29%) Power Platform
4 29 (18.47%) Snowflake
5 20 (12.74%) GCP
6 16 (10.19%) dbt
7 13 (8.28%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (7.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (5.10%) Serverless
10 7 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (4.46%) GitHub
11 6 (3.82%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.18%) Fivetran
13 4 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.55%) Collibra
13 4 (2.55%) Power Automate
14 3 (1.91%) Alation
14 3 (1.91%) Amazon EMR
14 3 (1.91%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (21.66%) Power BI
2 23 (14.65%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (10.83%) Data Lake
3 17 (10.83%) Tableau
4 12 (7.64%) SQL Server
5 11 (7.01%) Snowflake Schema
6 9 (5.73%) Metadata
6 9 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (5.10%) BigQuery
7 8 (5.10%) BusinessObjects
8 7 (4.46%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (4.46%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.82%) Big Data
9 6 (3.82%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (3.18%) Power Query
11 4 (2.55%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.55%) MySQL
12 3 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.46%) GitLab
2 6 (3.82%) JIRA
3 4 (2.55%) ERwin
3 4 (2.55%) Git
4 3 (1.91%) Liquibase
4 3 (1.91%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.27%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 61 (38.85%) Finance
2 48 (30.57%) Social Skills
3 39 (24.84%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.83%) Retail
5 13 (8.28%) Banking
6 10 (6.37%) Financial Institution
6 10 (6.37%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.18%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.55%) Marketing
9 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Front Office
11 2 (1.27%) Legal
11 2 (1.27%) Local Government
11 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.64%) French Language
12 1 (0.64%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 39 (24.84%) Data Engineer
2 28 (17.83%) Analyst
3 24 (15.29%) Architect
4 23 (14.65%) Data Architect
5 19 (12.10%) Senior
6 16 (10.19%) Developer
7 14 (8.92%) Lead
8 13 (8.28%) Business Analyst
9 11 (7.01%) Consultant
10 10 (6.37%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (6.37%) Data Analyst
11 8 (5.10%) AWS Data Engineer
12 7 (4.46%) Data Consultant
13 6 (3.82%) Product Analyst
13 6 (3.82%) Product Manager
13 6 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
13 6 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
14 5 (3.18%) Python Engineer
14 5 (3.18%) SailPoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.92%) Kafka
1 14 (8.92%) PySpark
2 6 (3.82%) REST
3 5 (3.18%) SailPoint
4 4 (2.55%) Middleware
4 4 (2.55%) Web Services
5 3 (1.91%) .NET
5 3 (1.91%) SOAP
6 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.27%) EDI
6 2 (1.27%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (1.27%) SAP PI
7 1 (0.64%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.64%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.64%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.64%) ODBC
7 1 (0.64%) pytest
7 1 (0.64%) XSLT
7 1 (0.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.37%) Data Structures
1 10 (6.37%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (3.18%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.55%) Equities
3 4 (2.55%) Fixed Income
3 4 (2.55%) Reference Data
4 3 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.27%) Derivative
5 2 (1.27%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.27%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.27%) NHS
5 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.27%) Social Media
5 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.64%) Clustering
6 1 (0.64%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.64%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.64%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (34.39%) ETL
2 49 (31.21%) Data Modelling
3 42 (26.75%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (24.84%) Business Intelligence
5 38 (24.20%) Data Governance
5 38 (24.20%) Migration
6 37 (23.57%) Analytics
7 36 (22.93%) Agile
8 35 (22.29%) Data Pipeline
9 24 (15.29%) Data Architecture
10 23 (14.65%) Data Engineering
11 22 (14.01%) Data Integration
11 22 (14.01%) Visualisation
12 21 (13.38%) Decision-Making
13 20 (12.74%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (11.46%) Actionable Insight
14 18 (11.46%) CI/CD
14 18 (11.46%) Data Migration
15 16 (10.19%) Data Science
15 16 (10.19%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 61 (38.85%) SQL
2 51 (32.48%) Python
3 9 (5.73%) Java
4 5 (3.18%) BeanShell
4 5 (3.18%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.91%) ABAP
5 3 (1.91%) C#
5 3 (1.91%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.27%) VBA
7 1 (0.64%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.64%) Bash
7 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.64%) DataWeave
7 1 (0.64%) Go
7 1 (0.64%) R
7 1 (0.64%) Scala
7 1 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (16.56%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.01%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.64%) Degree
4 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.64%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.64%) IIBA
5 1 (0.64%) ISEB
5 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (22.93%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.64%) QA
3 8 (5.10%) GDPR
4 5 (3.18%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.91%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.27%) PMO
7 1 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.64%) IFRS
7 1 (0.64%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.64%) LOINC
7 1 (0.64%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (1.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (8.28%) Terraform
2 8 (5.10%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (12.10%) SAP
2 17 (10.83%) Databricks
3 16 (10.19%) Microsoft
4 11 (7.01%) Google
4 11 (7.01%) Oracle
5 8 (5.10%) Informatica
5 8 (5.10%) Salesforce
6 7 (4.46%) Talend
7 4 (2.55%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.91%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (1.91%) Workday
9 2 (1.27%) Adobe
9 2 (1.27%) Dell
9 2 (1.27%) NCR
9 2 (1.27%) Splunk
9 2 (1.27%) VeriFone
10 1 (0.64%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.64%) Marketo
10 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.64%) Sparx