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

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 283 339
Rank change year-on-year +94 +56 +81
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 161 121 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.32% 0.70% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 0.79% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 83 115
10th Percentile £406 £408 £450
25th Percentile £463 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% -15.38% +12.07%
75th Percentile £690 £603 £728
90th Percentile £768 £765 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 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 11,263 15,405 23,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.18% 88.53% 90.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,597 11,053 16,838
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £595
Median % change year-on-year - -7.56% +3.48%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 310 268
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.90 £18.35
25th Percentile £23.33 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.83 £39.21
Median % change year-on-year +11.41% -29.04% +9.68%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £63.35 £66.78 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -23.29% -2.14% +49.20%

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 24 May 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 24 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
Central London +16 23 £600 -5.14% 15
South London - 3 £738 - 1
West London - 2 £563 - 28
East London - 1 £700 - 1
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 11 (6.83%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.97%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.11%) Apache
4 4 (2.48%) Confluence
5 2 (1.24%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.24%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.62%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.62%) Mule
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (5.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.86%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.24%) Magento
3 2 (1.24%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (1.24%) SAP CX
3 2 (1.24%) Shopify
4 1 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 58 (36.02%) Azure
2 40 (24.84%) AWS
3 32 (19.88%) Power Platform
4 31 (19.25%) Snowflake
5 21 (13.04%) GCP
6 17 (10.56%) dbt
7 8 (4.97%) GitHub
7 8 (4.97%) Serverless
8 7 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (3.73%) Fivetran
10 5 (3.11%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (2.48%) Collibra
11 4 (2.48%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.86%) Alation
12 3 (1.86%) Cloud Functions
12 3 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (19.25%) Power BI
2 22 (13.66%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (9.32%) Data Lake
4 14 (8.70%) Tableau
5 13 (8.07%) SQL Server
6 11 (6.83%) Metadata
6 11 (6.83%) Snowflake Schema
7 10 (6.21%) BigQuery
8 9 (5.59%) Big Data
9 7 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (4.35%) NoSQL
9 7 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (3.73%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (3.73%) Relational Database
11 5 (3.11%) Delta Lake
11 5 (3.11%) Power Query
12 4 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.48%) Data Vault
12 4 (2.48%) Hadoop
12 4 (2.48%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (4.97%) GitLab
2 7 (4.35%) Git
3 6 (3.73%) JIRA
4 4 (2.48%) ERwin
4 4 (2.48%) Liquibase
4 4 (2.48%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.24%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.62%) MLflow
6 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 64 (39.75%) Finance
2 52 (32.30%) Social Skills
3 36 (22.36%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.32%) Banking
4 15 (9.32%) Retail
5 12 (7.45%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.73%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.11%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.48%) Marketing
8 4 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.24%) Front Office
10 2 (1.24%) Legal
10 2 (1.24%) Local Government
10 2 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.62%) French Language
11 1 (0.62%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (21.12%) Data Engineer
2 31 (19.25%) Analyst
3 25 (15.53%) Architect
4 24 (14.91%) Data Architect
5 21 (13.04%) Developer
6 17 (10.56%) Senior
7 15 (9.32%) Business Analyst
7 15 (9.32%) Lead
8 10 (6.21%) Consultant
8 10 (6.21%) Data Analyst
9 9 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (4.35%) AWS Data Engineer
10 7 (4.35%) Data Consultant
10 7 (4.35%) SailPoint Developer
10 7 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 6 (3.73%) Product Analyst
11 6 (3.73%) Product Manager
11 6 (3.73%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.07%) Kafka
2 9 (5.59%) REST
3 7 (4.35%) PySpark
3 7 (4.35%) SailPoint
4 6 (3.73%) SOAP
5 5 (3.11%) Web Services
6 4 (2.48%) EDI
6 4 (2.48%) JSON
6 4 (2.48%) Middleware
6 4 (2.48%) XML
7 3 (1.86%) .NET
8 2 (1.24%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (1.24%) EDIFACT
8 2 (1.24%) IDoc
8 2 (1.24%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (1.24%) SAP PI
9 1 (0.62%) OAuth
9 1 (0.62%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.62%) XSLT
9 1 (0.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.45%) Data Structures
2 11 (6.83%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.11%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.48%) Equities
4 4 (2.48%) Fixed Income
4 4 (2.48%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.24%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.24%) Derivative
5 2 (1.24%) DTCC
5 2 (1.24%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.24%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (1.24%) NHS
5 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.24%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.24%) Social Media
6 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.62%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (35.40%) ETL
2 50 (31.06%) Data Modelling
3 43 (26.71%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (24.22%) Agile
4 39 (24.22%) Data Governance
5 37 (22.98%) Business Intelligence
5 37 (22.98%) Migration
6 36 (22.36%) Analytics
7 33 (20.50%) Data Pipeline
8 27 (16.77%) Data Architecture
8 27 (16.77%) Data Integration
9 23 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (13.66%) CI/CD
10 22 (13.66%) Data Engineering
11 21 (13.04%) Visualisation
12 20 (12.42%) Decision-Making
13 19 (11.80%) DevOps
14 18 (11.18%) Artificial Intelligence
15 17 (10.56%) Data Migration
15 17 (10.56%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 57 (35.40%) SQL
2 51 (31.68%) Python
3 10 (6.21%) Java
4 7 (4.35%) BeanShell
4 7 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.11%) ABAP
6 3 (1.86%) C#
6 3 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (1.86%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.86%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.24%) Groovy
7 2 (1.24%) VBA
8 1 (0.62%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.62%) DataWeave
8 1 (0.62%) LookML
8 1 (0.62%) Scala
8 1 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (16.77%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.45%) Degree
4 2 (1.24%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.62%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.62%) IIBA
5 1 (0.62%) ISEB
5 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.62%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (22.36%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.83%) QA
3 10 (6.21%) GDPR
4 3 (1.86%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.24%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.24%) EMIR
5 2 (1.24%) MiFID
5 2 (1.24%) PMO
6 1 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.62%) FATCA
6 1 (0.62%) GRC
6 1 (0.62%) IFRS
6 1 (0.62%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.62%) LOINC
6 1 (0.62%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (1.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (9.32%) Terraform
2 9 (5.59%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.24%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (13.04%) SAP
2 20 (12.42%) Databricks
3 14 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 13 (8.07%) Google
5 12 (7.45%) Oracle
6 9 (5.59%) Salesforce
7 8 (4.97%) Informatica
7 8 (4.97%) Talend
8 4 (2.48%) MicroStrategy
8 4 (2.48%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.86%) Workday
10 2 (1.24%) Adobe
10 2 (1.24%) Dell
10 2 (1.24%) NCR
10 2 (1.24%) Splunk
10 2 (1.24%) VeriFone
11 1 (0.62%) IBM
11 1 (0.62%) InterSystems
11 1 (0.62%) Teradata
11 1 (0.62%) TSYS