Data Transformation Contracts in the Midlands

Data Transformation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 116 156
Rank change year-on-year +29 +40 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 24 17 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.25% 0.62% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 0.75% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 11
10th Percentile £371 £413 £400
25th Percentile £455 £481 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -4.17% -5.88%
75th Percentile £500 £650 £619
90th Percentile £675 £663 £756
England median daily rate £515 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -4.19% -10.42% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.37 -
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
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Transformation in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Transformation in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Transformation in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +15 14 £475 -16.67% 17
East Midlands +16 10 £443 -29.20% 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (25.00%) Confluence
2 3 (12.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.17%) Apache
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.17%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (20.83%) AWS
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.17%) dbt
6 1 (4.17%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) Pulumi
6 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 3 (12.50%) Apache Hive
2 3 (12.50%) Big Data
2 3 (12.50%) HBase
2 3 (12.50%) Impala
3 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
3 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 4 (16.67%) GitLab
3 2 (8.33%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (8.33%) Gradle
3 2 (8.33%) HP UFT
3 2 (8.33%) IntelliJ
3 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.33%) JUnit
3 2 (8.33%) Maven
3 2 (8.33%) NetBeans
3 2 (8.33%) Selenium
3 2 (8.33%) Subversion
General
1 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Data Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Big Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Data Scientist
4 2 (8.33%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Python Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Scala Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Automation Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) PySpark
2 2 (8.33%) Ajax
2 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (8.33%) Bootstrap
2 2 (8.33%) CSS
2 2 (8.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (8.33%) HTML
2 2 (8.33%) HTML5
2 2 (8.33%) J2EE
2 2 (8.33%) jQuery
2 2 (8.33%) Kafka
2 2 (8.33%) Node.js
2 2 (8.33%) Spring
2 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (8.33%) Spring Integration
2 2 (8.33%) Spring MVC
2 2 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) ETL
2 7 (29.17%) Agile
2 7 (29.17%) Data Migration
2 7 (29.17%) Migration
3 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (25.00%) ERP
4 5 (20.83%) Data Integration
4 5 (20.83%) Data Mapping
4 5 (20.83%) Validation
5 4 (16.67%) Analytics
5 4 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 3 (12.50%) API Integration
6 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.50%) ETL Development
7 2 (8.33%) API Development
7 2 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (8.33%) Data Science
7 2 (8.33%) Data Strategy
7 2 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) Java
3 4 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 3 (12.50%) Python
5 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.33%) Scala
5 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
1 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.17%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
1 2 (8.33%) Puppet
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Atlassian
1 4 (16.67%) IBM
2 3 (12.50%) Informatica
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (8.33%) Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) Guidewire
4 1 (4.17%) Marketo
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce