Data Transformation Contract Job Trends in the North East

Data Transformation
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Data Transformation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 35 28
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 3 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.03% 1.05% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.15% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £374 £469 £425
25th Percentile £391 £478 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £495 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% -10.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £456 £499 £588
90th Percentile - £500 £595
England median daily rate £500 £525 £598
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.13% +3.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 245 260 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 83.90% 91.23% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 99 157
10th Percentile £225 £314 £320
25th Percentile £400 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £575
90th Percentile £646 £704 £636
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 35 11
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.13 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.28 £29.77 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.61% +48.85% +14.29%
75th Percentile £20.63 £46.18 £39.97
90th Percentile £47.20 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +47.11%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Transformation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Data Transformation job vacancy trend in the North East

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Data Transformation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Data Transformation

Data Transformation
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Tyne and Wear - 3 £438 - 2
Data Transformation
England

Data Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Management
1 2 (66.67%) Data Mapping
1 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks