Data Transformation Contracts in the North of England

Data Transformation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 162 188
Rank change year-on-year +17 +26 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 24 16 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.73% 0.34% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.40% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 13
10th Percentile £368 - £415
25th Percentile £375 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% -9.09% +5.26%
75th Percentile £494 £575 £688
90th Percentile £513 - -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,978 3,966 5,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.97% 84.67% 90.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,915 2,415 3,463
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £648 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 377 204
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.99 £12.53 £15.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.11 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +38.87% -34.95% +46.53%
75th Percentile £51.00 £45.88 £43.94
90th Percentile £76.25 £62.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Transformation in the North of England

Data Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Transformation in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Transformation in the North of England

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in the North of England

Data Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Transformation in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Transformation in the North of England

Data Transformation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 29 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
North West +13 19 £402 -13.08% 23
Yorkshire +10 5 £450 -18.18% 12
Data Transformation
England

Data Transformation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) Apache
2 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
3 4 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.17%) AWS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) Slack
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (20.83%) Power BI
3 3 (12.50%) Big Data
3 3 (12.50%) Dremio
3 3 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 3 (12.50%) MySQL
3 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
4 2 (8.33%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.17%) Data Hub
5 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.17%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (12.50%) Visual Studio
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
4 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Law
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.33%) Retail
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Integration Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Programme Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Programme Director
5 2 (8.33%) QA Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Change Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Data Migration Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Programme Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Kafka
1 3 (12.50%) PySpark
2 2 (8.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (8.33%) J2EE
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
3 1 (4.17%) Ajax
3 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.17%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (4.17%) Bootstrap
3 1 (4.17%) CSS
3 1 (4.17%) HTML
3 1 (4.17%) HTML5
3 1 (4.17%) jQuery
3 1 (4.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Collaborative Working
1 7 (29.17%) Data Modelling
2 6 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
3 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (20.83%) Data Engineering
3 5 (20.83%) ETL
3 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.83%) Validation
4 4 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
4 4 (16.67%) Migration
4 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 4 (16.67%) Test Strategy
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (12.50%) Design Patterns
5 3 (12.50%) Open Source
5 3 (12.50%) Performance Testing
5 3 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) Python
3 3 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 2 (8.33%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (20.83%) HL7
3 3 (12.50%) QA
4 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (4.17%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
1 2 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Databricks
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) SAP
3 3 (12.50%) Informatica
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle
3 3 (12.50%) Talend
4 2 (8.33%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (8.33%) Cloudera
5 1 (4.17%) Veeam
5 1 (4.17%) VMware