Data Transformation Contracts in the North West

Data Transformation
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 101 128 153
Rank change year-on-year +27 +25 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 19 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.97% 0.33% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.38% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 3
10th Percentile £363 - £414
25th Percentile £375 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -19.80% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £478 £550 £500
90th Percentile £506 £578 £526
England median daily rate £515 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -4.19% -10.42% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Transformation in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Transformation in the North West

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Transformation in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +29 16 £400 -15.79% 18
Cheshire - 2 £335 - 6
Data Transformation
England

Data Transformation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (10.53%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (26.32%) Power Platform
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Functions
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (10.53%) Serverless
5 1 (5.26%) AWS
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) Slack
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) MySQL
1 5 (26.32%) NoSQL
1 5 (26.32%) Power BI
2 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.79%) Dremio
2 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.53%) Tableau
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.26%) Big Data
4 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.26%) Delta Lake
4 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.26%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) JIRA
1 5 (26.32%) Visual Studio
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (10.53%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (10.53%) Gradle
3 2 (10.53%) HP UFT
3 2 (10.53%) IntelliJ
3 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) JUnit
3 2 (10.53%) Maven
3 2 (10.53%) NetBeans
3 2 (10.53%) Selenium
3 2 (10.53%) Subversion
4 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 5 (26.32%) Law
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Data Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Integration Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Programme Manager
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Programme Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Kafka
2 2 (10.53%) Hibernate
2 2 (10.53%) J2EE
2 2 (10.53%) PySpark
2 2 (10.53%) Spring
2 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
2 2 (10.53%) Spring Integration
2 2 (10.53%) Spring MVC
2 2 (10.53%) Web Services
3 1 (5.26%) Ajax
3 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.26%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (5.26%) Bootstrap
3 1 (5.26%) CSS
3 1 (5.26%) HTML
3 1 (5.26%) HTML5
3 1 (5.26%) jQuery
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Data Modelling
2 6 (31.58%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (31.58%) Data Engineering
2 6 (31.58%) Data Ingestion
2 6 (31.58%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (31.58%) ETL
3 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (21.05%) Analytics
4 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (21.05%) Data Analytics
4 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
4 4 (21.05%) Validation
5 3 (15.79%) Agile
5 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.79%) Data Science
5 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
5 3 (15.79%) Performance Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Project Management
5 3 (15.79%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) T-SQL
4 2 (10.53%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) R
5 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) HL7
2 4 (21.05%) Data Quality
3 3 (15.79%) QA
4 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
1 2 (10.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Databricks
2 3 (15.79%) Informatica
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Talend
3 2 (10.53%) Brio
3 2 (10.53%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (10.53%) SAP