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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 115 147
Rank change year-on-year +5 +32 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 19 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.87% 0.33% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.39% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 2
10th Percentile £375 £398 £533
25th Percentile £388 £450 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £503 £688 £594
90th Percentile £531 £755 £598
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +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 1,945 2,026 2,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.65% 84.31% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,257 1,215 1,795
10th Percentile £280 £311 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £667 £678 £667
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 172 165
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.61 £30.76
Median % change year-on-year -21.98% +12.52% +38.91%
75th Percentile £58.27 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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

Data Transformation
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 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in the North West

Data Transformation
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

Data Transformation
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 15 August 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 +15 15 £488 -18.75% 15
Cheshire -19 2 £335 - 2
Merseyside - 1 £395 - 1
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 3 (15.79%) Apache
1 3 (15.79%) Apache Spark
2 2 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) Power Platform
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (15.79%) AWS
4 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) GCP
5 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.26%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) Power BI
2 4 (21.05%) Data Lake
3 3 (15.79%) Delta Lake
3 3 (15.79%) Dremio
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (10.53%) Big Data
4 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.26%) Metadata
5 1 (5.26%) Parquet
5 1 (5.26%) Power Query
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 3 (15.79%) Visual Studio
2 2 (10.53%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Gradle
2 2 (10.53%) HP UFT
2 2 (10.53%) IntelliJ
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) JUnit
2 2 (10.53%) Maven
2 2 (10.53%) NetBeans
2 2 (10.53%) Selenium
2 2 (10.53%) Subversion
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Law
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Retail
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Data Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Integration Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Power BI Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Programme Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Business Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Kafka
2 3 (15.79%) PySpark
3 2 (10.53%) Hibernate
3 2 (10.53%) J2EE
3 2 (10.53%) Spring
3 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.53%) Spring Integration
3 2 (10.53%) Spring MVC
3 2 (10.53%) Web Services
4 1 (5.26%) Ajax
4 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.26%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (5.26%) Bootstrap
4 1 (5.26%) CSS
4 1 (5.26%) HTML
4 1 (5.26%) HTML5
4 1 (5.26%) jQuery
4 1 (5.26%) Node.js
4 1 (5.26%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Data Modelling
2 6 (31.58%) Data Engineering
2 6 (31.58%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (26.32%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (21.05%) ETL
5 3 (15.79%) Agile
5 3 (15.79%) Analytics
5 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.79%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (15.79%) Data Governance
5 3 (15.79%) Data Science
5 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
5 3 (15.79%) Project Delivery
6 2 (10.53%) Analytical Modelling
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (10.53%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) Scala
3 3 (15.79%) T-SQL
4 2 (10.53%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Data Quality
2 3 (15.79%) HL7
3 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
1 2 (10.53%) Puppet
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Databricks
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) SAP
4 2 (10.53%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (5.26%) Veeam
5 1 (5.26%) VMware