Data Transformation Contract Job Trends in Reading

Data Transformation
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading 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 52 93 88
Rank change year-on-year +41 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 9 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.52% 0.091% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 0.11% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £528 - -
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +9.76%
75th Percentile - - £475
90th Percentile £595 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +12.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 540 947 974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.22% 86.48% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 518 653
10th Percentile £343 £347 £272
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £578 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.00% +8.75%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 25 17
10th Percentile - £14.50 £35.90
25th Percentile £14.75 £42.50 £57.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £60.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.97% -8.18% +24.53%
75th Percentile £58.00 £64.73 £74.00
90th Percentile £66.60 £87.46 £75.10
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £60.60 £60.63
% change year-on-year -38.48% -0.04% +21.25%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Data Transformation job vacancy trend in Reading

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Data Transformation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Data Transformation

Data Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Service Bus
Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Computing
1 4 (44.44%) dbt
1 4 (44.44%) GCP
1 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (44.44%) Power BI
1 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
1 4 (44.44%) Tableau
2 3 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Data Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Telecoms Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) HR Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle HRMS Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Validation
2 6 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 5 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (44.44%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (44.44%) Data Engineering
4 4 (44.44%) Decision-Making
4 4 (44.44%) ETL
4 4 (44.44%) Integration Testing
4 4 (44.44%) SOA
4 4 (44.44%) Visualisation
4 4 (44.44%) WFM
4 4 (44.44%) Workflow
5 3 (33.33%) Data Mapping
5 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
5 3 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
5 3 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
5 3 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
6 1 (11.11%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) PL/SQL
2 4 (44.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
1 4 (44.44%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
2 3 (33.33%) GDPR
2 3 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks