Data Transformation Contract Job Trends in the South West

Data Transformation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Data Transformation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 116 144
Rank change year-on-year -6 +28 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 12 11 6
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.52% 0.52% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.60% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 5
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £441 £475 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -22.22% +36.36%
75th Percentile £603 £641 £700
90th Percentile £674 £736 £708
England median daily rate £500 £515 £555
% change year-on-year -2.91% -7.21% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £49.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -24.62% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,932 1,830 2,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.93% 86.73% 87.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 1,127 1,745
10th Percentile £263 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £731 £725
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 129 267
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.99 £20.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £47.50 £45.50
Median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.78% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Data Transformation job vacancy trend in the South West

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Transformation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Transformation

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation in the South West over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in the South West

Data Transformation
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Transformation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Transformation

Data Transformation
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Somerset - 4 £425 -
Bristol -1 3 £631 -8.18% 1
Gloucestershire -7 2 £538 - 1
Wiltshire -20 1 - - 1
Data Transformation
England

Data Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Power Platform
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (25.00%) SaaS
3 3 (25.00%) ShareGate
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Power BI
2 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (25.00%) Metadata
3 2 (16.67%) SAP BW
3 2 (16.67%) SAP HANA
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (8.33%) MySQL
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (8.33%) Tableau
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Data Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) SAP BI Developer
4 2 (16.67%) SAP Developer
4 2 (16.67%) SAP Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA Developer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Data Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Data Migration Business Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Integration Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) LDAP
1 3 (25.00%) OAuth
1 3 (25.00%) OpenID
1 3 (25.00%) SAML
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (16.67%) SCADA
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) DataPower
2 1 (8.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Migration
2 7 (58.33%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (58.33%) ETL
3 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 3 (25.00%) Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) Change Management
5 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Data Discovery
5 3 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (25.00%) Information Architecture
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (25.00%) RBAC
5 3 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
5 3 (25.00%) Runbook
5 3 (25.00%) Technical Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Technical Discovery
6 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (16.67%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) ABAP
3 2 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
1 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) Dell
3 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle