Data Transformation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Transformation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 93 135 136
Rank change year-on-year +42 +1 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 9 10 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.60% 0.37% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.43% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 10
10th Percentile £250 - £453
25th Percentile £288 £375 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -23.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £550 £425 £563
90th Percentile £561 - £626
South East median daily rate £550 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% +0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £67.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year - +117.74% -28.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Transformation in the Thames Valley

Data Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Transformation in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Transformation in the Thames Valley

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in the Thames Valley

Data Transformation
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +29 8 £500 +25.00% 12
Buckinghamshire - 1 £540 - 5
Data Transformation
South East

Data Transformation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Service Bus
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) OCI
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Big Data
2 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (22.22%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) ERwin
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) Junior
2 2 (22.22%) Junior Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (22.22%) PySpark
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
1 3 (33.33%) Data Science
1 3 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 3 (33.33%) Migration
1 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 3 (33.33%) SOA
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Data Mapping
2 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
2 2 (22.22%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Validation
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Databricks
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Google