Data Transformation Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Transformation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Transformation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 251 349
Rank change year-on-year -17 +98 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 121 104 57
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.67% 0.70% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.80% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 70 49
10th Percentile £338 £355 £401
25th Percentile £366 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £535 £534 £600
90th Percentile £569 £602 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -6.38%
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate £49.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -24.62% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,635 13,009 17,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.98% 87.13% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,537 7,651 11,208
10th Percentile £220 £238 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,774 755 1,215
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.02 £31.52 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% -29.17% +42.58%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data Transformation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Transformation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Transformation

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in the UK excluding London

Data Transformation
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Transformation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Transformation

Data Transformation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England -40 35 £375 -16.67% 22
South East -14 24 £500 - 25
Midlands -39 21 £525 +5.00% 14
Scotland +3 20 £442 -1.78% 4
North West -15 20 £352 -14.61% 16
South West +2 14 £450 -34.55% 3
East Midlands -17 12 £531 +6.20% 6
Yorkshire -46 11 £365 -36.96% 4
West Midlands -34 9 £520 +6.12% 8
North East -12 4 £438 +1.16% 2
East of England -23 4 £475 -13.64% 9
Wales +4 3 £700 +109.87%
Northern Ireland - 2 £300 - 1
Data Transformation
UK

Data Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (9.92%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.96%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.13%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.65%) Apache
6 1 (0.83%) Confluence
6 1 (0.83%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (14.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.83%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (2.48%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.65%) Maximo
3 2 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (28.10%) Power Platform
2 32 (26.45%) Azure
3 16 (13.22%) AWS
4 15 (12.40%) Snowflake
5 12 (9.92%) dbt
6 8 (6.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (6.61%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (5.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (5.79%) GCP
7 7 (5.79%) PowerApps
8 6 (4.96%) Prefect
9 5 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.13%) Google Sheets
9 5 (4.13%) Google Workspace
10 4 (3.31%) Collibra
10 4 (3.31%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.48%) SaaS
11 3 (2.48%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.48%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.83%) Firewall
2 1 (0.83%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (27.27%) Power BI
2 27 (22.31%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (14.88%) Metadata
4 13 (10.74%) Data Lake
5 11 (9.09%) Relational Database
6 10 (8.26%) Tableau
7 8 (6.61%) BigQuery
8 7 (5.79%) Power Query
8 7 (5.79%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (4.13%) Data Mining
9 5 (4.13%) SQL Server
10 4 (3.31%) Delta Lake
11 3 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.48%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (2.48%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (1.65%) BusinessObjects XI
12 2 (1.65%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (1.65%) SAP BW
12 2 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (13.22%) Git
2 4 (3.31%) JIRA
3 3 (2.48%) GitLab
3 3 (2.48%) Selenium
4 2 (1.65%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.65%) JUnit
4 2 (1.65%) Maven
4 2 (1.65%) Mockito
5 1 (0.83%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.83%) ERwin
5 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.83%) JMeter
5 1 (0.83%) Poetry
5 1 (0.83%) Postman
5 1 (0.83%) Pylint
5 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
General
1 65 (53.72%) Social Skills
2 36 (29.75%) Finance
3 21 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.22%) Banking
5 9 (7.44%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (7.44%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.79%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.96%) Telecoms
8 5 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.13%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.65%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.65%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.65%) Retail
10 2 (1.65%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.83%) Front Office
11 1 (0.83%) Legal
11 1 (0.83%) Marketing
11 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (30.58%) Analyst
2 27 (22.31%) Data Engineer
3 23 (19.01%) Data Analyst
4 19 (15.70%) Senior
5 14 (11.57%) Developer
6 11 (9.09%) Architect
6 11 (9.09%) Business Analyst
7 8 (6.61%) Lead
8 7 (5.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (5.79%) Consultant
8 7 (5.79%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (4.96%) Data Business Analyst
9 6 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.13%) Power BI Developer
11 4 (3.31%) Data Manager
11 4 (3.31%) Data Modeller
12 3 (2.48%) Business Manager
12 3 (2.48%) Delivery Manager
12 3 (2.48%) Technical Analyst
12 3 (2.48%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.61%) PySpark
2 6 (4.96%) OAuth
3 5 (4.13%) OpenID
4 4 (3.31%) Kafka
4 4 (3.31%) REST
5 3 (2.48%) LDAP
5 3 (2.48%) Middleware
5 3 (2.48%) OAuth2
5 3 (2.48%) SAML
6 2 (1.65%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.65%) GraalVM
6 2 (1.65%) HTML
6 2 (1.65%) JDBC
6 2 (1.65%) JPA
6 2 (1.65%) JSON
6 2 (1.65%) Playwright
6 2 (1.65%) React
6 2 (1.65%) SOAP
6 2 (1.65%) Spring
6 2 (1.65%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.26%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (6.61%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.79%) Clustering
4 5 (4.13%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.13%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.13%) Mainframe
4 5 (4.13%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.31%) NHS
6 3 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.48%) LIMS
6 3 (2.48%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.48%) PACS
6 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.65%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.65%) Replication
7 2 (1.65%) SCADA
7 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.83%) Linux
1 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.02%) Data Modelling
2 39 (32.23%) Analytics
3 37 (30.58%) Business Intelligence
4 35 (28.93%) ETL
5 30 (24.79%) Migration
5 30 (24.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 26 (21.49%) Data Governance
7 25 (20.66%) Agile
8 24 (19.83%) Data Engineering
9 21 (17.36%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (15.70%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (14.88%) CI/CD
12 16 (13.22%) Data Analysis
12 16 (13.22%) Validation
12 16 (13.22%) Visualisation
13 14 (11.57%) Data Mapping
13 14 (11.57%) Decision-Making
14 13 (10.74%) Performance Tuning
15 11 (9.09%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (48.76%) SQL
2 25 (20.66%) Python
3 8 (6.61%) PL/SQL
4 6 (4.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.96%) Java
5 4 (3.31%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.48%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.65%) ABAP
7 2 (1.65%) R
7 2 (1.65%) Scala
8 1 (0.83%) Bicep
8 1 (0.83%) C#
8 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.83%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (14.05%) Degree
2 9 (7.44%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.79%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.96%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.65%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.83%) ACCA
6 1 (0.83%) APMG
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.83%) CBAP
6 1 (0.83%) CIMA
6 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
6 1 (0.83%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (26.45%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.44%) GDPR
3 7 (5.79%) QA
4 3 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.65%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.65%) WCAG
6 1 (0.83%) GMP
6 1 (0.83%) GxP
6 1 (0.83%) HL7
6 1 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (2.48%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.31%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.48%) Grafana
2 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.48%) SCCM
2 3 (2.48%) Terraform
3 2 (1.65%) Kibana
4 1 (0.83%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (25.62%) Microsoft
2 18 (14.88%) Databricks
3 9 (7.44%) Oracle
4 7 (5.79%) Google
4 7 (5.79%) Teradata
5 6 (4.96%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.31%) Informatica
6 4 (3.31%) SAP
7 2 (1.65%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.65%) Talend
8 1 (0.83%) Ariba
8 1 (0.83%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.83%) Darktrace
8 1 (0.83%) Dell
8 1 (0.83%) IFS
8 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.83%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.83%) Qualys
8 1 (0.83%) Sage