Data Transformation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Transformation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 309 369
Rank change year-on-year +88 +60 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 118 85 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.91% 0.42% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.50% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 57 53
10th Percentile £350 £398 £392
25th Percentile £406 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.54% -2.28%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £633
90th Percentile £672 £673 £713
UK median daily rate £503 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -6.90% -10.00% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £37.80 -
25th Percentile - £48.94 £29.50
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year - +117.74% -28.60%
75th Percentile - - £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +78.54%

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 11,714 17,075 20,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.67% 84.25% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,208 14,243
10th Percentile £234 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 858 2,062 1,260
10th Percentile £14.10 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £27.64 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.27% +1.39% +40.19%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Transformation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Transformation in the UK excluding London

Data Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Transformation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Transformation in the UK excluding London

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 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in the UK excluding London

Data Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Transformation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Transformation in the UK excluding London

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 21 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
Scotland +12 28 £475 - 8
North of England +33 27 £400 -20.00% 49
South East +52 26 £575 +27.78% 80
Midlands +19 24 £460 -17.86% 26
North West +18 19 £400 -20.00% 28
West Midlands +8 12 £460 -19.30% 15
East Midlands +14 10 £443 -2.75% 11
South West +39 8 £525 -8.70% 17
East of England +26 6 £501 -23.00% 11
Yorkshire +13 4 £475 -13.64% 10
North East - 4 £358 - 13
Wales +2 1 £167 -73.27% 3
Data Transformation
UK

Data Transformation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (10.17%) Confluence
2 7 (5.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (3.39%) Oracle Service Bus
4 3 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.54%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.54%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.69%) Apache
6 1 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.85%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.85%) Luigi
6 1 (0.85%) Mule
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.85%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.54%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (5.93%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (33.05%) Azure
2 26 (22.03%) AWS
3 16 (13.56%) Power Platform
4 15 (12.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (10.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (9.32%) Serverless
7 10 (8.47%) GCP
8 9 (7.63%) Amazon S3
8 9 (7.63%) Snowflake
9 8 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (5.08%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (4.24%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (4.24%) OCI
12 5 (4.24%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.54%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (2.54%) GitHub
13 3 (2.54%) Matillion
13 3 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (1.69%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.49%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (11.86%) Power BI
3 12 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (7.63%) Data Lake
5 8 (6.78%) Big Data
5 8 (6.78%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (4.24%) Hadoop
7 5 (4.24%) Metadata
7 5 (4.24%) MySQL
7 5 (4.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (3.39%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (3.39%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.54%) Apache Hive
9 3 (2.54%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.54%) Dremio
9 3 (2.54%) HBase
9 3 (2.54%) Impala
9 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (13.56%) JIRA
2 13 (11.02%) GitLab
3 5 (4.24%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (3.39%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.39%) CA Release Automation
4 4 (3.39%) Gradle
4 4 (3.39%) HP UFT
4 4 (3.39%) IntelliJ
4 4 (3.39%) JUnit
4 4 (3.39%) Maven
4 4 (3.39%) NetBeans
4 4 (3.39%) Selenium
4 4 (3.39%) Subversion
4 4 (3.39%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.54%) Git
5 3 (2.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.69%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.85%) ERwin
General
1 25 (21.19%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.95%) Finance
3 16 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.17%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.93%) Banking
6 6 (5.08%) Law
7 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.54%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Marketing
8 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Retail
8 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (28.81%) Data Engineer
2 24 (20.34%) Analyst
3 14 (11.86%) Developer
4 11 (9.32%) Data Analyst
5 10 (8.47%) Business Analyst
6 9 (7.63%) Architect
6 9 (7.63%) Consultant
7 6 (5.08%) Data Business Analyst
7 6 (5.08%) Integration Developer
7 6 (5.08%) Lead
7 6 (5.08%) Project Manager
7 6 (5.08%) Senior
7 6 (5.08%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (4.24%) Data Consultant
9 4 (3.39%) Azure Data Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Data Architect
10 3 (2.54%) Java Developer
10 3 (2.54%) Junior
10 3 (2.54%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.86%) Web Services
2 13 (11.02%) REST
3 9 (7.63%) Kafka
3 9 (7.63%) PySpark
4 7 (5.93%) AWS CDK
5 5 (4.24%) SOAP
6 4 (3.39%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.39%) J2EE
6 4 (3.39%) Spring
6 4 (3.39%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.39%) Spring Integration
6 4 (3.39%) Spring MVC
7 3 (2.54%) Ajax
7 3 (2.54%) CSS
7 3 (2.54%) HTML
7 3 (2.54%) HTML5
7 3 (2.54%) jQuery
7 3 (2.54%) Node.js
7 3 (2.54%) OAuth
7 3 (2.54%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.02%) Data Structures
2 8 (6.78%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.54%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (2.54%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.69%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.85%) Clustering
5 1 (0.85%) Derivative
5 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.85%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.47%) Linux
2 6 (5.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (36.44%) Data Modelling
2 42 (35.59%) ETL
3 37 (31.36%) Migration
4 29 (24.58%) Agile
5 28 (23.73%) Data Migration
6 26 (22.03%) Analytics
7 23 (19.49%) CI/CD
8 22 (18.64%) Data Integration
9 19 (16.10%) Data Pipeline
10 18 (15.25%) Data Mapping
11 17 (14.41%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (14.41%) Validation
12 16 (13.56%) Data Engineering
12 16 (13.56%) Data Governance
12 16 (13.56%) DevOps
13 14 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (10.17%) ERP
15 12 (10.17%) Scrum
16 11 (9.32%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 67 (56.78%) SQL
2 23 (19.49%) Python
3 13 (11.02%) PL/SQL
4 12 (10.17%) Java
5 6 (5.08%) Shell Script
6 5 (4.24%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.39%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.54%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.69%) Scala
10 1 (0.85%) DataWeave
10 1 (0.85%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (7.63%) Degree
2 6 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.54%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.69%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.69%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.85%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.85%) PMP
5 1 (0.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.56%) Data Quality
2 12 (10.17%) QA
3 6 (5.08%) GDPR
4 5 (4.24%) HL7
5 4 (3.39%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.69%) Basel III
7 2 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (1.69%) IFRS
7 2 (1.69%) IFRS 17
7 2 (1.69%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.85%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (5.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.39%) Progress Chef
1 4 (3.39%) Puppet
2 3 (2.54%) Grafana
3 2 (1.69%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.85%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.56%) Databricks
2 16 (13.56%) Oracle
3 7 (5.93%) Google
4 6 (5.08%) Informatica
4 6 (5.08%) SAP
5 4 (3.39%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.39%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (3.39%) IBM
5 4 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.54%) Adobe
6 3 (2.54%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.54%) Talend
7 2 (1.69%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.69%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.85%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.85%) Marketo
8 1 (0.85%) Splunk
8 1 (0.85%) TSYS
8 1 (0.85%) Veeam