Dataform Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Google Cloud Dataform
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Dataform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 352 406
Rank change year-on-year -40 +54 +97
Contract jobs citing Dataform 7 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.027% 0.010%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.088% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £380 £316 -
25th Percentile £406 £317 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £318 £100
Median % change year-on-year +57.23% +218.00% -
75th Percentile £650 £319 -
90th Percentile £710 £319 -
UK median daily rate £419 £318 £100
% change year-on-year +31.68% +218.00% -83.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

Dataform falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,884 4,559 5,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.16% 31.19% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,099 3,006 4,281
10th Percentile £240 £238 £217
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 112 183
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.31 £14.01
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.18 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.86 £24.18 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.06% +15.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £55.00 £41.31 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £68.35 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.38
% change year-on-year -1.05% +8.35% +12.80%

Dataform
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dataform in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Dataform in the UK excluding London

Dataform
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 Dataform within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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 West - 5 £550 -
North of England - 5 £550 -
South East - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £500 -
Dataform
UK

Dataform
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 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) dbt
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) BigQuery
2 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) Power BI
3 2 (28.57%) Tableau
4 1 (14.29%) Looker
4 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Automotive
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Data Architect
1 4 (57.14%) GCP Architect
1 4 (57.14%) GCP Data Architect
2 3 (42.86%) BigQuery Architect
3 2 (28.57%) ETL Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Cloud Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Data Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) AI
2 4 (57.14%) Data Architecture
2 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Data Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Digital Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) Data Transformation
4 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) Digital Innovation
4 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Cost Control
5 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Debt
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) LookML
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Google
2 3 (42.86%) Hitachi
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks