Data Transformation Contracts

Data Transformation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Transformation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Transformation over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 422 444
Rank change year-on-year +65 +22 -76
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 232 294 489
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.49% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.55% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 214 342
10th Percentile £412 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £488 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% +9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £650
90th Percentile £722 £796 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £530 £543
% change year-on-year -5.66% -2.30% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £37.80 £37.60 £35.57
25th Percentile £48.94 £49.75 £36.43
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £39.21
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +78.54% -1.98%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £43.34
90th Percentile - £78.00 £45.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £31.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year +117.74% -28.60% +47.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Transformation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Transformation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Transformation.

Hourly rate trend for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Transformation over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
England +71 203 £548 -8.75% 80
London +81 133 £550 -15.38% 47
Work from Home +91 104 £563 +2.27% 47
UK excluding London +64 74 £500 -5.66% 36
Midlands +34 17 £575 -4.17% 14
South East +19 16 £450 -14.29% 4
Scotland +45 15 £450 +20.00% 1
North of England +24 14 £500 -9.09% 8
West Midlands +37 13 £570 +14.00% 6
North West +25 9 £500 +14.29% 2
East of England +12 7 £600 +13.21% 2
Yorkshire +13 5 £550 -11.29% 3
East Midlands +22 4 £625 +4.17% 8
South West +12 4 £581 +4.26% 6
Wales +14 1 £625 +31.58% 2

Data Transformation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (7.33%) Apache
2 7 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.16%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.86%) Confluence
5 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.43%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.29%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.29%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.86%) SAP MDM
4 2 (0.86%) Shopify
4 2 (0.86%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 78 (33.62%) Azure
2 49 (21.12%) AWS
3 46 (19.83%) Power Platform
4 27 (11.64%) Dynamics 365
5 26 (11.21%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (10.78%) Azure Logic Apps
7 21 (9.05%) Serverless
8 19 (8.19%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (8.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 18 (7.76%) Amazon S3
10 17 (7.33%) Amazon Kinesis
11 16 (6.90%) Azure API Management
11 16 (6.90%) Snowflake
12 13 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (5.17%) GCP
14 11 (4.74%) dbt
15 8 (3.45%) AWS CodePipeline
16 7 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (3.02%) Power Automate
16 7 (3.02%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) NAS
1 1 (0.43%) Network Security
1 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (28.45%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (16.81%) Power BI
3 33 (14.22%) Data Lake
4 14 (6.03%) Metadata
5 13 (5.60%) SQL Server
6 12 (5.17%) Tableau
7 11 (4.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 10 (4.31%) Big Data
9 9 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (3.88%) Flink
9 9 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (3.45%) Relational Database
11 7 (3.02%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (2.59%) NoSQL
13 5 (2.16%) Looker
13 5 (2.16%) Power Query
14 4 (1.72%) Oracle Database
14 4 (1.72%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 7 (3.02%) ERwin
1 7 (3.02%) Git
1 7 (3.02%) JIRA
2 6 (2.59%) GitLab
3 2 (0.86%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.86%) kappa
General
1 59 (25.43%) Finance
1 59 (25.43%) Social Skills
2 26 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (5.60%) Public Sector
4 11 (4.74%) Retail
5 10 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.02%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.59%) Legal
7 6 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.16%) Banking
8 5 (2.16%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.72%) Local Government
10 3 (1.29%) Marketing
10 3 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.43%) French Language
11 1 (0.43%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.43%) Law
11 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (30.17%) Data Engineer
2 34 (14.66%) Analyst
3 31 (13.36%) Lead
4 20 (8.62%) Architect
5 19 (8.19%) Developer
5 19 (8.19%) Project Manager
6 16 (6.90%) Business Analyst
7 15 (6.47%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (6.03%) Azure Data Engineer
8 14 (6.03%) Data Analyst
8 14 (6.03%) Data Architect
9 12 (5.17%) Consultant
10 11 (4.74%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 10 (4.31%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
11 10 (4.31%) Data Manager
11 10 (4.31%) Power BI Analyst
12 9 (3.88%) AWS Data Engineer
12 9 (3.88%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (3.45%) Data Consultant
13 8 (3.45%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.91%) XML
2 20 (8.62%) JSON
3 14 (6.03%) Kafka
4 13 (5.60%) PySpark
5 10 (4.31%) REST
6 8 (3.45%) Pandas
7 7 (3.02%) ADO
8 6 (2.59%) AWS CDK
9 4 (1.72%) Flask
9 4 (1.72%) NumPy
9 4 (1.72%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 4 (1.72%) RESTful
9 4 (1.72%) YAML
10 3 (1.29%) .NET
10 3 (1.29%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (1.29%) PostGIS
11 2 (0.86%) GraphQL
11 2 (0.86%) Middleware
11 2 (0.86%) Node.js
12 1 (0.43%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.90%) Data Structures
2 6 (2.59%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.72%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.72%) Reference Data
4 4 (1.72%) Taxonomies
5 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.29%) FMCG
5 3 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.29%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.29%) Wiki
6 1 (0.43%) Blog
6 1 (0.43%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.43%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.43%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.43%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.43%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.72%) Linux
1 4 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (35.34%) Data Modelling
2 64 (27.59%) ETL
3 62 (26.72%) Analytics
4 50 (21.55%) Migration
5 47 (20.26%) Business Intelligence
6 45 (19.40%) Data Integration
7 44 (18.97%) Data Pipeline
7 44 (18.97%) DevOps
8 41 (17.67%) Data Governance
9 40 (17.24%) Agile
10 38 (16.38%) Data Migration
11 36 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (14.22%) Data Engineering
13 26 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
14 25 (10.78%) Test Strategy
15 24 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
16 23 (9.91%) Data Management
16 23 (9.91%) Data Security
16 23 (9.91%) Decision-Making
17 22 (9.48%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 83 (35.78%) SQL
2 50 (21.55%) Python
3 23 (9.91%) C#
4 7 (3.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (3.02%) R
5 6 (2.59%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.59%) T-SQL
6 5 (2.16%) Java
6 5 (2.16%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.16%) X++
7 4 (1.72%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.86%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.86%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.43%) Scala
9 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (8.19%) Degree
1 19 (8.19%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.76%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.86%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (15.52%) Data Quality
2 22 (9.48%) QA
3 4 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.72%) PMO
4 2 (0.86%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.43%) NIST
5 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (4.74%) Docker
2 4 (1.72%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (5.17%) Terraform
2 5 (2.16%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.72%) Data Guard
3 4 (1.72%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.86%) Grafana
5 1 (0.43%) Podman
Vendors
1 38 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 28 (12.07%) Databricks
3 16 (6.90%) Google
4 15 (6.47%) SAP
5 9 (3.88%) Oracle
6 6 (2.59%) Alteryx
6 6 (2.59%) Informatica
7 4 (1.72%) Adobe
7 4 (1.72%) Embarcadero
7 4 (1.72%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.29%) Workday
9 2 (0.86%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.86%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.86%) IDERA
9 2 (0.86%) Sparx
9 2 (0.86%) Talend
9 2 (0.86%) UiPath
10 1 (0.43%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.43%) Ariba
10 1 (0.43%) Ceridian