Data Transformation Contracts

Data Transformation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 353 426
Rank change year-on-year +112 +73 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 318 235 290
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 0.55% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.63% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 156 207
10th Percentile £360 £413 £443
25th Percentile £414 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% -12.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £700
90th Percentile £750 £722 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £533
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.10% -1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - £37.80 £37.60
25th Percentile - £48.94 £49.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +78.54%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £67.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year - +117.74% -28.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,789 37,090 51,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.94% 86.26% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,213 23,884 36,030
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £411 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 2,438 1,721
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.22 £16.00 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.16% +0.69% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.34 £38.06 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.81% +8.74% +75.00%

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 11 May 2025.

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
Top 16 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 11 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
England +132 266 £500 -9.09% 303
London +68 165 £585 +6.36% 199
UK excluding London +91 119 £475 -5.00% 164
Work from Home +50 110 £475 -16.67% 205
North of England +31 29 £400 -20.00% 38
Scotland +19 29 £475 - 6
Midlands +30 27 £475 -17.39% 20
South East +54 25 £550 +22.22% 73
North West +24 20 £400 -20.00% 27
West Midlands +21 15 £475 -16.67% 13
East Midlands +14 10 £443 -29.20% 7
South West +42 7 £525 -8.70% 18
North East - 5 £358 - 7
East of England +23 4 £525 -12.50% 7
Yorkshire +12 4 £475 -13.64% 6
Wales +4 1 £167 -73.27% 3

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 19 (5.97%) Apache Spark
2 17 (5.35%) Confluence
3 13 (4.09%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.89%) Apache
4 6 (1.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.57%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.94%) Oracle Service Bus
7 2 (0.63%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.31%) Luigi
8 1 (0.31%) Mule
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.57%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (5.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.89%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.94%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.63%) Magento
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.63%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.63%) Shopify
5 2 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 120 (37.74%) Azure
2 76 (23.90%) AWS
3 60 (18.87%) Power Platform
4 41 (12.89%) Snowflake
5 34 (10.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 34 (10.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 33 (10.38%) GCP
7 25 (7.86%) Serverless
8 22 (6.92%) dbt
9 20 (6.29%) Amazon S3
10 18 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (4.09%) GitHub
12 11 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (2.20%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (1.89%) AWS CodePipeline
16 5 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
16 5 (1.57%) OpenShift
16 5 (1.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (18.87%) Data Warehouse
2 57 (17.92%) Power BI
3 31 (9.75%) Data Lake
4 24 (7.55%) Tableau
5 21 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (5.35%) Big Data
7 16 (5.03%) NoSQL
8 15 (4.72%) SQL Server
9 13 (4.09%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (4.09%) BigQuery
9 13 (4.09%) Metadata
10 11 (3.46%) Hadoop
10 11 (3.46%) Snowflake Schema
11 10 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (2.83%) BusinessObjects
12 9 (2.83%) MySQL
13 7 (2.20%) Relational Database
14 6 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (7.86%) JIRA
2 19 (5.97%) GitLab
3 8 (2.52%) Git
4 6 (1.89%) ERwin
4 6 (1.89%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.57%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.26%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.26%) CA Release Automation
6 4 (1.26%) Gradle
6 4 (1.26%) HP UFT
6 4 (1.26%) IntelliJ
6 4 (1.26%) JUnit
6 4 (1.26%) Maven
6 4 (1.26%) NetBeans
6 4 (1.26%) Selenium
6 4 (1.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (1.26%) Subversion
7 3 (0.94%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.94%) Terragrunt
General
1 85 (26.73%) Finance
2 78 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 61 (19.18%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.23%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.60%) Banking
6 17 (5.35%) Retail
7 11 (3.46%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.52%) Law
9 8 (2.52%) Marketing
10 5 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.57%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.57%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.94%) Local Government
11 3 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.63%) Front Office
12 2 (0.63%) Legal
12 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (29.25%) Data Engineer
2 56 (17.61%) Analyst
3 37 (11.64%) Architect
4 34 (10.69%) Developer
5 31 (9.75%) Data Architect
6 25 (7.86%) Business Analyst
7 24 (7.55%) Lead
8 23 (7.23%) Senior
9 22 (6.92%) Consultant
9 22 (6.92%) Data Analyst
10 17 (5.35%) Azure Engineer
11 16 (5.03%) Azure Data Engineer
12 12 (3.77%) Data Consultant
13 11 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (3.46%) Data Business Analyst
14 10 (3.14%) Project Manager
15 9 (2.83%) AWS Data Engineer
16 8 (2.52%) Integration Developer
16 8 (2.52%) Python Engineer
16 8 (2.52%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.95%) PySpark
2 21 (6.60%) Kafka
3 19 (5.97%) REST
4 16 (5.03%) Web Services
5 8 (2.52%) JSON
5 8 (2.52%) SOAP
6 7 (2.20%) AWS CDK
7 6 (1.89%) SailPoint
8 5 (1.57%) Pandas
8 5 (1.57%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (1.26%) .NET
9 4 (1.26%) EDI
9 4 (1.26%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.26%) J2EE
9 4 (1.26%) Middleware
9 4 (1.26%) Spring
9 4 (1.26%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.26%) Spring Integration
9 4 (1.26%) Spring MVC
10 3 (0.94%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.23%) Data Structures
2 18 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (2.83%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.26%) Equities
5 4 (1.26%) Fixed Income
5 4 (1.26%) Reference Data
6 3 (0.94%) Cloud Native
6 3 (0.94%) Derivative
6 3 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (0.94%) Mainframe
6 3 (0.94%) Management Information System
6 3 (0.94%) NHS
6 3 (0.94%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.63%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.63%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (0.63%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.63%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.03%) Linux
2 4 (1.26%) Unix
3 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (33.33%) ETL
2 103 (32.39%) Data Modelling
3 83 (26.10%) Analytics
4 78 (24.53%) Migration
5 67 (21.07%) Agile
5 67 (21.07%) Data Pipeline
5 67 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (20.44%) Business Intelligence
7 56 (17.61%) Data Governance
8 51 (16.04%) CI/CD
9 50 (15.72%) Data Integration
10 48 (15.09%) Data Engineering
11 47 (14.78%) Data Migration
12 43 (13.52%) DevOps
13 37 (11.64%) Stakeholder Management
14 36 (11.32%) Validation
15 35 (11.01%) Data Science
16 34 (10.69%) Data Architecture
17 31 (9.75%) Decision-Making
18 29 (9.12%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 148 (46.54%) SQL
2 90 (28.30%) Python
3 22 (6.92%) Java
4 13 (4.09%) PL/SQL
5 11 (3.46%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.52%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.89%) BeanShell
8 5 (1.57%) ABAP
8 5 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.26%) C#
9 4 (1.26%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.94%) Scala
10 3 (0.94%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.63%) Go
11 2 (0.63%) Groovy
11 2 (0.63%) R
11 2 (0.63%) VBA
12 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.31%) C
12 1 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 41 (12.89%) Security Cleared
2 35 (11.01%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.60%) Degree
4 7 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.57%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.94%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.94%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.94%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.94%) PMP
8 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.31%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.31%) IIBA
8 1 (0.31%) ISEB
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (17.61%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.92%) QA
3 14 (4.40%) GDPR
4 9 (2.83%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.20%) HL7
6 4 (1.26%) IFRS
6 4 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.94%) IFRS 9
7 3 (0.94%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.94%) PMO
8 2 (0.63%) Basel III
8 2 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.63%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.31%) EMIR
9 1 (0.31%) GRC
9 1 (0.31%) LOINC
9 1 (0.31%) MiFID
9 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 10 (3.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (5.35%) Terraform
2 14 (4.40%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.57%) Grafana
4 4 (1.26%) Ansible
4 4 (1.26%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.26%) Puppet
5 2 (0.63%) Argo
Vendors
1 52 (16.35%) Databricks
2 37 (11.64%) Microsoft
3 29 (9.12%) SAP
4 24 (7.55%) Oracle
5 19 (5.97%) Google
6 15 (4.72%) Informatica
7 14 (4.40%) Salesforce
8 10 (3.14%) Talend
9 5 (1.57%) Adobe
9 5 (1.57%) IBM
9 5 (1.57%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.26%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.26%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.94%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.94%) Marketo
11 3 (0.94%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.94%) Splunk
11 3 (0.94%) Workday
12 2 (0.63%) NCR
12 2 (0.63%) Sparx