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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 441 462
Rank change year-on-year +71 +21 -75
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 232 290 462
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.49% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.55% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 207 313
10th Percentile £413 £417 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £602 £700 £650
90th Percentile £748 £780 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £528 £543
% change year-on-year -2.84% -2.76% +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 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +76 202 £550 -8.33% 96
London +87 132 £550 -15.38% 56
Work from Home +102 104 £570 +0.88% 58
UK excluding London +55 75 £513 -2.84% 43
Midlands +36 17 £575 -4.17% 12
South East +15 16 £450 -12.20% 9
Scotland +53 15 £450 +20.00% 1
North of England +30 14 £500 -9.09% 9
West Midlands +30 13 £570 +1.33% 7
North West +32 9 £500 +14.29% 7
East of England +16 7 £600 +13.21% 4
Yorkshire +14 5 £550 -10.57% 1
South West +13 5 £575 +3.14% 7
East Midlands +19 4 £625 +4.17% 5
Wales +13 1 £625 +31.58% 1

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 15 (6.47%) Apache
2 8 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.72%) 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 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.72%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.29%) SAP MDM
4 3 (1.29%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.86%) Shopify
5 2 (0.86%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.43%) Endur
6 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 79 (34.05%) Azure
2 48 (20.69%) Power Platform
3 46 (19.83%) AWS
4 27 (11.64%) Dynamics 365
5 26 (11.21%) Azure Logic Apps
6 25 (10.78%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (9.05%) Serverless
8 19 (8.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (7.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 17 (7.33%) Amazon S3
10 17 (7.33%) Snowflake
11 16 (6.90%) Azure API Management
12 14 (6.03%) Amazon Kinesis
13 13 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (5.60%) dbt
14 12 (5.17%) GCP
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 63 (27.16%) Data Warehouse
2 42 (18.10%) Power BI
3 36 (15.52%) Data Lake
4 14 (6.03%) Tableau
5 13 (5.60%) Metadata
6 12 (5.17%) SQL Server
7 11 (4.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 10 (4.31%) Big Data
9 9 (3.88%) Flink
9 9 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (3.45%) Relational Database
11 7 (3.02%) Looker
12 6 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (2.59%) NoSQL
13 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 5 (2.16%) Parquet
13 5 (2.16%) Power Query
13 5 (2.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (1.72%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 7 (3.02%) ERwin
1 7 (3.02%) Git
2 6 (2.59%) GitLab
2 6 (2.59%) JIRA
3 2 (0.86%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.86%) kappa
General
1 61 (26.29%) Finance
2 55 (23.71%) Social Skills
3 20 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.60%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.74%) Retail
6 10 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.02%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (3.02%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.59%) Banking
8 6 (2.59%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.72%) Legal
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 67 (28.88%) Data Engineer
2 35 (15.09%) Analyst
3 30 (12.93%) Lead
4 21 (9.05%) Architect
5 20 (8.62%) Developer
5 20 (8.62%) Project Manager
6 18 (7.76%) Business Analyst
7 15 (6.47%) Data Architect
8 14 (6.03%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (5.60%) Azure Data Engineer
9 13 (5.60%) Data Analyst
10 12 (5.17%) Consultant
11 11 (4.74%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 10 (4.31%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
12 10 (4.31%) Power BI Analyst
13 9 (3.88%) Data Manager
14 8 (3.45%) Data Consultant
14 8 (3.45%) Python Data Engineer
14 8 (3.45%) Python Engineer
14 8 (3.45%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.91%) XML
2 20 (8.62%) JSON
3 14 (6.03%) Kafka
3 14 (6.03%) PySpark
4 10 (4.31%) REST
5 8 (3.45%) Pandas
6 7 (3.02%) ADO
7 6 (2.59%) AWS CDK
8 4 (1.72%) Flask
8 4 (1.72%) NumPy
8 4 (1.72%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 4 (1.72%) RESTful
8 4 (1.72%) YAML
9 3 (1.29%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (1.29%) PostGIS
10 2 (0.86%) .NET
10 2 (0.86%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.86%) Node.js
11 1 (0.43%) CSS
11 1 (0.43%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.47%) Data Structures
2 6 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (2.59%) Product Ownership
3 4 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (1.72%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.72%) Reference Data
3 4 (1.72%) Taxonomies
4 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.29%) FMCG
4 3 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (1.29%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (1.29%) Wiki
5 1 (0.43%) Blog
5 1 (0.43%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.43%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.43%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (0.43%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.43%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.72%) Linux
1 4 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (34.05%) Data Modelling
2 60 (25.86%) Analytics
2 60 (25.86%) ETL
3 50 (21.55%) Migration
4 48 (20.69%) Business Intelligence
5 45 (19.40%) DevOps
6 44 (18.97%) Data Integration
6 44 (18.97%) Data Pipeline
7 40 (17.24%) Data Governance
8 39 (16.81%) Agile
9 36 (15.52%) Data Migration
10 33 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (12.93%) Data Engineering
12 25 (10.78%) Decision-Making
12 25 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 25 (10.78%) Test Strategy
13 24 (10.34%) Data Management
13 24 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
14 22 (9.48%) Project Management
14 22 (9.48%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 80 (34.48%) SQL
2 49 (21.12%) Python
3 23 (9.91%) C#
4 7 (3.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (3.02%) Java
5 6 (2.59%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.16%) R
6 5 (2.16%) X++
7 4 (1.72%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.72%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.72%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.86%) Bash
8 2 (0.86%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.86%) Scala
8 2 (0.86%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (8.19%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.76%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.33%) Degree
4 5 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.86%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.22%) 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 13 (5.60%) Docker
2 4 (1.72%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (4.74%) Terraform
2 6 (2.59%) 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 36 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 28 (12.07%) Databricks
3 16 (6.90%) SAP
4 15 (6.47%) Google
5 8 (3.45%) 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%) Ariba
10 1 (0.43%) Ceridian
10 1 (0.43%) OpenLink