Dataform Contract Job Trends

Google Cloud Dataform
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 580 537 590
Rank change year-on-year -43 +53 +198
Contract jobs citing Dataform 11 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.012% 0.005%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.078% 0.033% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 2
10th Percentile £363 £316 -
25th Percentile £367 £317 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £318 £100
Median % change year-on-year +31.68% +218.00% -83.33%
75th Percentile £525 £319 -
90th Percentile £650 £319 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £318 £100
% change year-on-year +57.23% +218.00% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,137 12,097 14,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.17% 36.23% 34.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,689 8,069 10,642
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 176 265
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.44 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +8.35% +12.80%
75th Percentile £56.69 £44.71 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.86 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year +11.06% +15.14% +7.69%

Dataform
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Dataform in the UK

Dataform
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

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 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
England -37 8 £381 +19.89%
UK excluding London -40 7 £500 +57.23%
Work from Home - 7 £450 -
North of England - 5 £550 -
North West - 5 £550 -
South East - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £500 -
London - 1 £388 -

Dataform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) GCP
2 5 (45.45%) Power Platform
3 4 (36.36%) dbt
4 2 (18.18%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
5 1 (9.09%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) BigQuery
2 5 (45.45%) Power BI
3 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (27.27%) Tableau
5 2 (18.18%) Looker
6 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
6 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (9.09%) Power Query
6 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
6 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Automotive
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Data Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Data Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) GCP Architect
1 4 (36.36%) GCP Data Architect
2 3 (27.27%) BigQuery Architect
3 2 (18.18%) ETL Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Power BI Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
2 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) ETL
2 7 (63.64%) Data Modelling
3 6 (54.55%) Data Integration
4 5 (45.45%) Analytics
4 5 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (45.45%) Data Engineering
4 5 (45.45%) Visualisation
5 4 (36.36%) AI
5 4 (36.36%) Data Architecture
5 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (27.27%) Digital Engineering
7 2 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
7 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
7 2 (18.18%) Data Transformation
7 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 2 (18.18%) Digital Innovation
7 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
7 2 (18.18%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) LookML
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Google
2 3 (27.27%) Hitachi
3 2 (18.18%) Databricks
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft