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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 519 592
Rank change year-on-year -119 +73 +99
Contract jobs citing Dataform 5 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.017% 0.016%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.028% 0.045% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £500 £315 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £318 £100
Median % change year-on-year +68.92% +218.19% -
75th Percentile £575 £354 -
90th Percentile - £411 £325
UK excluding London median daily rate - £315 £100
% change year-on-year - +215.00% -

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 17,667 11,096 14,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.56% 37.90% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 7,514 9,919
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £711 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 270 353
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.14% +30.23% -44.55%
75th Percentile £68.33 £47.41 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £19.00
% change year-on-year +94.60% +1.42% -31.73%

Dataform
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Dataform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Dataform job vacancy trend in the UK

Dataform
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dataform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dataform

Dataform
Top 3 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 9 June 2026. 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
London -72 5 £538 +19.44% 1
England -127 5 £538 +68.92% 3
Work from Home -53 1 £475 +50.79%

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (20.00%) Looker
2 1 (20.00%) Semantic Layer
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Statistics
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (20.00%) Logistics
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google