Data Transformation Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Transformation
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 98 132
Rank change year-on-year +15 +34 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 14 13 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.04% 0.67% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.79% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 7
10th Percentile - £373 £350
25th Percentile £455 £481 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.00% -21.57%
75th Percentile £544 £594 £697
90th Percentile £675 £660 £764
England median daily rate £515 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -4.19% -10.42% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.37 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +78.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Transformation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Transformation in the West Midlands

Data Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Transformation in the West Midlands

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in the West Midlands

Data Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Transformation in the West Midlands

Data Transformation
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +21 5 £500 - 9
Shropshire - 4 £460 -
Coventry +7 3 £390 -33.62% 3
Warwickshire -1 1 £650 +18.18% 2
Data Transformation
England

Data Transformation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (28.57%) AWS
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 4 (28.57%) Bitbucket
1 4 (28.57%) GitLab
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Business Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Data Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Data Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Scientist
3 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) CRM Manager
4 1 (7.14%) CRM Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Transformation Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
1 4 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) ERP
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Data Migration
2 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 3 (21.43%) API Integration
3 3 (21.43%) Data Integration
3 3 (21.43%) Data Mapping
3 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
3 3 (21.43%) ETL
3 3 (21.43%) ETL Development
3 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
3 3 (21.43%) Validation
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (14.29%) Data Science
5 1 (7.14%) CRM
5 1 (7.14%) Project Management
5 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) PL/SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 2 (14.29%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Atlassian
1 4 (28.57%) IBM
2 3 (21.43%) Informatica
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Databricks
4 1 (7.14%) Guidewire