Data Transformation Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Transformation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 244 341
Rank change year-on-year +47 +97 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 105 105 134
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.06% 0.69% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.78% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 68 102
10th Percentile £375 £413 £401
25th Percentile £418 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £570 £553
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% +3.17% +2.79%
75th Percentile £629 £600 £719
90th Percentile £694 £690 £799
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -7.41% -10.00% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +78.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,017 13,465 23,106
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.06% 87.90% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,189 8,984 16,334
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Data Transformation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Transformation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Transformation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Transformation.

Data Transformation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Transformation over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Data Transformation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Transformation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Transformation.

Data Transformation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Transformation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (8.57%) Confluence
2 7 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 6 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.81%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.95%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.95%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (3.81%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Aladdin
1 3 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 43 (40.95%) Azure
2 32 (30.48%) AWS
3 22 (20.95%) Power Platform
4 14 (13.33%) GCP
5 13 (12.38%) Snowflake
6 12 (11.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (10.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (10.48%) Serverless
8 10 (9.52%) Amazon S3
9 9 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (8.57%) dbt
10 6 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.81%) GitHub
12 3 (2.86%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
13 2 (1.90%) Alation
13 2 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.86%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (19.05%) Power BI
3 11 (10.48%) Data Lake
4 7 (6.67%) Tableau
5 6 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (5.71%) Big Data
5 6 (5.71%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (4.76%) Hadoop
6 5 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (3.81%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.81%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.90%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.90%) Dremio
8 2 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.90%) Looker
8 2 (1.90%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (9.52%) JIRA
2 9 (8.57%) GitLab
3 4 (3.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (3.81%) Bitbucket
3 4 (3.81%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.86%) CA Release Automation
4 3 (2.86%) Gradle
4 3 (2.86%) HP UFT
4 3 (2.86%) IntelliJ
4 3 (2.86%) JUnit
4 3 (2.86%) Maven
4 3 (2.86%) NetBeans
4 3 (2.86%) Selenium
4 3 (2.86%) Subversion
5 2 (1.90%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.90%) ERwin
5 2 (1.90%) Git
5 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (1.90%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.90%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (17.14%) Finance
3 15 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 10 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.67%) Law
6 6 (5.71%) Banking
7 5 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.90%) Local Government
9 2 (1.90%) Marketing
10 1 (0.95%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.95%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.95%) Legal
10 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 17 (16.19%) Analyst
3 11 (10.48%) Data Analyst
3 11 (10.48%) Developer
4 9 (8.57%) Consultant
5 8 (7.62%) Business Analyst
6 7 (6.67%) Azure Data Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Senior
7 6 (5.71%) Architect
7 6 (5.71%) Data Business Analyst
7 6 (5.71%) Lead
8 5 (4.76%) Data Architect
8 5 (4.76%) Data Consultant
8 5 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) Integration Developer
9 4 (3.81%) Python Data Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) SAP Consultant
9 4 (3.81%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.24%) PySpark
2 9 (8.57%) Kafka
3 4 (3.81%) Pandas
4 3 (2.86%) AWS CDK
4 3 (2.86%) Hibernate
4 3 (2.86%) J2EE
4 3 (2.86%) JSON
4 3 (2.86%) REST
4 3 (2.86%) Spring
4 3 (2.86%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.86%) Spring Integration
4 3 (2.86%) Spring MVC
4 3 (2.86%) Web Services
5 2 (1.90%) Ajax
5 2 (1.90%) CSS
5 2 (1.90%) HTML
5 2 (1.90%) HTML5
5 2 (1.90%) jQuery
5 2 (1.90%) Node.js
5 2 (1.90%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.62%) Data Structures
1 8 (7.62%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.86%) NHS
3 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.90%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.90%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.90%) Equities
4 2 (1.90%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.90%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.90%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.90%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.95%) Clustering
5 1 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.38%) Linux
2 4 (3.81%) Unix
3 2 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (35.24%) Data Modelling
2 35 (33.33%) ETL
3 29 (27.62%) Migration
4 27 (25.71%) Analytics
5 25 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
6 21 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (19.05%) Data Engineering
7 20 (19.05%) Data Migration
8 17 (16.19%) DevOps
9 16 (15.24%) CI/CD
9 16 (15.24%) Data Integration
10 15 (14.29%) Data Mapping
11 13 (12.38%) Agile
11 13 (12.38%) Data Science
11 13 (12.38%) Validation
12 12 (11.43%) Data Governance
13 11 (10.48%) Collaborative Working
14 10 (9.52%) Data Architecture
15 9 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (53.33%) SQL
2 36 (34.29%) Python
3 5 (4.76%) Java
4 4 (3.81%) PL/SQL
4 4 (3.81%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.86%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.90%) C#
6 2 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.95%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.95%) Bash
7 1 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.95%) Go
7 1 (0.95%) Scala
7 1 (0.95%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.76%) Degree
4 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.90%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.95%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.67%) HL7
3 5 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.81%) GDPR
4 4 (3.81%) QA
5 2 (1.90%) Basel III
5 2 (1.90%) IFRS
5 2 (1.90%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.90%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.95%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.95%) LOINC
6 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.95%) PMO
6 1 (0.95%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (3.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.62%) Terraform
2 6 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.81%) Ansible
3 4 (3.81%) Grafana
4 3 (2.86%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.86%) Puppet
5 2 (1.90%) Argo
Vendors
1 18 (17.14%) Databricks
1 18 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.76%) Google
3 4 (3.81%) Atlassian
3 4 (3.81%) IBM
3 4 (3.81%) SAP
4 3 (2.86%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (2.86%) Informatica
4 3 (2.86%) Oracle
5 2 (1.90%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.90%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (1.90%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.95%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.95%) InterSystems
6 1 (0.95%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.95%) Remedy
6 1 (0.95%) Sparx
6 1 (0.95%) Workday