Hybrid/Remote Dataform Contract Job Trends

Google Cloud Dataform
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work 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 312 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Dataform 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.068% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £380 - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £530 - -
UK median daily rate £419 £318 £100
% change year-on-year +31.68% +218.00% -83.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

Dataform falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,380 4,400 6,239
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.83% 38.55% 38.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,981 2,965 4,523
10th Percentile £330 £331 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £741 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 47 81
10th Percentile £17.80 £23.20 £15.42
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.81 £20.50
Median hourly rate £37.00 £37.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - -22.11% +19.42%
75th Percentile £67.00 £64.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.00 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.38
% change year-on-year -1.05% +8.35% +12.80%

Dataform
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Dataform over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Dataform daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Dataform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) dbt
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) BigQuery
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Power Query
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 2 (28.57%) Automotive
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Data Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) GCP Architect
1 3 (42.86%) GCP Data Architect
2 2 (28.57%) BigQuery Architect
2 2 (28.57%) ETL Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Data Integration
3 3 (42.86%) AI
3 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) Digital Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Digital Innovation
4 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
5 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Logical Data Model
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (14.29%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
1 3 (42.86%) Hitachi
2 2 (28.57%) Databricks