Data Transformation Job Trends in Central London

Data Transformation
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Data Transformation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 164 130
Rank change year-on-year +42 -34 +89
Permanent jobs citing Data Transformation 23 20 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.90% 0.62% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.65% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 15 6 37
10th Percentile £64,000 £76,250 -
25th Percentile £76,250 £83,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £100,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -13.51%
75th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £135,000 - £120,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% - +6.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Transformation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,233 3,083 2,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 87.26% 95.89% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,643 1,839 2,542
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Transformation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Data Transformation job vacancy trend in Central London

Data Transformation
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Transformation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Transformation

Data Transformation
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation in Central London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Transformation in Central London

Data Transformation
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Transformation within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +33 19 £85,000 -15.00% 8
West End of London - 1 - -
Data Transformation
London

Data Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 (13.04%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) Power Platform
2 13 (56.52%) Azure
3 9 (39.13%) dbt
4 5 (21.74%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) Power Automate
6 3 (13.04%) Snowflake
7 2 (8.70%) Azure AI
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (4.35%) Dagster
8 1 (4.35%) GCP
8 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (4.35%) Serverless
8 1 (4.35%) Supabase
8 1 (4.35%) Vercel
8 1 (4.35%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (60.87%) Power BI
2 12 (52.17%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (30.43%) SQL Server
4 5 (21.74%) Metabase
5 4 (17.39%) Tableau
6 3 (13.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (13.04%) Data Mining
6 3 (13.04%) MySQL
6 3 (13.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (4.35%) Airbyte
7 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
7 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
7 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 1 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (4.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Git
2 4 (17.39%) Visual Studio
3 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 15 (65.22%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (13.04%) Banking
5 3 (13.04%) Financial Institution
5 3 (13.04%) International Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Advertising
6 1 (4.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Data Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Engineering Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Finance Systems Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Financial Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) IT Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) IT Support
2 4 (17.39%) IT Support Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Support Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Systems Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Systems Support
2 4 (17.39%) Systems Support Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Data Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
5 1 (4.35%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) PySpark
2 3 (13.04%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) CSS
3 1 (4.35%) Next.js
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (13.04%) Credit Risk
2 3 (13.04%) Market Risk
3 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (56.52%) Data Engineering
3 11 (47.83%) Agile
4 10 (43.48%) Data Governance
4 10 (43.48%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (39.13%) Data Modelling
6 8 (34.78%) DevOps
7 7 (30.43%) Analytics
7 7 (30.43%) Data Management
8 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (21.74%) Data Analysis
10 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (17.39%) Data Analytics
10 4 (17.39%) Data Architecture
10 4 (17.39%) ERP
10 4 (17.39%) ETL
10 4 (17.39%) Facilities Management
10 4 (17.39%) Visualisation
11 3 (13.04%) Data Visualisation
11 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) SQL
2 7 (30.43%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.04%) Scala
4 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Azure Certification
1 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Databricks
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Alteryx
3 1 (4.35%) Foundry
3 1 (4.35%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle