Data Transformation Job Trends in the City of London

Data Transformation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Transformation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 145 129
Rank change year-on-year +28 -16 +85
Permanent jobs citing Data Transformation 19 17 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.84% 0.64% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.67% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 15 7 36
10th Percentile £64,000 £77,500 -
25th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £81,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +11.11% -11.23%
75th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £107,813
90th Percentile £135,000 - £120,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,943 2,536 2,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.28% 95.55% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,422 1,623 2,410
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,125 £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 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Data Transformation job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Transformation
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Transformation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Transformation

Data Transformation
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Transformation in the City of London

Data Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Power Platform
2 9 (47.37%) Azure
3 8 (42.11%) dbt
4 4 (21.05%) Power Automate
5 3 (15.79%) Snowflake
6 2 (10.53%) Azure AI
6 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (5.26%) Dagster
7 1 (5.26%) GCP
7 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (5.26%) Serverless
7 1 (5.26%) Supabase
7 1 (5.26%) Vercel
7 1 (5.26%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) Power BI
2 9 (47.37%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (36.84%) SQL Server
4 5 (26.32%) Metabase
5 3 (15.79%) Data Mining
5 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (5.26%) Airbyte
6 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
6 1 (5.26%) Delta Lake
6 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 1 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (5.26%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (5.26%) Star Schema
6 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Visual Studio
2 2 (10.53%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 15 (78.95%) Finance
2 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Banking
4 3 (15.79%) Financial Institution
4 3 (15.79%) International Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Advertising
5 1 (5.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Data Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Engineering Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Finance Systems Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Financial Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) IT Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) IT Support
2 4 (21.05%) IT Support Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Support Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Systems Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Systems Support
2 4 (21.05%) Systems Support Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) PySpark
2 1 (5.26%) CSS
2 1 (5.26%) Next.js
2 1 (5.26%) Node.js
2 1 (5.26%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (15.79%) Credit Risk
2 3 (15.79%) Market Risk
3 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (47.37%) Data Engineering
3 8 (42.11%) Agile
4 7 (36.84%) Data Governance
4 7 (36.84%) Data Management
5 6 (31.58%) Analytics
5 6 (31.58%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (26.32%) Data Analysis
6 5 (26.32%) Data Modelling
6 5 (26.32%) DevOps
6 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (21.05%) Data Analytics
7 4 (21.05%) ERP
7 4 (21.05%) ETL
7 4 (21.05%) Facilities Management
8 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (15.79%) Data Ingestion
8 3 (15.79%) Risk Analytics
8 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Alteryx
3 1 (5.26%) Foundry
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle