Data Transformation Job Trends in the South East

Data Transformation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data Transformation skills. It covers permanent 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 263 292 251
Rank change year-on-year +29 -41 +102
Permanent jobs citing Data Transformation 13 15 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.13% 0.16% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.18% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 12 12 9
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £51,181
25th Percentile £41,563 £47,813 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,250 £78,375 £93,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +9.62% -5.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,394 8,137 6,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.93% 87.63% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,969 4,002 4,895
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £44,106 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,300
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Data Transformation job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Transformation
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Transformation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Transformation

Data Transformation
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation in the South East over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Transformation in the South East

Data Transformation
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Transformation within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +11 4 £42,500 -34.62% 3
East Sussex +13 3 £62,500 -10.71%
Buckinghamshire +4 3 £37,750 -47.93% 1
Surrey +8 2 £53,750 -14.00% 1
Hampshire +40 1 £60,000 +41.18%
Kent - 1 £130,000 - 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £42,500 - 1
Data Transformation
England

Data Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
2 3 (23.08%) SaaS
2 3 (23.08%) Snowflake
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (15.38%) dbt
3 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (15.38%) Fivetran
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (15.38%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (7.69%) Boomi
4 1 (7.69%) iPaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) HTTPS
1 1 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
3 3 (23.08%) Power BI
3 3 (23.08%) Tableau
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (15.38%) BigQuery
4 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
4 2 (15.38%) Looker
5 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (7.69%) Metadata
5 1 (7.69%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Law
3 2 (15.38%) Marketing
3 2 (15.38%) Retail
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Data Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Data Quality Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Graduate Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Graduate Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Graduate Data Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Quality Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Integration Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Hugging Face
1 2 (15.38%) NumPy
1 2 (15.38%) Pandas
1 2 (15.38%) scikit-learn
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) XML
2 1 (7.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Actionable Insight
1 6 (46.15%) Analytics
1 6 (46.15%) Data Engineering
1 6 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
1 6 (46.15%) ETL
2 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (30.77%) Data Governance
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) AI
4 3 (23.08%) CRM
4 3 (23.08%) Data Munging
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
4 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
5 2 (15.38%) A/B Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Data Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) ETL Development
5 2 (15.38%) Segmentation Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) SQL
2 9 (69.23%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Databricks
2 3 (23.08%) HubSpot
2 3 (23.08%) Salesforce
3 2 (15.38%) Alteryx
3 2 (15.38%) Google
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) OpenAI
3 2 (15.38%) Talend
3 2 (15.38%) Zoho
4 1 (7.69%) Jitterbit
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle