Data Transformation Job Trends in the South West

Data Transformation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West 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 167 184 201
Rank change year-on-year +17 +17 +68
Permanent jobs citing Data Transformation 10 5 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.20% 0.12% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.14% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9 5 13
10th Percentile £36,250 £56,000 -
25th Percentile £38,750 £57,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,850 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +13.64% -37.14%
75th Percentile £67,825 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile - £76,000 £96,539
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,639 3,549 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.62% 85.58% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 1,776 3,216
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,454 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
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 West

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

Data Transformation job vacancy trend in the South West

Data Transformation
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Data Transformation
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Data Transformation in the South West

Data Transformation
Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +9 3 £41,250 -34.00% 2
Devon - 3 £64,350 -
Dorset - 3 £60,850 -
Somerset - 1 £32,500 - 1
Data Transformation
England

Data Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (10.00%) dbt
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) Fivetran
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) Google Data Studio
3 1 (10.00%) OCI
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (50.00%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (50.00%) Metadata
2 5 (50.00%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (30.00%) Power BI
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Looker
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
1 5 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
3 1 (10.00%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (10.00%) NumPy
1 1 (10.00%) Pandas
1 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Data Analysis
1 6 (60.00%) Data Governance
1 6 (60.00%) Data Management
1 6 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 5 (50.00%) Data Design
2 5 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 5 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) CRM
4 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Alteryx
1 1 (10.00%) Databricks
1 1 (10.00%) Foundry
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) HubSpot
1 1 (10.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) Palantir
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (10.00%) Talend
1 1 (10.00%) Zoho