Data Transformation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Transformation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Transformation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Transformation over the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 451 497
Rank change year-on-year +7 +46 -33
Permanent jobs citing Data Transformation 166 253 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.41% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.52% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 82 101 152
10th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £46,750
25th Percentile £50,313 £44,738 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £84,425 £86,250 £87,419
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -3.57% +4.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,331 48,994 44,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 87.08% 79.18% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 19,902 30,208 26,486
10th Percentile £25,528 £29,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Transformation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Transformation in the UK excluding London

Data Transformation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Transformation in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Transformation in the UK excluding London

Data Transformation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Transformation in the UK excluding London

Data Transformation
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 August 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
South East +70 68 £60,000 -25.00% 61
Midlands +29 31 £55,000 -8.33% 13
West Midlands +48 28 £55,000 -8.33% 9
East of England +8 23 £50,000 - 2
Scotland +27 17 £85,000 +36.00% 9
North of England -25 15 £43,500 -11.72% 25
Yorkshire +9 8 £42,000 -14.76% 11
South West +27 7 £70,000 +11.11% 13
North West -32 7 £53,750 -2.27% 12
East Midlands +21 3 - - 4
Wales +16 3 £60,000 +40.34%
Isle of Man - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
Data Transformation
UK

Data Transformation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (4.82%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.81%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.81%) Confluence
3 1 (0.60%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 8 (4.82%) Dynamics AX
2 5 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (1.20%) Magento
4 2 (1.20%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 68 (40.96%) Azure
2 58 (34.94%) AWS
3 50 (30.12%) Snowflake
4 49 (29.52%) Power Platform
5 39 (23.49%) GCP
6 17 (10.24%) Power Automate
7 16 (9.64%) Amazon SageMaker
8 13 (7.83%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (6.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (4.82%) PowerApps
11 7 (4.22%) GitHub
12 6 (3.61%) Boomi
12 6 (3.61%) Collibra
12 6 (3.61%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (3.61%) SaaS
13 5 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (3.01%) dbt
13 5 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (33.13%) Data Warehouse
2 41 (24.70%) Power BI
3 34 (20.48%) Metadata
4 30 (18.07%) Data Lake
5 19 (11.45%) Tableau
6 14 (8.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (7.23%) BigQuery
8 11 (6.63%) SQL Server
9 9 (5.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (4.22%) NoSQL
10 7 (4.22%) Power Query
10 7 (4.22%) Relational Database
11 5 (3.01%) Looker
11 5 (3.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (1.81%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (1.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (1.20%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (1.20%) MySQL
13 2 (1.20%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 10 (6.02%) JIRA
2 6 (3.61%) Git
3 3 (1.81%) ERwin
4 2 (1.20%) GitLab
4 2 (1.20%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.60%) JUnit
5 1 (0.60%) MLflow
5 1 (0.60%) Selenium
5 1 (0.60%) TestComplete
General
1 69 (41.57%) Finance
2 46 (27.71%) Law
3 41 (24.70%) Social Skills
4 31 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (11.45%) Manufacturing
5 19 (11.45%) Retail
6 16 (9.64%) Marketing
7 11 (6.63%) Public Sector
8 10 (6.02%) Legal
8 10 (6.02%) Police
9 9 (5.42%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.20%) Advertising
13 2 (1.20%) Automotive
13 2 (1.20%) Banking
13 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.60%) Games
14 1 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 60 (36.14%) Lead
2 40 (24.10%) Senior
3 25 (15.06%) Data Engineer
4 22 (13.25%) Analyst
5 16 (9.64%) Developer
6 9 (5.42%) Architect
6 9 (5.42%) Data Architect
6 9 (5.42%) Deployment Manager
6 9 (5.42%) Senior Manager
7 8 (4.82%) Microsoft 365 Developer
8 7 (4.22%) Data Analyst
8 7 (4.22%) Data Manager
9 6 (3.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (3.61%) Lead Architect
9 6 (3.61%) Lead Data Architect
10 5 (3.01%) Applications Support
10 5 (3.01%) Applications Support Analyst
10 5 (3.01%) Support Analyst
11 4 (2.41%) Power Platform Developer
11 4 (2.41%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.43%) PySpark
2 13 (7.83%) NumPy
2 13 (7.83%) scikit-learn
3 11 (6.63%) EDI
4 10 (6.02%) .NET
4 10 (6.02%) PyTorch
4 10 (6.02%) TensorFlow
5 9 (5.42%) Keras
6 4 (2.41%) Hugging Face
6 4 (2.41%) Pandas
7 3 (1.81%) XML
8 2 (1.20%) Apache Jena
8 2 (1.20%) XGBoost
9 1 (0.60%) JSON
9 1 (0.60%) Middleware
9 1 (0.60%) OAuth
9 1 (0.60%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.60%) RAML
9 1 (0.60%) RESTful
9 1 (0.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.63%) Data Structures
2 9 (5.42%) Algorithms
3 8 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.82%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.20%) Credit Risk
4 2 (1.20%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.60%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.60%) IoT
5 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.60%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.60%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (50.60%) Analytics
2 73 (43.98%) ETL
3 57 (34.34%) Data Engineering
4 52 (31.33%) Data Governance
5 50 (30.12%) Data Modelling
5 50 (30.12%) Data Pipeline
6 48 (28.92%) Data Management
7 47 (28.31%) Business Intelligence
8 44 (26.51%) Data Strategy
9 42 (25.30%) Stakeholder Management
10 41 (24.70%) Data Architecture
11 37 (22.29%) Migration
12 33 (19.88%) Artificial Intelligence
13 30 (18.07%) Validation
14 29 (17.47%) Agile
14 29 (17.47%) Data Stewardship
14 29 (17.47%) Metadata Management
15 28 (16.87%) Use Case
16 27 (16.27%) Data Validation
16 27 (16.27%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 92 (55.42%) SQL
2 67 (40.36%) Python
3 11 (6.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (6.02%) C#
4 10 (6.02%) Java
5 5 (3.01%) PL/SQL
5 5 (3.01%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.20%) R
6 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.20%) SPARQL
7 1 (0.60%) DataWeave
7 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 43 (25.90%) Degree
2 9 (5.42%) PhD
3 6 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.01%) CITP
4 5 (3.01%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.01%) MBA
5 3 (1.81%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.81%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.81%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.60%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (28.92%) Data Quality
2 39 (23.49%) QA
3 26 (15.66%) Accessibility
4 14 (8.43%) GDPR
5 2 (1.20%) Dublin Core
5 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.60%) IFRS
6 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.60%) Ansible
1 1 (0.60%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.43%) Salesforce
3 13 (7.83%) Google
3 13 (7.83%) Oracle
4 11 (6.63%) SAP
5 9 (5.42%) Informatica
6 8 (4.82%) Databricks
7 6 (3.61%) Alteryx
7 6 (3.61%) Talend
8 5 (3.01%) Dell
8 5 (3.01%) HubSpot
9 4 (2.41%) OpenAI
9 4 (2.41%) Zoho
10 3 (1.81%) IFS
10 3 (1.81%) JD Edwards
10 3 (1.81%) Sparx
11 2 (1.20%) QAD
11 2 (1.20%) Sage
12 1 (0.60%) Jitterbit
12 1 (0.60%) MuleSoft