Data Transformation Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Transformation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Transformation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 475 413
Rank change year-on-year +40 -62 +44
Permanent jobs citing Data Transformation 82 105 138
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.28% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.32% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 63 61 115
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,441 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,000 £89,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £71,250 £64,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% +10.47% -4.44%

All Process & 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 33,380 32,892 27,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.58% 88.28% 90.59%
Number of salaries quoted 19,063 15,104 20,736
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,755 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -4.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,070
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data Transformation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Transformation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Transformation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Transformation

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 1 January 2026.

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 1 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
North of England +15 21 £60,000 +21.77% 174
Midlands +17 16 £65,000 +8.33% 148
West Midlands +14 15 £66,250 +10.42% 80
South East +25 13 £61,250 -2.00% 185
East of England +31 12 £60,000 -32.96% 139
North West +23 11 £52,500 -32.26% 91
South West +11 10 £60,850 +1.42% 94
Scotland -5 9 £60,000 -7.69% 41
Yorkshire -9 9 £65,000 +31.92% 72
North East +7 1 £77,500 +57.28% 11
Wales +3 1 £60,000 -22.58% 20
East Midlands -7 1 £52,500 -44.74% 58
Data Transformation
UK

Data Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.22%) SAS
3 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (41.46%) Azure
2 21 (25.61%) Power Platform
3 17 (20.73%) Snowflake
4 16 (19.51%) AWS
5 15 (18.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (18.29%) dbt
6 13 (15.85%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (10.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (10.98%) GCP
8 8 (9.76%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (8.54%) SaaS
10 5 (6.10%) Amazon SageMaker
10 5 (6.10%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (6.10%) GitHub
10 5 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.88%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (4.88%) Boomi
11 4 (4.88%) Fivetran
11 4 (4.88%) Google Data Studio
12 3 (3.66%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.22%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (42.68%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (24.39%) Power BI
3 13 (15.85%) SQL Server
4 12 (14.63%) Metadata
5 9 (10.98%) Data Lake
6 8 (9.76%) Tableau
7 7 (8.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (7.32%) Looker
9 5 (6.10%) BigQuery
9 5 (6.10%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (6.10%) Metadata Repository
9 5 (6.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (4.88%) Relational Database
10 4 (4.88%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (3.66%) Pentaho
11 3 (3.66%) Semantic Layer
11 3 (3.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (3.66%) Star Schema
12 2 (2.44%) Power Query
13 1 (1.22%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Git
2 1 (1.22%) LSMW
2 1 (1.22%) MLflow
General
1 36 (43.90%) Finance
2 27 (32.93%) Social Skills
3 16 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (18.29%) Public Sector
5 10 (12.20%) Law
6 8 (9.76%) Marketing
7 6 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (6.10%) Retail
9 4 (4.88%) Manufacturing
10 3 (3.66%) Banking
10 3 (3.66%) Telecoms
11 2 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (2.44%) Electronics
12 1 (1.22%) Advertising
12 1 (1.22%) Games
12 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
12 1 (1.22%) Military
12 1 (1.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (29.27%) Data Engineer
2 21 (25.61%) Senior
3 14 (17.07%) Analyst
4 10 (12.20%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (12.20%) Senior Data Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) Developer
5 8 (9.76%) Lead
6 7 (8.54%) Architect
6 7 (8.54%) Data Architect
7 4 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 4 (4.88%) Data Analyst
7 4 (4.88%) Data Manager
8 3 (3.66%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (2.44%) Head of Engineering
9 2 (2.44%) Integration Analyst
9 2 (2.44%) Lead Data Engineer
9 2 (2.44%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.44%) Senior Test Engineer
9 2 (2.44%) Test Engineer
10 1 (1.22%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.76%) YAML
2 7 (8.54%) Pandas
3 5 (6.10%) JSON
3 5 (6.10%) XML
4 4 (4.88%) Hugging Face
4 4 (4.88%) NumPy
4 4 (4.88%) PySpark
4 4 (4.88%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.44%) EDI
5 2 (2.44%) Kafka
5 2 (2.44%) REST
5 2 (2.44%) SOAP
6 1 (1.22%) .NET
6 1 (1.22%) Middleware
6 1 (1.22%) OAuth
6 1 (1.22%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.22%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.22%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.85%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (9.76%) Reference Data
3 6 (7.32%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.66%) Semantic Web
5 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.22%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.22%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.46%) ETL
2 31 (37.80%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (35.37%) Data Pipeline
4 26 (31.71%) Data Modelling
5 24 (29.27%) Agile
5 24 (29.27%) Analytics
5 24 (29.27%) Data Governance
6 20 (24.39%) CI/CD
6 20 (24.39%) Data Engineering
6 20 (24.39%) Mentoring
6 20 (24.39%) Migration
7 19 (23.17%) DevOps
8 16 (19.51%) Data Management
9 15 (18.29%) Data Architecture
10 14 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (15.85%) Decision-Making
12 12 (14.63%) Actionable Insight
12 12 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (13.41%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 57 (69.51%) SQL
2 40 (48.78%) Python
3 8 (9.76%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.88%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.44%) Java
6 2 (2.44%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.22%) C#
7 1 (1.22%) R
7 1 (1.22%) Scala
7 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.76%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.88%) Degree
4 2 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.44%) CITP
4 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.51%) Data Quality
2 10 (12.20%) Accessibility
3 8 (9.76%) GDPR
4 7 (8.54%) QA
5 4 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (3.66%) HIPAA
6 3 (3.66%) NIST
6 3 (3.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (13.41%) Terraform
2 3 (3.66%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.63%) Databricks
3 10 (12.20%) Salesforce
4 8 (9.76%) SAP
4 8 (9.76%) Talend
5 7 (8.54%) Oracle
6 5 (6.10%) Alteryx
6 5 (6.10%) Google
6 5 (6.10%) HubSpot
6 5 (6.10%) Informatica
7 4 (4.88%) MuleSoft
7 4 (4.88%) OpenAI
7 4 (4.88%) Zoho
8 2 (2.44%) Planon
8 2 (2.44%) SnapLogic
8 2 (2.44%) Workday
9 1 (1.22%) Jitterbit
9 1 (1.22%) Palantir
9 1 (1.22%) Pega
9 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow