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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 415 529
Rank change year-on-year +51 +114 -95
Permanent jobs citing Data Transformation 328 140 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.41% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.47% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 235 78 65
10th Percentile £36,000 £42,350 £37,414
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +11.62% -27.00%
75th Percentile £76,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £92,988 £78,625 £73,650
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £66,500
% change year-on-year - +1.50% -5.00%

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 58,541 29,655 43,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.09% 86.65% 78.26%
Number of salaries quoted 41,477 15,958 23,760
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +62 137 £47,500 +5.56% 116
Midlands +7 87 £59,866 +8.85% 59
North West +49 76 £55,000 +10.00% 74
West Midlands -18 50 £60,000 +9.09% 45
Yorkshire -6 44 £45,000 +7.14% 25
South East -63 38 £65,000 +8.33% 70
East Midlands +7 37 £59,732 +13.78% 14
Scotland +20 25 £65,000 +8.33% 42
South West -63 24 £60,000 -14.29% 62
North East -45 17 £45,000 -41.94% 17
East of England -28 15 £62,500 +25.00% 22
Northern Ireland -76 2 £60,000 - 16
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 11 (3.35%) Apache
2 10 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.22%) Confluence
5 2 (0.61%) Luigi
6 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.44%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.52%) Infor M3
3 4 (1.22%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.91%) SAP MDG-BP
4 3 (0.91%) SAP MDG-F
5 1 (0.30%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 112 (34.15%) Azure
2 88 (26.83%) Power Platform
3 57 (17.38%) AWS
4 28 (8.54%) Azure Data Factory
4 28 (8.54%) GCP
5 21 (6.40%) Snowflake
6 14 (4.27%) dbt
6 14 (4.27%) Serverless
7 13 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (3.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (3.66%) SaaS
9 11 (3.35%) Boomi
9 11 (3.35%) GitHub
10 10 (3.05%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.05%) Collibra
10 10 (3.05%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (3.05%) Power Automate
11 9 (2.74%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (22.87%) Power BI
2 48 (14.63%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (7.01%) Metadata
4 21 (6.40%) Tableau
5 18 (5.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (5.49%) Data Lake
5 18 (5.49%) SQL Server
6 14 (4.27%) BigQuery
7 11 (3.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (2.44%) Semantic Layer
9 7 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (2.13%) Looker
9 7 (2.13%) NoSQL
9 7 (2.13%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.83%) Power Query
10 6 (1.83%) Spark SQL
10 6 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.52%) Star Schema
12 4 (1.22%) Metabase
Development Applications
1 20 (6.10%) Git
2 7 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (1.52%) JIRA
4 4 (1.22%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.61%) MLflow
7 1 (0.30%) DBeaver
7 1 (0.30%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.30%) Terragrunt
General
1 112 (34.15%) Finance
2 87 (26.52%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (22.56%) Social Skills
4 31 (9.45%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.57%) Manufacturing
6 14 (4.27%) Banking
7 11 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (3.35%) Retail
8 9 (2.74%) Law
9 8 (2.44%) Legal
10 7 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.91%) Local Government
13 3 (0.91%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.61%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.61%) Marketing
14 2 (0.61%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.30%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 87 (26.52%) Data Engineer
2 57 (17.38%) Senior
3 48 (14.63%) Architect
4 46 (14.02%) Analyst
5 37 (11.28%) Data Analyst
5 37 (11.28%) Data Manager
6 36 (10.98%) Lead
7 22 (6.71%) Senior Analyst
8 20 (6.10%) Data Architect
9 19 (5.79%) Senior Data Analyst
9 19 (5.79%) Senior Manager
10 17 (5.18%) Consultant
11 16 (4.88%) Associate Director
11 16 (4.88%) Delivery Director
11 16 (4.88%) Delivery Manager
11 16 (4.88%) Developer
11 16 (4.88%) Senior Associate Director
11 16 (4.88%) Senior Delivery Manager
12 15 (4.57%) Data Governance Manager
12 15 (4.57%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.45%) PySpark
2 16 (4.88%) Terraform
3 11 (3.35%) REST
3 11 (3.35%) SOAP
4 8 (2.44%) Kafka
5 5 (1.52%) .NET
5 5 (1.52%) JSON
6 4 (1.22%) LDAP
6 4 (1.22%) SailPoint
7 3 (0.91%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.91%) Great Expectations
7 3 (0.91%) Pandas
7 3 (0.91%) Web Services
7 3 (0.91%) XML
8 2 (0.61%) EDI
8 2 (0.61%) Middleware
8 2 (0.61%) Node.js
8 2 (0.61%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.61%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.30%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.88%) Data Structures
2 13 (3.96%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.83%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.83%) Operational Technology
6 5 (1.52%) FMCG
7 4 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.91%) Low-Code
8 3 (0.91%) Replication
9 2 (0.61%) Blog
9 2 (0.61%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.61%) NHS
9 2 (0.61%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.61%) Robotics
9 2 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (35.67%) Analytics
2 92 (28.05%) Business Intelligence
2 92 (28.05%) Data Governance
2 92 (28.05%) Decision-Making
3 80 (24.39%) Data Modelling
4 79 (24.09%) ETL
5 75 (22.87%) AI
6 70 (21.34%) Data Engineering
7 66 (20.12%) Data Pipeline
8 62 (18.90%) Agile
9 57 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (16.16%) Data Management
11 51 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 48 (14.63%) Data Analysis
12 48 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 47 (14.33%) Data Architecture
14 44 (13.41%) Roadmaps
15 43 (13.11%) Migration
16 42 (12.80%) Data Strategy
17 39 (11.89%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 176 (53.66%) SQL
2 96 (29.27%) Python
3 17 (5.18%) Java
4 13 (3.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 12 (3.66%) Scala
6 10 (3.05%) R
7 5 (1.52%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.22%) C#
8 4 (1.22%) C++
8 4 (1.22%) Julia
8 4 (1.22%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.91%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.61%) Bash
11 1 (0.30%) ABAP
11 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.30%) Ruby
11 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (8.84%) Degree
2 23 (7.01%) Security Cleared
3 19 (5.79%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.13%) PMI Certification
5 7 (2.13%) PMP
6 4 (1.22%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.91%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.91%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.61%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.61%) CITP
8 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.30%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (32.01%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.22%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.22%) QA
3 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (0.61%) PMO
4 1 (0.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (2.44%) Docker
2 4 (1.22%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.22%) NDS
Systems Management
1 2 (0.61%) Kubeflow
2 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
2 1 (0.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 76 (23.17%) Microsoft
2 39 (11.89%) Databricks
3 20 (6.10%) SAP
4 13 (3.96%) Salesforce
5 11 (3.35%) Informatica
5 11 (3.35%) MuleSoft
6 9 (2.74%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.83%) Infor
8 4 (1.22%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.22%) ForgeRock
8 4 (1.22%) NetIQ
8 4 (1.22%) Okta
8 4 (1.22%) OpenText
9 3 (0.91%) Google
9 3 (0.91%) SnapLogic
9 3 (0.91%) YouTube
10 2 (0.61%) New Relic
10 2 (0.61%) Planon
11 1 (0.30%) Intapp
11 1 (0.30%) Xero