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 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 426 476 418
Rank change year-on-year +50 -58 +62
Permanent jobs citing Data Transformation 83 90 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.25% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.28% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 64 50 131
10th Percentile £38,750 £46,169 -
25th Percentile £49,688 £57,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,875 £63,250
90th Percentile £78,375 £98,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -12.82%

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 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
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 14 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 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
North of England +6 21 £55,000 -29.03% 8
Midlands +21 20 £62,000 +3.33% 12
West Midlands +21 19 £63,250 +5.42% 9
East of England +33 12 £60,000 -32.96% 9
South East +32 11 £62,500 - 40
North West +17 11 £52,500 -32.26% 6
South West +17 10 £60,850 -2.64% 4
Scotland -3 9 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Yorkshire -11 9 £60,000 +32.04% 2
North East +11 1 £77,500 -
East Midlands -8 1 £52,500 -44.74% 3
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 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.20%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (46.99%) Azure
2 19 (22.89%) AWS
2 19 (22.89%) Power Platform
3 16 (19.28%) Azure Data Factory
3 16 (19.28%) Snowflake
4 15 (18.07%) dbt
5 13 (15.66%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (10.84%) GCP
7 8 (9.64%) Azure Key Vault
7 8 (9.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (7.23%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (7.23%) SaaS
9 4 (4.82%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (4.82%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (4.82%) Boomi
9 4 (4.82%) Fivetran
9 4 (4.82%) GitHub
9 4 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.82%) Google Data Studio
10 3 (3.61%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (43.37%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (21.69%) Power BI
3 13 (15.66%) SQL Server
4 12 (14.46%) Metadata
5 9 (10.84%) Data Lake
6 7 (8.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (8.43%) Tableau
7 6 (7.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (7.23%) Looker
8 5 (6.02%) BigQuery
8 5 (6.02%) Geospatial Data
8 5 (6.02%) Metadata Repository
9 4 (4.82%) Relational Database
9 4 (4.82%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (3.61%) Pentaho
10 3 (3.61%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (3.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (3.61%) Star Schema
11 2 (2.41%) Power Query
12 1 (1.20%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Git
2 1 (1.20%) JIRA
2 1 (1.20%) LSMW
2 1 (1.20%) MLflow
General
1 39 (46.99%) Finance
2 28 (33.73%) Social Skills
3 18 (21.69%) Public Sector
4 14 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (10.84%) Law
6 8 (9.64%) Marketing
7 5 (6.02%) Retail
8 4 (4.82%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.61%) Banking
9 3 (3.61%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.41%) Electronics
11 1 (1.20%) Advertising
11 1 (1.20%) Games
11 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.20%) Military
11 1 (1.20%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (27.71%) Data Engineer
1 23 (27.71%) Senior
2 14 (16.87%) Analyst
3 10 (12.05%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (12.05%) Lead
3 10 (12.05%) Senior Data Engineer
4 8 (9.64%) Developer
5 6 (7.23%) Architect
5 6 (7.23%) Data Architect
6 4 (4.82%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 4 (4.82%) Data Analyst
6 4 (4.82%) Data Manager
7 3 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (3.61%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (2.41%) Head of Engineering
8 2 (2.41%) Integration Engineer
8 2 (2.41%) Risk Manager
8 2 (2.41%) Senior Risk Manager
8 2 (2.41%) Senior Test Engineer
8 2 (2.41%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.64%) YAML
2 7 (8.43%) Pandas
3 5 (6.02%) EDI
3 5 (6.02%) JSON
3 5 (6.02%) XML
4 4 (4.82%) Hugging Face
4 4 (4.82%) NumPy
4 4 (4.82%) PySpark
4 4 (4.82%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.41%) Kafka
5 2 (2.41%) REST
5 2 (2.41%) SOAP
6 1 (1.20%) .NET
6 1 (1.20%) Middleware
6 1 (1.20%) OAuth
6 1 (1.20%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.66%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (9.64%) Reference Data
3 6 (7.23%) Data Structures
4 5 (6.02%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.61%) Semantic Web
6 2 (2.41%) Linked Data
7 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.20%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.20%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (42.17%) ETL
2 30 (36.14%) Data Pipeline
3 28 (33.73%) Business Intelligence
3 28 (33.73%) Data Governance
4 26 (31.33%) Agile
4 26 (31.33%) Data Modelling
5 24 (28.92%) Analytics
6 20 (24.10%) CI/CD
6 20 (24.10%) Mentoring
6 20 (24.10%) Migration
7 19 (22.89%) Data Management
7 19 (22.89%) DevOps
8 18 (21.69%) Data Engineering
9 17 (20.48%) Data Architecture
10 15 (18.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (15.66%) CRM
11 13 (15.66%) Decision-Making
11 13 (15.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 12 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (13.25%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 54 (65.06%) SQL
2 36 (43.37%) Python
3 8 (9.64%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.82%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.41%) Java
6 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.20%) C#
7 1 (1.20%) R
7 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.64%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.23%) Degree
4 5 (6.02%) CITP
5 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.41%) CISA
5 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.69%) Data Quality
2 9 (10.84%) Accessibility
2 9 (10.84%) GDPR
3 7 (8.43%) QA
4 4 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.61%) HIPAA
5 3 (3.61%) NIST
5 3 (3.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (12.05%) Terraform
2 3 (3.61%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.20%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (22.89%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.66%) Salesforce
3 9 (10.84%) Databricks
4 8 (9.64%) SAP
4 8 (9.64%) Talend
5 7 (8.43%) Oracle
6 5 (6.02%) Alteryx
6 5 (6.02%) Google
6 5 (6.02%) HubSpot
6 5 (6.02%) Planon
7 4 (4.82%) Informatica
7 4 (4.82%) MuleSoft
7 4 (4.82%) OpenAI
7 4 (4.82%) Zoho
8 2 (2.41%) SnapLogic
8 2 (2.41%) Workday
9 1 (1.20%) Jitterbit
9 1 (1.20%) Palantir
9 1 (1.20%) Pega
9 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow