Data Transformation Jobs

Data Transformation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 496 493
Rank change year-on-year +73 -3 +29
Permanent jobs citing Data Transformation 291 450 590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.46% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.53% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 153 306 396
10th Percentile £45,250 £35,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% -4.44% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £89,063
90th Percentile £110,000 £98,125 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Transformation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Transformation.

Salary trend for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +68 244 £75,000 +17.19% 282
UK excluding London +88 156 £60,000 +9.09% 159
London +65 108 £85,000 +6.25% 164
Work from Home +127 92 £62,500 -2.34% 195
South East +137 48 £72,500 -3.33% 65
Midlands +76 36 £55,000 +18.28% 25
West Midlands +50 33 £55,000 +10.00% 18
Scotland +81 23 £85,000 +51.11% 8
East of England +57 20 £50,000 -13.04% 10
North of England +29 18 £47,250 -0.53% 36
North West +5 10 £75,000 +57.89% 29
Yorkshire +69 7 £42,000 +5.00% 6
South West +65 6 £67,500 +5.84% 16
Wales +49 4 £77,500 +47.62% 2
East Midlands +44 3 - - 6
Northern Ireland +35 1 - - 2
North East +28 1 - - 1

Data Transformation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 23 (7.90%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.75%) CMS
3 8 (2.75%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.41%) Apache
5 3 (1.03%) Confluence
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 12 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.72%) Dynamics AX
2 5 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 133 (45.70%) Azure
2 79 (27.15%) AWS
3 61 (20.96%) Snowflake
4 53 (18.21%) Power Platform
5 47 (16.15%) GCP
6 41 (14.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 23 (7.90%) Power Automate
8 19 (6.53%) Microsoft Purview
9 17 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (5.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 15 (5.15%) GitHub
11 15 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (4.81%) PaaS
12 14 (4.81%) PowerApps
13 13 (4.47%) Amazon S3
14 12 (4.12%) Amazon SageMaker
14 12 (4.12%) dbt
15 11 (3.78%) SaaS
15 11 (3.78%) Serverless
16 9 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.06%) DNS
2 3 (1.03%) 5G
3 2 (0.69%) ADSL
3 2 (0.69%) Internet
4 1 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (26.12%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (15.12%) Power BI
3 41 (14.09%) Data Lake
4 31 (10.65%) Metadata
4 31 (10.65%) Tableau
5 17 (5.84%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (5.84%) BigQuery
6 15 (5.15%) Big Data
7 13 (4.47%) NoSQL
8 12 (4.12%) Hadoop
8 12 (4.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (3.78%) SQL Server
10 10 (3.44%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (3.09%) Looker
11 9 (3.09%) Power Query
11 9 (3.09%) Spark SQL
12 8 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (2.41%) MySQL
14 6 (2.06%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 12 (4.12%) Git
2 8 (2.75%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.75%) JIRA
3 5 (1.72%) CircleCI
4 4 (1.37%) ERwin
5 3 (1.03%) GitLab
5 3 (1.03%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.69%) MagicDraw
6 2 (0.69%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.34%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 100 (34.36%) Social Skills
2 98 (33.68%) Finance
3 58 (19.93%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (11.34%) Law
5 23 (7.90%) Marketing
6 22 (7.56%) Retail
7 21 (7.22%) Banking
7 21 (7.22%) Manufacturing
8 16 (5.50%) Legal
9 13 (4.47%) Public Sector
10 11 (3.78%) Police
11 10 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (3.09%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (2.75%) Advertising
14 7 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.37%) Games
17 3 (1.03%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 74 (25.43%) Senior
2 65 (22.34%) Data Engineer
3 63 (21.65%) Lead
4 26 (8.93%) Analyst
5 23 (7.90%) Data Manager
6 21 (7.22%) Architect
6 21 (7.22%) Senior Data Engineer
7 19 (6.53%) Developer
8 14 (4.81%) Data Architect
8 14 (4.81%) Data Scientist
9 12 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.44%) Business Analyst
10 10 (3.44%) Senior Manager
11 9 (3.09%) Deployment Manager
11 9 (3.09%) Senior Data Scientist
12 8 (2.75%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (2.75%) Microsoft 365 Developer
13 7 (2.41%) Analytics Manager
13 7 (2.41%) Data Analyst
14 6 (2.06%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (14.78%) PySpark
2 13 (4.47%) Kafka
3 11 (3.78%) .NET
4 10 (3.44%) Keras
4 10 (3.44%) PyTorch
4 10 (3.44%) scikit-learn
4 10 (3.44%) TensorFlow
5 9 (3.09%) NumPy
5 9 (3.09%) Plotly
6 8 (2.75%) Spark Streaming
7 7 (2.41%) EDI
8 6 (2.06%) REST
9 5 (1.72%) OAuth
10 4 (1.37%) SOAP
10 4 (1.37%) XML
11 3 (1.03%) React
11 3 (1.03%) XGBoost
11 3 (1.03%) YAML
12 2 (0.69%) Apache Jena
12 2 (0.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.93%) Data Structures
2 18 (6.19%) Management Information System
3 15 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (4.81%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.06%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.06%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.72%) Distributed Applications
7 5 (1.72%) NHS
8 4 (1.37%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.37%) IoT
8 4 (1.37%) Mobile Banking
9 3 (1.03%) Self-Driving Car
9 3 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.69%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.69%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.69%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.69%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.69%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (40.55%) Analytics
2 103 (35.40%) ETL
3 100 (34.36%) Data Engineering
4 89 (30.58%) Data Modelling
5 82 (28.18%) Data Governance
6 79 (27.15%) Data Pipeline
7 66 (22.68%) Data Management
8 60 (20.62%) Decision-Making
9 59 (20.27%) Business Intelligence
10 57 (19.59%) Migration
11 55 (18.90%) Visualisation
12 54 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
13 52 (17.87%) Agile
13 52 (17.87%) Data Science
14 51 (17.53%) Data Strategy
15 49 (16.84%) Artificial Intelligence
15 49 (16.84%) Data Architecture
16 42 (14.43%) Data Visualisation
16 42 (14.43%) Roadmaps
17 41 (14.09%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 145 (49.83%) SQL
2 129 (44.33%) Python
3 27 (9.28%) Java
4 16 (5.50%) Scala
5 11 (3.78%) C#
6 8 (2.75%) R
7 7 (2.41%) T-SQL
8 6 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.03%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.03%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.69%) Bash
10 2 (0.69%) Bicep
10 2 (0.69%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.69%) Ruby
10 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.69%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.34%) C++
Qualifications
1 53 (18.21%) Degree
2 26 (8.93%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.59%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.12%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.09%) PhD
6 7 (2.41%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.72%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.72%) MBA
8 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CFA
10 1 (0.34%) CITP
10 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (27.84%) Data Quality
2 39 (13.40%) QA
3 25 (8.59%) Accessibility
4 15 (5.15%) GDPR
5 2 (0.69%) Dublin Core
6 1 (0.34%) DICOM
6 1 (0.34%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.34%) EMIR
6 1 (0.34%) HL7
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) MiFID
System Software
1 16 (5.50%) Docker
2 5 (1.72%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.78%) Terraform
3 5 (1.72%) Oozie
4 3 (1.03%) Ansible
5 2 (0.69%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 46 (15.81%) Databricks
3 15 (5.15%) Informatica
4 13 (4.47%) Google
4 13 (4.47%) Oracle
5 11 (3.78%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.44%) SAP
7 8 (2.75%) Cloudera
8 5 (1.72%) Cognos
8 5 (1.72%) Dell
8 5 (1.72%) Foundry
8 5 (1.72%) Palantir
9 4 (1.37%) Adobe
9 4 (1.37%) TikTok
10 3 (1.03%) JD Edwards
10 3 (1.03%) QAD
11 2 (0.69%) Apple
11 2 (0.69%) Talend
12 1 (0.34%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.34%) Red Hat