Data Transformation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Transformation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Transformation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 499 505 532
Rank change year-on-year +6 +27 +26
Permanent jobs citing Data Transformation 450 568 987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.56% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.59% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 304 373 507
10th Percentile £35,000 £50,000 £42,200
25th Percentile £46,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,563 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,375 £110,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.03% +19.09% +1.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Transformation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024. 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 +4 367 £64,000 -8.57% 85
UK excluding London -1 286 £55,000 -16.03% 40
Work from Home -51 164 £64,000 -6.19% 51
London +72 151 £80,000 -13.51% 44
Scotland +5 76 £62,500 +13.64%
North of England +39 73 £47,500 -9.52% 10
South West +2 49 £63,773 +6.29% 8
Midlands -32 46 £46,500 -31.11% 12
North West +27 37 £47,500 -14.03% 7
West Midlands +16 32 £48,250 -26.05% 8
North East +17 23 £64,000 -5.19% 2
South East -47 21 £75,000 +15.38% 8
East of England +25 19 £57,500 -28.13% 2
East Midlands -43 14 £44,100 -34.67% 4
Yorkshire +41 13 £40,000 -20.00% 1
Wales -6 1 £52,500 -13.53% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £65,000 -

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 35 (7.78%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (6.00%) Apache Spark
3 18 (4.00%) Confluence
4 17 (3.78%) Apache
5 13 (2.89%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.56%) SAS
7 3 (0.67%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.67%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 3 (0.67%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 23 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.67%) Maximo
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.22%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 160 (35.56%) Azure
2 120 (26.67%) Power Platform
3 76 (16.89%) AWS
4 66 (14.67%) Snowflake
5 44 (9.78%) GCP
6 41 (9.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 41 (9.11%) dbt
7 30 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 30 (6.67%) Matillion
8 25 (5.56%) Power Automate
8 25 (5.56%) SaaS
9 21 (4.67%) PowerApps
9 21 (4.67%) Serverless
10 20 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (4.22%) Amazon S3
12 18 (4.00%) GitHub
13 16 (3.56%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (2.67%) Cloud Composer
15 11 (2.44%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 65 (14.44%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.67%) DNS
2 3 (0.67%) HTTP
2 3 (0.67%) Internet
3 2 (0.44%) SSH
4 1 (0.22%) NAS
4 1 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (28.89%) Data Warehouse
2 113 (25.11%) Power BI
3 93 (20.67%) SQL Server
4 80 (17.78%) Metadata
5 76 (16.89%) Data Lake
6 36 (8.00%) Tableau
7 32 (7.11%) Star Schema
8 30 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
8 30 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 27 (6.00%) Big Data
10 21 (4.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 20 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (4.00%) Data Mining
13 14 (3.11%) Apache Hive
13 14 (3.11%) Hadoop
14 13 (2.89%) NoSQL
14 13 (2.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 12 (2.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 11 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 90 (20.00%) Git
2 76 (16.89%) Jenkins
3 66 (14.67%) Bitbucket
4 65 (14.44%) Artifactory
5 45 (10.00%) GitLab
6 21 (4.67%) JIRA
7 10 (2.22%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.33%) ERwin
8 6 (1.33%) RStudio
8 6 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.22%) Spinnaker
General
1 169 (37.56%) Finance
2 131 (29.11%) Social Skills
3 105 (23.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (16.89%) Marketing
6 75 (16.67%) Law
7 26 (5.78%) Retail
8 20 (4.44%) Games
9 18 (4.00%) Banking
10 16 (3.56%) Public Sector
11 14 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.78%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.33%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.11%) Legal
14 5 (1.11%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.67%) Electronics
16 3 (0.67%) General Ledger
17 2 (0.44%) Automotive
17 2 (0.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 136 (30.22%) Data Engineer
2 103 (22.89%) Lead
3 94 (20.89%) Senior
4 65 (14.44%) Analyst
4 65 (14.44%) Lead Software Engineer
4 65 (14.44%) Software Engineer
5 42 (9.33%) Senior Software Engineer
6 37 (8.22%) Developer
7 34 (7.56%) Data Analyst
8 25 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
9 21 (4.67%) Lead Data Engineer
10 20 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 19 (4.22%) Data Manager
12 18 (4.00%) Architect
13 17 (3.78%) AWS Data Engineer
13 17 (3.78%) AWS Engineer
14 16 (3.56%) Data Architect
14 16 (3.56%) Power BI Developer
15 15 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 15 (3.33%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (17.11%) XML
2 76 (16.89%) JSON
3 69 (15.33%) RESTful
4 68 (15.11%) Web Services
5 65 (14.44%) JSON-LD
5 65 (14.44%) LDAP
5 65 (14.44%) OpenID
5 65 (14.44%) SAML
6 17 (3.78%) .NET
7 13 (2.89%) CSS
7 13 (2.89%) HTML
7 13 (2.89%) PySpark
8 12 (2.67%) .NET Framework
8 12 (2.67%) Apache Beam
8 12 (2.67%) Kafka
9 11 (2.44%) ASP.NET
9 11 (2.44%) ASP.NET MVC
9 11 (2.44%) Entity Framework
9 11 (2.44%) HTML5 Canvas
10 10 (2.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 77 (17.11%) Enterprise Cloud
1 77 (17.11%) Reference Data
2 75 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 52 (11.56%) Data Structures
4 42 (9.33%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (5.33%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.89%) Client/Server
6 13 (2.89%) Online Games
7 11 (2.44%) Cloud Native
7 11 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (2.44%) Low-Code
8 9 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.78%) Distributed Applications
9 8 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.78%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.56%) Clustering
10 7 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (1.56%) Robotics
11 6 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.67%) Linux
2 6 (1.33%) Unix
3 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (46.00%) Data Modelling
2 176 (39.11%) Agile
3 164 (36.44%) Data Pipeline
4 146 (32.44%) Analytics
5 135 (30.00%) ETL
6 126 (28.00%) CI/CD
7 121 (26.89%) Business Intelligence
8 119 (26.44%) Data Engineering
8 119 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
9 101 (22.44%) Roadmaps
10 86 (19.11%) Continuous Delivery
10 86 (19.11%) Software Engineering
11 83 (18.44%) Data Integration
12 75 (16.67%) Test Automation
12 75 (16.67%) Visualisation
13 74 (16.44%) SDLC
14 72 (16.00%) Architectural Design
14 72 (16.00%) Use Case
15 69 (15.33%) Data Analytics
16 66 (14.67%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 240 (53.33%) SQL
2 143 (31.78%) Python
3 65 (14.44%) Go
3 65 (14.44%) Prolog
3 65 (14.44%) SPARQL
4 28 (6.22%) Scala
5 21 (4.67%) R
6 20 (4.44%) Java
7 19 (4.22%) C#
8 17 (3.78%) T-SQL
9 13 (2.89%) JavaScript
10 11 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 11 (2.44%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.33%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.11%) Perl
13 4 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.89%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.67%) C
14 3 (0.67%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (7.33%) Degree
2 20 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.56%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.33%) Security Cleared
7 4 (0.89%) ISTQB
7 4 (0.89%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.89%) MCSE
8 3 (0.67%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.44%) MBA
10 1 (0.22%) HNC
10 1 (0.22%) HND
10 1 (0.22%) MCSA
10 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (24.67%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.67%) QA
3 4 (0.89%) GDPR
4 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 66 (14.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.00%) HDFS
3 7 (1.56%) Docker
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.22%) NFS
5 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (3.56%) Terraform
2 10 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 74 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.33%) Databricks
3 20 (4.44%) Google
4 13 (2.89%) SAP
5 10 (2.22%) Alteryx
5 10 (2.22%) Cloudera
5 10 (2.22%) Teradata
6 9 (2.00%) IBM
6 9 (2.00%) Oracle
7 7 (1.56%) Dataiku
8 6 (1.33%) F5
9 5 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.89%) Informatica
10 4 (0.89%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.44%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.44%) Anaplan
11 2 (0.44%) CA
11 2 (0.44%) Sybase
11 2 (0.44%) Talend
12 1 (0.22%) Hortonworks