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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 519 527
Rank change year-on-year +88 +8 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Transformation 302 436 509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.43% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.51% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 164 285 345
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,750 £58,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £63,773 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.84% -8.90% +3.70%
75th Percentile £88,125 £86,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £109,625 £98,250 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,468 £55,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.49% -18.52% +21.08%

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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 28 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 28 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 +66 250 £70,000 +9.76% 1,185
UK excluding London +91 163 £57,468 +4.49% 1,109
London +89 109 £87,500 +4.17% 217
Work from Home +69 100 £60,000 -2.83% 664
South East +120 56 £68,750 -8.33% 312
Midlands +45 34 £56,218 +27.48% 216
West Midlands +61 31 £56,218 +20.90% 114
Scotland +73 25 £85,000 +36.00% 49
East of England +48 22 £50,000 -13.04% 148
North of England -15 16 £42,000 -11.58% 253
North West -28 8 £70,000 +47.37% 124
Yorkshire +57 7 £42,000 +12.00% 97
South West +77 5 £70,000 +27.27% 125
Wales - 4 £77,500 - 30
East Midlands +27 3 - - 90
Northern Ireland +43 1 - - 18
North East +26 1 - - 33

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 24 (7.95%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.31%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.98%) Apache
5 4 (1.32%) CMS
6 3 (0.99%) Confluence
7 2 (0.66%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 10 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 7 (2.32%) Dynamics AX
2 6 (1.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 134 (44.37%) Azure
2 83 (27.48%) AWS
3 79 (26.16%) Power Platform
4 72 (23.84%) Snowflake
5 48 (15.89%) GCP
6 38 (12.58%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (7.95%) Power Automate
8 17 (5.63%) dbt
9 15 (4.97%) Microsoft Purview
10 14 (4.64%) Amazon S3
10 14 (4.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 14 (4.64%) PowerApps
11 12 (3.97%) Amazon SageMaker
11 12 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (3.97%) Serverless
12 11 (3.64%) GitHub
12 11 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.65%) Collibra
14 8 (2.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.33%) DNS
1 1 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (27.15%) Data Warehouse
2 70 (23.18%) Power BI
3 41 (13.58%) Data Lake
3 41 (13.58%) Tableau
4 39 (12.91%) Metadata
5 16 (5.30%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (4.97%) Big Data
6 15 (4.97%) BigQuery
6 15 (4.97%) Power Query
7 14 (4.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (4.30%) NoSQL
9 11 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (3.31%) Hadoop
10 10 (3.31%) Looker
11 9 (2.98%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (2.98%) Relational Database
12 7 (2.32%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.99%) Apache Hive
13 6 (1.99%) Spark SQL
14 5 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (4.30%) Git
2 12 (3.97%) JIRA
3 7 (2.32%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.66%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.32%) ERwin
6 3 (0.99%) GitLab
7 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.33%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 107 (35.43%) Finance
2 105 (34.77%) Social Skills
3 61 (20.20%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (13.91%) Law
5 25 (8.28%) Marketing
6 23 (7.62%) Retail
7 22 (7.28%) Banking
8 19 (6.29%) Manufacturing
9 16 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (5.30%) Legal
10 11 (3.64%) Public Sector
11 10 (3.31%) Police
12 9 (2.98%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.66%) Games
16 4 (1.32%) Advertising
17 3 (0.99%) Investment Banking
17 3 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (25.50%) Lead
2 76 (25.17%) Senior
3 64 (21.19%) Data Engineer
4 40 (13.25%) Analyst
5 24 (7.95%) Developer
6 22 (7.28%) Data Manager
7 20 (6.62%) Senior Data Engineer
8 17 (5.63%) Business Analyst
9 13 (4.30%) Data Analyst
10 11 (3.64%) Architect
11 10 (3.31%) Junior
12 9 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (2.98%) Deployment Manager
12 9 (2.98%) Junior Data Engineer
12 9 (2.98%) Senior Manager
13 8 (2.65%) Data Architect
13 8 (2.65%) Data Scientist
13 8 (2.65%) Microsoft 365 Developer
14 7 (2.32%) Analytics Manager
14 7 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.58%) PySpark
2 15 (4.97%) Kafka
3 12 (3.97%) .NET
4 11 (3.64%) EDI
5 9 (2.98%) Keras
5 9 (2.98%) NumPy
5 9 (2.98%) PyTorch
5 9 (2.98%) scikit-learn
5 9 (2.98%) Spark Streaming
5 9 (2.98%) TensorFlow
6 6 (1.99%) REST
7 5 (1.66%) OAuth
8 4 (1.32%) Plotly
9 3 (0.99%) React
9 3 (0.99%) SOAP
9 3 (0.99%) XGBoost
9 3 (0.99%) XML
9 3 (0.99%) YAML
10 2 (0.66%) Apache Jena
10 2 (0.66%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.95%) Data Structures
2 17 (5.63%) Management Information System
3 14 (4.64%) Algorithms
3 14 (4.64%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.99%) NHS
6 5 (1.66%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.66%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (1.32%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.32%) Mobile Banking
8 3 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.99%) Social Media
9 2 (0.66%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.66%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.66%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.66%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.66%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (42.05%) Analytics
2 112 (37.09%) ETL
3 99 (32.78%) Data Modelling
4 98 (32.45%) Data Engineering
5 83 (27.48%) Data Pipeline
6 81 (26.82%) Business Intelligence
6 81 (26.82%) Data Governance
7 75 (24.83%) Data Management
8 62 (20.53%) Decision-Making
9 61 (20.20%) Data Strategy
10 58 (19.21%) Agile
11 56 (18.54%) Migration
11 56 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (18.21%) Data Architecture
13 54 (17.88%) Artificial Intelligence
13 54 (17.88%) Visualisation
14 53 (17.55%) Data Science
14 53 (17.55%) Stakeholder Management
15 51 (16.89%) Data Analysis
16 40 (13.25%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 163 (53.97%) SQL
2 131 (43.38%) Python
3 28 (9.27%) Java
4 15 (4.97%) Scala
5 11 (3.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (3.31%) C#
6 10 (3.31%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.32%) R
8 5 (1.66%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.99%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.66%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.66%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.33%) Bash
11 1 (0.33%) Bicep
11 1 (0.33%) C++
11 1 (0.33%) Ruby
11 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (19.87%) Degree
2 17 (5.63%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.97%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.30%) Azure Certification
5 10 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.98%) PhD
7 7 (2.32%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.66%) CITP
8 5 (1.66%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.66%) MBA
9 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.99%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.33%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (28.81%) Data Quality
2 44 (14.57%) QA
3 30 (9.93%) Accessibility
4 13 (4.30%) GDPR
5 2 (0.66%) Dublin Core
6 1 (0.33%) DICOM
6 1 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.33%) EMIR
6 1 (0.33%) HL7
6 1 (0.33%) IFRS
6 1 (0.33%) MiFID
6 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (4.64%) Docker
2 5 (1.66%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (4.30%) Kubernetes
1 13 (4.30%) Terraform
2 5 (1.66%) Oozie
3 2 (0.66%) Ansible
4 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 53 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 36 (11.92%) Databricks
3 16 (5.30%) Informatica
4 13 (4.30%) Google
4 13 (4.30%) Oracle
5 12 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.31%) SAP
7 8 (2.65%) Cloudera
7 8 (2.65%) Cognos
8 5 (1.66%) Dell
9 4 (1.32%) Adobe
9 4 (1.32%) TikTok
10 3 (0.99%) JD Edwards
10 3 (0.99%) QAD
10 3 (0.99%) Sparx
11 2 (0.66%) IFS
11 2 (0.66%) Talend
12 1 (0.33%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.33%) Palantir
12 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow