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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 504 538
Rank change year-on-year -2 +34 -3
Permanent jobs citing Data Transformation 443 598 932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.57% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.60% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 304 401 507
10th Percentile £35,000 £48,750 £42,200
25th Percentile £46,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,563 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,375 £110,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +4.76%

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 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -3 362 £64,500 -7.86% 80
UK excluding London -28 275 £55,000 -15.38% 36
Work from Home -48 162 £64,000 -5.19% 47
London +100 155 £80,000 -13.04% 47
North of England +28 74 £47,500 -9.52% 8
Scotland +7 74 £62,500 +13.64% 1
South West -3 43 £67,500 +12.50% 6
Midlands -31 42 £46,500 -31.11% 14
North West +18 37 £47,500 -14.03% 2
West Midlands +23 34 £48,250 -21.22% 6
North East +21 23 £64,000 -5.19% 4
East of England +30 20 £57,500 -28.13% 2
South East -29 20 £75,000 +15.38% 4
Yorkshire +47 14 £40,000 -20.00% 3
East Midlands -52 8 £44,100 -34.67% 8
Wales -2 1 £52,500 -13.53% 2
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 36 (8.13%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (4.97%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.29%) Confluence
4 16 (3.61%) Apache
5 14 (3.16%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.81%) SAS
7 3 (0.68%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 3 (0.68%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 23 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.68%) Maximo
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 167 (37.70%) Azure
2 120 (27.09%) Power Platform
3 76 (17.16%) AWS
4 68 (15.35%) Snowflake
5 45 (10.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 41 (9.26%) dbt
6 41 (9.26%) GCP
7 30 (6.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 30 (6.77%) Matillion
8 25 (5.64%) SaaS
9 23 (5.19%) Power Automate
9 23 (5.19%) Serverless
10 22 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (4.97%) PowerApps
11 21 (4.74%) Amazon S3
11 21 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (4.06%) GitHub
13 16 (3.61%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (2.71%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (2.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 65 (14.67%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.68%) DNS
2 3 (0.68%) HTTP
3 2 (0.45%) SSH
4 1 (0.23%) NAS
4 1 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (28.67%) Data Warehouse
2 116 (26.19%) Power BI
3 96 (21.67%) SQL Server
4 82 (18.51%) Metadata
5 77 (17.38%) Data Lake
6 38 (8.58%) Tableau
7 32 (7.22%) Star Schema
8 31 (7.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 30 (6.77%) Elasticsearch
10 23 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
10 23 (5.19%) Big Data
11 22 (4.97%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
13 18 (4.06%) Data Mining
14 15 (3.39%) Hadoop
15 14 (3.16%) Apache Hive
15 14 (3.16%) NoSQL
15 14 (3.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 11 (2.48%) Snowflake Schema
16 11 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 90 (20.32%) Git
2 76 (17.16%) Jenkins
3 67 (15.12%) Bitbucket
4 65 (14.67%) Artifactory
5 46 (10.38%) GitLab
6 22 (4.97%) JIRA
7 10 (2.26%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.58%) ERwin
9 6 (1.35%) RStudio
9 6 (1.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (0.68%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.23%) Spinnaker
General
1 166 (37.47%) Finance
2 129 (29.12%) Social Skills
3 102 (23.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 81 (18.28%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (16.93%) Marketing
6 72 (16.25%) Law
7 25 (5.64%) Retail
8 20 (4.51%) Games
9 17 (3.84%) Public Sector
10 16 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (3.16%) Banking
12 8 (1.81%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.35%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.13%) Legal
14 5 (1.13%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.68%) Electronics
16 3 (0.68%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.68%) General Ledger
17 2 (0.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 135 (30.47%) Data Engineer
2 104 (23.48%) Lead
3 95 (21.44%) Senior
4 65 (14.67%) Lead Software Engineer
4 65 (14.67%) Software Engineer
5 63 (14.22%) Analyst
6 42 (9.48%) Senior Software Engineer
7 38 (8.58%) Developer
8 33 (7.45%) Data Analyst
9 26 (5.87%) Senior Data Engineer
10 22 (4.97%) Lead Data Engineer
11 20 (4.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 18 (4.06%) Architect
12 18 (4.06%) AWS Data Engineer
12 18 (4.06%) AWS Engineer
12 18 (4.06%) Data Manager
13 16 (3.61%) Power BI Developer
14 15 (3.39%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 15 (3.39%) Data Architect
15 14 (3.16%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (17.38%) XML
2 76 (17.16%) JSON
3 69 (15.58%) RESTful
4 68 (15.35%) Web Services
5 65 (14.67%) JSON-LD
5 65 (14.67%) LDAP
5 65 (14.67%) OpenID
5 65 (14.67%) SAML
6 18 (4.06%) .NET
7 14 (3.16%) CSS
7 14 (3.16%) HTML
7 14 (3.16%) PySpark
8 13 (2.93%) .NET Framework
9 12 (2.71%) Apache Beam
9 12 (2.71%) ASP.NET
9 12 (2.71%) ASP.NET MVC
9 12 (2.71%) Entity Framework
9 12 (2.71%) HTML5 Canvas
9 12 (2.71%) Kafka
10 10 (2.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 78 (17.61%) Enterprise Cloud
2 75 (16.93%) Management Information System
2 75 (16.93%) Reference Data
3 46 (10.38%) Data Structures
4 42 (9.48%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (4.06%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.93%) Client/Server
6 13 (2.93%) Online Games
7 12 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.71%) Low-Code
8 11 (2.48%) Cloud Native
8 11 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.81%) Distributed Applications
11 7 (1.58%) Clustering
12 6 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.35%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.35%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.39%) Linux
2 6 (1.35%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (46.05%) Data Modelling
2 173 (39.05%) Agile
3 158 (35.67%) Data Pipeline
4 146 (32.96%) Analytics
5 138 (31.15%) ETL
6 127 (28.67%) CI/CD
7 123 (27.77%) Business Intelligence
8 117 (26.41%) Data Engineering
9 114 (25.73%) Problem-Solving
10 96 (21.67%) Roadmaps
11 87 (19.64%) Continuous Delivery
12 85 (19.19%) Data Integration
12 85 (19.19%) Software Engineering
13 75 (16.93%) Test Automation
14 74 (16.70%) SDLC
14 74 (16.70%) Visualisation
15 72 (16.25%) Architectural Design
16 70 (15.80%) Use Case
17 67 (15.12%) Data Analytics
18 66 (14.90%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 238 (53.72%) SQL
2 143 (32.28%) Python
3 65 (14.67%) Go
3 65 (14.67%) Prolog
3 65 (14.67%) SPARQL
4 29 (6.55%) Scala
5 23 (5.19%) R
6 20 (4.51%) C#
6 20 (4.51%) Java
7 18 (4.06%) T-SQL
8 14 (3.16%) JavaScript
9 12 (2.71%) TypeScript
10 11 (2.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.35%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.13%) Perl
13 4 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.90%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.68%) C
14 3 (0.68%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (7.22%) Degree
2 19 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (3.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (1.81%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.35%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.90%) ISTQB
6 4 (0.90%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.90%) MCSE
7 3 (0.68%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.45%) MBA
9 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.23%) HNC
9 1 (0.23%) HND
9 1 (0.23%) MCSA
9 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (23.48%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.71%) QA
3 4 (0.90%) GDPR
4 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 66 (14.90%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.03%) HDFS
3 7 (1.58%) Docker
4 2 (0.45%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.23%) NFS
5 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (3.61%) Terraform
2 10 (2.26%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.90%) Ansible
Vendors
1 74 (16.70%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.48%) Databricks
3 18 (4.06%) Google
4 14 (3.16%) SAP
5 11 (2.48%) Teradata
6 10 (2.26%) Alteryx
6 10 (2.26%) Cloudera
6 10 (2.26%) IBM
7 9 (2.03%) Oracle
8 7 (1.58%) Dataiku
9 6 (1.35%) F5
10 5 (1.13%) Informatica
10 5 (1.13%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.90%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.45%) Ab Initio
12 2 (0.45%) CA
12 2 (0.45%) Sybase
12 2 (0.45%) Talend
13 1 (0.23%) Hortonworks
13 1 (0.23%) HubSpot