Dataform Job Trends

Google Cloud Dataform
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Dataform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 637 714 700
Rank change year-on-year +77 -14 +341
Permanent jobs citing Dataform 7 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.004% 0.002%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.034% 0.010% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £52,375 £69,625 -
25th Percentile £55,938 £72,813 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £81,250 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% - -
75th Percentile £75,938 £90,313 -
90th Percentile £79,125 £93,875 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

Dataform falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 20,528 20,025 21,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 36.11% 41.53%
Number of salaries quoted 11,196 11,894 17,421
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +4.57% -7.31%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Dataform
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Dataform over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Dataform in the UK

Dataform
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Dataform within the UK over the 6 months to 31 December 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 +73 7 £66,250 -18.46%
London +62 4 £77,500 -16.22%
Work from Home +75 3 £55,000 -21.43%
UK excluding London - 3 £55,000 -
South East - 2 £55,000 -
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

Dataform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) dbt
2 6 (85.71%) Power Platform
3 5 (71.43%) Snowflake
4 2 (28.57%) Fivetran
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (14.29%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) BigQuery
1 6 (85.71%) Power BI
2 5 (71.43%) Looker
3 4 (57.14%) Tableau
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (42.86%) Big Data
4 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
5 1 (14.29%) Metadata
5 1 (14.29%) Power Query
5 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Data Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Data Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Analytics
1 7 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
3 4 (57.14%) ETL
4 3 (42.86%) AI
4 3 (42.86%) Coaching
4 3 (42.86%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
4 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
4 3 (42.86%) Functional Programming
4 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (42.86%) Predictive Analytics
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Statistics
4 3 (42.86%) Storytelling
4 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
5 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) Data Quality
2 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google