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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 668 659 833
Rank change year-on-year -9 +174 +181
Permanent jobs citing Dataform 10 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.002% 0.004%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.042% 0.006% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £52,500 - £69,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £88,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.73% +15.63% +3.23%
75th Percentile £81,250 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £88,293 - £90,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 - -

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 23,614 16,386 31,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.35% 37.37% 37.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,625 11,035 25,668
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Dataform
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Dataform relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Dataform job vacancy trend in the UK

Dataform
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dataform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dataform

Dataform
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Dataform over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Dataform in the UK

Dataform
Top 9 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 11 March 2026. 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 -22 9 £67,500 -27.03% 4
London +17 5 £67,500 -27.03% 2
UK excluding London - 5 £65,000 - 3
Work from Home - 3 £55,000 - 3
South East - 2 £55,000 - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £86,725 - 1
Scotland - 1 £65,000 -

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 3 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) dbt
2 7 (70.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (60.00%) Snowflake
4 4 (40.00%) GCP
5 2 (20.00%) Azure
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Fivetran
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (10.00%) GitHub
6 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (10.00%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) BigQuery
2 7 (70.00%) Power BI
3 6 (60.00%) Looker
4 5 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (50.00%) Tableau
5 4 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (30.00%) Big Data
7 2 (20.00%) Metadata
8 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
8 1 (10.00%) Metabase
8 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (10.00%) Power Query
8 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Data Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
1 3 (30.00%) Senior Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Senior Data Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Analytics
1 9 (90.00%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) Data Modelling
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (70.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (50.00%) ETL
5 4 (40.00%) AI
5 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
5 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
5 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
5 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
6 3 (30.00%) Agile
6 3 (30.00%) Coaching
6 3 (30.00%) Dashboard Development
6 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (30.00%) Data Transformation
6 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (30.00%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 7 (70.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (10.00%) Julia
3 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (90.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (30.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Google