Data Transformation Job Trends in the West Midlands

Data Transformation
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Transformation 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 157 183 137
Rank change year-on-year +26 -46 +70
Permanent jobs citing Data Transformation 15 19 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.29% 0.44% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.48% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 14 15 38
10th Percentile £54,082 £40,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £61,000 £52,470 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £97,000 £69,125
England median annual salary £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +9.62% -5.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,342 3,941 2,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.64% 90.58% 88.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,242 1,778 2,516
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,625 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Transformation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Data Transformation job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Data Transformation
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Transformation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Transformation

Data Transformation
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Transformation in the West Midlands

Data Transformation
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Transformation within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +27 7 £67,500 +12.50% 8
Warwickshire - 2 £55,000 -
Worcestershire -13 1 £64,500 +72.00%
Staffordshire -13 1 £53,688 +2.32%
Coventry - 1 £67,500 - 1
Wolverhampton - 1 £125,000 - 1
Herefordshire - 1 £60,000 -
Data Transformation
England

Data Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.67%) SAS
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (26.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (13.33%) GCP
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (6.67%) Dataform
6 1 (6.67%) dbt
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
6 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
6 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Data Lake
1 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (13.33%) Power BI
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (6.67%) Metadata
4 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.67%) Power Query
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) MLflow
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Data Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 6 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Science Leader
5 1 (6.67%) Head of Architecture
5 1 (6.67%) Head of Data Architecture
5 1 (6.67%) Head of Engineering
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
5 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) EDI
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
2 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) ETL
2 7 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (46.67%) Data Architecture
2 7 (46.67%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (33.33%) Analytics
4 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 5 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
5 4 (26.67%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (20.00%) Data Integration
6 3 (20.00%) Data Strategy
6 3 (20.00%) DataOps
6 3 (20.00%) Migration
6 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
7 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) Scala
3 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CITP
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Databricks
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Planon
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) Informatica
3 1 (6.67%) SAP