Data Transformation Contracts

Data Transformation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Transformation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Transformation over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 426 454
Rank change year-on-year +73 +28 -73
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 235 290 443
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.50% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.56% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 207 303
10th Percentile £413 £443 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% +9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £650
90th Percentile £722 £780 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £533 £543
% change year-on-year -6.10% -1.84% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £37.80 £37.60 £35.57
25th Percentile £48.94 £49.75 £36.43
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £39.21
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +78.54% -1.98%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £43.34
90th Percentile - £78.00 £45.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £31.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year +117.74% -28.60% +47.17%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Transformation.

Daily rate trend for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Transformation.

Hourly rate trend for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Transformation over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Transformation within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +58 198 £550 -8.33% 95
London +62 126 £550 -15.38% 50
Work from Home +95 106 £570 -1.72% 66
UK excluding London +62 81 £500 -6.10% 43
Scotland +55 19 £475 +26.67%
Midlands +34 18 £575 -4.17% 13
South East +14 16 £450 -12.20% 6
North of England +34 15 £500 -9.09% 13
West Midlands +26 14 £570 +1.33% 8
North West +30 10 £500 +3.90% 8
East of England +13 6 £600 +13.21% 2
South West +10 6 £575 -2.54% 8
Yorkshire +13 5 £550 -10.57% 2
East Midlands +22 4 £625 +4.17% 5
Wales +15 1 £625 +31.58% 1

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 17 (7.23%) Apache
2 10 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.70%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.85%) Confluence
4 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.70%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.28%) SAP MDM
4 3 (1.28%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.85%) Shopify
5 2 (0.85%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.43%) Endur
6 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 85 (36.17%) Azure
2 48 (20.43%) Power Platform
3 46 (19.57%) AWS
4 31 (13.19%) Dynamics 365
5 27 (11.49%) Azure Logic Apps
6 25 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (10.21%) Serverless
8 21 (8.94%) Amazon S3
9 20 (8.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 19 (8.09%) Snowflake
11 18 (7.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 16 (6.81%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (6.81%) Azure API Management
12 16 (6.81%) dbt
13 13 (5.53%) Amazon Kinesis
14 8 (3.40%) AWS CodePipeline
15 7 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (2.98%) GCP
15 7 (2.98%) Power Automate
15 7 (2.98%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) 4G
1 1 (0.43%) 5G
1 1 (0.43%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (0.43%) NAS
1 1 (0.43%) Network Security
1 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (25.96%) Data Warehouse
2 42 (17.87%) Power BI
3 39 (16.60%) Data Lake
4 14 (5.96%) Metadata
5 13 (5.53%) SQL Server
6 12 (5.11%) Tableau
7 11 (4.68%) Big Data
7 11 (4.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.83%) Flink
8 9 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (3.40%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (3.40%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (2.13%) Looker
11 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 5 (2.13%) OLAP
11 5 (2.13%) Parquet
11 5 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.68%) Git
2 7 (2.98%) ERwin
3 6 (2.55%) GitLab
3 6 (2.55%) JIRA
4 2 (0.85%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.85%) kappa
General
1 65 (27.66%) Finance
2 53 (22.55%) Social Skills
3 20 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.96%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.68%) Retail
6 9 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.98%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.55%) Banking
8 6 (2.55%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.55%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.13%) Local Government
10 4 (1.70%) Legal
11 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.43%) French Language
12 1 (0.43%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Law
12 1 (0.43%) Marketing
12 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (27.23%) Data Engineer
2 35 (14.89%) Analyst
3 32 (13.62%) Lead
4 24 (10.21%) Project Manager
5 21 (8.94%) Architect
5 21 (8.94%) Developer
6 17 (7.23%) Business Analyst
7 16 (6.81%) Data Architect
8 14 (5.96%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (5.96%) Data Analyst
9 13 (5.53%) Azure Data Engineer
9 13 (5.53%) Consultant
10 10 (4.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 9 (3.83%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
11 9 (3.83%) Data Manager
11 9 (3.83%) Power BI Analyst
11 9 (3.83%) Senior
12 8 (3.40%) Data Integration Manager
12 8 (3.40%) Integration Manager
12 8 (3.40%) Integration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.79%) XML
2 19 (8.09%) JSON
3 18 (7.66%) PySpark
4 13 (5.53%) Kafka
5 10 (4.26%) REST
6 7 (2.98%) ADO
7 6 (2.55%) AWS CDK
7 6 (2.55%) Pandas
8 5 (2.13%) RESTful
9 4 (1.70%) Flask
9 4 (1.70%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 4 (1.70%) YAML
10 3 (1.28%) PostGIS
11 2 (0.85%) .NET
11 2 (0.85%) GraphQL
11 2 (0.85%) Lambda Expressions
11 2 (0.85%) Node.js
11 2 (0.85%) NumPy
11 2 (0.85%) SOAP
12 1 (0.43%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.23%) Data Structures
2 6 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.13%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.70%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.70%) Reference Data
4 4 (1.70%) Renewable Energy
4 4 (1.70%) Taxonomies
5 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (1.28%) Wiki
6 2 (0.85%) FMCG
7 1 (0.43%) AS400
7 1 (0.43%) Blog
7 1 (0.43%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.43%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.43%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.43%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.43%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.70%) Linux
1 4 (1.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (32.77%) Data Modelling
2 65 (27.66%) ETL
3 59 (25.11%) Analytics
4 54 (22.98%) Migration
5 50 (21.28%) Business Intelligence
6 48 (20.43%) Data Pipeline
7 47 (20.00%) Agile
8 46 (19.57%) DevOps
9 42 (17.87%) Data Integration
10 41 (17.45%) Data Migration
11 36 (15.32%) Data Governance
12 35 (14.89%) Data Engineering
13 31 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (12.34%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (10.21%) Technical Leadership
16 23 (9.79%) CI/CD
16 23 (9.79%) Data Management
16 23 (9.79%) Test Strategy
17 22 (9.36%) Decision-Making
17 22 (9.36%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 77 (32.77%) SQL
2 51 (21.70%) Python
3 24 (10.21%) C#
4 8 (3.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (3.40%) Java
5 6 (2.55%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.55%) Scala
6 5 (2.13%) X++
7 4 (1.70%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.70%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.70%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.28%) R
9 2 (0.85%) Bash
9 2 (0.85%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.85%) VBA
10 1 (0.43%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (8.09%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.66%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.38%) Degree
4 3 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.62%) Data Quality
2 23 (9.79%) QA
3 4 (1.70%) PMO
4 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.85%) GDPR
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.43%) NIST
6 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (5.11%) Docker
2 4 (1.70%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (4.26%) Terraform
2 5 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.70%) Data Guard
3 4 (1.70%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.85%) Grafana
5 1 (0.43%) Podman
Vendors
1 37 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 29 (12.34%) Databricks
3 17 (7.23%) SAP
4 10 (4.26%) Alteryx
4 10 (4.26%) Google
5 8 (3.40%) Oracle
6 6 (2.55%) Informatica
7 4 (1.70%) Ab Initio
7 4 (1.70%) Cognizant
7 4 (1.70%) Embarcadero
8 3 (1.28%) Adobe
8 3 (1.28%) Workday
9 2 (0.85%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.85%) IDERA
9 2 (0.85%) Sparx
9 2 (0.85%) UiPath
10 1 (0.43%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.43%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.43%) Concur
10 1 (0.43%) Talend