Data Transformation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Transformation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 237 327 377
Rank change year-on-year +90 +50 -42
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 105 129 251
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.71% 0.52% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.58% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 100 186
10th Percentile £413 £411 £413
25th Percentile £488 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £528
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +13.74% +5.50%
75th Percentile £600 £706 £600
90th Percentile £688 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £39.21
% change year-on-year -3.57% +78.54% -1.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Data Transformation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Transformation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Transformation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Transformation.

Data Transformation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Transformation over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Data Transformation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Transformation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Transformation.

Data Transformation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Transformation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.81%) Apache
2 4 (3.81%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.86%) SAP Payroll
2 3 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.90%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.95%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.95%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.95%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (48.57%) Azure
2 29 (27.62%) Power Platform
3 25 (23.81%) Dynamics 365
4 24 (22.86%) Azure Logic Apps
5 23 (21.90%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (15.24%) Azure API Management
7 13 (12.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (11.43%) AWS
9 10 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (8.57%) dbt
10 9 (8.57%) Serverless
11 8 (7.62%) Snowflake
12 7 (6.67%) Amazon S3
13 5 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (4.76%) Google Analytics
13 5 (4.76%) Power Automate
14 4 (3.81%) Amazon EMR
14 4 (3.81%) PowerApps
15 3 (2.86%) Azure Functions
16 2 (1.90%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) 4G
1 1 (0.95%) 5G
1 1 (0.95%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (0.95%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (35.24%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (23.81%) Power BI
3 22 (20.95%) Data Lake
4 9 (8.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.71%) Big Data
5 6 (5.71%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.81%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (3.81%) Delta Lake
7 4 (3.81%) Metadata
7 4 (3.81%) Power Query
8 3 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.86%) Data Mining
8 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.90%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.90%) DataStage
9 2 (1.90%) OLAP
9 2 (1.90%) OLTP
10 1 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 5 (4.76%) ERwin
1 5 (4.76%) Git
2 4 (3.81%) JIRA
3 2 (1.90%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.95%) GitLab
4 1 (0.95%) kappa
General
1 38 (36.19%) Finance
2 20 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.81%) Banking
6 4 (3.81%) Retail
7 2 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.95%) French Language
8 1 (0.95%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.95%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.95%) Law
8 1 (0.95%) Legal
8 1 (0.95%) Local Government
8 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.95%) Publishing
8 1 (0.95%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (20.95%) Lead
2 20 (19.05%) Data Engineer
3 17 (16.19%) Analyst
4 15 (14.29%) Architect
5 12 (11.43%) Business Analyst
6 11 (10.48%) Data Architect
7 9 (8.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 9 (8.57%) Developer
8 8 (7.62%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
8 8 (7.62%) Power BI Analyst
8 8 (7.62%) Senior
9 7 (6.67%) Azure Data Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (5.71%) Consultant
10 6 (5.71%) Project Manager
10 6 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (4.76%) Data Analyst
12 4 (3.81%) Azure Architect
12 4 (3.81%) Integration Developer
12 4 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (19.05%) XML
2 12 (11.43%) JSON
3 10 (9.52%) PySpark
4 5 (4.76%) ADO
5 1 (0.95%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.95%) CSS
5 1 (0.95%) Flask
5 1 (0.95%) HTML
5 1 (0.95%) Middleware
5 1 (0.95%) ODBC
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.95%) Pandas
5 1 (0.95%) REST
5 1 (0.95%) Shiny
5 1 (0.95%) Spring
5 1 (0.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.86%) Data Structures
2 3 (2.86%) Reference Data
2 3 (2.86%) Taxonomies
2 3 (2.86%) Wiki
3 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.95%) Blog
4 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.95%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (0.95%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.95%) Housing Association
4 1 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.95%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.95%) Market Risk
4 1 (0.95%) NHS
4 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.95%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.95%) Linux
1 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 39 (37.14%) ETL
3 34 (32.38%) Business Intelligence
4 33 (31.43%) DevOps
5 29 (27.62%) Analytics
6 26 (24.76%) Agile
7 21 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
8 19 (18.10%) Data Engineering
9 17 (16.19%) Data Integration
9 17 (16.19%) Integration Patterns
9 17 (16.19%) Mentoring
9 17 (16.19%) Migration
9 17 (16.19%) Test Strategy
10 15 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (12.38%) CI/CD
12 13 (12.38%) Data Governance
12 13 (12.38%) Data Migration
13 12 (11.43%) Scrum
14 11 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (37.14%) SQL
2 21 (20.00%) C#
3 19 (18.10%) Python
4 4 (3.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (3.81%) Scala
4 4 (3.81%) T-SQL
4 4 (3.81%) X++
5 2 (1.90%) Java
6 1 (0.95%) C++
6 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.95%) R
6 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (3.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.90%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.00%) QA
2 11 (10.48%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.95%) GDPR
3 1 (0.95%) NIST
3 1 (0.95%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (3.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.81%) Terraform
2 3 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.95%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 20 (19.05%) Databricks
1 20 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.71%) Informatica
2 6 (5.71%) SAP
3 5 (4.76%) Google
4 4 (3.81%) Ab Initio
5 3 (2.86%) Embarcadero
5 3 (2.86%) Workday
6 2 (1.90%) IDERA
6 2 (1.90%) Oracle
7 1 (0.95%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.95%) Ariba
7 1 (0.95%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.95%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.95%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.95%) Sparx
7 1 (0.95%) Talend