Data Transformation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Transformation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Transformation over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 509 529
Rank change year-on-year +15 +20 +28
Permanent jobs citing Data Transformation 443 560 1,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.55% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.58% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 296 369 517
10th Percentile £35,000 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £58,439 £52,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £70,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +4.48% -0.74%
75th Percentile £86,250 £92,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,125 £110,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.52% +22.73% +3.29%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Transformation within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -1 360 £64,000 -8.57% 112
UK excluding London -1 284 £55,000 -18.52% 52
Work from Home -36 161 £64,000 -7.84% 70
London +70 147 £81,000 -12.43% 57
Scotland +16 76 £62,500 +13.64% 2
North of England +39 72 £47,500 -15.93% 14
South West +7 49 £63,773 +6.29% 9
Midlands -23 46 £46,500 -31.11% 14
North West +22 37 £47,500 -18.10% 7
West Midlands +21 32 £48,250 -26.34% 9
North East +17 23 £64,000 -5.19% 3
South East -33 21 £75,000 +15.38% 8
East of England +21 18 £57,500 -28.13% 3
East Midlands -33 14 £44,100 -34.67% 5
Yorkshire +33 12 £37,500 -25.00% 4
Wales +4 1 £52,500 -13.53% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £65,000 -

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 35 (7.90%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (6.09%) Apache Spark
3 18 (4.06%) Confluence
4 17 (3.84%) Apache
5 12 (2.71%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.58%) SAS
7 3 (0.68%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 3 (0.68%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 23 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.68%) Maximo
2 3 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 158 (35.67%) Azure
2 118 (26.64%) Power Platform
3 73 (16.48%) AWS
4 66 (14.90%) Snowflake
5 44 (9.93%) GCP
6 41 (9.26%) dbt
7 40 (9.03%) Azure Data Factory
8 30 (6.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 30 (6.77%) Matillion
9 25 (5.64%) SaaS
10 24 (5.42%) Power Automate
11 20 (4.51%) PowerApps
11 20 (4.51%) Serverless
12 19 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
13 18 (4.06%) GitHub
14 16 (3.61%) Amazon Kinesis
14 16 (3.61%) Amazon S3
15 12 (2.71%) Cloud Composer
16 10 (2.26%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 65 (14.67%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.68%) DNS
2 3 (0.68%) HTTP
2 3 (0.68%) Internet
3 2 (0.45%) SSH
4 1 (0.23%) NAS
4 1 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (28.89%) Data Warehouse
2 111 (25.06%) Power BI
3 92 (20.77%) SQL Server
4 80 (18.06%) Metadata
5 75 (16.93%) Data Lake
6 34 (7.67%) Tableau
7 32 (7.22%) Star Schema
8 30 (6.77%) Elasticsearch
8 30 (6.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 27 (6.09%) Big Data
10 21 (4.74%) Azure SQL Database
11 20 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (4.06%) Data Mining
13 14 (3.16%) Apache Hive
13 14 (3.16%) Hadoop
14 13 (2.93%) NoSQL
14 13 (2.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 11 (2.48%) Snowflake Schema
15 11 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 90 (20.32%) Git
2 76 (17.16%) Jenkins
3 66 (14.90%) Bitbucket
4 65 (14.67%) Artifactory
5 45 (10.16%) GitLab
6 21 (4.74%) JIRA
7 10 (2.26%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.35%) ERwin
8 6 (1.35%) RStudio
8 6 (1.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.68%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.23%) Grunt
10 1 (0.23%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.23%) Mocha
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.23%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 167 (37.70%) Finance
2 127 (28.67%) Social Skills
3 106 (23.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (17.16%) Marketing
6 74 (16.70%) Law
7 26 (5.87%) Retail
8 20 (4.51%) Games
9 19 (4.29%) Banking
10 16 (3.61%) Public Sector
11 14 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.03%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.13%) Legal
13 5 (1.13%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.68%) Electronics
15 3 (0.68%) General Ledger
16 2 (0.45%) Automotive
16 2 (0.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 135 (30.47%) Data Engineer
2 100 (22.57%) Lead
3 94 (21.22%) Senior
4 65 (14.67%) Lead Software Engineer
4 65 (14.67%) Software Engineer
5 63 (14.22%) Analyst
6 42 (9.48%) Senior Software Engineer
7 36 (8.13%) Developer
8 32 (7.22%) Data Analyst
9 24 (5.42%) Senior Data Engineer
10 21 (4.74%) Lead Data Engineer
11 20 (4.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 19 (4.29%) Data Manager
13 17 (3.84%) Architect
13 17 (3.84%) AWS Data Engineer
13 17 (3.84%) AWS Engineer
14 16 (3.61%) Power BI Developer
15 15 (3.39%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 15 (3.39%) Data Architect
15 15 (3.39%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (17.38%) XML
2 76 (17.16%) JSON
3 69 (15.58%) RESTful
4 68 (15.35%) Web Services
5 66 (14.90%) OpenID
6 65 (14.67%) JSON-LD
6 65 (14.67%) LDAP
6 65 (14.67%) SAML
7 16 (3.61%) .NET
8 13 (2.93%) CSS
8 13 (2.93%) PySpark
9 12 (2.71%) Apache Beam
9 12 (2.71%) HTML
9 12 (2.71%) Kafka
10 11 (2.48%) .NET Framework
11 10 (2.26%) ASP.NET
11 10 (2.26%) ASP.NET MVC
11 10 (2.26%) Entity Framework
11 10 (2.26%) HTML5 Canvas
11 10 (2.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 76 (17.16%) Reference Data
2 75 (16.93%) Enterprise Cloud
2 75 (16.93%) Management Information System
3 52 (11.74%) Data Structures
4 42 (9.48%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (5.42%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.93%) Client/Server
6 13 (2.93%) Online Games
7 12 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.48%) Cloud Native
9 10 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.26%) Low-Code
10 9 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.03%) Distributed Applications
11 8 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.81%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.58%) Clustering
12 7 (1.58%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (1.58%) Robotics
13 6 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.74%) Linux
2 6 (1.35%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (46.28%) Data Modelling
2 175 (39.50%) Agile
3 163 (36.79%) Data Pipeline
4 144 (32.51%) Analytics
5 133 (30.02%) ETL
6 125 (28.22%) CI/CD
7 119 (26.86%) Business Intelligence
7 119 (26.86%) Problem-Solving
8 116 (26.19%) Data Engineering
9 100 (22.57%) Roadmaps
10 86 (19.41%) Continuous Delivery
10 86 (19.41%) Software Engineering
11 82 (18.51%) Data Integration
12 75 (16.93%) SDLC
12 75 (16.93%) Test Automation
13 73 (16.48%) Visualisation
14 72 (16.25%) Architectural Design
14 72 (16.25%) Use Case
15 69 (15.58%) Data Analytics
16 66 (14.90%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 236 (53.27%) SQL
2 140 (31.60%) Python
3 65 (14.67%) Go
3 65 (14.67%) Prolog
3 65 (14.67%) SPARQL
4 28 (6.32%) Scala
5 21 (4.74%) R
6 20 (4.51%) Java
7 18 (4.06%) C#
8 17 (3.84%) T-SQL
9 13 (2.93%) JavaScript
10 11 (2.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (2.26%) TypeScript
12 6 (1.35%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.13%) Perl
14 4 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.90%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.68%) C
15 3 (0.68%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (7.45%) Degree
2 20 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (2.03%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.58%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.35%) Security Cleared
7 4 (0.90%) ISTQB
7 4 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.90%) MCSE
8 3 (0.68%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.45%) MBA
10 1 (0.23%) HNC
10 1 (0.23%) HND
10 1 (0.23%) MCSA
10 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (24.38%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.71%) QA
3 3 (0.68%) GDPR
3 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 66 (14.90%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.03%) HDFS
3 7 (1.58%) Docker
4 2 (0.45%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.23%) NFS
5 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (3.61%) Terraform
2 10 (2.26%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.90%) Ansible
Vendors
1 73 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.48%) Databricks
3 20 (4.51%) Google
4 12 (2.71%) SAP
5 10 (2.26%) Alteryx
5 10 (2.26%) Cloudera
5 10 (2.26%) Teradata
6 9 (2.03%) IBM
6 9 (2.03%) Oracle
7 7 (1.58%) Dataiku
8 6 (1.35%) F5
9 5 (1.13%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.90%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.68%) Informatica
12 2 (0.45%) Ab Initio
12 2 (0.45%) Anaplan
12 2 (0.45%) CA
12 2 (0.45%) Sybase
13 1 (0.23%) HubSpot
13 1 (0.23%) SnapLogic