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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 423 475
Rank change year-on-year +55 +52 -92
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 241 283 432
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.51% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.57% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 203 310
10th Percentile £394 £413 £412
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +6.85%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £625
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £548
% change year-on-year -6.98% -1.83% +9.50%
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% -18.95%
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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 June 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 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Top 14 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 9 June 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 +62 201 £544 -9.38% 95
London +56 128 £525 -14.63% 48
Work from Home +91 104 £550 -8.33% 47
UK excluding London +50 81 £500 -6.98% 47
Scotland +54 18 £475 -16.89% 1
Midlands +28 18 £550 -8.33% 9
North of England +24 16 £500 -9.09% 9
South East +11 15 £450 -12.20% 10
North West +21 11 £463 -3.90% 6
West Midlands +15 10 £575 +2.22% 5
East Midlands +16 8 £455 -24.17% 4
South West +8 8 £575 -2.54% 14
East of England 0 6 £650 +22.64% 3
Yorkshire +4 5 £550 -11.29% 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 18 (7.47%) Apache
2 11 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.49%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.83%) Confluence
4 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (4.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.07%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (2.07%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.66%) SAP MDM
4 3 (1.24%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.83%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.41%) Endur
6 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.41%) Shopify
6 1 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 94 (39.00%) Azure
2 52 (21.58%) AWS
3 41 (17.01%) Power Platform
4 29 (12.03%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (12.03%) Dynamics 365
5 27 (11.20%) Azure Logic Apps
6 22 (9.13%) Amazon S3
7 21 (8.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 21 (8.71%) Snowflake
8 18 (7.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (7.47%) Serverless
9 16 (6.64%) Azure API Management
10 15 (6.22%) dbt
11 13 (5.39%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (4.15%) Amazon EMR
12 10 (4.15%) Amazon Kinesis
13 8 (3.32%) GCP
14 7 (2.90%) AWS CodePipeline
15 6 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (2.49%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.41%) 4G
1 1 (0.41%) 5G
1 1 (0.41%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (0.41%) NAS
1 1 (0.41%) Network Security
1 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (24.90%) Data Warehouse
2 41 (17.01%) Data Lake
3 36 (14.94%) Power BI
4 15 (6.22%) Big Data
5 12 (4.98%) Tableau
6 11 (4.56%) Metadata
7 10 (4.15%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (4.15%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (3.73%) Flink
8 9 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (3.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 7 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.90%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (2.07%) Data Mining
11 5 (2.07%) Looker
12 4 (1.66%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.66%) Oracle Database 12c
12 4 (1.66%) Oracle8/8i Database
Development Applications
1 10 (4.15%) Git
2 7 (2.90%) ERwin
3 6 (2.49%) GitLab
3 6 (2.49%) JIRA
4 2 (0.83%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.83%) Jenkins
General
1 82 (34.02%) Finance
2 45 (18.67%) Social Skills
3 19 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.05%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.56%) Banking
6 9 (3.73%) Retail
7 8 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.90%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.90%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (2.90%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.66%) Local Government
11 3 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.83%) Legal
13 1 (0.41%) French Language
13 1 (0.41%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.41%) Marketing
13 1 (0.41%) Publishing
13 1 (0.41%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 65 (26.97%) Data Engineer
2 34 (14.11%) Lead
3 33 (13.69%) Analyst
4 24 (9.96%) Project Manager
5 22 (9.13%) Architect
6 21 (8.71%) Developer
7 17 (7.05%) Data Analyst
8 14 (5.81%) Consultant
9 13 (5.39%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (5.39%) Data Architect
10 12 (4.98%) Azure Data Engineer
10 12 (4.98%) Business Analyst
11 11 (4.56%) Senior
12 9 (3.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 9 (3.73%) Power BI Developer
12 9 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (3.32%) Data Consultant
13 8 (3.32%) Data Manager
13 8 (3.32%) Integration Manager
13 8 (3.32%) Integration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.54%) PySpark
2 21 (8.71%) XML
3 13 (5.39%) Kafka
4 12 (4.98%) JSON
5 9 (3.73%) REST
6 6 (2.49%) ADO
6 6 (2.49%) AWS CDK
7 5 (2.07%) RESTful
8 4 (1.66%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 4 (1.66%) Pandas
9 3 (1.24%) Flask
9 3 (1.24%) PostGIS
9 3 (1.24%) YAML
10 2 (0.83%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.83%) Node.js
10 2 (0.83%) SOAP
11 1 (0.41%) Apache Avro
11 1 (0.41%) Gherkin
11 1 (0.41%) pytest
11 1 (0.41%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.05%) Data Structures
2 6 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.07%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.66%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.66%) Renewable Energy
4 4 (1.66%) Smart Meter
5 3 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (1.24%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.24%) Wiki
6 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.83%) FMCG
6 2 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.41%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.41%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.41%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.41%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.41%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.41%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.66%) Linux
1 4 (1.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (29.05%) ETL
2 68 (28.22%) Data Modelling
3 64 (26.56%) Analytics
4 52 (21.58%) Migration
5 49 (20.33%) Agile
5 49 (20.33%) Data Pipeline
5 49 (20.33%) DevOps
6 41 (17.01%) Business Intelligence
7 39 (16.18%) Data Migration
8 38 (15.77%) Data Engineering
8 38 (15.77%) Data Integration
9 35 (14.52%) Data Governance
10 28 (11.62%) CI/CD
10 28 (11.62%) Decision-Making
10 28 (11.62%) Stakeholder Management
11 27 (11.20%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (9.54%) Technical Leadership
12 23 (9.54%) Test Strategy
13 22 (9.13%) Scrum
14 20 (8.30%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 81 (33.61%) SQL
2 58 (24.07%) Python
3 22 (9.13%) C#
4 7 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (2.90%) Scala
5 6 (2.49%) Java
6 5 (2.07%) R
6 5 (2.07%) X++
7 4 (1.66%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.66%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.66%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.83%) Bash
8 2 (0.83%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.83%) VBA
9 1 (0.41%) C++
Qualifications
1 17 (7.05%) SC Cleared
1 17 (7.05%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.22%) Degree
3 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.28%) Data Quality
2 23 (9.54%) QA
3 4 (1.66%) GDPR
3 4 (1.66%) PMO
4 3 (1.24%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.41%) NIST
6 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (6.22%) Docker
2 4 (1.66%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.73%) Terraform
2 8 (3.32%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.66%) Data Guard
3 4 (1.66%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.83%) Grafana
Vendors
1 33 (13.69%) Databricks
2 30 (12.45%) Microsoft
3 17 (7.05%) SAP
4 12 (4.98%) Google
5 10 (4.15%) Alteryx
6 7 (2.90%) Oracle
7 6 (2.49%) Informatica
8 5 (2.07%) Ab Initio
9 4 (1.66%) Cognizant
9 4 (1.66%) Embarcadero
10 3 (1.24%) Sparx
10 3 (1.24%) Workday
11 2 (0.83%) IDERA
12 1 (0.41%) Adobe
12 1 (0.41%) Anaplan
12 1 (0.41%) Ariba
12 1 (0.41%) Ceridian
12 1 (0.41%) Concur
12 1 (0.41%) Guidewire
12 1 (0.41%) OpenLink