Data Transformation Jobs

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 512 531
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 +17
Permanent jobs citing Data Transformation 442 505 1,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.53% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.56% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 288 340 520
10th Percentile £35,000 £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £58,439 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,188 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,875 £115,375 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £56,953
% change year-on-year -18.52% +18.52% +11.13%

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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Transformation in the UK

Data Transformation
Top 16 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 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -34 358 £64,000 -11.72% 95
UK excluding London +10 289 £55,000 -18.52% 44
Work from Home -51 154 £60,000 -14.29% 45
London +80 142 £85,000 -8.11% 53
Scotland +7 76 £62,500 +25.00% 3
North of England +38 74 £47,500 -18.10% 9
Midlands -23 49 £44,100 -34.67% 9
South West -1 47 £59,000 -1.67% 13
North West +24 38 £47,500 -29.89% 6
West Midlands -3 34 £46,500 -29.01% 6
South East -37 26 £75,000 +14.50% 7
North East +13 24 £64,000 +29.14% 2
East of England 0 16 £57,500 -28.13% 2
East Midlands -39 15 £44,100 -34.67% 3
Yorkshire +17 12 £37,500 -31.82% 1
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 33 (7.47%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (6.33%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.30%) Confluence
4 16 (3.62%) Apache
5 10 (2.26%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.13%) 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 24 (5.43%) 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
1 150 (33.94%) Azure
2 117 (26.47%) Power Platform
3 68 (15.38%) Snowflake
4 67 (15.16%) AWS
5 41 (9.28%) dbt
6 39 (8.82%) GCP
7 33 (7.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 30 (6.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 30 (6.79%) Matillion
9 24 (5.43%) SaaS
10 22 (4.98%) Power Automate
11 19 (4.30%) GitHub
12 18 (4.07%) Amazon Kinesis
12 18 (4.07%) PowerApps
13 17 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (3.85%) Serverless
14 16 (3.62%) Amazon S3
15 12 (2.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 12 (2.71%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 65 (14.71%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.68%) HTTP
2 3 (0.68%) Internet
3 2 (0.45%) DNS
3 2 (0.45%) SSH
4 1 (0.23%) NAS
4 1 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (31.00%) Data Warehouse
2 110 (24.89%) Power BI
3 88 (19.91%) SQL Server
4 81 (18.33%) Metadata
5 76 (17.19%) Data Lake
6 33 (7.47%) Star Schema
6 33 (7.47%) Tableau
7 31 (7.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 30 (6.79%) Big Data
8 30 (6.79%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (4.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (4.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (3.62%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 16 (3.62%) Data Mining
12 16 (3.62%) NoSQL
13 12 (2.71%) BigQuery
14 11 (2.49%) Apache Hive
14 11 (2.49%) Hadoop
14 11 (2.49%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 92 (20.81%) Git
2 77 (17.42%) Jenkins
3 66 (14.93%) Bitbucket
4 65 (14.71%) Artifactory
5 45 (10.18%) GitLab
6 21 (4.75%) JIRA
7 9 (2.04%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.36%) RStudio
8 6 (1.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 5 (1.13%) ERwin
10 4 (0.90%) Grunt
10 4 (0.90%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.90%) Mocha
10 4 (0.90%) webpack
11 3 (0.68%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.68%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.23%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
General
1 161 (36.43%) Finance
2 127 (28.73%) Social Skills
3 106 (23.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 82 (18.55%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (16.74%) Law
6 73 (16.52%) Marketing
7 26 (5.88%) Retail
8 20 (4.52%) Games
9 19 (4.30%) Banking
10 14 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.71%) Public Sector
12 11 (2.49%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.90%) Legal
14 2 (0.45%) Automotive
14 2 (0.45%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.45%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.45%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.23%) Billing
15 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 136 (30.77%) Data Engineer
2 100 (22.62%) Lead
3 97 (21.95%) Senior
4 69 (15.61%) Analyst
5 65 (14.71%) Lead Software Engineer
5 65 (14.71%) Software Engineer
6 42 (9.50%) Senior Software Engineer
7 38 (8.60%) Data Analyst
8 32 (7.24%) Developer
9 25 (5.66%) Architect
10 24 (5.43%) Senior Data Engineer
11 22 (4.98%) Data Architect
11 22 (4.98%) Lead Data Engineer
12 17 (3.85%) AWS Data Engineer
12 17 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (3.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 15 (3.39%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 14 (3.17%) Transformation Manager
16 13 (2.94%) Power BI Developer
17 12 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (17.42%) XML
2 75 (16.97%) JSON
3 69 (15.61%) OpenID
4 68 (15.38%) Web Services
5 65 (14.71%) JSON-LD
5 65 (14.71%) LDAP
5 65 (14.71%) RESTful
5 65 (14.71%) SAML
6 18 (4.07%) PySpark
7 14 (3.17%) CSS
8 13 (2.94%) .NET
8 13 (2.94%) Kafka
9 10 (2.26%) HTML
9 10 (2.26%) Spark Streaming
10 9 (2.04%) Apache Beam
10 9 (2.04%) REST
11 8 (1.81%) ASP.NET
11 8 (1.81%) ASP.NET MVC
11 8 (1.81%) Entity Framework
11 8 (1.81%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 77 (17.42%) Reference Data
2 75 (16.97%) Management Information System
3 74 (16.74%) Enterprise Cloud
4 54 (12.22%) Data Structures
5 43 (9.73%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (5.66%) Product Ownership
7 14 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.94%) Client/Server
8 13 (2.94%) Online Games
9 11 (2.49%) Cloud Native
9 11 (2.49%) Distributed Applications
10 10 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.81%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.81%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.81%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (1.58%) Clustering
12 7 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.58%) Robotics
13 6 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.98%) Linux
2 6 (1.36%) Unix
3 2 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (46.83%) Data Modelling
2 183 (41.40%) Agile
3 168 (38.01%) Data Pipeline
4 139 (31.45%) Analytics
5 135 (30.54%) ETL
6 127 (28.73%) CI/CD
7 119 (26.92%) Data Engineering
8 113 (25.57%) Problem-Solving
9 108 (24.43%) Business Intelligence
10 105 (23.76%) Roadmaps
11 87 (19.68%) Software Engineering
12 86 (19.46%) Continuous Delivery
13 77 (17.42%) Data Integration
13 77 (17.42%) SDLC
14 76 (17.19%) Test Automation
15 74 (16.74%) Architectural Design
16 70 (15.84%) Use Case
17 66 (14.93%) Community of Practice
17 66 (14.93%) Ontologies
18 65 (14.71%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 241 (54.52%) SQL
2 140 (31.67%) Python
3 65 (14.71%) Go
3 65 (14.71%) Prolog
3 65 (14.71%) SPARQL
4 27 (6.11%) Scala
5 23 (5.20%) Java
5 23 (5.20%) R
6 18 (4.07%) T-SQL
7 16 (3.62%) C#
8 14 (3.17%) JavaScript
9 8 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (1.81%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.36%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.13%) Perl
12 3 (0.68%) C
12 3 (0.68%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.45%) PHP
13 2 (0.45%) VB
14 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (7.47%) Degree
2 20 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (1.81%) Azure Certification
4 8 (1.81%) DBS Check
5 7 (1.58%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.90%) ISTQB
6 4 (0.90%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.90%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.68%) MCSE
8 2 (0.45%) MBA
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (25.11%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.49%) QA
3 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.45%) GDPR
5 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 66 (14.93%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.81%) Docker
2 8 (1.81%) HDFS
3 1 (0.23%) NFS
3 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (4.07%) Terraform
2 11 (2.49%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.36%) Ansible
Vendors
1 64 (14.48%) Microsoft
2 44 (9.95%) Databricks
3 20 (4.52%) Google
4 11 (2.49%) Cloudera
5 10 (2.26%) Alteryx
5 10 (2.26%) SAP
6 9 (2.04%) Oracle
6 9 (2.04%) Teradata
7 8 (1.81%) IBM
8 6 (1.36%) Dataiku
8 6 (1.36%) F5
9 5 (1.13%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.90%) Informatica
10 4 (0.90%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.68%) Hortonworks
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%) VMware