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 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 346 410 468
Rank change year-on-year +64 +58 -78
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 242 296 434
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.53% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.59% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 213 310
10th Percentile £409 £413 £412
25th Percentile £455 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% +6.38%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £625
90th Percentile £745 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £543
% change year-on-year -6.98% -0.92% +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% -11.89%
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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 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 1 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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +42 202 £550 -8.33% 95
London +58 128 £550 -15.38% 53
Work from Home +84 104 £566 -5.63% 45
UK excluding London +42 82 £500 -6.98% 44
Midlands +31 20 £570 -5.00% 9
Scotland +51 18 £475 -16.89% 3
North of England +21 16 £500 -9.09% 9
South East +5 15 £450 -14.29% 7
West Midlands +19 13 £573 +1.78% 6
North West +29 11 £463 -3.90% 6
East Midlands +15 7 £455 -24.17% 3
South West 0 7 £575 +3.14% 13
East of England +3 6 £650 +22.64% 2
Yorkshire +9 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 (7.44%) Apache
2 11 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.83%) Confluence
4 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (4.96%) 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 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.07%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.65%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.65%) 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
Cloud Services
1 96 (39.67%) Azure
2 50 (20.66%) AWS
3 42 (17.36%) Power Platform
4 29 (11.98%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (11.98%) Dynamics 365
5 27 (11.16%) Azure Logic Apps
6 22 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 20 (8.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (8.26%) Serverless
7 20 (8.26%) Snowflake
8 18 (7.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (6.61%) Azure API Management
9 16 (6.61%) dbt
10 13 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (4.13%) Amazon EMR
11 10 (4.13%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (3.31%) GCP
13 7 (2.89%) AWS CodePipeline
14 6 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.48%) 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 62 (25.62%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (16.53%) Data Lake
3 37 (15.29%) Power BI
4 15 (6.20%) Big Data
5 14 (5.79%) Metadata
6 12 (4.96%) Tableau
7 10 (4.13%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (4.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 10 (4.13%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (3.72%) Flink
8 9 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (2.89%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.07%) Data Mining
10 5 (2.07%) Looker
10 5 (2.07%) OLAP
11 4 (1.65%) OLTP
11 4 (1.65%) Oracle8/8i Database
Development Applications
1 11 (4.55%) Git
2 7 (2.89%) ERwin
3 6 (2.48%) GitLab
3 6 (2.48%) JIRA
4 2 (0.83%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.83%) kappa
General
1 79 (32.64%) Finance
2 48 (19.83%) Social Skills
3 19 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.02%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.13%) Banking
6 9 (3.72%) Retail
7 8 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.89%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (2.89%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.65%) Local Government
10 3 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.83%) Legal
12 1 (0.41%) French Language
12 1 (0.41%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Law
12 1 (0.41%) Marketing
12 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 34 (14.05%) Lead
3 33 (13.64%) Analyst
4 24 (9.92%) Architect
4 24 (9.92%) Project Manager
5 20 (8.26%) Developer
6 16 (6.61%) Data Analyst
6 16 (6.61%) Data Architect
7 14 (5.79%) Consultant
8 13 (5.37%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (5.37%) Business Analyst
9 12 (4.96%) Azure Data Engineer
10 11 (4.55%) Senior
11 8 (3.31%) Data Consultant
11 8 (3.31%) Data Integration Manager
11 8 (3.31%) Data Manager
11 8 (3.31%) Integration Manager
11 8 (3.31%) Integration Project Manager
11 8 (3.31%) Power BI Developer
11 8 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.50%) PySpark
2 21 (8.68%) XML
3 13 (5.37%) JSON
4 12 (4.96%) Kafka
5 9 (3.72%) REST
6 7 (2.89%) ADO
7 6 (2.48%) AWS CDK
8 5 (2.07%) Pandas
8 5 (2.07%) RESTful
9 4 (1.65%) Flask
9 4 (1.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 3 (1.24%) PostGIS
10 3 (1.24%) YAML
11 2 (0.83%) GraphQL
11 2 (0.83%) Node.js
11 2 (0.83%) SOAP
12 1 (0.41%) Apache Avro
12 1 (0.41%) Gherkin
12 1 (0.41%) pytest
12 1 (0.41%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.02%) Data Structures
2 6 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (1.65%) Data Centre
3 4 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (1.65%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.65%) Product Ownership
3 4 (1.65%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (1.65%) Smart Meter
3 4 (1.65%) Taxonomies
4 3 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (1.24%) Reference Data
4 3 (1.24%) Wiki
5 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.83%) FMCG
6 1 (0.41%) AS400
6 1 (0.41%) Blog
6 1 (0.41%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.41%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.41%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (0.41%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.65%) Linux
1 4 (1.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (29.75%) Data Modelling
2 69 (28.51%) ETL
3 65 (26.86%) Analytics
4 53 (21.90%) Migration
5 49 (20.25%) Agile
5 49 (20.25%) Data Pipeline
5 49 (20.25%) DevOps
6 45 (18.60%) Business Intelligence
7 42 (17.36%) Data Integration
8 40 (16.53%) Data Migration
9 39 (16.12%) Data Governance
10 38 (15.70%) Data Engineering
11 30 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (11.57%) CI/CD
13 27 (11.16%) Stakeholder Management
14 25 (10.33%) Decision-Making
15 23 (9.50%) Technical Leadership
15 23 (9.50%) Test Strategy
16 22 (9.09%) Scrum
17 20 (8.26%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (33.47%) SQL
2 59 (24.38%) Python
3 22 (9.09%) C#
4 7 (2.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (2.89%) Scala
5 6 (2.48%) Java
6 5 (2.07%) R
6 5 (2.07%) X++
7 4 (1.65%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.65%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.65%) 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 (7.02%) SC Cleared
1 17 (7.02%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.20%) 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 (13.22%) Data Quality
2 23 (9.50%) QA
3 4 (1.65%) PMO
4 3 (1.24%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.24%) GDPR
5 2 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) NIST
6 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (6.20%) Docker
2 4 (1.65%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.72%) Terraform
2 8 (3.31%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.65%) Data Guard
3 4 (1.65%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.83%) Grafana
Vendors
1 34 (14.05%) Databricks
2 32 (13.22%) Microsoft
3 17 (7.02%) SAP
4 12 (4.96%) Google
5 10 (4.13%) Alteryx
6 7 (2.89%) Oracle
7 6 (2.48%) Informatica
8 5 (2.07%) Ab Initio
9 4 (1.65%) Cognizant
9 4 (1.65%) Embarcadero
10 3 (1.24%) Workday
11 2 (0.83%) IDERA
11 2 (0.83%) Sparx
12 1 (0.41%) Adobe
12 1 (0.41%) Anaplan
12 1 (0.41%) Ariba
12 1 (0.41%) Concur
12 1 (0.41%) Guidewire
12 1 (0.41%) OpenLink
12 1 (0.41%) Progress