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 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 501 532 520
Rank change year-on-year +31 -12 +48
Permanent jobs citing Data Transformation 443 524 1,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.53% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.55% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 293 353 525
10th Percentile £35,000 £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £58,439 £52,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £115,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.52% +22.73% +4.76%

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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +10.53%

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 20 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 20 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 +8 360 £64,000 -10.18% 115
UK excluding London +21 286 £55,000 -18.52% 59
Work from Home -18 158 £63,000 -10.00% 78
London +69 148 £83,000 -10.27% 66
Scotland +8 76 £62,500 +25.00% 1
North of England +40 72 £47,500 -15.93% 10
Midlands -20 48 £45,300 -32.89% 12
South West +2 47 £59,000 -1.67% 12
North West +23 37 £47,500 -18.10% 6
West Midlands +25 33 £46,500 -29.01% 9
South East -27 23 £75,000 +14.50% 20
North East - 23 £64,000 - 2
East of England +10 18 £57,500 -28.13% 1
East Midlands -43 15 £44,100 -34.67% 3
Yorkshire +39 12 £37,500 -28.57% 2
Wales 0 1 £52,500 -13.53% 3
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 34 (7.67%) 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 24 (5.42%) 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
1 153 (34.54%) Azure
2 115 (25.96%) Power Platform
3 71 (16.03%) AWS
4 67 (15.12%) Snowflake
5 42 (9.48%) GCP
6 41 (9.26%) dbt
7 34 (7.67%) 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 21 (4.74%) Serverless
12 20 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (4.51%) PowerApps
13 19 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
14 18 (4.06%) GitHub
15 17 (3.84%) Amazon Kinesis
16 16 (3.61%) Amazon S3
17 12 (2.71%) Cloud Composer
18 10 (2.26%) Azure Logic Apps
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
1 133 (30.02%) Data Warehouse
2 108 (24.38%) Power BI
3 93 (20.99%) SQL Server
4 79 (17.83%) Metadata
5 76 (17.16%) Data Lake
6 35 (7.90%) Tableau
7 32 (7.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 32 (7.22%) Star Schema
8 30 (6.77%) Elasticsearch
9 29 (6.55%) Big Data
10 20 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (4.06%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (3.39%) NoSQL
14 14 (3.16%) Data Mining
15 13 (2.93%) Apache Hive
15 13 (2.93%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 13 (2.93%) Hadoop
15 13 (2.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 11 (2.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 91 (20.54%) Git
2 77 (17.38%) 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 2 (0.45%) Grunt
10 2 (0.45%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.45%) Mocha
10 2 (0.45%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.45%) webpack
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
General
1 165 (37.25%) Finance
2 127 (28.67%) Social Skills
3 107 (24.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 86 (19.41%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (16.93%) Marketing
6 74 (16.70%) Law
7 26 (5.87%) Retail
8 20 (4.51%) Games
9 19 (4.29%) Banking
10 15 (3.39%) Public Sector
11 14 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (2.26%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.13%) Legal
14 4 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.90%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.90%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.68%) General Ledger
16 2 (0.45%) Automotive
16 2 (0.45%) Electronics
16 2 (0.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 136 (30.70%) Data Engineer
2 101 (22.80%) Lead
3 95 (21.44%) Senior
4 65 (14.67%) Analyst
4 65 (14.67%) Lead Software Engineer
4 65 (14.67%) Software Engineer
5 42 (9.48%) Senior Software Engineer
6 37 (8.35%) Developer
7 34 (7.67%) Data Analyst
8 23 (5.19%) Senior Data Engineer
9 22 (4.97%) Lead Data Engineer
10 19 (4.29%) Architect
10 19 (4.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 17 (3.84%) AWS Data Engineer
11 17 (3.84%) AWS Engineer
11 17 (3.84%) Data Architect
12 15 (3.39%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 15 (3.39%) Power BI Developer
12 15 (3.39%) Transformation Manager
13 14 (3.16%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (17.61%) XML
2 76 (17.16%) JSON
3 68 (15.35%) Web Services
4 67 (15.12%) OpenID
4 67 (15.12%) RESTful
5 65 (14.67%) JSON-LD
5 65 (14.67%) LDAP
5 65 (14.67%) SAML
6 16 (3.61%) .NET
7 15 (3.39%) PySpark
8 14 (3.16%) CSS
9 13 (2.93%) Kafka
10 12 (2.71%) HTML
11 11 (2.48%) .NET Framework
11 11 (2.48%) Apache Beam
11 11 (2.48%) REST
12 10 (2.26%) ASP.NET MVC
12 10 (2.26%) Entity Framework
12 10 (2.26%) HTML5 Canvas
12 10 (2.26%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 76 (17.16%) Reference Data
2 75 (16.93%) Enterprise Cloud
2 75 (16.93%) Management Information System
3 53 (11.96%) Data Structures
4 43 (9.71%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (5.64%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.93%) Client/Server
6 13 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.93%) Online Games
7 11 (2.48%) Cloud Native
8 10 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (2.26%) Distributed Applications
8 10 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.26%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.81%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.81%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (1.58%) Clustering
10 7 (1.58%) Robotics
11 6 (1.35%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.97%) Linux
2 6 (1.35%) Unix
3 2 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (47.40%) Data Modelling
2 181 (40.86%) Agile
3 165 (37.25%) Data Pipeline
4 141 (31.83%) Analytics
5 133 (30.02%) ETL
6 127 (28.67%) CI/CD
7 118 (26.64%) Data Engineering
8 116 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
9 114 (25.73%) Business Intelligence
10 101 (22.80%) Roadmaps
11 87 (19.64%) Continuous Delivery
11 87 (19.64%) Software Engineering
12 79 (17.83%) Data Integration
13 76 (17.16%) SDLC
14 75 (16.93%) Test Automation
15 73 (16.48%) Architectural Design
16 70 (15.80%) Use Case
16 70 (15.80%) Visualisation
17 67 (15.12%) Data Analytics
18 66 (14.90%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 238 (53.72%) 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 23 (5.19%) Java
5 23 (5.19%) R
6 18 (4.06%) C#
6 18 (4.06%) T-SQL
7 14 (3.16%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (2.26%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.35%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.13%) Perl
11 3 (0.68%) C
11 3 (0.68%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.45%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 34 (7.67%) Degree
2 20 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (1.81%) Azure Certification
4 8 (1.81%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.35%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.90%) ISTQB
6 4 (0.90%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.90%) MCSE
7 3 (0.68%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.45%) MBA
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.23%) HNC
9 1 (0.23%) HND
9 1 (0.23%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (24.60%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.93%) 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 8 (1.81%) Docker
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.23%) NFS
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (3.84%) Terraform
2 11 (2.48%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 73 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 44 (9.93%) Databricks
3 20 (4.51%) Google
4 12 (2.71%) SAP
5 11 (2.48%) Cloudera
6 10 (2.26%) Alteryx
6 10 (2.26%) Oracle
6 10 (2.26%) Teradata
7 9 (2.03%) IBM
8 7 (1.58%) Dataiku
9 6 (1.35%) F5
10 5 (1.13%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.90%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.68%) Informatica
13 2 (0.45%) Ab Initio
13 2 (0.45%) Anaplan
13 2 (0.45%) CA
13 2 (0.45%) Hortonworks
13 2 (0.45%) Sybase
14 1 (0.23%) SnapLogic