diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/transform/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/transform/transforms/pivot/Aggregations.java b/x-pack/plugin/transform/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/transform/transforms/pivot/Aggregations.java
index 79ad791986fae..f678c4a3847de 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/transform/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/transform/transforms/pivot/Aggregations.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/transform/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/transform/transforms/pivot/Aggregations.java
@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ public final class Aggregations {
     // the field mapping should be determined explicitly from the source field mapping if possible.
     private static final String SOURCE = "_source";
 
+    public static final String FLOAT = "float";
+    public static final String SCALED_FLOAT = "scaled_float";
+    public static final String DOUBLE = "double";
+    public static final String LONG = "long";
+    public static final String GEO_SHAPE = "geo_shape";
+    public static final String GEO_POINT = "geo_point";
+
     private Aggregations() {}
 
     /**
@@ -37,19 +44,19 @@ private Aggregations() {}
      *
      */
     enum AggregationType {
-        AVG("avg", "double"),
-        CARDINALITY("cardinality", "long"),
-        VALUE_COUNT("value_count", "long"),
+        AVG("avg", DOUBLE),
+        CARDINALITY("cardinality", LONG),
+        VALUE_COUNT("value_count", LONG),
         MAX("max", SOURCE),
         MIN("min", SOURCE),
-        SUM("sum", "double"),
-        GEO_CENTROID("geo_centroid", "geo_point"),
-        GEO_BOUNDS("geo_bounds", "geo_shape"),
+        SUM("sum", DOUBLE),
+        GEO_CENTROID("geo_centroid", GEO_POINT),
+        GEO_BOUNDS("geo_bounds", GEO_SHAPE),
         SCRIPTED_METRIC("scripted_metric", DYNAMIC),
         WEIGHTED_AVG("weighted_avg", DYNAMIC),
         BUCKET_SELECTOR("bucket_selector", DYNAMIC),
         BUCKET_SCRIPT("bucket_script", DYNAMIC),
-        PERCENTILES("percentiles", "double");
+        PERCENTILES("percentiles", DOUBLE);
 
         private final String aggregationType;
         private final String targetMapping;
@@ -82,7 +89,16 @@ public static boolean isDynamicMapping(String targetMapping) {
 
     public static String resolveTargetMapping(String aggregationType, String sourceType) {
         AggregationType agg = AggregationType.valueOf(aggregationType.toUpperCase(Locale.ROOT));
-        return agg.getTargetMapping().equals(SOURCE) ? sourceType : agg.getTargetMapping();
+
+        if (agg.getTargetMapping().equals(SOURCE)) {
+            // scaled float requires an additional parameter "scaling_factor", which we do not know, therefore we fallback to float
+            if (sourceType.equals(SCALED_FLOAT)) {
+                return FLOAT;
+            }
+            return sourceType;
+        }
+
+        return agg.getTargetMapping();
     }
 
     public static Map<String, String> getAggregationOutputTypes(AggregationBuilder agg) {
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/transform/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/transform/transforms/pivot/AggregationsTests.java b/x-pack/plugin/transform/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/transform/transforms/pivot/AggregationsTests.java
index d0cd0adae42ee..a4a0bb7c6cea5 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/transform/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/transform/transforms/pivot/AggregationsTests.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/transform/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/transform/transforms/pivot/AggregationsTests.java
@@ -27,11 +27,13 @@ public void testResolveTargetMapping() {
         assertEquals("int", Aggregations.resolveTargetMapping("max", "int"));
         assertEquals("double", Aggregations.resolveTargetMapping("max", "double"));
         assertEquals("half_float", Aggregations.resolveTargetMapping("max", "half_float"));
+        assertEquals("float", Aggregations.resolveTargetMapping("max", "scaled_float"));
 
         // min
         assertEquals("int", Aggregations.resolveTargetMapping("min", "int"));
         assertEquals("double", Aggregations.resolveTargetMapping("min", "double"));
         assertEquals("half_float", Aggregations.resolveTargetMapping("min", "half_float"));
+        assertEquals("float", Aggregations.resolveTargetMapping("min", "scaled_float"));
 
         // sum
         assertEquals("double", Aggregations.resolveTargetMapping("sum", "double"));