Data Migration Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Migration
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Data Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Migration over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 132 121
Rank change year-on-year +33 -11 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 441 471 661
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.13% 1.97% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 2.20% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 340 465
10th Percentile £310 £363 £358
25th Percentile £428 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £643 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 6
10th Percentile £25.00 £17.06 £10.37
25th Percentile £40.00 £17.50 £13.81
Median hourly rate £75.00 £20.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +261.45% +3.75% +26.10%
75th Percentile £80.00 £30.31 £34.37
90th Percentile - £41.25 £48.95
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +233.33% +12.50% +26.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Migration 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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,507 21,404 27,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.51% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,460 14,856 19,229
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,060 1,308 1,363
10th Percentile £12.34 £11.00 £12.03
25th Percentile £15.19 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration in the UK excluding London

Data Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Migration in the UK excluding London

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in the UK excluding London

Data Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration in the UK excluding London

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Migration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Migration in the UK excluding London

Data Migration
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Migration within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -11 113 £550 +4.76% 24
North of England +47 104 £520 +1.46% 17
South West +51 71 £520 +1.96% 16
North West +39 63 £525 +5.00% 7
Midlands -2 56 £581 +16.25% 17
Scotland +30 48 £500 +2.25% 5
East of England +17 40 £307 -4.22% 11
West Midlands +2 40 £595 +12.00% 12
Yorkshire +20 36 £506 -3.57% 2
East Midlands +20 15 £515 +22.62% 5
Wales +23 6 £425 - 1
North East +19 5 £500 -4.76% 8
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Data Migration
UK

Data Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (3.63%) Confluence
2 10 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.36%) Apache
4 5 (1.13%) CMS
4 5 (1.13%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.45%) GemFire
6 2 (0.45%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 17 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.27%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (4.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (4.08%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (1.59%) SAP CO
3 7 (1.59%) SAP FI
3 7 (1.59%) SAP FI/CO
4 5 (1.13%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.91%) Infor SunSystems
5 4 (0.91%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (0.91%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.91%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (0.91%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.91%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.68%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.68%) Oracle FAH
6 3 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.68%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 3 (0.68%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 57 (12.93%) Azure
2 47 (10.66%) Dynamics 365
3 44 (9.98%) AWS
4 31 (7.03%) Power Platform
5 14 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (2.95%) GitHub
7 10 (2.27%) Amazon S3
7 10 (2.27%) SaaS
8 9 (2.04%) OCI
9 8 (1.81%) Serverless
10 7 (1.59%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.13%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (1.13%) GCP
12 5 (1.13%) OneDrive
13 4 (0.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (0.91%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.49%) DNS
2 9 (2.04%) SAN
3 8 (1.81%) DHCP
3 8 (1.81%) LAN
3 8 (1.81%) MPLS
3 8 (1.81%) WAN
3 8 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (1.36%) Firewall
5 4 (0.91%) IPsec
5 4 (0.91%) VPN
5 4 (0.91%) VSAN
6 3 (0.68%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.23%) SSL
7 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (7.71%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (7.03%) Power BI
4 26 (5.90%) SQL Server
5 25 (5.67%) Oracle Database
6 18 (4.08%) Oracle Database 11g
7 15 (3.40%) Metadata
8 11 (2.49%) Tableau
9 7 (1.59%) Metadata Repository
10 6 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.36%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.36%) MS Access
11 5 (1.13%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (1.13%) MySQL
11 5 (1.13%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.13%) SAP Data Services
12 4 (0.91%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.91%) Oracle Database 12c
12 4 (0.91%) Oracle8/8i Database
13 3 (0.68%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 25 (5.67%) JIRA
2 16 (3.63%) GitLab
3 5 (1.13%) Git
4 4 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.91%) LSMW
4 4 (0.91%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.68%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.68%) Toad
6 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) ERwin
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.23%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 117 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 110 (24.94%) Finance
3 41 (9.30%) Public Sector
4 31 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.67%) Retail
6 18 (4.08%) Aerospace
7 16 (3.63%) Manufacturing
7 16 (3.63%) Marketing
8 15 (3.40%) Banking
9 11 (2.49%) Billing
10 10 (2.27%) Legal
11 9 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.81%) Local Government
13 6 (1.36%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.91%) Aviation
15 4 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.91%) German Language
Job Titles
1 59 (13.38%) Consultant
2 54 (12.24%) Analyst
2 54 (12.24%) Data Engineer
3 50 (11.34%) Architect
4 47 (10.66%) Lead
5 46 (10.43%) Developer
6 40 (9.07%) Migration Engineer
7 37 (8.39%) Data Migration Engineer
8 29 (6.58%) Project Manager
9 26 (5.90%) Data Architect
9 26 (5.90%) Data Manager
10 23 (5.22%) Data Consultant
10 23 (5.22%) Data Migration Lead
11 20 (4.54%) Data Analyst
11 20 (4.54%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 17 (3.85%) Migration Consultant
13 16 (3.63%) Data Migration Specialist
13 16 (3.63%) Migration Specialist
14 15 (3.40%) PostgreSQL Developer
15 14 (3.17%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.72%) REST
1 12 (2.72%) Web Dynpro
2 9 (2.04%) JSON
2 9 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (1.81%) Web Services
4 5 (1.13%) .NET
4 5 (1.13%) AWS CDK
4 5 (1.13%) PostGIS
5 4 (0.91%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 3 (0.68%) BAPI
6 3 (0.68%) HTML
6 3 (0.68%) JSP
6 3 (0.68%) SAML
6 3 (0.68%) XML
7 2 (0.45%) CSS
7 2 (0.45%) FHIR
7 2 (0.45%) Flash
7 2 (0.45%) LDAP
7 2 (0.45%) SOAP
7 2 (0.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.39%) Legacy Systems
2 23 (5.22%) Data Centre
3 16 (3.63%) Clustering
4 15 (3.40%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (2.72%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.49%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.81%) Client/Server
7 8 (1.81%) FMCG
7 8 (1.81%) NHS
7 8 (1.81%) Replication
8 7 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.13%) e-Health
9 5 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.13%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.91%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 3 (0.68%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.68%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.68%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.99%) Unix
1 22 (4.99%) Windows
2 20 (4.54%) Linux
3 7 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (100.00%) Migration
2 68 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (12.70%) Agile
4 53 (12.02%) ERP
5 49 (11.11%) Data Management
6 43 (9.75%) ETL
7 42 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
7 42 (9.52%) DevOps
7 42 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 41 (9.30%) Data Modelling
9 40 (9.07%) Performance Tuning
9 40 (9.07%) User Acceptance Testing
10 38 (8.62%) Analytics
11 35 (7.94%) CRM
12 33 (7.48%) Project Management
13 31 (7.03%) Data Governance
14 29 (6.58%) Data Analysis
15 27 (6.12%) Data Architecture
15 27 (6.12%) DevSecOps
16 26 (5.90%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 91 (20.63%) SQL
2 24 (5.44%) PL/SQL
2 24 (5.44%) Python
3 15 (3.40%) ABAP
4 14 (3.17%) Bash
5 13 (2.95%) PowerShell
6 8 (1.81%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.36%) Java
8 5 (1.13%) C#
8 5 (1.13%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.91%) Go
10 2 (0.45%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.23%) PHP
11 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 86 (19.50%) Security Cleared
2 72 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 37 (8.39%) Degree
4 14 (3.17%) DV Cleared
5 12 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.91%) ACCA
7 4 (0.91%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.91%) CIMA
7 4 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (0.45%) PMP
8 2 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.23%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.23%) ISEB
9 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (9.75%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.49%) PMO
3 10 (2.27%) GDPR
3 10 (2.27%) QA
4 6 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.68%) NIST
5 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.23%) GxP
7 1 (0.23%) HL7
7 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (5.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.85%) vSphere
4 8 (1.81%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (1.81%) VMware Workstation
5 7 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.36%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.13%) Docker
8 4 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.68%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (3.40%) Terraform
2 10 (2.27%) Ansible
3 8 (1.81%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (1.81%) Nagios
3 8 (1.81%) NetBackup
3 8 (1.81%) SCCM
4 7 (1.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 5 (1.13%) VxRail
6 4 (0.91%) Data Guard
6 4 (0.91%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (0.91%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.68%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.45%) Grafana
9 1 (0.23%) Packer
9 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 73 (16.55%) Oracle
2 64 (14.51%) SAP
3 57 (12.93%) Microsoft
4 37 (8.39%) Micro Focus
5 25 (5.67%) VMware
6 14 (3.17%) Adobe
7 13 (2.95%) Atlassian
8 12 (2.72%) Salesforce
9 11 (2.49%) Dell
9 11 (2.49%) SolarWinds
10 10 (2.27%) Informatica
10 10 (2.27%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.81%) Hitachi
11 8 (1.81%) NetApp
12 7 (1.59%) Cisco
12 7 (1.59%) Workday
13 6 (1.36%) Databricks
13 6 (1.36%) IFS
13 6 (1.36%) Remedy
14 5 (1.13%) Autodesk