Data Migration Contracts

Data Migration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 135 136
Rank change year-on-year +43 +1 -20
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,026 1,149 1,809
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.37% 1.92% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 2.14% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 697 808 1,230
10th Percentile £363 £381 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £631 £619
90th Percentile £726 £725 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 8 10
10th Percentile £25.00 £17.24 £11.47
25th Percentile £40.00 £17.50 £16.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £21.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +252.94% +6.25% +26.10%
75th Percentile £80.00 £33.13 £50.10
90th Percentile - £39.50 £62.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £20.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year +261.45% +3.75% +26.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Migration.

Daily rate trend for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Migration.

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Migration over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +52 879 £550 +4.76% 174
London +60 454 £550 - 78
UK excluding London +42 441 £525 +5.00% 88
Work from Home +33 429 £550 +6.80% 81
South East -5 112 £550 +4.76% 23
North of England +52 107 £523 -0.48% 14
South West +53 71 £520 +4.00% 16
North West +37 62 £525 +5.00% 5
Midlands -5 56 £588 +17.50% 19
Scotland +24 46 £490 +0.20% 5
Yorkshire +22 40 £516 -1.67% 3
East of England +18 40 £307 -18.27% 10
West Midlands +9 39 £598 +16.59% 13
East Midlands +18 16 £515 +22.62% 6
Wales +19 6 £425 - 1
North East +21 5 £500 -4.76% 6

Data Migration
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 66 (6.43%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.63%) Confluence
3 19 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.68%) CMS
5 7 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.58%) Apache
7 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.19%) GemFire
8 2 (0.19%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.097%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 34 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 20 (1.95%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.097%) Trello
Business Applications
1 70 (6.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (1.46%) SAP MDG
5 14 (1.36%) Loan IQ
6 12 (1.17%) SAP CO
6 12 (1.17%) SAP FI
7 10 (0.97%) SAP FI/CO
8 9 (0.88%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
10 7 (0.68%) NEC Housing
10 7 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
10 7 (0.68%) SAP Retail
10 7 (0.68%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
11 6 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.58%) SAP PM
12 5 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
12 5 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
12 5 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 191 (18.62%) Azure
2 97 (9.45%) Dynamics 365
3 87 (8.48%) AWS
3 87 (8.48%) Power Platform
4 39 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (3.12%) SaaS
6 29 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (2.83%) OCI
7 25 (2.44%) Serverless
8 22 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
8 22 (2.14%) GCP
9 21 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 21 (2.05%) Snowflake
10 19 (1.85%) Entra ID
11 15 (1.46%) GitHub
12 14 (1.36%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (1.27%) PaaS
13 13 (1.27%) WhatsApp
14 12 (1.17%) Amazon S3
14 12 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.66%) Firewall
2 12 (1.17%) DNS
3 10 (0.97%) SAN
4 9 (0.88%) DHCP
4 9 (0.88%) MPLS
5 8 (0.78%) LAN
5 8 (0.78%) WAN
5 8 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.68%) VPN
7 6 (0.58%) VSAN
8 4 (0.39%) IPsec
9 3 (0.29%) PuTTY
10 2 (0.19%) NAS
11 1 (0.097%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.097%) HTTP
11 1 (0.097%) Internet
11 1 (0.097%) Intranet
11 1 (0.097%) OpenLDAP
11 1 (0.097%) SSL
11 1 (0.097%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (9.06%) Data Warehouse
2 72 (7.02%) SQL Server
3 60 (5.85%) Power BI
4 53 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (3.41%) Oracle Database
6 31 (3.02%) Data Lake
7 22 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 21 (2.05%) Tableau
9 20 (1.95%) Big Data
10 19 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
11 18 (1.75%) Metadata
11 18 (1.75%) Oracle Database 11g
12 17 (1.66%) Relational Database
12 17 (1.66%) SAP Data Services
13 16 (1.56%) NoSQL
14 12 (1.17%) Electronic Patient Records
15 11 (1.07%) MySQL
16 9 (0.88%) BusinessObjects
16 9 (0.88%) Data Mining
16 9 (0.88%) DB2
Development Applications
1 45 (4.39%) JIRA
2 16 (1.56%) GitLab
3 9 (0.88%) ERwin
3 9 (0.88%) Git
3 9 (0.88%) LSMW
4 7 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (0.68%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.58%) Visual Studio Team System
6 5 (0.49%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.49%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.29%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.29%) Deequ
7 3 (0.29%) Postman
7 3 (0.29%) Selenium
7 3 (0.29%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.29%) Toad
8 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.19%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.097%) Oracle Forms
General
1 282 (27.49%) Finance
1 282 (27.49%) Social Skills
2 93 (9.06%) Public Sector
3 74 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (4.78%) Banking
5 46 (4.48%) Retail
6 31 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
7 26 (2.53%) Manufacturing
8 20 (1.95%) Financial Institution
9 18 (1.75%) Aerospace
9 18 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (1.75%) Legal
10 17 (1.66%) Marketing
11 16 (1.56%) Local Government
12 14 (1.36%) Billing
12 14 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (0.97%) Investment Banking
13 10 (0.97%) Law
13 10 (0.97%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 168 (16.37%) Consultant
2 158 (15.40%) Analyst
3 143 (13.94%) Architect
4 106 (10.33%) Lead
5 99 (9.65%) Project Manager
6 88 (8.58%) Data Engineer
7 80 (7.80%) Developer
8 72 (7.02%) Business Analyst
9 58 (5.65%) Data Migration Lead
9 58 (5.65%) Migration Engineer
10 55 (5.36%) Data Analyst
11 52 (5.07%) Data Architect
12 47 (4.58%) Data Consultant
13 45 (4.39%) Senior
14 44 (4.29%) Data Migration Engineer
14 44 (4.29%) Migration Analyst
15 42 (4.09%) Data Manager
15 42 (4.09%) Data Migration Analyst
16 40 (3.90%) Migration Manager
17 38 (3.70%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.83%) .NET
2 28 (2.73%) Web Services
3 21 (2.05%) JSON
4 19 (1.85%) REST
5 18 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
6 13 (1.27%) Web Dynpro
7 11 (1.07%) XML
8 9 (0.88%) ARM Templates
9 8 (0.78%) .NET Framework
9 8 (0.78%) Spring Boot
10 7 (0.68%) Apache Camel
10 7 (0.68%) BAPI
10 7 (0.68%) Entity Framework
10 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
10 7 (0.68%) Middleware
10 7 (0.68%) PySpark
10 7 (0.68%) WCF
11 6 (0.58%) Spring
12 5 (0.49%) Apache Avro
12 5 (0.49%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 64 (6.24%) Legacy Systems
2 44 (4.29%) Data Centre
3 42 (4.09%) Data Structures
4 26 (2.53%) Management Information System
5 21 (2.05%) Cloud Native
6 18 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (1.56%) Clustering
7 16 (1.56%) Product Ownership
8 15 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.36%) Replication
10 11 (1.07%) FMCG
11 10 (0.97%) NHS
11 10 (0.97%) Onboarding
12 9 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.78%) Client/Server
13 8 (0.78%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.68%) Reinsurance
15 6 (0.58%) Derivative
15 6 (0.58%) Fixed Income
15 6 (0.58%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 45 (4.39%) Windows
2 32 (3.12%) Linux
3 22 (2.14%) Unix
4 13 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.39%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.29%) VMS
7 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,026 (100.00%) Migration
2 150 (14.62%) Agile
2 150 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
3 132 (12.87%) Data Modelling
4 123 (11.99%) ETL
5 109 (10.62%) ERP
6 106 (10.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 105 (10.23%) Project Management
8 101 (9.84%) Data Management
9 93 (9.06%) User Acceptance Testing
10 89 (8.67%) Analytics
10 89 (8.67%) Business Intelligence
10 89 (8.67%) CRM
11 82 (7.99%) Data Governance
11 82 (7.99%) DevOps
12 80 (7.80%) Validation
13 67 (6.53%) Data Analysis
14 59 (5.75%) Requirements Gathering
15 56 (5.46%) Change Management
15 56 (5.46%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 199 (19.40%) SQL
2 53 (5.17%) Python
3 38 (3.70%) Java
4 33 (3.22%) C#
5 32 (3.12%) PowerShell
6 28 (2.73%) PL/SQL
7 27 (2.63%) JavaScript
8 23 (2.24%) ABAP
9 11 (1.07%) Bash
9 11 (1.07%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.49%) Scala
10 5 (0.49%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.39%) Go
12 3 (0.29%) Bicep
13 2 (0.19%) PHP
13 2 (0.19%) R
13 2 (0.19%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.097%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.097%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.097%) VBA
Qualifications
1 145 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 123 (11.99%) SC Cleared
3 70 (6.82%) Degree
4 22 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (2.14%) DV Cleared
5 12 (1.17%) Azure Certification
5 12 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (0.97%) SAP Certification
7 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (0.58%) PMP
8 6 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (0.49%) ACCA
9 5 (0.49%) CIMA
9 5 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 4 (0.39%) APMP
10 4 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.39%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.097%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.097%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (11.89%) Data Quality
2 60 (5.85%) QA
3 34 (3.31%) GDPR
4 31 (3.02%) PMO
5 10 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.39%) SLA
7 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.29%) NIST
8 2 (0.19%) GxP
8 2 (0.19%) HL7
9 1 (0.097%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.097%) IASME
9 1 (0.097%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (4.29%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.14%) vSphere
4 12 (1.17%) Docker
4 12 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.97%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.29%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.097%) HDFS
9 1 (0.097%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 27 (2.63%) Terraform
2 13 (1.27%) Ansible
3 11 (1.07%) Kubernetes
4 9 (0.88%) SCCM
5 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
5 8 (0.78%) Nagios
5 8 (0.78%) NetBackup
6 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 7 (0.68%) VxRail
7 6 (0.58%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.39%) Data Guard
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.19%) Grafana
9 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.097%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.097%) Istio
10 1 (0.097%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.097%) Packer
10 1 (0.097%) vRealize
Vendors
1 178 (17.35%) SAP
2 172 (16.76%) Microsoft
3 150 (14.62%) Oracle
4 37 (3.61%) Micro Focus
5 36 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 34 (3.31%) VMware
7 31 (3.02%) Databricks
8 29 (2.83%) NetApp
9 22 (2.14%) Dell
9 22 (2.14%) Workday
10 18 (1.75%) Atlassian
10 18 (1.75%) Informatica
11 15 (1.46%) Adobe
12 13 (1.27%) Cisco
12 13 (1.27%) IBM
13 11 (1.07%) Ariba
13 11 (1.07%) Google
13 11 (1.07%) SolarWinds
14 10 (0.97%) Red Hat
15 8 (0.78%) Hitachi