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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 134 136
Rank change year-on-year +36 +2 -19
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 982 1,122 1,750
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.31% 1.97% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 2.20% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 771 1,195
10th Percentile £359 £385 £364
25th Percentile £463 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £631 £616
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £493
% change year-on-year +5.00% +1.52% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 8 10
10th Percentile £25.00 £17.50 £11.47
25th Percentile £40.00 £19.38 £16.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +180.37% +33.75% +26.10%
75th Percentile £80.00 £38.75 £50.10
90th Percentile - £64.25 £62.88
UK excluding London 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

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 36,704 51,058 79,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.15% 89.78% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,390 55,663
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,690 1,894
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 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
England +43 842 £550 +4.76% 214
London +51 438 £550 - 89
UK excluding London +35 429 £525 +5.00% 140
Work from Home +35 409 £550 +7.32% 98
North of England +45 101 £520 +4.00% 33
South East -24 93 £550 +4.76% 43
South West +41 72 £541 +3.09% 12
North West +36 61 £525 +10.53% 15
Midlands -2 59 £550 +10.00% 25
Scotland +36 53 £500 +2.25% 8
West Midlands +5 44 £575 +6.98% 21
East of England +19 42 £500 +33.33% 7
Yorkshire +14 35 £513 - 13
East Midlands +11 14 £530 +26.19% 4
Wales +24 6 £425 - 3
North East +16 5 £588 +11.90% 5

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 60 (6.11%) SharePoint
2 26 (2.65%) Confluence
3 19 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.22%) Apache
5 10 (1.02%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.41%) CMS
9 3 (0.31%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.20%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 31 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.04%) MS Visio
3 15 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.10%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 59 (6.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 51 (5.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (1.93%) Oracle EBS
4 13 (1.32%) SAP MDG
5 8 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.81%) NEC Housing
5 8 (0.81%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.71%) Loan IQ
6 7 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
6 7 (0.71%) SAP Retail
6 7 (0.71%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.51%) Oracle EBS R12
7 5 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.51%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.41%) Infor SunSystems
8 4 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 196 (19.96%) Azure
2 103 (10.49%) Dynamics 365
3 90 (9.16%) Power Platform
4 82 (8.35%) AWS
5 39 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (3.05%) OCI
7 28 (2.85%) SaaS
7 28 (2.85%) Serverless
8 27 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 24 (2.44%) Snowflake
10 23 (2.34%) GCP
11 22 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 16 (1.63%) Entra ID
13 15 (1.53%) GitHub
14 14 (1.43%) Amazon S3
15 13 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 13 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
15 13 (1.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.63%) Firewall
2 11 (1.12%) DNS
3 10 (1.02%) SAN
4 9 (0.92%) MPLS
5 8 (0.81%) DHCP
5 8 (0.81%) LAN
5 8 (0.81%) WAN
5 8 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.71%) VPN
7 6 (0.61%) VSAN
8 4 (0.41%) IPsec
9 3 (0.31%) PuTTY
10 2 (0.20%) NAS
11 1 (0.10%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.10%) Internet
11 1 (0.10%) Intranet
11 1 (0.10%) OpenLDAP
11 1 (0.10%) SSL
11 1 (0.10%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (9.67%) Data Warehouse
2 70 (7.13%) SQL Server
3 65 (6.62%) Power BI
4 44 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (3.56%) Data Lake
6 29 (2.95%) Oracle Database
7 27 (2.75%) NoSQL
8 22 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (2.24%) Big Data
9 21 (2.14%) Tableau
10 20 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 19 (1.93%) Metadata
12 18 (1.83%) SAP Data Services
13 16 (1.63%) Relational Database
14 14 (1.43%) MySQL
15 13 (1.32%) Oracle Database 11g
16 11 (1.12%) SAP HANA
17 10 (1.02%) Data Mining
18 9 (0.92%) DB2
18 9 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 40 (4.07%) JIRA
2 13 (1.32%) Git
2 13 (1.32%) GitLab
3 11 (1.12%) LSMW
4 9 (0.92%) ERwin
5 7 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.61%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.61%) Visual Studio Team System
7 5 (0.51%) Eclipse
7 5 (0.51%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.41%) Deequ
8 4 (0.41%) Postman
9 3 (0.31%) Selenium
9 3 (0.31%) SoapUI
9 3 (0.31%) Toad
10 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.10%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.10%) TestComplete
General
1 260 (26.48%) Finance
1 260 (26.48%) Social Skills
2 94 (9.57%) Public Sector
3 69 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (4.58%) Retail
5 44 (4.48%) Banking
6 31 (3.16%) Manufacturing
7 22 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (1.83%) Aerospace
8 18 (1.83%) Legal
8 18 (1.83%) Local Government
9 17 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.63%) Billing
11 15 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.43%) Marketing
13 13 (1.32%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.02%) Social Housing
15 9 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.81%) Back Office
16 8 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 157 (15.99%) Analyst
2 151 (15.38%) Consultant
3 145 (14.77%) Architect
4 108 (11.00%) Lead
5 100 (10.18%) Project Manager
6 83 (8.45%) Data Engineer
7 72 (7.33%) Business Analyst
8 65 (6.62%) Developer
9 57 (5.80%) Data Migration Lead
10 55 (5.60%) Migration Engineer
11 54 (5.50%) Data Analyst
11 54 (5.50%) Data Architect
12 51 (5.19%) Senior
13 48 (4.89%) Data Consultant
14 43 (4.38%) Data Migration Engineer
15 41 (4.18%) Migration Analyst
15 41 (4.18%) Migration Manager
16 40 (4.07%) Data Manager
17 38 (3.87%) Data Migration Analyst
18 36 (3.67%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (3.16%) Web Services
2 29 (2.95%) .NET
3 19 (1.93%) Oracle Fusion
3 19 (1.93%) REST
4 16 (1.63%) JSON
5 10 (1.02%) ARM Templates
5 10 (1.02%) XML
6 9 (0.92%) PySpark
7 8 (0.81%) .NET Framework
7 8 (0.81%) Apache Avro
7 8 (0.81%) BAPI
7 8 (0.81%) Spring Boot
8 7 (0.71%) Entity Framework
8 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
8 7 (0.71%) Middleware
8 7 (0.71%) Spring
8 7 (0.71%) WCF
9 6 (0.61%) JSON Schema
10 5 (0.51%) PostGIS
10 5 (0.51%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 65 (6.62%) Legacy Systems
2 44 (4.48%) Data Centre
3 39 (3.97%) Data Structures
4 26 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 23 (2.34%) Cloud Native
6 19 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
7 17 (1.73%) Product Ownership
8 16 (1.63%) Clustering
9 15 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.22%) FMCG
12 11 (1.12%) Replication
13 10 (1.02%) NHS
14 8 (0.81%) Client/Server
14 8 (0.81%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 6 (0.61%) Reinsurance
16 6 (0.61%) VxBlock/Vblock
17 5 (0.51%) e-Health
Operating Systems
1 38 (3.87%) Windows
2 27 (2.75%) Linux
3 22 (2.24%) Unix
4 12 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.20%) VMS
6 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 982 (100.00%) Migration
2 142 (14.46%) Agile
3 129 (13.14%) Data Modelling
4 125 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
5 116 (11.81%) ETL
6 102 (10.39%) Data Management
6 102 (10.39%) ERP
7 100 (10.18%) Project Management
8 99 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 90 (9.16%) CRM
10 85 (8.66%) Analytics
11 82 (8.35%) Business Intelligence
11 82 (8.35%) User Acceptance Testing
12 80 (8.15%) Data Governance
13 79 (8.04%) DevOps
13 79 (8.04%) Validation
14 63 (6.42%) Data Analysis
15 59 (6.01%) Data Cleansing
16 54 (5.50%) Change Management
16 54 (5.50%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 194 (19.76%) SQL
2 62 (6.31%) Python
3 36 (3.67%) PowerShell
4 34 (3.46%) Java
5 32 (3.26%) C#
6 24 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 24 (2.44%) PL/SQL
7 16 (1.63%) Bash
8 12 (1.22%) ABAP
9 11 (1.12%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.92%) Scala
11 5 (0.51%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.41%) Bicep
12 4 (0.41%) Go
13 3 (0.31%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.20%) PHP
15 1 (0.10%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.10%) Groovy
15 1 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 137 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 112 (11.41%) SC Cleared
3 71 (7.23%) Degree
4 24 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 18 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.61%) PMP
10 5 (0.51%) ACCA
10 5 (0.51%) CIMA
10 5 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 5 (0.51%) SAP Certification
10 5 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.41%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.31%) APMP
12 3 (0.31%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 1 (0.10%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 53 (5.40%) QA
3 36 (3.67%) GDPR
4 26 (2.65%) PMO
5 10 (1.02%) PCI DSS
6 9 (0.92%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.61%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.41%) SLA
9 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.31%) NIST
10 2 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.20%) GxP
11 1 (0.10%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.10%) HL7
11 1 (0.10%) IASME
11 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (4.28%) Active Directory
2 30 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.24%) vSphere
4 14 (1.43%) Docker
5 11 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.02%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (0.81%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.10%) HDFS
10 1 (0.10%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 29 (2.95%) Terraform
2 13 (1.32%) Ansible
2 13 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (0.81%) Nagios
3 8 (0.81%) NetBackup
3 8 (0.81%) SCCM
4 7 (0.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 7 (0.71%) VxRail
5 6 (0.61%) vCenter Server
6 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.41%) Data Guard
7 4 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.20%) Grafana
8 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.10%) Istio
9 1 (0.10%) Packer
9 1 (0.10%) vRealize
Vendors
1 170 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 156 (15.89%) SAP
3 139 (14.15%) Oracle
4 37 (3.77%) Databricks
4 37 (3.77%) Micro Focus
5 34 (3.46%) VMware
6 32 (3.26%) Salesforce
7 30 (3.05%) NetApp
8 22 (2.24%) Dell
8 22 (2.24%) Informatica
9 19 (1.93%) Atlassian
10 16 (1.63%) Workday
11 13 (1.32%) Cisco
12 12 (1.22%) Google
13 11 (1.12%) SolarWinds
14 10 (1.02%) Red Hat
15 9 (0.92%) Alteryx
15 9 (0.92%) Ariba
16 8 (0.81%) Hitachi
16 8 (0.81%) IFS