Data Migration Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Migration
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 71 107 129
Rank change year-on-year +36 +22 -12
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 426 575 931
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.80% 2.25% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 2.50% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 403 666
10th Percentile £412 £395 £375
25th Percentile £478 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £688 £602 £600
90th Percentile £712 £705 £692
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 6
10th Percentile - - £16.75
25th Percentile £83.50 £17.50 £21.85
Median hourly rate £85.00 £20.00 £45.33
Median % change year-on-year +325.00% -55.88% +72.22%
75th Percentile £86.50 £35.00 £57.50
90th Percentile - £72.50 £79.38
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,390 22,975 40,674
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.75% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,954 16,256 29,514
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 528 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.00 £30.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Data Migration
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Migration trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Migration
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Migration.

Data Migration daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Migration over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Data Migration daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Migration.

Data Migration hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 33 (7.75%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
4 6 (1.41%) Confluence
5 3 (0.70%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.70%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.70%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
Applications
1 14 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.94%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 32 (7.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (6.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (2.35%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (2.11%) SAP MDG
5 8 (1.88%) Loan IQ
6 6 (1.41%) NEC Housing
6 6 (1.41%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (1.17%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (1.17%) Oracle EBS R12
7 5 (1.17%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (1.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (1.17%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.94%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.94%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.94%) SAP Retail
8 4 (0.94%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.70%) MIS ActiveH
9 3 (0.70%) Oracle FAH
9 3 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (23.47%) Azure
2 48 (11.27%) Dynamics 365
3 35 (8.22%) Power Platform
4 28 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (6.10%) AWS
6 17 (3.99%) SaaS
7 13 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (3.05%) OCI
8 11 (2.58%) GCP
9 9 (2.11%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.11%) Serverless
10 8 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (1.88%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (1.64%) Azure Functions
11 7 (1.64%) PaaS
12 6 (1.41%) dbt
13 5 (1.17%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (1.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.64%) Firewall
2 4 (0.94%) VSAN
3 3 (0.70%) PuTTY
3 3 (0.70%) VPN
4 2 (0.47%) IPsec
5 1 (0.23%) DNS
5 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.23%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) MPLS
5 1 (0.23%) NAS
5 1 (0.23%) SAN
5 1 (0.23%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.23%) SSL
5 1 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (7.98%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (7.28%) SQL Server
3 24 (5.63%) Power BI
4 18 (4.23%) Oracle Database
5 15 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.05%) Oracle Database 11g
6 13 (3.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (2.82%) Big Data
8 11 (2.58%) Data Lake
8 11 (2.58%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (2.11%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.64%) Data Mining
10 7 (1.64%) SAP Data Services
10 7 (1.64%) SAP HANA
10 7 (1.64%) Tableau
11 6 (1.41%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.41%) Metadata
12 5 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 18 (4.23%) JIRA
2 4 (0.94%) Eclipse
2 4 (0.94%) Git
2 4 (0.94%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.70%) ERwin
3 3 (0.70%) GitLab
3 3 (0.70%) LSMW
3 3 (0.70%) Selenium
3 3 (0.70%) Toad
3 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio Team System
4 2 (0.47%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.47%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.47%) Postman
4 2 (0.47%) SoapUI
4 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.23%) Deequ
5 1 (0.23%) JMeter
5 1 (0.23%) WebDriver
General
1 126 (29.58%) Finance
2 124 (29.11%) Social Skills
3 47 (11.03%) Public Sector
4 29 (6.81%) Banking
5 21 (4.93%) Retail
6 19 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (3.52%) Marketing
8 10 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.11%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.11%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.88%) Billing
11 6 (1.41%) Social Housing
12 5 (1.17%) Back Office
12 5 (1.17%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.17%) Law
12 5 (1.17%) Local Government
13 4 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (21.83%) Consultant
2 65 (15.26%) Analyst
2 65 (15.26%) Architect
3 48 (11.27%) Developer
4 39 (9.15%) Lead
5 37 (8.69%) Project Manager
6 36 (8.45%) Business Analyst
7 28 (6.57%) Senior
8 27 (6.34%) Data Consultant
9 25 (5.87%) Technical Architect
10 24 (5.63%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 22 (5.16%) Data Engineer
12 21 (4.93%) Data Analyst
12 21 (4.93%) Migration Consultant
13 19 (4.46%) Data Migration Lead
14 17 (3.99%) Data Migration Analyst
14 17 (3.99%) Migration Analyst
15 16 (3.76%) Data Architect
15 16 (3.76%) Financial Analyst
15 16 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.99%) .NET
2 11 (2.58%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (2.11%) Web Services
4 8 (1.88%) JSON
4 8 (1.88%) Web Dynpro
5 7 (1.64%) .NET Framework
6 6 (1.41%) Entity Framework
6 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
6 6 (1.41%) WCF
7 4 (0.94%) ARM Templates
7 4 (0.94%) BAPI
7 4 (0.94%) REST
7 4 (0.94%) XML
8 3 (0.70%) Apache Camel
8 3 (0.70%) Middleware
8 3 (0.70%) PySpark
8 3 (0.70%) SAML
8 3 (0.70%) SAP ALE
8 3 (0.70%) SAP PI
8 3 (0.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.04%) Legacy Systems
2 24 (5.63%) Data Structures
3 19 (4.46%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.52%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.35%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (0.94%) Derivative
9 4 (0.94%) Fixed Income
9 4 (0.94%) FMCG
9 4 (0.94%) NHS
9 4 (0.94%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 3 (0.70%) Online Banking
10 3 (0.70%) Replication
10 3 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 2 (0.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.47%) Housing Association
11 2 (0.47%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.58%) Windows
2 6 (1.41%) Linux
3 5 (1.17%) Unix
4 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.23%) VMS
5 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (100.00%) Migration
2 69 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (15.26%) Agile
4 53 (12.44%) Data Modelling
4 53 (12.44%) ETL
5 52 (12.21%) CRM
6 50 (11.74%) ERP
7 49 (11.50%) User Acceptance Testing
8 44 (10.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 43 (10.09%) DevOps
10 41 (9.62%) Project Management
11 38 (8.92%) Validation
12 35 (8.22%) Change Management
13 33 (7.75%) Business Intelligence
14 30 (7.04%) Decision-Making
15 28 (6.57%) Data Management
15 28 (6.57%) Data Security
16 27 (6.34%) Data Cleansing
17 25 (5.87%) Data Governance
17 25 (5.87%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 94 (22.07%) SQL
2 25 (5.87%) Python
3 19 (4.46%) C#
3 19 (4.46%) JavaScript
3 19 (4.46%) PL/SQL
4 17 (3.99%) Java
5 12 (2.82%) ABAP
6 9 (2.11%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.41%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.94%) Scala
9 2 (0.47%) Bash
9 2 (0.47%) Bicep
10 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.23%) Go
10 1 (0.23%) Groovy
10 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 49 (11.50%) Security Cleared
2 42 (9.86%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.63%) Degree
4 10 (2.35%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.41%) SAP Certification
6 5 (1.17%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (0.94%) APMP
7 4 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.70%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.70%) PMP
9 2 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.23%) CCA
10 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (11.74%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.10%) QA
3 19 (4.46%) PMO
4 13 (3.05%) GDPR
5 5 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.23%) HL7
8 1 (0.23%) NIST
8 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (2.35%) vSphere
2 9 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.41%) Docker
4 5 (1.17%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.70%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.23%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (1.64%) Kubernetes
1 7 (1.64%) Terraform
2 4 (0.94%) Ansible
2 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.94%) vCenter Server
2 4 (0.94%) VxRail
3 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.23%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.23%) Istio
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 84 (19.72%) Microsoft
2 82 (19.25%) SAP
3 68 (15.96%) Oracle
4 17 (3.99%) NetApp
5 15 (3.52%) Salesforce
6 14 (3.29%) Databricks
7 11 (2.58%) VMware
8 10 (2.35%) Dell
9 9 (2.11%) Adobe
9 9 (2.11%) Informatica
10 8 (1.88%) Google
10 8 (1.88%) IBM
10 8 (1.88%) Workday
11 7 (1.64%) Cisco
12 6 (1.41%) NEC
13 5 (1.17%) HubSpot
14 4 (0.94%) Ariba
14 4 (0.94%) Citrix
14 4 (0.94%) ServiceNow
15 3 (0.70%) OpenText