Data Migration Engineer Contracts in England

Data Migration Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Migration Engineer daily rate in England is £535, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 489 640
Rank change year-on-year +26 +151 +123
Contract jobs requiring a Data Migration Engineer 22 53 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.090% 0.14% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.15% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 29 13
10th Percentile £405 - £320
25th Percentile £513 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £80 £525
Median % change year-on-year +568.75% -84.76% +12.00%
75th Percentile £615 £569 £555
90th Percentile £657 £619 £604
UK median daily rate £550 £80 £513
% change year-on-year +587.50% -84.39% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 19 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Data Migration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Data Migration Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration Engineer in England

Data Migration Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Migration Engineer in England

Data Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration Engineer in England

Data Migration Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration Engineer in England

Data Migration Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Migration Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +39 9 £535 +18.89%
North West +24 8 £645 -
North of England +18 8 £645 +9.79%
West Midlands - 3 £525 -
Midlands - 3 £525 -
South West +27 1 - -
South East - 1 - -
Data Migration Engineer
UK

Data Migration Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Migration Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Data Migration Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Migration
2 21 (95.45%) Data Migration
3 14 (63.64%) SQL
3 14 (63.64%) ETL
4 10 (45.45%) Data Mapping
4 10 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
5 9 (40.91%) Oracle
6 8 (36.36%) Data Modelling
6 8 (36.36%) Validation
6 8 (36.36%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (31.82%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (31.82%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (31.82%) PL/SQL
8 6 (27.27%) Knowledge Transfer
9 5 (22.73%) Azure
9 5 (22.73%) AWS
9 5 (22.73%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (22.73%) DevOps
10 4 (18.18%) Data Integration
10 4 (18.18%) Python
10 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
10 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (18.18%) Data Management
10 4 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
11 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
11 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
11 3 (13.64%) BPSS Clearance

Data Migration Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) AWS
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (9.09%) AWS KMS
3 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.09%) Power BI
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.55%) MySQL
4 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.55%) Eclipse
2 1 (4.55%) Flyway
2 1 (4.55%) Liquibase
2 1 (4.55%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Automotive
5 1 (4.55%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Local Government
5 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) IoT
3 1 (4.55%) Learning Management System
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Migration
2 21 (95.45%) Data Migration
3 14 (63.64%) ETL
4 10 (45.45%) Data Mapping
4 10 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (36.36%) Data Modelling
5 8 (36.36%) Validation
6 7 (31.82%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (27.27%) Knowledge Transfer
8 5 (22.73%) DevOps
9 4 (18.18%) Data Integration
9 4 (18.18%) Data Management
10 3 (13.64%) Agile
10 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
10 3 (13.64%) Data Extraction
10 3 (13.64%) Data Governance
10 3 (13.64%) Data Privacy
10 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (13.64%) Runbook
11 2 (9.09%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) SQL
2 7 (31.82%) PL/SQL
3 4 (18.18%) Python
4 3 (13.64%) T-SQL
5 2 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 2 (9.09%) Progress Chef
1 2 (9.09%) Puppet
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Epicor
3 1 (4.55%) Adobe
3 1 (4.55%) Guidewire
3 1 (4.55%) Lotus
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft