Data Migration Lead Contracts in England

Data Migration Lead
UK > England

The median Data Migration Lead daily rate in England is £603, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 494 605
Rank change year-on-year +46 +111 +100
Contract jobs requiring a Data Migration Lead 19 48 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.079% 0.13% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.14% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 32 20
10th Percentile £513 £450 £499
25th Percentile £525 £500 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £647
90th Percentile £689 £875 £691
UK median daily rate £618 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +3.00% +4.35% +4.55%

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 22,160 33,731 45,413
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,728 22,389 32,257
10th Percentile £293 £282 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.31% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 2,440 1,336
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -18.13% +94.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -18.89% +87.50%

Data Migration Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration Lead in England

Data Migration Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Migration Lead in England

Data Migration Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration Lead in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration Lead in England

Data Migration Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration Lead in England

Data Migration Lead
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 Lead within the England region over the 6 months to 22 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
South West - 6 £650 -
London +24 5 £550 -14.73% 6
North of England +19 3 £625 - 1
North West - 2 £625 -
Yorkshire +8 1 - - 1
West Midlands +8 1 - -
Midlands +2 1 - -
Data Migration Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Data Migration Lead 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 Lead in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Migration
2 18 (94.74%) Data Migration
3 11 (57.89%) ETL
4 8 (42.11%) SQL
5 7 (36.84%) AWS
5 7 (36.84%) Data Quality
5 7 (36.84%) Data Strategy
6 6 (31.58%) Oracle
6 6 (31.58%) Python
6 6 (31.58%) Agile
7 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
8 4 (21.05%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (21.05%) Serverless
8 4 (21.05%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (21.05%) DevOps
8 4 (21.05%) MuleSoft
8 4 (21.05%) MySQL
8 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (21.05%) ERP
8 4 (21.05%) SAP
8 4 (21.05%) Validation
8 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
8 4 (21.05%) MongoDB
8 4 (21.05%) Data Cleansing
9 3 (15.79%) JIRA
9 3 (15.79%) Data Mapping
9 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (15.79%) Data Governance

Data Migration Lead 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 (15.79%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
2 4 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (21.05%) Serverless
3 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (10.53%) OCI
3 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.53%) Route 53
4 1 (5.26%) Azure
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (21.05%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (21.05%) MongoDB
1 4 (21.05%) MySQL
1 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.79%) DynamoDB
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (10.53%) Big Data
3 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
3 2 (10.53%) Power BI
4 1 (5.26%) Metadata
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Military
3 2 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.26%) FMCG
2 1 (5.26%) Taxonomies
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Migration
2 18 (94.74%) Data Migration
3 11 (57.89%) ETL
4 7 (36.84%) Data Strategy
5 6 (31.58%) Agile
6 4 (21.05%) Data Cleansing
6 4 (21.05%) DevOps
6 4 (21.05%) ERP
6 4 (21.05%) Validation
7 3 (15.79%) Data Governance
7 3 (15.79%) Data Management
7 3 (15.79%) Data Mapping
7 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
7 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
7 3 (15.79%) Workshop Facilitation
8 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
8 2 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) Java
4 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
4 2 (10.53%) R
5 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle
2 4 (21.05%) MuleSoft
2 4 (21.05%) SAP
3 2 (10.53%) Alteryx
3 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft