Data Migration Contract Job Trends in England

Data Migration
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 98 90
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +54
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,107 650 904
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.92% 2.68% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 2.95% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 732 446 620
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% +4.27%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £660
90th Percentile £713 £713 £716
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 39
10th Percentile £13.95 £26.21 £25.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £40.03 £40.00
Median hourly rate £51.28 £60.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.54% -25.00% +300.00%
75th Percentile £78.19 £64.69 -
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.03 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -44.62% -18.75% +276.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Data Migration falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,731 22,028 32,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.21% 90.81% 86.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,968 14,519 21,584
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,997 852 2,159
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.66 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -1.05% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.10 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -9.72%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Data Migration job vacancy trend in England

Data Migration
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in England over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in England

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Migration in England over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Migration in England

Data Migration
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 28 March 2026. 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 +22 583 £538 -2.27% 124
South East -14 150 £609 +15.95% 79
North of England -10 143 £500 -4.76% 47
Midlands -23 107 £500 -2.44% 29
North West +6 86 £460 -16.36% 20
West Midlands -31 65 £475 -7.09% 20
Yorkshire -35 48 £525 +31.25% 22
East of England -14 44 £588 -9.62% 21
East Midlands -5 39 £500 +2.30% 9
South West -27 28 £600 +26.32% 18
North East -3 9 £488 -25.00% 5
Data Migration
UK

Data Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 32 (2.89%) Confluence
2 31 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.72%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.27%) CMS
6 2 (0.18%) Appian
6 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.090%) Apache
7 1 (0.090%) IIS
7 1 (0.090%) Moodle
7 1 (0.090%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.090%) SAS
7 1 (0.090%) WebSphere
Applications
1 65 (5.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
3 21 (1.90%) Spreadsheet
4 19 (1.72%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.090%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.090%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 112 (10.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 51 (4.61%) Oracle EBS
3 31 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (1.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 14 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (1.17%) Loan IQ
7 12 (1.08%) Oracle General Ledger
7 12 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
8 11 (0.99%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 10 (0.90%) SAP HR
10 9 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
10 9 (0.81%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.72%) SAP ERP
12 7 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
13 6 (0.54%) Finacle
13 6 (0.54%) NetSuite
13 6 (0.54%) Oracle Cash Management
13 6 (0.54%) SAP CO
13 6 (0.54%) SAP FI
14 5 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 162 (14.63%) Azure
2 117 (10.57%) Power Platform
3 99 (8.94%) AWS
4 89 (8.04%) OCI
5 82 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
6 42 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
7 39 (3.52%) SaaS
8 35 (3.16%) GitHub
9 25 (2.26%) Snowflake
10 24 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 22 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
13 18 (1.63%) GCP
14 15 (1.36%) Amazon S3
14 15 (1.36%) Entra ID
15 14 (1.26%) OpenShift
15 14 (1.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 13 (1.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 9 (0.81%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.17%) DNS
2 11 (0.99%) NAS
3 10 (0.90%) SAN
4 3 (0.27%) Firewall
4 3 (0.27%) VPN
5 2 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.18%) HTTP
5 2 (0.18%) SSL
6 1 (0.090%) FCoE
6 1 (0.090%) Internet
6 1 (0.090%) Intranet
6 1 (0.090%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.090%) Network Security
6 1 (0.090%) VSAN
6 1 (0.090%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (8.94%) Power BI
2 75 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (5.24%) SQL Server
4 41 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 40 (3.61%) Oracle Reports
6 28 (2.53%) Relational Database
7 27 (2.44%) Metadata
8 24 (2.17%) Data Lake
9 20 (1.81%) Oracle Database
9 20 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (1.26%) NoSQL
12 13 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (1.17%) SAP Data Services
12 13 (1.17%) Tableau
13 11 (0.99%) MySQL
13 11 (0.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 11 (0.99%) RDBMS
14 10 (0.90%) Electronic Patient Records
15 9 (0.81%) DB2
Development Applications
1 89 (8.04%) JIRA
2 22 (1.99%) Git
3 17 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.36%) Zephyr
5 12 (1.08%) Postman
6 7 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.45%) GitLab
7 5 (0.45%) LSMW
8 4 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.36%) Hudson
8 4 (0.36%) JUnit
8 4 (0.36%) Selenium
8 4 (0.36%) Toad
9 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.27%) ERwin
9 3 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 391 (35.32%) Social Skills
2 372 (33.60%) Finance
3 141 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (8.94%) Public Sector
5 66 (5.96%) Banking
6 41 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 40 (3.61%) Manufacturing
7 40 (3.61%) Retail
8 39 (3.52%) Law
9 35 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (2.35%) Legal
11 22 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.72%) General Ledger
13 18 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (1.63%) Marketing
14 17 (1.54%) Local Government
15 16 (1.45%) Billing
15 16 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.90%) Police
Job Titles
1 234 (21.14%) Lead
2 167 (15.09%) Analyst
3 141 (12.74%) Architect
4 134 (12.10%) Consultant
5 99 (8.94%) Project Manager
6 94 (8.49%) Business Analyst
7 78 (7.05%) Senior
8 72 (6.50%) Data Engineer
9 68 (6.14%) Data Migration Lead
10 61 (5.51%) Data Analyst
11 53 (4.79%) Migration Analyst
12 52 (4.70%) Developer
13 39 (3.52%) SAP Consultant
14 38 (3.43%) Data Migration Analyst
14 38 (3.43%) Migration Manager
15 36 (3.25%) Data Architect
15 36 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
16 30 (2.71%) Data Manager
16 30 (2.71%) Lead Architect
16 30 (2.71%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (7.23%) Oracle Fusion
2 35 (3.16%) REST
3 28 (2.53%) Middleware
4 27 (2.44%) XML
5 20 (1.81%) SOAP
6 16 (1.45%) JSON
7 14 (1.26%) .NET
7 14 (1.26%) Lightning Web Components
8 12 (1.08%) Kafka
8 12 (1.08%) OpenTelemetry
9 11 (0.99%) Spring
10 10 (0.90%) Web Services
11 8 (0.72%) PySpark
12 7 (0.63%) React
13 6 (0.54%) Visualforce
14 5 (0.45%) FHIR
14 5 (0.45%) RESTful
14 5 (0.45%) XSLT
15 4 (0.36%) AngularJS
15 4 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 154 (13.91%) Legacy Systems
2 87 (7.86%) Data Structures
3 36 (3.25%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.07%) Cloud Native
5 27 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 22 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
7 19 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.54%) Replication
9 15 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.17%) NHS
10 13 (1.17%) Reference Data
11 12 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (0.99%) Public Cloud
13 10 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.90%) FMCG
13 10 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
14 9 (0.81%) Data Centre
14 9 (0.81%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.08%) Windows
2 8 (0.72%) Linux
3 7 (0.63%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.63%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.63%) zOS
4 6 (0.54%) Unix
5 5 (0.45%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.090%) AIX
6 1 (0.090%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,107 (100.00%) Migration
2 264 (23.85%) Validation
3 262 (23.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 229 (20.69%) ERP
5 228 (20.60%) Agile
6 201 (18.16%) User Acceptance Testing
7 196 (17.71%) ETL
8 191 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
9 170 (15.36%) Data Modelling
9 170 (15.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 129 (11.65%) Project Management
11 127 (11.47%) Data Cleansing
12 126 (11.38%) Business Intelligence
13 118 (10.66%) Analytics
14 115 (10.39%) Data Mapping
15 112 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
16 111 (10.03%) Workshop Facilitation
17 107 (9.67%) Change Management
18 95 (8.58%) Data Governance
19 85 (7.68%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 215 (19.42%) SQL
2 82 (7.41%) Python
3 36 (3.25%) Java
4 22 (1.99%) PL/SQL
5 16 (1.45%) Bash
5 16 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 13 (1.17%) Apex Code
7 12 (1.08%) C#
8 10 (0.90%) PowerShell
9 9 (0.81%) VBA
10 7 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.45%) Korn
11 5 (0.45%) Perl
11 5 (0.45%) PHP
11 5 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.36%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.36%) SOQL
13 3 (0.27%) ABAP
13 3 (0.27%) X++
Qualifications
1 165 (14.91%) Security Cleared
2 121 (10.93%) SC Cleared
3 50 (4.52%) Degree
4 24 (2.17%) PMP
5 23 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.36%) PMI Certification
9 11 (0.99%) ISTQB
10 10 (0.90%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.63%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.63%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.54%) SAP Certification
13 4 (0.36%) OCP
13 4 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.27%) IIBA
14 3 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.18%) CBAP
15 2 (0.18%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (17.34%) Data Quality
2 91 (8.22%) QA
3 58 (5.24%) GDPR
4 19 (1.72%) PMO
5 15 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.08%) COBIT
7 11 (0.99%) NIST
8 9 (0.81%) IFRS
9 8 (0.72%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.72%) SLA
10 7 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.45%) GAAP
12 5 (0.45%) GMP
12 5 (0.45%) IFRS 9
13 4 (0.36%) Basel III
13 4 (0.36%) HL7
13 4 (0.36%) IFRS 17
14 3 (0.27%) PERC
15 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.17%) VMware NSX
3 13 (1.17%) vSphere
4 11 (0.99%) Docker
5 8 (0.72%) NFS
6 2 (0.18%) SRDF
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 35 (3.16%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.35%) Terraform
3 16 (1.45%) Ansible
4 14 (1.26%) Grafana
5 13 (1.17%) Argo
5 13 (1.17%) vCenter Server
6 12 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.72%) SCCM
8 6 (0.54%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.54%) vMotion
9 3 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.18%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.090%) Avamar
11 1 (0.090%) Control-M
11 1 (0.090%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.090%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.090%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.090%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.090%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 215 (19.42%) Oracle
2 200 (18.07%) SAP
3 174 (15.72%) Microsoft
4 60 (5.42%) Salesforce
5 40 (3.61%) Databricks
6 38 (3.43%) Workday
7 27 (2.44%) Informatica
8 25 (2.26%) VMware
9 23 (2.08%) Sage
10 22 (1.99%) Pure Storage
11 19 (1.72%) MuleSoft
11 19 (1.72%) Talend
12 18 (1.63%) ServiceNow
13 17 (1.54%) Avaloq
14 14 (1.26%) Red Hat
15 13 (1.17%) Google
16 12 (1.08%) IFS
16 12 (1.08%) Splunk
17 10 (0.90%) GoldenSource
17 10 (0.90%) IBM