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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 86 101
Rank change year-on-year -5 +15 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,390 823 737
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.00% 2.96% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 3.26% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 899 530 498
10th Percentile £363 £375 £387
25th Percentile £425 £448 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £539
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.23% -2.05%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £537 £540
% change year-on-year -2.23% -0.56% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 10 5
10th Percentile £16.88 £15.00 £45.80
25th Percentile £21.25 £33.36 £62.00
Median hourly rate £33.34 £62.50 £66.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.66% -6.02% -23.54%
75th Percentile £41.83 £73.13 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.38 £95.50 -
UK median hourly rate £33.34 £35.25 £66.50
% change year-on-year -5.43% -46.99% -23.54%

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 39,251 25,237 27,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.73% 90.91% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,728 16,010 16,947
10th Percentile £325 £297 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £642
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,965 1,563 1,177
10th Percentile £13.82 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.57 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +53.08% -38.77% -3.91%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +10 685 £550 - 475
North of England -18 176 £525 +10.53% 136
Midlands 0 172 £475 -13.64% 101
South East -22 161 £480 -16.52% 178
West Midlands +2 123 £450 -14.29% 74
North West +4 107 £538 +19.44% 56
South West +26 96 £523 -0.48% 45
Yorkshire -39 50 £510 +2.00% 50
East of England -8 46 £509 +3.09% 58
East Midlands +1 45 £538 -6.52% 27
North East -17 22 £475 +8.57% 30
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 59 (4.24%) Confluence
2 55 (3.96%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.50%) Apache
6 7 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.36%) CICS
7 5 (0.36%) CMS
7 5 (0.36%) Tuxedo
8 3 (0.22%) SAS
9 2 (0.14%) Documentum
9 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.14%) Mendix
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.14%) SugarCRM
10 1 (0.072%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.072%) IIS
10 1 (0.072%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 67 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
3 17 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.29%) Windchill
7 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.072%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 144 (10.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (1.94%) Oracle Payables
4 22 (1.58%) Oracle Receivables
5 20 (1.44%) Oracle ERP
6 19 (1.37%) NetSuite
6 19 (1.37%) SAP HCM
7 18 (1.29%) SAP FI
8 16 (1.15%) SAP ERP
9 14 (1.01%) Oracle General Ledger
9 14 (1.01%) SAP CO
10 13 (0.94%) Oracle Financials
10 13 (0.94%) SAP SD
10 13 (0.94%) Teamcenter
11 12 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
11 12 (0.86%) SAP MM
11 12 (0.86%) Workday HCM
12 11 (0.79%) iTrent
12 11 (0.79%) SAP MDG
12 11 (0.79%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 234 (16.83%) Azure
2 130 (9.35%) AWS
3 123 (8.85%) Power Platform
4 97 (6.98%) Dynamics 365
5 82 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
6 72 (5.18%) OCI
7 56 (4.03%) SaaS
8 46 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
9 45 (3.24%) SuccessFactors
10 39 (2.81%) Azure Data Factory
10 39 (2.81%) Snowflake
11 32 (2.30%) Power Automate
12 31 (2.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 28 (2.01%) GCP
13 28 (2.01%) PowerApps
14 27 (1.94%) Amazon S3
14 27 (1.94%) GitHub
15 22 (1.58%) Microsoft Purview
16 18 (1.29%) dbt
17 16 (1.15%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.36%) NAS
1 5 (0.36%) SAN
2 4 (0.29%) VPN
3 3 (0.22%) Firewall
3 3 (0.22%) Intranet
4 2 (0.14%) VSAN
5 1 (0.072%) DKIM
5 1 (0.072%) DMARC
5 1 (0.072%) DNS
5 1 (0.072%) Internet
5 1 (0.072%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
2 96 (6.91%) Power BI
3 63 (4.53%) SQL Server
4 60 (4.32%) Metadata
5 51 (3.67%) Relational Database
6 41 (2.95%) Oracle Reports
7 40 (2.88%) Data Lake
8 37 (2.66%) Oracle Database
9 27 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (1.37%) RDBMS
11 17 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 15 (1.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 13 (0.94%) BigQuery
15 12 (0.86%) NoSQL
15 12 (0.86%) Oracle Exadata
16 11 (0.79%) DataStage
16 11 (0.79%) Db2
16 11 (0.79%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 130 (9.35%) JIRA
2 50 (3.60%) Git
3 35 (2.52%) Zephyr
4 29 (2.09%) Postman
5 17 (1.22%) GitLab
6 9 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.43%) Selenium
8 5 (0.36%) Gatling
8 5 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.29%) LSMW
9 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.22%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.22%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.22%) Hudson
10 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.14%) Yeoman
12 1 (0.072%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 475 (34.17%) Finance
2 395 (28.42%) Social Skills
3 195 (14.03%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 96 (6.91%) Banking
6 80 (5.76%) Manufacturing
7 58 (4.17%) Retail
8 54 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
9 49 (3.53%) General Ledger
10 35 (2.52%) Local Government
10 35 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (1.94%) Legal
12 23 (1.65%) Automotive
12 23 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (1.51%) Marketing
14 20 (1.44%) Military
15 19 (1.37%) Billing
15 19 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (1.37%) Law
16 17 (1.22%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 235 (16.91%) Analyst
2 215 (15.47%) Lead
3 158 (11.37%) Architect
3 158 (11.37%) Consultant
4 132 (9.50%) Data Engineer
5 126 (9.06%) Senior
6 100 (7.19%) Business Analyst
7 86 (6.19%) Data Migration Lead
8 81 (5.83%) Data Analyst
9 78 (5.61%) Project Manager
10 65 (4.68%) Data Architect
11 63 (4.53%) Migration Engineer
12 61 (4.39%) Developer
13 55 (3.96%) SAP Consultant
14 53 (3.81%) Data Migration Engineer
15 46 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
16 41 (2.95%) Migration Analyst
17 37 (2.66%) Data Migration Analyst
18 36 (2.59%) Data Consultant
19 33 (2.37%) Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (7.70%) Oracle Fusion
2 49 (3.53%) Middleware
3 34 (2.45%) REST
4 33 (2.37%) Terraform
5 29 (2.09%) .NET
6 24 (1.73%) SOAP
7 23 (1.65%) XML
8 18 (1.29%) PySpark
9 15 (1.08%) JSON
10 14 (1.01%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 13 (0.94%) ADO
12 12 (0.86%) SAP Fiori
13 11 (0.79%) Kafka
14 10 (0.72%) Keycloak
15 9 (0.65%) Web Services
16 8 (0.58%) HTML
16 8 (0.58%) Spring
16 8 (0.58%) Spring Boot
17 6 (0.43%) Lightning Web Components
17 6 (0.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 151 (10.86%) Legacy Systems
2 101 (7.27%) Data Structures
3 48 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 47 (3.38%) Onboarding
5 45 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 36 (2.59%) Public Cloud
8 30 (2.16%) Cloud Native
9 24 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (1.65%) Reference Data
11 19 (1.37%) Replication
12 16 (1.15%) NHS
13 15 (1.08%) FMCG
14 13 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (0.94%) Low-Code
15 12 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
15 12 (0.86%) Life Science
15 12 (0.86%) Reinsurance
16 11 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
17 10 (0.72%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.94%) Windows
2 23 (1.65%) Linux
3 12 (0.86%) AIX
4 5 (0.36%) Unix
4 5 (0.36%) zOS
5 4 (0.29%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.29%) VMS
6 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,390 (100.00%) Migration
2 433 (31.15%) Validation
3 388 (27.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 313 (22.52%) User Acceptance Testing
5 288 (20.72%) ERP
6 242 (17.41%) Agile
7 227 (16.33%) ETL
8 226 (16.26%) Data Modelling
9 187 (13.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 180 (12.95%) Data Governance
10 180 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
11 139 (10.00%) DevOps
12 138 (9.93%) Data Cleansing
13 132 (9.50%) Requirements Gathering
14 131 (9.42%) Analytics
15 125 (8.99%) Business Intelligence
16 122 (8.78%) Data Mapping
17 117 (8.42%) System Integration Testing
18 111 (7.99%) Data Transformation
19 110 (7.91%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 293 (21.08%) SQL
2 79 (5.68%) Python
3 27 (1.94%) PL/SQL
4 25 (1.80%) C#
5 23 (1.65%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.58%) Java
7 15 (1.08%) PowerShell
8 13 (0.94%) Bash
9 12 (0.86%) T-SQL
10 11 (0.79%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.58%) ABAP
12 5 (0.36%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.36%) JCL
12 5 (0.36%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.36%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.36%) VB
12 5 (0.36%) VB6
12 5 (0.36%) X++
13 4 (0.29%) C
13 4 (0.29%) Korn
Qualifications
1 267 (19.21%) Security Cleared
2 219 (15.76%) SC Cleared
3 59 (4.24%) Degree
4 33 (2.37%) ACCA
4 33 (2.37%) CIMA
5 28 (2.01%) PMI Certification
5 28 (2.01%) PMP
6 25 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 24 (1.73%) ISTQB
8 16 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (0.65%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.58%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.43%) CBAP
12 6 (0.43%) SAP Certification
13 5 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (20.94%) Data Quality
2 105 (7.55%) QA
3 58 (4.17%) GDPR
4 29 (2.09%) PMO
5 13 (0.94%) GRC
6 10 (0.72%) IFRS
7 9 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.50%) SLA
9 6 (0.43%) HL7
10 4 (0.29%) DICOM
10 4 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
11 3 (0.22%) GMP
11 3 (0.22%) GxP
11 3 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.14%) GAAP
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.072%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (1.15%) Docker
2 13 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (0.58%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.22%) SRDF
5 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.22%) vSphere
6 2 (0.14%) NFS
7 1 (0.072%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (1.44%) Ansible
2 17 (1.22%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.86%) Data Guard
3 12 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
4 9 (0.65%) Karpenter
5 7 (0.50%) Control-M
6 4 (0.29%) EMC VPLEX
6 4 (0.29%) Grafana
6 4 (0.29%) SnapMirror
7 3 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (0.22%) NetBackup
7 3 (0.22%) SnapVault
7 3 (0.22%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.14%) Argo
8 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.14%) SCCM
9 1 (0.072%) Autotask
Vendors
1 298 (21.44%) Oracle
2 268 (19.28%) SAP
3 251 (18.06%) Microsoft
4 83 (5.97%) Databricks
5 59 (4.24%) Salesforce
6 36 (2.59%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.16%) Workday
8 25 (1.80%) Informatica
9 24 (1.73%) Google
10 20 (1.44%) IBM
11 19 (1.37%) Talend
12 17 (1.22%) IFS
13 15 (1.08%) Ariba
14 14 (1.01%) Sage
15 9 (0.65%) Alteryx
15 9 (0.65%) Infor
16 8 (0.58%) Atlassian
16 8 (0.58%) InterSystems
17 7 (0.50%) NEC
17 7 (0.50%) VMware