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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
3 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 97 90
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,120 649 898
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.92% 2.68% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.40% 2.95% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 435 619
10th Percentile £363 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £713 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 40
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 £75.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% -6.25% +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 32,977 22,016 32,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.99% 90.82% 86.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,149 14,501 21,512
10th Percentile £313 £310 £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 2,015 852 2,158
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.00 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.34 £19.96 £15.78
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.64 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £35.77 £31.76 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.61% -2.28% -10.41%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 3 April 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 +16 583 £525 -4.55% 124
North of England -4 149 £500 -4.76% 47
South East -11 149 £618 +17.62% 79
Midlands -22 106 £450 -12.20% 29
North West +3 87 £460 -16.36% 20
West Midlands -40 67 £470 -8.29% 20
Yorkshire -39 53 £529 +32.25% 22
East of England -15 48 £575 -11.54% 21
East Midlands -6 36 £450 -7.93% 9
South West -24 31 £575 +12.20% 18
North East -7 9 £488 -20.41% 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 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.50%) Confluence
3 9 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.71%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.18%) Appian
6 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.18%) CMS
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.089%) Apache
7 1 (0.089%) IIS
7 1 (0.089%) Moodle
7 1 (0.089%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.089%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.089%) WebSphere
Applications
1 65 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
3 21 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.52%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.089%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 115 (10.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (4.73%) Oracle EBS
3 32 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 14 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (1.16%) Loan IQ
7 11 (0.98%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.89%) Oracle General Ledger
8 10 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
8 10 (0.89%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 10 (0.89%) Workday HCM
9 9 (0.80%) SAP HR
10 7 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
10 7 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
11 6 (0.54%) Finacle
11 6 (0.54%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.54%) SAP CO
11 6 (0.54%) SAP FI
12 5 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
12 5 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 163 (14.55%) Azure
2 123 (10.98%) Power Platform
3 100 (8.93%) AWS
4 88 (7.86%) OCI
5 85 (7.59%) Dynamics 365
6 43 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (3.75%) SaaS
8 40 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 35 (3.13%) GitHub
10 24 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 24 (2.14%) Snowflake
11 23 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
12 22 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
13 18 (1.61%) GCP
14 15 (1.34%) Amazon S3
14 15 (1.34%) Entra ID
15 14 (1.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 13 (1.16%) OpenShift
16 13 (1.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 10 (0.89%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.25%) DNS
2 11 (0.98%) NAS
3 10 (0.89%) SAN
4 4 (0.36%) VPN
5 3 (0.27%) Firewall
6 2 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.18%) HTTP
6 2 (0.18%) SSL
7 1 (0.089%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.089%) FCoE
7 1 (0.089%) Internet
7 1 (0.089%) Intranet
7 1 (0.089%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.089%) Network Security
7 1 (0.089%) SNMP
7 1 (0.089%) VSAN
7 1 (0.089%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (9.38%) Power BI
2 78 (6.96%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (4.82%) SQL Server
4 45 (4.02%) Oracle Reports
5 40 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 28 (2.50%) Metadata
7 26 (2.32%) Relational Database
8 25 (2.23%) Data Lake
9 20 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (1.70%) Oracle Database
11 15 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 14 (1.25%) NoSQL
13 13 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (1.16%) SAP Data Services
13 13 (1.16%) Tableau
14 10 (0.89%) Electronic Patient Records
14 10 (0.89%) MySQL
14 10 (0.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 9 (0.80%) DB2
16 8 (0.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 87 (7.77%) JIRA
2 25 (2.23%) Git
3 19 (1.70%) Zephyr
4 17 (1.52%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.34%) Postman
6 8 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.45%) GitLab
7 5 (0.45%) Hudson
7 5 (0.45%) LSMW
7 5 (0.45%) Selenium
8 4 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.36%) JUnit
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
1 388 (34.64%) Social Skills
2 387 (34.55%) Finance
3 143 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (8.84%) Public Sector
5 65 (5.80%) Banking
6 44 (3.93%) Law
7 41 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (3.66%) Manufacturing
8 39 (3.48%) Retail
9 36 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (2.14%) Legal
11 20 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.70%) Marketing
13 18 (1.61%) General Ledger
14 17 (1.52%) Billing
15 16 (1.43%) Local Government
15 16 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.98%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 239 (21.34%) Lead
2 168 (15.00%) Analyst
3 148 (13.21%) Architect
4 127 (11.34%) Consultant
5 97 (8.66%) Project Manager
6 92 (8.21%) Business Analyst
7 82 (7.32%) Senior
8 72 (6.43%) Data Engineer
8 72 (6.43%) Data Migration Lead
9 65 (5.80%) Data Analyst
10 55 (4.91%) Migration Analyst
11 53 (4.73%) Developer
12 40 (3.57%) Data Migration Analyst
13 38 (3.39%) Data Architect
14 37 (3.30%) Migration Manager
14 37 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
15 36 (3.21%) SAP Consultant
16 33 (2.95%) Lead Architect
17 32 (2.86%) Data Manager
18 31 (2.77%) Functional Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (6.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 34 (3.04%) REST
3 30 (2.68%) Middleware
4 27 (2.41%) XML
5 19 (1.70%) SOAP
6 15 (1.34%) .NET
6 15 (1.34%) JSON
6 15 (1.34%) Lightning Web Components
7 12 (1.07%) Kafka
7 12 (1.07%) OpenTelemetry
8 11 (0.98%) Spring
9 7 (0.63%) PySpark
9 7 (0.63%) Web Services
10 6 (0.54%) React
10 6 (0.54%) Visualforce
11 5 (0.45%) FHIR
11 5 (0.45%) RESTful
11 5 (0.45%) XSLT
12 4 (0.36%) AngularJS
12 4 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 156 (13.93%) Legacy Systems
2 87 (7.77%) Data Structures
3 39 (3.48%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.04%) Cloud Native
5 26 (2.32%) Product Ownership
6 25 (2.23%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.52%) Replication
9 15 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.16%) NHS
10 13 (1.16%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.07%) Reference Data
12 11 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (0.98%) Mainframe
12 11 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
13 9 (0.80%) FMCG
13 9 (0.80%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.14%) Windows
2 9 (0.80%) Linux
3 7 (0.63%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.63%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.63%) zOS
4 6 (0.54%) Unix
4 6 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.089%) AIX
5 1 (0.089%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.089%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.089%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,120 (100.00%) Migration
2 270 (24.11%) Validation
3 269 (24.02%) Stakeholder Management
4 243 (21.70%) ERP
5 225 (20.09%) Agile
6 203 (18.13%) User Acceptance Testing
7 196 (17.50%) ETL
8 193 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
9 174 (15.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 166 (14.82%) Data Modelling
11 130 (11.61%) Business Intelligence
12 126 (11.25%) Data Cleansing
13 125 (11.16%) Project Management
14 115 (10.27%) Analytics
14 115 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 115 (10.27%) Data Mapping
15 107 (9.55%) Workshop Facilitation
16 105 (9.38%) Change Management
17 92 (8.21%) Data Governance
18 84 (7.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 220 (19.64%) SQL
2 81 (7.23%) Python
3 37 (3.30%) Java
4 24 (2.14%) PL/SQL
5 16 (1.43%) Bash
5 16 (1.43%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.25%) Apex Code
7 12 (1.07%) PowerShell
8 11 (0.98%) C#
9 10 (0.89%) VBA
10 7 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.45%) Korn
11 5 (0.45%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.45%) Perl
11 5 (0.45%) PHP
11 5 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.36%) SOQL
13 3 (0.27%) ABAP
13 3 (0.27%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 172 (15.36%) Security Cleared
2 127 (11.34%) SC Cleared
3 46 (4.11%) Degree
4 25 (2.23%) DV Cleared
5 24 (2.14%) PMP
6 18 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.34%) ISTQB
8 15 (1.34%) PMI Certification
9 11 (0.98%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.71%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.54%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.54%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.36%) OCP
12 4 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.27%) IIBA
13 3 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.18%) CBAP
14 2 (0.18%) CFA
14 2 (0.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (17.23%) Data Quality
2 92 (8.21%) QA
3 57 (5.09%) GDPR
4 22 (1.96%) PMO
5 15 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.07%) COBIT
7 11 (0.98%) NIST
8 9 (0.80%) IFRS
8 9 (0.80%) SLA
9 7 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.54%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.54%) HL7
11 5 (0.45%) GAAP
11 5 (0.45%) GMP
11 5 (0.45%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.36%) Basel III
12 4 (0.36%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.36%) PERC
13 3 (0.27%) DICOM
System Software
1 22 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.16%) VMware NSX
3 13 (1.16%) vSphere
4 8 (0.71%) Docker
4 8 (0.71%) NFS
5 2 (0.18%) SRDF
6 1 (0.089%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.089%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 31 (2.77%) Kubernetes
2 25 (2.23%) Terraform
3 15 (1.34%) Ansible
4 14 (1.25%) Grafana
5 13 (1.16%) Argo
5 13 (1.16%) vCenter Server
6 12 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.71%) SCCM
8 6 (0.54%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.54%) vMotion
9 3 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.27%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.089%) Avamar
11 1 (0.089%) Control-M
11 1 (0.089%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.089%) EMC TimeFinder
11 1 (0.089%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.089%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.089%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 218 (19.46%) Oracle
2 205 (18.30%) SAP
3 179 (15.98%) Microsoft
4 62 (5.54%) Salesforce
5 40 (3.57%) Databricks
6 37 (3.30%) Workday
7 26 (2.32%) Informatica
7 26 (2.32%) VMware
8 23 (2.05%) Sage
9 22 (1.96%) Pure Storage
10 18 (1.61%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.61%) Talend
11 17 (1.52%) Avaloq
11 17 (1.52%) MuleSoft
12 14 (1.25%) Google
12 14 (1.25%) Red Hat
13 13 (1.16%) IFS
14 12 (1.07%) Splunk
15 10 (0.89%) Ariba
15 10 (0.89%) GoldenSource
296 Data Migration jobs in England