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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 100 91
Rank change year-on-year +13 -9 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,113 647 896
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.97% 2.66% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 2.93% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 734 449 614
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £631 £638 £660
90th Percentile £708 £713 £722
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 40
10th Percentile £13.95 £24.53 £25.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £34.63 £40.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -28.13% +300.00%
75th Percentile £76.88 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.73 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £38.78 £73.75 £80.00
% change year-on-year -47.42% -7.81% +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 32,391 22,052 32,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.35% 90.83% 86.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,759 14,493 21,652
10th Percentile £313 £312 £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 1,980 839 2,155
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.56 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.25 £32.81 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -0.58% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £75.44 £77.25 £71.89
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year - - -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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +23 584 £545 -0.91% 124
South East -6 156 £609 +15.95% 79
North of England -11 143 £500 -4.76% 47
Midlands -18 109 £500 -2.44% 29
North West +10 86 £460 -16.36% 20
West Midlands -28 66 £475 -7.09% 20
Yorkshire -39 48 £525 +31.25% 22
East Midlands -6 40 £500 +2.30% 9
East of England -24 36 £570 -12.31% 21
South West -22 30 £600 +29.73% 18
North East -5 9 £488 -27.78% 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 (2.88%) Confluence
1 32 (2.88%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.72%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 6 (0.54%) GeoServer
4 6 (0.54%) Smallworld
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 67 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
3 21 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
4 19 (1.71%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.090%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.090%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 109 (9.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (4.76%) Oracle EBS
3 30 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (1.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 13 (1.17%) Loan IQ
5 13 (1.17%) Oracle ERP
6 12 (1.08%) Oracle General Ledger
6 12 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
7 11 (0.99%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 11 (0.99%) Workday HCM
8 10 (0.90%) SAP HR
9 9 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
10 8 (0.72%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
12 6 (0.54%) Finacle
12 6 (0.54%) NetSuite
12 6 (0.54%) Oracle Cash Management
12 6 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
12 6 (0.54%) SAP CO
12 6 (0.54%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 170 (15.27%) Azure
2 117 (10.51%) Power Platform
3 102 (9.16%) AWS
4 91 (8.18%) OCI
5 78 (7.01%) Dynamics 365
6 45 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
7 41 (3.68%) SaaS
8 36 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 36 (3.23%) GitHub
9 27 (2.43%) Snowflake
10 24 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 23 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (1.89%) SuccessFactors
13 17 (1.53%) GCP
14 16 (1.44%) Amazon S3
14 16 (1.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 15 (1.35%) Entra ID
15 15 (1.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 14 (1.26%) OpenShift
17 11 (0.99%) 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 97 (8.72%) Power BI
2 78 (7.01%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (5.03%) SQL Server
4 42 (3.77%) Oracle Reports
5 41 (3.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 33 (2.96%) Relational Database
7 29 (2.61%) Metadata
8 23 (2.07%) Data Lake
9 22 (1.98%) Oracle Database
10 18 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 14 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
12 14 (1.26%) NoSQL
13 13 (1.17%) RDBMS
13 13 (1.17%) SAP Data Services
13 13 (1.17%) Tableau
14 11 (0.99%) MySQL
14 11 (0.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 9 (0.81%) DB2
15 9 (0.81%) GIS
Development Applications
1 91 (8.18%) JIRA
2 22 (1.98%) Git
3 17 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.35%) 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
8 4 (0.36%) Visual Studio
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
General
1 399 (35.85%) Social Skills
2 373 (33.51%) Finance
3 139 (12.49%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 67 (6.02%) Banking
6 40 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (3.50%) Manufacturing
8 38 (3.41%) Retail
9 35 (3.14%) Law
9 35 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (2.43%) Legal
11 22 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.71%) General Ledger
12 19 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.71%) Marketing
13 17 (1.53%) Local Government
14 16 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
15 15 (1.35%) Billing
16 13 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.99%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 226 (20.31%) Lead
2 172 (15.45%) Analyst
3 142 (12.76%) Architect
4 135 (12.13%) Consultant
5 102 (9.16%) Project Manager
6 95 (8.54%) Business Analyst
7 79 (7.10%) Senior
8 73 (6.56%) Data Engineer
9 65 (5.84%) Data Analyst
10 64 (5.75%) Data Migration Lead
11 53 (4.76%) Migration Analyst
12 51 (4.58%) Developer
13 39 (3.50%) Migration Manager
13 39 (3.50%) SAP Consultant
14 38 (3.41%) Data Migration Analyst
15 37 (3.32%) Data Architect
15 37 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
16 31 (2.79%) Data Business Analyst
17 30 (2.70%) Data Migration Manager
17 30 (2.70%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (7.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 34 (3.05%) REST
3 29 (2.61%) Middleware
4 28 (2.52%) XML
5 21 (1.89%) SOAP
6 16 (1.44%) Lightning Web Components
7 14 (1.26%) .NET
7 14 (1.26%) JSON
8 12 (1.08%) OpenTelemetry
9 11 (0.99%) Spring
10 10 (0.90%) Web Services
11 8 (0.72%) Kafka
11 8 (0.72%) PySpark
11 8 (0.72%) Visualforce
12 7 (0.63%) React
13 5 (0.45%) FHIR
13 5 (0.45%) RESTful
13 5 (0.45%) XSLT
14 4 (0.36%) ADO
14 4 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 156 (14.02%) Legacy Systems
2 87 (7.82%) Data Structures
3 38 (3.41%) Management Information System
4 33 (2.96%) Cloud Native
5 28 (2.52%) Product Ownership
6 25 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 21 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (1.80%) Replication
9 19 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.08%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.08%) NHS
11 12 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (0.99%) Public Cloud
12 11 (0.99%) Reference Data
13 10 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.90%) FMCG
14 9 (0.81%) Mainframe
14 9 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.07%) 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 2 (0.18%) Solaris
7 1 (0.090%) AIX
7 1 (0.090%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,113 (100.00%) Migration
2 265 (23.81%) Validation
3 262 (23.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 238 (21.38%) Agile
5 222 (19.95%) ERP
6 198 (17.79%) User Acceptance Testing
7 194 (17.43%) ETL
8 193 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
9 174 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 171 (15.36%) Data Modelling
11 129 (11.59%) Data Cleansing
12 128 (11.50%) Project Management
13 123 (11.05%) Business Intelligence
14 121 (10.87%) Analytics
15 116 (10.42%) Data Mapping
16 111 (9.97%) Workshop Facilitation
17 108 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
18 107 (9.61%) Change Management
19 101 (9.07%) Data Governance
20 97 (8.72%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 215 (19.32%) SQL
2 84 (7.55%) Python
3 37 (3.32%) Java
4 22 (1.98%) PL/SQL
5 16 (1.44%) Bash
5 16 (1.44%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.35%) Apex Code
7 12 (1.08%) C#
8 9 (0.81%) PowerShell
8 9 (0.81%) VBA
9 7 (0.63%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.45%) Korn
10 5 (0.45%) Perl
10 5 (0.45%) PHP
10 5 (0.45%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.36%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.36%) SOQL
11 4 (0.36%) X++
12 3 (0.27%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 167 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 119 (10.69%) SC Cleared
3 56 (5.03%) Degree
4 24 (2.16%) PMP
5 22 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.89%) DV Cleared
7 18 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.35%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.08%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.08%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.99%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.72%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.54%) SAP Certification
13 4 (0.36%) OCP
13 4 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.27%) ACCA
14 3 (0.27%) CIMA
14 3 (0.27%) IIBA
14 3 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.18%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (17.70%) Data Quality
2 91 (8.18%) QA
3 64 (5.75%) GDPR
4 19 (1.71%) PMO
5 16 (1.44%) 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%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.27%) PERC
System Software
1 21 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.17%) Docker
3 13 (1.17%) VMware NSX
3 13 (1.17%) vSphere
4 10 (0.90%) NFS
5 2 (0.18%) SRDF
6 1 (0.090%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 37 (3.32%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.34%) Terraform
3 16 (1.44%) 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%) EMC TimeFinder
11 1 (0.090%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.090%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 217 (19.50%) Oracle
2 198 (17.79%) SAP
3 170 (15.27%) Microsoft
4 61 (5.48%) Salesforce
5 40 (3.59%) Workday
6 37 (3.32%) Databricks
7 27 (2.43%) Informatica
8 25 (2.25%) VMware
9 23 (2.07%) Sage
10 22 (1.98%) Pure Storage
11 19 (1.71%) MuleSoft
12 18 (1.62%) ServiceNow
12 18 (1.62%) Talend
13 17 (1.53%) 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
296 Data Migration jobs in England