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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 86 102
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,398 781 752
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.02% 2.85% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 3.14% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 490 512
10th Percentile £363 £365 £400
25th Percentile £425 £438 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -2.04% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 10 6
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.00 £62.63
25th Percentile £21.25 £32.89 £67.44
Median hourly rate £40.00 £51.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.33% -35.63% -13.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.31 -
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.38 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £36.33 £80.00
% change year-on-year +10.12% -54.59% -13.25%

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 39,157 24,863 28,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.69% 90.87% 86.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,010 15,784 17,561
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £648
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,714 1,478 1,320
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.29 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.74 £66.53
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +16 679 £538 -2.71% 478
North of England -16 177 £525 +10.53% 132
Midlands +5 172 £475 -7.77% 99
South East -9 169 £550 -4.35% 127
West Midlands -2 120 £450 -10.89% 68
North West +5 106 £538 +19.44% 86
South West +13 89 £523 -0.48% 30
East of England 0 61 £565 +14.43% 48
Yorkshire -26 59 £500 - 29
East Midlands +5 48 £525 -4.55% 31
North East -26 15 £525 +20.00% 17
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 58 (4.15%) SharePoint
2 43 (3.08%) Confluence
3 13 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.50%) Apache
6 7 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.36%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.14%) CMS
8 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.14%) Mendix
8 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.14%) SAS
8 2 (0.14%) SugarCRM
9 1 (0.072%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.072%) Documentum
9 1 (0.072%) IIS
9 1 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.072%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 68 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
3 15 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.86%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.21%) Windchill
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.072%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 156 (11.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (1.86%) Oracle Payables
4 21 (1.50%) NetSuite
4 21 (1.50%) Oracle Receivables
5 20 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
5 20 (1.43%) SAP ERP
6 14 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
7 13 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
7 13 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
7 13 (0.93%) SAP SD
8 12 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
8 12 (0.86%) SAP FI
8 12 (0.86%) Teamcenter
8 12 (0.86%) Workday HCM
9 11 (0.79%) iTrent
9 11 (0.79%) SAP MDG
10 10 (0.72%) SAP CO
10 10 (0.72%) SAP MM
11 9 (0.64%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 222 (15.88%) Azure
2 139 (9.94%) AWS
3 137 (9.80%) Power Platform
4 111 (7.94%) Dynamics 365
5 75 (5.36%) OCI
6 66 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (3.86%) SaaS
8 44 (3.15%) Snowflake
9 42 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 41 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
11 36 (2.58%) SuccessFactors
12 30 (2.15%) Power Automate
13 29 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 29 (2.07%) GitHub
14 26 (1.86%) Amazon S3
15 25 (1.79%) PowerApps
16 24 (1.72%) GCP
17 18 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
18 17 (1.22%) dbt
19 13 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.43%) DNS
2 5 (0.36%) NAS
2 5 (0.36%) SAN
3 4 (0.29%) VPN
4 3 (0.21%) Firewall
4 3 (0.21%) Intranet
5 2 (0.14%) HTTP
5 2 (0.14%) VSAN
6 1 (0.072%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.072%) DKIM
6 1 (0.072%) DMARC
6 1 (0.072%) Internet
6 1 (0.072%) SNMP
6 1 (0.072%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (8.23%) Power BI
2 97 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
3 64 (4.58%) SQL Server
4 54 (3.86%) Metadata
5 47 (3.36%) Relational Database
6 44 (3.15%) Oracle Reports
7 37 (2.65%) Data Lake
8 31 (2.22%) Oracle Database
9 30 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (1.36%) RDBMS
11 14 (1.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 13 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (0.86%) DataStage
13 12 (0.86%) Oracle Exadata
13 12 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (0.79%) MongoDB
15 10 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (0.72%) NoSQL
15 10 (0.72%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 117 (8.37%) JIRA
2 49 (3.51%) Git
3 35 (2.50%) Zephyr
4 30 (2.15%) Postman
5 18 (1.29%) GitLab
6 14 (1.00%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
8 7 (0.50%) Selenium
9 5 (0.36%) Gatling
9 5 (0.36%) Hudson
9 5 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.29%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.29%) LSMW
10 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.21%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.14%) Yeoman
13 1 (0.072%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.072%) Cucumber
General
1 490 (35.05%) Finance
2 397 (28.40%) Social Skills
3 190 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 87 (6.22%) Banking
6 78 (5.58%) Manufacturing
7 58 (4.15%) Retail
8 53 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
9 46 (3.29%) General Ledger
10 40 (2.86%) Law
11 35 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
12 32 (2.29%) Local Government
13 26 (1.86%) Automotive
14 23 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 23 (1.65%) Marketing
15 22 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (1.43%) Legal
17 19 (1.36%) Billing
18 18 (1.29%) Military
19 15 (1.07%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 259 (18.53%) Lead
2 215 (15.38%) Analyst
3 169 (12.09%) Architect
4 161 (11.52%) Consultant
5 122 (8.73%) Data Engineer
6 119 (8.51%) Senior
7 104 (7.44%) Data Migration Lead
8 86 (6.15%) Business Analyst
9 83 (5.94%) Project Manager
10 77 (5.51%) Data Analyst
11 67 (4.79%) Developer
12 61 (4.36%) Data Architect
13 58 (4.15%) Migration Engineer
14 56 (4.01%) SAP Consultant
15 47 (3.36%) Data Migration Engineer
16 44 (3.15%) Migration Analyst
17 43 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
18 39 (2.79%) Data Consultant
18 39 (2.79%) Data Migration Analyst
19 35 (2.50%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (7.01%) Oracle Fusion
2 45 (3.22%) Middleware
3 37 (2.65%) REST
4 33 (2.36%) Terraform
5 25 (1.79%) .NET
6 23 (1.65%) SOAP
7 22 (1.57%) XML
8 17 (1.22%) JSON
8 17 (1.22%) Kafka
8 17 (1.22%) PySpark
9 13 (0.93%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 9 (0.64%) Keycloak
11 8 (0.57%) Lightning Web Components
12 7 (0.50%) SAP Fiori
12 7 (0.50%) Spring
12 7 (0.50%) Spring Boot
12 7 (0.50%) Web Services
13 6 (0.43%) ADO
13 6 (0.43%) HTML
14 5 (0.36%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 157 (11.23%) Legacy Systems
2 101 (7.22%) Data Structures
3 46 (3.29%) Management Information System
4 44 (3.15%) Onboarding
5 42 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
5 42 (3.00%) Public Cloud
6 34 (2.43%) Product Ownership
7 33 (2.36%) Cloud Native
8 29 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
9 20 (1.43%) Reference Data
10 18 (1.29%) Replication
11 17 (1.22%) FMCG
11 17 (1.22%) NHS
12 13 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (0.86%) Data Centre
13 12 (0.86%) Low-Code
14 11 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
15 10 (0.72%) Life Science
15 10 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.72%) Windows
2 20 (1.43%) Linux
3 12 (0.86%) AIX
4 5 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.29%) VMS
6 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.072%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,398 (100.00%) Migration
2 411 (29.40%) Validation
3 351 (25.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 317 (22.68%) ERP
5 316 (22.60%) User Acceptance Testing
6 237 (16.95%) Agile
7 229 (16.38%) ETL
8 228 (16.31%) Data Modelling
9 212 (15.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 172 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
11 168 (12.02%) Data Governance
12 141 (10.09%) Business Intelligence
12 141 (10.09%) Data Cleansing
13 124 (8.87%) Analytics
14 123 (8.80%) DevOps
15 122 (8.73%) Data Mapping
16 118 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
17 115 (8.23%) Requirements Gathering
18 110 (7.87%) CI/CD
19 107 (7.65%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 285 (20.39%) SQL
2 84 (6.01%) Python
3 27 (1.93%) PL/SQL
4 25 (1.79%) Java
5 21 (1.50%) C#
6 20 (1.43%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.00%) Bash
7 14 (1.00%) PowerShell
8 10 (0.72%) TypeScript
9 9 (0.64%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.50%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.43%) ABAP
11 6 (0.43%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.36%) VB
12 5 (0.36%) VB6
12 5 (0.36%) X++
13 4 (0.29%) C
13 4 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.21%) SOQL
14 3 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 257 (18.38%) Security Cleared
2 210 (15.02%) SC Cleared
3 49 (3.51%) Degree
4 35 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 30 (2.15%) ACCA
5 30 (2.15%) CIMA
6 26 (1.86%) PMI Certification
6 26 (1.86%) PMP
7 24 (1.72%) ISTQB
8 23 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (0.57%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.50%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.36%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.29%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (20.60%) Data Quality
2 108 (7.73%) QA
3 59 (4.22%) GDPR
4 32 (2.29%) PMO
5 13 (0.93%) GRC
6 10 (0.72%) IFRS
7 9 (0.64%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.64%) HL7
8 8 (0.57%) SLA
9 7 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.43%) DICOM
11 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
12 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.21%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.14%) GAAP
13 2 (0.14%) GMP
13 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.14%) PERC
System Software
1 16 (1.14%) Docker
2 13 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
3 11 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.64%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.50%) vSphere
6 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (0.21%) SRDF
7 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.14%) NFS
Systems Management
1 24 (1.72%) Ansible
2 21 (1.50%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.86%) Data Guard
3 12 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (0.57%) Karpenter
5 7 (0.50%) vCenter Server
6 6 (0.43%) Argo
6 6 (0.43%) Grafana
7 4 (0.29%) EMC VPLEX
7 4 (0.29%) SnapMirror
8 3 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (0.21%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.21%) NetBackup
8 3 (0.21%) SnapVault
9 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.072%) Autotask
10 1 (0.072%) SCCM
10 1 (0.072%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 289 (20.67%) Oracle
2 279 (19.96%) SAP
3 251 (17.95%) Microsoft
4 82 (5.87%) Databricks
5 59 (4.22%) Salesforce
6 29 (2.07%) ServiceNow
6 29 (2.07%) Workday
7 23 (1.65%) Informatica
8 19 (1.36%) IBM
8 19 (1.36%) Talend
9 17 (1.22%) IFS
10 16 (1.14%) Ariba
10 16 (1.14%) Google
11 12 (0.86%) VMware
12 11 (0.79%) Sage
13 10 (0.72%) Siebel
14 9 (0.64%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.57%) Alteryx
15 8 (0.57%) Atlassian
15 8 (0.57%) InterSystems