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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 98 118
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 854 747 833
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.90% 2.40% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% 2.77% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 512 553
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £441 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% +3.77%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £729
UK median daily rate £540 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +0.47% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 11
10th Percentile £18.46 £40.40 £82.50
25th Percentile £36.50 £48.50 £83.13
Median hourly rate £64.63 £64.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% -24.71% +34.92%
75th Percentile £81.00 £67.88 £86.50
90th Percentile £91.31 £69.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £64.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +0.78% -24.71% +34.92%

All Process and 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 26,674 26,919 35,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.55% 86.57% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,953 16,411 24,057
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,726 969 1,471
10th Percentile £14.72 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.81 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.45 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +26.43%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +11 446 £550 - 360
South East -7 114 £600 +9.09% 276
Midlands +10 106 £550 +8.64% 68
North of England -34 81 £475 -8.43% 71
West Midlands -8 64 £550 +3.53% 33
North West -20 41 £429 -9.68% 38
East Midlands +12 39 £600 +41.18% 34
Yorkshire -17 38 £550 -1.03% 22
South West +3 31 £530 +6.00% 28
East of England -4 27 £488 -11.36% 25
North East -17 3 £438 -25.53% 11
South Coast - 1 £550 -
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 31 (3.63%) Confluence
2 19 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.17%) Smallworld
5 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.70%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.47%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.35%) Apache
8 3 (0.35%) CMS
8 3 (0.35%) LiveLink
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.23%) Documentum
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.12%) Moodle
10 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.12%) SAP Portal
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 35 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 78 (9.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (3.63%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (2.58%) SAP HR
5 19 (2.22%) Oracle Payables
6 13 (1.52%) Oracle General Ledger
7 12 (1.41%) Oracle Receivables
8 10 (1.17%) Salesforce CRM
9 9 (1.05%) Oracle EBS R12
9 9 (1.05%) SAP PM
10 8 (0.94%) Oracle Cash Management
10 8 (0.94%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 8 (0.94%) Workday HCM
11 7 (0.82%) Dynamics AX
11 7 (0.82%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
12 6 (0.70%) Endur
12 6 (0.70%) SAP ERP
12 6 (0.70%) SAP Payroll
12 6 (0.70%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 124 (14.52%) Azure
2 71 (8.31%) AWS
3 59 (6.91%) Dynamics 365
3 59 (6.91%) Power Platform
4 57 (6.67%) OCI
5 46 (5.39%) SaaS
6 36 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (3.16%) Snowflake
8 23 (2.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 22 (2.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 21 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (2.34%) Serverless
12 19 (2.22%) Amazon S3
12 19 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 17 (1.99%) GCP
13 17 (1.99%) SuccessFactors
14 16 (1.87%) dbt
15 15 (1.76%) PowerApps
16 14 (1.64%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.70%) Firewall
2 5 (0.59%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.47%) Network Security
3 4 (0.47%) VPN
3 4 (0.47%) WAN
4 3 (0.35%) NAS
5 2 (0.23%) DNS
5 2 (0.23%) Internet
5 2 (0.23%) Intranet
5 2 (0.23%) IPv6
5 2 (0.23%) LAN
5 2 (0.23%) SAN
5 2 (0.23%) SSL
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.12%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.12%) IPv4
6 1 (0.12%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.12%) VLAN
6 1 (0.12%) WebEx
6 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (6.32%) SQL Server
2 52 (6.09%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (4.80%) Power BI
3 41 (4.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 28 (3.28%) Relational Database
5 24 (2.81%) Oracle Reports
6 22 (2.58%) Oracle Database
7 19 (2.22%) Tableau
8 18 (2.11%) Data Lake
9 17 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (1.99%) Metadata
10 16 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 15 (1.76%) DataStage
12 13 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.52%) GIS
12 13 (1.52%) RDBMS
13 11 (1.29%) SAP HANA
14 9 (1.05%) Big Data
15 8 (0.94%) Amazon QuickSight
15 8 (0.94%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 75 (8.78%) JIRA
2 7 (0.82%) LSMW
3 6 (0.70%) Git
4 5 (0.59%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.47%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.35%) Postman
6 3 (0.35%) Selenium
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.23%) TestRail
7 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.12%) GitLab
8 1 (0.12%) gulp
8 1 (0.12%) Hudson
8 1 (0.12%) Pylint
8 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 311 (36.42%) Finance
2 308 (36.07%) Social Skills
3 100 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (7.96%) Public Sector
5 48 (5.62%) Banking
6 37 (4.33%) Local Government
7 31 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.04%) Marketing
9 25 (2.93%) Legal
10 24 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (2.69%) Retail
12 22 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (2.34%) Manufacturing
14 19 (2.22%) Back Office
14 19 (2.22%) General Ledger
15 14 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (1.29%) Law
17 10 (1.17%) Billing
17 10 (1.17%) Telecoms
18 8 (0.94%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 128 (14.99%) Lead
2 126 (14.75%) Analyst
3 111 (13.00%) Consultant
4 107 (12.53%) Architect
5 89 (10.42%) Project Manager
6 76 (8.90%) Business Analyst
7 52 (6.09%) Data Engineer
8 51 (5.97%) Senior
9 44 (5.15%) Data Migration Lead
10 37 (4.33%) Data Analyst
10 37 (4.33%) SAP Consultant
11 36 (4.22%) Developer
12 28 (3.28%) Migration Specialist
12 28 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
13 24 (2.81%) Data Migration Specialist
14 23 (2.69%) Data Consultant
14 23 (2.69%) Oracle Consultant
15 22 (2.58%) Migration Analyst
15 22 (2.58%) Salesforce Architect
16 21 (2.46%) Data Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (4.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 35 (4.10%) Lightning Web Components
3 33 (3.86%) XML
4 30 (3.51%) REST
5 24 (2.81%) Visualforce
6 22 (2.58%) SOAP
7 21 (2.46%) Middleware
8 15 (1.76%) JSON
9 12 (1.41%) EDI
9 12 (1.41%) SAP Fiori
10 10 (1.17%) .NET
11 9 (1.05%) PySpark
11 9 (1.05%) Web Services
12 8 (0.94%) BAPI
12 8 (0.94%) IDoc
12 8 (0.94%) SAP PI
13 6 (0.70%) WebdriverIO
14 5 (0.59%) GraphQL
14 5 (0.59%) React
14 5 (0.59%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 104 (12.18%) Legacy Systems
2 55 (6.44%) Data Structures
3 32 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.63%) Management Information System
4 31 (3.63%) Onboarding
5 14 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.52%) Reference Data
7 12 (1.41%) Data Centre
7 12 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.29%) Virtual Team
9 7 (0.82%) NHS
10 6 (0.70%) Low-Code
10 6 (0.70%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.59%) Cloud Native
11 5 (0.59%) FMCG
11 5 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (0.59%) SCADA
11 5 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.46%) Windows
2 6 (0.70%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (0.47%) Linux
4 4 (0.47%) Solaris
4 4 (0.47%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.35%) Unix
6 2 (0.23%) AIX
6 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.12%) MVS
7 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 854 (100.00%) Migration
2 193 (22.60%) Agile
3 167 (19.56%) Problem-Solving
4 155 (18.15%) ERP
5 141 (16.51%) Stakeholder Management
6 139 (16.28%) Validation
7 132 (15.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 127 (14.87%) ETL
9 125 (14.64%) Data Modelling
9 125 (14.64%) User Acceptance Testing
10 91 (10.66%) Data Governance
10 91 (10.66%) Project Management
11 86 (10.07%) Analytics
12 81 (9.48%) Change Management
12 81 (9.48%) CRM
13 77 (9.02%) DevOps
14 75 (8.78%) Data Cleansing
15 66 (7.73%) Business Intelligence
16 65 (7.61%) Workshop Facilitation
17 60 (7.03%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 166 (19.44%) SQL
2 61 (7.14%) Python
3 35 (4.10%) Apex Code
3 35 (4.10%) Java
4 18 (2.11%) C#
5 15 (1.76%) JavaScript
6 12 (1.41%) T-SQL
7 11 (1.29%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.17%) ABAP
9 7 (0.82%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.82%) VB
10 6 (0.70%) Bicep
11 5 (0.59%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.59%) X++
12 4 (0.47%) SOQL
13 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.35%) Magik
13 3 (0.35%) SOSL
14 2 (0.23%) C++
14 2 (0.23%) Korn
Qualifications
1 80 (9.37%) Degree
2 77 (9.02%) Security Cleared
3 55 (6.44%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.93%) PMP
6 22 (2.58%) PMI Certification
7 20 (2.34%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.64%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.94%) SAP Certification
10 7 (0.82%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
12 5 (0.59%) ACCA
12 5 (0.59%) CFA
12 5 (0.59%) CIMA
13 4 (0.47%) CBAP
13 4 (0.47%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.47%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.35%) OCP
14 3 (0.35%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (15.22%) Data Quality
2 55 (6.44%) QA
3 47 (5.50%) GDPR
4 12 (1.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 11 (1.29%) SLA
6 10 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.94%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.82%) PMO
9 5 (0.59%) IFRS
10 4 (0.47%) COBIT
10 4 (0.47%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.47%) NIST
11 3 (0.35%) GRC
11 3 (0.35%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.35%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.35%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.35%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.23%) EMIR
12 2 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (1.76%) Docker
2 8 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.35%) NFS
5 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (1.99%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.52%) Terraform
3 6 (0.70%) Ansible
4 5 (0.59%) HP ALM
4 5 (0.59%) SCCM
5 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.23%) Puppet
6 1 (0.12%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 164 (19.20%) SAP
2 155 (18.15%) Oracle
3 123 (14.40%) Microsoft
4 57 (6.67%) Salesforce
5 36 (4.22%) Workday
6 23 (2.69%) Databricks
7 14 (1.64%) Google
8 10 (1.17%) ESRI
8 10 (1.17%) IFS
8 10 (1.17%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.05%) Informatica
9 9 (1.05%) Kronos
10 8 (0.94%) IBM
10 8 (0.94%) Sage
10 8 (0.94%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.82%) Ariba
11 7 (0.82%) HP
12 6 (0.70%) Intergraph
12 6 (0.70%) StreamSets
12 6 (0.70%) Talend