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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 86 104
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,426 796 740
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.08% 2.86% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 3.15% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 946 497 501
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £435 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £546
% change year-on-year - -3.89% -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 11 7
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.00 £62.75
25th Percentile £21.25 £33.47 £71.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £62.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -21.88% -13.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £69.38 -
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £38.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +5.26% -52.50% -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 39,304 25,245 28,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.83% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,151 16,024 17,695
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
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 2,693 1,483 1,349
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.31 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +15 695 £538 -2.27% 307
North of England -18 185 £519 +9.26% 72
South East -7 173 £550 - 96
Midlands +3 170 £475 -7.77% 67
West Midlands +4 118 £450 -10.89% 50
North West -3 110 £538 +19.44% 44
South West +17 90 £523 -0.48% 32
East of England +4 63 £565 +14.43% 25
Yorkshire -38 62 £500 +0.50% 15
East Midlands +1 48 £525 -4.55% 17
North East -33 16 £444 +1.43% 13
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 (4.07%) SharePoint
2 42 (2.95%) Confluence
3 13 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.49%) Apache
6 7 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.35%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.14%) CMS
8 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.14%) Mendix
8 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.070%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.070%) IIS
9 1 (0.070%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.070%) SAS
9 1 (0.070%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.070%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 72 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
3 16 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.91%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.21%) Windchill
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.070%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.070%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 154 (10.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (2.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (1.82%) Oracle Payables
4 21 (1.47%) Oracle Receivables
5 20 (1.40%) NetSuite
5 20 (1.40%) Oracle ERP
6 19 (1.33%) SAP ERP
7 15 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
8 14 (0.98%) Oracle Financials
8 14 (0.98%) Oracle General Ledger
9 12 (0.84%) Oracle Assets
9 12 (0.84%) SAP SD
9 12 (0.84%) Teamcenter
9 12 (0.84%) Workday HCM
10 11 (0.77%) iTrent
10 11 (0.77%) SAP MDG
11 10 (0.70%) SAP FI
12 9 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 9 (0.63%) SAP MM
13 8 (0.56%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 230 (16.13%) Azure
2 148 (10.38%) Power Platform
3 139 (9.75%) AWS
4 118 (8.27%) Dynamics 365
5 75 (5.26%) OCI
6 70 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (4.14%) SaaS
8 45 (3.16%) Snowflake
9 42 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
10 41 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
11 36 (2.52%) SuccessFactors
12 33 (2.31%) GitHub
13 30 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 30 (2.10%) Power Automate
14 28 (1.96%) Amazon S3
15 26 (1.82%) PowerApps
16 22 (1.54%) GCP
17 17 (1.19%) dbt
17 17 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
18 13 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.49%) DNS
2 5 (0.35%) NAS
2 5 (0.35%) SAN
3 4 (0.28%) Firewall
3 4 (0.28%) VPN
4 3 (0.21%) Intranet
5 2 (0.14%) HTTP
5 2 (0.14%) VSAN
6 1 (0.070%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.070%) DKIM
6 1 (0.070%) DMARC
6 1 (0.070%) Internet
6 1 (0.070%) SNMP
6 1 (0.070%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (8.77%) Power BI
2 100 (7.01%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (4.70%) SQL Server
4 55 (3.86%) Metadata
5 47 (3.30%) Relational Database
6 43 (3.02%) Oracle Reports
7 37 (2.59%) Data Lake
8 30 (2.10%) Oracle Database
8 30 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (1.33%) RDBMS
10 14 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
10 14 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (0.91%) DataStage
11 13 (0.91%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 12 (0.84%) NoSQL
12 12 (0.84%) Oracle Exadata
12 12 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (0.77%) MongoDB
13 11 (0.77%) SAP Data Services
14 10 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 118 (8.27%) JIRA
2 49 (3.44%) Git
3 36 (2.52%) Zephyr
4 29 (2.03%) Postman
5 19 (1.33%) GitLab
6 15 (1.05%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
8 8 (0.56%) Selenium
9 5 (0.35%) Gatling
9 5 (0.35%) Hudson
9 5 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.28%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.28%) LSMW
10 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.21%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
12 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.14%) Yeoman
13 1 (0.070%) JMeter
13 1 (0.070%) Toad
General
1 502 (35.20%) Finance
2 405 (28.40%) Social Skills
3 195 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 86 (6.03%) Banking
6 78 (5.47%) Manufacturing
7 56 (3.93%) Retail
8 54 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
9 47 (3.30%) General Ledger
10 46 (3.23%) Law
11 35 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (2.31%) Local Government
13 25 (1.75%) Automotive
13 25 (1.75%) Marketing
14 24 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 22 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (1.47%) Billing
17 20 (1.40%) Legal
18 18 (1.26%) Military
19 16 (1.12%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 268 (18.79%) Lead
2 220 (15.43%) Analyst
3 178 (12.48%) Architect
4 159 (11.15%) Consultant
5 126 (8.84%) Data Engineer
6 119 (8.35%) Senior
7 101 (7.08%) Data Migration Lead
8 90 (6.31%) Business Analyst
9 87 (6.10%) Project Manager
10 79 (5.54%) Data Analyst
11 67 (4.70%) Developer
12 61 (4.28%) Data Architect
13 59 (4.14%) Migration Engineer
14 52 (3.65%) SAP Consultant
15 49 (3.44%) Data Migration Engineer
16 45 (3.16%) Migration Analyst
17 44 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
18 39 (2.73%) Data Consultant
18 39 (2.73%) Data Migration Analyst
19 37 (2.59%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (6.66%) Oracle Fusion
2 45 (3.16%) Middleware
3 35 (2.45%) REST
3 35 (2.45%) Terraform
4 27 (1.89%) .NET
5 24 (1.68%) XML
6 21 (1.47%) SOAP
7 17 (1.19%) JSON
7 17 (1.19%) Kafka
7 17 (1.19%) PySpark
8 13 (0.91%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 9 (0.63%) Keycloak
9 9 (0.63%) Spring
10 8 (0.56%) Lightning Web Components
11 7 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
11 7 (0.49%) Spring Boot
12 6 (0.42%) ADO
12 6 (0.42%) FHIR
12 6 (0.42%) HTML
12 6 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 163 (11.43%) Legacy Systems
2 103 (7.22%) Data Structures
3 48 (3.37%) Management Information System
4 43 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 42 (2.95%) Public Cloud
6 41 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
7 37 (2.59%) Cloud Native
8 34 (2.38%) Product Ownership
9 29 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (1.33%) Reference Data
11 17 (1.19%) FMCG
11 17 (1.19%) NHS
11 17 (1.19%) Replication
12 13 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (0.84%) Data Centre
13 12 (0.84%) Low-Code
14 11 (0.77%) Reinsurance
15 10 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
15 10 (0.70%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.68%) Windows
2 21 (1.47%) Linux
3 12 (0.84%) AIX
4 5 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.28%) VMS
6 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.070%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,426 (100.00%) Migration
2 414 (29.03%) Validation
3 350 (24.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 326 (22.86%) ERP
5 324 (22.72%) User Acceptance Testing
6 243 (17.04%) Agile
7 235 (16.48%) Data Modelling
8 232 (16.27%) ETL
9 224 (15.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 177 (12.41%) Data Governance
10 177 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
11 149 (10.45%) Business Intelligence
12 142 (9.96%) Data Cleansing
13 129 (9.05%) DevOps
14 126 (8.84%) Analytics
14 126 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
15 123 (8.63%) Data Mapping
16 116 (8.13%) Requirements Gathering
17 113 (7.92%) CI/CD
18 108 (7.57%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 290 (20.34%) SQL
2 91 (6.38%) Python
3 29 (2.03%) Java
4 26 (1.82%) PL/SQL
5 21 (1.47%) C#
6 20 (1.40%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.19%) Bash
8 14 (0.98%) PowerShell
9 10 (0.70%) TypeScript
10 9 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.49%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.42%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.35%) ABAP
13 5 (0.35%) VB
13 5 (0.35%) VB6
13 5 (0.35%) VBA
13 5 (0.35%) X++
14 4 (0.28%) C
14 4 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.21%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 259 (18.16%) Security Cleared
2 209 (14.66%) SC Cleared
3 50 (3.51%) Degree
4 36 (2.52%) DV Cleared
5 30 (2.10%) ACCA
5 30 (2.10%) CIMA
6 28 (1.96%) PMI Certification
6 28 (1.96%) PMP
7 25 (1.75%) ISTQB
8 21 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.56%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (0.49%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.35%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.35%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.21%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 295 (20.69%) Data Quality
2 113 (7.92%) QA
3 63 (4.42%) GDPR
4 33 (2.31%) PMO
5 13 (0.91%) GRC
6 11 (0.77%) HL7
7 10 (0.70%) IFRS
8 9 (0.63%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.63%) SLA
9 6 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.42%) DICOM
9 6 (0.42%) SNOMED CT
10 5 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.28%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.21%) PERC
13 2 (0.14%) GAAP
13 2 (0.14%) GMP
13 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 16 (1.12%) Docker
2 13 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
3 12 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.70%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.56%) vSphere
6 5 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.21%) SRDF
8 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.14%) NFS
Systems Management
1 26 (1.82%) Ansible
2 24 (1.68%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.84%) Data Guard
3 12 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (0.56%) Karpenter
4 8 (0.56%) vCenter Server
5 7 (0.49%) Argo
5 7 (0.49%) Grafana
6 4 (0.28%) EMC VPLEX
6 4 (0.28%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.28%) SnapMirror
7 3 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (0.21%) NetBackup
7 3 (0.21%) SnapVault
8 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.070%) Autotask
9 1 (0.070%) SCCM
9 1 (0.070%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 287 (20.13%) Oracle
2 276 (19.35%) SAP
3 262 (18.37%) Microsoft
4 84 (5.89%) Databricks
5 63 (4.42%) Salesforce
6 30 (2.10%) ServiceNow
7 29 (2.03%) Workday
8 25 (1.75%) Informatica
9 21 (1.47%) IBM
10 20 (1.40%) Talend
11 17 (1.19%) Google
11 17 (1.19%) IFS
12 16 (1.12%) Ariba
13 13 (0.91%) VMware
14 10 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 10 (0.70%) Sage
14 10 (0.70%) Siebel
15 9 (0.63%) Atlassian
15 9 (0.63%) InterSystems
16 8 (0.56%) Red Hat