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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 93 113
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 847 759 866
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.83% 2.46% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 2.83% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 523 582
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £737
UK median daily rate £538 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -0.92% -1.36% +2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 11
10th Percentile £16.73 £40.40 £82.50
25th Percentile £52.89 £48.50 £83.13
Median hourly rate £64.82 £64.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -24.71% +34.92%
75th Percentile £81.00 £67.88 £86.50
90th Percentile £92.60 £69.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £62.25 £64.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year -2.73% -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 26,975 26,819 35,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.28% 86.81% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,111 16,369 24,234
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £643 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,784 960 1,488
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% -16.29% +27.14%
75th Percentile £46.81 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.76 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.16% +25.24%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +14 456 £550 - 255
South East -15 107 £600 +9.09% 102
Midlands +6 104 £550 +2.33% 51
North of England -41 81 £463 -11.90% 71
West Midlands -13 61 £550 -1.03% 33
East Midlands +14 41 £563 +32.35% 18
North West -26 41 £430 -11.90% 37
Yorkshire -27 37 £525 -4.55% 28
South West -7 29 £525 - 27
East of England -10 20 £475 -13.64% 13
North East -13 4 £438 -27.08% 6
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 (3.66%) Confluence
2 18 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.83%) Smallworld
6 6 (0.71%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.47%) CMS
8 3 (0.35%) Apache
8 3 (0.35%) LiveLink
9 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.24%) Documentum
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.12%) Moodle
10 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.12%) SAP Portal
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (4.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
7 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 72 (8.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (4.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (3.42%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (2.60%) SAP HR
5 19 (2.24%) Oracle Payables
6 13 (1.53%) Oracle General Ledger
7 12 (1.42%) Oracle Receivables
8 10 (1.18%) Oracle EBS R12
8 10 (1.18%) Salesforce CRM
9 8 (0.94%) Oracle Cash Management
9 8 (0.94%) SAP Payroll
9 8 (0.94%) Workday HCM
10 7 (0.83%) NetSuite
10 7 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (0.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 7 (0.83%) SAP PM
11 6 (0.71%) Dynamics AX
11 6 (0.71%) Endur
11 6 (0.71%) SAP ERP
11 6 (0.71%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 121 (14.29%) Azure
2 70 (8.26%) AWS
3 63 (7.44%) Power Platform
4 56 (6.61%) Dynamics 365
5 54 (6.38%) OCI
6 47 (5.55%) SaaS
7 36 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (3.07%) Snowflake
9 25 (2.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 24 (2.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 19 (2.24%) Amazon S3
11 19 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (2.24%) Serverless
12 18 (2.13%) SuccessFactors
13 17 (2.01%) GCP
14 16 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
14 16 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 15 (1.77%) PowerApps
16 14 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
16 14 (1.65%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.59%) Firewall
1 5 (0.59%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.47%) WAN
3 3 (0.35%) DNS
3 3 (0.35%) NAS
3 3 (0.35%) Network Security
3 3 (0.35%) VPN
4 2 (0.24%) Internet
4 2 (0.24%) Intranet
4 2 (0.24%) IPv6
4 2 (0.24%) LAN
4 2 (0.24%) SAN
4 2 (0.24%) SSL
5 1 (0.12%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.12%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.12%) IPv4
5 1 (0.12%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.12%) VLAN
5 1 (0.12%) WebEx
5 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (6.38%) SQL Server
2 49 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (5.19%) Power BI
4 39 (4.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 28 (3.31%) Relational Database
6 22 (2.60%) Oracle Reports
7 19 (2.24%) Oracle Database
7 19 (2.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 19 (2.24%) Tableau
8 17 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (2.01%) Metadata
9 16 (1.89%) Data Lake
10 15 (1.77%) DataStage
11 12 (1.42%) RDBMS
12 11 (1.30%) SAP HANA
13 10 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.18%) MySQL
14 9 (1.06%) Big Data
14 9 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
15 8 (0.94%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 74 (8.74%) JIRA
2 7 (0.83%) Git
3 6 (0.71%) LSMW
4 4 (0.47%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.47%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.47%) Zephyr
5 3 (0.35%) Postman
5 3 (0.35%) Selenium
5 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.24%) TestRail
7 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.12%) GitLab
7 1 (0.12%) gulp
7 1 (0.12%) Pylint
7 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 307 (36.25%) Finance
2 301 (35.54%) Social Skills
3 96 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 49 (5.79%) Banking
6 36 (4.25%) Local Government
7 31 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
8 28 (3.31%) Marketing
9 24 (2.83%) Manufacturing
9 24 (2.83%) Retail
10 23 (2.72%) Legal
11 22 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (2.36%) Back Office
12 20 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (2.24%) General Ledger
14 12 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (1.30%) Law
16 10 (1.18%) Billing
16 10 (1.18%) Telecoms
17 8 (0.94%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 124 (14.64%) Analyst
2 119 (14.05%) Lead
3 115 (13.58%) Consultant
4 111 (13.11%) Architect
5 91 (10.74%) Project Manager
6 75 (8.85%) Business Analyst
7 55 (6.49%) Senior
8 50 (5.90%) Data Engineer
9 42 (4.96%) Data Migration Lead
10 39 (4.60%) Developer
11 37 (4.37%) Data Analyst
12 34 (4.01%) SAP Consultant
13 31 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
14 24 (2.83%) Migration Specialist
14 24 (2.83%) Salesforce Architect
15 23 (2.72%) Oracle Consultant
16 22 (2.60%) Data Migration Specialist
16 22 (2.60%) Functional Consultant
17 21 (2.48%) Data Architect
17 21 (2.48%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.84%) Oracle Fusion
2 37 (4.37%) Lightning Web Components
3 33 (3.90%) XML
4 32 (3.78%) REST
5 26 (3.07%) Visualforce
6 25 (2.95%) SOAP
7 21 (2.48%) Middleware
8 15 (1.77%) JSON
9 12 (1.42%) EDI
9 12 (1.42%) SAP Fiori
10 11 (1.30%) .NET
11 10 (1.18%) Web Services
12 9 (1.06%) PySpark
13 8 (0.94%) BAPI
13 8 (0.94%) IDoc
13 8 (0.94%) SAP PI
14 6 (0.71%) WebdriverIO
15 5 (0.59%) GraphQL
15 5 (0.59%) React
15 5 (0.59%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 101 (11.92%) Legacy Systems
2 53 (6.26%) Data Structures
3 32 (3.78%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 28 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 15 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.42%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.30%) Reference Data
10 9 (1.06%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.71%) Cloud Native
11 6 (0.71%) FMCG
11 6 (0.71%) Low-Code
11 6 (0.71%) NHS
11 6 (0.71%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.71%) Replication
12 5 (0.59%) Credit Risk
12 5 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.48%) Windows
2 6 (0.71%) 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 (0.24%) AIX
6 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.12%) MVS
7 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 847 (100.00%) Migration
2 195 (23.02%) Agile
3 168 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
4 148 (17.47%) ERP
5 142 (16.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 131 (15.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 128 (15.11%) User Acceptance Testing
8 127 (14.99%) ETL
8 127 (14.99%) Validation
9 120 (14.17%) Data Modelling
10 91 (10.74%) Project Management
11 84 (9.92%) CRM
12 82 (9.68%) Data Governance
13 81 (9.56%) Analytics
14 78 (9.21%) Change Management
15 75 (8.85%) DevOps
16 70 (8.26%) Data Cleansing
17 68 (8.03%) Workshop Facilitation
18 65 (7.67%) Business Intelligence
19 57 (6.73%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 168 (19.83%) SQL
2 59 (6.97%) Python
3 37 (4.37%) Apex Code
3 37 (4.37%) Java
4 19 (2.24%) C#
5 16 (1.89%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.18%) ABAP
6 10 (1.18%) PowerShell
6 10 (1.18%) T-SQL
7 8 (0.94%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.83%) VB
9 6 (0.71%) Bicep
10 5 (0.59%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.59%) X++
11 4 (0.47%) SOQL
12 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.35%) SOSL
13 2 (0.24%) Bash
13 2 (0.24%) Scala
13 2 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 78 (9.21%) Security Cleared
2 75 (8.85%) Degree
3 57 (6.73%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.83%) PMP
6 21 (2.48%) PMI Certification
7 20 (2.36%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.65%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.94%) SAP Certification
11 6 (0.71%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
12 5 (0.59%) CFA
12 5 (0.59%) CIMA
13 4 (0.47%) ACCA
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
1 121 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 55 (6.49%) QA
3 47 (5.55%) GDPR
4 14 (1.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 11 (1.30%) SLA
6 9 (1.06%) PMO
7 8 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.59%) IFRS
9 4 (0.47%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.35%) GRC
10 3 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.35%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.35%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.24%) EMIR
11 2 (0.24%) MiFID
11 2 (0.24%) NIST
11 2 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (1.77%) Docker
2 8 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.71%) 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
5 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.65%) Terraform
3 7 (0.83%) Ansible
4 5 (0.59%) HP ALM
4 5 (0.59%) SCCM
5 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.24%) Puppet
6 1 (0.12%) Argo
6 1 (0.12%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.12%) Grafana
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
6 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 155 (18.30%) SAP
2 148 (17.47%) Oracle
3 121 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 60 (7.08%) Salesforce
5 36 (4.25%) Workday
6 23 (2.72%) Databricks
7 13 (1.53%) Google
8 10 (1.18%) IFS
8 10 (1.18%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.06%) Informatica
9 9 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.94%) IBM
10 8 (0.94%) Kronos
10 8 (0.94%) Sage
11 7 (0.83%) ESRI
11 7 (0.83%) HP
12 6 (0.71%) Ariba
12 6 (0.71%) Intergraph
12 6 (0.71%) Talend
12 6 (0.71%) VMware