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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 90 100
Rank change year-on-year +18 +10 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,407 687 819
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.24% 2.72% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.79% 2.98% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 925 428 559
10th Percentile £363 £362 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% -3.73% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £716
UK median daily rate £525 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 11 33
10th Percentile £16.88 £17.80 £25.00
25th Percentile £22.58 £33.47 £40.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% -23.33% +233.33%
75th Percentile £49.62 £68.13 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £73.75 -
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £60.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -38.82% -20.00% +180.37%

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 37,112 23,092 31,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.39% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,409 14,893 20,664
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,320 1,127 2,324
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +35 702 £550 - 92
South East +4 188 £550 +2.96% 64
North of England -10 184 £519 +9.26% 47
Midlands +7 149 £490 +0.51% 30
North West +6 119 £500 +2.09% 27
West Midlands -2 108 £474 -5.20% 13
South West +4 77 £523 +1.95% 20
East of England +3 57 £581 -10.58% 13
Yorkshire -35 54 £530 +16.10% 13
East Midlands +11 37 £500 +9.29% 17
North East -25 13 £625 +8.70% 7
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 49 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.56%) Confluence
3 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.36%) Tuxedo
6 4 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
8 2 (0.14%) Apache
8 2 (0.14%) Appian
9 1 (0.071%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.071%) CMS
9 1 (0.071%) IIS
9 1 (0.071%) Mendix
9 1 (0.071%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.071%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 78 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
2 20 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
3 16 (1.14%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 154 (10.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (2.63%) Oracle EBS
3 34 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
4 22 (1.56%) SAP ERP
5 19 (1.35%) NetSuite
6 17 (1.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 16 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
8 14 (1.00%) Oracle General Ledger
8 14 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
9 10 (0.71%) iTrent
9 10 (0.71%) Loan IQ
9 10 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
10 9 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
11 8 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 7 (0.50%) NEC Housing
12 7 (0.50%) SAP SD
12 7 (0.50%) Teamcenter
12 7 (0.50%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.43%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 223 (15.85%) Azure
2 141 (10.02%) AWS
3 134 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 100 (7.11%) Dynamics 365
5 74 (5.26%) OCI
6 70 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (3.91%) SaaS
8 46 (3.27%) Azure Data Factory
9 43 (3.06%) Snowflake
10 42 (2.99%) GitHub
11 32 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
12 30 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 21 (1.49%) Amazon S3
13 21 (1.49%) GCP
14 20 (1.42%) Power Automate
14 20 (1.42%) SuccessFactors
15 19 (1.35%) PowerApps
16 15 (1.07%) dbt
16 15 (1.07%) OpenShift
17 12 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.07%) SAN
2 14 (1.00%) DNS
2 14 (1.00%) NAS
3 6 (0.43%) Firewall
3 6 (0.43%) VPN
4 3 (0.21%) VSAN
5 2 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.14%) HTTP
5 2 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.071%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.071%) DKIM
6 1 (0.071%) DMARC
6 1 (0.071%) FCoE
6 1 (0.071%) Intranet
6 1 (0.071%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.071%) Network Security
6 1 (0.071%) SNMP
6 1 (0.071%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (8.32%) Power BI
2 99 (7.04%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (4.41%) SQL Server
4 61 (4.34%) Oracle Reports
5 39 (2.77%) Metadata
6 33 (2.35%) Data Lake
7 32 (2.27%) Relational Database
8 28 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 23 (1.63%) Oracle Database
11 20 (1.42%) NoSQL
12 16 (1.14%) RDBMS
13 13 (0.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 12 (0.85%) SAP Data Services
14 12 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 11 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
16 10 (0.71%) Db2
16 10 (0.71%) GIS
17 9 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
17 9 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 122 (8.67%) JIRA
2 47 (3.34%) Git
3 37 (2.63%) Zephyr
4 32 (2.27%) Postman
5 22 (1.56%) Jenkins
6 14 (1.00%) GitLab
7 11 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.71%) Selenium
9 8 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.43%) Hudson
11 5 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.36%) Gatling
11 5 (0.36%) LSMW
12 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.28%) JUnit
13 3 (0.21%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.21%) ERwin
13 3 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
13 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 492 (34.97%) Finance
2 413 (29.35%) Social Skills
3 183 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (8.03%) Public Sector
5 86 (6.11%) Banking
6 70 (4.98%) Manufacturing
7 51 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (3.27%) Retail
9 45 (3.20%) Law
10 37 (2.63%) General Ledger
11 31 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
12 29 (2.06%) Local Government
13 26 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 22 (1.56%) Legal
15 22 (1.56%) Marketing
16 20 (1.42%) Automotive
17 19 (1.35%) Billing
18 17 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
19 16 (1.14%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 299 (21.25%) Lead
2 204 (14.50%) Analyst
3 192 (13.65%) Architect
4 150 (10.66%) Consultant
5 112 (7.96%) Data Migration Lead
6 104 (7.39%) Data Engineer
7 103 (7.32%) Project Manager
8 102 (7.25%) Senior
9 88 (6.25%) Business Analyst
10 78 (5.54%) Data Analyst
11 69 (4.90%) Data Architect
12 63 (4.48%) Migration Engineer
13 59 (4.19%) Developer
14 56 (3.98%) Migration Analyst
15 52 (3.70%) Data Migration Engineer
16 50 (3.55%) Migration Manager
17 49 (3.48%) SAP Consultant
18 45 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
19 44 (3.13%) Data Migration Analyst
20 38 (2.70%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (6.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 40 (2.84%) Middleware
3 39 (2.77%) REST
4 23 (1.63%) SOAP
5 22 (1.56%) .NET
6 20 (1.42%) XML
7 19 (1.35%) Kafka
8 18 (1.28%) Spring
9 16 (1.14%) JSON
10 11 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
10 11 (0.78%) OpenTelemetry
10 11 (0.78%) PySpark
11 10 (0.71%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.64%) ADO
12 9 (0.64%) React
13 7 (0.50%) COM
13 7 (0.50%) ODBC
13 7 (0.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
14 6 (0.43%) FHIR
14 6 (0.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 182 (12.94%) Legacy Systems
2 104 (7.39%) Data Structures
3 45 (3.20%) Cloud Native
4 43 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 30 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 28 (1.99%) Public Cloud
8 27 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
9 23 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.28%) Replication
11 17 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (1.07%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.00%) FMCG
13 14 (1.00%) Mainframe
13 14 (1.00%) NHS
14 13 (0.92%) Reference Data
15 12 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
16 11 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.63%) Windows
2 15 (1.07%) Linux
3 7 (0.50%) zOS
4 6 (0.43%) AIX
5 5 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
5 5 (0.36%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.28%) VMS
7 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.14%) Unix
8 1 (0.071%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.071%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,407 (100.00%) Migration
2 377 (26.79%) Validation
3 308 (21.89%) ERP
4 299 (21.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 292 (20.75%) User Acceptance Testing
6 246 (17.48%) Agile
7 239 (16.99%) ETL
8 207 (14.71%) Data Modelling
8 207 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
9 202 (14.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 143 (10.16%) Business Intelligence
11 140 (9.95%) Data Cleansing
12 137 (9.74%) Data Governance
13 131 (9.31%) DevOps
14 127 (9.03%) Data Mapping
15 125 (8.88%) Project Management
16 123 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
17 116 (8.24%) Analytics
18 110 (7.82%) CI/CD
19 107 (7.60%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 282 (20.04%) SQL
2 102 (7.25%) Python
3 42 (2.99%) Java
4 27 (1.92%) PL/SQL
5 22 (1.56%) Bash
5 22 (1.56%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.07%) C#
7 14 (1.00%) PowerShell
8 11 (0.78%) T-SQL
9 9 (0.64%) Apex Code
9 9 (0.64%) Kotlin
9 9 (0.64%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.50%) VB
10 7 (0.50%) VB6
10 7 (0.50%) VBA
11 5 (0.36%) C
11 5 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.21%) Korn
12 3 (0.21%) SOQL
12 3 (0.21%) X++
Qualifications
1 234 (16.63%) Security Cleared
2 188 (13.36%) SC Cleared
3 53 (3.77%) Degree
4 28 (1.99%) ISTQB
4 28 (1.99%) PMP
5 27 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 22 (1.56%) PMI Certification
7 21 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.14%) ACCA
8 16 (1.14%) CIMA
9 15 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (0.92%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.43%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 6 (0.43%) SAP Certification
12 5 (0.36%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (17.77%) Data Quality
2 116 (8.24%) QA
3 71 (5.05%) GDPR
4 27 (1.92%) PMO
5 16 (1.14%) SLA
6 10 (0.71%) HL7
6 10 (0.71%) IFRS
7 9 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.50%) SNOMED CT
9 6 (0.43%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.43%) COBIT
9 6 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.36%) DICOM
10 5 (0.36%) NIST
11 4 (0.28%) GAAP
11 4 (0.28%) GMP
11 4 (0.28%) PERC
11 4 (0.28%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.14%) GRC
System Software
1 26 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (1.14%) Docker
3 15 (1.07%) vSphere
4 13 (0.92%) Active Directory
5 12 (0.85%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.71%) NFS
7 7 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.28%) SRDF
9 3 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 41 (2.91%) Terraform
2 36 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.85%) Ansible
4 15 (1.07%) Grafana
4 15 (1.07%) vCenter Server
5 14 (1.00%) Argo
6 10 (0.71%) EMC VPLEX
7 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.43%) Data Guard
8 6 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
8 6 (0.43%) vMotion
9 5 (0.36%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (0.28%) NetBackup
10 4 (0.28%) SnapMirror
11 3 (0.21%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.21%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.21%) SCCM
11 3 (0.21%) SnapVault
12 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 276 (19.62%) Oracle
2 260 (18.48%) SAP
3 231 (16.42%) Microsoft
4 67 (4.76%) Databricks
5 66 (4.69%) Salesforce
6 31 (2.20%) VMware
7 30 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 24 (1.71%) Workday
9 23 (1.63%) Pure Storage
9 23 (1.63%) Sage
10 22 (1.56%) IFS
10 22 (1.56%) Informatica
11 20 (1.42%) Talend
12 18 (1.28%) Google
13 15 (1.07%) MuleSoft
13 15 (1.07%) Red Hat
14 12 (0.85%) Ariba
14 12 (0.85%) Siebel
15 11 (0.78%) IBM
15 11 (0.78%) Splunk