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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 90 99
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,354 661 827
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.18% 2.70% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 2.96% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 885 409 571
10th Percentile £363 £362 £350
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £714
UK median daily rate £525 £527 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 10 33
10th Percentile £16.35 £30.86 £25.00
25th Percentile £21.33 £35.09 £40.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -20.00% +233.33%
75th Percentile £61.50 £69.69 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.08 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% -13.33% +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 36,262 22,351 32,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.14% 91.35% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,961 14,463 20,809
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,273 1,016 2,371
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +29 667 £550 -0.90% 130
South East +5 186 £550 +10.00% 67
North of England -23 179 £500 +4.17% 52
Midlands 0 143 £488 +3.72% 29
North West +1 112 £475 -9.52% 32
West Midlands +2 103 £473 -0.42% 15
South West +13 71 £525 +5.00% 19
East of England +4 57 £575 -11.54% 15
Yorkshire -40 56 £530 +17.54% 13
East Midlands -4 36 £500 +9.29% 14
North East -19 11 £488 -15.22% 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 41 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 37 (2.73%) Confluence
3 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.37%) Tuxedo
6 4 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.15%) Apache
8 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.15%) Appian
9 1 (0.074%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.074%) CMS
9 1 (0.074%) IIS
9 1 (0.074%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.074%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.074%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.62%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 153 (11.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (2.88%) Oracle EBS
3 31 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 21 (1.55%) SAP ERP
5 20 (1.48%) Oracle ERP
6 16 (1.18%) NetSuite
7 13 (0.96%) Oracle General Ledger
7 13 (0.96%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 10 (0.74%) Loan IQ
11 9 (0.66%) iTrent
11 9 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
12 8 (0.59%) NEC Housing
12 8 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
13 7 (0.52%) SAP SD
13 7 (0.52%) Workday HCM
14 6 (0.44%) Finacle
14 6 (0.44%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 207 (15.29%) Azure
2 137 (10.12%) AWS
3 124 (9.16%) Power Platform
4 95 (7.02%) Dynamics 365
5 76 (5.61%) OCI
6 62 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (4.14%) SaaS
8 41 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
9 40 (2.95%) Snowflake
10 38 (2.81%) GitHub
11 25 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 25 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (1.48%) GCP
13 19 (1.40%) Amazon S3
14 17 (1.26%) SuccessFactors
15 16 (1.18%) Power Automate
16 15 (1.11%) dbt
16 15 (1.11%) OpenShift
17 14 (1.03%) PowerApps
18 13 (0.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.11%) SAN
2 14 (1.03%) DNS
2 14 (1.03%) NAS
3 6 (0.44%) Firewall
4 5 (0.37%) VPN
5 3 (0.22%) VSAN
6 2 (0.15%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.15%) HTTP
7 1 (0.074%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.074%) DKIM
7 1 (0.074%) DMARC
7 1 (0.074%) FCoE
7 1 (0.074%) Internet
7 1 (0.074%) Intranet
7 1 (0.074%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.074%) Network Security
7 1 (0.074%) SNMP
7 1 (0.074%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (7.83%) Power BI
2 98 (7.24%) Data Warehouse
3 63 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
4 61 (4.51%) SQL Server
5 36 (2.66%) Metadata
6 31 (2.29%) Data Lake
7 28 (2.07%) Relational Database
8 26 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 25 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (1.55%) NoSQL
11 20 (1.48%) Oracle Database
12 16 (1.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 12 (0.89%) RDBMS
13 12 (0.89%) SAP Data Services
14 11 (0.81%) Db2
14 11 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 10 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
15 10 (0.74%) Tableau
16 9 (0.66%) GIS
16 9 (0.66%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 120 (8.86%) JIRA
2 44 (3.25%) Git
3 37 (2.73%) Zephyr
4 31 (2.29%) Postman
5 21 (1.55%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.81%) GitLab
6 11 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
7 10 (0.74%) Selenium
8 8 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.44%) LSMW
10 5 (0.37%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.37%) Gatling
10 5 (0.37%) Hudson
11 4 (0.30%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.30%) JUnit
12 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.22%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.22%) ERwin
12 3 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 472 (34.86%) Finance
2 412 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 171 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (8.05%) Public Sector
5 91 (6.72%) Banking
6 62 (4.58%) Manufacturing
7 52 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.32%) Law
9 43 (3.18%) Retail
10 34 (2.51%) General Ledger
11 32 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (2.22%) Local Government
13 28 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (1.62%) Legal
14 22 (1.62%) Marketing
15 20 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 19 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (1.33%) Billing
18 17 (1.26%) Automotive
19 16 (1.18%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 294 (21.71%) Lead
2 197 (14.55%) Analyst
3 181 (13.37%) Architect
4 146 (10.78%) Consultant
5 107 (7.90%) Data Migration Lead
6 102 (7.53%) Project Manager
7 97 (7.16%) Senior
8 94 (6.94%) Data Engineer
9 85 (6.28%) Business Analyst
10 75 (5.54%) Data Analyst
11 65 (4.80%) Data Architect
12 56 (4.14%) Migration Engineer
13 55 (4.06%) Developer
14 54 (3.99%) Migration Analyst
15 50 (3.69%) Migration Manager
16 49 (3.62%) SAP Consultant
17 48 (3.55%) Data Migration Engineer
18 42 (3.10%) Data Migration Analyst
19 38 (2.81%) Lead Architect
19 38 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (6.65%) Oracle Fusion
2 40 (2.95%) REST
3 39 (2.88%) Middleware
4 23 (1.70%) SOAP
5 20 (1.48%) XML
6 19 (1.40%) .NET
7 18 (1.33%) Kafka
7 18 (1.33%) Spring
8 15 (1.11%) JSON
9 11 (0.81%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
10 10 (0.74%) Spring Boot
11 9 (0.66%) ADO
12 8 (0.59%) React
13 7 (0.52%) COM
13 7 (0.52%) ODBC
13 7 (0.52%) PySpark
14 6 (0.44%) FHIR
14 6 (0.44%) Playwright
14 6 (0.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 175 (12.92%) Legacy Systems
2 101 (7.46%) Data Structures
3 44 (3.25%) Cloud Native
4 39 (2.88%) Management Information System
5 29 (2.14%) Onboarding
6 26 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
6 26 (1.92%) Public Cloud
7 25 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 19 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (1.40%) Replication
9 17 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.18%) Reference Data
11 14 (1.03%) Data Centre
11 14 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.03%) Mainframe
12 13 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (0.81%) NHS
15 10 (0.74%) FMCG
15 10 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.77%) Windows
2 13 (0.96%) Linux
3 7 (0.52%) zOS
4 6 (0.44%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.30%) VMS
7 3 (0.22%) AIX
8 2 (0.15%) Unix
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.074%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,354 (100.00%) Migration
2 367 (27.10%) Validation
3 289 (21.34%) ERP
4 283 (20.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 282 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
6 246 (18.17%) Agile
7 227 (16.77%) ETL
8 205 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
9 201 (14.84%) Data Modelling
10 197 (14.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 137 (10.12%) Data Cleansing
12 135 (9.97%) Business Intelligence
13 130 (9.60%) Data Governance
14 123 (9.08%) Data Mapping
14 123 (9.08%) Project Management
15 117 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
16 113 (8.35%) DevOps
17 109 (8.05%) Analytics
18 99 (7.31%) Data Validation
19 98 (7.24%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 270 (19.94%) SQL
2 101 (7.46%) Python
3 40 (2.95%) Java
4 28 (2.07%) PL/SQL
5 23 (1.70%) Bash
6 17 (1.26%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.96%) PowerShell
8 11 (0.81%) C#
9 9 (0.66%) Kotlin
9 9 (0.66%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.59%) Apex Code
10 8 (0.59%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.59%) VBA
11 7 (0.52%) VB
11 7 (0.52%) VB6
12 5 (0.37%) C
12 5 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.22%) ABAP
13 3 (0.22%) COBOL
13 3 (0.22%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 227 (16.77%) Security Cleared
2 181 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 54 (3.99%) Degree
4 27 (1.99%) ISTQB
5 26 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 26 (1.92%) PMP
6 21 (1.55%) PMI Certification
7 17 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.11%) ACCA
9 15 (1.11%) CIMA
10 12 (0.89%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.44%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 5 (0.37%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
12 5 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.30%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.30%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (17.80%) Data Quality
2 111 (8.20%) QA
3 65 (4.80%) GDPR
4 27 (1.99%) PMO
5 16 (1.18%) SLA
6 12 (0.89%) IFRS
7 10 (0.74%) HL7
8 9 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.52%) SNOMED CT
11 6 (0.44%) COBIT
11 6 (0.44%) GAAP
12 5 (0.37%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.37%) DICOM
12 5 (0.37%) GMP
12 5 (0.37%) NIST
13 4 (0.30%) Basel III
13 4 (0.30%) PERC
14 3 (0.22%) GxP
14 3 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 25 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.11%) vSphere
3 12 (0.89%) Docker
3 12 (0.89%) VMware NSX
4 10 (0.74%) NFS
5 5 (0.37%) SRDF
6 4 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (2.66%) Terraform
2 32 (2.36%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.77%) Ansible
4 15 (1.11%) Grafana
4 15 (1.11%) vCenter Server
5 14 (1.03%) Argo
6 10 (0.74%) EMC VPLEX
7 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.44%) vMotion
9 5 (0.37%) SCCM
10 4 (0.30%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (0.30%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.30%) NetBackup
10 4 (0.30%) SnapMirror
11 3 (0.22%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.22%) SnapVault
12 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 269 (19.87%) Oracle
2 253 (18.69%) SAP
3 211 (15.58%) Microsoft
4 64 (4.73%) Databricks
5 59 (4.36%) Salesforce
6 30 (2.22%) VMware
7 25 (1.85%) Sage
7 25 (1.85%) Workday
8 24 (1.77%) Informatica
9 23 (1.70%) Pure Storage
9 23 (1.70%) ServiceNow
10 20 (1.48%) Google
11 18 (1.33%) Talend
12 17 (1.26%) IFS
13 15 (1.11%) Red Hat
14 14 (1.03%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.96%) Avaloq
16 11 (0.81%) IBM
16 11 (0.81%) Splunk
16 11 (0.81%) Temenos