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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 85 103
Rank change year-on-year -8 +18 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,387 829 743
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 2.95% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 3.25% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 899 532 500
10th Percentile £363 £376 £387
25th Percentile £425 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 10 5
10th Percentile £16.70 £15.00 £45.80
25th Percentile £21.25 £33.36 £62.00
Median hourly rate £36.71 £62.50 £66.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.26% -6.02% -25.65%
75th Percentile £41.83 £73.13 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.45 £95.50 -
UK median hourly rate £33.34 £35.25 £66.50
% change year-on-year -5.43% -46.99% -25.65%

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 39,229 25,540 27,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.96% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,740 16,195 17,136
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £643
90th Percentile £738 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,947 1,574 1,191
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.54 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £46.55 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.62 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.57% -40.82% -

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +5 684 £550 - 459
North of England -20 174 £525 +10.53% 123
Midlands +6 170 £475 -13.64% 102
South East -16 165 £505 -12.17% 169
West Midlands 0 122 £450 -14.29% 72
North West +6 107 £538 +19.44% 53
South West +26 96 £523 -0.48% 41
Yorkshire -42 50 £510 +2.00% 41
East Midlands 0 44 £538 -6.52% 30
East of England -5 44 £510 +3.29% 50
North East -21 20 £475 +8.57% 29
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 57 (4.11%) Confluence
2 55 (3.97%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.50%) Apache
7 6 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.36%) CICS
8 5 (0.36%) CMS
8 5 (0.36%) Tuxedo
9 3 (0.22%) SAS
10 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.14%) Mendix
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.14%) SugarCRM
11 1 (0.072%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.072%) Documentum
11 1 (0.072%) IIS
11 1 (0.072%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 67 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
3 17 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.29%) Windchill
7 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.072%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 143 (10.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (1.95%) Oracle Payables
4 22 (1.59%) Oracle Receivables
5 20 (1.44%) NetSuite
5 20 (1.44%) Oracle ERP
6 19 (1.37%) SAP HCM
7 16 (1.15%) SAP ERP
7 16 (1.15%) SAP FI
8 14 (1.01%) Oracle General Ledger
9 13 (0.94%) Oracle Financials
9 13 (0.94%) SAP SD
9 13 (0.94%) Teamcenter
10 12 (0.87%) Oracle Assets
10 12 (0.87%) SAP CO
10 12 (0.87%) SAP MM
10 12 (0.87%) Workday HCM
11 11 (0.79%) iTrent
11 11 (0.79%) SAP MDG
11 11 (0.79%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 229 (16.51%) Azure
2 130 (9.37%) AWS
3 121 (8.72%) Power Platform
4 96 (6.92%) Dynamics 365
5 79 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
6 72 (5.19%) OCI
7 54 (3.89%) SaaS
8 45 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
8 45 (3.24%) SuccessFactors
9 40 (2.88%) Snowflake
10 39 (2.81%) Azure Data Factory
11 32 (2.31%) Power Automate
12 31 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 28 (2.02%) Amazon S3
13 28 (2.02%) GCP
13 28 (2.02%) PowerApps
14 25 (1.80%) GitHub
15 22 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
16 19 (1.37%) dbt
17 15 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.36%) NAS
1 5 (0.36%) SAN
2 3 (0.22%) Firewall
2 3 (0.22%) Intranet
2 3 (0.22%) VPN
3 2 (0.14%) VSAN
4 1 (0.072%) DKIM
4 1 (0.072%) DMARC
4 1 (0.072%) DNS
4 1 (0.072%) Internet
4 1 (0.072%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (7.28%) Data Warehouse
2 95 (6.85%) Power BI
3 61 (4.40%) SQL Server
4 58 (4.18%) Metadata
5 48 (3.46%) Relational Database
6 42 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
7 40 (2.88%) Data Lake
8 33 (2.38%) Oracle Database
9 26 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (1.37%) RDBMS
11 16 (1.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 15 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 14 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 13 (0.94%) BigQuery
15 12 (0.87%) NoSQL
15 12 (0.87%) Oracle Exadata
16 11 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (0.79%) DataStage
16 11 (0.79%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 126 (9.08%) JIRA
2 50 (3.60%) Git
3 35 (2.52%) Zephyr
4 29 (2.09%) Postman
5 17 (1.23%) GitLab
6 9 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.43%) Selenium
8 5 (0.36%) Gatling
8 5 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.29%) LSMW
9 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.22%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.22%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.22%) Hudson
10 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.14%) Yeoman
12 1 (0.072%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 471 (33.96%) Finance
2 391 (28.19%) Social Skills
3 193 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (10.02%) Public Sector
5 94 (6.78%) Banking
6 79 (5.70%) Manufacturing
7 58 (4.18%) Retail
8 52 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
9 49 (3.53%) General Ledger
10 35 (2.52%) Local Government
10 35 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (1.87%) Legal
12 23 (1.66%) Automotive
12 23 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (1.51%) Marketing
13 21 (1.51%) Military
14 19 (1.37%) Billing
14 19 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 19 (1.37%) Law
15 17 (1.23%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 235 (16.94%) Analyst
2 216 (15.57%) Lead
3 160 (11.54%) Consultant
4 153 (11.03%) Architect
5 131 (9.44%) Data Engineer
6 124 (8.94%) Senior
7 100 (7.21%) Business Analyst
8 89 (6.42%) Data Migration Lead
9 82 (5.91%) Data Analyst
10 78 (5.62%) Project Manager
11 63 (4.54%) Migration Engineer
12 62 (4.47%) Data Architect
13 61 (4.40%) Developer
14 55 (3.97%) SAP Consultant
15 53 (3.82%) Data Migration Engineer
16 44 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
17 42 (3.03%) Migration Analyst
18 38 (2.74%) Data Migration Analyst
19 36 (2.60%) Data Consultant
20 33 (2.38%) Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (7.64%) Oracle Fusion
2 47 (3.39%) Middleware
3 32 (2.31%) REST
3 32 (2.31%) Terraform
4 27 (1.95%) .NET
5 24 (1.73%) SOAP
6 23 (1.66%) XML
7 18 (1.30%) PySpark
8 14 (1.01%) JSON
9 13 (0.94%) ADO
9 13 (0.94%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 12 (0.87%) Kafka
11 11 (0.79%) SAP Fiori
12 10 (0.72%) Keycloak
13 9 (0.65%) Web Services
14 8 (0.58%) HTML
15 7 (0.50%) Spring
15 7 (0.50%) Spring Boot
16 6 (0.43%) Lightning Web Components
16 6 (0.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 149 (10.74%) Legacy Systems
2 100 (7.21%) Data Structures
3 47 (3.39%) Onboarding
4 46 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
5 44 (3.17%) Management Information System
6 36 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 36 (2.60%) Public Cloud
7 29 (2.09%) Cloud Native
8 24 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.59%) Reference Data
10 18 (1.30%) Replication
11 16 (1.15%) NHS
12 15 (1.08%) FMCG
13 13 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (0.94%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.87%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
15 11 (0.79%) Life Science
16 10 (0.72%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.87%) Windows
2 23 (1.66%) Linux
3 12 (0.87%) AIX
4 5 (0.36%) Unix
4 5 (0.36%) zOS
5 4 (0.29%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.29%) VMS
6 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,387 (100.00%) Migration
2 429 (30.93%) Validation
3 382 (27.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 314 (22.64%) User Acceptance Testing
5 288 (20.76%) ERP
6 239 (17.23%) Agile
7 222 (16.01%) Data Modelling
7 222 (16.01%) ETL
8 186 (13.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 179 (12.91%) Problem-Solving
10 174 (12.55%) Data Governance
11 137 (9.88%) Data Cleansing
11 137 (9.88%) DevOps
12 131 (9.44%) Requirements Gathering
13 126 (9.08%) Analytics
14 124 (8.94%) Business Intelligence
15 122 (8.80%) Data Mapping
16 117 (8.44%) System Integration Testing
17 108 (7.79%) CI/CD
17 108 (7.79%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 289 (20.84%) SQL
2 79 (5.70%) Python
3 25 (1.80%) PL/SQL
4 24 (1.73%) C#
5 22 (1.59%) JavaScript
6 21 (1.51%) Java
7 15 (1.08%) PowerShell
8 13 (0.94%) Bash
9 12 (0.87%) T-SQL
10 10 (0.72%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.58%) ABAP
12 5 (0.36%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.36%) JCL
12 5 (0.36%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.36%) VB
12 5 (0.36%) VB6
12 5 (0.36%) X++
13 4 (0.29%) C
13 4 (0.29%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 267 (19.25%) Security Cleared
2 218 (15.72%) SC Cleared
3 57 (4.11%) Degree
4 33 (2.38%) ACCA
4 33 (2.38%) CIMA
5 28 (2.02%) PMI Certification
5 28 (2.02%) PMP
6 27 (1.95%) DV Cleared
7 25 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (1.73%) ISTQB
9 14 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.58%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.50%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.43%) SAP Certification
14 5 (0.36%) CBAP
14 5 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 4 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.22%) CCAB
16 3 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (20.62%) Data Quality
2 104 (7.50%) QA
3 58 (4.18%) GDPR
4 30 (2.16%) PMO
5 13 (0.94%) GRC
6 10 (0.72%) IFRS
7 9 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.58%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.50%) HL7
9 7 (0.50%) SLA
10 5 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
11 4 (0.29%) DICOM
12 3 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.14%) GAAP
13 2 (0.14%) GMP
13 2 (0.14%) GxP
13 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.072%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.072%) SEPA
System Software
1 15 (1.08%) Docker
2 13 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.50%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.22%) SRDF
5 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.22%) vSphere
6 2 (0.14%) NFS
7 1 (0.072%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (1.44%) Ansible
2 16 (1.15%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.87%) Data Guard
3 12 (0.87%) Oracle RMAN
4 9 (0.65%) Karpenter
5 7 (0.50%) Control-M
6 4 (0.29%) EMC VPLEX
6 4 (0.29%) SnapMirror
7 3 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (0.22%) NetBackup
7 3 (0.22%) SnapVault
7 3 (0.22%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.14%) Argo
8 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.14%) Grafana
8 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.072%) Autotask
9 1 (0.072%) SCCM
9 1 (0.072%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 296 (21.34%) Oracle
2 267 (19.25%) SAP
3 247 (17.81%) Microsoft
4 83 (5.98%) Databricks
5 59 (4.25%) Salesforce
6 36 (2.60%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.16%) Workday
8 25 (1.80%) Informatica
9 24 (1.73%) Google
10 20 (1.44%) IBM
11 19 (1.37%) Talend
12 17 (1.23%) IFS
13 15 (1.08%) Ariba
14 14 (1.01%) Sage
15 9 (0.65%) Alteryx
15 9 (0.65%) Infor
16 8 (0.58%) Atlassian
16 8 (0.58%) InterSystems
17 7 (0.50%) NEC
17 7 (0.50%) VMware