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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 91 100
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,480 779 772
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.25% 2.81% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 3.10% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 990 476 528
10th Percentile £363 £360 £375
25th Percentile £426 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year - -2.10% -2.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £646
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 12 22
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.28 £64.18
25th Percentile £23.00 £28.68 £72.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.25 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.40% -37.19% +199.07%
75th Percentile £60.13 £68.44 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £73.50 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £36.33 £80.00
% change year-on-year +10.12% -54.59% +158.06%

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 38,794 25,132 28,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,129 16,058 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,653
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +12 717 £550 - 278
North of England -12 201 £525 +10.53% 93
South East +9 200 £550 +10.00% 100
Midlands +12 172 £456 -8.80% 80
West Midlands +8 123 £450 -10.00% 49
North West +5 121 £525 +10.53% 65
South West +18 88 £523 -1.42% 28
Yorkshire -31 66 £519 +9.26% 24
East of England +7 53 £575 -4.88% 26
East Midlands +12 44 £525 +16.67% 31
North East -27 17 £575 - 6
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 60 (4.05%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.91%) Confluence
3 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
5 7 (0.47%) Apache
6 6 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.34%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.14%) Mendix
8 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.068%) CMS
9 1 (0.068%) IIS
9 1 (0.068%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.068%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 76 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
3 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.068%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 153 (10.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (2.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (1.96%) Oracle EBS
4 24 (1.62%) Oracle ERP
5 22 (1.49%) SAP ERP
6 21 (1.42%) Oracle Payables
7 19 (1.28%) NetSuite
8 17 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
9 12 (0.81%) iTrent
9 12 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
9 12 (0.81%) Workday HCM
10 11 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
10 11 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 10 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
11 10 (0.68%) Teamcenter
12 8 (0.54%) SAP MDG
12 8 (0.54%) SAP SD
12 8 (0.54%) Temenos T24
13 6 (0.41%) SAP Business One
13 6 (0.41%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 241 (16.28%) Azure
2 153 (10.34%) Power Platform
3 146 (9.86%) AWS
4 117 (7.91%) Dynamics 365
5 93 (6.28%) OCI
6 76 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
7 65 (4.39%) SaaS
8 52 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
9 43 (2.91%) Snowflake
10 40 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
11 36 (2.43%) GitHub
12 32 (2.16%) SuccessFactors
13 31 (2.09%) Power Automate
14 30 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 26 (1.76%) PowerApps
16 23 (1.55%) Amazon S3
16 23 (1.55%) GCP
17 16 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
18 15 (1.01%) dbt
19 13 (0.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.68%) DNS
2 8 (0.54%) SAN
3 7 (0.47%) NAS
3 7 (0.47%) VPN
4 5 (0.34%) Firewall
5 3 (0.20%) Intranet
5 3 (0.20%) VSAN
6 2 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.14%) HTTP
7 1 (0.068%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.068%) DKIM
7 1 (0.068%) DMARC
7 1 (0.068%) FCoE
7 1 (0.068%) Internet
7 1 (0.068%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.068%) Network Security
7 1 (0.068%) SNMP
7 1 (0.068%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (8.92%) Power BI
2 107 (7.23%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (4.46%) SQL Server
4 60 (4.05%) Oracle Reports
5 47 (3.18%) Metadata
6 44 (2.97%) Relational Database
7 40 (2.70%) Data Lake
8 29 (1.96%) Oracle Database
9 23 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 19 (1.28%) NoSQL
11 19 (1.28%) RDBMS
12 14 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (0.81%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 12 (0.81%) Oracle Exadata
13 12 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (0.74%) DataStage
14 11 (0.74%) SAP Data Services
15 9 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
15 9 (0.61%) GIS
Development Applications
1 134 (9.05%) JIRA
2 60 (4.05%) Git
3 47 (3.18%) Zephyr
4 39 (2.64%) Postman
5 18 (1.22%) GitLab
6 17 (1.15%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.68%) Selenium
9 6 (0.41%) Hudson
10 5 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.34%) Gatling
10 5 (0.34%) LSMW
10 5 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.27%) JUnit
11 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.20%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 522 (35.27%) Finance
2 424 (28.65%) Social Skills
3 199 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (8.78%) Public Sector
5 93 (6.28%) Banking
6 78 (5.27%) Manufacturing
7 53 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (3.38%) Retail
9 49 (3.31%) Law
10 40 (2.70%) General Ledger
11 33 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
12 29 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 29 (1.96%) Local Government
13 27 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (1.82%) Marketing
14 24 (1.62%) Automotive
15 22 (1.49%) Legal
16 21 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (1.22%) Billing
18 17 (1.15%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 288 (19.46%) Lead
2 218 (14.73%) Analyst
3 189 (12.77%) Architect
4 157 (10.61%) Consultant
5 125 (8.45%) Data Engineer
6 124 (8.38%) Senior
7 107 (7.23%) Data Migration Lead
8 100 (6.76%) Project Manager
9 99 (6.69%) Business Analyst
10 78 (5.27%) Data Analyst
11 71 (4.80%) Developer
12 64 (4.32%) Data Architect
13 61 (4.12%) Migration Engineer
14 50 (3.38%) Data Migration Engineer
15 48 (3.24%) Migration Analyst
16 47 (3.18%) SAP Consultant
16 47 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
17 44 (2.97%) Migration Manager
18 40 (2.70%) Data Consultant
18 40 (2.70%) Data Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (6.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 38 (2.57%) Middleware
3 37 (2.50%) REST
4 26 (1.76%) .NET
5 21 (1.42%) SOAP
5 21 (1.42%) XML
6 19 (1.28%) Kafka
7 16 (1.08%) JSON
8 15 (1.01%) Spring
9 13 (0.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 10 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
10 10 (0.68%) PySpark
11 8 (0.54%) Spring Boot
12 7 (0.47%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (0.47%) React
13 6 (0.41%) ADO
13 6 (0.41%) Playwright
13 6 (0.41%) RESTful
13 6 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
14 5 (0.34%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 175 (11.82%) Legacy Systems
2 104 (7.03%) Data Structures
3 46 (3.11%) Cloud Native
4 45 (3.04%) Management Information System
5 39 (2.64%) Onboarding
5 39 (2.64%) Public Cloud
6 38 (2.57%) Product Ownership
7 31 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 28 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (1.15%) NHS
9 17 (1.15%) Replication
10 16 (1.08%) Data Centre
10 16 (1.08%) FMCG
11 14 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (0.95%) Reference Data
12 13 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (0.74%) Low-Code
14 11 (0.74%) Mainframe
15 10 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.76%) Windows
2 22 (1.49%) Linux
3 12 (0.81%) AIX
4 5 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.27%) VMS
5 4 (0.27%) zOS
6 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.068%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.068%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,480 (100.00%) Migration
2 407 (27.50%) Validation
3 333 (22.50%) ERP
3 333 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 317 (21.42%) User Acceptance Testing
5 258 (17.43%) Agile
6 256 (17.30%) ETL
7 241 (16.28%) Data Modelling
8 227 (15.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 181 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
10 176 (11.89%) Data Governance
11 157 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
12 149 (10.07%) Data Cleansing
13 134 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
14 132 (8.92%) Analytics
14 132 (8.92%) DevOps
15 129 (8.72%) Data Mapping
16 119 (8.04%) CI/CD
17 111 (7.50%) Data Transformation
18 110 (7.43%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 294 (19.86%) SQL
2 94 (6.35%) Python
3 42 (2.84%) Java
4 28 (1.89%) PL/SQL
5 21 (1.42%) C#
6 19 (1.28%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.22%) Bash
8 14 (0.95%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.81%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.61%) Kotlin
11 8 (0.54%) Apex Code
11 8 (0.54%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.47%) VBA
13 5 (0.34%) ABAP
13 5 (0.34%) C
13 5 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.34%) VB
13 5 (0.34%) VB6
14 4 (0.27%) SOQL
14 4 (0.27%) X++
Qualifications
1 256 (17.30%) Security Cleared
2 202 (13.65%) SC Cleared
3 52 (3.51%) Degree
4 37 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 34 (2.30%) ISTQB
6 29 (1.96%) PMP
7 27 (1.82%) PMI Certification
8 26 (1.76%) ACCA
8 26 (1.76%) CIMA
9 19 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (0.81%) Azure Certification
11 10 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.54%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.47%) SAP Certification
14 6 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 5 (0.34%) AWS Certification
16 4 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.27%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (19.46%) Data Quality
2 126 (8.51%) QA
3 70 (4.73%) GDPR
4 30 (2.03%) PMO
5 12 (0.81%) SLA
6 11 (0.74%) IFRS
7 10 (0.68%) HL7
8 9 (0.61%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.47%) SNOMED CT
10 6 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.41%) DICOM
10 6 (0.41%) GRC
10 6 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.27%) GMP
11 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.27%) PERC
11 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.20%) GAAP
13 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 15 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (0.95%) Docker
3 13 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
4 12 (0.81%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.68%) vSphere
6 7 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.27%) SRDF
8 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.20%) NFS
8 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (2.64%) Terraform
2 31 (2.09%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.89%) Ansible
4 12 (0.81%) Data Guard
4 12 (0.81%) Oracle RMAN
5 10 (0.68%) vCenter Server
6 9 (0.61%) Argo
6 9 (0.61%) Grafana
7 5 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
7 5 (0.34%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (0.27%) Karpenter
8 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.27%) NetBackup
8 4 (0.27%) SnapMirror
9 3 (0.20%) SnapVault
10 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.068%) Avamar
11 1 (0.068%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 306 (20.68%) Oracle
2 273 (18.45%) SAP
3 254 (17.16%) Microsoft
4 78 (5.27%) Databricks
5 68 (4.59%) Salesforce
6 31 (2.09%) Workday
7 30 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 24 (1.62%) Informatica
9 21 (1.42%) IBM
9 21 (1.42%) Talend
10 19 (1.28%) Google
10 19 (1.28%) IFS
11 18 (1.22%) Sage
11 18 (1.22%) VMware
12 13 (0.88%) Ariba
12 13 (0.88%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.74%) Pure Storage
13 11 (0.74%) Red Hat
14 10 (0.68%) Atlassian
14 10 (0.68%) Siebel