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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 83 94
Rank change year-on-year +13 +11 +32
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,468 780 824
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.27% 2.85% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 3.14% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 480 559
10th Percentile £363 £358 £375
25th Percentile £440 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.14%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £541
% change year-on-year - -3.00% +3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 14 28
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.84 £25.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £32.89 £56.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -25.00% +158.06%
75th Percentile £60.13 £70.31 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £83.06 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £62.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -36.00% -21.88% +142.42%

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 38,365 24,818 30,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 90.70% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,059 15,915 19,627
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,375 1,336 1,933
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.23 £13.60
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%
75th Percentile £69.63 £52.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -6.98%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +17 725 £550 - 102
North of England -7 201 £525 +10.53% 41
South East +15 200 £550 +10.00% 73
Midlands +6 156 £473 -5.40% 55
North West +8 123 £500 +5.26% 27
West Midlands -4 115 £450 -10.00% 37
South West +8 85 £523 -0.48% 19
Yorkshire -32 65 £529 +11.37% 14
East of England +9 55 £575 -4.96% 12
East Midlands +6 38 £525 +16.67% 18
North East -21 16 £625 +8.70% 1
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 58 (3.95%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.93%) Confluence
3 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (0.41%) Apache
6 5 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.34%) Tuxedo
7 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.068%) Appian
8 1 (0.068%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.068%) CMS
8 1 (0.068%) IIS
8 1 (0.068%) Mendix
8 1 (0.068%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 74 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
2 16 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
3 13 (0.89%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.068%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 156 (10.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (2.32%) Oracle EBS
4 24 (1.63%) Oracle ERP
5 22 (1.50%) NetSuite
6 21 (1.43%) SAP ERP
7 20 (1.36%) Oracle Payables
8 17 (1.16%) Oracle Receivables
9 13 (0.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 12 (0.82%) iTrent
10 12 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
10 12 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
11 11 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
12 10 (0.68%) Teamcenter
13 9 (0.61%) Workday HCM
14 8 (0.54%) NEC Housing
14 8 (0.54%) SAP MDG
14 8 (0.54%) SAP SD
15 7 (0.48%) Loan IQ
15 7 (0.48%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 235 (16.01%) Azure
2 148 (10.08%) Power Platform
3 147 (10.01%) AWS
4 117 (7.97%) Dynamics 365
5 88 (5.99%) OCI
6 74 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (4.29%) SaaS
8 49 (3.34%) Azure Data Factory
9 44 (3.00%) Snowflake
10 41 (2.79%) GitHub
11 40 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
12 31 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 29 (1.98%) Power Automate
13 29 (1.98%) SuccessFactors
14 26 (1.77%) PowerApps
15 24 (1.63%) Amazon S3
16 22 (1.50%) GCP
17 16 (1.09%) dbt
18 15 (1.02%) OpenShift
19 12 (0.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.95%) DNS
1 14 (0.95%) SAN
2 13 (0.89%) NAS
3 6 (0.41%) 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
1 126 (8.58%) Power BI
2 95 (6.47%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (4.50%) SQL Server
4 59 (4.02%) Oracle Reports
5 41 (2.79%) Data Lake
5 41 (2.79%) Metadata
5 41 (2.79%) Relational Database
6 24 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (1.57%) Oracle Database
7 23 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 21 (1.43%) RDBMS
9 19 (1.29%) NoSQL
10 13 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (0.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 12 (0.82%) Oracle Exadata
11 12 (0.82%) SAP Data Services
12 11 (0.75%) Db2
12 11 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 10 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
13 10 (0.68%) GIS
Development Applications
1 130 (8.86%) JIRA
2 53 (3.61%) Git
3 41 (2.79%) Zephyr
4 32 (2.18%) Postman
5 23 (1.57%) Jenkins
6 20 (1.36%) GitLab
7 10 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
7 10 (0.68%) Selenium
8 7 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.41%) Hudson
10 5 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.34%) Gatling
10 5 (0.34%) LSMW
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
1 516 (35.15%) Finance
2 416 (28.34%) Social Skills
3 195 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 90 (6.13%) Banking
6 77 (5.25%) Manufacturing
7 52 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (3.34%) Law
9 48 (3.27%) Retail
10 36 (2.45%) General Ledger
11 30 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (1.91%) Local Government
13 27 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (1.70%) Marketing
15 23 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
16 21 (1.43%) Legal
17 20 (1.36%) Automotive
18 18 (1.23%) Billing
18 18 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 294 (20.03%) Lead
2 221 (15.05%) Analyst
3 192 (13.08%) Architect
4 145 (9.88%) Consultant
5 124 (8.45%) Data Engineer
6 116 (7.90%) Senior
7 109 (7.43%) Data Migration Lead
8 104 (7.08%) Business Analyst
9 103 (7.02%) Project Manager
10 79 (5.38%) Data Analyst
11 68 (4.63%) Data Architect
11 68 (4.63%) Developer
12 62 (4.22%) Migration Engineer
13 54 (3.68%) Migration Analyst
14 51 (3.47%) Data Migration Engineer
15 45 (3.07%) Migration Manager
15 45 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
16 44 (3.00%) Data Migration Analyst
16 44 (3.00%) SAP Consultant
17 38 (2.59%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (5.86%) Oracle Fusion
2 41 (2.79%) REST
3 39 (2.66%) Middleware
4 24 (1.63%) .NET
4 24 (1.63%) SOAP
5 20 (1.36%) XML
6 19 (1.29%) Kafka
7 17 (1.16%) Spring
8 16 (1.09%) JSON
9 13 (0.89%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 11 (0.75%) Lightning Web Components
10 11 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
10 11 (0.75%) PySpark
11 9 (0.61%) React
11 9 (0.61%) Spring Boot
12 7 (0.48%) ADO
12 7 (0.48%) Web Services
13 6 (0.41%) COM
13 6 (0.41%) ODBC
13 6 (0.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 178 (12.13%) Legacy Systems
2 104 (7.08%) Data Structures
3 49 (3.34%) Cloud Native
4 47 (3.20%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 35 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 35 (2.38%) Public Cloud
7 32 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
8 29 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.16%) FMCG
9 17 (1.16%) Replication
10 16 (1.09%) Data Centre
10 16 (1.09%) NHS
11 15 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (0.95%) Mainframe
13 13 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (0.75%) Low-Code
16 10 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.91%) Windows
2 20 (1.36%) Linux
3 12 (0.82%) AIX
4 7 (0.48%) zOS
5 5 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (0.27%) VMS
7 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.068%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.068%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,468 (100.00%) Migration
2 409 (27.86%) Validation
3 333 (22.68%) ERP
4 322 (21.93%) Stakeholder Management
5 316 (21.53%) User Acceptance Testing
6 257 (17.51%) Agile
7 249 (16.96%) ETL
8 222 (15.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 217 (14.78%) Data Modelling
10 201 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
11 157 (10.69%) Data Governance
12 151 (10.29%) Business Intelligence
13 146 (9.95%) Data Cleansing
14 137 (9.33%) DevOps
15 136 (9.26%) Analytics
16 130 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
17 124 (8.45%) Data Mapping
18 123 (8.38%) CI/CD
19 120 (8.17%) Project Management
20 108 (7.36%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 286 (19.48%) SQL
2 102 (6.95%) Python
3 44 (3.00%) Java
4 28 (1.91%) PL/SQL
5 23 (1.57%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.50%) Bash
7 19 (1.29%) C#
8 15 (1.02%) PowerShell
9 11 (0.75%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.61%) Apex Code
10 9 (0.61%) Kotlin
10 9 (0.61%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.41%) VB
11 6 (0.41%) VB6
11 6 (0.41%) VBA
12 5 (0.34%) C
12 5 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.27%) X++
14 3 (0.20%) COBOL
14 3 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 258 (17.57%) Security Cleared
2 202 (13.76%) SC Cleared
3 54 (3.68%) Degree
4 39 (2.66%) DV Cleared
5 32 (2.18%) PMP
6 30 (2.04%) PMI Certification
7 28 (1.91%) ISTQB
8 21 (1.43%) ACCA
8 21 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (1.43%) CIMA
9 12 (0.82%) Azure Certification
9 12 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.54%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 6 (0.41%) SAP Certification
13 5 (0.34%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.27%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (18.12%) Data Quality
2 125 (8.51%) QA
3 72 (4.90%) GDPR
4 33 (2.25%) PMO
5 14 (0.95%) SLA
6 10 (0.68%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.61%) HL7
7 9 (0.61%) IFRS
8 7 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
9 6 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.34%) DICOM
10 5 (0.34%) GMP
10 5 (0.34%) GRC
11 4 (0.27%) COBIT
11 4 (0.27%) PERC
11 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.20%) GAAP
12 3 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (1.09%) Docker
3 15 (1.02%) vSphere
4 13 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
5 12 (0.82%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.75%) Active Directory
7 9 (0.61%) NFS
8 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.27%) SRDF
9 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 48 (3.27%) Terraform
2 36 (2.45%) Kubernetes
3 32 (2.18%) Ansible
4 15 (1.02%) Grafana
4 15 (1.02%) vCenter Server
5 14 (0.95%) Argo
6 12 (0.82%) Data Guard
6 12 (0.82%) Oracle RMAN
7 9 (0.61%) EMC VPLEX
8 5 (0.34%) HP ALM
8 5 (0.34%) vMotion
9 4 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (0.27%) NetBackup
9 4 (0.27%) SnapMirror
10 3 (0.20%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.20%) SnapVault
11 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.068%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 289 (19.69%) Oracle
2 274 (18.66%) SAP
3 245 (16.69%) Microsoft
4 72 (4.90%) Databricks
5 69 (4.70%) Salesforce
6 30 (2.04%) VMware
7 29 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.91%) Workday
9 26 (1.77%) Informatica
10 22 (1.50%) Pure Storage
11 21 (1.43%) Talend
12 20 (1.36%) IFS
13 19 (1.29%) Sage
14 17 (1.16%) Google
14 17 (1.16%) IBM
15 15 (1.02%) MuleSoft
15 15 (1.02%) Red Hat
16 14 (0.95%) Ariba
17 12 (0.82%) Siebel
18 11 (0.75%) Splunk