Data Migration Contracts in England

Data Migration
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Migration over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 92 140
Rank change year-on-year -4 +48 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 654 886 948
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.69% 2.38% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.75% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 610 688
10th Percentile £375 £363 £381
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £638 £658 £638
90th Percentile £720 £725 £727
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 35 7
10th Percentile £29.58 £25.00 £17.15
25th Percentile £50.84 £40.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £63.75 £75.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +275.00% -
75th Percentile £71.88 £80.00 £28.13
90th Percentile £77.74 - £39.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year -6.67% +252.94% +6.25%

All Process and 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 22,183 32,201 45,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.14% 86.52% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,119 31,974
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 2,240 1,592
10th Percentile £14.67 £12.91 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.44 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration in England

Data Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Migration in England

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in England

Data Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration in England

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Migration in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025. 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 -21 317 £550 - 138
North of England +12 97 £511 -2.20% 61
South East +26 91 £545 -0.91% 65
Midlands +21 56 £505 -13.12% 35
North West +2 53 £537 +2.29% 32
Yorkshire +16 41 £390 -24.46% 26
West Midlands +16 40 £505 -15.13% 21
South West +4 29 £513 -1.44% 26
East of England +17 24 £650 +112.07% 17
East Midlands +8 14 £465 -9.71% 13
North East -2 3 £613 +22.50% 3
Data Migration
UK

Data Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 30 (4.59%) Confluence
2 27 (4.13%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.92%) CMS
4 5 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.76%) SAS
5 2 (0.31%) IBM Notes
5 2 (0.31%) IIS
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.15%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.15%) JBoss
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.15%) nginx
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 26 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.15%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 55 (8.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (4.13%) Oracle EBS
3 23 (3.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (1.07%) SAP MDG
4 7 (1.07%) SAP PP
5 6 (0.92%) Oracle EBS R12
5 6 (0.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.92%) SAP CO
5 6 (0.92%) SAP HR
6 5 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.76%) Infor LN
6 5 (0.76%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.76%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.76%) SAP SD
6 5 (0.76%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.61%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 4 (0.61%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.46%) SAP HCM
8 3 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 115 (17.58%) Azure
2 96 (14.68%) AWS
3 59 (9.02%) Power Platform
4 48 (7.34%) Dynamics 365
5 35 (5.35%) GCP
6 25 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (3.06%) SaaS
8 19 (2.91%) PowerApps
9 18 (2.75%) Amazon S3
9 18 (2.75%) Power Automate
10 17 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 16 (2.45%) Snowflake
12 15 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (2.29%) OCI
12 15 (2.29%) Serverless
13 11 (1.68%) PaaS
14 10 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (1.53%) IaaS
14 10 (1.53%) SuccessFactors
15 9 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.07%) Firewall
2 4 (0.61%) VPN
3 3 (0.46%) Intranet
4 1 (0.15%) LAN
4 1 (0.15%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.15%) SAN
4 1 (0.15%) SSL
4 1 (0.15%) VSAN
4 1 (0.15%) WAN
4 1 (0.15%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (8.26%) Data Warehouse
2 46 (7.03%) SQL Server
3 42 (6.42%) Oracle Database
4 40 (6.12%) Power BI
5 26 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (3.82%) Oracle Reports
7 23 (3.52%) Data Lake
8 18 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (2.14%) Big Data
11 12 (1.83%) Metadata
12 11 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.68%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.68%) SAP Data Services
12 11 (1.68%) Tableau
13 10 (1.53%) Oracle Database 11g
14 9 (1.38%) MySQL
15 8 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.22%) MS Access
15 8 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 35 (5.35%) JIRA
2 12 (1.83%) GitLab
3 9 (1.38%) Git
4 8 (1.22%) ERwin
5 4 (0.61%) DBeaver
5 4 (0.61%) Postman
5 4 (0.61%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.46%) Selenium
6 3 (0.46%) Subversion
7 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.31%) JMeter
7 2 (0.31%) LSMW
7 2 (0.31%) QARun
7 2 (0.31%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.31%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.31%) WinRunner
8 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.15%) Liquibase
General
1 219 (33.49%) Social Skills
2 188 (28.75%) Finance
3 116 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 34 (5.20%) Manufacturing
6 29 (4.43%) Banking
7 25 (3.82%) Marketing
8 23 (3.52%) Retail
9 19 (2.91%) Pharmaceutical
10 17 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (2.29%) Local Government
12 13 (1.99%) Legal
13 11 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (1.22%) French Language
16 7 (1.07%) General Ledger
16 7 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.76%) Law
17 5 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 130 (19.88%) Consultant
2 106 (16.21%) Analyst
3 94 (14.37%) Architect
4 66 (10.09%) Lead
5 54 (8.26%) Project Manager
6 51 (7.80%) Data Engineer
7 42 (6.42%) Business Analyst
7 42 (6.42%) Data Analyst
8 40 (6.12%) Developer
8 40 (6.12%) Senior
9 36 (5.50%) SAP Consultant
10 32 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
11 31 (4.74%) Data Consultant
12 28 (4.28%) Migration Engineer
13 27 (4.13%) Data Architect
14 25 (3.82%) Oracle Consultant
15 23 (3.52%) Migration Consultant
16 22 (3.36%) Functional Consultant
17 21 (3.21%) Data Migration Consultant
17 21 (3.21%) Data Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.99%) XML
2 12 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
3 11 (1.68%) Middleware
3 11 (1.68%) REST
4 10 (1.53%) JSON
4 10 (1.53%) Lightning Web Components
4 10 (1.53%) SOAP
5 9 (1.38%) Kafka
6 8 (1.22%) .NET
6 8 (1.22%) Visualforce
7 7 (1.07%) Web Services
8 5 (0.76%) RESTful
9 4 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.61%) HTML
9 4 (0.61%) PySpark
10 3 (0.46%) CSS
11 2 (0.31%) ADO
11 2 (0.31%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.31%) FpML
11 2 (0.31%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 72 (11.01%) Legacy Systems
2 39 (5.96%) Data Structures
3 24 (3.67%) Management Information System
4 18 (2.75%) Data Centre
5 16 (2.45%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.68%) Mainframe
6 11 (1.68%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.68%) Public Cloud
7 10 (1.53%) Life Science
8 8 (1.22%) NHS
8 8 (1.22%) Reference Data
9 7 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.92%) Cloud Native
10 6 (0.92%) Replication
11 5 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.76%) Taxonomies
12 4 (0.61%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.43%) Unix
2 13 (1.99%) Linux
3 11 (1.68%) Windows
4 4 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.61%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.15%) CentOS
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (100.00%) Migration
2 150 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
3 127 (19.42%) ETL
4 102 (15.60%) Agile
5 93 (14.22%) ERP
6 92 (14.07%) Validation
7 84 (12.84%) Data Modelling
8 78 (11.93%) Data Management
9 76 (11.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 75 (11.47%) Data Governance
11 74 (11.31%) Analytics
11 74 (11.31%) Data Integration
12 67 (10.24%) DevOps
12 67 (10.24%) Project Management
13 62 (9.48%) Change Management
14 59 (9.02%) User Acceptance Testing
15 58 (8.87%) Business Intelligence
16 51 (7.80%) Data Mapping
17 49 (7.49%) Data Cleansing
18 48 (7.34%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 197 (30.12%) SQL
2 81 (12.39%) Python
3 41 (6.27%) PL/SQL
4 13 (1.99%) Bash
4 13 (1.99%) C#
5 12 (1.83%) Java
6 11 (1.68%) T-SQL
7 10 (1.53%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.38%) Apex Code
8 9 (1.38%) VBA
9 7 (1.07%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.92%) Bicep
10 6 (0.92%) R
11 5 (0.76%) ABAP
11 5 (0.76%) C
12 3 (0.46%) C++
12 3 (0.46%) VB
13 2 (0.31%) Perl
13 2 (0.31%) SAS Macro
13 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (10.55%) Security Cleared
2 56 (8.56%) SC Cleared
3 51 (7.80%) Degree
4 21 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.53%) PMI Certification
6 10 (1.53%) PMP
7 8 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.07%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.07%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.92%) CBAP
10 5 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.46%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.31%) ACCA
12 2 (0.31%) CCSP
12 2 (0.31%) CIMA
12 2 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.31%) CISSP
12 2 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (13.15%) Data Quality
2 31 (4.74%) QA
3 24 (3.67%) GDPR
4 9 (1.38%) PMO
5 7 (1.07%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.07%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.76%) SEPA
7 2 (0.31%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.15%) DICOM
8 1 (0.15%) GAAP
8 1 (0.15%) GRC
8 1 (0.15%) HL7
8 1 (0.15%) IFRS
8 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (2.14%) Docker
2 8 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.15%) SRDF
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (2.75%) Terraform
2 17 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.83%) Oracle RMAN
4 11 (1.68%) Ansible
5 6 (0.92%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.61%) CEMLI
6 4 (0.61%) Puppet
6 4 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.31%) CASB
7 2 (0.31%) Grafana
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.31%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.15%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.15%) EMC TimeFinder
8 1 (0.15%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.15%) Kibana
8 1 (0.15%) logstash
8 1 (0.15%) SCSM
Vendors
1 122 (18.65%) Oracle
2 117 (17.89%) SAP
3 100 (15.29%) Microsoft
4 29 (4.43%) Salesforce
5 23 (3.52%) Google
6 16 (2.45%) Ariba
6 16 (2.45%) Workday
7 11 (1.68%) Databricks
8 10 (1.53%) Alteryx
8 10 (1.53%) Commvault
8 10 (1.53%) IBM
9 9 (1.38%) Informatica
10 7 (1.07%) BMC
10 7 (1.07%) Infor
11 6 (0.92%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.76%) IFS
12 5 (0.76%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.76%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.76%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.76%) TOWER Software