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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 87 105
Rank change year-on-year -3 +18 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,402 828 731
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.01% 2.96% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 3.26% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 523 490
10th Percentile £363 £376 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -1.87% -0.93% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 9 5
10th Percentile £16.88 £15.00 £45.80
25th Percentile £21.25 £32.31 £62.00
Median hourly rate £38.36 £60.00 £66.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.08% -9.77% -25.65%
75th Percentile £53.58 £71.25 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £81.00 -
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £35.25 £66.50
% change year-on-year +4.14% -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 39,431 25,424 27,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.70% 90.99% 86.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,955 16,149 17,033
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,897 1,546 1,199
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.42 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.55 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +14 686 £550 - 359
North of England -18 176 £525 +10.53% 120
Midlands -3 173 £475 -13.64% 96
South East -17 163 £505 -14.04% 133
West Midlands +9 124 £450 -14.29% 66
North West +2 106 £538 +19.44% 59
South West +24 98 £523 -0.48% 38
Yorkshire -38 54 £519 +3.80% 36
East of England -7 48 £510 +3.29% 40
East Midlands -3 45 £525 -4.55% 30
North East -21 19 £475 +8.57% 25
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 (4.14%) Confluence
2 56 (3.99%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.57%) 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 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.14%) Mendix
9 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.14%) SAS
9 2 (0.14%) SugarCRM
10 1 (0.071%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.071%) Documentum
10 1 (0.071%) IIS
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.071%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 70 (4.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
3 17 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.29%) Windchill
7 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.071%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 145 (10.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (3.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (1.93%) Oracle Payables
4 22 (1.57%) Oracle Receivables
5 20 (1.43%) NetSuite
5 20 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
6 17 (1.21%) SAP ERP
6 17 (1.21%) SAP HCM
7 15 (1.07%) SAP FI
8 14 (1.00%) Oracle General Ledger
9 13 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
9 13 (0.93%) SAP SD
10 12 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
10 12 (0.86%) SAP CO
10 12 (0.86%) SAP MM
10 12 (0.86%) Teamcenter
10 12 (0.86%) Workday HCM
11 11 (0.78%) iTrent
11 11 (0.78%) SAP MDG
12 10 (0.71%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 233 (16.62%) Azure
2 133 (9.49%) AWS
3 123 (8.77%) Power Platform
4 98 (6.99%) Dynamics 365
5 79 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
6 72 (5.14%) OCI
7 52 (3.71%) SaaS
8 45 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
9 43 (3.07%) SuccessFactors
10 41 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
11 40 (2.85%) Snowflake
12 32 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 32 (2.28%) Power Automate
13 28 (2.00%) PowerApps
14 27 (1.93%) Amazon S3
14 27 (1.93%) GCP
15 24 (1.71%) GitHub
16 22 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
17 19 (1.36%) dbt
18 14 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.36%) NAS
1 5 (0.36%) SAN
2 4 (0.29%) VPN
3 3 (0.21%) Firewall
3 3 (0.21%) Intranet
4 2 (0.14%) DNS
4 2 (0.14%) VSAN
5 1 (0.071%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.071%) DKIM
5 1 (0.071%) DMARC
5 1 (0.071%) Internet
5 1 (0.071%) SNMP
5 1 (0.071%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (7.20%) Data Warehouse
2 97 (6.92%) Power BI
3 60 (4.28%) SQL Server
4 59 (4.21%) Metadata
5 48 (3.42%) Relational Database
6 44 (3.14%) Oracle Reports
7 41 (2.92%) Data Lake
8 32 (2.28%) Oracle Database
9 25 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (1.36%) RDBMS
11 16 (1.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 15 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 14 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (0.86%) BigQuery
14 12 (0.86%) NoSQL
14 12 (0.86%) Oracle Exadata
15 11 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (0.78%) DataStage
16 10 (0.71%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 128 (9.13%) JIRA
2 50 (3.57%) Git
3 37 (2.64%) Zephyr
4 30 (2.14%) Postman
5 17 (1.21%) GitLab
6 9 (0.64%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (0.50%) Selenium
8 5 (0.36%) Gatling
8 5 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.29%) Hudson
9 4 (0.29%) LSMW
9 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.21%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.14%) Yeoman
12 1 (0.071%) ScriptRunner
12 1 (0.071%) TestRail
General
1 474 (33.81%) Finance
2 396 (28.25%) Social Skills
3 196 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 93 (6.63%) Banking
6 80 (5.71%) Manufacturing
7 59 (4.21%) Retail
8 55 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
9 48 (3.42%) General Ledger
10 35 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (2.43%) Local Government
12 26 (1.85%) Legal
13 23 (1.64%) Automotive
13 23 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 21 (1.50%) Marketing
16 20 (1.43%) Billing
16 20 (1.43%) Law
17 19 (1.36%) Military
18 17 (1.21%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 238 (16.98%) Analyst
2 221 (15.76%) Lead
3 159 (11.34%) Consultant
4 155 (11.06%) Architect
5 132 (9.42%) Data Engineer
6 124 (8.84%) Senior
7 103 (7.35%) Business Analyst
8 93 (6.63%) Data Migration Lead
9 85 (6.06%) Data Analyst
10 80 (5.71%) Project Manager
11 64 (4.56%) Migration Engineer
12 62 (4.42%) Data Architect
13 60 (4.28%) Developer
14 54 (3.85%) Data Migration Engineer
14 54 (3.85%) SAP Consultant
15 44 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
16 43 (3.07%) Migration Analyst
17 39 (2.78%) Data Migration Analyst
18 36 (2.57%) Data Consultant
19 32 (2.28%) Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (7.63%) Oracle Fusion
2 47 (3.35%) Middleware
3 32 (2.28%) REST
3 32 (2.28%) Terraform
4 27 (1.93%) .NET
5 24 (1.71%) SOAP
6 23 (1.64%) XML
7 17 (1.21%) PySpark
8 14 (1.00%) JSON
9 13 (0.93%) ADO
9 13 (0.93%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 11 (0.78%) Kafka
10 11 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
11 9 (0.64%) Keycloak
11 9 (0.64%) Web Services
12 8 (0.57%) HTML
13 7 (0.50%) Lightning Web Components
13 7 (0.50%) Spring
13 7 (0.50%) Spring Boot
14 6 (0.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 153 (10.91%) Legacy Systems
2 99 (7.06%) Data Structures
3 46 (3.28%) Management Information System
3 46 (3.28%) Onboarding
4 45 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
5 38 (2.71%) Public Cloud
6 35 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 27 (1.93%) Cloud Native
8 26 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.57%) Reference Data
10 18 (1.28%) Replication
11 16 (1.14%) NHS
12 15 (1.07%) FMCG
13 13 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (0.93%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.86%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
15 11 (0.78%) Life Science
16 10 (0.71%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.93%) Windows
2 23 (1.64%) Linux
3 12 (0.86%) AIX
4 5 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
4 5 (0.36%) zOS
5 4 (0.29%) Unix
5 4 (0.29%) VMS
6 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.071%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,402 (100.00%) Migration
2 428 (30.53%) Validation
3 384 (27.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 314 (22.40%) User Acceptance Testing
5 295 (21.04%) ERP
6 239 (17.05%) Agile
7 227 (16.19%) ETL
8 223 (15.91%) Data Modelling
9 187 (13.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 179 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
11 177 (12.62%) Data Governance
12 136 (9.70%) Data Cleansing
12 136 (9.70%) DevOps
13 130 (9.27%) Requirements Gathering
14 126 (8.99%) Business Intelligence
15 125 (8.92%) Analytics
16 122 (8.70%) Data Mapping
17 116 (8.27%) System Integration Testing
18 109 (7.77%) CI/CD
19 107 (7.63%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 294 (20.97%) SQL
2 82 (5.85%) Python
3 24 (1.71%) PL/SQL
4 23 (1.64%) C#
4 23 (1.64%) Java
5 22 (1.57%) JavaScript
6 16 (1.14%) PowerShell
7 13 (0.93%) Bash
8 11 (0.78%) T-SQL
9 10 (0.71%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.57%) ABAP
11 6 (0.43%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.43%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.36%) JCL
12 5 (0.36%) VB
12 5 (0.36%) VB6
12 5 (0.36%) X++
13 4 (0.29%) C
13 4 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 270 (19.26%) Security Cleared
2 222 (15.83%) SC Cleared
3 56 (3.99%) Degree
4 33 (2.35%) ACCA
4 33 (2.35%) CIMA
5 28 (2.00%) DV Cleared
6 27 (1.93%) PMI Certification
6 27 (1.93%) PMP
7 26 (1.85%) ISTQB
8 23 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.57%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.57%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.43%) SAP Certification
13 5 (0.36%) CBAP
13 5 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 4 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.21%) NCDA
15 3 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (20.47%) Data Quality
2 105 (7.49%) QA
3 57 (4.07%) GDPR
4 32 (2.28%) PMO
5 13 (0.93%) GRC
6 10 (0.71%) IFRS
7 9 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.57%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.57%) HL7
8 8 (0.57%) SLA
9 5 (0.36%) DICOM
9 5 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
10 3 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.14%) GAAP
11 2 (0.14%) GMP
11 2 (0.14%) GxP
11 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.071%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.071%) SEPA
System Software
1 15 (1.07%) Docker
2 13 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (0.57%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (0.21%) SRDF
6 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.21%) vSphere
7 2 (0.14%) NFS
8 1 (0.071%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (1.43%) Ansible
2 15 (1.07%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.86%) Data Guard
3 12 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (0.57%) Karpenter
5 6 (0.43%) Control-M
6 4 (0.29%) EMC VPLEX
6 4 (0.29%) SnapMirror
7 3 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (0.21%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.21%) NetBackup
7 3 (0.21%) SnapVault
7 3 (0.21%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.14%) Argo
8 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.14%) Grafana
8 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.071%) Autotask
9 1 (0.071%) SCCM
9 1 (0.071%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 298 (21.26%) Oracle
2 271 (19.33%) SAP
3 248 (17.69%) Microsoft
4 83 (5.92%) Databricks
5 61 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 36 (2.57%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.14%) Workday
8 24 (1.71%) Google
9 23 (1.64%) Informatica
10 20 (1.43%) IBM
11 18 (1.28%) IFS
11 18 (1.28%) Talend
12 14 (1.00%) Ariba
13 12 (0.86%) Sage
14 9 (0.64%) Alteryx
14 9 (0.64%) Infor
15 8 (0.57%) Atlassian
15 8 (0.57%) Denodo
15 8 (0.57%) InterSystems
15 8 (0.57%) VMware