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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
9 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 101 89
Rank change year-on-year +12 -12 +52
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,148 657 895
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.94% 2.70% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 2.97% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 755 436 614
10th Percentile £363 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £532 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% -3.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £632 £638 £660
90th Percentile £724 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 6 40
10th Percentile £14.12 £26.21 £25.00
25th Percentile £16.63 £40.03 £40.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £60.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.74% -25.00% +300.00%
75th Percentile £73.06 £64.69 -
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.03 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £75.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -51.05% -6.25% +276.47%

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 33,539 22,147 32,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.75% 90.94% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,506 14,596 21,405
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,075 867 2,189
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.99 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.91 £19.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -9.33%
75th Percentile £65.74 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £77.80 £76.25 £70.78
UK median hourly rate £36.70 £31.64 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.99% -4.31% -8.15%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 +22 587 £525 -4.55% 124
South East -6 162 £624 +14.50% 79
North of England -10 154 £500 -4.76% 47
Midlands -23 108 £470 -8.07% 29
North West +14 90 £461 -16.14% 20
West Midlands -35 68 £473 -6.44% 20
Yorkshire -33 55 £529 +32.25% 22
East of England -15 48 £575 -11.54% 21
East Midlands -8 37 £450 -12.20% 9
South West -21 33 £600 +17.07% 18
North East -10 9 £488 -20.41% 5
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 32 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.44%) Confluence
3 8 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.70%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.17%) Appian
5 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.17%) CMS
6 1 (0.087%) Apache
6 1 (0.087%) IIS
6 1 (0.087%) Moodle
6 1 (0.087%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.087%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.087%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.087%) WebSphere
Applications
1 64 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 21 (1.83%) Spreadsheet
3 20 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (1.48%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.087%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 119 (10.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (4.62%) Oracle EBS
3 32 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 14 (1.22%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (1.13%) Loan IQ
7 12 (1.05%) SAP ERP
8 11 (0.96%) Workday HCM
9 10 (0.87%) Oracle General Ledger
9 10 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
9 10 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 7 (0.61%) NetSuite
10 7 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
10 7 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
11 6 (0.52%) Finacle
11 6 (0.52%) SAP HR
12 5 (0.44%) NEC Housing
12 5 (0.44%) Oracle Cash Management
12 5 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
12 5 (0.44%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 164 (14.29%) Azure
2 125 (10.89%) Power Platform
3 100 (8.71%) AWS
4 89 (7.75%) OCI
5 85 (7.40%) Dynamics 365
6 45 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (3.83%) SaaS
8 40 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 37 (3.22%) GitHub
10 26 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 26 (2.26%) Snowflake
11 22 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (1.83%) SuccessFactors
13 18 (1.57%) GCP
14 16 (1.39%) Amazon S3
15 15 (1.31%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 14 (1.22%) Entra ID
16 14 (1.22%) OpenShift
16 14 (1.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 10 (0.87%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.22%) DNS
2 13 (1.13%) NAS
3 12 (1.05%) SAN
4 4 (0.35%) VPN
5 3 (0.26%) Firewall
6 2 (0.17%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.17%) HTTP
6 2 (0.17%) SSL
6 2 (0.17%) VSAN
7 1 (0.087%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.087%) FCoE
7 1 (0.087%) Internet
7 1 (0.087%) Intranet
7 1 (0.087%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.087%) Network Security
7 1 (0.087%) SNMP
7 1 (0.087%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (9.32%) Power BI
2 78 (6.79%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (4.70%) SQL Server
4 46 (4.01%) Oracle Reports
5 37 (3.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 29 (2.53%) Metadata
7 26 (2.26%) Data Lake
7 26 (2.26%) Relational Database
8 22 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (1.74%) Oracle Database
10 16 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 15 (1.31%) NoSQL
12 13 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (1.13%) SAP Data Services
12 13 (1.13%) Tableau
13 11 (0.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 10 (0.87%) DB2
14 10 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
15 8 (0.70%) MySQL
15 8 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 88 (7.67%) JIRA
2 26 (2.26%) Git
3 19 (1.66%) Zephyr
4 18 (1.57%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.31%) Postman
6 8 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.44%) GitLab
7 5 (0.44%) Hudson
7 5 (0.44%) LSMW
7 5 (0.44%) Selenium
8 4 (0.35%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.35%) JUnit
8 4 (0.35%) Toad
9 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.26%) ERwin
9 3 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 394 (34.32%) Social Skills
2 389 (33.89%) Finance
3 146 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 66 (5.75%) Banking
6 45 (3.92%) Law
6 45 (3.92%) Manufacturing
7 43 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
8 39 (3.40%) Retail
9 37 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (2.00%) Legal
10 23 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.66%) General Ledger
12 19 (1.66%) Marketing
13 18 (1.57%) Local Government
14 17 (1.48%) Billing
15 16 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.87%) Police
Job Titles
1 250 (21.78%) Lead
2 162 (14.11%) Analyst
3 153 (13.33%) Architect
4 128 (11.15%) Consultant
5 100 (8.71%) Project Manager
6 91 (7.93%) Business Analyst
7 82 (7.14%) Senior
8 80 (6.97%) Data Migration Lead
9 77 (6.71%) Data Engineer
10 62 (5.40%) Data Analyst
11 54 (4.70%) Developer
12 53 (4.62%) Migration Analyst
13 40 (3.48%) Data Architect
14 39 (3.40%) Migration Manager
15 38 (3.31%) Data Migration Analyst
15 38 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
16 36 (3.14%) SAP Consultant
17 33 (2.87%) Lead Architect
18 32 (2.79%) Data Manager
18 32 (2.79%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (6.79%) Oracle Fusion
2 35 (3.05%) REST
3 31 (2.70%) Middleware
4 27 (2.35%) XML
5 19 (1.66%) SOAP
6 16 (1.39%) JSON
7 15 (1.31%) .NET
8 14 (1.22%) Lightning Web Components
9 13 (1.13%) Kafka
10 12 (1.05%) OpenTelemetry
11 11 (0.96%) Spring
12 7 (0.61%) PySpark
12 7 (0.61%) Web Services
13 6 (0.52%) React
14 5 (0.44%) FHIR
14 5 (0.44%) RESTful
14 5 (0.44%) Visualforce
14 5 (0.44%) XSLT
15 4 (0.35%) AngularJS
15 4 (0.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 160 (13.94%) Legacy Systems
2 87 (7.58%) Data Structures
3 40 (3.48%) Management Information System
4 36 (3.14%) Cloud Native
5 30 (2.61%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.26%) Product Ownership
7 24 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (1.66%) Replication
9 17 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.22%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.13%) NHS
12 13 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.05%) Mainframe
13 12 (1.05%) Reference Data
14 11 (0.96%) Data Centre
14 11 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
15 9 (0.78%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.18%) Windows
2 10 (0.87%) Linux
3 7 (0.61%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.61%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.61%) zOS
4 6 (0.52%) Unix
4 6 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.087%) AIX
6 1 (0.087%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.087%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,148 (100.00%) Migration
2 281 (24.48%) Validation
3 276 (24.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 250 (21.78%) ERP
5 230 (20.03%) Agile
6 214 (18.64%) User Acceptance Testing
7 197 (17.16%) ETL
8 192 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
9 171 (14.90%) Data Modelling
9 171 (14.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 133 (11.59%) Business Intelligence
11 128 (11.15%) Data Cleansing
12 127 (11.06%) Project Management
13 118 (10.28%) Data Mapping
14 115 (10.02%) Analytics
14 115 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
15 107 (9.32%) Workshop Facilitation
16 105 (9.15%) Change Management
17 92 (8.01%) Data Governance
18 90 (7.84%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 223 (19.43%) SQL
2 86 (7.49%) Python
3 39 (3.40%) Java
4 24 (2.09%) PL/SQL
5 17 (1.48%) Bash
6 16 (1.39%) JavaScript
7 13 (1.13%) Apex Code
7 13 (1.13%) PowerShell
8 11 (0.96%) C#
9 10 (0.87%) VBA
10 7 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.61%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.44%) Korn
11 5 (0.44%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.44%) Perl
11 5 (0.44%) PHP
11 5 (0.44%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.35%) SOQL
13 3 (0.26%) ABAP
13 3 (0.26%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 183 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 132 (11.50%) SC Cleared
3 47 (4.09%) Degree
4 27 (2.35%) DV Cleared
5 25 (2.18%) PMP
6 19 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.39%) PMI Certification
9 15 (1.31%) ISTQB
10 11 (0.96%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.87%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.52%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.52%) SAP Certification
13 4 (0.35%) OCP
13 4 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.26%) IIBA
14 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.17%) CBAP
15 2 (0.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (16.90%) Data Quality
2 93 (8.10%) QA
3 59 (5.14%) GDPR
4 25 (2.18%) PMO
5 14 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.05%) COBIT
7 11 (0.96%) NIST
8 9 (0.78%) IFRS
8 9 (0.78%) SLA
9 8 (0.70%) HL7
10 7 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.44%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.44%) GAAP
11 5 (0.44%) GMP
11 5 (0.44%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.35%) Basel III
12 4 (0.35%) DICOM
12 4 (0.35%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.35%) PERC
System Software
1 24 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.31%) vSphere
4 13 (1.13%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.78%) NFS
6 8 (0.70%) Docker
7 3 (0.26%) SRDF
8 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.087%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 32 (2.79%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.35%) Terraform
3 16 (1.39%) Ansible
4 15 (1.31%) Grafana
4 15 (1.31%) vCenter Server
5 14 (1.22%) Argo
6 12 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.70%) EMC VPLEX
7 8 (0.70%) SCCM
8 6 (0.52%) vMotion
9 3 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (0.26%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.26%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.17%) SnapMirror
10 2 (0.17%) SnapVault
11 1 (0.087%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.087%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 218 (18.99%) Oracle
2 205 (17.86%) SAP
3 184 (16.03%) Microsoft
4 63 (5.49%) Salesforce
5 40 (3.48%) Databricks
6 36 (3.14%) Workday
7 28 (2.44%) VMware
8 23 (2.00%) Informatica
8 23 (2.00%) Pure Storage
8 23 (2.00%) Sage
9 18 (1.57%) ServiceNow
10 17 (1.48%) Avaloq
11 16 (1.39%) MuleSoft
12 15 (1.31%) Red Hat
12 15 (1.31%) Talend
13 14 (1.22%) Google
14 13 (1.13%) IFS
15 12 (1.05%) Splunk
16 11 (0.96%) IBM
17 10 (0.87%) Ariba
296 Data Migration jobs in England