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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 87 104
Rank change year-on-year -2 +17 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,392 817 735
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.02% 2.95% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 3.24% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 913 514 493
10th Percentile £363 £377 £383
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 £732 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £537 £541
% change year-on-year -2.23% -0.79% -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 9 6
10th Percentile £16.88 £15.00 £48.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £32.31 £62.31
Median hourly rate £38.36 £60.00 £73.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.08% -18.09% -18.10%
75th Percentile £53.58 £71.25 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £81.00 -
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £35.25 £73.25
% change year-on-year +4.14% -51.88% -18.10%

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 39,007 25,232 28,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.55% 90.97% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,733 16,031 17,231
10th Percentile £325 £295 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -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 2,853 1,544 1,222
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.85 £20.26
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.02
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% -1.16%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +13 680 £550 - 342
North of England -12 177 £525 +10.53% 114
Midlands +3 171 £475 -13.64% 100
South East -15 163 £505 -14.04% 120
West Midlands +2 123 £450 -14.29% 66
North West -5 106 £538 +19.44% 58
South West +22 96 £523 -0.48% 30
Yorkshire -38 55 £515 +2.90% 34
East of England -3 47 £510 +3.29% 41
East Midlands -3 45 £525 -4.55% 33
North East -22 19 £475 +8.57% 22
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 56 (4.02%) SharePoint
2 53 (3.81%) Confluence
3 13 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.57%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.50%) Apache
7 5 (0.36%) CMS
7 5 (0.36%) Tuxedo
8 4 (0.29%) CICS
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 (0.072%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.072%) Documentum
10 1 (0.072%) IIS
10 1 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.072%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 70 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
3 17 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.29%) Windchill
7 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.072%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 142 (10.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (1.87%) Oracle Payables
4 21 (1.51%) Oracle Receivables
5 20 (1.44%) NetSuite
6 19 (1.36%) Oracle ERP
6 19 (1.36%) SAP ERP
7 17 (1.22%) SAP HCM
8 13 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
8 13 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
8 13 (0.93%) SAP FI
8 13 (0.93%) SAP SD
9 12 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
9 12 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
9 12 (0.86%) Teamcenter
9 12 (0.86%) Workday HCM
10 11 (0.79%) iTrent
10 11 (0.79%) SAP MDG
10 11 (0.79%) SAP MM
11 10 (0.72%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 231 (16.59%) Azure
2 132 (9.48%) AWS
3 124 (8.91%) Power Platform
4 95 (6.82%) Dynamics 365
5 76 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
6 72 (5.17%) OCI
7 54 (3.88%) SaaS
8 44 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (3.16%) SuccessFactors
9 41 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 41 (2.95%) Snowflake
10 32 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 31 (2.23%) Power Automate
12 27 (1.94%) Amazon S3
12 27 (1.94%) GCP
12 27 (1.94%) PowerApps
13 24 (1.72%) GitHub
14 21 (1.51%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (1.36%) dbt
16 14 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.36%) NAS
1 5 (0.36%) SAN
2 4 (0.29%) VPN
3 3 (0.22%) Firewall
3 3 (0.22%) Intranet
4 2 (0.14%) DNS
4 2 (0.14%) VSAN
5 1 (0.072%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.072%) DKIM
5 1 (0.072%) DMARC
5 1 (0.072%) Internet
5 1 (0.072%) SNMP
5 1 (0.072%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (7.11%) Data Warehouse
1 99 (7.11%) Power BI
2 60 (4.31%) SQL Server
3 58 (4.17%) Metadata
4 48 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 46 (3.30%) Oracle Reports
6 41 (2.95%) Data Lake
7 32 (2.30%) Oracle Database
8 25 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (1.36%) RDBMS
10 16 (1.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 15 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (0.86%) BigQuery
13 12 (0.86%) NoSQL
13 12 (0.86%) Oracle Exadata
14 11 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.79%) DataStage
14 11 (0.79%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 124 (8.91%) JIRA
2 50 (3.59%) Git
3 36 (2.59%) Zephyr
4 30 (2.16%) Postman
5 17 (1.22%) GitLab
6 11 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
7 9 (0.65%) Jenkins
8 7 (0.50%) Selenium
9 5 (0.36%) Gatling
9 5 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.29%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.29%) Hudson
10 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.22%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.22%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.22%) LSMW
11 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.14%) Yeoman
13 1 (0.072%) ScriptRunner
13 1 (0.072%) TestRail
General
1 470 (33.76%) Finance
2 396 (28.45%) Social Skills
3 191 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 89 (6.39%) Banking
6 77 (5.53%) Manufacturing
7 56 (4.02%) Retail
8 53 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
9 47 (3.38%) General Ledger
10 35 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (2.44%) Local Government
12 25 (1.80%) Legal
13 24 (1.72%) Law
14 23 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
15 22 (1.58%) Automotive
15 22 (1.58%) Marketing
16 21 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (1.36%) Military
18 18 (1.29%) Billing
19 15 (1.08%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 229 (16.45%) Analyst
2 222 (15.95%) Lead
3 161 (11.57%) Architect
4 156 (11.21%) Consultant
5 132 (9.48%) Data Engineer
6 125 (8.98%) Senior
7 99 (7.11%) Business Analyst
8 93 (6.68%) Data Migration Lead
9 81 (5.82%) Data Analyst
10 80 (5.75%) Project Manager
11 64 (4.60%) Data Architect
11 64 (4.60%) Migration Engineer
12 61 (4.38%) Developer
13 54 (3.88%) Data Migration Engineer
14 53 (3.81%) SAP Consultant
15 45 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (2.87%) Migration Analyst
17 36 (2.59%) Data Migration Analyst
18 35 (2.51%) Data Consultant
19 31 (2.23%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (7.40%) Oracle Fusion
2 46 (3.30%) Middleware
3 32 (2.30%) Terraform
4 31 (2.23%) REST
5 27 (1.94%) .NET
6 23 (1.65%) SOAP
6 23 (1.65%) XML
7 17 (1.22%) PySpark
8 14 (1.01%) JSON
9 13 (0.93%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 12 (0.86%) ADO
11 11 (0.79%) Kafka
12 9 (0.65%) Keycloak
12 9 (0.65%) Web Services
13 8 (0.57%) HTML
13 8 (0.57%) SAP Fiori
14 7 (0.50%) Lightning Web Components
14 7 (0.50%) Spring
14 7 (0.50%) Spring Boot
15 6 (0.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 150 (10.78%) Legacy Systems
2 98 (7.04%) Data Structures
3 47 (3.38%) Onboarding
4 45 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 44 (3.16%) Management Information System
6 38 (2.73%) Public Cloud
7 34 (2.44%) Product Ownership
8 27 (1.94%) Cloud Native
9 25 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
10 22 (1.58%) Reference Data
11 18 (1.29%) Replication
12 16 (1.15%) NHS
13 15 (1.08%) FMCG
14 13 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (0.93%) Low-Code
15 12 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.86%) Reinsurance
16 11 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
16 11 (0.79%) Life Science
17 10 (0.72%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.94%) Windows
2 23 (1.65%) Linux
3 12 (0.86%) AIX
4 5 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.29%) VMS
5 4 (0.29%) zOS
6 3 (0.22%) Unix
7 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.072%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,392 (100.00%) Migration
2 420 (30.17%) Validation
3 374 (26.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 307 (22.05%) User Acceptance Testing
5 291 (20.91%) ERP
6 236 (16.95%) Agile
7 223 (16.02%) ETL
8 222 (15.95%) Data Modelling
9 190 (13.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 176 (12.64%) Data Governance
11 174 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 133 (9.55%) DevOps
13 131 (9.41%) Data Cleansing
14 128 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
15 126 (9.05%) Analytics
16 124 (8.91%) Requirements Gathering
17 120 (8.62%) Data Mapping
18 110 (7.90%) System Integration Testing
19 108 (7.76%) CI/CD
20 104 (7.47%) Cutover Planning
Programming Languages
1 293 (21.05%) SQL
2 82 (5.89%) Python
3 26 (1.87%) PL/SQL
4 23 (1.65%) C#
4 23 (1.65%) Java
5 22 (1.58%) JavaScript
6 16 (1.15%) PowerShell
7 12 (0.86%) Bash
8 11 (0.79%) T-SQL
9 10 (0.72%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.50%) ABAP
11 6 (0.43%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.43%) Kotlin
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
13 4 (0.29%) JCL
14 3 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 264 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 218 (15.66%) SC Cleared
3 54 (3.88%) Degree
4 32 (2.30%) ACCA
4 32 (2.30%) CIMA
5 28 (2.01%) DV Cleared
6 27 (1.94%) PMI Certification
6 27 (1.94%) PMP
7 26 (1.87%) ISTQB
8 23 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.57%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.57%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 5 (0.36%) SAP Certification
13 4 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.22%) CCAB
14 3 (0.22%) CTC Cleared
14 3 (0.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 281 (20.19%) Data Quality
2 105 (7.54%) QA
3 57 (4.09%) GDPR
4 31 (2.23%) PMO
5 13 (0.93%) GRC
6 10 (0.72%) IFRS
7 9 (0.65%) HL7
8 8 (0.57%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.57%) SLA
9 6 (0.43%) DICOM
10 5 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
11 3 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.14%) GAAP
12 2 (0.14%) GMP
12 2 (0.14%) GxP
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.072%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.072%) SEPA
System Software
1 15 (1.08%) 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 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (0.22%) SRDF
6 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.22%) vSphere
7 2 (0.14%) NFS
8 1 (0.072%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (1.44%) Ansible
2 15 (1.08%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.86%) Data Guard
3 12 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (0.57%) Karpenter
5 5 (0.36%) Control-M
6 4 (0.29%) EMC VPLEX
6 4 (0.29%) SnapMirror
7 3 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (0.22%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.22%) NetBackup
7 3 (0.22%) SnapVault
7 3 (0.22%) 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 (0.072%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.072%) SCCM
9 1 (0.072%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 294 (21.12%) Oracle
2 266 (19.11%) SAP
3 245 (17.60%) Microsoft
4 83 (5.96%) Databricks
5 60 (4.31%) Salesforce
6 31 (2.23%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.16%) Workday
8 25 (1.80%) Google
9 23 (1.65%) Informatica
10 19 (1.36%) IBM
11 18 (1.29%) IFS
11 18 (1.29%) Talend
12 14 (1.01%) Ariba
13 12 (0.86%) Sage
14 9 (0.65%) Alteryx
14 9 (0.65%) Infor
15 8 (0.57%) Atlassian
15 8 (0.57%) Denodo
15 8 (0.57%) InterSystems
15 8 (0.57%) VMware