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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 87 101
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,381 795 760
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 2.86% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 3.14% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 913 499 510
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £448 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £541
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.69% -1.59%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 9 7
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.00 £51.20
25th Percentile £21.25 £32.31 £62.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% -18.75% -13.25%
75th Percentile £53.58 £71.25 -
90th Percentile £73.75 £81.00 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £35.25 £80.00
% change year-on-year +13.48% -55.94% -13.25%

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 39,123 25,281 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.74% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,918 16,062 17,635
10th Percentile £325 £300 £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 2,776 1,509 1,303
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +8 670 £540 -1.82% 404
North of England -15 176 £525 +10.53% 124
Midlands +6 173 £475 -13.64% 102
South East -9 166 £545 -5.22% 156
West Midlands +2 122 £450 -14.29% 70
North West +1 107 £538 +19.44% 69
South West +26 90 £523 -0.48% 37
East of England -4 54 £525 +6.33% 50
Yorkshire -33 54 £510 +2.00% 36
East Midlands +1 47 £525 -4.55% 32
North East -31 18 £475 +8.57% 19
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 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.26%) Confluence
3 13 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.58%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.51%) Apache
7 5 (0.36%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.14%) CMS
8 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.14%) Mendix
8 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.14%) SAS
8 2 (0.14%) SugarCRM
9 1 (0.072%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.072%) Documentum
9 1 (0.072%) IIS
9 1 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.072%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 69 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
3 16 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.22%) Windchill
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.072%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 154 (11.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (1.88%) Oracle Payables
4 21 (1.52%) Oracle Receivables
5 20 (1.45%) NetSuite
5 20 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
5 20 (1.45%) SAP ERP
6 13 (0.94%) Oracle Financials
6 13 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
6 13 (0.94%) SAP SD
7 12 (0.87%) Oracle Assets
7 12 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (0.87%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.87%) Teamcenter
8 11 (0.80%) iTrent
8 11 (0.80%) SAP MDG
8 11 (0.80%) SAP MM
8 11 (0.80%) Workday HCM
9 10 (0.72%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.72%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 221 (16.00%) Azure
2 139 (10.07%) AWS
3 131 (9.49%) Power Platform
4 106 (7.68%) Dynamics 365
5 74 (5.36%) OCI
6 67 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (3.91%) SaaS
8 43 (3.11%) Snowflake
9 41 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 40 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
11 38 (2.75%) SuccessFactors
12 30 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 29 (2.10%) Power Automate
14 28 (2.03%) Amazon S3
15 26 (1.88%) GCP
16 25 (1.81%) GitHub
16 25 (1.81%) PowerApps
17 19 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
18 18 (1.30%) dbt
19 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%) HTTP
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
1 109 (7.89%) Power BI
2 97 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (4.42%) SQL Server
4 55 (3.98%) Metadata
5 48 (3.48%) Relational Database
6 44 (3.19%) Oracle Reports
7 41 (2.97%) Data Lake
8 30 (2.17%) Oracle Database
9 29 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (1.38%) RDBMS
11 14 (1.01%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 13 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.87%) DataStage
13 12 (0.87%) Oracle Exadata
13 12 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (0.80%) MongoDB
15 10 (0.72%) BigQuery
15 10 (0.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 116 (8.40%) JIRA
2 48 (3.48%) Git
3 35 (2.53%) Zephyr
4 30 (2.17%) Postman
5 18 (1.30%) GitLab
6 11 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
7 10 (0.72%) Jenkins
8 7 (0.51%) 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%) LSMW
10 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.22%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.22%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.14%) Yeoman
13 1 (0.072%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.072%) Cucumber
General
1 476 (34.47%) Finance
2 386 (27.95%) Social Skills
3 191 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (9.12%) Public Sector
5 86 (6.23%) Banking
6 79 (5.72%) Manufacturing
7 56 (4.06%) Retail
8 52 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
9 45 (3.26%) General Ledger
10 35 (2.53%) Law
10 35 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
11 32 (2.32%) Local Government
12 26 (1.88%) Automotive
13 23 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (1.67%) Marketing
14 22 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (1.45%) Legal
16 18 (1.30%) Billing
17 16 (1.16%) Military
18 15 (1.09%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 245 (17.74%) Lead
2 216 (15.64%) Analyst
3 166 (12.02%) Architect
4 153 (11.08%) Consultant
5 124 (8.98%) Data Engineer
6 119 (8.62%) Senior
7 103 (7.46%) Data Migration Lead
8 86 (6.23%) Business Analyst
9 79 (5.72%) Project Manager
10 78 (5.65%) Data Analyst
11 66 (4.78%) Developer
12 61 (4.42%) Data Architect
13 59 (4.27%) Migration Engineer
14 53 (3.84%) SAP Consultant
15 48 (3.48%) Data Migration Engineer
16 44 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
17 43 (3.11%) Migration Analyst
18 38 (2.75%) Data Migration Analyst
19 35 (2.53%) Data Consultant
20 33 (2.39%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (7.31%) Oracle Fusion
2 45 (3.26%) Middleware
3 35 (2.53%) REST
4 30 (2.17%) Terraform
5 24 (1.74%) .NET
6 22 (1.59%) SOAP
6 22 (1.59%) XML
7 17 (1.23%) Kafka
7 17 (1.23%) PySpark
8 16 (1.16%) JSON
9 13 (0.94%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 9 (0.65%) Keycloak
11 8 (0.58%) ADO
11 8 (0.58%) Lightning Web Components
11 8 (0.58%) Web Services
12 7 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
12 7 (0.51%) Spring
12 7 (0.51%) Spring Boot
13 6 (0.43%) HTML
13 6 (0.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 157 (11.37%) Legacy Systems
2 99 (7.17%) Data Structures
3 47 (3.40%) Onboarding
4 45 (3.26%) Management Information System
5 42 (3.04%) Public Cloud
6 41 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
7 33 (2.39%) Product Ownership
8 29 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
9 28 (2.03%) Cloud Native
10 20 (1.45%) Reference Data
11 18 (1.30%) Replication
12 17 (1.23%) NHS
13 16 (1.16%) FMCG
14 12 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (0.87%) Low-Code
15 11 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
16 10 (0.72%) Data Centre
16 10 (0.72%) Life Science
16 10 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.74%) Windows
2 21 (1.52%) Linux
3 12 (0.87%) AIX
4 5 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.29%) VMS
6 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.072%) Unix
7 1 (0.072%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,381 (100.00%) Migration
2 405 (29.33%) Validation
3 359 (26.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 310 (22.45%) User Acceptance Testing
5 307 (22.23%) ERP
6 235 (17.02%) Agile
7 229 (16.58%) ETL
8 224 (16.22%) Data Modelling
9 201 (14.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 171 (12.38%) Data Governance
11 169 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
12 135 (9.78%) Business Intelligence
13 134 (9.70%) Data Cleansing
14 126 (9.12%) Analytics
15 121 (8.76%) Data Mapping
16 120 (8.69%) DevOps
17 117 (8.47%) Requirements Gathering
18 114 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
19 107 (7.75%) CI/CD
19 107 (7.75%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 287 (20.78%) SQL
2 81 (5.87%) Python
3 27 (1.96%) PL/SQL
4 26 (1.88%) Java
5 20 (1.45%) C#
5 20 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.01%) PowerShell
7 10 (0.72%) Bash
7 10 (0.72%) TypeScript
8 9 (0.65%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.51%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.43%) ABAP
10 6 (0.43%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.36%) VB
11 5 (0.36%) VB6
11 5 (0.36%) X++
12 4 (0.29%) C
12 4 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.22%) SOQL
13 3 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 256 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 210 (15.21%) SC Cleared
3 51 (3.69%) Degree
4 34 (2.46%) DV Cleared
5 30 (2.17%) ACCA
5 30 (2.17%) CIMA
6 27 (1.96%) PMP
7 26 (1.88%) PMI Certification
8 25 (1.81%) ISTQB
9 20 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.58%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.58%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.36%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.29%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.22%) CTC Cleared
16 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 283 (20.49%) Data Quality
2 103 (7.46%) QA
3 59 (4.27%) GDPR
4 32 (2.32%) PMO
5 13 (0.94%) GRC
6 10 (0.72%) IFRS
7 9 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.65%) HL7
8 8 (0.58%) SLA
9 7 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.43%) DICOM
11 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
12 2 (0.14%) GAAP
12 2 (0.14%) GMP
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.14%) PERC
12 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.072%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 16 (1.16%) Docker
2 13 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.51%) 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 (1.45%) Ansible
2 17 (1.23%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.87%) Data Guard
3 12 (0.87%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (0.58%) Karpenter
5 4 (0.29%) EMC VPLEX
5 4 (0.29%) SnapMirror
6 3 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (0.22%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.22%) NetBackup
6 3 (0.22%) SnapVault
6 3 (0.22%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.14%) Argo
7 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.14%) Grafana
7 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.072%) Autotask
8 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.072%) SCCM
8 1 (0.072%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 289 (20.93%) Oracle
2 273 (19.77%) SAP
3 244 (17.67%) Microsoft
4 81 (5.87%) Databricks
5 60 (4.34%) Salesforce
6 28 (2.03%) Workday
7 25 (1.81%) Informatica
7 25 (1.81%) ServiceNow
8 19 (1.38%) Google
8 19 (1.38%) IBM
8 19 (1.38%) Talend
9 16 (1.16%) Ariba
9 16 (1.16%) IFS
10 12 (0.87%) Sage
11 10 (0.72%) Siebel
12 9 (0.65%) Alteryx
12 9 (0.65%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.58%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.58%) InterSystems
13 8 (0.58%) VMware