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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 94 101
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 877 770 889
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.83% 2.54% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 2.89% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 528 597
10th Percentile £364 £400 £400
25th Percentile £428 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +3.77%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £662
90th Percentile £732 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -0.46% -1.82% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 11
10th Percentile £15.38 £40.40 £82.50
25th Percentile £27.13 £48.50 £83.13
Median hourly rate £64.82 £64.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -24.71% +31.78%
75th Percentile £81.00 £67.88 £86.50
90th Percentile £90.02 £69.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £64.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year -6.25% -24.71% +31.78%

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 27,655 26,658 34,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.31% 87.92% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,614 16,424 23,309
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,796 941 1,445
10th Percentile £14.92 £15.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 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 7 December 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 +18 472 £550 - 102
South East -22 120 £624 +13.45% 152
Midlands 0 104 £550 +4.76% 95
North of England -44 84 £451 -14.19% 94
West Midlands -13 60 £550 +4.76% 54
North West -18 43 £430 -9.47% 42
East Midlands +11 42 £550 +29.41% 37
Yorkshire -34 38 £513 -8.73% 47
South West -22 27 £524 +2.20% 50
East of England -16 19 £475 -9.52% 56
North East -8 4 £438 -30.00% 5
South Coast - 1 £550 -
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 35 (3.99%) Confluence
2 28 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.68%) GeoServer
5 6 (0.68%) Smallworld
6 5 (0.57%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 4 (0.46%) CMS
8 3 (0.34%) Apache
8 3 (0.34%) LiveLink
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.23%) Documentum
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) Moodle
10 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.11%) SAP Portal
10 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 42 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (1.25%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.11%) Trello
8 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 69 (7.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (4.10%) Oracle EBS
3 33 (3.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (2.51%) SAP HR
5 19 (2.17%) Oracle Payables
6 14 (1.60%) Oracle General Ledger
7 11 (1.25%) Oracle Receivables
7 11 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 10 (1.14%) Oracle EBS R12
9 9 (1.03%) Oracle Cash Management
9 9 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
10 8 (0.91%) NetSuite
10 8 (0.91%) SAP Payroll
10 8 (0.91%) Workday HCM
11 7 (0.80%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 7 (0.80%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
12 6 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.68%) Endur
12 6 (0.68%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 120 (13.68%) Azure
2 68 (7.75%) AWS
3 65 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 60 (6.84%) OCI
5 56 (6.39%) Dynamics 365
6 46 (5.25%) SaaS
7 32 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (2.96%) Snowflake
9 23 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (2.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 22 (2.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 20 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
12 19 (2.17%) Amazon S3
13 17 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 17 (1.94%) GCP
13 17 (1.94%) SuccessFactors
14 16 (1.82%) Serverless
15 15 (1.71%) dbt
16 14 (1.60%) PowerApps
17 13 (1.48%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.46%) NAS
1 4 (0.46%) WAN
2 3 (0.34%) DNS
2 3 (0.34%) Firewall
2 3 (0.34%) Intranet
2 3 (0.34%) Network Security
2 3 (0.34%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.34%) VPN
3 2 (0.23%) Internet
3 2 (0.23%) IPv6
3 2 (0.23%) LAN
3 2 (0.23%) SAN
3 2 (0.23%) SSL
4 1 (0.11%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.11%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.11%) IPv4
4 1 (0.11%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.11%) VLAN
4 1 (0.11%) WebEx
4 1 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (6.16%) SQL Server
2 51 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (5.59%) Power BI
4 40 (4.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 33 (3.76%) Relational Database
6 23 (2.62%) Oracle Database
7 22 (2.51%) Metadata
8 21 (2.39%) Oracle Reports
9 19 (2.17%) Tableau
10 18 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (2.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 17 (1.94%) DataStage
12 16 (1.82%) Data Lake
12 16 (1.82%) RDBMS
13 10 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.14%) Big Data
13 10 (1.14%) MongoDB
13 10 (1.14%) MySQL
14 8 (0.91%) Amazon QuickSight
14 8 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 78 (8.89%) JIRA
2 4 (0.46%) Git
2 4 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (0.46%) Toad
2 4 (0.46%) Visual Studio
2 4 (0.46%) Zephyr
3 3 (0.34%) LSMW
3 3 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (0.34%) Selenium
3 3 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.23%) Hudson
4 2 (0.23%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.23%) TestRail
5 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.11%) gulp
5 1 (0.11%) Pylint
5 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 306 (34.89%) Social Skills
2 304 (34.66%) Finance
3 99 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 48 (5.47%) Banking
6 35 (3.99%) Local Government
7 28 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (2.96%) Manufacturing
8 26 (2.96%) Retail
9 25 (2.85%) Legal
10 24 (2.74%) Marketing
11 23 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
12 21 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (2.28%) Back Office
14 18 (2.05%) General Ledger
15 15 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (1.25%) Billing
17 10 (1.14%) Telecoms
18 9 (1.03%) Law
19 8 (0.91%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 137 (15.62%) Analyst
2 133 (15.17%) Lead
3 115 (13.11%) Consultant
4 107 (12.20%) Architect
5 89 (10.15%) Project Manager
6 82 (9.35%) Business Analyst
7 55 (6.27%) Senior
8 49 (5.59%) Data Migration Lead
9 47 (5.36%) Data Engineer
9 47 (5.36%) Developer
10 39 (4.45%) Data Analyst
11 31 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
12 30 (3.42%) SAP Consultant
13 27 (3.08%) Salesforce Architect
14 26 (2.96%) Functional Consultant
15 25 (2.85%) Migration Analyst
15 25 (2.85%) Migration Specialist
16 24 (2.74%) Oracle Consultant
17 23 (2.62%) Data Migration Specialist
17 23 (2.62%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (5.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 35 (3.99%) Lightning Web Components
2 35 (3.99%) XML
3 30 (3.42%) REST
4 26 (2.96%) Visualforce
5 23 (2.62%) SOAP
6 19 (2.17%) Middleware
7 14 (1.60%) JSON
8 12 (1.37%) .NET
9 9 (1.03%) Web Services
10 8 (0.91%) PySpark
10 8 (0.91%) SAP Fiori
10 8 (0.91%) SAP PI
11 7 (0.80%) EDI
11 7 (0.80%) XSLT
12 5 (0.57%) GraphQL
12 5 (0.57%) React
13 4 (0.46%) SAP Basis
13 4 (0.46%) Swagger
13 4 (0.46%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 105 (11.97%) Legacy Systems
2 58 (6.61%) Data Structures
3 34 (3.88%) Onboarding
4 33 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 29 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 16 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.37%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.03%) Reference Data
9 9 (1.03%) Replication
9 9 (1.03%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.68%) Cloud Native
10 6 (0.68%) FMCG
10 6 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (0.68%) Low-Code
10 6 (0.68%) Public Cloud
10 6 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.57%) Credit Risk
11 5 (0.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.05%) Windows
2 5 (0.57%) Unix
2 5 (0.57%) Windows Server
2 5 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (0.46%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.34%) Linux
4 3 (0.34%) Solaris
5 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.11%) AIX
6 1 (0.11%) MVS
6 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 877 (100.00%) Migration
2 213 (24.29%) Agile
3 170 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
4 162 (18.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 146 (16.65%) ERP
6 138 (15.74%) ETL
6 138 (15.74%) Validation
7 134 (15.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 134 (15.28%) User Acceptance Testing
8 125 (14.25%) Data Modelling
9 98 (11.17%) Project Management
10 85 (9.69%) Data Cleansing
11 84 (9.58%) Analytics
11 84 (9.58%) Data Governance
12 82 (9.35%) CRM
13 80 (9.12%) Change Management
14 78 (8.89%) Workshop Facilitation
15 70 (7.98%) Business Intelligence
16 69 (7.87%) DevOps
17 63 (7.18%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 174 (19.84%) SQL
2 57 (6.50%) Python
3 36 (4.10%) Java
4 35 (3.99%) Apex Code
5 18 (2.05%) C#
6 13 (1.48%) JavaScript
6 13 (1.48%) PL/SQL
7 10 (1.14%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.03%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.80%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.68%) ABAP
10 6 (0.68%) Bicep
10 6 (0.68%) PHP
10 6 (0.68%) SOQL
11 5 (0.57%) Perl
11 5 (0.57%) VB
11 5 (0.57%) X++
12 4 (0.46%) SOSL
13 3 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 90 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 72 (8.21%) Degree
3 58 (6.61%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.62%) PMP
6 20 (2.28%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.28%) PMI Certification
7 14 (1.60%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.37%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.91%) SAP Certification
10 6 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
11 5 (0.57%) CFA
11 5 (0.57%) CIMA
12 4 (0.46%) ACCA
12 4 (0.46%) CBAP
12 4 (0.46%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.46%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.34%) OCP
13 3 (0.34%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (14.71%) Data Quality
2 64 (7.30%) QA
3 50 (5.70%) GDPR
4 15 (1.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 12 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.03%) PMO
7 8 (0.91%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.80%) SLA
9 6 (0.68%) COBIT
9 6 (0.68%) IFRS
9 6 (0.68%) NIST
10 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.34%) GRC
11 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.34%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.34%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.23%) EMIR
12 2 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (1.71%) Docker
2 9 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.34%) NFS
5 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (2.05%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.60%) Terraform
3 6 (0.68%) SCCM
4 5 (0.57%) Ansible
4 5 (0.57%) HP ALM
5 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.11%) Argo
7 1 (0.11%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.11%) Grafana
7 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 158 (18.02%) Oracle
2 157 (17.90%) SAP
3 124 (14.14%) Microsoft
4 63 (7.18%) Salesforce
5 36 (4.10%) Workday
6 25 (2.85%) Databricks
7 12 (1.37%) Google
7 12 (1.37%) IFS
7 12 (1.37%) Informatica
8 11 (1.25%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.14%) IBM
10 8 (0.91%) Kronos
10 8 (0.91%) Sage
10 8 (0.91%) Talend
11 7 (0.80%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.68%) Ariba
12 6 (0.68%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.68%) ESRI
12 6 (0.68%) HP
12 6 (0.68%) Intergraph