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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 89 103
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,382 828 741
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 2.96% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 3.26% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 536 500
10th Percentile £363 £378 £387
25th Percentile £425 £445 £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 £530 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -0.93% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 10 4
10th Percentile £16.53 £15.00 £43.10
25th Percentile £21.25 £33.36 £55.25
Median hourly rate £29.96 £62.50 £65.25
Median % change year-on-year -52.06% -4.21% -23.24%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.13 £72.31
90th Percentile £73.75 £95.50 £76.93
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £35.25 £65.25
% change year-on-year -15.01% -45.98% -23.24%

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 39,226 25,436 27,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.80% 90.90% 86.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,709 16,124 17,045
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £641
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,969 1,568 1,160
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.43 £17.87 £20.28
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%
75th Percentile £67.25 £45.80 £67.14
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.63% -7.56%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +6 687 £550 - 450
North of England -10 177 £525 +10.53% 118
Midlands +3 172 £475 -13.64% 82
South East -23 152 £475 -17.39% 142
West Midlands +6 124 £450 -16.28% 60
North West +8 109 £538 +19.44% 52
South West +21 93 £523 -0.48% 37
Yorkshire -35 49 £505 +1.00% 41
East of England -16 46 £509 +3.09% 56
East Midlands -5 43 £538 -4.44% 22
North East -19 22 £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 60 (4.34%) Confluence
2 54 (3.91%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.51%) Apache
6 7 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.36%) CICS
7 5 (0.36%) CMS
7 5 (0.36%) Tuxedo
8 3 (0.22%) SAS
9 2 (0.14%) Documentum
9 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.14%) Mendix
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.14%) SugarCRM
10 1 (0.072%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.072%) IIS
10 1 (0.072%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 66 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
3 16 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.29%) Windchill
7 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.072%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 148 (10.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (3.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (1.95%) Oracle Payables
4 22 (1.59%) Oracle Receivables
5 20 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
6 19 (1.37%) NetSuite
6 19 (1.37%) SAP FI
6 19 (1.37%) SAP HCM
7 15 (1.09%) SAP CO
7 15 (1.09%) SAP ERP
8 14 (1.01%) Oracle General Ledger
9 13 (0.94%) Oracle Financials
9 13 (0.94%) SAP SD
9 13 (0.94%) Teamcenter
10 12 (0.87%) Oracle Assets
10 12 (0.87%) SAP MM
11 11 (0.80%) iTrent
11 11 (0.80%) SAP MDG
11 11 (0.80%) SAP Payroll
11 11 (0.80%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 231 (16.71%) Azure
2 134 (9.70%) AWS
3 125 (9.04%) Power Platform
4 99 (7.16%) Dynamics 365
5 80 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
6 71 (5.14%) OCI
7 55 (3.98%) SaaS
8 46 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
9 45 (3.26%) SuccessFactors
10 38 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 38 (2.75%) Snowflake
11 33 (2.39%) Power Automate
12 30 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 29 (2.10%) PowerApps
14 28 (2.03%) GCP
15 27 (1.95%) Amazon S3
16 26 (1.88%) GitHub
17 21 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
18 18 (1.30%) dbt
19 16 (1.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.29%) VPN
2 3 (0.22%) Firewall
2 3 (0.22%) Intranet
2 3 (0.22%) NAS
2 3 (0.22%) SAN
3 1 (0.072%) DKIM
3 1 (0.072%) DMARC
3 1 (0.072%) DNS
3 1 (0.072%) Internet
3 1 (0.072%) SSL
3 1 (0.072%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (7.67%) Data Warehouse
2 97 (7.02%) Power BI
3 63 (4.56%) SQL Server
4 59 (4.27%) Metadata
5 52 (3.76%) Relational Database
6 41 (2.97%) Oracle Reports
7 39 (2.82%) Data Lake
8 36 (2.60%) Oracle Database
9 26 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (1.37%) RDBMS
11 17 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (1.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 15 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 13 (0.94%) BigQuery
15 12 (0.87%) Oracle Exadata
16 11 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (0.80%) DataStage
16 11 (0.80%) NoSQL
17 10 (0.72%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 130 (9.41%) JIRA
2 50 (3.62%) Git
3 35 (2.53%) Zephyr
4 29 (2.10%) Postman
5 17 (1.23%) GitLab
6 9 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (0.58%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.43%) Selenium
9 5 (0.36%) Gatling
9 5 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.29%) Cypress.io
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%) Hudson
11 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.14%) Yeoman
13 1 (0.072%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 480 (34.73%) Finance
2 392 (28.36%) Social Skills
3 193 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 94 (6.80%) Banking
6 78 (5.64%) Manufacturing
7 60 (4.34%) Retail
8 52 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
9 50 (3.62%) General Ledger
10 34 (2.46%) Local Government
11 33 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (2.03%) Legal
13 23 (1.66%) Automotive
13 23 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.45%) Billing
14 20 (1.45%) Marketing
14 20 (1.45%) Military
15 19 (1.37%) Law
16 18 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 16 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 236 (17.08%) Analyst
2 213 (15.41%) Lead
3 161 (11.65%) Consultant
4 157 (11.36%) Architect
5 128 (9.26%) Data Engineer
6 127 (9.19%) Senior
7 100 (7.24%) Business Analyst
8 83 (6.01%) Data Migration Lead
9 81 (5.86%) Data Analyst
10 76 (5.50%) Project Manager
11 64 (4.63%) Data Architect
12 61 (4.41%) Developer
13 60 (4.34%) Migration Engineer
14 57 (4.12%) SAP Consultant
15 50 (3.62%) Data Migration Engineer
16 46 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
17 41 (2.97%) Migration Analyst
18 37 (2.68%) Data Migration Analyst
19 36 (2.60%) Data Consultant
20 33 (2.39%) Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (7.74%) Oracle Fusion
2 47 (3.40%) Middleware
3 34 (2.46%) REST
4 32 (2.32%) Terraform
5 30 (2.17%) .NET
6 24 (1.74%) SOAP
7 23 (1.66%) XML
8 18 (1.30%) PySpark
9 15 (1.09%) JSON
10 14 (1.01%) ADO
10 14 (1.01%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 13 (0.94%) Kafka
11 13 (0.94%) SAP Fiori
12 10 (0.72%) Keycloak
13 9 (0.65%) Web Services
14 8 (0.58%) HTML
14 8 (0.58%) Spring
14 8 (0.58%) Spring Boot
15 6 (0.43%) Playwright
15 6 (0.43%) React
Miscellaneous
1 151 (10.93%) Legacy Systems
2 101 (7.31%) Data Structures
3 50 (3.62%) Management Information System
4 45 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
5 43 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.68%) Product Ownership
7 35 (2.53%) Public Cloud
8 28 (2.03%) Cloud Native
9 23 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
9 23 (1.66%) Reference Data
10 17 (1.23%) Replication
11 16 (1.16%) NHS
12 15 (1.09%) FMCG
13 13 (0.94%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (0.87%) Life Science
14 12 (0.87%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
16 10 (0.72%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.88%) Windows
2 23 (1.66%) Linux
3 12 (0.87%) AIX
4 6 (0.43%) Unix
5 5 (0.36%) zOS
6 4 (0.29%) VMS
7 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,382 (100.00%) Migration
2 432 (31.26%) Validation
3 392 (28.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 307 (22.21%) User Acceptance Testing
5 289 (20.91%) ERP
6 239 (17.29%) Agile
7 226 (16.35%) Data Modelling
8 225 (16.28%) ETL
9 185 (13.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 181 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
11 179 (12.95%) Data Governance
12 140 (10.13%) Data Cleansing
13 134 (9.70%) DevOps
14 132 (9.55%) Requirements Gathering
15 129 (9.33%) Analytics
16 126 (9.12%) Business Intelligence
17 121 (8.76%) Data Mapping
18 119 (8.61%) System Integration Testing
19 111 (8.03%) Data Transformation
20 108 (7.81%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 292 (21.13%) SQL
2 77 (5.57%) Python
3 27 (1.95%) PL/SQL
4 25 (1.81%) C#
5 23 (1.66%) Java
5 23 (1.66%) JavaScript
6 13 (0.94%) Bash
6 13 (0.94%) PowerShell
7 12 (0.87%) T-SQL
8 11 (0.80%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.58%) ABAP
10 5 (0.36%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.36%) JCL
10 5 (0.36%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.36%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.36%) VB
10 5 (0.36%) VB6
10 5 (0.36%) X++
11 4 (0.29%) C
11 4 (0.29%) Korn
Qualifications
1 264 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 220 (15.92%) SC Cleared
3 59 (4.27%) Degree
4 33 (2.39%) ACCA
4 33 (2.39%) CIMA
5 27 (1.95%) PMI Certification
5 27 (1.95%) PMP
6 26 (1.88%) DV Cleared
7 24 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (1.74%) ISTQB
8 17 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.58%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.51%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.43%) CBAP
12 6 (0.43%) SAP Certification
13 5 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 3 (0.22%) CCAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (21.13%) Data Quality
2 104 (7.53%) QA
3 54 (3.91%) GDPR
4 28 (2.03%) PMO
5 13 (0.94%) GRC
6 10 (0.72%) IFRS
7 9 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.51%) SLA
9 5 (0.36%) HL7
9 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
11 3 (0.22%) DICOM
11 3 (0.22%) GMP
11 3 (0.22%) GxP
12 2 (0.14%) GAAP
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.072%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (1.16%) Docker
2 13 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (0.58%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.14%) SRDF
6 1 (0.072%) HDFS
6 1 (0.072%) NFS
6 1 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.072%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (1.37%) Ansible
2 16 (1.16%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.87%) Data Guard
3 12 (0.87%) Oracle RMAN
4 9 (0.65%) Karpenter
5 8 (0.58%) Control-M
6 3 (0.22%) Grafana
7 2 (0.14%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.14%) SCCM
7 2 (0.14%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.072%) Argo
8 1 (0.072%) Autotask
8 1 (0.072%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.072%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.072%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.072%) SnapVault
8 1 (0.072%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 296 (21.42%) Oracle
2 273 (19.75%) SAP
3 253 (18.31%) Microsoft
4 83 (6.01%) Databricks
5 59 (4.27%) Salesforce
6 37 (2.68%) ServiceNow
7 29 (2.10%) Workday
8 25 (1.81%) Informatica
9 24 (1.74%) Google
10 19 (1.37%) IBM
10 19 (1.37%) Talend
11 17 (1.23%) IFS
12 16 (1.16%) Ariba
13 14 (1.01%) Sage
14 9 (0.65%) Alteryx
14 9 (0.65%) Infor
15 8 (0.58%) Atlassian
15 8 (0.58%) InterSystems
16 7 (0.51%) MuleSoft
17 6 (0.43%) SYSPRO