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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 95 99
Rank change year-on-year +22 +4 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,269 663 842
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.10% 2.71% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 2.97% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 830 411 582
10th Percentile £358 £375 £358
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £703 £724
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 9 33
10th Percentile £15.29 £31.26 £25.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £36.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £62.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -16.67% +233.33%
75th Percentile £41.83 £71.25 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £76.41 -
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £67.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -45.61% -10.00% +180.37%

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 34,677 22,323 31,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 91.22% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,105 14,603 20,624
10th Percentile £321 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,142 946 2,251
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.41 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £15.97
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +0.69%
75th Percentile £67.96 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.82% -21.77% +1.04%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +35 623 £525 -4.55% 106
South East -11 176 £600 +10.09% 51
North of England -16 172 £500 +1.32% 43
Midlands +1 131 £488 +2.63% 26
North West +8 106 £475 -12.60% 25
West Midlands -6 89 £460 -3.16% 14
Yorkshire -41 59 £540 +34.88% 16
South West +5 58 £525 +5.00% 17
East of England -4 56 £575 -11.54% 20
East Midlands -1 39 £500 +9.29% 12
North East -15 7 £488 -15.22% 2
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 47 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 43 (3.39%) Confluence
3 9 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.16%) Appian
7 2 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.079%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.079%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.079%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.079%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.079%) WebSphere
Applications
1 76 (5.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.079%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.079%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 145 (11.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (3.31%) Oracle EBS
3 31 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (1.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 18 (1.42%) SAP ERP
6 15 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (1.10%) Loan IQ
8 12 (0.95%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 10 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
11 9 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
12 7 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
13 6 (0.47%) Finacle
13 6 (0.47%) iTrent
13 6 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
13 6 (0.47%) SAP Business One
13 6 (0.47%) SAP CO
13 6 (0.47%) SAP FI
13 6 (0.47%) Teamcenter
13 6 (0.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 188 (14.81%) Azure
2 125 (9.85%) Power Platform
3 107 (8.43%) AWS
4 93 (7.33%) Dynamics 365
5 74 (5.83%) OCI
6 53 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 48 (3.78%) SaaS
8 34 (2.68%) Snowflake
9 33 (2.60%) GitHub
10 29 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 26 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (1.58%) GCP
13 17 (1.34%) SuccessFactors
14 14 (1.10%) Entra ID
15 13 (1.02%) Amazon S3
15 13 (1.02%) OpenShift
16 12 (0.95%) Power Automate
16 12 (0.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 12 (0.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.10%) DNS
2 13 (1.02%) NAS
2 13 (1.02%) SAN
3 6 (0.47%) Firewall
4 4 (0.32%) VPN
5 2 (0.16%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.16%) HTTP
5 2 (0.16%) VSAN
6 1 (0.079%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.079%) DKIM
6 1 (0.079%) DMARC
6 1 (0.079%) FCoE
6 1 (0.079%) Internet
6 1 (0.079%) Intranet
6 1 (0.079%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.079%) Network Security
6 1 (0.079%) SNMP
6 1 (0.079%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (8.59%) Power BI
2 91 (7.17%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (4.41%) Oracle Reports
4 53 (4.18%) SQL Server
5 32 (2.52%) Metadata
6 31 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 30 (2.36%) Data Lake
8 22 (1.73%) Relational Database
9 20 (1.58%) Oracle Database
10 19 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (1.26%) NoSQL
12 13 (1.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 13 (1.02%) SAP Data Services
13 11 (0.87%) DB2
13 11 (0.87%) Tableau
14 10 (0.79%) Electronic Patient Records
15 9 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 8 (0.63%) GIS
16 8 (0.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 116 (9.14%) JIRA
2 31 (2.44%) Git
3 30 (2.36%) Zephyr
4 24 (1.89%) Postman
5 18 (1.42%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.87%) Selenium
7 6 (0.47%) GitLab
7 6 (0.47%) Hudson
7 6 (0.47%) LSMW
7 6 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.32%) JUnit
8 4 (0.32%) Toad
9 3 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.24%) ERwin
9 3 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.16%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.16%) Cypress.io
General
1 418 (32.94%) Finance
2 394 (31.05%) Social Skills
3 161 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (8.12%) Public Sector
5 74 (5.83%) Banking
6 59 (4.65%) Manufacturing
7 50 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.39%) Law
9 41 (3.23%) Retail
10 36 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (1.97%) Local Government
11 25 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
12 24 (1.89%) General Ledger
12 24 (1.89%) Legal
13 22 (1.73%) Marketing
14 18 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 17 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
16 16 (1.26%) Billing
17 15 (1.18%) Aerospace
18 12 (0.95%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 290 (22.85%) Lead
2 200 (15.76%) Analyst
3 158 (12.45%) Architect
4 139 (10.95%) Consultant
5 112 (8.83%) Data Migration Lead
6 98 (7.72%) Project Manager
7 92 (7.25%) Business Analyst
8 87 (6.86%) Senior
9 86 (6.78%) Data Engineer
10 70 (5.52%) Data Analyst
11 58 (4.57%) Developer
12 57 (4.49%) Data Architect
12 57 (4.49%) Migration Analyst
13 53 (4.18%) Migration Engineer
14 48 (3.78%) Migration Manager
15 46 (3.62%) SAP Consultant
16 45 (3.55%) Data Migration Engineer
17 43 (3.39%) Data Migration Analyst
18 38 (2.99%) Lead Architect
19 35 (2.76%) Data Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (6.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 34 (2.68%) Middleware
3 33 (2.60%) REST
4 18 (1.42%) SOAP
4 18 (1.42%) XML
5 17 (1.34%) .NET
6 15 (1.18%) Spring
7 14 (1.10%) Kafka
8 11 (0.87%) JSON
8 11 (0.87%) OpenTelemetry
9 9 (0.71%) Lightning Web Components
10 7 (0.55%) PySpark
10 7 (0.55%) Spring Boot
11 6 (0.47%) FHIR
11 6 (0.47%) React
11 6 (0.47%) Web Services
12 4 (0.32%) ADO
12 4 (0.32%) AngularJS
12 4 (0.32%) SAP Fiori
12 4 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 165 (13.00%) Legacy Systems
2 100 (7.88%) Data Structures
3 41 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 39 (3.07%) Management Information System
5 28 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
6 27 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 23 (1.81%) Public Cloud
8 22 (1.73%) Product Ownership
9 18 (1.42%) Replication
10 16 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.18%) Reference Data
12 14 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (1.10%) Mainframe
12 14 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (0.95%) Data Centre
15 11 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
16 10 (0.79%) NHS
17 9 (0.71%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.97%) Windows
2 10 (0.79%) Linux
3 7 (0.55%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.55%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.55%) zOS
4 6 (0.47%) Unix
5 3 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (0.24%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.16%) VMS
7 1 (0.079%) AIX
7 1 (0.079%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,269 (100.00%) Migration
2 339 (26.71%) Validation
3 279 (21.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 265 (20.88%) ERP
5 256 (20.17%) User Acceptance Testing
6 233 (18.36%) Agile
7 220 (17.34%) ETL
8 195 (15.37%) Problem-Solving
9 191 (15.05%) Data Modelling
10 179 (14.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 146 (11.51%) Data Cleansing
12 136 (10.72%) Business Intelligence
13 129 (10.17%) Project Management
14 124 (9.77%) Data Mapping
15 119 (9.38%) Data Governance
16 115 (9.06%) Analytics
16 115 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
17 98 (7.72%) Change Management
17 98 (7.72%) Workshop Facilitation
18 97 (7.64%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 239 (18.83%) SQL
2 91 (7.17%) Python
3 36 (2.84%) Java
4 30 (2.36%) PL/SQL
5 21 (1.65%) Bash
6 13 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.87%) PowerShell
8 9 (0.71%) VBA
9 8 (0.63%) Apex Code
9 8 (0.63%) C#
9 8 (0.63%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.39%) PHP
10 5 (0.39%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.32%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.32%) Perl
12 3 (0.24%) ABAP
12 3 (0.24%) COBOL
12 3 (0.24%) Korn
13 2 (0.16%) X++
Qualifications
1 211 (16.63%) Security Cleared
2 158 (12.45%) SC Cleared
3 53 (4.18%) Degree
4 31 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 27 (2.13%) PMP
6 21 (1.65%) PMI Certification
7 20 (1.58%) ISTQB
8 18 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (0.79%) ACCA
9 10 (0.79%) Azure Certification
9 10 (0.79%) CIMA
10 6 (0.47%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.32%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.32%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.32%) OCP
12 4 (0.32%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.24%) IIBA
13 3 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (17.49%) Data Quality
2 90 (7.09%) QA
3 57 (4.49%) GDPR
4 23 (1.81%) PMO
5 13 (1.02%) SLA
6 11 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.79%) HL7
8 8 (0.63%) COBIT
9 7 (0.55%) IFRS
9 7 (0.55%) NIST
9 7 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.55%) SNOMED CT
10 5 (0.39%) DICOM
10 5 (0.39%) GAAP
10 5 (0.39%) GMP
11 4 (0.32%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.32%) Basel III
11 4 (0.32%) PERC
12 3 (0.24%) GRC
12 3 (0.24%) GxP
System Software
1 23 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.10%) vSphere
4 12 (0.95%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.71%) Docker
5 9 (0.71%) NFS
6 3 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.24%) SRDF
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.079%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 30 (2.36%) Terraform
2 28 (2.21%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.58%) Ansible
4 14 (1.10%) Grafana
4 14 (1.10%) vCenter Server
5 13 (1.02%) Argo
6 12 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.63%) EMC VPLEX
7 8 (0.63%) SCCM
8 6 (0.47%) vMotion
9 4 (0.32%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.24%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.16%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.16%) SnapMirror
11 2 (0.16%) SnapVault
12 1 (0.079%) Autotask
12 1 (0.079%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 246 (19.39%) SAP
2 233 (18.36%) Oracle
3 209 (16.47%) Microsoft
4 59 (4.65%) Salesforce
5 56 (4.41%) Databricks
6 27 (2.13%) VMware
7 24 (1.89%) Workday
8 22 (1.73%) Pure Storage
8 22 (1.73%) Sage
9 20 (1.58%) Google
9 20 (1.58%) Informatica
9 20 (1.58%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.42%) Talend
11 17 (1.34%) IFS
12 15 (1.18%) Avaloq
12 15 (1.18%) MuleSoft
13 13 (1.02%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.87%) IBM
14 11 (0.87%) Splunk
15 10 (0.79%) Ariba