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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 86 105
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,401 833 753
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 2.95% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 3.25% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 534 508
10th Percentile £368 £375 £387
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £724 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £537 £538
% change year-on-year -2.23% -0.09% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 10 3
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.00 £40.40
25th Percentile £21.25 £33.36 £48.50
Median hourly rate £29.96 £62.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.06% -2.34% -24.71%
75th Percentile £55.50 £73.13 £67.88
90th Percentile £73.68 £95.50 £69.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +23.08% -49.22% -24.71%

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 39,797 25,656 27,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 90.96% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 16,263 16,907
10th Percentile £325 £296 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,100 1,620 1,099
10th Percentile £13.54 £14.64 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £38.13 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.59% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.25 £45.00 £66.80
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.55 £74.09
UK median hourly rate £37.24 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +48.07% -37.13% -10.11%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +7 694 £550 - 65
North of England -6 184 £525 +10.53% 32
Midlands +5 183 £472 -14.27% 26
South East -30 144 £485 -17.45% 40
West Midlands +15 136 £450 -18.18% 16
North West +8 108 £538 +19.44% 18
South West +22 94 £523 +0.72% 15
Yorkshire -27 54 £500 - 9
East of England -10 46 £509 +4.41% 17
East Midlands -3 42 £550 -2.22% 10
North East -15 25 £538 +22.86% 5
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 64 (4.57%) Confluence
2 52 (3.71%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.57%) SAS
4 13 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.50%) Apache
8 6 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.36%) CICS
9 5 (0.36%) CMS
9 5 (0.36%) Tuxedo
10 2 (0.14%) Documentum
10 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.14%) Mendix
10 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.14%) SugarCRM
11 1 (0.071%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.071%) IIS
11 1 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.071%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 66 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
3 15 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.29%) Windchill
7 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.071%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 149 (10.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (1.93%) Oracle Payables
4 20 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
4 20 (1.43%) Oracle Receivables
4 20 (1.43%) SAP FI
5 19 (1.36%) SAP HCM
6 17 (1.21%) NetSuite
7 15 (1.07%) SAP CO
7 15 (1.07%) SAP ERP
8 13 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
8 13 (0.93%) SAP SD
9 12 (0.86%) Oracle Financials
9 12 (0.86%) SAP MM
9 12 (0.86%) Teamcenter
10 11 (0.79%) iTrent
10 11 (0.79%) Oracle Assets
10 11 (0.79%) SAP Payroll
10 11 (0.79%) Workday HCM
11 10 (0.71%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 229 (16.35%) Azure
2 157 (11.21%) AWS
3 125 (8.92%) Power Platform
4 101 (7.21%) Dynamics 365
5 79 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
6 71 (5.07%) OCI
7 58 (4.14%) SaaS
8 45 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
9 44 (3.14%) SuccessFactors
10 37 (2.64%) Snowflake
11 35 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 34 (2.43%) Power Automate
13 29 (2.07%) PowerApps
14 28 (2.00%) GCP
15 27 (1.93%) Amazon S3
15 27 (1.93%) GitHub
16 26 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 21 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
18 18 (1.28%) dbt
19 17 (1.21%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.29%) VPN
2 3 (0.21%) Firewall
2 3 (0.21%) Intranet
2 3 (0.21%) NAS
2 3 (0.21%) SAN
3 1 (0.071%) Internet
3 1 (0.071%) SSL
3 1 (0.071%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (7.21%) Data Warehouse
2 96 (6.85%) Power BI
3 60 (4.28%) Metadata
4 59 (4.21%) SQL Server
5 55 (3.93%) Relational Database
6 38 (2.71%) Data Lake
6 38 (2.71%) Oracle Database
7 35 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
8 28 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (1.36%) RDBMS
10 17 (1.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 17 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 14 (1.00%) MongoDB
13 13 (0.93%) BigQuery
14 12 (0.86%) DataStage
14 12 (0.86%) Oracle Exadata
15 11 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (0.79%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 127 (9.06%) JIRA
2 60 (4.28%) Git
3 30 (2.14%) Zephyr
4 25 (1.78%) Postman
5 20 (1.43%) GitLab
6 17 (1.21%) Jenkins
7 8 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
8 7 (0.50%) Gatling
9 5 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.29%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.21%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.21%) Hudson
11 3 (0.21%) LSMW
11 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.14%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.14%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.14%) Yeoman
General
1 491 (35.05%) Finance
2 406 (28.98%) Social Skills
3 200 (14.28%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (10.21%) Public Sector
5 94 (6.71%) Banking
6 73 (5.21%) Manufacturing
7 57 (4.07%) Retail
8 53 (3.78%) General Ledger
9 49 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
10 35 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (2.43%) Local Government
12 31 (2.21%) Legal
13 23 (1.64%) Automotive
13 23 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.43%) Marketing
14 20 (1.43%) Military
15 19 (1.36%) Billing
16 18 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 17 (1.21%) Law
18 15 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 239 (17.06%) Analyst
2 208 (14.85%) Lead
3 161 (11.49%) Consultant
4 156 (11.13%) Architect
5 136 (9.71%) Data Engineer
6 129 (9.21%) Senior
7 97 (6.92%) Business Analyst
8 90 (6.42%) Data Analyst
9 79 (5.64%) Project Manager
10 78 (5.57%) Data Migration Lead
11 64 (4.57%) Data Architect
12 59 (4.21%) Developer
13 57 (4.07%) SAP Consultant
14 56 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
15 46 (3.28%) Data Migration Engineer
15 46 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
16 39 (2.78%) Migration Analyst
17 35 (2.50%) Accountant
17 35 (2.50%) Data Migration Analyst
18 34 (2.43%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (7.64%) Oracle Fusion
2 49 (3.50%) Middleware
3 35 (2.50%) REST
4 33 (2.36%) Terraform
5 31 (2.21%) .NET
6 23 (1.64%) SOAP
6 23 (1.64%) XML
7 18 (1.28%) JSON
7 18 (1.28%) PySpark
8 15 (1.07%) ADO
9 14 (1.00%) Kafka
9 14 (1.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 13 (0.93%) SAP Fiori
11 10 (0.71%) Keycloak
11 10 (0.71%) Web Services
12 9 (0.64%) React
13 8 (0.57%) HTML
13 8 (0.57%) Playwright
13 8 (0.57%) Spring
13 8 (0.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 151 (10.78%) Legacy Systems
2 100 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 53 (3.78%) Management Information System
4 49 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
5 41 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 38 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 35 (2.50%) Cloud Native
8 32 (2.28%) Public Cloud
9 23 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
9 23 (1.64%) Reference Data
10 18 (1.28%) Replication
11 16 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.14%) FMCG
11 16 (1.14%) NHS
12 14 (1.00%) Low-Code
13 13 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
13 13 (0.93%) Reinsurance
14 12 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.86%) Credit Risk
15 11 (0.79%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.93%) Windows
2 25 (1.78%) Linux
3 12 (0.86%) AIX
4 7 (0.50%) Unix
5 6 (0.43%) zOS
6 4 (0.29%) VMS
7 3 (0.21%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.071%) SUSE
9 1 (0.071%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,401 (100.00%) Migration
2 453 (32.33%) Validation
3 404 (28.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 324 (23.13%) User Acceptance Testing
5 293 (20.91%) ERP
6 256 (18.27%) Agile
7 235 (16.77%) ETL
8 233 (16.63%) Data Modelling
9 193 (13.78%) Data Governance
10 189 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
11 187 (13.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 144 (10.28%) DevOps
13 138 (9.85%) Data Cleansing
14 135 (9.64%) Requirements Gathering
15 132 (9.42%) Analytics
16 125 (8.92%) Business Intelligence
16 125 (8.92%) CI/CD
17 123 (8.78%) Data Integration
17 123 (8.78%) Data Transformation
18 119 (8.49%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 313 (22.34%) SQL
2 93 (6.64%) Python
3 27 (1.93%) JavaScript
4 26 (1.86%) C#
5 25 (1.78%) Java
6 24 (1.71%) PL/SQL
7 14 (1.00%) PowerShell
8 12 (0.86%) Bash
8 12 (0.86%) TypeScript
9 10 (0.71%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.64%) ABAP
11 6 (0.43%) JCL
11 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.36%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.36%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.36%) VB
12 5 (0.36%) VB6
12 5 (0.36%) X++
13 4 (0.29%) Korn
14 3 (0.21%) C
Qualifications
1 279 (19.91%) Security Cleared
2 236 (16.85%) SC Cleared
3 58 (4.14%) Degree
4 33 (2.36%) ACCA
4 33 (2.36%) CIMA
5 32 (2.28%) ISTQB
6 28 (2.00%) DV Cleared
6 28 (2.00%) PMI Certification
6 28 (2.00%) PMP
7 24 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 9 (0.64%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.57%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.50%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.43%) CBAP
14 6 (0.43%) SAP Certification
15 5 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 5 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 310 (22.13%) Data Quality
2 107 (7.64%) QA
3 68 (4.85%) GDPR
4 31 (2.21%) PMO
5 12 (0.86%) GRC
5 12 (0.86%) IFRS
6 11 (0.79%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.50%) SLA
9 5 (0.36%) HL7
9 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
11 3 (0.21%) DICOM
11 3 (0.21%) GAAP
11 3 (0.21%) GMP
11 3 (0.21%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.14%) GxP
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (1.93%) Docker
2 12 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (0.64%) 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 (0.071%) HDFS
6 1 (0.071%) NFS
6 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.071%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (1.93%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.36%) Ansible
3 12 (0.86%) Data Guard
3 12 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
4 9 (0.64%) Control-M
4 9 (0.64%) Karpenter
5 3 (0.21%) Grafana
6 2 (0.14%) EMC VPLEX
6 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.14%) SCCM
6 2 (0.14%) SnapMirror
7 1 (0.071%) Argo
7 1 (0.071%) Autotask
7 1 (0.071%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.071%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.071%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.071%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.071%) SnapVault
7 1 (0.071%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 291 (20.77%) Oracle
2 269 (19.20%) SAP
3 257 (18.34%) Microsoft
4 81 (5.78%) Databricks
5 62 (4.43%) Salesforce
6 38 (2.71%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.14%) Workday
8 25 (1.78%) Informatica
9 24 (1.71%) Talend
10 23 (1.64%) Google
10 23 (1.64%) IBM
11 18 (1.28%) IFS
12 16 (1.14%) Ariba
13 14 (1.00%) Sage
14 13 (0.93%) Denodo
15 9 (0.64%) Alteryx
15 9 (0.64%) Atlassian
16 8 (0.57%) Infor
16 8 (0.57%) InterSystems
17 7 (0.50%) NEC