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

 6 months to
8 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 99 96
Rank change year-on-year +23 -3 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,245 655 871
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.07% 2.70% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 2.96% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 815 411 602
10th Percentile £358 £375 £363
25th Percentile £440 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £733 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 8 33
10th Percentile £15.29 £29.58 £25.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £50.84 £40.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £63.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.25% -15.00% +233.33%
75th Percentile £41.83 £71.88 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.70 £77.74 -
UK median hourly rate £36.36 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -48.06% -6.67% +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 34,360 22,106 31,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 91.23% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,945 14,454 20,903
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,132 926 2,241
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.56 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.47 £29.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.40% -20.14% -2.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%

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 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 8 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 8 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 +36 616 £525 -4.55% 116
South East -6 175 £618 +13.47% 62
North of England -15 167 £500 +0.81% 46
Midlands -7 130 £475 -5.00% 30
North West +5 103 £467 -15.14% 27
West Midlands -13 89 £450 -10.00% 19
Yorkshire -34 57 £525 +34.62% 17
East of England -3 54 £575 -11.54% 21
South West -13 53 £525 +5.00% 20
East Midlands -3 38 £500 +9.29% 11
North East -12 7 £488 -20.41% 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 44 (3.53%) Confluence
1 44 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.48%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 3 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.16%) Appian
5 2 (0.16%) IIS
6 1 (0.080%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.080%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.080%) CMS
6 1 (0.080%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.080%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 70 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 19 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
4 15 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.080%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 143 (11.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (3.69%) Oracle EBS
3 32 (2.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 15 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
5 15 (1.20%) SAP ERP
6 14 (1.12%) Loan IQ
7 12 (0.96%) NetSuite
8 11 (0.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 10 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
10 9 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
11 8 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
12 7 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
12 7 (0.56%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.48%) Finacle
13 6 (0.48%) SAP Business One
13 6 (0.48%) SAP CO
13 6 (0.48%) SAP FI
13 6 (0.48%) Teamcenter
14 5 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 178 (14.30%) Azure
2 122 (9.80%) Power Platform
3 104 (8.35%) AWS
4 91 (7.31%) Dynamics 365
5 77 (6.18%) OCI
6 52 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (3.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 46 (3.69%) SaaS
9 34 (2.73%) GitHub
10 33 (2.65%) Snowflake
11 29 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 24 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (1.53%) GCP
14 16 (1.29%) SuccessFactors
15 14 (1.12%) Amazon S3
15 14 (1.12%) Entra ID
15 14 (1.12%) OpenShift
15 14 (1.12%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 13 (1.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 11 (0.88%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.20%) DNS
2 13 (1.04%) NAS
2 13 (1.04%) SAN
3 6 (0.48%) Firewall
4 4 (0.32%) VPN
5 2 (0.16%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.16%) HTTP
5 2 (0.16%) VSAN
6 1 (0.080%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.080%) DKIM
6 1 (0.080%) DMARC
6 1 (0.080%) FCoE
6 1 (0.080%) Internet
6 1 (0.080%) Intranet
6 1 (0.080%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.080%) Network Security
6 1 (0.080%) SNMP
6 1 (0.080%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (8.59%) Power BI
2 88 (7.07%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (4.66%) Oracle Reports
4 53 (4.26%) SQL Server
5 33 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 30 (2.41%) Metadata
7 28 (2.25%) Data Lake
8 23 (1.85%) Relational Database
9 22 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (1.53%) Oracle Database
11 15 (1.20%) NoSQL
12 14 (1.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 13 (1.04%) SAP Data Services
14 12 (0.96%) DB2
15 10 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (0.80%) Electronic Patient Records
15 10 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 10 (0.80%) Tableau
16 9 (0.72%) MySQL
17 8 (0.64%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 118 (9.48%) JIRA
2 32 (2.57%) Git
3 30 (2.41%) Zephyr
4 24 (1.93%) Postman
5 19 (1.53%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.88%) Selenium
7 8 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.48%) GitLab
8 6 (0.48%) Hudson
8 6 (0.48%) LSMW
9 4 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.32%) JUnit
9 4 (0.32%) Toad
10 3 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.24%) ERwin
10 3 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.16%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
General
1 409 (32.85%) Finance
2 386 (31.00%) Social Skills
3 159 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (8.27%) Public Sector
5 70 (5.62%) Banking
6 58 (4.66%) Manufacturing
7 48 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (3.53%) Law
9 40 (3.21%) Retail
10 38 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
12 23 (1.85%) General Ledger
12 23 (1.85%) Legal
12 23 (1.85%) Local Government
13 22 (1.77%) Marketing
14 18 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 17 (1.37%) Billing
15 17 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (1.12%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.96%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 284 (22.81%) Lead
2 194 (15.58%) Analyst
3 150 (12.05%) Architect
4 137 (11.00%) Consultant
5 107 (8.59%) Data Migration Lead
6 96 (7.71%) Project Manager
7 89 (7.15%) Business Analyst
8 87 (6.99%) Data Engineer
8 87 (6.99%) Senior
9 68 (5.46%) Data Analyst
10 59 (4.74%) Developer
11 55 (4.42%) Migration Analyst
12 51 (4.10%) Migration Engineer
13 47 (3.78%) Migration Manager
14 46 (3.69%) Data Migration Engineer
15 45 (3.61%) Data Architect
16 41 (3.29%) Data Migration Analyst
16 41 (3.29%) SAP Consultant
17 37 (2.97%) Lead Architect
18 34 (2.73%) Data Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (6.59%) Oracle Fusion
2 35 (2.81%) REST
3 34 (2.73%) Middleware
4 20 (1.61%) SOAP
5 17 (1.37%) .NET
5 17 (1.37%) XML
6 14 (1.12%) Kafka
7 13 (1.04%) Lightning Web Components
7 13 (1.04%) Spring
8 12 (0.96%) OpenTelemetry
9 11 (0.88%) JSON
10 7 (0.56%) PySpark
10 7 (0.56%) Web Services
11 6 (0.48%) FHIR
11 6 (0.48%) React
12 5 (0.40%) Spring Boot
12 5 (0.40%) Visualforce
13 4 (0.32%) AngularJS
13 4 (0.32%) RESTful
13 4 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 161 (12.93%) Legacy Systems
2 98 (7.87%) Data Structures
3 41 (3.29%) Cloud Native
4 39 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 29 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
7 27 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 20 (1.61%) Public Cloud
9 18 (1.45%) Replication
10 16 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (1.12%) Mainframe
12 14 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.96%) Data Centre
13 12 (0.96%) Reference Data
14 11 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
15 10 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (0.80%) NHS
16 9 (0.72%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.93%) Windows
2 9 (0.72%) Linux
3 7 (0.56%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.56%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.56%) zOS
4 6 (0.48%) Unix
5 3 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (0.24%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.080%) AIX
6 1 (0.080%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.080%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,245 (100.00%) Migration
2 325 (26.10%) Validation
3 277 (22.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 258 (20.72%) ERP
5 249 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 237 (19.04%) Agile
7 223 (17.91%) ETL
8 197 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
9 181 (14.54%) Data Modelling
10 171 (13.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 142 (11.41%) Data Cleansing
12 135 (10.84%) Business Intelligence
13 128 (10.28%) Project Management
14 124 (9.96%) Data Mapping
15 116 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 113 (9.08%) Analytics
17 109 (8.76%) Data Governance
18 98 (7.87%) Workshop Facilitation
19 96 (7.71%) Data Validation
19 96 (7.71%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 239 (19.20%) SQL
2 93 (7.47%) Python
3 36 (2.89%) Java
4 31 (2.49%) PL/SQL
5 21 (1.69%) Bash
6 12 (0.96%) Apex Code
6 12 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.88%) PowerShell
8 9 (0.72%) VBA
9 8 (0.64%) C#
9 8 (0.64%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.40%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.40%) PHP
10 5 (0.40%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.32%) Perl
11 4 (0.32%) SOQL
12 3 (0.24%) ABAP
12 3 (0.24%) COBOL
12 3 (0.24%) Korn
Qualifications
1 198 (15.90%) Security Cleared
2 147 (11.81%) SC Cleared
3 48 (3.86%) Degree
4 30 (2.41%) DV Cleared
5 25 (2.01%) PMP
6 20 (1.61%) ISTQB
7 19 (1.53%) PMI Certification
8 18 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (0.80%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.64%) ACCA
10 8 (0.64%) CIMA
11 7 (0.56%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.32%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.32%) OCP
12 4 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.32%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.24%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (17.51%) Data Quality
2 92 (7.39%) QA
3 59 (4.74%) GDPR
4 25 (2.01%) PMO
5 12 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.96%) SLA
6 10 (0.80%) COBIT
6 10 (0.80%) HL7
7 9 (0.72%) NIST
8 7 (0.56%) IFRS
8 7 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
9 5 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.40%) DICOM
9 5 (0.40%) GAAP
9 5 (0.40%) GMP
10 4 (0.32%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.32%) Basel III
10 4 (0.32%) PERC
11 3 (0.24%) GxP
System Software
1 24 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.20%) vSphere
4 13 (1.04%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.72%) Docker
5 9 (0.72%) 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 (0.080%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 31 (2.49%) Terraform
2 30 (2.41%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.61%) Ansible
4 15 (1.20%) Grafana
4 15 (1.20%) vCenter Server
5 14 (1.12%) Argo
6 12 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.64%) EMC VPLEX
7 8 (0.64%) SCCM
8 6 (0.48%) 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 (0.080%) Autotask
12 1 (0.080%) Avamar
Vendors
1 239 (19.20%) SAP
2 233 (18.71%) Oracle
3 196 (15.74%) Microsoft
4 65 (5.22%) Salesforce
5 47 (3.78%) Databricks
6 28 (2.25%) VMware
7 24 (1.93%) Workday
8 23 (1.85%) Informatica
8 23 (1.85%) Pure Storage
9 22 (1.77%) Sage
10 20 (1.61%) ServiceNow
11 19 (1.53%) Talend
12 17 (1.37%) Google
13 16 (1.29%) MuleSoft
14 15 (1.20%) Avaloq
14 15 (1.20%) IFS
15 14 (1.12%) Red Hat
16 12 (0.96%) Splunk
17 11 (0.88%) IBM
18 10 (0.80%) Ariba
265 Data Migration jobs in England