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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 88 102
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,389 803 741
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.98% 2.89% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 3.18% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 916 501 497
10th Percentile £363 £375 £392
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 9 6
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.00 £48.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £32.31 £62.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £73.25
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% -11.26% -20.57%
75th Percentile £57.50 £71.25 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £81.00 -
UK median hourly rate £38.36 £35.25 £73.25
% change year-on-year +8.81% -51.88% -20.57%

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 39,443 25,283 28,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.86% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,053 16,051 17,283
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,529 1,252
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.09
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 24 September 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 +12 679 £550 - 414
North of England -16 175 £525 +10.53% 116
Midlands +3 174 £475 -13.64% 106
South East -13 161 £540 -8.09% 146
West Midlands +6 124 £450 -14.29% 77
North West -1 106 £538 +19.44% 61
South West +25 95 £523 -0.48% 33
East of England -5 54 £525 +6.33% 47
Yorkshire -33 54 £505 +1.00% 33
East Midlands -3 47 £525 -4.55% 28
North East -29 18 £475 +8.57% 22
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 57 (4.10%) SharePoint
2 49 (3.53%) Confluence
3 13 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.58%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.50%) Apache
7 5 (0.36%) CMS
7 5 (0.36%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.14%) Mendix
8 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.14%) SAS
8 2 (0.14%) SugarCRM
9 1 (0.072%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.072%) CICS
9 1 (0.072%) Documentum
9 1 (0.072%) IIS
9 1 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.072%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 69 (4.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.51%) Spreadsheet
3 17 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.22%) Windchill
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.072%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 143 (10.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (3.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (1.87%) Oracle Payables
4 21 (1.51%) Oracle Receivables
5 20 (1.44%) NetSuite
5 20 (1.44%) Oracle ERP
6 19 (1.37%) SAP ERP
7 13 (0.94%) Oracle Financials
7 13 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
7 13 (0.94%) SAP SD
8 12 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
8 12 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.86%) SAP FI
8 12 (0.86%) SAP HCM
8 12 (0.86%) Teamcenter
9 11 (0.79%) iTrent
9 11 (0.79%) SAP MDG
9 11 (0.79%) SAP MM
9 11 (0.79%) Workday HCM
10 10 (0.72%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 230 (16.56%) Azure
2 134 (9.65%) AWS
3 128 (9.22%) Power Platform
4 99 (7.13%) Dynamics 365
5 74 (5.33%) OCI
6 73 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (3.82%) SaaS
8 44 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 44 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
9 41 (2.95%) Snowflake
10 39 (2.81%) SuccessFactors
11 32 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 29 (2.09%) Power Automate
13 28 (2.02%) GCP
14 27 (1.94%) Amazon S3
15 25 (1.80%) PowerApps
16 23 (1.66%) GitHub
17 21 (1.51%) Microsoft Purview
18 19 (1.37%) dbt
19 13 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.36%) NAS
1 5 (0.36%) SAN
2 4 (0.29%) VPN
3 3 (0.22%) Firewall
3 3 (0.22%) Intranet
4 2 (0.14%) DNS
4 2 (0.14%) VSAN
5 1 (0.072%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.072%) DKIM
5 1 (0.072%) DMARC
5 1 (0.072%) Internet
5 1 (0.072%) SNMP
5 1 (0.072%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (7.56%) Power BI
2 100 (7.20%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (4.32%) SQL Server
4 59 (4.25%) Metadata
5 47 (3.38%) Relational Database
6 44 (3.17%) Oracle Reports
7 42 (3.02%) Data Lake
8 30 (2.16%) Oracle Database
9 27 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (1.37%) RDBMS
11 15 (1.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 14 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (0.86%) BigQuery
14 12 (0.86%) NoSQL
14 12 (0.86%) Oracle Exadata
15 11 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (0.79%) DataStage
15 11 (0.79%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 119 (8.57%) JIRA
2 48 (3.46%) Git
3 35 (2.52%) Zephyr
4 30 (2.16%) Postman
5 17 (1.22%) GitLab
6 11 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
7 9 (0.65%) Jenkins
8 7 (0.50%) Selenium
9 5 (0.36%) Gatling
9 5 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.29%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.29%) Hudson
10 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.22%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.22%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.22%) LSMW
11 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.14%) Yeoman
13 1 (0.072%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.072%) Bitbucket
General
1 468 (33.69%) Finance
2 392 (28.22%) Social Skills
3 191 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (9.22%) Public Sector
5 87 (6.26%) Banking
6 78 (5.62%) Manufacturing
7 58 (4.18%) Retail
8 54 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
9 45 (3.24%) General Ledger
10 35 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (2.38%) Local Government
12 28 (2.02%) Law
13 24 (1.73%) Automotive
14 23 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.66%) Legal
15 22 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 22 (1.58%) Marketing
16 17 (1.22%) Billing
17 16 (1.15%) Aviation
17 16 (1.15%) Military
Job Titles
1 234 (16.85%) Lead
2 227 (16.34%) Analyst
3 161 (11.59%) Architect
4 154 (11.09%) Consultant
5 130 (9.36%) Data Engineer
6 123 (8.86%) Senior
7 99 (7.13%) Data Migration Lead
8 96 (6.91%) Business Analyst
9 80 (5.76%) Project Manager
10 79 (5.69%) Data Analyst
11 64 (4.61%) Developer
12 63 (4.54%) Migration Engineer
13 62 (4.46%) Data Architect
14 53 (3.82%) Data Migration Engineer
15 52 (3.74%) SAP Consultant
16 45 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
17 41 (2.95%) Migration Analyst
18 37 (2.66%) Data Migration Analyst
19 34 (2.45%) Data Consultant
20 33 (2.38%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (7.42%) Oracle Fusion
2 43 (3.10%) Middleware
3 32 (2.30%) Terraform
4 31 (2.23%) REST
5 24 (1.73%) .NET
6 21 (1.51%) SOAP
6 21 (1.51%) XML
7 17 (1.22%) PySpark
8 16 (1.15%) JSON
9 15 (1.08%) Kafka
10 13 (0.94%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 11 (0.79%) ADO
12 9 (0.65%) Keycloak
12 9 (0.65%) Web Services
13 8 (0.58%) SAP Fiori
14 7 (0.50%) Lightning Web Components
14 7 (0.50%) Spring
14 7 (0.50%) Spring Boot
15 6 (0.43%) HTML
15 6 (0.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 152 (10.94%) Legacy Systems
2 98 (7.06%) Data Structures
3 48 (3.46%) Onboarding
4 44 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 42 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
6 38 (2.74%) Public Cloud
7 32 (2.30%) Product Ownership
8 28 (2.02%) Cloud Native
9 26 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
10 24 (1.73%) Reference Data
11 18 (1.30%) Replication
12 17 (1.22%) NHS
13 15 (1.08%) FMCG
14 13 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.86%) Low-Code
15 12 (0.86%) Reinsurance
16 11 (0.79%) Life Science
17 10 (0.72%) Data Centre
17 10 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.73%) Windows
2 22 (1.58%) Linux
3 12 (0.86%) AIX
4 5 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.29%) VMS
6 2 (0.14%) Unix
6 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.072%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.072%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,389 (100.00%) Migration
2 413 (29.73%) Validation
3 369 (26.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 308 (22.17%) User Acceptance Testing
5 300 (21.60%) ERP
6 234 (16.85%) Agile
7 231 (16.63%) ETL
8 227 (16.34%) Data Modelling
9 196 (14.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 178 (12.81%) Data Governance
11 172 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
12 132 (9.50%) Business Intelligence
13 131 (9.43%) Data Cleansing
14 130 (9.36%) Analytics
15 127 (9.14%) DevOps
16 120 (8.64%) Data Mapping
16 120 (8.64%) Requirements Gathering
17 107 (7.70%) Data Integration
17 107 (7.70%) System Integration Testing
18 105 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 292 (21.02%) SQL
2 80 (5.76%) Python
3 27 (1.94%) PL/SQL
4 23 (1.66%) Java
5 20 (1.44%) C#
5 20 (1.44%) JavaScript
6 19 (1.37%) PowerShell
7 11 (0.79%) Bash
8 10 (0.72%) T-SQL
8 10 (0.72%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.50%) ABAP
10 6 (0.43%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.43%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.36%) VB
11 5 (0.36%) VB6
11 5 (0.36%) X++
12 4 (0.29%) C
12 4 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.22%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 258 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 211 (15.19%) SC Cleared
3 53 (3.82%) Degree
4 31 (2.23%) ACCA
4 31 (2.23%) CIMA
5 30 (2.16%) DV Cleared
6 27 (1.94%) PMI Certification
6 27 (1.94%) PMP
7 26 (1.87%) ISTQB
8 22 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.58%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 5 (0.36%) SAP Certification
13 4 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.22%) CCAB
14 3 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 284 (20.45%) Data Quality
2 103 (7.42%) QA
3 57 (4.10%) GDPR
4 32 (2.30%) PMO
5 13 (0.94%) GRC
6 10 (0.72%) IFRS
7 9 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.65%) HL7
8 8 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.58%) SLA
9 6 (0.43%) DICOM
10 5 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
11 3 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.14%) GAAP
12 2 (0.14%) GMP
12 2 (0.14%) GxP
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.072%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.072%) SEPA
System Software
1 15 (1.08%) Docker
2 13 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (0.58%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (0.22%) SRDF
6 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.22%) vSphere
7 2 (0.14%) NFS
8 1 (0.072%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (1.44%) Ansible
2 15 (1.08%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.86%) Data Guard
3 12 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (0.58%) Karpenter
5 4 (0.29%) EMC VPLEX
5 4 (0.29%) SnapMirror
6 3 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (0.22%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.22%) NetBackup
6 3 (0.22%) SnapVault
6 3 (0.22%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.14%) Argo
7 2 (0.14%) Control-M
7 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.14%) Grafana
7 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.072%) Autotask
8 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.072%) SCCM
Vendors
1 292 (21.02%) Oracle
2 264 (19.01%) SAP
3 248 (17.85%) Microsoft
4 85 (6.12%) Databricks
5 61 (4.39%) Salesforce
6 29 (2.09%) Workday
7 27 (1.94%) ServiceNow
8 25 (1.80%) Google
9 24 (1.73%) Informatica
10 19 (1.37%) IBM
10 19 (1.37%) Talend
11 18 (1.30%) IFS
12 14 (1.01%) Ariba
13 12 (0.86%) Sage
14 9 (0.65%) Alteryx
14 9 (0.65%) Infor
15 8 (0.58%) Atlassian
15 8 (0.58%) InterSystems
15 8 (0.58%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.58%) Siebel