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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 93 95
Rank change year-on-year +15 +2 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,456 776 769
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.18% 2.81% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 3.10% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 478 529
10th Percentile £363 £360 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £642 £640
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 12 18
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.28 £69.73
25th Percentile £23.00 £28.68 £72.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.25 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.40% -37.19% +199.07%
75th Percentile £57.50 £68.44 -
90th Percentile £73.98 £73.50 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £36.33 £80.00
% change year-on-year +10.12% -54.59% +199.07%

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 38,841 25,050 28,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.82% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,525
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,548 1,450 1,590
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.12
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.87 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.45 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% +0.61%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +23 704 £550 - 205
North of England -15 200 £519 +9.26% 62
South East -1 189 £550 +7.32% 79
Midlands +16 175 £456 -8.80% 52
West Midlands +4 123 £443 -11.50% 29
North West +1 123 £525 +10.53% 47
South West +9 85 £523 -0.48% 25
Yorkshire -35 63 £500 +4.71% 10
East of England +2 55 £570 -5.71% 20
East Midlands +5 47 £525 +16.67% 23
North East -23 17 £575 - 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 61 (4.19%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.95%) Confluence
3 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
5 7 (0.48%) Apache
6 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.34%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.14%) CMS
8 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.14%) Mendix
8 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.069%) IIS
9 1 (0.069%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.069%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 73 (5.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
3 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.069%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 153 (10.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (1.99%) Oracle EBS
4 24 (1.65%) Oracle ERP
5 21 (1.44%) Oracle Payables
6 20 (1.37%) SAP ERP
7 19 (1.30%) NetSuite
8 17 (1.17%) Oracle Receivables
9 13 (0.89%) Workday HCM
10 12 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
11 11 (0.76%) iTrent
11 11 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
11 11 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 10 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
12 10 (0.69%) SAP MDG
12 10 (0.69%) Teamcenter
13 9 (0.62%) SAP SD
14 7 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
14 7 (0.48%) Temenos T24
15 6 (0.41%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 236 (16.21%) Azure
2 152 (10.44%) Power Platform
3 149 (10.23%) AWS
4 116 (7.97%) Dynamics 365
5 93 (6.39%) OCI
6 76 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (4.12%) SaaS
8 49 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
9 44 (3.02%) Snowflake
10 39 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
11 33 (2.27%) GitHub
11 33 (2.27%) Power Automate
11 33 (2.27%) SuccessFactors
12 29 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 28 (1.92%) PowerApps
14 24 (1.65%) GCP
15 23 (1.58%) Amazon S3
16 18 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
17 15 (1.03%) dbt
18 13 (0.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.48%) DNS
1 7 (0.48%) VPN
2 6 (0.41%) NAS
2 6 (0.41%) SAN
3 4 (0.27%) Firewall
4 3 (0.21%) Intranet
5 2 (0.14%) HTTP
5 2 (0.14%) VSAN
6 1 (0.069%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.069%) DKIM
6 1 (0.069%) DMARC
6 1 (0.069%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.069%) Internet
6 1 (0.069%) Network Security
6 1 (0.069%) SNMP
6 1 (0.069%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (9.07%) Power BI
2 110 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (4.46%) SQL Server
4 58 (3.98%) Oracle Reports
5 48 (3.30%) Metadata
6 43 (2.95%) Relational Database
7 37 (2.54%) Data Lake
8 30 (2.06%) Oracle Database
9 23 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (1.30%) RDBMS
11 18 (1.24%) NoSQL
12 16 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 15 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (0.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 12 (0.82%) DataStage
15 12 (0.82%) Oracle Exadata
15 12 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 11 (0.76%) SAP Data Services
17 9 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
17 9 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 131 (9.00%) JIRA
2 59 (4.05%) Git
3 47 (3.23%) Zephyr
4 39 (2.68%) Postman
5 18 (1.24%) GitLab
6 15 (1.03%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.69%) Selenium
9 6 (0.41%) Hudson
10 5 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.34%) Gatling
10 5 (0.34%) LSMW
10 5 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.21%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.21%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.21%) JUnit
12 3 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 517 (35.51%) Finance
2 416 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 196 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (9.00%) Public Sector
5 89 (6.11%) Banking
6 80 (5.49%) Manufacturing
7 55 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
8 54 (3.71%) Retail
9 50 (3.43%) Law
10 41 (2.82%) General Ledger
11 34 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
12 31 (2.13%) Local Government
13 25 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 25 (1.72%) Marketing
14 24 (1.65%) Automotive
15 22 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (1.44%) Legal
16 21 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (1.30%) Billing
18 16 (1.10%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 282 (19.37%) Lead
2 214 (14.70%) Analyst
3 184 (12.64%) Architect
4 160 (10.99%) Consultant
5 123 (8.45%) Data Engineer
6 120 (8.24%) Senior
7 105 (7.21%) Data Migration Lead
8 94 (6.46%) Project Manager
9 90 (6.18%) Business Analyst
10 72 (4.95%) Data Analyst
11 71 (4.88%) Developer
12 60 (4.12%) Data Architect
13 58 (3.98%) Migration Engineer
14 49 (3.37%) SAP Consultant
15 47 (3.23%) Data Migration Engineer
15 47 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
16 46 (3.16%) Migration Analyst
17 42 (2.88%) Data Consultant
18 40 (2.75%) Migration Consultant
19 38 (2.61%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (6.59%) Oracle Fusion
2 43 (2.95%) Middleware
3 37 (2.54%) REST
4 26 (1.79%) .NET
5 21 (1.44%) SOAP
5 21 (1.44%) XML
6 18 (1.24%) Kafka
7 16 (1.10%) JSON
8 15 (1.03%) PySpark
9 14 (0.96%) Spring
10 13 (0.89%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 9 (0.62%) Lightning Web Components
12 8 (0.55%) SAP Fiori
12 8 (0.55%) Spring Boot
13 7 (0.48%) React
14 6 (0.41%) ADO
14 6 (0.41%) Playwright
14 6 (0.41%) RESTful
15 5 (0.34%) FHIR
15 5 (0.34%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 167 (11.47%) Legacy Systems
2 97 (6.66%) Data Structures
3 45 (3.09%) Management Information System
4 43 (2.95%) Cloud Native
5 42 (2.88%) Public Cloud
6 40 (2.75%) Onboarding
7 36 (2.47%) Product Ownership
8 34 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (1.30%) NHS
11 16 (1.10%) FMCG
12 15 (1.03%) Replication
13 14 (0.96%) Data Centre
13 14 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (0.96%) Reference Data
14 13 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.76%) Low-Code
16 10 (0.69%) CMDB
16 10 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.65%) Windows
2 22 (1.51%) Linux
3 12 (0.82%) AIX
4 5 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.27%) VMS
6 3 (0.21%) zOS
7 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.069%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,456 (100.00%) Migration
2 404 (27.75%) Validation
3 333 (22.87%) ERP
3 333 (22.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 322 (22.12%) User Acceptance Testing
5 258 (17.72%) Agile
6 254 (17.45%) ETL
7 237 (16.28%) Data Modelling
8 230 (15.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 177 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
10 176 (12.09%) Data Governance
11 156 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
12 139 (9.55%) Data Cleansing
13 133 (9.13%) Analytics
13 133 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 127 (8.72%) DevOps
15 117 (8.04%) Data Mapping
16 113 (7.76%) CI/CD
17 108 (7.42%) Data Transformation
17 108 (7.42%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 297 (20.40%) SQL
2 96 (6.59%) Python
3 40 (2.75%) Java
4 28 (1.92%) PL/SQL
5 21 (1.44%) C#
6 18 (1.24%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.10%) Bash
8 14 (0.96%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.82%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.62%) Kotlin
11 8 (0.55%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.48%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.41%) ABAP
14 5 (0.34%) C
14 5 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.34%) VB
14 5 (0.34%) VB6
14 5 (0.34%) VBA
15 4 (0.27%) X++
16 3 (0.21%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 254 (17.45%) Security Cleared
2 203 (13.94%) SC Cleared
3 53 (3.64%) Degree
4 36 (2.47%) DV Cleared
5 34 (2.34%) ISTQB
6 30 (2.06%) PMP
7 28 (1.92%) ACCA
7 28 (1.92%) CIMA
7 28 (1.92%) PMI Certification
8 18 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (0.76%) Azure Certification
9 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (0.55%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.48%) SAP Certification
13 6 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.34%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 3 (0.21%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (19.02%) Data Quality
2 120 (8.24%) QA
3 68 (4.67%) GDPR
4 34 (2.34%) PMO
5 12 (0.82%) SLA
6 11 (0.76%) IFRS
7 10 (0.69%) HL7
8 9 (0.62%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.55%) GRC
10 7 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
11 6 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.41%) DICOM
11 6 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.27%) PERC
12 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.21%) GAAP
13 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 2 (0.14%) GMP
14 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 14 (0.96%) Docker
2 13 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
3 12 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.69%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.55%) vSphere
6 5 (0.34%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.21%) SRDF
8 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.14%) NFS
Systems Management
1 37 (2.54%) Terraform
2 27 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.79%) Ansible
4 12 (0.82%) Data Guard
4 12 (0.82%) Oracle RMAN
5 8 (0.55%) vCenter Server
6 7 (0.48%) Argo
6 7 (0.48%) Grafana
7 5 (0.34%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (0.27%) EMC VPLEX
8 4 (0.27%) Karpenter
8 4 (0.27%) NetBackup
8 4 (0.27%) SnapMirror
9 3 (0.21%) SnapVault
10 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.069%) Autotask
11 1 (0.069%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 303 (20.81%) Oracle
2 269 (18.48%) SAP
3 252 (17.31%) Microsoft
4 77 (5.29%) Databricks
5 62 (4.26%) Salesforce
6 32 (2.20%) Workday
7 31 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 23 (1.58%) IBM
9 20 (1.37%) Informatica
10 18 (1.24%) Google
11 17 (1.17%) IFS
11 17 (1.17%) Talend
12 16 (1.10%) Sage
13 15 (1.03%) Ariba
13 15 (1.03%) VMware
14 10 (0.69%) Siebel
15 9 (0.62%) Atlassian
15 9 (0.62%) InterSystems
16 8 (0.55%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.55%) Red Hat