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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 89 98
Rank change year-on-year +17 +9 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,447 758 834
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.23% 2.79% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 3.08% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 953 462 560
10th Percentile £363 £360 £368
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -1.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 13 35
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.56 £25.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £32.31 £40.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% -23.33% +141.94%
75th Percentile £57.52 £67.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £73.25 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% -20.00% +127.27%

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 38,234 24,648 31,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.43% 90.68% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,071 15,798 20,362
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,374 1,309 2,214
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.70 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +25 716 £548 -0.45% 87
South East +10 198 £556 +11.25% 68
North of England -14 194 £519 +9.26% 38
Midlands +5 150 £475 - 44
North West +4 119 £500 +3.90% 19
West Midlands 0 106 £450 -10.00% 31
South West +16 83 £523 -0.48% 19
Yorkshire -41 62 £525 +12.00% 17
East of England +5 55 £581 -7.37% 10
East Midlands +8 40 £517 +14.89% 13
North East -24 16 £625 +8.70% 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 53 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.49%) Confluence
3 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.35%) Apache
5 5 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.35%) Tuxedo
6 4 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
8 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.069%) Appian
9 1 (0.069%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.069%) CMS
9 1 (0.069%) IIS
9 1 (0.069%) Mendix
9 1 (0.069%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 73 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
4 15 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.069%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 157 (10.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
5 21 (1.45%) NetSuite
5 21 (1.45%) SAP ERP
6 17 (1.17%) Oracle Payables
7 15 (1.04%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (0.83%) iTrent
8 12 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
8 12 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
8 12 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 10 (0.69%) Loan IQ
9 10 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
9 10 (0.69%) Teamcenter
10 8 (0.55%) NEC Housing
10 8 (0.55%) SAP MDG
10 8 (0.55%) SAP SD
10 8 (0.55%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 233 (16.10%) Azure
2 147 (10.16%) AWS
3 142 (9.81%) Power Platform
4 111 (7.67%) Dynamics 365
5 83 (5.74%) OCI
6 73 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (4.01%) SaaS
8 46 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
9 45 (3.11%) Snowflake
10 41 (2.83%) GitHub
11 37 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
12 30 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 29 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
14 26 (1.80%) Power Automate
15 24 (1.66%) GCP
15 24 (1.66%) PowerApps
16 21 (1.45%) Amazon S3
17 17 (1.17%) dbt
18 15 (1.04%) OpenShift
19 13 (0.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.04%) SAN
2 14 (0.97%) DNS
2 14 (0.97%) NAS
3 6 (0.41%) Firewall
3 6 (0.41%) VPN
4 3 (0.21%) Intranet
4 3 (0.21%) VSAN
5 2 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.14%) HTTP
5 2 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.069%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.069%) DKIM
6 1 (0.069%) DMARC
6 1 (0.069%) FCoE
6 1 (0.069%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.069%) Network Security
6 1 (0.069%) SNMP
6 1 (0.069%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (8.50%) Power BI
2 97 (6.70%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (4.63%) SQL Server
4 60 (4.15%) Oracle Reports
5 43 (2.97%) Metadata
6 39 (2.70%) Data Lake
7 38 (2.63%) Relational Database
8 26 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (1.59%) Oracle Database
9 23 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 21 (1.45%) RDBMS
11 19 (1.31%) NoSQL
12 13 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (0.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 12 (0.83%) SAP Data Services
14 11 (0.76%) Db2
14 11 (0.76%) Oracle Exadata
14 11 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 10 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
15 10 (0.69%) GIS
Development Applications
1 127 (8.78%) JIRA
2 53 (3.66%) Git
3 37 (2.56%) Zephyr
4 32 (2.21%) Postman
5 23 (1.59%) Jenkins
6 19 (1.31%) GitLab
7 11 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.69%) Selenium
9 8 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.41%) Hudson
11 5 (0.35%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.35%) Gatling
11 5 (0.35%) LSMW
12 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.28%) JUnit
12 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.21%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
13 3 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
13 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 502 (34.69%) Finance
2 412 (28.47%) Social Skills
3 191 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 81 (5.60%) Banking
6 77 (5.32%) Manufacturing
7 52 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (3.18%) Law
8 46 (3.18%) Retail
9 37 (2.56%) General Ledger
10 31 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
11 29 (2.00%) Local Government
12 25 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 25 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (1.66%) Marketing
14 22 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.52%) Legal
15 21 (1.45%) Automotive
16 18 (1.24%) Billing
17 17 (1.17%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 294 (20.32%) Lead
2 214 (14.79%) Analyst
3 193 (13.34%) Architect
4 151 (10.44%) Consultant
5 117 (8.09%) Data Engineer
6 108 (7.46%) Data Migration Lead
6 108 (7.46%) Senior
7 106 (7.33%) Project Manager
8 98 (6.77%) Business Analyst
9 78 (5.39%) Data Analyst
10 68 (4.70%) Data Architect
11 66 (4.56%) Developer
12 63 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
13 56 (3.87%) Migration Analyst
14 52 (3.59%) Data Migration Engineer
15 47 (3.25%) Migration Manager
16 46 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
17 45 (3.11%) SAP Consultant
18 43 (2.97%) Data Migration Analyst
19 38 (2.63%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (5.53%) Oracle Fusion
2 40 (2.76%) REST
3 37 (2.56%) Middleware
4 24 (1.66%) .NET
4 24 (1.66%) SOAP
5 20 (1.38%) XML
6 19 (1.31%) Kafka
7 18 (1.24%) Spring
8 16 (1.11%) JSON
9 12 (0.83%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 11 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
10 11 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
10 11 (0.76%) PySpark
11 10 (0.69%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.62%) ADO
12 9 (0.62%) React
13 7 (0.48%) COM
13 7 (0.48%) ODBC
14 6 (0.41%) Playwright
14 6 (0.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 181 (12.51%) Legacy Systems
2 107 (7.39%) Data Structures
3 48 (3.32%) Cloud Native
4 45 (3.11%) Management Information System
5 37 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.49%) Public Cloud
7 32 (2.21%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
9 27 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.24%) Replication
11 17 (1.17%) NHS
12 16 (1.11%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (1.04%) FMCG
14 14 (0.97%) Mainframe
15 12 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
16 11 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (0.76%) Low-Code
17 10 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.66%) Windows
2 18 (1.24%) Linux
3 11 (0.76%) AIX
4 7 (0.48%) zOS
5 5 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (0.28%) VMS
7 3 (0.21%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.069%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.069%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,447 (100.00%) Migration
2 405 (27.99%) Validation
3 317 (21.91%) User Acceptance Testing
4 316 (21.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 314 (21.70%) ERP
6 251 (17.35%) Agile
7 244 (16.86%) ETL
8 217 (15.00%) Data Modelling
9 214 (14.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 204 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
11 157 (10.85%) Data Governance
12 148 (10.23%) Business Intelligence
13 146 (10.09%) Data Cleansing
14 137 (9.47%) DevOps
15 132 (9.12%) Analytics
16 126 (8.71%) Data Mapping
17 125 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
18 121 (8.36%) CI/CD
18 121 (8.36%) Project Management
19 112 (7.74%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 284 (19.63%) SQL
2 104 (7.19%) Python
3 41 (2.83%) Java
4 26 (1.80%) PL/SQL
5 23 (1.59%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.52%) Bash
7 18 (1.24%) C#
8 15 (1.04%) PowerShell
9 11 (0.76%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.62%) Apex Code
10 9 (0.62%) Kotlin
10 9 (0.62%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.48%) VB
11 7 (0.48%) VB6
11 7 (0.48%) VBA
12 5 (0.35%) C
12 5 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.28%) X++
14 3 (0.21%) COBOL
14 3 (0.21%) Korn
Qualifications
1 244 (16.86%) Security Cleared
2 191 (13.20%) SC Cleared
3 52 (3.59%) Degree
4 35 (2.42%) DV Cleared
5 28 (1.94%) ISTQB
5 28 (1.94%) PMP
6 24 (1.66%) PMI Certification
7 23 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.24%) ACCA
8 18 (1.24%) CIMA
9 13 (0.90%) Azure Certification
9 13 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (0.55%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 6 (0.41%) SAP Certification
12 5 (0.35%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (18.11%) Data Quality
2 122 (8.43%) QA
3 72 (4.98%) GDPR
4 33 (2.28%) PMO
5 14 (0.97%) SLA
6 10 (0.69%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.69%) HL7
7 9 (0.62%) IFRS
7 9 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
9 6 (0.41%) COBIT
10 5 (0.35%) DICOM
10 5 (0.35%) GMP
10 5 (0.35%) NIST
10 5 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.28%) GRC
11 4 (0.28%) PERC
11 4 (0.28%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 26 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (1.11%) Docker
3 15 (1.04%) vSphere
4 12 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
4 12 (0.83%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.69%) NFS
6 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.28%) SRDF
7 3 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (3.25%) Terraform
2 36 (2.49%) Kubernetes
3 31 (2.14%) Ansible
4 15 (1.04%) Grafana
4 15 (1.04%) vCenter Server
5 14 (0.97%) Argo
6 11 (0.76%) Data Guard
6 11 (0.76%) Oracle RMAN
7 10 (0.69%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.41%) vMotion
9 5 (0.35%) HP ALM
9 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (0.28%) NetBackup
10 4 (0.28%) SnapMirror
11 3 (0.21%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.21%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.21%) SnapVault
12 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.069%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 280 (19.35%) Oracle
2 274 (18.94%) SAP
3 241 (16.66%) Microsoft
4 69 (4.77%) Databricks
4 69 (4.77%) Salesforce
5 31 (2.14%) VMware
6 30 (2.07%) ServiceNow
7 27 (1.87%) Workday
8 26 (1.80%) Informatica
9 23 (1.59%) Pure Storage
10 21 (1.45%) IFS
11 20 (1.38%) Sage
11 20 (1.38%) Talend
12 19 (1.31%) Google
13 15 (1.04%) MuleSoft
13 15 (1.04%) Red Hat
14 13 (0.90%) IBM
15 12 (0.83%) Ariba
15 12 (0.83%) Siebel
16 11 (0.76%) Splunk