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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 101 92
Rank change year-on-year +12 -9 +49
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,083 657 882
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.93% 2.69% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.39% 2.96% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 707 451 606
10th Percentile £363 £375 £396
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £632 £634 £650
90th Percentile £703 £709 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 39
10th Percentile £13.95 £24.53 £25.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £34.63 £40.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £57.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -28.13% +276.47%
75th Percentile £78.19 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.73 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £73.75 £80.00
% change year-on-year -60.00% -7.81% +255.56%

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 31,979 22,196 32,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.71% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,491 14,461 21,766
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,970 819 2,143
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.08 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £31.45 £33.40 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% +2.77% -10.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.20% -8.24%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +23 569 £550 - 110
South East -12 150 £599 +14.10% 72
North of England -13 142 £500 -4.76% 39
Midlands -21 105 £450 -11.98% 23
North West +10 85 £460 -16.36% 17
West Midlands -36 65 £473 -6.44% 17
Yorkshire -35 48 £525 +31.25% 18
East Midlands -8 38 £450 -7.93% 6
East of England -15 33 £583 -10.38% 15
South West -23 31 £563 +15.38% 21
North East -3 9 £488 -27.78% 4
South Coast - 1 £550 -
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 32 (2.95%) Confluence
2 30 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.74%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 6 (0.55%) GeoServer
5 6 (0.55%) Smallworld
6 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.28%) CMS
7 2 (0.18%) Appian
7 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.092%) Apache
8 1 (0.092%) IIS
8 1 (0.092%) Moodle
8 1 (0.092%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.092%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.092%) SAS
8 1 (0.092%) WebSphere
Applications
1 64 (5.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 21 (1.94%) Spreadsheet
3 19 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
3 19 (1.75%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.092%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.092%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 96 (8.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 52 (4.80%) Oracle EBS
3 31 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (1.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 13 (1.20%) Loan IQ
5 13 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
5 13 (1.20%) Oracle General Ledger
5 13 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
6 11 (1.02%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 11 (1.02%) SAP HR
6 11 (1.02%) Workday HCM
7 10 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
8 7 (0.65%) Oracle EBS R12
8 7 (0.65%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.55%) Finacle
9 6 (0.55%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.55%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.55%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 169 (15.60%) Azure
2 108 (9.97%) Power Platform
3 104 (9.60%) AWS
4 91 (8.40%) OCI
5 71 (6.56%) Dynamics 365
6 44 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (3.60%) SaaS
8 36 (3.32%) Azure Data Factory
9 34 (3.14%) GitHub
10 27 (2.49%) Snowflake
11 24 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 22 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
13 20 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
14 17 (1.57%) GCP
14 17 (1.57%) OpenShift
15 16 (1.48%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 15 (1.39%) Amazon S3
16 15 (1.39%) Entra ID
16 15 (1.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 12 (1.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.20%) DNS
2 11 (1.02%) NAS
3 10 (0.92%) SAN
4 3 (0.28%) Firewall
4 3 (0.28%) VPN
5 2 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.18%) SSL
6 1 (0.092%) FCoE
6 1 (0.092%) Internet
6 1 (0.092%) Intranet
6 1 (0.092%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.092%) Network Security
6 1 (0.092%) VSAN
6 1 (0.092%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (8.03%) Power BI
2 80 (7.39%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (5.36%) SQL Server
4 44 (4.06%) Oracle Reports
5 43 (3.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 36 (3.32%) Relational Database
7 29 (2.68%) Metadata
8 23 (2.12%) Data Lake
9 22 (2.03%) Oracle Database
10 19 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 18 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (1.48%) RDBMS
12 16 (1.48%) Tableau
13 14 (1.29%) NoSQL
14 13 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (1.11%) MySQL
15 12 (1.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 12 (1.11%) SAP Data Services
16 10 (0.92%) Big Data
16 10 (0.92%) DB2
Development Applications
1 92 (8.49%) JIRA
2 23 (2.12%) Git
3 16 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.39%) Zephyr
5 12 (1.11%) Postman
6 7 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.37%) GitLab
7 4 (0.37%) Hudson
7 4 (0.37%) LSMW
7 4 (0.37%) Selenium
7 4 (0.37%) Toad
7 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.28%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.28%) ERwin
8 3 (0.28%) JUnit
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 398 (36.75%) Social Skills
2 361 (33.33%) Finance
3 131 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (9.42%) Public Sector
5 68 (6.28%) Banking
6 38 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (3.32%) Manufacturing
7 36 (3.32%) Retail
8 35 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
9 27 (2.49%) Legal
10 26 (2.40%) Law
11 21 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.75%) Marketing
13 18 (1.66%) General Ledger
14 17 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 16 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (1.29%) Billing
16 14 (1.29%) Local Government
17 13 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (1.02%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 208 (19.21%) Lead
2 167 (15.42%) Analyst
3 135 (12.47%) Architect
3 135 (12.47%) Consultant
4 101 (9.33%) Project Manager
5 93 (8.59%) Business Analyst
6 78 (7.20%) Senior
7 72 (6.65%) Data Engineer
8 63 (5.82%) Data Analyst
9 59 (5.45%) Data Migration Lead
10 50 (4.62%) Migration Analyst
11 46 (4.25%) Developer
12 39 (3.60%) Migration Manager
13 37 (3.42%) Data Architect
13 37 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
14 36 (3.32%) Data Migration Analyst
14 36 (3.32%) SAP Consultant
15 31 (2.86%) Data Business Analyst
16 28 (2.59%) Oracle Consultant
17 27 (2.49%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (7.48%) Oracle Fusion
2 31 (2.86%) REST
3 28 (2.59%) Middleware
4 27 (2.49%) XML
5 21 (1.94%) SOAP
6 16 (1.48%) Lightning Web Components
7 14 (1.29%) .NET
7 14 (1.29%) JSON
8 12 (1.11%) OpenTelemetry
8 12 (1.11%) Web Services
9 11 (1.02%) Spring
10 8 (0.74%) PySpark
10 8 (0.74%) Visualforce
11 7 (0.65%) React
12 5 (0.46%) FHIR
12 5 (0.46%) Kafka
12 5 (0.46%) RESTful
12 5 (0.46%) XSLT
13 4 (0.37%) ADO
13 4 (0.37%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 153 (14.13%) Legacy Systems
2 82 (7.57%) Data Structures
3 38 (3.51%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.14%) Cloud Native
5 29 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.59%) Product Ownership
7 20 (1.85%) Replication
8 19 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.20%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.02%) NHS
12 11 (1.02%) Reference Data
12 11 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (0.83%) FMCG
14 9 (0.83%) Tandem
14 9 (0.83%) Taxonomies
15 8 (0.74%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.12%) Windows
2 8 (0.74%) Linux
3 7 (0.65%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.65%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.65%) zOS
4 6 (0.55%) Unix
5 5 (0.46%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) Solaris
7 1 (0.092%) AIX
7 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,083 (100.00%) Migration
2 255 (23.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 251 (23.18%) Validation
4 240 (22.16%) Agile
5 209 (19.30%) ERP
6 192 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
7 191 (17.64%) ETL
8 186 (17.17%) User Acceptance Testing
9 169 (15.60%) Data Modelling
10 164 (15.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 130 (12.00%) Project Management
12 123 (11.36%) Data Cleansing
13 120 (11.08%) Analytics
14 116 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
15 115 (10.62%) Data Mapping
16 114 (10.53%) Workshop Facilitation
17 104 (9.60%) Change Management
18 101 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
19 100 (9.23%) Data Governance
20 95 (8.77%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 214 (19.76%) SQL
2 85 (7.85%) Python
3 35 (3.23%) Java
4 20 (1.85%) PL/SQL
5 16 (1.48%) Bash
5 16 (1.48%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.39%) Apex Code
7 12 (1.11%) C#
8 9 (0.83%) PowerShell
9 8 (0.74%) VBA
10 7 (0.65%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.46%) Korn
11 5 (0.46%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.46%) Perl
11 5 (0.46%) PHP
11 5 (0.46%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.37%) X++
13 3 (0.28%) ABAP
13 3 (0.28%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 161 (14.87%) Security Cleared
2 113 (10.43%) SC Cleared
3 57 (5.26%) Degree
4 28 (2.59%) PMP
5 23 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (1.75%) PMI Certification
7 18 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.57%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.02%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.02%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.74%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.65%) OCP
12 7 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (0.55%) SAP Certification
14 3 (0.28%) ACCA
14 3 (0.28%) CIMA
14 3 (0.28%) IIBA
14 3 (0.28%) PgMP
14 3 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (17.45%) Data Quality
2 91 (8.40%) QA
3 60 (5.54%) GDPR
4 19 (1.75%) PMO
5 15 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.11%) COBIT
7 11 (1.02%) NIST
8 9 (0.83%) IFRS
9 8 (0.74%) SLA
10 7 (0.65%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.46%) GAAP
11 5 (0.46%) GMP
11 5 (0.46%) IFRS 9
11 5 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.37%) Basel III
12 4 (0.37%) HL7
12 4 (0.37%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.39%) Docker
4 13 (1.20%) VMware NSX
4 13 (1.20%) vSphere
5 10 (0.92%) NFS
6 2 (0.18%) SRDF
7 1 (0.092%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 38 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.40%) Terraform
3 16 (1.48%) Ansible
4 14 (1.29%) Grafana
5 13 (1.20%) Argo
5 13 (1.20%) vCenter Server
6 12 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.74%) SCCM
8 6 (0.55%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.55%) vMotion
9 3 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.18%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.092%) Avamar
11 1 (0.092%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.092%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.092%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.092%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.092%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.092%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 216 (19.94%) Oracle
2 183 (16.90%) SAP
3 161 (14.87%) Microsoft
4 58 (5.36%) Salesforce
5 40 (3.69%) Workday
6 38 (3.51%) Databricks
7 26 (2.40%) Informatica
8 25 (2.31%) VMware
9 23 (2.12%) Sage
10 22 (2.03%) Pure Storage
11 18 (1.66%) MuleSoft
11 18 (1.66%) ServiceNow
11 18 (1.66%) Talend
12 17 (1.57%) Avaloq
13 14 (1.29%) Google
13 14 (1.29%) Red Hat
14 12 (1.11%) IFS
14 12 (1.11%) Splunk
15 10 (0.92%) GoldenSource
15 10 (0.92%) IBM