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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 97 99
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 982 695 838
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.77% 2.70% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 3.00% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 468 575
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £447 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £660
90th Percentile £713 £704 £725
UK median daily rate £539 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.62% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 30
10th Percentile £14.95 £39.25 £25.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £45.63 £40.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +142.99%
75th Percentile £79.50 £72.90 £86.44
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.39 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £85.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -57.65% +6.25% +158.06%

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 30,906 23,179 32,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.22% 90.17% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,822 14,560 21,758
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £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 1,906 762 2,042
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.94
90th Percentile £72.52 £75.23 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -15.38% -1.71% -5.53%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 +11 525 £550 - 58
South East -19 131 £624 +16.64% 52
Midlands -13 112 £500 -3.61% 25
North of England -34 109 £500 -9.09% 32
West Midlands -30 67 £500 -4.76% 20
North West -4 64 £452 -11.81% 22
East Midlands +6 43 £538 +15.59% 5
Yorkshire -54 40 £525 -6.50% 10
South West -30 30 £525 +5.00% 13
East of England -30 26 £475 -26.92% 9
North East -18 5 £488 -25.00%
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 33 (3.36%) Confluence
2 27 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.81%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 6 (0.61%) GeoServer
5 6 (0.61%) Smallworld
6 4 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.31%) CMS
7 3 (0.31%) LiveLink
8 2 (0.20%) Appian
8 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.10%) Apache
9 1 (0.10%) IIS
9 1 (0.10%) Moodle
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.10%) SAP Portal
9 1 (0.10%) SAS
9 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 56 (5.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.93%) Spreadsheet
3 17 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 87 (8.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (4.79%) Oracle EBS
3 29 (2.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 18 (1.83%) Oracle General Ledger
4 18 (1.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 16 (1.63%) Oracle Payables
6 15 (1.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 15 (1.53%) SAP HR
7 12 (1.22%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (1.12%) Loan IQ
9 10 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
10 9 (0.92%) Oracle Cash Management
11 8 (0.81%) SAP CO
11 8 (0.81%) SAP FI
11 8 (0.81%) Workday HCM
12 7 (0.71%) Oracle EBS R12
12 7 (0.71%) SAP ERP
12 7 (0.71%) SAP FI/CO
13 6 (0.61%) Oracle FAH
13 6 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 140 (14.26%) Azure
2 97 (9.88%) AWS
3 81 (8.25%) OCI
4 77 (7.84%) Power Platform
5 52 (5.30%) Dynamics 365
6 34 (3.46%) SaaS
7 29 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
8 27 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (2.55%) Snowflake
10 23 (2.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 22 (2.24%) GitHub
12 19 (1.93%) SuccessFactors
13 17 (1.73%) Amazon S3
14 16 (1.63%) Entra ID
14 16 (1.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 16 (1.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 13 (1.32%) OpenShift
16 12 (1.22%) dbt
16 12 (1.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.12%) NAS
2 10 (1.02%) SAN
3 8 (0.81%) DNS
4 2 (0.20%) Firewall
4 2 (0.20%) SSL
5 1 (0.10%) FCoE
5 1 (0.10%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.10%) Internet
5 1 (0.10%) Intranet
5 1 (0.10%) IPv4
5 1 (0.10%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.10%) Network Security
5 1 (0.10%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.10%) VLAN
5 1 (0.10%) VSAN
5 1 (0.10%) WebEx
5 1 (0.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (7.33%) Data Warehouse
2 59 (6.01%) Power BI
3 53 (5.40%) SQL Server
4 44 (4.48%) Oracle Reports
4 44 (4.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 36 (3.67%) Relational Database
6 28 (2.85%) Oracle Database
7 25 (2.55%) Metadata
8 24 (2.44%) Data Lake
9 20 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (1.63%) RDBMS
11 15 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
11 15 (1.53%) Tableau
12 14 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (1.12%) MySQL
14 10 (1.02%) Big Data
14 10 (1.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 9 (0.92%) DataStage
16 8 (0.81%) DB2
16 8 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 83 (8.45%) JIRA
2 17 (1.73%) Git
3 13 (1.32%) Zephyr
4 12 (1.22%) Postman
5 11 (1.12%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.41%) LSMW
7 4 (0.41%) Toad
7 4 (0.41%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.31%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.31%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.31%) ERwin
8 3 (0.31%) Hudson
8 3 (0.31%) JUnit
8 3 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.20%) GitLab
9 2 (0.20%) Selenium
10 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 363 (36.97%) Social Skills
2 322 (32.79%) Finance
3 112 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (9.16%) Public Sector
5 70 (7.13%) Banking
6 36 (3.67%) Retail
7 33 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
8 30 (3.05%) Manufacturing
9 24 (2.44%) Legal
10 21 (2.14%) General Ledger
11 19 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (1.63%) Marketing
13 15 (1.53%) Local Government
14 14 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.22%) Law
17 11 (1.12%) Billing
18 10 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 178 (18.13%) Lead
2 158 (16.09%) Analyst
3 127 (12.93%) Consultant
4 108 (11.00%) Architect
5 90 (9.16%) Project Manager
6 89 (9.06%) Business Analyst
7 74 (7.54%) Senior
8 65 (6.62%) Data Engineer
9 58 (5.91%) Data Analyst
10 53 (5.40%) Data Migration Lead
11 45 (4.58%) Migration Analyst
12 43 (4.38%) Developer
13 36 (3.67%) Migration Manager
14 34 (3.46%) Data Architect
14 34 (3.46%) Data Migration Analyst
14 34 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
15 33 (3.36%) SAP Consultant
16 31 (3.16%) Oracle Consultant
17 27 (2.75%) Functional Consultant
18 26 (2.65%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (8.04%) Oracle Fusion
2 35 (3.56%) REST
3 28 (2.85%) XML
4 27 (2.75%) Middleware
5 20 (2.04%) SOAP
6 18 (1.83%) Lightning Web Components
7 13 (1.32%) Web Services
8 12 (1.22%) JSON
9 11 (1.12%) .NET
10 9 (0.92%) PySpark
10 9 (0.92%) Visualforce
11 7 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (0.61%) Kafka
12 6 (0.61%) XSLT
13 5 (0.51%) React
13 5 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
14 4 (0.41%) ADO
14 4 (0.41%) EDI
14 4 (0.41%) Spring
15 3 (0.31%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 133 (13.54%) Legacy Systems
2 69 (7.03%) Data Structures
3 36 (3.67%) Onboarding
4 32 (3.26%) Management Information System
5 21 (2.14%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
7 19 (1.93%) Replication
8 18 (1.83%) Cloud Native
9 17 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.32%) Reference Data
11 11 (1.12%) Data Centre
12 9 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.81%) Public Cloud
13 8 (0.81%) Tandem
14 7 (0.71%) FMCG
14 7 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (0.71%) NHS
14 7 (0.71%) Smartphone
14 7 (0.71%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.34%) Windows
2 8 (0.81%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.61%) Unix
5 5 (0.51%) Linux
5 5 (0.51%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.51%) zOS
6 3 (0.31%) Solaris
7 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 982 (100.00%) Migration
2 232 (23.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 222 (22.61%) Agile
4 205 (20.88%) Validation
5 184 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
6 177 (18.02%) ETL
7 176 (17.92%) ERP
8 149 (15.17%) User Acceptance Testing
9 145 (14.77%) Data Modelling
10 133 (13.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 116 (11.81%) Project Management
12 112 (11.41%) Analytics
13 107 (10.90%) Data Cleansing
14 106 (10.79%) Workshop Facilitation
15 102 (10.39%) Data Mapping
16 98 (9.98%) Change Management
17 86 (8.76%) Business Intelligence
18 76 (7.74%) Data Governance
19 75 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
20 72 (7.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 202 (20.57%) SQL
2 72 (7.33%) Python
3 31 (3.16%) Java
4 18 (1.83%) PL/SQL
5 17 (1.73%) JavaScript
6 16 (1.63%) Apex Code
7 11 (1.12%) C#
8 9 (0.92%) Bash
8 9 (0.92%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.71%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.61%) VBA
11 5 (0.51%) Perl
11 5 (0.51%) PHP
11 5 (0.51%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.41%) Korn
12 4 (0.41%) X++
13 3 (0.31%) ABAP
13 3 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.31%) SOQL
13 3 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 143 (14.56%) Security Cleared
2 101 (10.29%) SC Cleared
3 53 (5.40%) Degree
4 26 (2.65%) PMP
5 22 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (1.83%) PMI Certification
7 15 (1.53%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.53%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.02%) AWS Certification
10 9 (0.92%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.51%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.51%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.41%) OCP
12 4 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.31%) ACCA
13 3 (0.31%) CIMA
13 3 (0.31%) IIBA
13 3 (0.31%) PgMP
13 3 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (16.29%) Data Quality
2 77 (7.84%) QA
3 55 (5.60%) GDPR
4 17 (1.73%) PMO
5 15 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.22%) COBIT
7 11 (1.12%) NIST
8 9 (0.92%) IFRS
8 9 (0.92%) SLA
9 8 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.61%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.51%) GAAP
11 5 (0.51%) GMP
11 5 (0.51%) IFRS 9
11 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.41%) Basel III
12 4 (0.41%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (1.63%) Active Directory
1 16 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (1.32%) Docker
3 11 (1.12%) NFS
4 8 (0.81%) VMware NSX
4 8 (0.81%) vSphere
5 2 (0.20%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 25 (2.55%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.73%) Terraform
3 12 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.92%) Ansible
4 9 (0.92%) Grafana
4 9 (0.92%) SCCM
5 8 (0.81%) Argo
5 8 (0.81%) vCenter Server
6 6 (0.61%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (0.61%) vMotion
7 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.10%) Control-M
9 1 (0.10%) EMC TimeFinder
9 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 210 (21.38%) Oracle
2 169 (17.21%) SAP
3 126 (12.83%) Microsoft
4 54 (5.50%) Salesforce
5 39 (3.97%) Workday
6 34 (3.46%) Databricks
7 23 (2.34%) Informatica
7 23 (2.34%) Sage
8 19 (1.93%) VMware
9 17 (1.73%) MuleSoft
9 17 (1.73%) Talend
10 16 (1.63%) Pure Storage
11 15 (1.53%) Avaloq
11 15 (1.53%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.12%) IFS
13 10 (1.02%) Google
14 9 (0.92%) GoldenSource
14 9 (0.92%) Red Hat
15 8 (0.81%) Kronos
15 8 (0.81%) Temenos