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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 95 105
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 880 766 882
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.87% 2.47% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 2.82% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 526 593
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £437 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.77%
75th Percentile £650 £639 £650
90th Percentile £736 £700 £736
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 11
10th Percentile £18.46 £40.40 £82.50
25th Percentile £59.75 £48.50 £83.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -24.71% +34.92%
75th Percentile £81.00 £67.88 £86.50
90th Percentile £91.31 £69.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £62.25 £64.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year -2.73% -24.71% +34.92%

All Process and 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 27,581 27,123 34,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.93% 87.40% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,503 16,556 23,537
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,803 997 1,447
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.62
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.26 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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 +22 480 £550 - 122
South East -19 119 £618 +12.27% 133
Midlands 0 103 £550 +4.76% 69
North of England -50 80 £463 -11.90% 74
West Midlands -12 61 £538 -2.27% 38
East Midlands +15 40 £563 +32.35% 26
Yorkshire -26 39 £513 -7.78% 33
North West -25 38 £430 -14.00% 35
South West -13 28 £524 +4.75% 36
East of England -13 19 £475 -9.52% 34
North East -13 4 £438 -27.08% 6
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 35 (3.98%) Confluence
2 24 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.80%) Smallworld
6 6 (0.68%) GeoServer
7 5 (0.57%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
8 4 (0.45%) CMS
9 3 (0.34%) Apache
9 3 (0.34%) LiveLink
10 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) Documentum
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.11%) Moodle
11 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.11%) SAP Portal
11 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 45 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (1.25%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.11%) Trello
7 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 70 (7.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (4.09%) Oracle EBS
3 34 (3.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (2.50%) SAP HR
5 18 (2.05%) Oracle Payables
6 13 (1.48%) Oracle General Ledger
7 11 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 10 (1.14%) Oracle EBS R12
8 10 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
9 8 (0.91%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.91%) Oracle Cash Management
9 8 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.91%) SAP Payroll
9 8 (0.91%) Workday HCM
10 7 (0.80%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 7 (0.80%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.80%) SAP PM
11 6 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
11 6 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 121 (13.75%) Azure
2 70 (7.95%) AWS
3 66 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 60 (6.82%) OCI
5 57 (6.48%) Dynamics 365
6 47 (5.34%) SaaS
7 35 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (2.84%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 25 (2.84%) Snowflake
9 23 (2.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 19 (2.16%) Amazon S3
10 19 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
10 19 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (2.05%) GCP
11 18 (2.05%) Serverless
11 18 (2.05%) SuccessFactors
12 17 (1.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 15 (1.70%) dbt
14 14 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (1.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.57%) Firewall
1 5 (0.57%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.45%) NAS
2 4 (0.45%) WAN
3 3 (0.34%) DNS
3 3 (0.34%) Network Security
3 3 (0.34%) VPN
4 2 (0.23%) Internet
4 2 (0.23%) Intranet
4 2 (0.23%) IPv6
4 2 (0.23%) LAN
4 2 (0.23%) SAN
4 2 (0.23%) SSL
5 1 (0.11%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.11%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.11%) IPv4
5 1 (0.11%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.11%) VLAN
5 1 (0.11%) WebEx
5 1 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 50 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (5.57%) Power BI
4 38 (4.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 33 (3.75%) Relational Database
6 23 (2.61%) Oracle Database
7 22 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
8 19 (2.16%) Metadata
8 19 (2.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 19 (2.16%) Tableau
9 18 (2.05%) Data Lake
10 17 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (1.93%) DataStage
11 16 (1.82%) RDBMS
12 11 (1.25%) Big Data
13 10 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.14%) MongoDB
13 10 (1.14%) MySQL
14 8 (0.91%) GIS
14 8 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 81 (9.20%) JIRA
2 7 (0.80%) Git
3 4 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (0.45%) Toad
3 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.45%) Zephyr
4 3 (0.34%) LSMW
4 3 (0.34%) Postman
4 3 (0.34%) Selenium
4 3 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (0.23%) TestRail
6 1 (0.11%) ERwin
6 1 (0.11%) GitLab
6 1 (0.11%) gulp
6 1 (0.11%) Pylint
6 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 312 (35.45%) Social Skills
2 309 (35.11%) Finance
3 102 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (8.41%) Public Sector
5 50 (5.68%) Banking
6 36 (4.09%) Local Government
7 32 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
8 28 (3.18%) Marketing
9 26 (2.95%) Legal
10 25 (2.84%) Manufacturing
10 25 (2.84%) Retail
11 24 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
12 21 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (2.27%) Back Office
14 17 (1.93%) General Ledger
15 16 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (1.25%) Billing
17 10 (1.14%) Telecoms
18 9 (1.02%) Law
19 8 (0.91%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 137 (15.57%) Analyst
2 129 (14.66%) Lead
3 113 (12.84%) Consultant
4 112 (12.73%) Architect
5 91 (10.34%) Project Manager
6 80 (9.09%) Business Analyst
7 61 (6.93%) Senior
8 49 (5.57%) Data Engineer
9 48 (5.45%) Data Migration Lead
10 46 (5.23%) Developer
11 39 (4.43%) Data Analyst
12 31 (3.52%) SAP Consultant
12 31 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
13 25 (2.84%) Migration Specialist
13 25 (2.84%) Salesforce Architect
14 24 (2.73%) Functional Consultant
14 24 (2.73%) Oracle Consultant
15 23 (2.61%) Data Migration Specialist
15 23 (2.61%) Migration Analyst
16 21 (2.39%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.45%) Oracle Fusion
2 38 (4.32%) Lightning Web Components
3 35 (3.98%) XML
4 33 (3.75%) REST
5 27 (3.07%) Visualforce
6 26 (2.95%) SOAP
7 20 (2.27%) Middleware
8 15 (1.70%) JSON
9 12 (1.36%) .NET
10 10 (1.14%) Web Services
11 9 (1.02%) EDI
11 9 (1.02%) PySpark
11 9 (1.02%) SAP Fiori
12 8 (0.91%) SAP PI
13 7 (0.80%) XSLT
14 6 (0.68%) WebdriverIO
15 5 (0.57%) BAPI
15 5 (0.57%) GraphQL
15 5 (0.57%) IDoc
15 5 (0.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 103 (11.70%) Legacy Systems
2 55 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 33 (3.75%) Onboarding
3 33 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.52%) Management Information System
5 15 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.36%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.14%) Reference Data
10 9 (1.02%) Replication
10 9 (1.02%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.68%) Cloud Native
11 6 (0.68%) FMCG
11 6 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (0.68%) Low-Code
11 6 (0.68%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.57%) Credit Risk
12 5 (0.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.27%) Windows
2 7 (0.80%) Unix
3 5 (0.57%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (0.45%) Linux
4 4 (0.45%) Solaris
4 4 (0.45%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.23%) AIX
5 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.11%) MVS
6 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 880 (100.00%) Migration
2 210 (23.86%) Agile
3 174 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
4 158 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 152 (17.27%) ERP
6 136 (15.45%) ETL
7 133 (15.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 133 (15.11%) User Acceptance Testing
8 132 (15.00%) Validation
9 123 (13.98%) Data Modelling
10 96 (10.91%) Project Management
11 84 (9.55%) CRM
11 84 (9.55%) Data Governance
12 83 (9.43%) Analytics
13 81 (9.20%) Data Cleansing
14 80 (9.09%) Change Management
15 76 (8.64%) DevOps
16 73 (8.30%) Workshop Facilitation
17 70 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
18 61 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 177 (20.11%) SQL
2 60 (6.82%) Python
3 38 (4.32%) Apex Code
3 38 (4.32%) Java
4 19 (2.16%) C#
5 15 (1.70%) JavaScript
6 12 (1.36%) PL/SQL
7 10 (1.14%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.14%) T-SQL
8 7 (0.80%) ABAP
8 7 (0.80%) Shell Script
8 7 (0.80%) VB
9 6 (0.68%) Bicep
9 6 (0.68%) PHP
9 6 (0.68%) SOQL
10 5 (0.57%) Perl
10 5 (0.57%) X++
11 4 (0.45%) SOSL
12 3 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 85 (9.66%) Security Cleared
2 77 (8.75%) Degree
3 58 (6.59%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.73%) PMP
6 21 (2.39%) PMI Certification
7 20 (2.27%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.70%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.25%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.91%) SAP Certification
12 6 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (0.57%) CFA
13 5 (0.57%) CIMA
14 4 (0.45%) ACCA
14 4 (0.45%) CBAP
14 4 (0.45%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.45%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.34%) OCP
15 3 (0.34%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (14.55%) Data Quality
2 62 (7.05%) QA
3 49 (5.57%) GDPR
4 15 (1.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 12 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.02%) PMO
7 8 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.91%) SLA
8 6 (0.68%) COBIT
8 6 (0.68%) NIST
9 5 (0.57%) IFRS
10 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.34%) GRC
11 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.34%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.34%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.23%) EMIR
12 2 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (1.70%) Docker
2 7 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.34%) NFS
5 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (2.05%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.59%) Terraform
3 7 (0.80%) Ansible
4 5 (0.57%) HP ALM
4 5 (0.57%) SCCM
5 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.23%) Puppet
6 1 (0.11%) Argo
6 1 (0.11%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.11%) Grafana
6 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 162 (18.41%) SAP
2 157 (17.84%) Oracle
3 127 (14.43%) Microsoft
4 63 (7.16%) Salesforce
5 36 (4.09%) Workday
6 25 (2.84%) Databricks
7 13 (1.48%) Google
8 12 (1.36%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.14%) IBM
9 10 (1.14%) IFS
9 10 (1.14%) Informatica
10 8 (0.91%) Kronos
10 8 (0.91%) Sage
10 8 (0.91%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.80%) Ariba
11 7 (0.80%) ESRI
11 7 (0.80%) HP
11 7 (0.80%) Talend
12 6 (0.68%) Intergraph
12 6 (0.68%) VMware