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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 86 101
Rank change year-on-year +13 +15 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,443 770 817
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.22% 2.83% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 3.12% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 949 471 547
10th Percentile £363 £363 £373
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -0.47%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £644
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 13 31
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 £61.44 £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 38,258 24,707 30,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.66% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 15,833 19,804
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £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 £745 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,373 1,323 1,986
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.22 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.03 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +20 714 £549 -0.23% 94
South East +5 198 £550 +10.00% 66
North of England -8 194 £525 +9.95% 35
Midlands +10 152 £475 -5.00% 43
North West +7 119 £500 +3.90% 25
West Midlands 0 111 £450 -10.00% 30
South West +7 83 £523 -0.48% 15
Yorkshire -42 62 £525 +10.53% 10
East of England +4 54 £581 -3.93% 8
East Midlands +3 37 £525 +16.67% 13
North East -28 16 £625 +8.70%
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 58 (4.02%) SharePoint
2 40 (2.77%) Confluence
3 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (0.42%) Apache
6 5 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.35%) Tuxedo
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 74 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
2 17 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
3 13 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.069%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 152 (10.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
5 21 (1.46%) NetSuite
5 21 (1.46%) SAP ERP
6 18 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
7 16 (1.11%) 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%) Oracle Assets
9 10 (0.69%) Teamcenter
10 9 (0.62%) Loan IQ
11 8 (0.55%) NEC Housing
11 8 (0.55%) SAP MDG
11 8 (0.55%) SAP SD
11 8 (0.55%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 232 (16.08%) Azure
2 144 (9.98%) AWS
3 143 (9.91%) Power Platform
4 111 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 86 (5.96%) OCI
6 73 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (4.09%) SaaS
8 46 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 44 (3.05%) Snowflake
10 42 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
11 41 (2.84%) GitHub
12 29 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 29 (2.01%) SuccessFactors
13 26 (1.80%) Power Automate
14 24 (1.66%) PowerApps
15 22 (1.52%) GCP
16 21 (1.46%) Amazon S3
17 16 (1.11%) dbt
18 15 (1.04%) OpenShift
19 12 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.04%) SAN
2 14 (0.97%) DNS
2 14 (0.97%) NAS
3 6 (0.42%) Firewall
3 6 (0.42%) VPN
4 3 (0.21%) Intranet
4 3 (0.21%) VSAN
5 2 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.14%) HTTP
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%) Internet
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 (8.52%) Power BI
2 95 (6.58%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (4.50%) SQL Server
4 59 (4.09%) Oracle Reports
5 41 (2.84%) Metadata
6 39 (2.70%) Data Lake
7 38 (2.63%) Relational Database
8 24 (1.66%) Oracle Database
8 24 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 21 (1.46%) RDBMS
11 19 (1.32%) NoSQL
12 13 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (0.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 12 (0.83%) Oracle Exadata
13 12 (0.83%) SAP Data Services
14 11 (0.76%) Db2
14 11 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 10 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
15 10 (0.69%) GIS
Development Applications
1 129 (8.94%) JIRA
2 53 (3.67%) Git
3 41 (2.84%) Zephyr
4 32 (2.22%) Postman
5 23 (1.59%) Jenkins
6 20 (1.39%) GitLab
7 10 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
7 10 (0.69%) Selenium
8 7 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.42%) Hudson
10 5 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.35%) Gatling
10 5 (0.35%) LSMW
11 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.28%) JUnit
11 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.21%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 497 (34.44%) Finance
2 406 (28.14%) Social Skills
3 190 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (8.39%) Public Sector
5 84 (5.82%) Banking
6 79 (5.47%) Manufacturing
7 52 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (3.19%) Law
9 45 (3.12%) Retail
10 35 (2.43%) General Ledger
11 32 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
12 27 (1.87%) Local Government
13 26 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (1.73%) Marketing
15 24 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
17 22 (1.52%) Legal
18 20 (1.39%) Automotive
19 17 (1.18%) Billing
19 17 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 289 (20.03%) Lead
2 219 (15.18%) Analyst
3 189 (13.10%) Architect
4 147 (10.19%) Consultant
5 118 (8.18%) Data Engineer
6 110 (7.62%) Senior
7 107 (7.42%) Data Migration Lead
8 102 (7.07%) Project Manager
9 100 (6.93%) Business Analyst
10 78 (5.41%) Data Analyst
11 68 (4.71%) Data Architect
12 66 (4.57%) Developer
13 62 (4.30%) Migration Engineer
14 56 (3.88%) Migration Analyst
15 51 (3.53%) Data Migration Engineer
16 46 (3.19%) Migration Manager
17 44 (3.05%) Data Migration Analyst
17 44 (3.05%) SAP Consultant
18 42 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
19 38 (2.63%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (5.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 41 (2.84%) REST
3 37 (2.56%) Middleware
4 25 (1.73%) SOAP
5 22 (1.52%) .NET
6 20 (1.39%) XML
7 19 (1.32%) Kafka
8 17 (1.18%) Spring
9 16 (1.11%) JSON
10 13 (0.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 11 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
11 11 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
12 10 (0.69%) PySpark
13 9 (0.62%) React
13 9 (0.62%) Spring Boot
14 7 (0.49%) ADO
15 6 (0.42%) COM
15 6 (0.42%) ODBC
15 6 (0.42%) RESTful
15 6 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 178 (12.34%) Legacy Systems
2 105 (7.28%) Data Structures
3 48 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 46 (3.19%) Management Information System
5 37 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 34 (2.36%) Public Cloud
7 33 (2.29%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
9 27 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.25%) Replication
11 17 (1.18%) FMCG
12 16 (1.11%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.11%) NHS
13 15 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (0.97%) Mainframe
15 12 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
16 11 (0.76%) Low-Code
17 10 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.87%) Windows
2 19 (1.32%) Linux
3 12 (0.83%) AIX
4 7 (0.49%) 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 1,443 (100.00%) Migration
2 402 (27.86%) Validation
3 319 (22.11%) ERP
4 317 (21.97%) Stakeholder Management
5 309 (21.41%) User Acceptance Testing
6 253 (17.53%) Agile
7 243 (16.84%) ETL
8 214 (14.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 213 (14.76%) Data Modelling
10 196 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
11 155 (10.74%) Data Governance
12 148 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
12 148 (10.26%) Data Cleansing
13 136 (9.42%) DevOps
14 130 (9.01%) Analytics
15 127 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
16 124 (8.59%) Data Mapping
17 120 (8.32%) CI/CD
18 117 (8.11%) Project Management
19 111 (7.69%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 280 (19.40%) SQL
2 98 (6.79%) Python
3 41 (2.84%) Java
4 27 (1.87%) PL/SQL
5 23 (1.59%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.52%) Bash
7 17 (1.18%) 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 6 (0.42%) VB
11 6 (0.42%) VB6
11 6 (0.42%) 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
1 248 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 193 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 51 (3.53%) Degree
4 36 (2.49%) DV Cleared
5 28 (1.94%) ISTQB
5 28 (1.94%) PMP
6 26 (1.80%) PMI Certification
7 21 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.25%) ACCA
8 18 (1.25%) CIMA
9 13 (0.90%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (0.55%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.42%) SAP Certification
14 5 (0.35%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.28%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 259 (17.95%) Data Quality
2 125 (8.66%) QA
3 72 (4.99%) GDPR
4 35 (2.43%) PMO
5 14 (0.97%) SLA
6 10 (0.69%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.62%) HL7
7 9 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.55%) IFRS
9 7 (0.49%) SNOMED CT
10 6 (0.42%) COBIT
11 5 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.35%) DICOM
11 5 (0.35%) GMP
11 5 (0.35%) NIST
11 5 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.28%) GRC
12 4 (0.28%) PERC
12 4 (0.28%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 26 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (1.11%) Docker
3 15 (1.04%) vSphere
4 13 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.90%) Oracle RAC
5 12 (0.83%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.69%) NFS
7 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.28%) SRDF
8 3 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 48 (3.33%) Terraform
2 36 (2.49%) Kubernetes
3 32 (2.22%) Ansible
4 15 (1.04%) Grafana
4 15 (1.04%) vCenter Server
5 14 (0.97%) Argo
6 12 (0.83%) Data Guard
6 12 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
7 10 (0.69%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.42%) vMotion
9 5 (0.35%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
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%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 282 (19.54%) Oracle
2 270 (18.71%) SAP
3 237 (16.42%) Microsoft
4 70 (4.85%) Databricks
5 69 (4.78%) Salesforce
6 31 (2.15%) VMware
7 30 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 27 (1.87%) Workday
9 25 (1.73%) Informatica
10 23 (1.59%) Pure Storage
11 21 (1.46%) IFS
12 20 (1.39%) Talend
13 19 (1.32%) Sage
14 17 (1.18%) Google
14 17 (1.18%) IBM
15 15 (1.04%) MuleSoft
15 15 (1.04%) Red Hat
16 12 (0.83%) Ariba
16 12 (0.83%) Siebel
17 11 (0.76%) Splunk