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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 92 99
Rank change year-on-year +21 +7 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,382 678 825
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.21% 2.73% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 2.99% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 425 566
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £733 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.41% -3.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 11 33
10th Percentile £16.35 £17.80 £25.00
25th Percentile £21.33 £33.47 £40.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% -23.33% +233.33%
75th Percentile £41.83 £68.13 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £73.75 -
UK median hourly rate £38.36 £62.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -38.63% -16.67% +180.37%

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 36,618 22,657 32,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.18% 91.33% 85.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,120 14,657 20,816
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £727 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -3.79% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,297 1,070 2,391
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.11 £16.04
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.40 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.53% -26.93% +5.19%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.19 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.21 £37.18
% change year-on-year +67.72% -29.51% +6.14%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +36 687 £550 - 100
South East +1 186 £550 +7.32% 61
North of England -13 183 £500 +1.63% 47
Midlands +9 144 £490 +0.51% 30
North West +12 115 £500 -8.00% 30
West Midlands +7 103 £473 -5.40% 16
South West +18 76 £525 +5.00% 16
Yorkshire -52 56 £530 +15.99% 10
East of England +1 55 £575 -11.54% 13
East Midlands +1 37 £500 +9.29% 14
North East -25 13 £488 -15.22% 7
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 46 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 35 (2.53%) Confluence
3 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.36%) Tuxedo
6 4 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
8 2 (0.14%) Apache
8 2 (0.14%) Appian
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.072%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.072%) CMS
9 1 (0.072%) IIS
9 1 (0.072%) Mendix
9 1 (0.072%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.072%) WebSphere
Applications
1 79 (5.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 155 (11.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (2.75%) Oracle EBS
3 32 (2.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.52%) Oracle ERP
4 21 (1.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 21 (1.52%) SAP ERP
5 16 (1.16%) NetSuite
6 14 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
7 13 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
8 12 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.80%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 10 (0.72%) Loan IQ
11 9 (0.65%) iTrent
11 9 (0.65%) Oracle Assets
12 8 (0.58%) NEC Housing
12 8 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
13 7 (0.51%) SAP SD
13 7 (0.51%) Unit4 Business World
13 7 (0.51%) Workday HCM
14 6 (0.43%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 217 (15.70%) Azure
2 141 (10.20%) AWS
3 130 (9.41%) Power Platform
4 97 (7.02%) Dynamics 365
5 77 (5.57%) OCI
6 65 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (3.98%) SaaS
8 43 (3.11%) Snowflake
9 41 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 39 (2.82%) GitHub
11 29 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
12 27 (1.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 21 (1.52%) GCP
14 19 (1.37%) Amazon S3
14 19 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
15 18 (1.30%) Power Automate
16 17 (1.23%) PowerApps
17 15 (1.09%) dbt
17 15 (1.09%) OpenShift
18 13 (0.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.09%) SAN
2 14 (1.01%) DNS
2 14 (1.01%) NAS
3 6 (0.43%) Firewall
4 5 (0.36%) VPN
5 3 (0.22%) VSAN
6 2 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.14%) HTTP
7 1 (0.072%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.072%) DKIM
7 1 (0.072%) DMARC
7 1 (0.072%) FCoE
7 1 (0.072%) Internet
7 1 (0.072%) Intranet
7 1 (0.072%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.072%) Network Security
7 1 (0.072%) SNMP
7 1 (0.072%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (8.10%) Power BI
2 99 (7.16%) Data Warehouse
3 63 (4.56%) Oracle Reports
4 62 (4.49%) SQL Server
5 38 (2.75%) Metadata
6 30 (2.17%) Data Lake
6 30 (2.17%) Relational Database
7 26 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 25 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (1.52%) Oracle Database
10 20 (1.45%) NoSQL
11 16 (1.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 14 (1.01%) RDBMS
13 12 (0.87%) SAP Data Services
14 11 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 10 (0.72%) Db2
15 10 (0.72%) GIS
16 9 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
16 9 (0.65%) Ingres
16 9 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 119 (8.61%) JIRA
2 45 (3.26%) Git
3 37 (2.68%) Zephyr
4 32 (2.32%) Postman
5 22 (1.59%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.87%) GitLab
7 11 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.72%) Selenium
9 8 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.36%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.36%) Gatling
10 5 (0.36%) Hudson
10 5 (0.36%) LSMW
11 4 (0.29%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.29%) JUnit
12 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.22%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.22%) ERwin
12 3 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 484 (35.02%) Finance
2 413 (29.88%) Social Skills
3 175 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (8.10%) Public Sector
5 90 (6.51%) Banking
6 61 (4.41%) Manufacturing
7 52 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.26%) Law
9 44 (3.18%) Retail
10 37 (2.68%) General Ledger
11 30 (2.17%) Local Government
11 30 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
11 30 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (1.66%) Legal
13 22 (1.59%) Marketing
14 21 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 18 (1.30%) Automotive
15 18 (1.30%) Billing
16 17 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
17 16 (1.16%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 301 (21.78%) Lead
2 202 (14.62%) Analyst
3 193 (13.97%) Architect
4 148 (10.71%) Consultant
5 113 (8.18%) Data Migration Lead
6 103 (7.45%) Project Manager
7 96 (6.95%) Senior
8 95 (6.87%) Data Engineer
9 88 (6.37%) Business Analyst
10 78 (5.64%) Data Analyst
11 72 (5.21%) Data Architect
12 58 (4.20%) Migration Engineer
13 56 (4.05%) Developer
13 56 (4.05%) Migration Analyst
14 50 (3.62%) Data Migration Engineer
14 50 (3.62%) Migration Manager
14 50 (3.62%) SAP Consultant
15 44 (3.18%) Data Migration Analyst
15 44 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
16 38 (2.75%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (6.51%) Oracle Fusion
2 41 (2.97%) REST
3 40 (2.89%) Middleware
4 23 (1.66%) SOAP
5 20 (1.45%) .NET
6 19 (1.37%) XML
7 18 (1.30%) Kafka
7 18 (1.30%) Spring
8 14 (1.01%) JSON
9 11 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
9 11 (0.80%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (0.72%) Spring Boot
11 9 (0.65%) ADO
11 9 (0.65%) PySpark
12 8 (0.58%) React
13 7 (0.51%) COM
13 7 (0.51%) ODBC
14 6 (0.43%) FHIR
14 6 (0.43%) Playwright
14 6 (0.43%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 183 (13.24%) Legacy Systems
2 103 (7.45%) Data Structures
3 43 (3.11%) Cloud Native
4 42 (3.04%) Management Information System
5 30 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 28 (2.03%) Onboarding
7 27 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
8 26 (1.88%) Public Cloud
9 22 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.37%) Replication
11 18 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (1.09%) Data Centre
13 14 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.01%) Mainframe
13 14 (1.01%) Reference Data
14 13 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
16 11 (0.80%) FMCG
17 10 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
17 10 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.74%) Windows
2 14 (1.01%) Linux
3 7 (0.51%) zOS
4 5 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
4 5 (0.36%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.29%) AIX
5 4 (0.29%) VMS
6 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.14%) Unix
7 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.072%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,382 (100.00%) Migration
2 371 (26.85%) Validation
3 298 (21.56%) ERP
4 295 (21.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 289 (20.91%) User Acceptance Testing
6 244 (17.66%) Agile
7 232 (16.79%) ETL
8 205 (14.83%) Data Modelling
9 203 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
10 201 (14.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 141 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
12 138 (9.99%) Data Cleansing
13 133 (9.62%) Data Governance
14 126 (9.12%) Data Mapping
15 124 (8.97%) Project Management
16 120 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
17 118 (8.54%) DevOps
18 112 (8.10%) Analytics
19 102 (7.38%) CI/CD
19 102 (7.38%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 275 (19.90%) SQL
2 99 (7.16%) Python
3 42 (3.04%) Java
4 28 (2.03%) PL/SQL
5 22 (1.59%) Bash
6 19 (1.37%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.01%) PowerShell
8 13 (0.94%) C#
9 9 (0.65%) Apex Code
9 9 (0.65%) Kotlin
9 9 (0.65%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.58%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.58%) VBA
11 7 (0.51%) VB
11 7 (0.51%) VB6
12 5 (0.36%) C
12 5 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.22%) ABAP
13 3 (0.22%) COBOL
13 3 (0.22%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 233 (16.86%) Security Cleared
2 186 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 55 (3.98%) Degree
4 28 (2.03%) PMP
5 27 (1.95%) ISTQB
6 26 (1.88%) DV Cleared
7 22 (1.59%) PMI Certification
8 18 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.09%) ACCA
10 15 (1.09%) CIMA
11 13 (0.94%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.43%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.36%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.36%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.29%) OCP
14 4 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (17.73%) Data Quality
2 114 (8.25%) QA
3 67 (4.85%) GDPR
4 26 (1.88%) PMO
5 16 (1.16%) SLA
6 12 (0.87%) IFRS
7 10 (0.72%) HL7
8 9 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.51%) SNOMED CT
10 6 (0.43%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.43%) COBIT
10 6 (0.43%) GAAP
11 5 (0.36%) DICOM
11 5 (0.36%) NIST
12 4 (0.29%) Basel III
12 4 (0.29%) PERC
12 4 (0.29%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.22%) GMP
14 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 25 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (1.09%) vSphere
3 14 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.87%) Docker
4 12 (0.87%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.72%) NFS
6 5 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.29%) SRDF
8 3 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (2.68%) Terraform
2 32 (2.32%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.74%) Ansible
4 15 (1.09%) Grafana
4 15 (1.09%) vCenter Server
5 14 (1.01%) Argo
6 10 (0.72%) EMC VPLEX
7 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.43%) vMotion
9 4 (0.29%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.29%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (0.29%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.29%) NetBackup
9 4 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (0.29%) SCCM
9 4 (0.29%) SnapMirror
10 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.22%) SnapVault
11 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.072%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 277 (20.04%) Oracle
2 257 (18.60%) SAP
3 220 (15.92%) Microsoft
4 67 (4.85%) Databricks
5 63 (4.56%) Salesforce
6 30 (2.17%) VMware
7 26 (1.88%) ServiceNow
8 25 (1.81%) Informatica
8 25 (1.81%) Sage
8 25 (1.81%) Workday
9 23 (1.66%) Pure Storage
10 21 (1.52%) IFS
11 19 (1.37%) Talend
12 18 (1.30%) Google
13 15 (1.09%) MuleSoft
13 15 (1.09%) Red Hat
14 13 (0.94%) Avaloq
15 12 (0.87%) IBM
15 12 (0.87%) Temenos
16 11 (0.80%) Ariba