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

 6 months to
25 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 88 103
Rank change year-on-year -3 +15 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,394 803 751
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.00% 2.88% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 3.17% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 915 503 500
10th Percentile £363 £376 £390
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £546
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -1.60% -0.68%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 9 6
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.00 £48.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £32.31 £62.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £73.25
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% -11.26% -20.57%
75th Percentile £57.50 £71.25 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £81.00 -
UK median hourly rate £38.36 £35.25 £73.25
% change year-on-year +8.81% -51.88% -20.57%

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 39,385 25,311 28,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,009 16,087 17,408
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,837 1,536 1,254
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.22 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +11 679 £550 - 424
North of England -9 176 £525 +10.53% 122
Midlands +1 171 £475 -13.64% 111
South East -15 164 £540 -8.09% 154
West Midlands +6 123 £450 -14.29% 79
North West -5 106 £538 +19.44% 65
South West +22 95 £523 -0.48% 37
Yorkshire -34 55 £510 +2.00% 35
East of England -9 54 £550 +11.39% 52
East Midlands +1 45 £525 -4.55% 31
North East -28 18 £475 +8.57% 22
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 56 (4.02%) SharePoint
2 53 (3.80%) Confluence
3 13 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.57%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.50%) Apache
7 5 (0.36%) CMS
7 5 (0.36%) Tuxedo
8 4 (0.29%) CICS
9 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.14%) Mendix
9 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.14%) SAS
9 2 (0.14%) SugarCRM
10 1 (0.072%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.072%) Documentum
10 1 (0.072%) IIS
10 1 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.072%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 69 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
3 16 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.29%) Windchill
7 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.072%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 143 (10.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (1.87%) Oracle Payables
4 21 (1.51%) Oracle Receivables
5 20 (1.43%) NetSuite
5 20 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
6 19 (1.36%) SAP ERP
7 13 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
7 13 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
7 13 (0.93%) SAP SD
8 12 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
8 12 (0.86%) SAP FI
8 12 (0.86%) SAP HCM
8 12 (0.86%) Teamcenter
9 11 (0.79%) iTrent
9 11 (0.79%) SAP MDG
9 11 (0.79%) SAP MM
9 11 (0.79%) Workday HCM
10 10 (0.72%) SAP CO
10 10 (0.72%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 232 (16.64%) Azure
2 134 (9.61%) AWS
3 126 (9.04%) Power Platform
4 100 (7.17%) Dynamics 365
5 75 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
6 73 (5.24%) OCI
7 53 (3.80%) SaaS
8 44 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 44 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
9 41 (2.94%) Snowflake
10 38 (2.73%) SuccessFactors
11 32 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 29 (2.08%) Power Automate
13 28 (2.01%) GCP
14 27 (1.94%) Amazon S3
15 25 (1.79%) PowerApps
16 23 (1.65%) GitHub
17 21 (1.51%) Microsoft Purview
18 19 (1.36%) dbt
19 13 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.36%) NAS
1 5 (0.36%) SAN
2 4 (0.29%) VPN
3 3 (0.22%) Firewall
3 3 (0.22%) Intranet
4 2 (0.14%) DNS
4 2 (0.14%) VSAN
5 1 (0.072%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.072%) DKIM
5 1 (0.072%) DMARC
5 1 (0.072%) Internet
5 1 (0.072%) SNMP
5 1 (0.072%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (7.39%) Power BI
2 100 (7.17%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (4.38%) SQL Server
4 59 (4.23%) Metadata
5 48 (3.44%) Relational Database
6 45 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
7 42 (3.01%) Data Lake
8 31 (2.22%) Oracle Database
9 27 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (1.36%) RDBMS
11 16 (1.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 14 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (0.86%) BigQuery
14 12 (0.86%) NoSQL
14 12 (0.86%) Oracle Exadata
15 11 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (0.79%) DataStage
15 11 (0.79%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 122 (8.75%) JIRA
2 49 (3.52%) Git
3 36 (2.58%) Zephyr
4 30 (2.15%) Postman
5 17 (1.22%) GitLab
6 11 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
7 9 (0.65%) Jenkins
8 7 (0.50%) Selenium
9 5 (0.36%) Gatling
9 5 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.29%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.29%) Hudson
10 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.22%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.22%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.22%) LSMW
11 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.14%) Yeoman
13 1 (0.072%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.072%) Bitbucket
General
1 470 (33.72%) Finance
2 394 (28.26%) Social Skills
3 189 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 89 (6.38%) Banking
6 78 (5.60%) Manufacturing
7 57 (4.09%) Retail
8 53 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
9 47 (3.37%) General Ledger
10 34 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (2.37%) Local Government
12 28 (2.01%) Law
13 24 (1.72%) Automotive
13 24 (1.72%) Legal
14 23 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
15 22 (1.58%) Marketing
16 21 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (1.36%) Billing
18 17 (1.22%) Military
19 15 (1.08%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 235 (16.86%) Lead
2 225 (16.14%) Analyst
3 161 (11.55%) Architect
4 153 (10.98%) Consultant
5 130 (9.33%) Data Engineer
6 123 (8.82%) Senior
7 100 (7.17%) Data Migration Lead
8 98 (7.03%) Business Analyst
9 81 (5.81%) Project Manager
10 78 (5.60%) Data Analyst
11 63 (4.52%) Data Architect
11 63 (4.52%) Migration Engineer
12 62 (4.45%) Developer
13 53 (3.80%) Data Migration Engineer
14 52 (3.73%) SAP Consultant
15 45 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (2.87%) Migration Analyst
17 36 (2.58%) Data Migration Analyst
18 33 (2.37%) Data Consultant
19 31 (2.22%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (7.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 44 (3.16%) Middleware
3 32 (2.30%) Terraform
4 31 (2.22%) REST
5 25 (1.79%) .NET
6 21 (1.51%) SOAP
6 21 (1.51%) XML
7 17 (1.22%) PySpark
8 16 (1.15%) JSON
9 15 (1.08%) Kafka
10 13 (0.93%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 12 (0.86%) ADO
12 9 (0.65%) Keycloak
12 9 (0.65%) Web Services
13 8 (0.57%) SAP Fiori
14 7 (0.50%) Lightning Web Components
14 7 (0.50%) Spring
14 7 (0.50%) Spring Boot
15 6 (0.43%) HTML
15 6 (0.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 153 (10.98%) Legacy Systems
2 97 (6.96%) Data Structures
3 48 (3.44%) Onboarding
4 44 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 43 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
6 38 (2.73%) Public Cloud
7 34 (2.44%) Product Ownership
8 28 (2.01%) Cloud Native
9 26 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
10 24 (1.72%) Reference Data
11 18 (1.29%) Replication
12 17 (1.22%) NHS
13 15 (1.08%) FMCG
14 13 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (0.93%) Low-Code
15 12 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.86%) Reinsurance
16 11 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
16 11 (0.79%) Life Science
17 10 (0.72%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.94%) Windows
2 23 (1.65%) Linux
3 12 (0.86%) AIX
4 5 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.29%) VMS
5 4 (0.29%) zOS
6 3 (0.22%) Unix
7 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.072%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,394 (100.00%) Migration
2 416 (29.84%) Validation
3 372 (26.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 311 (22.31%) User Acceptance Testing
5 298 (21.38%) ERP
6 235 (16.86%) Agile
7 230 (16.50%) ETL
8 228 (16.36%) Data Modelling
9 195 (13.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 177 (12.70%) Data Governance
11 170 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
12 131 (9.40%) Business Intelligence
12 131 (9.40%) Data Cleansing
13 130 (9.33%) DevOps
14 129 (9.25%) Analytics
15 123 (8.82%) Requirements Gathering
16 121 (8.68%) Data Mapping
17 110 (7.89%) System Integration Testing
18 106 (7.60%) Workshop Facilitation
19 105 (7.53%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 292 (20.95%) SQL
2 80 (5.74%) Python
3 26 (1.87%) PL/SQL
4 23 (1.65%) Java
5 21 (1.51%) C#
6 20 (1.43%) JavaScript
7 19 (1.36%) PowerShell
8 12 (0.86%) Bash
9 10 (0.72%) T-SQL
9 10 (0.72%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.50%) ABAP
11 6 (0.43%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.43%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.36%) VB
12 5 (0.36%) VB6
12 5 (0.36%) X++
13 4 (0.29%) C
13 4 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.29%) JCL
14 3 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 261 (18.72%) Security Cleared
2 214 (15.35%) SC Cleared
3 54 (3.87%) Degree
4 31 (2.22%) ACCA
4 31 (2.22%) CIMA
5 30 (2.15%) DV Cleared
6 27 (1.94%) PMI Certification
6 27 (1.94%) PMP
7 26 (1.87%) ISTQB
8 22 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.57%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.57%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.36%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.22%) CCAB
15 3 (0.22%) CTC Cleared
15 3 (0.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 282 (20.23%) Data Quality
2 105 (7.53%) QA
3 56 (4.02%) GDPR
4 31 (2.22%) PMO
5 13 (0.93%) GRC
6 10 (0.72%) IFRS
7 9 (0.65%) HL7
8 8 (0.57%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.57%) SLA
9 6 (0.43%) DICOM
10 5 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
11 3 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.14%) GAAP
12 2 (0.14%) GMP
12 2 (0.14%) GxP
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.072%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.072%) SEPA
System Software
1 15 (1.08%) Docker
2 13 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (0.57%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (0.22%) SRDF
6 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.22%) vSphere
7 2 (0.14%) NFS
8 1 (0.072%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (1.43%) Ansible
2 15 (1.08%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.86%) Data Guard
3 12 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (0.57%) Karpenter
5 5 (0.36%) Control-M
6 4 (0.29%) EMC VPLEX
6 4 (0.29%) SnapMirror
7 3 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (0.22%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.22%) NetBackup
7 3 (0.22%) SnapVault
7 3 (0.22%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.14%) Argo
8 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.14%) Grafana
8 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.072%) Autotask
9 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.072%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 293 (21.02%) Oracle
2 262 (18.79%) SAP
3 249 (17.86%) Microsoft
4 85 (6.10%) Databricks
5 62 (4.45%) Salesforce
6 30 (2.15%) ServiceNow
7 29 (2.08%) Workday
8 25 (1.79%) Google
9 24 (1.72%) Informatica
10 19 (1.36%) IBM
10 19 (1.36%) Talend
11 18 (1.29%) IFS
12 14 (1.00%) Ariba
13 12 (0.86%) Sage
14 9 (0.65%) Alteryx
14 9 (0.65%) Infor
15 8 (0.57%) Atlassian
15 8 (0.57%) Denodo
15 8 (0.57%) InterSystems
15 8 (0.57%) MuleSoft
897 Data Migration jobs in England