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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 101 92
Rank change year-on-year +14 -9 +49
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,115 647 902
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.92% 2.67% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.39% 2.94% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 737 440 619
10th Percentile £363 £375 £392
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £710 £713 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 40
10th Percentile £13.95 £26.21 £25.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £40.03 £40.00
Median hourly rate £51.28 £60.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.54% -25.00% +300.00%
75th Percentile £78.19 £64.69 -
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.03 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £75.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% -6.25% +276.47%

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 32,858 22,016 32,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.08% 90.81% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,074 14,505 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 £614 £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 2,007 857 2,166
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.27 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.36
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.63 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +14 586 £537 -2.36% 124
South East -8 148 £609 +15.95% 79
North of England -9 146 £500 -4.76% 47
Midlands -26 106 £473 -7.80% 29
North West +6 87 £460 -16.36% 20
West Midlands -34 65 £473 -7.58% 20
Yorkshire -34 50 £525 +31.25% 22
East of England -9 46 £588 -9.62% 21
East Midlands -5 38 £450 -7.93% 9
South West -23 30 £600 +17.07% 18
North East -5 9 £488 -25.00% 5
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 32 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.51%) Confluence
3 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.72%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.27%) CMS
6 2 (0.18%) Appian
6 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.090%) Apache
7 1 (0.090%) IIS
7 1 (0.090%) Moodle
7 1 (0.090%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.090%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.090%) WebSphere
Applications
1 65 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.97%) Spreadsheet
3 21 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.43%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.090%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 112 (10.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (4.75%) Oracle EBS
3 32 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 14 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (1.17%) Loan IQ
7 11 (0.99%) Oracle General Ledger
7 11 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
8 10 (0.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 10 (0.90%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.90%) Workday HCM
9 9 (0.81%) SAP HR
10 8 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
11 7 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
12 6 (0.54%) Finacle
12 6 (0.54%) NetSuite
12 6 (0.54%) Oracle Cash Management
12 6 (0.54%) SAP CO
12 6 (0.54%) SAP FI
13 5 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 160 (14.35%) Azure
2 122 (10.94%) Power Platform
3 98 (8.79%) AWS
4 88 (7.89%) OCI
5 85 (7.62%) Dynamics 365
6 42 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (3.77%) SaaS
7 39 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 35 (3.14%) GitHub
9 25 (2.24%) Snowflake
10 23 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 23 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
11 21 (1.88%) SuccessFactors
12 18 (1.61%) GCP
13 15 (1.35%) Amazon S3
13 15 (1.35%) Entra ID
14 14 (1.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 13 (1.17%) OpenShift
15 13 (1.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 10 (0.90%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.26%) DNS
2 11 (0.99%) NAS
3 10 (0.90%) SAN
4 4 (0.36%) VPN
5 3 (0.27%) Firewall
6 2 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.18%) HTTP
6 2 (0.18%) SSL
7 1 (0.090%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.090%) FCoE
7 1 (0.090%) Internet
7 1 (0.090%) Intranet
7 1 (0.090%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.090%) Network Security
7 1 (0.090%) VSAN
7 1 (0.090%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (9.33%) Power BI
2 77 (6.91%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (5.11%) SQL Server
4 42 (3.77%) Oracle Reports
5 40 (3.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 27 (2.42%) Metadata
6 27 (2.42%) Relational Database
7 24 (2.15%) Data Lake
8 20 (1.79%) Oracle Database
8 20 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 14 (1.26%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (1.17%) SAP Data Services
11 13 (1.17%) Tableau
12 10 (0.90%) Electronic Patient Records
12 10 (0.90%) MySQL
12 10 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 10 (0.90%) RDBMS
13 9 (0.81%) DB2
Development Applications
1 86 (7.71%) JIRA
2 22 (1.97%) Git
3 17 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.43%) Zephyr
5 12 (1.08%) Postman
6 8 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.45%) GitLab
7 5 (0.45%) Hudson
7 5 (0.45%) LSMW
7 5 (0.45%) Selenium
8 4 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.36%) JUnit
8 4 (0.36%) Toad
9 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.27%) ERwin
9 3 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 388 (34.80%) Social Skills
2 385 (34.53%) Finance
3 142 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (8.88%) Public Sector
5 65 (5.83%) Banking
6 44 (3.95%) Law
7 40 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
7 40 (3.59%) Manufacturing
8 39 (3.50%) Retail
9 36 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
10 25 (2.24%) Legal
11 20 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.70%) Marketing
13 18 (1.61%) General Ledger
14 17 (1.52%) Billing
14 17 (1.52%) Local Government
15 16 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.99%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 238 (21.35%) Lead
2 166 (14.89%) Analyst
3 147 (13.18%) Architect
4 131 (11.75%) Consultant
5 97 (8.70%) Project Manager
6 92 (8.25%) Business Analyst
7 78 (7.00%) Senior
8 71 (6.37%) Data Engineer
9 69 (6.19%) Data Migration Lead
10 63 (5.65%) Data Analyst
11 53 (4.75%) Developer
11 53 (4.75%) Migration Analyst
12 38 (3.41%) Data Architect
12 38 (3.41%) Data Migration Analyst
12 38 (3.41%) SAP Consultant
13 36 (3.23%) Migration Manager
13 36 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
14 34 (3.05%) Lead Architect
15 31 (2.78%) Functional Architect
16 30 (2.69%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (6.91%) Oracle Fusion
2 34 (3.05%) REST
3 29 (2.60%) Middleware
4 27 (2.42%) XML
5 19 (1.70%) SOAP
6 15 (1.35%) JSON
7 14 (1.26%) .NET
7 14 (1.26%) Lightning Web Components
8 12 (1.08%) Kafka
8 12 (1.08%) OpenTelemetry
9 11 (0.99%) Spring
10 7 (0.63%) PySpark
10 7 (0.63%) Web Services
11 6 (0.54%) React
11 6 (0.54%) Visualforce
12 5 (0.45%) FHIR
12 5 (0.45%) RESTful
12 5 (0.45%) XSLT
13 4 (0.36%) AngularJS
13 4 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 157 (14.08%) Legacy Systems
2 85 (7.62%) Data Structures
3 38 (3.41%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.05%) Cloud Native
5 26 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 25 (2.24%) Onboarding
7 22 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.52%) Replication
10 15 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.17%) NHS
11 13 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.08%) Reference Data
13 11 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
13 11 (0.99%) Public Cloud
14 10 (0.90%) FMCG
15 9 (0.81%) Data Centre
15 9 (0.81%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.15%) Windows
2 9 (0.81%) Linux
3 7 (0.63%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.63%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.63%) zOS
4 6 (0.54%) Unix
4 6 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.090%) AIX
5 1 (0.090%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.090%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,115 (100.00%) Migration
2 269 (24.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 266 (23.86%) Validation
4 239 (21.43%) ERP
5 225 (20.18%) Agile
6 206 (18.48%) User Acceptance Testing
7 195 (17.49%) ETL
8 191 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
9 174 (15.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 169 (15.16%) Data Modelling
11 130 (11.66%) Business Intelligence
12 126 (11.30%) Data Cleansing
13 125 (11.21%) Project Management
14 117 (10.49%) Analytics
15 116 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
16 114 (10.22%) Data Mapping
17 108 (9.69%) Workshop Facilitation
18 106 (9.51%) Change Management
19 92 (8.25%) Data Governance
20 84 (7.53%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 219 (19.64%) SQL
2 82 (7.35%) Python
3 36 (3.23%) Java
4 24 (2.15%) PL/SQL
5 16 (1.43%) Bash
5 16 (1.43%) JavaScript
6 13 (1.17%) Apex Code
7 12 (1.08%) PowerShell
8 11 (0.99%) C#
9 10 (0.90%) VBA
10 7 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.45%) Korn
12 5 (0.45%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.45%) Perl
12 5 (0.45%) PHP
12 5 (0.45%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.36%) SOQL
14 3 (0.27%) ABAP
15 2 (0.18%) VB6
Qualifications
1 167 (14.98%) Security Cleared
2 122 (10.94%) SC Cleared
3 47 (4.22%) Degree
4 24 (2.15%) DV Cleared
4 24 (2.15%) PMP
5 18 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.35%) PMI Certification
8 12 (1.08%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.08%) ISTQB
9 8 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.54%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.45%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.36%) OCP
12 4 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.27%) ACCA
13 3 (0.27%) CIMA
13 3 (0.27%) IIBA
13 3 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (17.31%) Data Quality
2 92 (8.25%) QA
3 56 (5.02%) GDPR
4 20 (1.79%) PMO
5 15 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.08%) COBIT
7 11 (0.99%) NIST
8 9 (0.81%) IFRS
9 8 (0.72%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.72%) SLA
10 7 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.54%) HL7
12 5 (0.45%) GAAP
12 5 (0.45%) GMP
12 5 (0.45%) IFRS 9
13 4 (0.36%) Basel III
13 4 (0.36%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.36%) PERC
14 3 (0.27%) DICOM
System Software
1 22 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.17%) VMware NSX
3 13 (1.17%) vSphere
4 9 (0.81%) Docker
5 8 (0.72%) NFS
6 2 (0.18%) SRDF
7 1 (0.090%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 33 (2.96%) Kubernetes
2 25 (2.24%) Terraform
3 15 (1.35%) Ansible
4 14 (1.26%) Grafana
5 13 (1.17%) Argo
5 13 (1.17%) vCenter Server
6 12 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.72%) SCCM
8 6 (0.54%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.54%) vMotion
9 3 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.27%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.090%) Avamar
11 1 (0.090%) Control-M
11 1 (0.090%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.090%) EMC TimeFinder
11 1 (0.090%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.090%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.090%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 216 (19.37%) Oracle
2 200 (17.94%) SAP
3 178 (15.96%) Microsoft
4 61 (5.47%) Salesforce
5 40 (3.59%) Databricks
6 38 (3.41%) Workday
7 26 (2.33%) Informatica
7 26 (2.33%) VMware
8 23 (2.06%) Sage
9 22 (1.97%) Pure Storage
10 18 (1.61%) MuleSoft
10 18 (1.61%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.61%) Talend
11 17 (1.52%) Avaloq
12 14 (1.26%) Google
12 14 (1.26%) Red Hat
13 13 (1.17%) IFS
14 12 (1.08%) Splunk
15 10 (0.90%) GoldenSource
15 10 (0.90%) IBM