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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 99 96
Rank change year-on-year +23 -3 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,270 657 843
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.09% 2.70% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 2.96% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 832 408 583
10th Percentile £358 £375 £358
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £706 £723
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 9 33
10th Percentile £15.29 £31.26 £25.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £36.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £62.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -16.67% +233.33%
75th Percentile £41.83 £71.25 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £76.41 -
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £67.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -45.61% -10.00% +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 34,728 22,194 31,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 91.24% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,149 14,504 20,626
10th Percentile £322 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £507 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 949 2,251
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.38 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.22 £15.97
Median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.46% -21.77% +0.06%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +37 620 £526 -4.32% 116
South East -8 179 £600 +10.09% 57
North of England -15 174 £500 +1.63% 47
Midlands -1 129 £490 +3.16% 28
North West +6 107 £475 -12.60% 28
West Midlands -9 87 £473 -0.53% 13
Yorkshire -34 60 £550 +39.24% 17
South West +5 59 £525 +5.00% 13
East of England -5 56 £575 -11.54% 22
East Midlands -4 39 £500 +9.29% 15
North East -16 7 £488 -15.22% 2
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 47 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 41 (3.23%) Confluence
3 9 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.31%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.16%) Appian
7 2 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.079%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.079%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.079%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.079%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.079%) WebSphere
Applications
1 74 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 19 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
4 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 146 (11.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
3 31 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (1.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 18 (1.42%) SAP ERP
6 14 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (1.02%) Loan IQ
8 12 (0.94%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 10 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
11 9 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
12 7 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
13 6 (0.47%) Finacle
13 6 (0.47%) iTrent
13 6 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
13 6 (0.47%) SAP Business One
13 6 (0.47%) SAP CO
13 6 (0.47%) SAP FI
13 6 (0.47%) Teamcenter
13 6 (0.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 188 (14.80%) Azure
2 122 (9.61%) Power Platform
3 109 (8.58%) AWS
4 91 (7.17%) Dynamics 365
5 75 (5.91%) OCI
6 54 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (3.78%) SaaS
8 46 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 34 (2.68%) Snowflake
10 33 (2.60%) GitHub
11 27 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 27 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (1.57%) GCP
13 17 (1.34%) SuccessFactors
14 14 (1.10%) Entra ID
15 13 (1.02%) Amazon S3
15 13 (1.02%) OpenShift
15 13 (1.02%) Power Automate
16 12 (0.94%) PowerApps
16 12 (0.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.10%) DNS
2 13 (1.02%) NAS
2 13 (1.02%) SAN
3 6 (0.47%) Firewall
4 4 (0.31%) VPN
5 2 (0.16%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.16%) HTTP
5 2 (0.16%) VSAN
6 1 (0.079%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.079%) DKIM
6 1 (0.079%) DMARC
6 1 (0.079%) FCoE
6 1 (0.079%) Internet
6 1 (0.079%) Intranet
6 1 (0.079%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.079%) Network Security
6 1 (0.079%) SNMP
6 1 (0.079%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (8.35%) Power BI
2 90 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (4.41%) Oracle Reports
4 51 (4.02%) SQL Server
5 32 (2.52%) Metadata
6 30 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 28 (2.20%) Data Lake
8 22 (1.73%) Oracle Database
8 22 (1.73%) Relational Database
9 19 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (1.26%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 13 (1.02%) SAP Data Services
12 11 (0.87%) DB2
12 11 (0.87%) Tableau
13 10 (0.79%) Electronic Patient Records
14 9 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (0.63%) GIS
15 8 (0.63%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 114 (8.98%) JIRA
2 31 (2.44%) Git
3 30 (2.36%) Zephyr
4 24 (1.89%) Postman
5 18 (1.42%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.87%) Selenium
7 6 (0.47%) GitLab
7 6 (0.47%) Hudson
7 6 (0.47%) LSMW
7 6 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.31%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.31%) JUnit
8 4 (0.31%) Toad
9 3 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.24%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.24%) ERwin
9 3 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.16%) Cypress.io
General
1 418 (32.91%) Finance
2 393 (30.94%) Social Skills
3 160 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (8.03%) Public Sector
5 73 (5.75%) Banking
6 58 (4.57%) Manufacturing
7 49 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.39%) Law
9 40 (3.15%) Retail
10 35 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (1.97%) Local Government
11 25 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
12 24 (1.89%) General Ledger
13 23 (1.81%) Legal
13 23 (1.81%) Marketing
14 18 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 17 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
16 16 (1.26%) Billing
17 15 (1.18%) Aerospace
18 12 (0.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 290 (22.83%) Lead
2 197 (15.51%) Analyst
3 161 (12.68%) Architect
4 139 (10.94%) Consultant
5 111 (8.74%) Data Migration Lead
6 97 (7.64%) Project Manager
7 90 (7.09%) Business Analyst
8 86 (6.77%) Data Engineer
8 86 (6.77%) Senior
9 70 (5.51%) Data Analyst
10 60 (4.72%) Developer
11 58 (4.57%) Data Architect
12 57 (4.49%) Migration Analyst
13 54 (4.25%) Migration Engineer
14 48 (3.78%) Migration Manager
15 47 (3.70%) SAP Consultant
16 45 (3.54%) Data Migration Engineer
17 43 (3.39%) Data Migration Analyst
18 38 (2.99%) Lead Architect
19 35 (2.76%) Data Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (6.06%) Oracle Fusion
2 34 (2.68%) Middleware
3 33 (2.60%) REST
4 18 (1.42%) SOAP
4 18 (1.42%) XML
5 17 (1.34%) .NET
6 16 (1.26%) Spring
7 14 (1.10%) Kafka
8 11 (0.87%) JSON
8 11 (0.87%) OpenTelemetry
9 9 (0.71%) Lightning Web Components
10 8 (0.63%) Spring Boot
11 7 (0.55%) PySpark
12 6 (0.47%) FHIR
12 6 (0.47%) React
12 6 (0.47%) Web Services
13 5 (0.39%) SAP Fiori
14 4 (0.31%) ADO
14 4 (0.31%) AngularJS
14 4 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 164 (12.91%) Legacy Systems
2 98 (7.72%) Data Structures
3 42 (3.31%) Cloud Native
4 39 (3.07%) Management Information System
5 28 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
6 26 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 23 (1.81%) Public Cloud
8 22 (1.73%) Product Ownership
9 18 (1.42%) Replication
10 16 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.18%) Reference Data
12 14 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (1.10%) Mainframe
12 14 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.94%) Data Centre
14 11 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
15 10 (0.79%) NHS
16 9 (0.71%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.05%) Windows
2 11 (0.87%) Linux
3 7 (0.55%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.55%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.55%) zOS
4 6 (0.47%) Unix
5 3 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (0.24%) VMS
5 3 (0.24%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.079%) AIX
6 1 (0.079%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,270 (100.00%) Migration
2 337 (26.54%) Validation
3 276 (21.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 261 (20.55%) ERP
5 255 (20.08%) User Acceptance Testing
6 231 (18.19%) Agile
7 218 (17.17%) ETL
8 196 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
9 191 (15.04%) Data Modelling
10 179 (14.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 144 (11.34%) Data Cleansing
12 133 (10.47%) Business Intelligence
13 127 (10.00%) Project Management
14 121 (9.53%) Data Mapping
15 118 (9.29%) Data Governance
16 113 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
17 112 (8.82%) Analytics
18 98 (7.72%) DevOps
19 96 (7.56%) Change Management
19 96 (7.56%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 239 (18.82%) SQL
2 92 (7.24%) Python
3 37 (2.91%) Java
4 30 (2.36%) PL/SQL
5 22 (1.73%) Bash
6 14 (1.10%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.87%) PowerShell
8 9 (0.71%) VBA
9 8 (0.63%) Apex Code
9 8 (0.63%) C#
9 8 (0.63%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.39%) PHP
10 5 (0.39%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.31%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.31%) Perl
12 3 (0.24%) ABAP
12 3 (0.24%) COBOL
12 3 (0.24%) Korn
13 2 (0.16%) X++
Qualifications
1 214 (16.85%) Security Cleared
2 160 (12.60%) SC Cleared
3 52 (4.09%) Degree
4 32 (2.52%) DV Cleared
5 27 (2.13%) PMP
6 21 (1.65%) PMI Certification
7 20 (1.57%) ISTQB
8 18 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (0.79%) ACCA
9 10 (0.79%) Azure Certification
9 10 (0.79%) CIMA
10 6 (0.47%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.31%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.31%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.31%) OCP
12 4 (0.31%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 3 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (17.24%) Data Quality
2 91 (7.17%) QA
3 56 (4.41%) GDPR
4 23 (1.81%) PMO
5 13 (1.02%) SLA
6 11 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.79%) HL7
8 8 (0.63%) COBIT
9 7 (0.55%) IFRS
9 7 (0.55%) NIST
9 7 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.55%) SNOMED CT
10 5 (0.39%) DICOM
10 5 (0.39%) GAAP
10 5 (0.39%) GMP
11 4 (0.31%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.31%) Basel III
11 4 (0.31%) PERC
12 3 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.24%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.10%) vSphere
4 12 (0.94%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.79%) Docker
6 9 (0.71%) NFS
7 3 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.24%) SRDF
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.079%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 30 (2.36%) Terraform
2 28 (2.20%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.65%) Ansible
4 14 (1.10%) Grafana
4 14 (1.10%) vCenter Server
5 13 (1.02%) Argo
6 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.63%) EMC VPLEX
7 8 (0.63%) SCCM
8 6 (0.47%) vMotion
9 4 (0.31%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.24%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.16%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.16%) SnapMirror
11 2 (0.16%) SnapVault
12 1 (0.079%) Autotask
12 1 (0.079%) Avamar
Vendors
1 245 (19.29%) SAP
2 236 (18.58%) Oracle
3 207 (16.30%) Microsoft
4 59 (4.65%) Salesforce
5 55 (4.33%) Databricks
6 27 (2.13%) VMware
7 24 (1.89%) Workday
8 22 (1.73%) Pure Storage
8 22 (1.73%) Sage
9 20 (1.57%) Google
9 20 (1.57%) Informatica
9 20 (1.57%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.42%) Talend
11 17 (1.34%) IFS
12 15 (1.18%) Avaloq
12 15 (1.18%) MuleSoft
13 13 (1.02%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.87%) IBM
14 11 (0.87%) Siebel
14 11 (0.87%) Splunk