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

 6 months to
1 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 95 101
Rank change year-on-year +24 +6 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,409 702 818
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.21% 2.74% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 3.00% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 919 437 556
10th Percentile £363 £360 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £546
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -3.16% +0.92%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £715
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 12 33
10th Percentile £17.23 £15.28 £25.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £28.68 £40.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £47.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% -36.33% +141.94%
75th Percentile £57.52 £66.56 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £73.50 -
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -36.16% -23.33% +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 37,409 23,372 31,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.17% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,567 15,052 20,589
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.79% -4.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,348 1,165 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.97 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.50 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.81%

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 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 1 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 1 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 +27 701 £540 -1.82% 136
South East +2 190 £550 +4.76% 64
North of England -15 188 £519 +9.26% 53
Midlands +12 147 £490 +3.16% 36
North West +14 121 £500 +3.90% 34
West Midlands +7 107 £473 -5.40% 18
South West +10 76 £523 +1.95% 17
East of England +9 57 £581 -10.58% 13
Yorkshire -46 55 £530 +15.99% 15
East Midlands +11 36 £513 +12.02% 18
North East -20 14 £625 +8.70% 4
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 48 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 37 (2.63%) Confluence
3 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.35%) Tuxedo
6 4 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
8 2 (0.14%) Apache
8 2 (0.14%) Appian
9 1 (0.071%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.071%) CMS
9 1 (0.071%) IIS
9 1 (0.071%) Mendix
9 1 (0.071%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.071%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 77 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
2 20 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
3 16 (1.14%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 152 (10.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (2.63%) Oracle EBS
3 34 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
5 20 (1.42%) NetSuite
5 20 (1.42%) SAP ERP
6 17 (1.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 16 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
8 14 (0.99%) Oracle General Ledger
8 14 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.78%) Loan IQ
10 10 (0.71%) iTrent
10 10 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
11 9 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
12 8 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 7 (0.50%) NEC Housing
13 7 (0.50%) SAP SD
13 7 (0.50%) Teamcenter
13 7 (0.50%) Workday HCM
14 6 (0.43%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 220 (15.61%) Azure
2 140 (9.94%) AWS
3 132 (9.37%) Power Platform
4 100 (7.10%) Dynamics 365
5 78 (5.54%) OCI
6 70 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (3.90%) SaaS
8 43 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 43 (3.05%) Snowflake
9 42 (2.98%) GitHub
10 31 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
11 29 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 21 (1.49%) Amazon S3
12 21 (1.49%) Power Automate
13 20 (1.42%) GCP
13 20 (1.42%) PowerApps
13 20 (1.42%) SuccessFactors
14 15 (1.06%) dbt
14 15 (1.06%) OpenShift
15 12 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.06%) SAN
2 14 (0.99%) DNS
2 14 (0.99%) NAS
3 6 (0.43%) Firewall
3 6 (0.43%) VPN
4 3 (0.21%) VSAN
5 2 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.14%) HTTP
5 2 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.071%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.071%) DKIM
6 1 (0.071%) DMARC
6 1 (0.071%) FCoE
6 1 (0.071%) Intranet
6 1 (0.071%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.071%) Network Security
6 1 (0.071%) SNMP
6 1 (0.071%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (8.16%) Power BI
2 99 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
3 63 (4.47%) SQL Server
4 61 (4.33%) Oracle Reports
5 40 (2.84%) Metadata
6 34 (2.41%) Relational Database
7 32 (2.27%) Data Lake
8 28 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (1.70%) Oracle Database
10 23 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 20 (1.42%) NoSQL
12 17 (1.21%) RDBMS
13 13 (0.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 12 (0.85%) SAP Data Services
14 12 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 11 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
16 10 (0.71%) Db2
16 10 (0.71%) GIS
17 9 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
17 9 (0.64%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 125 (8.87%) JIRA
2 47 (3.34%) Git
3 37 (2.63%) Zephyr
4 32 (2.27%) Postman
5 22 (1.56%) Jenkins
6 15 (1.06%) GitLab
7 11 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.71%) Selenium
9 8 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.43%) Hudson
11 5 (0.35%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.35%) Gatling
11 5 (0.35%) LSMW
12 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.28%) JUnit
13 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
13 3 (0.21%) ERwin
13 3 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
13 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 489 (34.71%) Finance
2 414 (29.38%) Social Skills
3 184 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (8.02%) Public Sector
5 83 (5.89%) Banking
6 70 (4.97%) Manufacturing
7 50 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (3.26%) Retail
9 45 (3.19%) Law
10 38 (2.70%) General Ledger
11 31 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
12 29 (2.06%) Local Government
13 26 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 23 (1.63%) Marketing
15 22 (1.56%) Legal
16 20 (1.42%) Automotive
17 19 (1.35%) Billing
18 17 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
19 16 (1.14%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 296 (21.01%) Lead
2 203 (14.41%) Analyst
3 192 (13.63%) Architect
4 153 (10.86%) Consultant
5 110 (7.81%) Data Migration Lead
6 105 (7.45%) Data Engineer
7 103 (7.31%) Project Manager
7 103 (7.31%) Senior
8 89 (6.32%) Business Analyst
9 76 (5.39%) Data Analyst
10 69 (4.90%) Data Architect
11 63 (4.47%) Migration Engineer
12 59 (4.19%) Developer
13 55 (3.90%) Migration Analyst
14 52 (3.69%) Data Migration Engineer
15 50 (3.55%) Migration Manager
16 48 (3.41%) SAP Consultant
17 45 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
18 42 (2.98%) Data Migration Analyst
19 38 (2.70%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (6.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 40 (2.84%) Middleware
2 40 (2.84%) REST
3 24 (1.70%) SOAP
4 22 (1.56%) .NET
5 21 (1.49%) XML
6 19 (1.35%) Kafka
7 18 (1.28%) Spring
8 17 (1.21%) JSON
9 11 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
9 11 (0.78%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (0.71%) Spring Boot
11 9 (0.64%) ADO
11 9 (0.64%) PySpark
11 9 (0.64%) React
12 8 (0.57%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 7 (0.50%) COM
13 7 (0.50%) ODBC
14 6 (0.43%) FHIR
14 6 (0.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 177 (12.56%) Legacy Systems
2 103 (7.31%) Data Structures
3 45 (3.19%) Cloud Native
4 42 (2.98%) Management Information System
5 30 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.06%) Public Cloud
7 27 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
8 23 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.28%) Replication
10 17 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.06%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (0.99%) Mainframe
12 14 (0.99%) NHS
13 13 (0.92%) FMCG
14 12 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (0.78%) Low-Code
15 11 (0.78%) Reference Data
15 11 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.63%) Windows
2 16 (1.14%) Linux
3 7 (0.50%) AIX
3 7 (0.50%) zOS
4 5 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.28%) VMS
5 4 (0.28%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.14%) Unix
7 1 (0.071%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.071%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.071%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,409 (100.00%) Migration
2 379 (26.90%) Validation
3 309 (21.93%) ERP
4 297 (21.08%) User Acceptance Testing
5 295 (20.94%) Stakeholder Management
6 244 (17.32%) Agile
7 235 (16.68%) ETL
8 206 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
8 206 (14.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 203 (14.41%) Data Modelling
10 142 (10.08%) Business Intelligence
11 140 (9.94%) Data Cleansing
12 139 (9.87%) Data Governance
13 132 (9.37%) DevOps
14 127 (9.01%) Project Management
15 125 (8.87%) Data Mapping
16 124 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
17 117 (8.30%) Analytics
18 110 (7.81%) CI/CD
19 106 (7.52%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 280 (19.87%) SQL
2 98 (6.96%) Python
3 42 (2.98%) Java
4 27 (1.92%) PL/SQL
5 22 (1.56%) Bash
5 22 (1.56%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.06%) C#
7 14 (0.99%) PowerShell
8 11 (0.78%) T-SQL
9 9 (0.64%) Apex Code
9 9 (0.64%) Kotlin
9 9 (0.64%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.50%) VB
10 7 (0.50%) VB6
10 7 (0.50%) VBA
11 5 (0.35%) C
11 5 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.21%) COBOL
12 3 (0.21%) SOQL
12 3 (0.21%) X++
Qualifications
1 233 (16.54%) Security Cleared
2 187 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 53 (3.76%) Degree
4 28 (1.99%) ISTQB
4 28 (1.99%) PMP
5 27 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 22 (1.56%) PMI Certification
7 21 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.14%) ACCA
8 16 (1.14%) CIMA
9 14 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (0.92%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.43%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 6 (0.43%) SAP Certification
12 5 (0.35%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.28%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (17.74%) Data Quality
2 116 (8.23%) QA
3 70 (4.97%) GDPR
4 26 (1.85%) PMO
5 16 (1.14%) SLA
6 10 (0.71%) HL7
6 10 (0.71%) IFRS
7 9 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.50%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.50%) SNOMED CT
9 6 (0.43%) COBIT
9 6 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.35%) DICOM
10 5 (0.35%) NIST
11 4 (0.28%) GAAP
11 4 (0.28%) GMP
11 4 (0.28%) PERC
11 4 (0.28%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 26 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (1.14%) Docker
3 15 (1.06%) vSphere
4 12 (0.85%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.85%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.71%) NFS
6 8 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
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 42 (2.98%) Terraform
2 36 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.92%) Ansible
4 15 (1.06%) Grafana
4 15 (1.06%) vCenter Server
5 14 (0.99%) Argo
6 10 (0.71%) EMC VPLEX
7 7 (0.50%) Data Guard
7 7 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
8 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.43%) vMotion
9 5 (0.35%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
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
12 2 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 281 (19.94%) Oracle
2 261 (18.52%) SAP
3 233 (16.54%) Microsoft
4 68 (4.83%) Salesforce
5 64 (4.54%) Databricks
6 31 (2.20%) VMware
7 30 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 24 (1.70%) Workday
9 23 (1.63%) Pure Storage
9 23 (1.63%) Sage
10 22 (1.56%) IFS
11 21 (1.49%) Informatica
12 20 (1.42%) Talend
13 18 (1.28%) Google
14 15 (1.06%) MuleSoft
14 15 (1.06%) Red Hat
15 12 (0.85%) Ariba
15 12 (0.85%) Siebel
16 11 (0.78%) IBM
16 11 (0.78%) Splunk
289 Data Migration jobs in England