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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 100 92
Rank change year-on-year +12 -8 +49
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,099 659 892
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.93% 2.67% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.39% 2.94% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 720 452 612
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £634 £638 £653
90th Percentile £708 £712 £724
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 40
10th Percentile £13.95 £24.53 £25.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £34.63 £40.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £57.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -28.13% +300.00%
75th Percentile £78.19 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.73 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £73.75 £80.00
% change year-on-year -51.19% -7.81% +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 32,413 22,389 32,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.76% 86.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,785 14,611 21,658
10th Percentile £313 £310 £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 £615 £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 1,991 834 2,145
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.41 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.15% - -7.29%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 22 March 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 +25 579 £550 - 123
South East -6 155 £600 +14.29% 76
North of England -19 141 £500 -4.76% 42
Midlands -11 106 £460 -10.24% 26
North West +11 85 £460 -16.36% 18
West Midlands -42 65 £473 -7.35% 18
Yorkshire -38 47 £525 +31.25% 18
East Midlands -7 38 £450 -7.93% 8
East of England -16 34 £583 -10.38% 23
South West -34 31 £563 +21.62% 15
North East -9 9 £488 -27.78% 6
South Coast - 1 £550 -
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 (2.91%) Confluence
2 30 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.73%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 6 (0.55%) GeoServer
5 6 (0.55%) Smallworld
6 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.27%) CMS
7 2 (0.18%) Appian
7 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.091%) Apache
8 1 (0.091%) IIS
8 1 (0.091%) Moodle
8 1 (0.091%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.091%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.091%) SAS
8 1 (0.091%) WebSphere
Applications
1 66 (6.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
4 19 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (1.73%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.091%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.091%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 103 (9.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 51 (4.64%) Oracle EBS
3 31 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (1.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 13 (1.18%) Loan IQ
5 13 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
6 12 (1.09%) Oracle General Ledger
6 12 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
7 11 (1.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 11 (1.00%) SAP HR
7 11 (1.00%) Workday HCM
8 9 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
9 8 (0.73%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.64%) Oracle EBS R12
11 6 (0.55%) Finacle
11 6 (0.55%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
11 6 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.55%) SAP CO
11 6 (0.55%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 168 (15.29%) Azure
2 113 (10.28%) Power Platform
3 109 (9.92%) AWS
4 90 (8.19%) OCI
5 76 (6.92%) Dynamics 365
6 44 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (3.55%) SaaS
8 36 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
8 36 (3.28%) GitHub
9 28 (2.55%) Snowflake
10 24 (2.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 22 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (1.82%) SuccessFactors
13 18 (1.64%) GCP
14 17 (1.55%) OpenShift
14 17 (1.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 16 (1.46%) Amazon S3
15 16 (1.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 15 (1.36%) Entra ID
17 12 (1.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.18%) DNS
2 11 (1.00%) NAS
3 10 (0.91%) SAN
4 3 (0.27%) Firewall
4 3 (0.27%) VPN
5 2 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.18%) HTTP
5 2 (0.18%) SSL
6 1 (0.091%) FCoE
6 1 (0.091%) Internet
6 1 (0.091%) Intranet
6 1 (0.091%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.091%) Network Security
6 1 (0.091%) VSAN
6 1 (0.091%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (8.37%) Power BI
2 81 (7.37%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (5.28%) SQL Server
4 42 (3.82%) Oracle Reports
5 41 (3.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 37 (3.37%) Relational Database
7 29 (2.64%) Metadata
8 23 (2.09%) Data Lake
9 22 (2.00%) Oracle Database
10 19 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (1.46%) RDBMS
12 16 (1.46%) Tableau
13 14 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (1.27%) NoSQL
14 13 (1.18%) SAP Data Services
15 12 (1.09%) MySQL
16 11 (1.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
17 10 (0.91%) Big Data
18 9 (0.82%) DB2
Development Applications
1 92 (8.37%) JIRA
2 23 (2.09%) Git
3 17 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.36%) Zephyr
5 12 (1.09%) Postman
6 7 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.45%) GitLab
7 5 (0.45%) LSMW
8 4 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.36%) Hudson
8 4 (0.36%) JUnit
8 4 (0.36%) Selenium
8 4 (0.36%) Toad
8 4 (0.36%) Visual Studio
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
General
1 399 (36.31%) Social Skills
2 369 (33.58%) Finance
3 135 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (9.37%) Public Sector
5 67 (6.10%) Banking
6 39 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (3.37%) Manufacturing
8 36 (3.28%) Retail
9 35 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (2.82%) Law
11 27 (2.46%) Legal
12 21 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
13 19 (1.73%) General Ledger
13 19 (1.73%) Marketing
14 17 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 16 (1.46%) Local Government
15 16 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
16 15 (1.36%) Billing
17 13 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (1.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 218 (19.84%) Lead
2 170 (15.47%) Analyst
3 140 (12.74%) Architect
4 134 (12.19%) Consultant
5 101 (9.19%) Project Manager
6 94 (8.55%) Business Analyst
7 77 (7.01%) Senior
8 71 (6.46%) Data Engineer
9 64 (5.82%) Data Analyst
10 62 (5.64%) Data Migration Lead
11 52 (4.73%) Migration Analyst
12 48 (4.37%) Developer
13 41 (3.73%) Migration Manager
14 38 (3.46%) SAP Consultant
15 37 (3.37%) Data Architect
15 37 (3.37%) Data Migration Analyst
15 37 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
16 31 (2.82%) Data Business Analyst
17 29 (2.64%) Data Manager
17 29 (2.64%) Data Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (7.01%) Oracle Fusion
2 35 (3.18%) REST
3 29 (2.64%) Middleware
4 28 (2.55%) XML
5 22 (2.00%) SOAP
6 17 (1.55%) Lightning Web Components
7 14 (1.27%) .NET
7 14 (1.27%) JSON
8 12 (1.09%) OpenTelemetry
9 11 (1.00%) Spring
10 10 (0.91%) Web Services
11 9 (0.82%) Visualforce
12 8 (0.73%) Kafka
12 8 (0.73%) PySpark
13 7 (0.64%) React
14 5 (0.45%) FHIR
14 5 (0.45%) RESTful
14 5 (0.45%) XSLT
15 4 (0.36%) ADO
15 4 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 156 (14.19%) Legacy Systems
2 84 (7.64%) Data Structures
3 38 (3.46%) Management Information System
4 33 (3.00%) Cloud Native
5 29 (2.64%) Product Ownership
6 28 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 20 (1.82%) Replication
8 19 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.09%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.00%) NHS
12 11 (1.00%) Reference Data
12 11 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.91%) Public Cloud
14 9 (0.82%) FMCG
14 9 (0.82%) Tandem
14 9 (0.82%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.09%) Windows
2 8 (0.73%) Linux
3 7 (0.64%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.64%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.64%) zOS
4 6 (0.55%) Unix
5 5 (0.45%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) Solaris
7 1 (0.091%) AIX
7 1 (0.091%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,099 (100.00%) Migration
2 257 (23.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 256 (23.29%) Validation
4 239 (21.75%) Agile
5 215 (19.56%) ERP
6 193 (17.56%) ETL
7 192 (17.47%) User Acceptance Testing
8 191 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
9 172 (15.65%) Data Modelling
10 169 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 129 (11.74%) Project Management
12 125 (11.37%) Data Cleansing
13 120 (10.92%) Analytics
14 118 (10.74%) Business Intelligence
15 115 (10.46%) Data Mapping
16 112 (10.19%) Workshop Facilitation
17 106 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
18 104 (9.46%) Change Management
19 101 (9.19%) Data Governance
20 96 (8.74%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 216 (19.65%) SQL
2 87 (7.92%) Python
3 38 (3.46%) Java
4 20 (1.82%) PL/SQL
5 16 (1.46%) Apex Code
5 16 (1.46%) Bash
5 16 (1.46%) JavaScript
6 12 (1.09%) C#
7 9 (0.82%) PowerShell
7 9 (0.82%) VBA
8 7 (0.64%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.45%) Korn
9 5 (0.45%) Kotlin
9 5 (0.45%) Perl
9 5 (0.45%) PHP
9 5 (0.45%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.36%) SOQL
10 4 (0.36%) X++
11 3 (0.27%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 164 (14.92%) Security Cleared
2 116 (10.56%) SC Cleared
3 57 (5.19%) Degree
4 27 (2.46%) PMP
5 23 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (1.73%) DV Cleared
7 18 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (1.64%) PMI Certification
8 13 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.09%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.00%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.73%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.64%) OCP
12 7 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (0.55%) SAP Certification
14 3 (0.27%) ACCA
14 3 (0.27%) CIMA
14 3 (0.27%) IIBA
14 3 (0.27%) PgMP
14 3 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (17.56%) Data Quality
2 91 (8.28%) QA
3 62 (5.64%) GDPR
4 19 (1.73%) PMO
5 15 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.09%) COBIT
7 11 (1.00%) NIST
8 9 (0.82%) IFRS
9 8 (0.73%) SLA
10 7 (0.64%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.45%) GAAP
11 5 (0.45%) GMP
11 5 (0.45%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.36%) Basel III
12 4 (0.36%) HL7
12 4 (0.36%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.27%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 21 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (1.46%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.46%) Docker
3 13 (1.18%) VMware NSX
3 13 (1.18%) vSphere
4 10 (0.91%) NFS
5 2 (0.18%) SRDF
6 1 (0.091%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 40 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.37%) Terraform
3 16 (1.46%) Ansible
4 14 (1.27%) Grafana
5 13 (1.18%) Argo
5 13 (1.18%) vCenter Server
6 12 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.73%) SCCM
8 6 (0.55%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.55%) vMotion
9 3 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.18%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.091%) Avamar
11 1 (0.091%) Control-M
11 1 (0.091%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.091%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.091%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.091%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.091%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 215 (19.56%) Oracle
2 191 (17.38%) SAP
3 167 (15.20%) Microsoft
4 62 (5.64%) Salesforce
5 40 (3.64%) Workday
6 38 (3.46%) Databricks
7 27 (2.46%) Informatica
8 25 (2.27%) VMware
9 23 (2.09%) Sage
10 22 (2.00%) Pure Storage
11 19 (1.73%) MuleSoft
12 18 (1.64%) ServiceNow
12 18 (1.64%) Talend
13 17 (1.55%) Avaloq
14 14 (1.27%) Google
14 14 (1.27%) Red Hat
15 12 (1.09%) IFS
15 12 (1.09%) Splunk
16 10 (0.91%) GoldenSource
16 10 (0.91%) IBM