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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 97 95
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +49
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 854 740 888
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.72% 2.55% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 2.89% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 503 602
10th Percentile £363 £400 £406
25th Percentile £435 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £648 £638 £650
90th Percentile £736 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £533 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.93% -2.27% +4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 11
10th Percentile £15.87 £40.40 £82.50
25th Percentile £38.00 £48.50 £83.13
Median hourly rate £64.63 £64.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% -24.71% +21.00%
75th Percentile £81.00 £67.88 £86.50
90th Percentile £88.74 £69.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £62.75 £64.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year -1.95% -24.71% +21.00%

All Process and 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 27,932 25,643 33,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.81% 88.51% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,758 15,859 22,544
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,818 849 1,407
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.68
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%
75th Percentile £54.56 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.90 £74.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +10 459 £550 - 96
South East -26 117 £624 +13.45% 109
Midlands -10 100 £550 +4.76% 79
North of England -50 79 £452 -13.91% 60
West Midlands -25 55 £550 +4.76% 42
East Midlands +11 43 £550 +29.41% 35
North West -30 40 £449 -7.66% 22
Yorkshire -32 36 £525 -7.08% 35
South West -15 26 £524 -0.24% 32
East of England -21 22 £465 -15.55% 52
North East -11 4 £438 -30.00% 3
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 36 (4.22%) Confluence
2 30 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.70%) GeoServer
5 6 (0.70%) Smallworld
6 5 (0.59%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 3 (0.35%) Apache
7 3 (0.35%) CMS
7 3 (0.35%) LiveLink
8 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.12%) Documentum
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Moodle
9 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.12%) SAP Portal
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 41 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (1.29%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 70 (8.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (4.22%) Oracle EBS
3 33 (3.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (2.58%) SAP HR
5 16 (1.87%) Oracle Payables
6 13 (1.52%) Oracle General Ledger
7 12 (1.41%) Oracle Receivables
8 9 (1.05%) Oracle Cash Management
9 8 (0.94%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.94%) Oracle EBS R12
9 8 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.94%) SAP Payroll
9 8 (0.94%) Workday HCM
10 7 (0.82%) Endur
10 7 (0.82%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 7 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
10 7 (0.82%) SAP FI
10 7 (0.82%) SAP PM
11 6 (0.70%) SAP CO
11 6 (0.70%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 118 (13.82%) Azure
2 73 (8.55%) AWS
3 69 (8.08%) Power Platform
4 60 (7.03%) OCI
5 58 (6.79%) Dynamics 365
6 35 (4.10%) SaaS
7 31 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (2.81%) Snowflake
10 23 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (2.58%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 22 (2.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 19 (2.22%) Amazon S3
13 18 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (1.99%) SuccessFactors
15 16 (1.87%) GCP
16 15 (1.76%) dbt
16 15 (1.76%) Serverless
17 14 (1.64%) Entra ID
18 13 (1.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.47%) NAS
2 3 (0.35%) DNS
2 3 (0.35%) Firewall
2 3 (0.35%) Intranet
2 3 (0.35%) Network Security
2 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.35%) VPN
3 2 (0.23%) Internet
3 2 (0.23%) IPv6
3 2 (0.23%) LAN
3 2 (0.23%) SAN
3 2 (0.23%) SSL
3 2 (0.23%) WAN
4 1 (0.12%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.12%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.12%) IPv4
4 1 (0.12%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.12%) VLAN
4 1 (0.12%) WebEx
4 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.09%) Power BI
1 52 (6.09%) SQL Server
2 48 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (4.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 32 (3.75%) Relational Database
5 23 (2.69%) Oracle Database
6 21 (2.46%) Tableau
7 20 (2.34%) Data Lake
7 20 (2.34%) Metadata
7 20 (2.34%) Oracle Reports
8 18 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 17 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (1.99%) DataStage
10 16 (1.87%) RDBMS
11 10 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (1.17%) Big Data
11 10 (1.17%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.17%) MySQL
12 9 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (0.94%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 73 (8.55%) JIRA
2 4 (0.47%) Git
2 4 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (0.47%) Toad
2 4 (0.47%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.35%) LSMW
3 3 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.23%) Hudson
5 1 (0.12%) gulp
5 1 (0.12%) Postman
5 1 (0.12%) Pylint
5 1 (0.12%) Selenium
5 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 296 (34.66%) Social Skills
2 280 (32.79%) Finance
3 94 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (8.90%) Public Sector
5 46 (5.39%) Banking
6 27 (3.16%) Local Government
7 26 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (3.04%) Manufacturing
8 25 (2.93%) Legal
9 24 (2.81%) Marketing
9 24 (2.81%) Retail
10 22 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (2.34%) Back Office
12 18 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.99%) General Ledger
13 17 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.94%) Billing
14 8 (0.94%) Front Office
14 8 (0.94%) Investment Banking
14 8 (0.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 135 (15.81%) Lead
2 134 (15.69%) Analyst
3 109 (12.76%) Consultant
4 106 (12.41%) Architect
5 85 (9.95%) Business Analyst
6 81 (9.48%) Project Manager
7 60 (7.03%) Senior
8 47 (5.50%) Data Migration Lead
9 46 (5.39%) Data Engineer
10 43 (5.04%) Developer
11 38 (4.45%) Data Analyst
12 30 (3.51%) SAP Consultant
12 30 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
13 25 (2.93%) Migration Analyst
13 25 (2.93%) Migration Specialist
13 25 (2.93%) Salesforce Architect
14 24 (2.81%) Functional Consultant
15 23 (2.69%) Data Architect
16 22 (2.58%) Data Migration Specialist
16 22 (2.58%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 37 (4.33%) XML
3 31 (3.63%) REST
4 29 (3.40%) Lightning Web Components
5 24 (2.81%) SOAP
5 24 (2.81%) Visualforce
6 20 (2.34%) Middleware
7 17 (1.99%) JSON
8 13 (1.52%) .NET
9 11 (1.29%) Web Services
10 8 (0.94%) PySpark
10 8 (0.94%) SAP PI
10 8 (0.94%) XSLT
11 7 (0.82%) SAP Fiori
12 6 (0.70%) EDI
13 5 (0.59%) GraphQL
13 5 (0.59%) React
14 4 (0.47%) SAP Basis
14 4 (0.47%) Swagger
15 3 (0.35%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 101 (11.83%) Legacy Systems
2 55 (6.44%) Data Structures
3 35 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 32 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.58%) Management Information System
6 15 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.41%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.17%) Reference Data
10 10 (1.17%) Replication
11 9 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.82%) Cloud Native
13 6 (0.70%) FMCG
13 6 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (0.70%) Low-Code
13 6 (0.70%) NHS
13 6 (0.70%) Public Cloud
14 5 (0.59%) CMDB
14 5 (0.59%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.11%) Windows
2 5 (0.59%) Unix
2 5 (0.59%) Windows 10
2 5 (0.59%) Windows Server
2 5 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (0.47%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.35%) Linux
4 3 (0.35%) Solaris
5 1 (0.12%) AIX
5 1 (0.12%) MVS
5 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.12%) VMS
5 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 854 (100.00%) Migration
2 217 (25.41%) Agile
3 172 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
4 171 (20.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 139 (16.28%) ETL
6 133 (15.57%) ERP
7 127 (14.87%) Validation
8 124 (14.52%) Data Modelling
9 120 (14.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 117 (13.70%) User Acceptance Testing
11 91 (10.66%) Project Management
12 88 (10.30%) Analytics
13 82 (9.60%) Data Governance
14 80 (9.37%) Data Cleansing
14 80 (9.37%) Workshop Facilitation
15 73 (8.55%) Change Management
16 68 (7.96%) Business Intelligence
17 67 (7.85%) CRM
17 67 (7.85%) DevOps
18 66 (7.73%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 170 (19.91%) SQL
2 60 (7.03%) Python
3 36 (4.22%) Java
4 29 (3.40%) Apex Code
5 16 (1.87%) C#
6 13 (1.52%) JavaScript
6 13 (1.52%) PL/SQL
7 9 (1.05%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.05%) T-SQL
8 7 (0.82%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.70%) Bicep
9 6 (0.70%) PHP
10 5 (0.59%) ABAP
10 5 (0.59%) Perl
11 4 (0.47%) SOQL
11 4 (0.47%) VB
11 4 (0.47%) X++
12 3 (0.35%) Bash
12 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 89 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 66 (7.73%) Degree
3 55 (6.44%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.69%) PMP
6 20 (2.34%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.22%) PMI Certification
8 14 (1.64%) AWS Certification
9 13 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.41%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.82%) SAP Certification
12 6 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (0.59%) CFA
13 5 (0.59%) CIMA
14 4 (0.47%) ACCA
14 4 (0.47%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.35%) OCP
15 3 (0.35%) PgMP
16 2 (0.23%) CIPD
16 2 (0.23%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (14.87%) Data Quality
2 63 (7.38%) QA
3 52 (6.09%) GDPR
4 15 (1.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 12 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.05%) PMO
7 8 (0.94%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.70%) COBIT
8 6 (0.70%) IFRS
8 6 (0.70%) NIST
8 6 (0.70%) SLA
9 4 (0.47%) GRC
9 4 (0.47%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.35%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.35%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.23%) EMIR
11 2 (0.23%) GMP
11 2 (0.23%) GxP
System Software
1 15 (1.76%) Docker
2 11 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.35%) NFS
5 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) SRDF
5 1 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (2.11%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.64%) Terraform
3 7 (0.82%) SCCM
4 6 (0.70%) Ansible
5 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.12%) Argo
8 1 (0.12%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.12%) Grafana
8 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 155 (18.15%) SAP
2 152 (17.80%) Oracle
3 122 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 55 (6.44%) Salesforce
5 34 (3.98%) Workday
6 27 (3.16%) Databricks
7 13 (1.52%) Google
8 12 (1.41%) Informatica
9 11 (1.29%) MuleSoft
10 10 (1.17%) IBM
11 8 (0.94%) Kronos
11 8 (0.94%) Talend
12 7 (0.82%) Sage
13 6 (0.70%) Ariba
13 6 (0.70%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.70%) ESRI
13 6 (0.70%) Intergraph
14 5 (0.59%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.59%) OpenText
14 5 (0.59%) ServiceNow