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

 6 months to
4 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 96 94
Rank change year-on-year +18 -2 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,222 656 876
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.03% 2.69% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.58% 2.95% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 423 607
10th Percentile £358 £375 £363
25th Percentile £446 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £660
90th Percentile £733 £723 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 8 33
10th Percentile £15.12 £29.58 £25.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £50.84 £40.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £63.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.25% -15.00% +252.94%
75th Percentile £41.83 £71.88 £80.00
90th Percentile £77.05 £77.74 -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -48.57% -6.67% +233.33%

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 34,177 22,233 31,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 91.20% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,833 14,556 20,949
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,126 928 2,245
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.65 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.83
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.06% -0.47%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +36 602 £525 -4.55% 128
South East -2 172 £618 +13.30% 68
North of England -16 165 £500 -2.44% 45
Midlands -12 128 £473 -5.50% 33
North West +3 100 £473 -11.92% 29
West Midlands -15 86 £450 -10.00% 21
Yorkshire -34 57 £525 +31.25% 12
East of England -6 54 £575 -11.54% 21
South West -12 51 £525 +2.44% 18
East Midlands -7 39 £500 +7.53% 12
North East -15 8 £488 -20.41% 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 43 (3.52%) Confluence
2 42 (3.44%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.49%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 3 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.16%) Appian
6 2 (0.16%) IIS
7 1 (0.082%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.082%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.082%) CMS
7 1 (0.082%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.082%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.082%) WebSphere
Applications
1 67 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 19 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
2 19 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
3 15 (1.23%) MS Visio
4 13 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.082%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.082%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 139 (11.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
3 32 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 15 (1.23%) SAP ERP
6 14 (1.15%) Loan IQ
6 14 (1.15%) Oracle ERP
7 11 (0.90%) NetSuite
7 11 (0.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 10 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
9 8 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
10 7 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
10 7 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
10 7 (0.57%) Teamcenter
10 7 (0.57%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.49%) Finacle
11 6 (0.49%) SAP CO
11 6 (0.49%) SAP FI
12 5 (0.41%) NEC Housing
12 5 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 171 (13.99%) Azure
2 123 (10.07%) Power Platform
3 99 (8.10%) AWS
4 89 (7.28%) Dynamics 365
5 76 (6.22%) OCI
6 48 (3.93%) Azure Data Factory
6 48 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (3.68%) SaaS
8 33 (2.70%) GitHub
9 32 (2.62%) Snowflake
10 29 (2.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 24 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (1.47%) SuccessFactors
13 17 (1.39%) GCP
14 14 (1.15%) Entra ID
14 14 (1.15%) OpenShift
14 14 (1.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 13 (1.06%) Amazon S3
15 13 (1.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 11 (0.90%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.23%) DNS
2 13 (1.06%) NAS
2 13 (1.06%) SAN
3 6 (0.49%) Firewall
4 4 (0.33%) VPN
5 2 (0.16%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.16%) HTTP
5 2 (0.16%) VSAN
6 1 (0.082%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.082%) DKIM
6 1 (0.082%) DMARC
6 1 (0.082%) FCoE
6 1 (0.082%) Internet
6 1 (0.082%) Intranet
6 1 (0.082%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.082%) Network Security
6 1 (0.082%) SNMP
6 1 (0.082%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (8.92%) Power BI
2 88 (7.20%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (4.58%) Oracle Reports
4 53 (4.34%) SQL Server
5 33 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 29 (2.37%) Metadata
7 27 (2.21%) Data Lake
8 23 (1.88%) Relational Database
9 22 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (1.55%) Oracle Database
11 15 (1.23%) NoSQL
12 14 (1.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 13 (1.06%) SAP Data Services
14 12 (0.98%) DB2
15 11 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 10 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (0.82%) Electronic Patient Records
16 10 (0.82%) Tableau
17 9 (0.74%) MySQL
18 8 (0.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 116 (9.49%) JIRA
2 32 (2.62%) Git
3 29 (2.37%) Zephyr
4 24 (1.96%) Postman
5 18 (1.47%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.90%) Selenium
7 8 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.49%) LSMW
9 5 (0.41%) GitLab
9 5 (0.41%) Hudson
10 4 (0.33%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.33%) JUnit
10 4 (0.33%) Toad
11 3 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.25%) ERwin
11 3 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.16%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
General
1 408 (33.39%) Finance
2 382 (31.26%) Social Skills
3 156 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 68 (5.56%) Banking
6 63 (5.16%) Manufacturing
7 46 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.52%) Law
8 43 (3.52%) Retail
9 38 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (1.88%) Legal
12 22 (1.80%) General Ledger
12 22 (1.80%) Local Government
13 21 (1.72%) Marketing
14 18 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 17 (1.39%) Billing
15 17 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (1.15%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.98%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 279 (22.83%) Lead
2 188 (15.38%) Analyst
3 150 (12.27%) Architect
4 139 (11.37%) Consultant
5 103 (8.43%) Data Migration Lead
6 94 (7.69%) Project Manager
7 89 (7.28%) Business Analyst
8 85 (6.96%) Senior
9 84 (6.87%) Data Engineer
10 65 (5.32%) Data Analyst
11 58 (4.75%) Developer
12 53 (4.34%) Migration Analyst
13 49 (4.01%) Migration Engineer
14 46 (3.76%) Migration Manager
15 45 (3.68%) Data Architect
16 44 (3.60%) Data Migration Engineer
17 41 (3.36%) SAP Consultant
18 39 (3.19%) Data Migration Analyst
19 37 (3.03%) Lead Architect
20 34 (2.78%) Data Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (6.63%) Oracle Fusion
2 35 (2.86%) REST
3 32 (2.62%) Middleware
4 20 (1.64%) SOAP
5 17 (1.39%) XML
6 16 (1.31%) .NET
7 13 (1.06%) Kafka
7 13 (1.06%) Lightning Web Components
8 12 (0.98%) OpenTelemetry
8 12 (0.98%) Spring
9 11 (0.90%) JSON
10 7 (0.57%) PySpark
10 7 (0.57%) Web Services
11 6 (0.49%) FHIR
12 5 (0.41%) React
12 5 (0.41%) Visualforce
13 4 (0.33%) AngularJS
13 4 (0.33%) RESTful
13 4 (0.33%) Spring Boot
13 4 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 156 (12.77%) Legacy Systems
2 96 (7.86%) Data Structures
3 40 (3.27%) Cloud Native
4 39 (3.19%) Management Information System
5 30 (2.45%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
7 26 (2.13%) Product Ownership
8 20 (1.64%) Public Cloud
8 20 (1.64%) Replication
9 16 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.15%) Mainframe
11 14 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.98%) Data Centre
12 12 (0.98%) Reference Data
13 11 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
13 11 (0.90%) NHS
14 10 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (0.74%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.96%) Windows
2 9 (0.74%) Linux
3 7 (0.57%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.57%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.57%) zOS
4 6 (0.49%) Unix
5 3 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (0.25%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.082%) AIX
6 1 (0.082%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.082%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,222 (100.00%) Migration
2 316 (25.86%) Validation
3 274 (22.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 259 (21.19%) ERP
5 243 (19.89%) User Acceptance Testing
6 234 (19.15%) Agile
7 218 (17.84%) ETL
8 194 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
9 178 (14.57%) Data Modelling
10 169 (13.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 138 (11.29%) Business Intelligence
12 137 (11.21%) Data Cleansing
13 128 (10.47%) Project Management
14 121 (9.90%) Data Mapping
15 114 (9.33%) Analytics
16 111 (9.08%) Continuous Improvement
17 106 (8.67%) Data Governance
18 99 (8.10%) Workshop Facilitation
19 94 (7.69%) Change Management
20 90 (7.36%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 230 (18.82%) SQL
2 88 (7.20%) Python
3 35 (2.86%) Java
4 28 (2.29%) PL/SQL
5 19 (1.55%) Bash
6 12 (0.98%) Apex Code
6 12 (0.98%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.90%) PowerShell
8 9 (0.74%) VBA
9 8 (0.65%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.57%) C#
11 5 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.41%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.41%) PHP
11 5 (0.41%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.33%) Korn
12 4 (0.33%) Perl
12 4 (0.33%) SOQL
13 3 (0.25%) ABAP
13 3 (0.25%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 197 (16.12%) Security Cleared
2 146 (11.95%) SC Cleared
3 46 (3.76%) Degree
4 30 (2.45%) DV Cleared
5 23 (1.88%) PMP
6 19 (1.55%) ISTQB
7 18 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.39%) PMI Certification
9 10 (0.82%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.65%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.57%) ACCA
11 7 (0.57%) CIMA
12 4 (0.33%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.33%) OCP
12 4 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.33%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (17.51%) Data Quality
2 90 (7.36%) QA
3 60 (4.91%) GDPR
4 26 (2.13%) PMO
5 12 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.98%) SLA
6 10 (0.82%) COBIT
6 10 (0.82%) HL7
7 9 (0.74%) NIST
8 7 (0.57%) IFRS
8 7 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.57%) SNOMED CT
9 5 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.41%) DICOM
9 5 (0.41%) GAAP
9 5 (0.41%) GMP
10 4 (0.33%) Basel III
10 4 (0.33%) PERC
11 3 (0.25%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.25%) GxP
System Software
1 24 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.23%) vSphere
4 13 (1.06%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.74%) NFS
6 8 (0.65%) Docker
7 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.25%) SRDF
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.082%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 30 (2.45%) Kubernetes
1 30 (2.45%) Terraform
2 20 (1.64%) Ansible
3 15 (1.23%) Grafana
3 15 (1.23%) vCenter Server
4 14 (1.15%) Argo
5 12 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.65%) EMC VPLEX
6 8 (0.65%) SCCM
7 6 (0.49%) vMotion
8 4 (0.33%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.25%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (0.25%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.16%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.16%) SnapMirror
10 2 (0.16%) SnapVault
11 1 (0.082%) Avamar
11 1 (0.082%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 235 (19.23%) SAP
2 229 (18.74%) Oracle
3 193 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 65 (5.32%) Salesforce
5 47 (3.85%) Databricks
6 28 (2.29%) VMware
7 25 (2.05%) Workday
8 23 (1.88%) Informatica
8 23 (1.88%) Pure Storage
9 22 (1.80%) Sage
10 19 (1.55%) ServiceNow
11 18 (1.47%) Talend
12 17 (1.39%) Google
13 16 (1.31%) MuleSoft
14 15 (1.23%) Avaloq
15 14 (1.15%) IFS
15 14 (1.15%) Red Hat
16 12 (0.98%) Splunk
17 11 (0.90%) IBM
18 10 (0.82%) Ariba
287 Data Migration jobs in England