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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 94 95
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,019 695 862
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.82% 2.76% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 3.05% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 472 596
10th Percentile £364 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -2.05% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £712 £720
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 38
10th Percentile £13.95 £22.96 £25.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £30.70 £40.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £46.25 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.81% -40.32% +189.72%
75th Percentile £78.19 £65.83 £80.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.56 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £85.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -65.29% +6.25% +158.06%

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 31,372 22,802 33,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.81% 90.52% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,079 14,552 21,849
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% - -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 1,949 811 2,155
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.59 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +6.15% -7.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.58
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.25 £71.82
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £32.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year -12.31% +1.20% -8.24%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +16 545 £550 - 102
South East -15 139 £609 +15.95% 84
North of England -24 121 £500 -6.98% 50
Midlands -27 108 £500 -4.76% 31
North West -2 74 £460 -12.38% 24
West Midlands -40 67 £500 -4.76% 23
Yorkshire -51 40 £529 -2.62% 22
East Midlands -2 39 £475 -2.81% 7
South West -21 32 £525 +6.06% 21
East of England -31 23 £465 -28.54% 15
North East -8 7 £494 -26.85% 4
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 (3.14%) Confluence
2 30 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.79%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 6 (0.59%) GeoServer
5 6 (0.59%) Smallworld
6 4 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.29%) CMS
7 3 (0.29%) LiveLink
8 2 (0.20%) Appian
8 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.098%) Apache
9 1 (0.098%) IIS
9 1 (0.098%) Moodle
9 1 (0.098%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.098%) SAP Portal
9 1 (0.098%) SAS
9 1 (0.098%) WebSphere
Applications
1 59 (5.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
3 19 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.47%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.098%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 85 (8.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (4.91%) Oracle EBS
3 32 (3.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (1.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 15 (1.47%) Oracle General Ledger
5 15 (1.47%) SAP HR
6 14 (1.37%) Oracle Payables
6 14 (1.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 13 (1.28%) Loan IQ
8 12 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
9 11 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
10 10 (0.98%) Workday HCM
11 7 (0.69%) Oracle Cash Management
11 7 (0.69%) Oracle EBS R12
11 7 (0.69%) SAP ERP
12 6 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
12 6 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
12 6 (0.59%) SAP CO
12 6 (0.59%) SAP FI
13 5 (0.49%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 153 (15.01%) Azure
2 104 (10.21%) AWS
3 89 (8.73%) OCI
3 89 (8.73%) Power Platform
4 60 (5.89%) Dynamics 365
5 34 (3.34%) Azure Data Factory
5 34 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (3.34%) SaaS
6 28 (2.75%) Snowflake
7 24 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 23 (2.26%) GitHub
8 23 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
10 17 (1.67%) Amazon S3
11 16 (1.57%) Entra ID
11 16 (1.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 16 (1.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 15 (1.47%) GCP
13 13 (1.28%) OpenShift
13 13 (1.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.08%) NAS
2 10 (0.98%) SAN
3 8 (0.79%) DNS
4 3 (0.29%) VPN
5 2 (0.20%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.20%) Firewall
5 2 (0.20%) SSL
6 1 (0.098%) FCoE
6 1 (0.098%) Internet
6 1 (0.098%) Intranet
6 1 (0.098%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.098%) Network Security
6 1 (0.098%) VSAN
6 1 (0.098%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (7.46%) Data Warehouse
2 68 (6.67%) Power BI
3 50 (4.91%) SQL Server
4 44 (4.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 43 (4.22%) Oracle Reports
6 37 (3.63%) Relational Database
7 28 (2.75%) Oracle Database
8 27 (2.65%) Metadata
9 24 (2.36%) Data Lake
10 19 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 17 (1.67%) RDBMS
12 16 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (1.47%) Tableau
14 14 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (1.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 11 (1.08%) MySQL
17 10 (0.98%) Big Data
17 10 (0.98%) DB2
18 9 (0.88%) DataStage
18 9 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 85 (8.34%) JIRA
2 18 (1.77%) Git
3 14 (1.37%) Zephyr
4 12 (1.18%) Postman
5 11 (1.08%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.39%) LSMW
7 4 (0.39%) Toad
7 4 (0.39%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.29%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.29%) ERwin
8 3 (0.29%) GitLab
8 3 (0.29%) JUnit
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.29%) Selenium
8 3 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.20%) Hudson
9 2 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
General
1 374 (36.70%) Social Skills
2 329 (32.29%) Finance
3 117 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 70 (6.87%) Banking
6 35 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
6 35 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
7 33 (3.24%) Manufacturing
7 33 (3.24%) Retail
8 24 (2.36%) Legal
9 20 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (1.67%) General Ledger
10 17 (1.67%) Marketing
11 15 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (1.47%) Law
12 14 (1.37%) Local Government
13 13 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (1.18%) Billing
15 10 (0.98%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 181 (17.76%) Lead
2 158 (15.51%) Analyst
3 131 (12.86%) Consultant
4 122 (11.97%) Architect
5 94 (9.22%) Project Manager
6 89 (8.73%) Business Analyst
7 76 (7.46%) Senior
8 65 (6.38%) Data Engineer
9 58 (5.69%) Data Analyst
10 57 (5.59%) Data Migration Lead
11 48 (4.71%) Migration Analyst
12 45 (4.42%) Developer
13 38 (3.73%) Data Architect
13 38 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
14 36 (3.53%) Migration Manager
15 35 (3.43%) Data Migration Analyst
16 32 (3.14%) SAP Consultant
17 30 (2.94%) Oracle Consultant
18 28 (2.75%) Data Business Analyst
19 27 (2.65%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (7.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 34 (3.34%) REST
3 28 (2.75%) Middleware
4 26 (2.55%) XML
5 19 (1.86%) SOAP
6 18 (1.77%) Lightning Web Components
7 12 (1.18%) .NET
7 12 (1.18%) JSON
8 11 (1.08%) Web Services
9 9 (0.88%) Visualforce
10 7 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (0.69%) PySpark
11 6 (0.59%) Kafka
11 6 (0.59%) React
11 6 (0.59%) Spring
12 5 (0.49%) XSLT
13 4 (0.39%) ADO
13 4 (0.39%) RESTful
13 4 (0.39%) SAP Fiori
14 3 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 137 (13.44%) Legacy Systems
2 70 (6.87%) Data Structures
3 35 (3.43%) Management Information System
4 31 (3.04%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.55%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.16%) Cloud Native
7 20 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (1.96%) Replication
8 16 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.18%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.18%) Reference Data
10 10 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (0.88%) NHS
11 9 (0.88%) Tandem
12 8 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (0.79%) Mainframe
12 8 (0.79%) Taxonomies
13 7 (0.69%) FMCG
13 7 (0.69%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.69%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.36%) Windows
2 8 (0.79%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.69%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.69%) Linux
3 7 (0.69%) zOS
4 6 (0.59%) Unix
5 5 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.29%) Solaris
7 1 (0.098%) AIX
7 1 (0.098%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,019 (100.00%) Migration
2 244 (23.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 229 (22.47%) Agile
4 218 (21.39%) Validation
5 187 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
6 186 (18.25%) ERP
7 184 (18.06%) ETL
8 160 (15.70%) User Acceptance Testing
9 155 (15.21%) Data Modelling
10 140 (13.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 119 (11.68%) Project Management
12 116 (11.38%) Analytics
13 110 (10.79%) Data Cleansing
14 108 (10.60%) Data Mapping
15 105 (10.30%) Workshop Facilitation
16 98 (9.62%) Change Management
17 97 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
18 82 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
18 82 (8.05%) Decision-Making
19 81 (7.95%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 208 (20.41%) SQL
2 74 (7.26%) Python
3 34 (3.34%) Java
4 19 (1.86%) PL/SQL
5 16 (1.57%) Apex Code
5 16 (1.57%) JavaScript
6 12 (1.18%) C#
7 11 (1.08%) PowerShell
8 9 (0.88%) Bash
8 9 (0.88%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.59%) VBA
10 5 (0.49%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.49%) Perl
10 5 (0.49%) PHP
10 5 (0.49%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.49%) X++
11 4 (0.39%) ABAP
11 4 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.39%) Korn
12 3 (0.29%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 152 (14.92%) Security Cleared
2 108 (10.60%) SC Cleared
3 55 (5.40%) Degree
4 27 (2.65%) PMP
5 23 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.67%) PMI Certification
7 15 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.47%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.08%) AWS Certification
9 10 (0.98%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.79%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.59%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.39%) OCP
12 4 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.29%) ACCA
13 3 (0.29%) CIMA
13 3 (0.29%) IIBA
13 3 (0.29%) PgMP
13 3 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (16.29%) Data Quality
2 78 (7.65%) QA
3 55 (5.40%) GDPR
4 18 (1.77%) PMO
5 15 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.18%) COBIT
7 11 (1.08%) NIST
8 9 (0.88%) IFRS
8 9 (0.88%) SLA
9 8 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.59%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.49%) GAAP
11 5 (0.49%) GMP
11 5 (0.49%) IFRS 9
11 5 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.39%) Basel III
12 4 (0.39%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 17 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.47%) Docker
4 11 (1.08%) NFS
5 8 (0.79%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.79%) vSphere
6 2 (0.20%) SRDF
7 1 (0.098%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 28 (2.75%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.96%) Terraform
3 12 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.98%) Ansible
5 9 (0.88%) Grafana
5 9 (0.88%) SCCM
6 8 (0.79%) Argo
6 8 (0.79%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.59%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.59%) vMotion
8 4 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.20%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.098%) Avamar
11 1 (0.098%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.098%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.098%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.098%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.098%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.098%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 217 (21.30%) Oracle
2 171 (16.78%) SAP
3 139 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 54 (5.30%) Salesforce
5 41 (4.02%) Workday
6 34 (3.34%) Databricks
7 24 (2.36%) Sage
8 23 (2.26%) Informatica
9 20 (1.96%) VMware
10 17 (1.67%) MuleSoft
10 17 (1.67%) Pure Storage
10 17 (1.67%) Talend
11 15 (1.47%) Avaloq
11 15 (1.47%) ServiceNow
12 13 (1.28%) Google
13 10 (0.98%) IFS
14 9 (0.88%) ESRI
14 9 (0.88%) GoldenSource
14 9 (0.88%) Red Hat
15 8 (0.79%) Temenos