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

 6 months to
10 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 99 93
Rank change year-on-year +14 -6 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,155 653 892
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.94% 2.68% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.43% 2.95% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 757 434 611
10th Percentile £363 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £532 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% -3.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £632 £638 £660
90th Percentile £725 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 6 40
10th Percentile £14.12 £26.21 £25.00
25th Percentile £16.63 £40.03 £40.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £60.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.74% -25.00% +300.00%
75th Percentile £73.06 £64.69 -
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.03 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £75.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -51.05% -6.25% +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 33,625 22,142 32,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.72% 90.94% 86.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,563 14,591 21,374
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 £614 £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 2,074 866 2,196
10th Percentile £15.41 £14.95 £12.96
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.92 £15.93
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.03 £34.11
Median % change year-on-year +24.90% -6.10% -9.05%
75th Percentile £65.81 £64.52 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.85 £75.88 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £31.04 £33.07
% change year-on-year +18.27% -6.12% -8.15%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 10 April 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 +24 592 £525 -4.55% 124
South East -3 163 £624 +13.97% 79
North of England -12 154 £500 -4.76% 47
Midlands -20 108 £470 -8.07% 29
North West +15 90 £460 -14.42% 20
West Midlands -37 68 £473 -6.44% 20
Yorkshire -32 55 £529 +32.25% 22
East of England -15 48 £575 -11.54% 21
East Midlands -8 37 £450 -12.20% 9
South West -24 33 £600 +17.07% 18
North East -11 9 £488 -20.41% 5
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 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.42%) Confluence
3 8 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.69%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.17%) Appian
5 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.17%) CMS
6 1 (0.087%) Apache
6 1 (0.087%) IIS
6 1 (0.087%) Moodle
6 1 (0.087%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.087%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.087%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.087%) WebSphere
Applications
1 64 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 21 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
3 20 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (1.47%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.087%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 123 (10.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (4.68%) Oracle EBS
3 32 (2.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 14 (1.21%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (1.13%) Loan IQ
7 12 (1.04%) SAP ERP
8 11 (0.95%) Workday HCM
9 10 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 9 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
10 9 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
11 7 (0.61%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
11 7 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
12 6 (0.52%) Finacle
12 6 (0.52%) SAP HR
13 5 (0.43%) NEC Housing
13 5 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
13 5 (0.43%) SAP CO
13 5 (0.43%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 163 (14.11%) Azure
2 125 (10.82%) Power Platform
3 100 (8.66%) AWS
4 89 (7.71%) OCI
5 85 (7.36%) Dynamics 365
6 45 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (3.81%) SaaS
8 40 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 37 (3.20%) GitHub
10 26 (2.25%) Snowflake
11 25 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 23 (1.99%) SuccessFactors
13 22 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
14 18 (1.56%) GCP
15 16 (1.39%) Amazon S3
16 15 (1.30%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 14 (1.21%) Entra ID
17 14 (1.21%) OpenShift
17 14 (1.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 10 (0.87%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.21%) DNS
2 13 (1.13%) NAS
3 12 (1.04%) SAN
4 4 (0.35%) VPN
5 3 (0.26%) Firewall
6 2 (0.17%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.17%) HTTP
6 2 (0.17%) SSL
6 2 (0.17%) VSAN
7 1 (0.087%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.087%) FCoE
7 1 (0.087%) Internet
7 1 (0.087%) Intranet
7 1 (0.087%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.087%) Network Security
7 1 (0.087%) SNMP
7 1 (0.087%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (9.26%) Power BI
2 78 (6.75%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (4.68%) SQL Server
4 46 (3.98%) Oracle Reports
5 37 (3.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 29 (2.51%) Metadata
7 26 (2.25%) Relational Database
8 25 (2.16%) Data Lake
9 22 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (1.73%) Oracle Database
11 16 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 15 (1.30%) NoSQL
13 14 (1.21%) SAP Data Services
14 13 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (1.13%) Tableau
15 12 (1.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 10 (0.87%) DB2
16 10 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
17 8 (0.69%) MySQL
17 8 (0.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 90 (7.79%) JIRA
2 26 (2.25%) Git
3 19 (1.65%) Zephyr
4 18 (1.56%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.30%) Postman
6 8 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.52%) LSMW
8 5 (0.43%) GitLab
8 5 (0.43%) Hudson
8 5 (0.43%) Selenium
9 4 (0.35%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.35%) JUnit
9 4 (0.35%) Toad
10 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.26%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.26%) ERwin
10 3 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 394 (34.11%) Social Skills
2 391 (33.85%) Finance
3 147 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 67 (5.80%) Banking
6 45 (3.90%) Manufacturing
7 44 (3.81%) Law
8 42 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (3.38%) Retail
10 37 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (1.90%) Legal
13 20 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 19 (1.65%) General Ledger
14 19 (1.65%) Local Government
14 19 (1.65%) Marketing
15 17 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
16 16 (1.39%) Billing
17 12 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
18 10 (0.87%) Police
Job Titles
1 255 (22.08%) Lead
2 162 (14.03%) Analyst
3 155 (13.42%) Architect
4 129 (11.17%) Consultant
5 99 (8.57%) Project Manager
6 91 (7.88%) Business Analyst
7 82 (7.10%) Data Migration Lead
7 82 (7.10%) Senior
8 76 (6.58%) Data Engineer
9 62 (5.37%) Data Analyst
10 55 (4.76%) Developer
11 53 (4.59%) Migration Analyst
12 41 (3.55%) Data Architect
13 40 (3.46%) Migration Manager
14 38 (3.29%) Data Migration Analyst
14 38 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
15 37 (3.20%) SAP Consultant
16 33 (2.86%) Lead Architect
17 32 (2.77%) Data Manager
17 32 (2.77%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (6.84%) Oracle Fusion
2 36 (3.12%) REST
3 31 (2.68%) Middleware
4 27 (2.34%) XML
5 20 (1.73%) SOAP
6 16 (1.39%) JSON
7 15 (1.30%) .NET
8 14 (1.21%) Lightning Web Components
9 13 (1.13%) Kafka
10 12 (1.04%) OpenTelemetry
11 11 (0.95%) Spring
12 7 (0.61%) PySpark
12 7 (0.61%) Web Services
13 6 (0.52%) React
14 5 (0.43%) FHIR
14 5 (0.43%) RESTful
14 5 (0.43%) Visualforce
14 5 (0.43%) XSLT
15 4 (0.35%) AngularJS
15 4 (0.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 161 (13.94%) Legacy Systems
2 91 (7.88%) Data Structures
3 41 (3.55%) Management Information System
4 36 (3.12%) Cloud Native
5 30 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.25%) Product Ownership
7 24 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (1.65%) Replication
9 17 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (1.30%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.13%) NHS
11 13 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.04%) Mainframe
12 12 (1.04%) Reference Data
13 11 (0.95%) Data Centre
13 11 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
14 9 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.16%) Windows
2 10 (0.87%) Linux
3 7 (0.61%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.61%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.61%) zOS
4 6 (0.52%) Unix
4 6 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.087%) AIX
6 1 (0.087%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.087%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,155 (100.00%) Migration
2 287 (24.85%) Validation
3 278 (24.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 250 (21.65%) ERP
5 230 (19.91%) Agile
6 217 (18.79%) User Acceptance Testing
7 199 (17.23%) ETL
8 192 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
9 174 (15.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 173 (14.98%) Data Modelling
11 134 (11.60%) Business Intelligence
12 132 (11.43%) Data Cleansing
13 126 (10.91%) Project Management
14 122 (10.56%) Data Mapping
15 116 (10.04%) Analytics
16 115 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
17 107 (9.26%) Workshop Facilitation
18 104 (9.00%) Change Management
19 96 (8.31%) Data Governance
20 90 (7.79%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 223 (19.31%) SQL
2 85 (7.36%) Python
3 39 (3.38%) Java
4 25 (2.16%) PL/SQL
5 17 (1.47%) Bash
6 16 (1.39%) JavaScript
7 13 (1.13%) Apex Code
7 13 (1.13%) PowerShell
8 11 (0.95%) C#
9 10 (0.87%) VBA
10 7 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.61%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.43%) Korn
11 5 (0.43%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.43%) Perl
11 5 (0.43%) PHP
11 5 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.35%) SOQL
13 3 (0.26%) ABAP
13 3 (0.26%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 184 (15.93%) Security Cleared
2 133 (11.52%) SC Cleared
3 48 (4.16%) Degree
4 28 (2.42%) DV Cleared
5 24 (2.08%) PMP
6 20 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.39%) PMI Certification
9 15 (1.30%) ISTQB
10 11 (0.95%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.87%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.52%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.52%) SAP Certification
13 4 (0.35%) OCP
13 4 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.26%) ACCA
14 3 (0.26%) CIMA
14 3 (0.26%) IIBA
14 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (17.06%) Data Quality
2 92 (7.97%) QA
3 59 (5.11%) GDPR
4 25 (2.16%) PMO
5 14 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.04%) COBIT
7 11 (0.95%) NIST
8 9 (0.78%) IFRS
8 9 (0.78%) SLA
9 8 (0.69%) HL7
10 7 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.43%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.43%) GAAP
11 5 (0.43%) GMP
11 5 (0.43%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.35%) Basel III
12 4 (0.35%) DICOM
12 4 (0.35%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.35%) PERC
System Software
1 24 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.30%) vSphere
4 13 (1.13%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.78%) NFS
6 8 (0.69%) Docker
7 3 (0.26%) SRDF
8 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.087%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 32 (2.77%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.34%) Terraform
3 16 (1.39%) Ansible
4 15 (1.30%) Grafana
4 15 (1.30%) vCenter Server
5 14 (1.21%) Argo
6 12 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.69%) EMC VPLEX
7 8 (0.69%) SCCM
8 6 (0.52%) vMotion
9 3 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (0.26%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.26%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.17%) SnapMirror
10 2 (0.17%) SnapVault
11 1 (0.087%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.087%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 221 (19.13%) Oracle
2 212 (18.35%) SAP
3 184 (15.93%) Microsoft
4 63 (5.45%) Salesforce
5 39 (3.38%) Databricks
6 36 (3.12%) Workday
7 28 (2.42%) VMware
8 23 (1.99%) Informatica
8 23 (1.99%) Pure Storage
8 23 (1.99%) Sage
9 18 (1.56%) ServiceNow
10 17 (1.47%) Avaloq
11 16 (1.39%) MuleSoft
12 15 (1.30%) Red Hat
12 15 (1.30%) Talend
13 14 (1.21%) Google
14 13 (1.13%) IFS
15 12 (1.04%) Splunk
16 11 (0.95%) IBM
17 10 (0.87%) Ariba
296 Data Migration jobs in England