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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 86 97
Rank change year-on-year +12 +11 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,486 777 779
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.25% 2.81% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.10% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 983 476 529
10th Percentile £363 £360 £375
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £644
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 12 22
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.28 £64.18
25th Percentile £23.00 £28.68 £72.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.25 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.40% -37.19% +158.06%
75th Percentile £60.13 £68.44 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £73.50 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £36.33 £80.00
% change year-on-year +10.12% -54.59% +142.42%

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 39,026 25,062 28,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.78% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,293 16,024 18,683
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,529 1,392 1,676
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £14.09
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.87 £18.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -37.90% -4.71%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +12 718 £550 - 184
South East +16 206 £550 +7.32% 77
North of England -15 201 £527 +10.95% 55
Midlands +10 166 £460 -8.00% 58
North West +8 123 £538 +13.16% 37
West Midlands +6 120 £450 -10.00% 40
South West +14 91 £523 -0.48% 17
Yorkshire -33 64 £525 +10.53% 17
East of England +9 54 £575 -4.88% 17
East Midlands +11 42 £525 +16.67% 18
North East -28 17 £575 - 3
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 60 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.89%) Confluence
3 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
5 7 (0.47%) Apache
6 6 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.34%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.13%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
8 2 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.067%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.067%) CMS
9 1 (0.067%) IIS
9 1 (0.067%) Mendix
9 1 (0.067%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 75 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
3 14 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.067%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 158 (10.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (2.15%) Oracle EBS
4 25 (1.68%) Oracle ERP
5 22 (1.48%) SAP ERP
6 21 (1.41%) Oracle Payables
7 19 (1.28%) NetSuite
8 18 (1.21%) Oracle Receivables
9 12 (0.81%) iTrent
9 12 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
9 12 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
10 11 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
10 11 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 11 (0.74%) Workday HCM
11 10 (0.67%) Teamcenter
12 8 (0.54%) NEC Housing
12 8 (0.54%) SAP MDG
12 8 (0.54%) SAP SD
12 8 (0.54%) Temenos T24
13 7 (0.47%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 239 (16.08%) Azure
2 152 (10.23%) Power Platform
3 150 (10.09%) AWS
4 118 (7.94%) Dynamics 365
5 95 (6.39%) OCI
6 75 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (4.44%) SaaS
8 53 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 45 (3.03%) Snowflake
10 39 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
11 35 (2.36%) GitHub
12 31 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 31 (2.09%) Power Automate
12 31 (2.09%) SuccessFactors
13 26 (1.75%) PowerApps
14 24 (1.62%) Amazon S3
15 23 (1.55%) GCP
16 17 (1.14%) dbt
17 16 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
18 13 (0.87%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.67%) DNS
2 8 (0.54%) SAN
3 7 (0.47%) NAS
3 7 (0.47%) VPN
4 5 (0.34%) Firewall
5 3 (0.20%) Intranet
5 3 (0.20%) VSAN
6 2 (0.13%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.13%) HTTP
7 1 (0.067%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.067%) DKIM
7 1 (0.067%) DMARC
7 1 (0.067%) FCoE
7 1 (0.067%) Internet
7 1 (0.067%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.067%) Network Security
7 1 (0.067%) SNMP
7 1 (0.067%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (8.82%) Power BI
2 103 (6.93%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (4.37%) SQL Server
4 61 (4.10%) Oracle Reports
5 43 (2.89%) Metadata
6 41 (2.76%) Data Lake
6 41 (2.76%) Relational Database
7 28 (1.88%) Oracle Database
8 20 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 19 (1.28%) RDBMS
10 18 (1.21%) NoSQL
11 14 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (0.87%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 12 (0.81%) Oracle Exadata
13 12 (0.81%) SAP Data Services
13 12 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
14 10 (0.67%) DataStage
14 10 (0.67%) GIS
Development Applications
1 130 (8.75%) JIRA
2 57 (3.84%) Git
3 44 (2.96%) Zephyr
4 36 (2.42%) Postman
5 18 (1.21%) GitLab
6 17 (1.14%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.67%) Selenium
9 6 (0.40%) Hudson
10 5 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.34%) Gatling
10 5 (0.34%) LSMW
10 5 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.27%) JUnit
11 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.20%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 527 (35.46%) Finance
2 422 (28.40%) Social Skills
3 200 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (8.55%) Public Sector
5 92 (6.19%) Banking
6 77 (5.18%) Manufacturing
7 52 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (3.30%) Law
8 49 (3.30%) Retail
9 40 (2.69%) General Ledger
10 33 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
11 30 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (2.02%) Local Government
12 27 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (1.75%) Marketing
14 23 (1.55%) Automotive
15 22 (1.48%) Legal
16 21 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (1.21%) Billing
18 17 (1.14%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 298 (20.05%) Lead
2 217 (14.60%) Analyst
3 193 (12.99%) Architect
4 155 (10.43%) Consultant
5 129 (8.68%) Data Engineer
6 126 (8.48%) Senior
7 110 (7.40%) Data Migration Lead
8 102 (6.86%) Project Manager
9 101 (6.80%) Business Analyst
10 76 (5.11%) Data Analyst
11 71 (4.78%) Developer
12 67 (4.51%) Data Architect
13 62 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
14 51 (3.43%) Data Migration Engineer
15 48 (3.23%) Migration Analyst
16 47 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
17 46 (3.10%) SAP Consultant
18 45 (3.03%) Migration Manager
19 40 (2.69%) Data Migration Analyst
20 38 (2.56%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (6.46%) Oracle Fusion
2 38 (2.56%) REST
3 36 (2.42%) Middleware
4 26 (1.75%) .NET
5 21 (1.41%) SOAP
5 21 (1.41%) XML
6 19 (1.28%) Kafka
7 16 (1.08%) JSON
8 15 (1.01%) Spring
9 13 (0.87%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 11 (0.74%) PySpark
11 10 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
12 8 (0.54%) Spring Boot
13 7 (0.47%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (0.47%) React
14 6 (0.40%) ADO
14 6 (0.40%) Playwright
14 6 (0.40%) RESTful
14 6 (0.40%) SAP Fiori
15 5 (0.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 173 (11.64%) Legacy Systems
2 103 (6.93%) Data Structures
3 46 (3.10%) Management Information System
4 44 (2.96%) Cloud Native
5 39 (2.62%) Public Cloud
6 38 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 37 (2.49%) Onboarding
8 31 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
9 30 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.14%) FMCG
10 17 (1.14%) NHS
10 17 (1.14%) Replication
11 16 (1.08%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (0.81%) Mainframe
14 12 (0.81%) Reference Data
15 10 (0.67%) Low-Code
15 10 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.75%) Windows
2 22 (1.48%) Linux
3 12 (0.81%) AIX
4 5 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
4 5 (0.34%) zOS
5 4 (0.27%) VMS
6 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.067%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.067%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,486 (100.00%) Migration
2 408 (27.46%) Validation
3 336 (22.61%) ERP
4 334 (22.48%) Stakeholder Management
5 316 (21.27%) User Acceptance Testing
6 254 (17.09%) Agile
7 252 (16.96%) ETL
8 234 (15.75%) Data Modelling
9 225 (15.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 186 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
11 171 (11.51%) Data Governance
12 157 (10.57%) Business Intelligence
13 152 (10.23%) Data Cleansing
14 135 (9.08%) Analytics
15 132 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 130 (8.75%) DevOps
17 127 (8.55%) Data Mapping
18 116 (7.81%) CI/CD
19 112 (7.54%) Project Management
20 108 (7.27%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 294 (19.78%) SQL
2 97 (6.53%) Python
3 42 (2.83%) Java
4 28 (1.88%) PL/SQL
5 21 (1.41%) C#
5 21 (1.41%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.21%) Bash
7 14 (0.94%) PowerShell
8 12 (0.81%) T-SQL
9 9 (0.61%) Kotlin
10 8 (0.54%) Apex Code
10 8 (0.54%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.47%) VBA
12 5 (0.34%) ABAP
12 5 (0.34%) C
12 5 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.34%) VB
12 5 (0.34%) VB6
13 4 (0.27%) SOQL
13 4 (0.27%) X++
Qualifications
1 255 (17.16%) Security Cleared
2 202 (13.59%) SC Cleared
3 53 (3.57%) Degree
4 39 (2.62%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.09%) ISTQB
6 30 (2.02%) PMP
7 28 (1.88%) PMI Certification
8 25 (1.68%) ACCA
8 25 (1.68%) CIMA
9 20 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (0.81%) Azure Certification
11 10 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.54%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.47%) SAP Certification
14 6 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 5 (0.34%) AWS Certification
16 4 (0.27%) OCP
17 3 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (19.18%) Data Quality
2 128 (8.61%) QA
3 70 (4.71%) GDPR
4 31 (2.09%) PMO
5 13 (0.87%) SLA
6 11 (0.74%) IFRS
7 10 (0.67%) HL7
8 9 (0.61%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.47%) SNOMED CT
10 6 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.40%) DICOM
10 6 (0.40%) GRC
10 6 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.27%) GMP
12 4 (0.27%) PERC
12 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.20%) GAAP
14 2 (0.13%) COBIT
14 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 15 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (0.94%) Docker
3 13 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
4 12 (0.81%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.67%) vSphere
6 7 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.27%) SRDF
8 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.20%) NFS
8 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 42 (2.83%) Terraform
2 30 (2.02%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.88%) Ansible
4 12 (0.81%) Data Guard
4 12 (0.81%) Oracle RMAN
5 10 (0.67%) vCenter Server
6 9 (0.61%) Argo
6 9 (0.61%) Grafana
7 5 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
7 5 (0.34%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.27%) NetBackup
8 4 (0.27%) SnapMirror
9 3 (0.20%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.20%) SnapVault
10 2 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.13%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.067%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.067%) Avamar
Vendors
1 302 (20.32%) Oracle
2 275 (18.51%) SAP
3 250 (16.82%) Microsoft
4 76 (5.11%) Databricks
5 67 (4.51%) Salesforce
6 29 (1.95%) ServiceNow
6 29 (1.95%) Workday
7 23 (1.55%) Informatica
8 21 (1.41%) Talend
9 20 (1.35%) IFS
10 19 (1.28%) Google
10 19 (1.28%) IBM
11 18 (1.21%) Sage
11 18 (1.21%) VMware
12 14 (0.94%) MuleSoft
13 13 (0.87%) Ariba
14 11 (0.74%) Pure Storage
14 11 (0.74%) Red Hat
15 10 (0.67%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.67%) Siebel