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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 86 100
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,413 783 755
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.10% 2.86% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 3.15% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 940 488 515
10th Percentile £363 £363 £383
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 12 13
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.28 £65.10
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% -13.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £68.44 -
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.50 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £36.33 £80.00
% change year-on-year +10.12% -54.59% -13.25%

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 38,735 24,846 28,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.77% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,900 15,805 17,939
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,596 1,469 1,428
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.38 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +17 693 £535 -2.82% 342
North of England -8 192 £500 +5.26% 82
South East -5 173 £545 -5.22% 99
Midlands +3 164 £475 -5.00% 74
North West +6 118 £525 +10.53% 52
West Midlands -5 112 £450 -10.00% 48
South West +22 88 £523 -0.48% 36
Yorkshire -34 62 £500 +2.56% 16
East of England +10 58 £565 +14.43% 40
East Midlands +1 48 £525 +0.77% 26
North East -30 15 £444 +1.43% 14
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 58 (4.10%) SharePoint
2 42 (2.97%) Confluence
3 12 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.50%) Apache
6 7 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.35%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.14%) CMS
8 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.14%) Mendix
8 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.071%) IIS
9 1 (0.071%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.071%) SAS
9 1 (0.071%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.071%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 68 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
3 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.99%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.21%) Windchill
7 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.071%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 157 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (1.63%) Oracle ERP
3 23 (1.63%) Oracle Payables
4 20 (1.42%) NetSuite
5 19 (1.34%) Oracle Receivables
5 19 (1.34%) SAP ERP
6 16 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
7 12 (0.85%) Oracle Financials
7 12 (0.85%) SAP SD
7 12 (0.85%) Teamcenter
7 12 (0.85%) Workday HCM
8 11 (0.78%) iTrent
8 11 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
8 11 (0.78%) SAP MDG
9 10 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 9 (0.64%) SAP FI
10 9 (0.64%) SAP MM
11 8 (0.57%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 230 (16.28%) Azure
2 145 (10.26%) Power Platform
3 142 (10.05%) AWS
4 118 (8.35%) Dynamics 365
5 79 (5.59%) OCI
6 72 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (4.25%) SaaS
8 44 (3.11%) Snowflake
9 42 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 40 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
11 37 (2.62%) GitHub
12 35 (2.48%) SuccessFactors
13 30 (2.12%) Power Automate
14 28 (1.98%) Amazon S3
14 28 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 26 (1.84%) PowerApps
16 24 (1.70%) GCP
17 16 (1.13%) dbt
17 16 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
18 13 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.50%) DNS
2 5 (0.35%) NAS
2 5 (0.35%) SAN
2 5 (0.35%) VPN
3 4 (0.28%) Firewall
4 3 (0.21%) Intranet
5 2 (0.14%) HTTP
5 2 (0.14%) VSAN
6 1 (0.071%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.071%) DKIM
6 1 (0.071%) DMARC
6 1 (0.071%) Internet
6 1 (0.071%) SNMP
6 1 (0.071%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (8.85%) Power BI
2 99 (7.01%) Data Warehouse
3 68 (4.81%) SQL Server
4 53 (3.75%) Metadata
5 47 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 41 (2.90%) Oracle Reports
7 36 (2.55%) Data Lake
8 31 (2.19%) Oracle Database
9 30 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (1.42%) RDBMS
11 17 (1.20%) NoSQL
12 14 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (0.92%) DataStage
13 13 (0.92%) Oracle Exadata
14 12 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 11 (0.78%) MongoDB
15 11 (0.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 10 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (0.71%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 116 (8.21%) JIRA
2 53 (3.75%) Git
3 36 (2.55%) Zephyr
4 29 (2.05%) Postman
5 20 (1.42%) GitLab
6 15 (1.06%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
8 8 (0.57%) Selenium
9 6 (0.42%) Hudson
10 5 (0.35%) Gatling
10 5 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.28%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.28%) LSMW
11 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.21%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.14%) Yeoman
14 1 (0.071%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.071%) Cucumber
General
1 504 (35.67%) Finance
2 401 (28.38%) Social Skills
3 193 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 83 (5.87%) Banking
6 76 (5.38%) Manufacturing
7 57 (4.03%) Retail
8 55 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
9 48 (3.40%) Law
10 44 (3.11%) General Ledger
11 33 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
12 31 (2.19%) Local Government
13 26 (1.84%) Marketing
14 25 (1.77%) Automotive
14 25 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 22 (1.56%) Billing
15 22 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (1.34%) Legal
17 16 (1.13%) Aerospace
17 16 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 264 (18.68%) Lead
2 218 (15.43%) Analyst
3 179 (12.67%) Architect
4 155 (10.97%) Consultant
5 123 (8.70%) Data Engineer
6 121 (8.56%) Senior
7 97 (6.86%) Data Migration Lead
8 89 (6.30%) Business Analyst
9 87 (6.16%) Project Manager
10 79 (5.59%) Data Analyst
11 67 (4.74%) Developer
12 60 (4.25%) Data Architect
13 57 (4.03%) Migration Engineer
14 50 (3.54%) SAP Consultant
15 47 (3.33%) Data Migration Engineer
16 44 (3.11%) Migration Analyst
17 42 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
18 39 (2.76%) Data Consultant
19 38 (2.69%) Data Migration Analyst
20 37 (2.62%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (6.23%) Oracle Fusion
2 45 (3.18%) Middleware
3 36 (2.55%) Terraform
4 34 (2.41%) REST
5 26 (1.84%) .NET
6 24 (1.70%) XML
7 20 (1.42%) SOAP
8 17 (1.20%) JSON
8 17 (1.20%) Kafka
9 16 (1.13%) PySpark
10 14 (0.99%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 14 (0.99%) Spring
11 9 (0.64%) Keycloak
12 8 (0.57%) Lightning Web Components
12 8 (0.57%) Spring Boot
13 7 (0.50%) SAP Fiori
14 6 (0.42%) ADO
14 6 (0.42%) FHIR
14 6 (0.42%) HTML
14 6 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 165 (11.68%) Legacy Systems
2 102 (7.22%) Data Structures
3 43 (3.04%) Onboarding
3 43 (3.04%) Public Cloud
4 42 (2.97%) Cloud Native
4 42 (2.97%) Management Information System
5 39 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 33 (2.34%) Product Ownership
7 28 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (1.27%) FMCG
8 18 (1.27%) NHS
9 17 (1.20%) Reference Data
9 17 (1.20%) Replication
10 14 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (0.85%) Data Centre
12 12 (0.85%) Low-Code
13 11 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (0.71%) Reinsurance
15 9 (0.64%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.56%) Linux
1 22 (1.56%) Windows
2 13 (0.92%) AIX
3 5 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (0.28%) VMS
5 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.071%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.071%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,413 (100.00%) Migration
2 411 (29.09%) Validation
3 343 (24.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 327 (23.14%) User Acceptance Testing
5 325 (23.00%) ERP
6 241 (17.06%) Agile
7 235 (16.63%) ETL
8 233 (16.49%) Data Modelling
9 226 (15.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 178 (12.60%) Data Governance
11 175 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
12 147 (10.40%) Business Intelligence
13 137 (9.70%) Data Cleansing
14 129 (9.13%) DevOps
15 128 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
16 127 (8.99%) Analytics
17 116 (8.21%) CI/CD
18 115 (8.14%) Data Mapping
19 112 (7.93%) Requirements Gathering
20 106 (7.50%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 290 (20.52%) SQL
2 92 (6.51%) Python
3 35 (2.48%) Java
4 26 (1.84%) PL/SQL
5 20 (1.42%) C#
5 20 (1.42%) JavaScript
6 17 (1.20%) Bash
7 15 (1.06%) PowerShell
8 10 (0.71%) TypeScript
9 9 (0.64%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.50%) Apex Code
10 7 (0.50%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.35%) ABAP
11 5 (0.35%) VB
11 5 (0.35%) VB6
11 5 (0.35%) VBA
12 4 (0.28%) C
12 4 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.28%) X++
13 3 (0.21%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 251 (17.76%) Security Cleared
2 201 (14.23%) SC Cleared
3 52 (3.68%) Degree
4 36 (2.55%) DV Cleared
5 29 (2.05%) ACCA
5 29 (2.05%) CIMA
6 26 (1.84%) PMI Certification
6 26 (1.84%) PMP
7 25 (1.77%) ISTQB
8 19 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (0.64%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.50%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.42%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.35%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.21%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (20.24%) Data Quality
2 112 (7.93%) QA
3 65 (4.60%) GDPR
4 31 (2.19%) PMO
5 12 (0.85%) GRC
6 11 (0.78%) HL7
7 10 (0.71%) IFRS
7 10 (0.71%) SLA
8 9 (0.64%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.42%) DICOM
9 6 (0.42%) SNOMED CT
10 5 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.28%) PERC
11 4 (0.28%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 2 (0.14%) GAAP
13 2 (0.14%) GMP
13 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 17 (1.20%) Docker
2 14 (0.99%) Oracle RAC
3 12 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.64%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.57%) vSphere
6 5 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.21%) SRDF
8 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.14%) NFS
Systems Management
1 29 (2.05%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.91%) Ansible
3 13 (0.92%) Data Guard
3 13 (0.92%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (0.57%) Karpenter
4 8 (0.57%) vCenter Server
5 7 (0.50%) Argo
5 7 (0.50%) Grafana
6 4 (0.28%) EMC VPLEX
6 4 (0.28%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.28%) SnapMirror
7 3 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (0.21%) NetBackup
7 3 (0.21%) SnapVault
8 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.071%) Autotask
9 1 (0.071%) SCCM
9 1 (0.071%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 280 (19.82%) Oracle
2 275 (19.46%) SAP
3 258 (18.26%) Microsoft
4 82 (5.80%) Databricks
5 60 (4.25%) Salesforce
6 30 (2.12%) ServiceNow
7 29 (2.05%) Workday
8 25 (1.77%) Informatica
9 21 (1.49%) IBM
10 19 (1.34%) Talend
11 18 (1.27%) Google
12 17 (1.20%) Ariba
12 17 (1.20%) IFS
13 13 (0.92%) VMware
14 11 (0.78%) Sage
15 10 (0.71%) MuleSoft
15 10 (0.71%) Siebel
16 9 (0.64%) Atlassian
16 9 (0.64%) InterSystems
17 8 (0.57%) Red Hat