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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 92 95
Rank change year-on-year +17 +3 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,475 776 776
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.24% 2.81% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.09% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 986 473 529
10th Percentile £363 £360 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
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 38 12 22
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.28 £64.18
25th Percentile £23.98 £28.68 £72.50
Median hourly rate £40.78 £50.25 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% -37.19% +199.07%
75th Percentile £61.44 £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% +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 38,759 25,103 28,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.06% 90.80% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,089 16,021 18,628
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,424 1,656
10th Percentile £14.55 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -39.40% -1.55%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +14 719 £550 - 276
South East +11 198 £550 +10.00% 98
North of England -10 197 £525 +10.53% 90
Midlands +10 171 £453 -9.40% 67
West Midlands +9 122 £443 -11.50% 39
North West +5 118 £525 +10.53% 62
South West +17 88 £523 -1.42% 29
Yorkshire -34 65 £519 +8.69% 24
East of England +5 52 £575 -4.88% 25
East Midlands +5 44 £525 +16.67% 28
North East -27 17 £575 - 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 60 (4.07%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.92%) Confluence
3 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
5 7 (0.47%) Apache
5 7 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.34%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.14%) Mendix
8 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.068%) CMS
9 1 (0.068%) IIS
9 1 (0.068%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.068%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 73 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
3 12 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.81%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.068%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 151 (10.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (1.97%) Oracle EBS
4 24 (1.63%) Oracle ERP
5 21 (1.42%) Oracle Payables
5 21 (1.42%) SAP ERP
6 19 (1.29%) NetSuite
7 17 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (0.81%) iTrent
8 12 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
8 12 (0.81%) Workday HCM
9 11 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 10 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
10 10 (0.68%) Teamcenter
11 9 (0.61%) SAP SD
12 8 (0.54%) SAP MDG
12 8 (0.54%) Temenos T24
13 6 (0.41%) SAP Business One
13 6 (0.41%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 242 (16.41%) Azure
2 153 (10.37%) Power Platform
3 149 (10.10%) AWS
4 117 (7.93%) Dynamics 365
5 93 (6.31%) OCI
6 75 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (4.27%) SaaS
8 53 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 44 (2.98%) Snowflake
10 40 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
11 34 (2.31%) GitHub
12 33 (2.24%) SuccessFactors
13 31 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 31 (2.10%) Power Automate
14 26 (1.76%) PowerApps
15 24 (1.63%) GCP
16 23 (1.56%) Amazon S3
17 17 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
18 15 (1.02%) dbt
19 14 (0.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.61%) 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 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.14%) HTTP
7 1 (0.068%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.068%) DKIM
7 1 (0.068%) DMARC
7 1 (0.068%) FCoE
7 1 (0.068%) Internet
7 1 (0.068%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.068%) Network Security
7 1 (0.068%) SNMP
7 1 (0.068%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (8.95%) Power BI
2 109 (7.39%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (4.47%) SQL Server
4 60 (4.07%) Oracle Reports
5 46 (3.12%) Relational Database
6 45 (3.05%) Metadata
7 40 (2.71%) Data Lake
8 29 (1.97%) Oracle Database
9 23 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 19 (1.29%) RDBMS
12 18 (1.22%) NoSQL
13 15 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (0.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 12 (0.81%) Oracle Exadata
15 12 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 11 (0.75%) DataStage
16 11 (0.75%) SAP Data Services
17 9 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
17 9 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 132 (8.95%) JIRA
2 59 (4.00%) Git
3 47 (3.19%) Zephyr
4 39 (2.64%) Postman
5 18 (1.22%) GitLab
6 16 (1.08%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.68%) Selenium
9 6 (0.41%) 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
1 520 (35.25%) Finance
2 423 (28.68%) Social Skills
3 200 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (8.95%) Public Sector
5 93 (6.31%) Banking
6 78 (5.29%) Manufacturing
7 54 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (3.39%) Law
8 50 (3.39%) Retail
9 40 (2.71%) General Ledger
10 33 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
11 29 (1.97%) Local Government
12 28 (1.90%) Marketing
13 27 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 27 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.63%) Automotive
15 21 (1.42%) Legal
15 21 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (1.22%) Billing
17 17 (1.15%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 285 (19.32%) Lead
2 216 (14.64%) Analyst
3 188 (12.75%) Architect
4 158 (10.71%) Consultant
5 128 (8.68%) Data Engineer
6 124 (8.41%) Senior
7 105 (7.12%) Data Migration Lead
8 99 (6.71%) Business Analyst
8 99 (6.71%) Project Manager
9 76 (5.15%) Data Analyst
10 71 (4.81%) Developer
11 63 (4.27%) Data Architect
12 62 (4.20%) Migration Engineer
13 51 (3.46%) Data Migration Engineer
14 48 (3.25%) SAP Consultant
14 48 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
15 47 (3.19%) Migration Analyst
16 44 (2.98%) Migration Manager
17 40 (2.71%) Data Consultant
17 40 (2.71%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (6.44%) Oracle Fusion
2 40 (2.71%) Middleware
3 38 (2.58%) REST
4 26 (1.76%) .NET
5 22 (1.49%) SOAP
6 21 (1.42%) XML
7 19 (1.29%) Kafka
8 16 (1.08%) JSON
9 14 (0.95%) Spring
10 13 (0.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 13 (0.88%) PySpark
11 11 (0.75%) Lightning Web Components
12 8 (0.54%) Spring Boot
13 7 (0.47%) React
14 6 (0.41%) ADO
14 6 (0.41%) OpenTelemetry
14 6 (0.41%) Playwright
14 6 (0.41%) RESTful
14 6 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
15 5 (0.34%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 175 (11.86%) Legacy Systems
2 100 (6.78%) Data Structures
3 45 (3.05%) Management Information System
4 44 (2.98%) Cloud Native
5 40 (2.71%) Onboarding
6 39 (2.64%) Public Cloud
7 37 (2.51%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
9 27 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
10 17 (1.15%) NHS
10 17 (1.15%) Replication
11 16 (1.08%) Data Centre
11 16 (1.08%) FMCG
12 14 (0.95%) Reference Data
13 13 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.75%) Low-Code
15 11 (0.75%) Mainframe
16 10 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.76%) Windows
2 22 (1.49%) Linux
3 12 (0.81%) AIX
4 5 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.27%) VMS
5 4 (0.27%) zOS
6 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.068%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.068%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,475 (100.00%) Migration
2 407 (27.59%) Validation
3 333 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 331 (22.44%) ERP
5 318 (21.56%) User Acceptance Testing
6 259 (17.56%) ETL
7 258 (17.49%) Agile
8 240 (16.27%) Data Modelling
9 226 (15.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 178 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
11 175 (11.86%) Data Governance
12 158 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
13 145 (9.83%) Data Cleansing
14 134 (9.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 133 (9.02%) Analytics
16 130 (8.81%) DevOps
17 129 (8.75%) Data Mapping
18 117 (7.93%) CI/CD
19 113 (7.66%) Data Transformation
20 109 (7.39%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 297 (20.14%) SQL
2 96 (6.51%) Python
3 41 (2.78%) Java
4 28 (1.90%) PL/SQL
5 21 (1.42%) C#
6 19 (1.29%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.15%) Bash
8 14 (0.95%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.81%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.61%) Apex Code
10 9 (0.61%) Kotlin
11 8 (0.54%) TypeScript
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
12 5 (0.34%) VBA
13 4 (0.27%) SOQL
13 4 (0.27%) X++
Qualifications
1 256 (17.36%) Security Cleared
2 202 (13.69%) SC Cleared
3 52 (3.53%) Degree
4 36 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 34 (2.31%) ISTQB
6 29 (1.97%) PMP
7 27 (1.83%) PMI Certification
8 26 (1.76%) ACCA
8 26 (1.76%) CIMA
9 19 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (0.81%) Azure Certification
11 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
14 7 (0.47%) SAP Certification
15 6 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 5 (0.34%) AWS Certification
17 4 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 4 (0.27%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (19.32%) Data Quality
2 126 (8.54%) QA
3 71 (4.81%) GDPR
4 30 (2.03%) PMO
5 12 (0.81%) SLA
6 11 (0.75%) IFRS
7 10 (0.68%) HL7
8 9 (0.61%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.47%) SNOMED CT
10 6 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.41%) DICOM
10 6 (0.41%) GRC
10 6 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.27%) GMP
11 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.27%) PERC
11 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.20%) GAAP
13 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 14 (0.95%) Docker
1 14 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
3 12 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.61%) vSphere
5 6 (0.41%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.27%) SRDF
7 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (0.20%) NFS
7 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (2.58%) Terraform
2 29 (1.97%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.83%) Ansible
4 12 (0.81%) Data Guard
4 12 (0.81%) Oracle RMAN
5 9 (0.61%) vCenter Server
6 8 (0.54%) Argo
6 8 (0.54%) Grafana
7 5 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
7 5 (0.34%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (0.27%) Karpenter
8 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.27%) NetBackup
8 4 (0.27%) SnapMirror
9 3 (0.20%) SnapVault
10 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.068%) Avamar
11 1 (0.068%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 307 (20.81%) Oracle
2 271 (18.37%) SAP
3 252 (17.08%) Microsoft
4 80 (5.42%) Databricks
5 67 (4.54%) Salesforce
6 31 (2.10%) Workday
7 30 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 24 (1.63%) Informatica
9 21 (1.42%) IBM
9 21 (1.42%) Talend
10 19 (1.29%) Google
10 19 (1.29%) IFS
11 17 (1.15%) Sage
11 17 (1.15%) VMware
12 14 (0.95%) MuleSoft
13 13 (0.88%) Ariba
14 10 (0.68%) Pure Storage
14 10 (0.68%) Red Hat
14 10 (0.68%) Siebel
15 9 (0.61%) InterSystems