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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 88 97
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,461 778 770
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.19% 2.82% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 3.10% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 967 477 531
10th Percentile £363 £360 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £639
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £539
% change year-on-year - -2.55% -1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 12 18
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.28 £69.73
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% +199.07%
75th Percentile £57.50 £68.44 -
90th Percentile £73.98 £73.50 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £36.33 £80.00
% change year-on-year +10.12% -54.59% +199.07%

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 38,860 25,068 28,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.79% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,530
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,442 1,597
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.20 £14.15
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +14 706 £550 - 117
North of England -15 204 £519 +9.26% 47
South East -2 189 £550 +7.32% 75
Midlands +16 174 £453 -9.40% 41
North West +5 124 £525 +10.53% 36
West Midlands +9 123 £443 -11.50% 24
South West +12 86 £523 -0.48% 22
Yorkshire -34 66 £510 +6.81% 9
East of England +6 55 £570 -5.71% 15
East Midlands +3 46 £525 +16.67% 17
North East -24 17 £575 - 2
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 61 (4.18%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.94%) Confluence
3 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
5 7 (0.48%) Apache
6 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.34%) 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 (0.068%) 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 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
3 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.068%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 153 (10.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (2.05%) Oracle EBS
4 24 (1.64%) Oracle ERP
5 21 (1.44%) Oracle Payables
5 21 (1.44%) SAP ERP
6 19 (1.30%) NetSuite
7 17 (1.16%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
8 12 (0.82%) Workday HCM
9 11 (0.75%) iTrent
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%) SAP MDG
10 10 (0.68%) Teamcenter
11 9 (0.62%) SAP SD
12 8 (0.55%) Temenos T24
13 7 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
14 6 (0.41%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 237 (16.22%) Azure
2 153 (10.47%) Power Platform
3 150 (10.27%) AWS
4 115 (7.87%) Dynamics 365
5 94 (6.43%) OCI
6 75 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (4.18%) SaaS
8 50 (3.42%) Azure Data Factory
9 43 (2.94%) Snowflake
10 40 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
11 33 (2.26%) GitHub
11 33 (2.26%) Power Automate
11 33 (2.26%) SuccessFactors
12 30 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 28 (1.92%) PowerApps
14 24 (1.64%) GCP
15 23 (1.57%) Amazon S3
16 18 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
17 15 (1.03%) dbt
18 13 (0.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.48%) DNS
1 7 (0.48%) VPN
2 6 (0.41%) NAS
2 6 (0.41%) SAN
3 4 (0.27%) Firewall
4 3 (0.21%) Intranet
5 2 (0.14%) HTTP
5 2 (0.14%) VSAN
6 1 (0.068%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.068%) DKIM
6 1 (0.068%) DMARC
6 1 (0.068%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.068%) Internet
6 1 (0.068%) Network Security
6 1 (0.068%) SNMP
6 1 (0.068%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (9.03%) Power BI
2 110 (7.53%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (4.45%) SQL Server
4 60 (4.11%) Oracle Reports
5 47 (3.22%) Metadata
6 43 (2.94%) Relational Database
7 38 (2.60%) Data Lake
8 30 (2.05%) Oracle Database
9 23 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (1.30%) RDBMS
10 19 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 18 (1.23%) NoSQL
12 15 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (0.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 12 (0.82%) DataStage
14 12 (0.82%) Oracle Exadata
14 12 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 11 (0.75%) SAP Data Services
16 9 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
16 9 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 132 (9.03%) JIRA
2 59 (4.04%) Git
3 47 (3.22%) Zephyr
4 39 (2.67%) Postman
5 18 (1.23%) GitLab
6 15 (1.03%) 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 (0.21%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 518 (35.46%) Finance
2 419 (28.68%) Social Skills
3 198 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 90 (6.16%) Banking
6 79 (5.41%) Manufacturing
7 54 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
8 53 (3.63%) Retail
9 51 (3.49%) Law
10 40 (2.74%) General Ledger
11 34 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
12 31 (2.12%) Local Government
13 25 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 25 (1.71%) Marketing
14 24 (1.64%) Automotive
15 22 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (1.44%) Legal
17 20 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
18 19 (1.30%) Billing
19 16 (1.10%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 283 (19.37%) Lead
2 215 (14.72%) Analyst
3 184 (12.59%) Architect
4 160 (10.95%) Consultant
5 127 (8.69%) Data Engineer
6 119 (8.15%) Senior
7 105 (7.19%) Data Migration Lead
8 94 (6.43%) Project Manager
9 92 (6.30%) Business Analyst
10 71 (4.86%) Developer
11 70 (4.79%) Data Analyst
12 61 (4.18%) Data Architect
12 61 (4.18%) Migration Engineer
13 50 (3.42%) Data Migration Engineer
13 50 (3.42%) SAP Consultant
14 47 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
15 45 (3.08%) Migration Analyst
16 42 (2.87%) Data Consultant
17 40 (2.74%) Migration Consultant
18 38 (2.60%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (6.64%) Oracle Fusion
2 41 (2.81%) Middleware
3 37 (2.53%) REST
4 26 (1.78%) .NET
5 21 (1.44%) SOAP
5 21 (1.44%) XML
6 19 (1.30%) Kafka
7 16 (1.10%) JSON
8 15 (1.03%) PySpark
9 14 (0.96%) Spring
10 13 (0.89%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 9 (0.62%) Lightning Web Components
12 8 (0.55%) Spring Boot
13 7 (0.48%) React
13 7 (0.48%) SAP Fiori
14 6 (0.41%) ADO
14 6 (0.41%) Playwright
14 6 (0.41%) RESTful
15 5 (0.34%) FHIR
15 5 (0.34%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 169 (11.57%) Legacy Systems
2 100 (6.84%) Data Structures
3 45 (3.08%) Management Information System
4 43 (2.94%) Cloud Native
5 40 (2.74%) Onboarding
5 40 (2.74%) Public Cloud
6 36 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 31 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (1.30%) NHS
10 16 (1.10%) FMCG
11 15 (1.03%) Replication
12 14 (0.96%) Data Centre
12 14 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (0.96%) Reference Data
13 13 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.75%) Low-Code
16 10 (0.68%) CMDB
16 10 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.71%) Windows
2 22 (1.51%) Linux
3 12 (0.82%) AIX
4 5 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.27%) VMS
6 3 (0.21%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.21%) zOS
7 1 (0.068%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,461 (100.00%) Migration
2 411 (28.13%) Validation
3 336 (23.00%) ERP
4 330 (22.59%) Stakeholder Management
5 320 (21.90%) User Acceptance Testing
6 260 (17.80%) ETL
7 257 (17.59%) Agile
8 237 (16.22%) Data Modelling
9 230 (15.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 181 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
11 177 (12.11%) Data Governance
12 155 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
13 143 (9.79%) Data Cleansing
14 132 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
15 131 (8.97%) Analytics
16 127 (8.69%) DevOps
17 122 (8.35%) Data Mapping
18 112 (7.67%) CI/CD
18 112 (7.67%) Data Transformation
19 107 (7.32%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 299 (20.47%) SQL
2 95 (6.50%) Python
3 41 (2.81%) Java
4 28 (1.92%) PL/SQL
5 21 (1.44%) C#
6 18 (1.23%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.10%) Bash
8 14 (0.96%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.82%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.62%) Kotlin
11 8 (0.55%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.48%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.41%) ABAP
14 5 (0.34%) C
14 5 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.34%) VB
14 5 (0.34%) VB6
14 5 (0.34%) VBA
15 4 (0.27%) X++
16 3 (0.21%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 256 (17.52%) Security Cleared
2 204 (13.96%) SC Cleared
3 53 (3.63%) Degree
4 36 (2.46%) DV Cleared
5 34 (2.33%) ISTQB
6 30 (2.05%) PMP
7 28 (1.92%) PMI Certification
8 27 (1.85%) ACCA
8 27 (1.85%) CIMA
9 18 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (0.75%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.55%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.48%) SAP Certification
14 6 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 5 (0.34%) AWS Certification
16 4 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 3 (0.21%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (19.10%) Data Quality
2 126 (8.62%) QA
3 69 (4.72%) GDPR
4 34 (2.33%) PMO
5 12 (0.82%) SLA
6 11 (0.75%) IFRS
7 10 (0.68%) HL7
8 9 (0.62%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.55%) GRC
10 7 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
11 6 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.41%) DICOM
11 6 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.27%) PERC
12 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.21%) GAAP
13 3 (0.21%) GMP
14 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 14 (0.96%) Docker
2 13 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
3 12 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.75%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.55%) vSphere
6 5 (0.34%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.27%) 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 37 (2.53%) Terraform
2 28 (1.92%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.78%) Ansible
4 12 (0.82%) Data Guard
4 12 (0.82%) Oracle RMAN
5 8 (0.55%) vCenter Server
6 7 (0.48%) Argo
6 7 (0.48%) Grafana
7 5 (0.34%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (0.27%) EMC VPLEX
8 4 (0.27%) Karpenter
8 4 (0.27%) NetBackup
8 4 (0.27%) SnapMirror
9 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.21%) SnapVault
10 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.068%) Autotask
11 1 (0.068%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 306 (20.94%) Oracle
2 273 (18.69%) SAP
3 251 (17.18%) Microsoft
4 77 (5.27%) Databricks
5 61 (4.18%) Salesforce
6 31 (2.12%) ServiceNow
6 31 (2.12%) Workday
7 23 (1.57%) IBM
7 23 (1.57%) Informatica
8 20 (1.37%) Talend
9 18 (1.23%) Google
9 18 (1.23%) IFS
10 17 (1.16%) Sage
11 15 (1.03%) Ariba
11 15 (1.03%) VMware
12 12 (0.82%) MuleSoft
13 10 (0.68%) Siebel
14 9 (0.62%) Atlassian
14 9 (0.62%) InterSystems
15 8 (0.55%) Red Hat