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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 98 97
Rank change year-on-year +27 -1 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,320 640 821
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.15% 2.66% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 2.91% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 859 391 563
10th Percentile £362 £365 £350
25th Percentile £450 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £712
UK median daily rate £525 £527 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 10 33
10th Percentile £15.70 £30.86 £25.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £35.09 £40.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -20.00% +233.33%
75th Percentile £41.83 £69.69 £80.00
90th Percentile £75.55 £75.08 -
UK median hourly rate £36.36 £66.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year -45.12% -11.67% +180.37%

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 35,679 21,999 31,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.05% 91.35% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,608 14,249 20,517
10th Percentile £325 £304 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,238 979 2,317
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.76 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.60 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.93 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +37 650 £538 -4.23% 180
South East +6 183 £563 +12.50% 63
North of England -15 175 £500 +0.81% 51
Midlands +16 138 £488 +8.33% 41
North West +11 110 £475 -13.64% 31
West Midlands -2 96 £442 -1.89% 28
South West +9 67 £525 +2.44% 23
East of England 0 56 £575 -11.54% 14
Yorkshire -38 56 £530 +22.78% 14
East Midlands +1 38 £500 +9.29% 13
North East -21 9 £488 -15.22% 6
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 43 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 39 (2.95%) Confluence
3 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.30%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.15%) Apache
7 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.15%) Appian
7 2 (0.15%) IIS
8 1 (0.076%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.076%) CMS
8 1 (0.076%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.076%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 74 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
3 16 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.98%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 150 (11.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (2.95%) Oracle EBS
3 32 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 20 (1.52%) SAP ERP
6 16 (1.21%) NetSuite
6 16 (1.21%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.91%) Oracle General Ledger
8 11 (0.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 10 (0.76%) Loan IQ
9 10 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
9 10 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
10 9 (0.68%) iTrent
11 8 (0.61%) NEC Housing
11 8 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
12 7 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
12 7 (0.53%) SAP SD
12 7 (0.53%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.45%) SAP CO
13 6 (0.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 206 (15.61%) Azure
2 133 (10.08%) AWS
3 124 (9.39%) Power Platform
4 95 (7.20%) Dynamics 365
5 72 (5.45%) OCI
6 60 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (4.17%) SaaS
8 43 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 38 (2.88%) Snowflake
10 34 (2.58%) GitHub
11 27 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 26 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
13 20 (1.52%) GCP
14 19 (1.44%) Amazon S3
15 18 (1.36%) SuccessFactors
16 16 (1.21%) Power Automate
17 15 (1.14%) OpenShift
18 14 (1.06%) dbt
18 14 (1.06%) PowerApps
19 12 (0.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.14%) SAN
2 14 (1.06%) DNS
2 14 (1.06%) NAS
3 6 (0.45%) Firewall
4 5 (0.38%) VPN
5 3 (0.23%) VSAN
6 2 (0.15%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.15%) HTTP
7 1 (0.076%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.076%) DKIM
7 1 (0.076%) DMARC
7 1 (0.076%) FCoE
7 1 (0.076%) Internet
7 1 (0.076%) Intranet
7 1 (0.076%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.076%) Network Security
7 1 (0.076%) SNMP
7 1 (0.076%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (7.95%) Power BI
2 98 (7.42%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (4.62%) Oracle Reports
4 56 (4.24%) SQL Server
5 34 (2.58%) Metadata
6 31 (2.35%) Data Lake
7 28 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (1.44%) Oracle Database
9 19 (1.44%) Relational Database
10 18 (1.36%) NoSQL
11 16 (1.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 12 (0.91%) SAP Data Services
12 12 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (0.83%) Db2
13 11 (0.83%) Tableau
14 10 (0.76%) Electronic Patient Records
15 8 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 122 (9.24%) JIRA
2 38 (2.88%) Git
3 37 (2.80%) Zephyr
4 30 (2.27%) Postman
5 22 (1.67%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.83%) Selenium
7 10 (0.76%) GitLab
8 6 (0.45%) LSMW
8 6 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.38%) Hudson
10 4 (0.30%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.30%) JUnit
11 3 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.23%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.23%) ERwin
11 3 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 457 (34.62%) Finance
2 401 (30.38%) Social Skills
3 164 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (7.80%) Public Sector
5 87 (6.59%) Banking
6 60 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 52 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.41%) Law
9 41 (3.11%) Retail
10 32 (2.42%) General Ledger
10 32 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
11 31 (2.35%) Local Government
12 27 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
13 22 (1.67%) Legal
13 22 (1.67%) Marketing
14 20 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 18 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
16 17 (1.29%) Billing
17 16 (1.21%) Aerospace
18 15 (1.14%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 289 (21.89%) Lead
2 194 (14.70%) Analyst
3 174 (13.18%) Architect
4 145 (10.98%) Consultant
5 105 (7.95%) Data Migration Lead
6 103 (7.80%) Project Manager
7 91 (6.89%) Data Engineer
8 90 (6.82%) Senior
9 88 (6.67%) Business Analyst
10 71 (5.38%) Data Analyst
11 60 (4.55%) Data Architect
12 56 (4.24%) Migration Engineer
13 54 (4.09%) Developer
14 52 (3.94%) Migration Analyst
15 49 (3.71%) Migration Manager
15 49 (3.71%) SAP Consultant
16 47 (3.56%) Data Migration Engineer
17 40 (3.03%) Data Migration Analyst
18 38 (2.88%) Lead Architect
19 36 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (6.36%) Oracle Fusion
2 37 (2.80%) REST
3 36 (2.73%) Middleware
4 20 (1.52%) .NET
4 20 (1.52%) SOAP
5 19 (1.44%) XML
6 17 (1.29%) Kafka
6 17 (1.29%) Spring
7 15 (1.14%) JSON
8 11 (0.83%) OpenTelemetry
9 9 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
9 9 (0.68%) Spring Boot
10 8 (0.61%) React
11 7 (0.53%) PySpark
12 6 (0.45%) FHIR
12 6 (0.45%) SAP Fiori
12 6 (0.45%) Web Services
13 5 (0.38%) RESTful
14 4 (0.30%) AngularJS
14 4 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 170 (12.88%) Legacy Systems
2 95 (7.20%) Data Structures
3 44 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 36 (2.73%) Management Information System
5 29 (2.20%) Onboarding
6 26 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
7 25 (1.89%) Product Ownership
7 25 (1.89%) Public Cloud
8 17 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.29%) Replication
9 16 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.21%) Reference Data
10 14 (1.06%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.06%) Mainframe
11 13 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (0.83%) NHS
14 10 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
15 9 (0.68%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.97%) Windows
2 12 (0.91%) Linux
3 7 (0.53%) zOS
4 6 (0.45%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (0.30%) VMS
7 3 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.15%) AIX
8 2 (0.15%) Unix
9 1 (0.076%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,320 (100.00%) Migration
2 352 (26.67%) Validation
3 277 (20.98%) Stakeholder Management
4 275 (20.83%) ERP
5 267 (20.23%) User Acceptance Testing
6 240 (18.18%) Agile
7 221 (16.74%) ETL
8 199 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
9 195 (14.77%) Data Modelling
10 193 (14.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 135 (10.23%) Data Cleansing
12 134 (10.15%) Business Intelligence
13 125 (9.47%) Data Governance
14 123 (9.32%) Project Management
15 119 (9.02%) Data Mapping
16 115 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
17 111 (8.41%) DevOps
18 109 (8.26%) Analytics
19 98 (7.42%) Change Management
20 97 (7.35%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 259 (19.62%) SQL
2 100 (7.58%) Python
3 39 (2.95%) Java
4 28 (2.12%) PL/SQL
5 23 (1.74%) Bash
6 17 (1.29%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.06%) PowerShell
8 11 (0.83%) C#
9 10 (0.76%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.61%) VBA
11 7 (0.53%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.38%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.30%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.23%) ABAP
14 3 (0.23%) COBOL
14 3 (0.23%) Korn
14 3 (0.23%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.23%) X++
15 2 (0.15%) VB6
Qualifications
1 217 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 171 (12.95%) SC Cleared
3 51 (3.86%) Degree
4 28 (2.12%) PMP
5 27 (2.05%) ISTQB
6 26 (1.97%) DV Cleared
7 22 (1.67%) PMI Certification
8 16 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.06%) ACCA
9 14 (1.06%) CIMA
10 12 (0.91%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.45%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 5 (0.38%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.30%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.30%) OCP
13 4 (0.30%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 105 (7.95%) QA
3 64 (4.85%) GDPR
4 25 (1.89%) PMO
5 16 (1.21%) SLA
6 12 (0.91%) IFRS
7 10 (0.76%) HL7
8 9 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.53%) SNOMED CT
10 6 (0.45%) COBIT
10 6 (0.45%) GAAP
11 5 (0.38%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.38%) DICOM
11 5 (0.38%) GMP
11 5 (0.38%) NIST
12 4 (0.30%) Basel III
12 4 (0.30%) PERC
13 3 (0.23%) GxP
13 3 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 25 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.14%) vSphere
4 12 (0.91%) Docker
4 12 (0.91%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.76%) NFS
6 5 (0.38%) SRDF
7 4 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (2.65%) Terraform
2 31 (2.35%) Kubernetes
3 23 (1.74%) Ansible
4 15 (1.14%) Grafana
4 15 (1.14%) vCenter Server
5 14 (1.06%) Argo
6 10 (0.76%) EMC VPLEX
6 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.45%) SCCM
7 6 (0.45%) vMotion
8 4 (0.30%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (0.30%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.30%) NetBackup
8 4 (0.30%) SnapMirror
9 3 (0.23%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.23%) SnapVault
10 2 (0.15%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 251 (19.02%) Oracle
2 246 (18.64%) SAP
3 211 (15.98%) Microsoft
4 60 (4.55%) Databricks
5 57 (4.32%) Salesforce
6 30 (2.27%) VMware
7 25 (1.89%) Workday
8 23 (1.74%) Pure Storage
8 23 (1.74%) Sage
8 23 (1.74%) ServiceNow
9 22 (1.67%) Informatica
10 20 (1.52%) Google
11 18 (1.36%) Talend
12 15 (1.14%) IFS
12 15 (1.14%) Red Hat
13 13 (0.98%) Avaloq
13 13 (0.98%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.83%) Siebel
14 11 (0.83%) Splunk
15 10 (0.76%) Ariba