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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 89 98
Rank change year-on-year +14 +9 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,474 786 771
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.24% 2.82% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 3.11% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 481 528
10th Percentile £363 £360 £375
25th Percentile £428 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year - -2.10% -2.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £646
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% +199.07%
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% +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 38,771 25,264 28,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.78% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,101 16,147 18,629
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 £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 2,535 1,418 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.05 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -3.67%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +11 711 £550 - 182
South East 0 204 £550 +10.00% 75
North of England -10 198 £525 +10.53% 58
Midlands +9 167 £460 -8.00% 60
North West +6 120 £531 +11.84% 39
West Midlands +5 120 £450 -10.00% 40
South West +16 91 £523 -0.48% 18
Yorkshire -34 64 £525 +10.53% 18
East of England +10 54 £575 -4.88% 17
East Midlands +12 43 £525 +16.67% 20
North East -27 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 (4.07%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.92%) Confluence
3 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
5 7 (0.47%) Apache
6 6 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.34%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.068%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.068%) CMS
9 1 (0.068%) IIS
9 1 (0.068%) Mendix
9 1 (0.068%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 76 (5.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
3 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.068%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 156 (10.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
4 26 (1.76%) Oracle ERP
5 22 (1.49%) Oracle Payables
5 22 (1.49%) SAP ERP
6 19 (1.29%) NetSuite
7 18 (1.22%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (0.81%) iTrent
8 12 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
8 12 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
8 12 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 11 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
9 11 (0.75%) Workday HCM
10 10 (0.68%) Teamcenter
11 8 (0.54%) SAP MDG
11 8 (0.54%) SAP SD
11 8 (0.54%) Temenos T24
12 7 (0.47%) NEC Housing
12 7 (0.47%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 238 (16.15%) Azure
2 150 (10.18%) Power Platform
3 147 (9.97%) AWS
4 116 (7.87%) Dynamics 365
5 93 (6.31%) OCI
6 75 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
7 65 (4.41%) SaaS
8 53 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 44 (2.99%) Snowflake
10 39 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
11 35 (2.37%) GitHub
12 31 (2.10%) Power Automate
13 30 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 30 (2.04%) SuccessFactors
14 26 (1.76%) PowerApps
15 23 (1.56%) GCP
16 22 (1.49%) Amazon S3
17 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
18 15 (1.02%) dbt
19 12 (0.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.68%) 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
1 129 (8.75%) Power BI
2 103 (6.99%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (4.41%) SQL Server
4 61 (4.14%) Oracle Reports
5 43 (2.92%) Metadata
6 41 (2.78%) Relational Database
7 40 (2.71%) Data Lake
8 28 (1.90%) Oracle Database
9 20 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 19 (1.29%) RDBMS
11 18 (1.22%) NoSQL
12 14 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (0.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 12 (0.81%) Oracle Exadata
14 12 (0.81%) SAP Data Services
14 12 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 11 (0.75%) DataStage
16 10 (0.68%) GIS
17 9 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 130 (8.82%) JIRA
2 57 (3.87%) Git
3 44 (2.99%) Zephyr
4 36 (2.44%) Postman
5 18 (1.22%) GitLab
6 17 (1.15%) 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
1 523 (35.48%) Finance
2 417 (28.29%) Social Skills
3 198 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (8.55%) Public Sector
5 93 (6.31%) Banking
6 77 (5.22%) Manufacturing
7 51 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (3.32%) Law
8 49 (3.32%) Retail
9 40 (2.71%) General Ledger
10 33 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
11 30 (2.04%) Local Government
12 29 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 27 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
14 26 (1.76%) Marketing
15 23 (1.56%) Automotive
16 22 (1.49%) Legal
17 21 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
18 18 (1.22%) Billing
19 17 (1.15%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 293 (19.88%) Lead
2 216 (14.65%) Analyst
3 191 (12.96%) Architect
4 155 (10.52%) Consultant
5 125 (8.48%) Data Engineer
5 125 (8.48%) Senior
6 110 (7.46%) Data Migration Lead
7 100 (6.78%) Business Analyst
8 99 (6.72%) Project Manager
9 76 (5.16%) Data Analyst
10 71 (4.82%) Developer
11 66 (4.48%) Data Architect
12 62 (4.21%) Migration Engineer
13 51 (3.46%) Data Migration Engineer
14 48 (3.26%) Migration Analyst
15 47 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
16 45 (3.05%) SAP Consultant
17 44 (2.99%) Migration Manager
18 40 (2.71%) Data Migration Analyst
19 38 (2.58%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (6.45%) Oracle Fusion
2 38 (2.58%) REST
3 36 (2.44%) Middleware
4 26 (1.76%) .NET
5 21 (1.42%) SOAP
5 21 (1.42%) XML
6 19 (1.29%) Kafka
7 16 (1.09%) JSON
8 15 (1.02%) Spring
9 13 (0.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 10 (0.68%) PySpark
11 9 (0.61%) Lightning Web Components
12 8 (0.54%) Spring Boot
13 7 (0.47%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (0.47%) React
14 6 (0.41%) ADO
14 6 (0.41%) Playwright
14 6 (0.41%) RESTful
14 6 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
15 5 (0.34%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 171 (11.60%) Legacy Systems
2 103 (6.99%) Data Structures
3 45 (3.05%) Management Information System
4 44 (2.99%) Cloud Native
5 39 (2.65%) Public Cloud
6 38 (2.58%) Product Ownership
7 37 (2.51%) Onboarding
8 31 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
9 30 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.15%) FMCG
10 17 (1.15%) NHS
10 17 (1.15%) Replication
11 16 (1.09%) Data Centre
12 14 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (0.81%) Reference Data
15 11 (0.75%) Mainframe
16 10 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
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 1,474 (100.00%) Migration
2 405 (27.48%) Validation
3 335 (22.73%) ERP
4 330 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 316 (21.44%) User Acceptance Testing
6 252 (17.10%) Agile
6 252 (17.10%) ETL
7 232 (15.74%) Data Modelling
8 224 (15.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 182 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
10 171 (11.60%) Data Governance
11 155 (10.52%) Business Intelligence
12 150 (10.18%) Data Cleansing
13 131 (8.89%) Analytics
13 131 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 130 (8.82%) DevOps
15 126 (8.55%) Data Mapping
16 115 (7.80%) CI/CD
17 110 (7.46%) Project Management
18 109 (7.39%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 292 (19.81%) SQL
2 94 (6.38%) Python
3 42 (2.85%) Java
4 28 (1.90%) PL/SQL
5 21 (1.42%) C#
6 20 (1.36%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.22%) Bash
8 14 (0.95%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.81%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.61%) Kotlin
11 8 (0.54%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.47%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.47%) VBA
13 5 (0.34%) ABAP
13 5 (0.34%) C
13 5 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.34%) VB
13 5 (0.34%) VB6
14 4 (0.27%) SOQL
14 4 (0.27%) X++
Qualifications
1 255 (17.30%) Security Cleared
2 202 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 53 (3.60%) Degree
4 39 (2.65%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.10%) ISTQB
6 30 (2.04%) PMP
7 28 (1.90%) 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%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.54%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.47%) SAP Certification
14 6 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 5 (0.34%) AWS Certification
16 4 (0.27%) OCP
17 3 (0.20%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 283 (19.20%) Data Quality
2 125 (8.48%) QA
3 69 (4.68%) GDPR
4 31 (2.10%) PMO
5 13 (0.88%) 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 15 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (0.88%) Docker
2 13 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
3 12 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.68%) vSphere
5 7 (0.47%) 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 39 (2.65%) Terraform
2 30 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.90%) Ansible
4 12 (0.81%) Data Guard
4 12 (0.81%) Oracle RMAN
5 10 (0.68%) 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 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.068%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.068%) vMotion
Vendors
1 301 (20.42%) Oracle
2 272 (18.45%) SAP
3 249 (16.89%) Microsoft
4 76 (5.16%) Databricks
5 66 (4.48%) Salesforce
6 29 (1.97%) ServiceNow
6 29 (1.97%) Workday
7 23 (1.56%) Informatica
8 21 (1.42%) Talend
9 20 (1.36%) IBM
9 20 (1.36%) IFS
10 19 (1.29%) Google
11 18 (1.22%) Sage
11 18 (1.22%) VMware
12 13 (0.88%) Ariba
12 13 (0.88%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.75%) Pure Storage
13 11 (0.75%) Red Hat
14 10 (0.68%) Atlassian
14 10 (0.68%) Siebel