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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 91 101
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,448 763 769
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.17% 2.77% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 3.05% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 958 472 533
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 £639 £644
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 12 15
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.28 £66.95
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 38,779 25,035 28,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.92% 90.85% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,017 15,949 18,476
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 £630 £626 £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 1,455 1,574
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.92 £17.80
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -1.22%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +23 698 £550 - 123
North of England -10 201 £515 +8.32% 45
South East 0 190 £550 +2.96% 78
Midlands +11 169 £463 -7.35% 35
North West +16 125 £525 +13.51% 34
West Midlands +3 119 £450 -10.00% 21
South West +7 85 £523 -0.48% 29
Yorkshire -36 62 £500 +4.17% 8
East of England +13 56 £565 -6.46% 19
East Midlands +3 46 £525 +16.67% 14
North East -21 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 61 (4.21%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.97%) Confluence
3 10 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.48%) Apache
7 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.35%) Tuxedo
9 2 (0.14%) CMS
9 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.14%) Mendix
9 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.069%) IIS
10 1 (0.069%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.069%) SAS
10 1 (0.069%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 73 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
3 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.069%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.069%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 155 (10.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (2.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (1.93%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
5 21 (1.45%) Oracle Payables
6 20 (1.38%) SAP ERP
7 19 (1.31%) NetSuite
8 17 (1.17%) Oracle Receivables
9 14 (0.97%) Workday HCM
10 12 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
11 11 (0.76%) iTrent
11 11 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
11 11 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 11 (0.76%) SAP MDG
12 10 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
12 10 (0.69%) SAP SD
12 10 (0.69%) Teamcenter
13 7 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
13 7 (0.48%) SAP FI
13 7 (0.48%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 233 (16.09%) Azure
2 152 (10.50%) Power Platform
3 146 (10.08%) AWS
4 116 (8.01%) Dynamics 365
5 91 (6.28%) OCI
6 76 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (4.07%) SaaS
8 49 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
9 46 (3.18%) Snowflake
10 39 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
11 34 (2.35%) SuccessFactors
12 33 (2.28%) Power Automate
13 32 (2.21%) GitHub
14 31 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 28 (1.93%) PowerApps
16 25 (1.73%) GCP
17 23 (1.59%) Amazon S3
18 18 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
19 17 (1.17%) dbt
20 13 (0.90%) 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 (0.28%) Firewall
4 3 (0.21%) Intranet
5 2 (0.14%) HTTP
5 2 (0.14%) VSAN
6 1 (0.069%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.069%) DKIM
6 1 (0.069%) DMARC
6 1 (0.069%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.069%) Internet
6 1 (0.069%) Network Security
6 1 (0.069%) SNMP
6 1 (0.069%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (9.12%) Power BI
2 111 (7.67%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (4.63%) SQL Server
4 55 (3.80%) Oracle Reports
5 50 (3.45%) Metadata
6 44 (3.04%) Relational Database
7 38 (2.62%) Data Lake
8 30 (2.07%) Oracle Database
9 25 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (1.31%) RDBMS
11 18 (1.24%) NoSQL
11 18 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 12 (0.83%) DataStage
14 12 (0.83%) Oracle Exadata
14 12 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 11 (0.76%) SAP Data Services
16 9 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
16 9 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 124 (8.56%) JIRA
2 57 (3.94%) Git
3 44 (3.04%) Zephyr
4 35 (2.42%) Postman
5 18 (1.24%) GitLab
6 15 (1.04%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
8 9 (0.62%) Selenium
9 6 (0.41%) Hudson
10 5 (0.35%) Gatling
10 5 (0.35%) LSMW
10 5 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.28%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.28%) 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)
13 2 (0.14%) Yeoman
14 1 (0.069%) Bitbucket
General
1 511 (35.29%) Finance
2 415 (28.66%) Social Skills
3 198 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (9.12%) Public Sector
5 87 (6.01%) Banking
6 79 (5.46%) Manufacturing
7 56 (3.87%) Retail
8 55 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
9 50 (3.45%) Law
10 41 (2.83%) General Ledger
11 33 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
12 31 (2.14%) Local Government
13 26 (1.80%) Marketing
14 25 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 24 (1.66%) Automotive
16 22 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
16 22 (1.52%) Legal
17 21 (1.45%) Billing
18 19 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
19 17 (1.17%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 279 (19.27%) Lead
2 213 (14.71%) Analyst
3 185 (12.78%) Architect
4 157 (10.84%) Consultant
5 124 (8.56%) Data Engineer
6 119 (8.22%) Senior
7 104 (7.18%) Data Migration Lead
8 90 (6.22%) Project Manager
9 88 (6.08%) Business Analyst
10 74 (5.11%) Data Analyst
11 70 (4.83%) Developer
12 62 (4.28%) Data Architect
13 59 (4.07%) Migration Engineer
14 50 (3.45%) SAP Consultant
15 48 (3.31%) Data Migration Engineer
16 46 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
17 45 (3.11%) Migration Analyst
18 41 (2.83%) Data Consultant
19 38 (2.62%) Data Migration Analyst
19 38 (2.62%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (6.63%) Oracle Fusion
2 43 (2.97%) Middleware
3 37 (2.56%) Terraform
4 36 (2.49%) REST
5 25 (1.73%) .NET
6 21 (1.45%) SOAP
6 21 (1.45%) XML
7 16 (1.10%) JSON
7 16 (1.10%) Kafka
8 15 (1.04%) PySpark
9 14 (0.97%) Spring
10 13 (0.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 8 (0.55%) SAP Fiori
11 8 (0.55%) Spring Boot
12 7 (0.48%) Lightning Web Components
13 6 (0.41%) ADO
13 6 (0.41%) React
14 5 (0.35%) COM
14 5 (0.35%) ODBC
14 5 (0.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 166 (11.46%) Legacy Systems
2 99 (6.84%) Data Structures
3 44 (3.04%) Cloud Native
3 44 (3.04%) Management Information System
4 42 (2.90%) Public Cloud
5 39 (2.69%) Onboarding
5 39 (2.69%) Product Ownership
6 34 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (1.31%) NHS
9 17 (1.17%) FMCG
10 16 (1.10%) Replication
11 15 (1.04%) Reference Data
12 13 (0.90%) Data Centre
12 13 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (0.76%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.69%) Mainframe
14 10 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.59%) Windows
2 22 (1.52%) Linux
3 12 (0.83%) AIX
4 5 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.28%) VMS
6 3 (0.21%) zOS
7 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.069%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,448 (100.00%) Migration
2 408 (28.18%) Validation
3 336 (23.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 334 (23.07%) ERP
5 324 (22.38%) User Acceptance Testing
6 251 (17.33%) ETL
7 248 (17.13%) Agile
8 240 (16.57%) Data Modelling
9 227 (15.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 176 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
11 175 (12.09%) Data Governance
12 156 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
13 139 (9.60%) Data Cleansing
14 135 (9.32%) Analytics
15 132 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
16 129 (8.91%) DevOps
17 117 (8.08%) Data Mapping
18 114 (7.87%) CI/CD
19 110 (7.60%) Requirements Gathering
20 107 (7.39%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 296 (20.44%) SQL
2 97 (6.70%) Python
3 38 (2.62%) Java
4 27 (1.86%) PL/SQL
5 19 (1.31%) C#
6 18 (1.24%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.17%) Bash
8 15 (1.04%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.83%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.62%) Kotlin
11 8 (0.55%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.41%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.35%) ABAP
13 5 (0.35%) C
13 5 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.35%) VB
13 5 (0.35%) VB6
13 5 (0.35%) VBA
14 4 (0.28%) X++
15 3 (0.21%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 253 (17.47%) Security Cleared
2 202 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 53 (3.66%) Degree
4 36 (2.49%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.14%) ISTQB
6 28 (1.93%) ACCA
6 28 (1.93%) CIMA
7 27 (1.86%) PMP
8 26 (1.80%) PMI Certification
9 18 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (0.83%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (0.55%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.41%) SAP Certification
15 5 (0.35%) AWS Certification
16 4 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 3 (0.21%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 281 (19.41%) Data Quality
2 118 (8.15%) QA
3 65 (4.49%) GDPR
4 35 (2.42%) PMO
5 11 (0.76%) IFRS
5 11 (0.76%) SLA
6 10 (0.69%) GRC
6 10 (0.69%) HL7
7 9 (0.62%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
9 6 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.41%) DICOM
9 6 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.28%) PERC
10 4 (0.28%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.21%) GAAP
11 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.14%) GMP
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 14 (0.97%) Docker
2 13 (0.90%) Oracle RAC
3 12 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.69%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.55%) 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 26 (1.80%) Ansible
1 26 (1.80%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.83%) Data Guard
2 12 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
3 8 (0.55%) vCenter Server
4 7 (0.48%) Argo
4 7 (0.48%) Grafana
5 5 (0.35%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
6 4 (0.28%) EMC VPLEX
6 4 (0.28%) Karpenter
6 4 (0.28%) NetBackup
6 4 (0.28%) SnapMirror
7 3 (0.21%) SnapVault
8 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.069%) Autotask
9 1 (0.069%) Avamar
9 1 (0.069%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 300 (20.72%) Oracle
2 274 (18.92%) SAP
3 251 (17.33%) Microsoft
4 80 (5.52%) Databricks
5 60 (4.14%) Salesforce
6 33 (2.28%) Workday
7 30 (2.07%) ServiceNow
8 23 (1.59%) IBM
8 23 (1.59%) Informatica
9 19 (1.31%) Google
9 19 (1.31%) Talend
10 17 (1.17%) IFS
11 16 (1.10%) Ariba
12 14 (0.97%) Sage
12 14 (0.97%) VMware
13 10 (0.69%) Siebel
14 9 (0.62%) Atlassian
14 9 (0.62%) InterSystems
15 8 (0.55%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.55%) Red Hat