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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 94 101
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 864 675 858
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.63% 2.57% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 2.87% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 455 589
10th Percentile £375 £377 £405
25th Percentile £450 £457 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £713 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 21
10th Percentile £15.81 - £25.00
25th Percentile £21.06 - -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.29% -12.50% -42.86%
75th Percentile £79.32 - £86.50
90th Percentile £81.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +33.33% -35.71%

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 28,761 23,490 33,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.64% 89.52% 87.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,392 14,344 22,407
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £641 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,792 750 1,956
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £61.90
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 2 February 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 +12 464 £550 - 116
South East -27 115 £625 +14.68% 78
Midlands -25 94 £550 +6.02% 27
North of England -29 93 £475 -9.52% 38
North West -10 52 £447 -7.97% 27
West Midlands -41 49 £540 +2.86% 18
East Midlands +8 44 £550 +18.28% 9
Yorkshire -48 35 £525 -6.50% 9
South West -33 25 £519 +3.75% 17
East of England -23 23 £475 -13.64% 13
North East -13 7 £488 -25.00% 2
South Coast - 1 £550 -
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 31 (3.59%) Confluence
2 27 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.69%) GeoServer
4 6 (0.69%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 6 (0.69%) Smallworld
5 5 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.35%) CMS
6 3 (0.35%) LiveLink
7 2 (0.23%) Appian
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.12%) IIS
8 1 (0.12%) Moodle
8 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.12%) SAP Portal
8 1 (0.12%) SAS
8 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 50 (5.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 17 (1.97%) Spreadsheet
3 15 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (1.62%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
7 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 81 (9.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
3 25 (2.89%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (1.97%) Oracle General Ledger
5 16 (1.85%) Oracle Payables
5 16 (1.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 15 (1.74%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 15 (1.74%) SAP HR
7 13 (1.50%) Oracle Receivables
8 10 (1.16%) Loan IQ
8 10 (1.16%) SAP FI
9 9 (1.04%) SAP CO
9 9 (1.04%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.93%) Oracle Cash Management
10 8 (0.93%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.69%) Oracle EBS R12
11 6 (0.69%) Oracle FAH
11 6 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.69%) SAP ERP
12 5 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 118 (13.66%) Azure
2 72 (8.33%) OCI
2 72 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 71 (8.22%) AWS
4 45 (5.21%) Dynamics 365
5 33 (3.82%) SaaS
6 26 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 23 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (2.31%) Snowflake
9 19 (2.20%) SuccessFactors
10 18 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 16 (1.85%) Entra ID
11 16 (1.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 16 (1.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 14 (1.62%) Amazon S3
12 14 (1.62%) GitHub
13 12 (1.39%) GCP
14 11 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (1.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.04%) NAS
2 7 (0.81%) SAN
3 4 (0.46%) DNS
4 3 (0.35%) Firewall
4 3 (0.35%) Internet
4 3 (0.35%) Intranet
4 3 (0.35%) Network Security
4 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.23%) IPv6
5 2 (0.23%) LAN
5 2 (0.23%) SSL
5 2 (0.23%) VPN
5 2 (0.23%) WAN
6 1 (0.12%) IPv4
6 1 (0.12%) VLAN
6 1 (0.12%) WebEx
6 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (6.37%) Power BI
2 52 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (5.90%) SQL Server
4 36 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 31 (3.59%) Relational Database
6 27 (3.13%) Oracle Database
7 24 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
8 23 (2.66%) Metadata
9 22 (2.55%) Tableau
10 18 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 17 (1.97%) Data Lake
12 15 (1.74%) RDBMS
13 12 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (1.27%) MySQL
15 10 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (1.16%) Big Data
16 9 (1.04%) DataStage
17 8 (0.93%) Oracle BI Publisher
17 8 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
18 7 (0.81%) GIS
Development Applications
1 67 (7.75%) JIRA
2 7 (0.81%) Git
3 5 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.46%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.46%) LSMW
4 4 (0.46%) Toad
4 4 (0.46%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.35%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.35%) ERwin
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.23%) Hudson
6 2 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.12%) gulp
7 1 (0.12%) Pylint
7 1 (0.12%) Selenium
7 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 313 (36.23%) Social Skills
2 285 (32.99%) Finance
3 91 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 59 (6.83%) Banking
6 37 (4.28%) Retail
7 29 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (3.24%) Manufacturing
9 23 (2.66%) Legal
10 22 (2.55%) General Ledger
11 21 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (2.31%) Local Government
13 16 (1.85%) Marketing
14 11 (1.27%) Back Office
14 11 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.27%) Investment Banking
15 10 (1.16%) Billing
15 10 (1.16%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.16%) Law
Job Titles
1 159 (18.40%) Lead
2 133 (15.39%) Analyst
3 118 (13.66%) Consultant
4 89 (10.30%) Architect
5 81 (9.38%) Project Manager
6 78 (9.03%) Business Analyst
7 62 (7.18%) Senior
8 52 (6.02%) Data Migration Lead
9 45 (5.21%) Data Analyst
9 45 (5.21%) Data Engineer
10 39 (4.51%) Developer
11 35 (4.05%) Migration Analyst
12 33 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
13 31 (3.59%) SAP Consultant
14 28 (3.24%) Migration Manager
15 27 (3.13%) Oracle Consultant
16 25 (2.89%) Data Migration Analyst
16 25 (2.89%) Functional Consultant
16 25 (2.89%) Migration Specialist
17 23 (2.66%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (7.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 33 (3.82%) REST
3 30 (3.47%) XML
4 24 (2.78%) Middleware
5 20 (2.31%) SOAP
6 16 (1.85%) Lightning Web Components
7 14 (1.62%) JSON
8 12 (1.39%) Visualforce
9 11 (1.27%) .NET
10 10 (1.16%) PySpark
10 10 (1.16%) Web Services
11 8 (0.93%) XSLT
12 7 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
13 6 (0.69%) EDI
14 3 (0.35%) ADO
14 3 (0.35%) Kafka
14 3 (0.35%) LDAP
15 2 (0.23%) OAuth
15 2 (0.23%) React
15 2 (0.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 119 (13.77%) Legacy Systems
2 70 (8.10%) Data Structures
3 36 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 27 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 19 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.85%) Replication
8 12 (1.39%) Reference Data
9 11 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.04%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.04%) Public Cloud
11 7 (0.81%) FMCG
11 7 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (0.81%) NHS
11 7 (0.81%) Smartphone
11 7 (0.81%) Tandem
12 6 (0.69%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.69%) Derivative
12 6 (0.69%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.20%) Windows
2 7 (0.81%) Apple iOS
2 7 (0.81%) Windows 10
3 6 (0.69%) Unix
4 5 (0.58%) Linux
4 5 (0.58%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.35%) Solaris
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 864 (100.00%) Migration
2 207 (23.96%) Agile
3 206 (23.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 164 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
5 161 (18.63%) Validation
6 156 (18.06%) ERP
7 137 (15.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 136 (15.74%) ETL
9 135 (15.63%) User Acceptance Testing
10 128 (14.81%) Data Modelling
11 99 (11.46%) Project Management
12 96 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
13 93 (10.76%) Analytics
14 91 (10.53%) Data Cleansing
15 87 (10.07%) Change Management
16 84 (9.72%) Data Mapping
17 73 (8.45%) Business Intelligence
18 69 (7.99%) Data Governance
19 66 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
19 66 (7.64%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 172 (19.91%) SQL
2 59 (6.83%) Python
3 26 (3.01%) Java
4 15 (1.74%) Apex Code
5 14 (1.62%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.62%) PL/SQL
6 9 (1.04%) C#
6 9 (1.04%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.81%) Shell Script
8 6 (0.69%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.58%) Perl
9 5 (0.58%) PHP
10 4 (0.46%) Bash
10 4 (0.46%) Korn
10 4 (0.46%) VBA
10 4 (0.46%) X++
11 3 (0.35%) Bicep
11 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.35%) SOQL
12 2 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 103 (11.92%) Security Cleared
2 68 (7.87%) SC Cleared
3 56 (6.48%) Degree
4 28 (3.24%) PMP
5 21 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.43%) PMI Certification
6 15 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.39%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.58%) CFA
10 5 (0.58%) SAP Certification
11 4 (0.46%) CIMA
12 3 (0.35%) ACCA
12 3 (0.35%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.35%) IIBA
12 3 (0.35%) OCP
12 3 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.35%) PgMP
12 3 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (15.51%) Data Quality
2 54 (6.25%) QA
3 51 (5.90%) GDPR
4 12 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.39%) PMO
5 10 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (1.04%) COBIT
6 9 (1.04%) IFRS
7 8 (0.93%) NIST
8 6 (0.69%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.69%) SLA
9 5 (0.58%) GAAP
9 5 (0.58%) IFRS 9
9 5 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.46%) Basel III
10 4 (0.46%) IFRS 17
10 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.35%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.23%) GRC
System Software
1 15 (1.74%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.27%) Docker
3 9 (1.04%) NFS
3 9 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.23%) vSphere
5 1 (0.12%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 14 (1.62%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (1.16%) Terraform
3 9 (1.04%) SCCM
4 4 (0.46%) Ansible
4 4 (0.46%) EMC VPLEX
4 4 (0.46%) vMotion
5 3 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.23%) Argo
6 2 (0.23%) Grafana
6 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.12%) Control-M
7 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 172 (19.91%) Oracle
2 154 (17.82%) SAP
3 114 (13.19%) Microsoft
4 41 (4.75%) Salesforce
5 39 (4.51%) Workday
6 29 (3.36%) Databricks
7 17 (1.97%) Informatica
8 14 (1.62%) Sage
9 13 (1.50%) Avaloq
10 11 (1.27%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.27%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.16%) Google
11 10 (1.16%) VMware
12 8 (0.93%) Kronos
12 8 (0.93%) Pure Storage
12 8 (0.93%) Talend
13 7 (0.81%) Ariba
13 7 (0.81%) GoldenSource
13 7 (0.81%) IFS
13 7 (0.81%) Temenos
269 Data Migration jobs in England