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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
27 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 85 93
Rank change year-on-year +14 +8 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,467 788 815
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.26% 2.85% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 3.15% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 484 553
10th Percentile £363 £360 £375
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £541
% change year-on-year - -3.00% +0.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 14 27
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.84 £25.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £32.89 £62.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -25.00% +158.06%
75th Percentile £60.13 £70.31 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £83.06 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £62.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -36.00% -21.88% +142.42%

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 38,369 25,044 29,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.25% 90.72% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,058 16,057 19,314
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £423 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,388 1,359 1,834
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.56 £51.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +21 723 £550 - 91
South East +5 198 £550 +10.00% 62
North of England -12 198 £525 +10.53% 31
Midlands +10 161 £475 -5.00% 45
North West +2 120 £500 +5.26% 21
West Midlands +5 118 £450 -10.00% 31
South West +9 84 £523 -0.48% 18
Yorkshire -35 65 £529 +10.79% 10
East of England +10 55 £575 -4.96% 10
East Midlands +6 40 £525 +16.67% 14
North East -26 16 £625 +8.70% 1
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 58 (3.95%) SharePoint
2 44 (3.00%) Confluence
3 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (0.41%) Apache
6 5 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.34%) Tuxedo
7 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.068%) Appian
8 1 (0.068%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.068%) CMS
8 1 (0.068%) IIS
8 1 (0.068%) Mendix
8 1 (0.068%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 72 (4.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
3 15 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (0.89%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.068%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.068%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 153 (10.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (2.32%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (1.57%) Oracle ERP
5 21 (1.43%) NetSuite
5 21 (1.43%) SAP ERP
6 20 (1.36%) Oracle Payables
7 18 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (0.82%) iTrent
8 12 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
8 12 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
9 11 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 10 (0.68%) Teamcenter
11 9 (0.61%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.55%) NEC Housing
12 8 (0.55%) SAP MDG
12 8 (0.55%) SAP SD
13 7 (0.48%) Oracle Cash Management
13 7 (0.48%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 237 (16.16%) Azure
2 149 (10.16%) Power Platform
3 147 (10.02%) AWS
4 118 (8.04%) Dynamics 365
5 89 (6.07%) OCI
6 74 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
7 64 (4.36%) SaaS
8 51 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 44 (3.00%) Snowflake
10 41 (2.79%) GitHub
11 40 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
12 31 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 29 (1.98%) Power Automate
13 29 (1.98%) SuccessFactors
14 26 (1.77%) PowerApps
15 24 (1.64%) Amazon S3
16 22 (1.50%) GCP
17 16 (1.09%) dbt
18 15 (1.02%) OpenShift
19 13 (0.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.95%) DNS
2 13 (0.89%) SAN
3 12 (0.82%) NAS
4 6 (0.41%) VPN
5 5 (0.34%) Firewall
6 3 (0.20%) Intranet
6 3 (0.20%) VSAN
7 2 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (0.14%) HTTP
8 1 (0.068%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.068%) DKIM
8 1 (0.068%) DMARC
8 1 (0.068%) FCoE
8 1 (0.068%) Internet
8 1 (0.068%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.068%) Network Security
8 1 (0.068%) SNMP
8 1 (0.068%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (8.66%) Power BI
2 97 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
3 64 (4.36%) SQL Server
4 59 (4.02%) Oracle Reports
5 41 (2.79%) Data Lake
6 40 (2.73%) Metadata
6 40 (2.73%) Relational Database
7 24 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
8 23 (1.57%) Oracle Database
8 23 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (1.36%) RDBMS
10 19 (1.30%) NoSQL
11 13 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (0.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 12 (0.82%) Oracle Exadata
12 12 (0.82%) SAP Data Services
13 11 (0.75%) Db2
13 11 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
14 10 (0.68%) GIS
Development Applications
1 130 (8.86%) JIRA
2 52 (3.54%) Git
3 41 (2.79%) Zephyr
4 32 (2.18%) Postman
5 23 (1.57%) Jenkins
6 20 (1.36%) GitLab
7 10 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
7 10 (0.68%) Selenium
8 6 (0.41%) Hudson
8 6 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.34%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.34%) Gatling
9 5 (0.34%) LSMW
10 4 (0.27%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.27%) JUnit
10 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.20%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 516 (35.17%) Finance
2 416 (28.36%) Social Skills
3 193 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (8.79%) Public Sector
5 90 (6.13%) Banking
6 77 (5.25%) Manufacturing
7 53 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (3.34%) Law
9 46 (3.14%) Retail
10 37 (2.52%) General Ledger
11 31 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (1.91%) Local Government
13 27 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 26 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
15 25 (1.70%) Marketing
16 22 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
17 21 (1.43%) Legal
18 20 (1.36%) Automotive
19 18 (1.23%) Billing
19 18 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 292 (19.90%) Lead
2 222 (15.13%) Analyst
3 192 (13.09%) Architect
4 145 (9.88%) Consultant
5 125 (8.52%) Data Engineer
6 117 (7.98%) Senior
7 109 (7.43%) Data Migration Lead
8 105 (7.16%) Business Analyst
9 104 (7.09%) Project Manager
10 79 (5.39%) Data Analyst
11 69 (4.70%) Developer
12 68 (4.64%) Data Architect
13 62 (4.23%) Migration Engineer
14 52 (3.54%) Migration Analyst
15 51 (3.48%) Data Migration Engineer
16 45 (3.07%) Migration Manager
16 45 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
17 43 (2.93%) Data Migration Analyst
17 43 (2.93%) SAP Consultant
18 38 (2.59%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (6.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 41 (2.79%) REST
3 39 (2.66%) Middleware
4 24 (1.64%) .NET
4 24 (1.64%) SOAP
5 20 (1.36%) XML
6 19 (1.30%) Kafka
7 16 (1.09%) JSON
7 16 (1.09%) Spring
8 13 (0.89%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 11 (0.75%) Lightning Web Components
9 11 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
9 11 (0.75%) PySpark
10 9 (0.61%) React
10 9 (0.61%) Spring Boot
11 7 (0.48%) ADO
11 7 (0.48%) Web Services
12 6 (0.41%) COM
12 6 (0.41%) ODBC
12 6 (0.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 174 (11.86%) Legacy Systems
2 103 (7.02%) Data Structures
3 49 (3.34%) Cloud Native
4 47 (3.20%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.52%) Product Ownership
7 35 (2.39%) Public Cloud
8 32 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
9 29 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.16%) FMCG
11 16 (1.09%) Data Centre
11 16 (1.09%) NHS
11 16 (1.09%) Replication
12 15 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (0.95%) Mainframe
14 13 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
16 11 (0.75%) Low-Code
17 10 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.91%) Windows
2 21 (1.43%) Linux
3 12 (0.82%) AIX
4 7 (0.48%) zOS
5 5 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (0.27%) VMS
7 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.068%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.068%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,467 (100.00%) Migration
2 404 (27.54%) Validation
3 331 (22.56%) ERP
4 321 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 317 (21.61%) User Acceptance Testing
6 257 (17.52%) Agile
7 250 (17.04%) ETL
8 222 (15.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 218 (14.86%) Data Modelling
10 197 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
11 157 (10.70%) Data Governance
12 153 (10.43%) Business Intelligence
13 146 (9.95%) Data Cleansing
14 137 (9.34%) DevOps
15 136 (9.27%) Analytics
16 128 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
17 123 (8.38%) CI/CD
17 123 (8.38%) Data Mapping
18 118 (8.04%) Project Management
19 107 (7.29%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 288 (19.63%) SQL
2 101 (6.88%) Python
3 44 (3.00%) Java
4 28 (1.91%) PL/SQL
5 23 (1.57%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.50%) Bash
7 19 (1.30%) C#
8 15 (1.02%) PowerShell
9 11 (0.75%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.61%) Apex Code
10 9 (0.61%) Kotlin
10 9 (0.61%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.41%) VB
11 6 (0.41%) VB6
11 6 (0.41%) VBA
12 5 (0.34%) C
12 5 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.27%) X++
14 3 (0.20%) COBOL
14 3 (0.20%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 256 (17.45%) Security Cleared
2 200 (13.63%) SC Cleared
3 53 (3.61%) Degree
4 39 (2.66%) DV Cleared
5 32 (2.18%) PMP
6 30 (2.04%) PMI Certification
7 28 (1.91%) ISTQB
8 21 (1.43%) ACCA
8 21 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (1.43%) CIMA
9 12 (0.82%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.55%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.41%) SAP Certification
14 5 (0.34%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.27%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (18.13%) Data Quality
2 123 (8.38%) QA
3 72 (4.91%) GDPR
4 33 (2.25%) PMO
5 14 (0.95%) SLA
6 10 (0.68%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.61%) HL7
7 9 (0.61%) IFRS
8 7 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
9 6 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.34%) DICOM
10 5 (0.34%) GMP
10 5 (0.34%) GRC
11 4 (0.27%) COBIT
11 4 (0.27%) PERC
11 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.20%) GAAP
12 3 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (1.09%) Docker
3 15 (1.02%) vSphere
4 13 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
5 12 (0.82%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.75%) Active Directory
7 8 (0.55%) NFS
8 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.27%) SRDF
9 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 48 (3.27%) Terraform
2 36 (2.45%) Kubernetes
3 32 (2.18%) Ansible
4 15 (1.02%) Grafana
4 15 (1.02%) vCenter Server
5 14 (0.95%) Argo
6 12 (0.82%) Data Guard
6 12 (0.82%) Oracle RMAN
7 8 (0.55%) EMC VPLEX
8 5 (0.34%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (0.27%) NetBackup
9 4 (0.27%) SnapMirror
9 4 (0.27%) vMotion
10 3 (0.20%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.20%) SnapVault
11 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.068%) Avamar
Vendors
1 288 (19.63%) Oracle
2 271 (18.47%) SAP
3 245 (16.70%) Microsoft
4 73 (4.98%) Databricks
5 71 (4.84%) Salesforce
6 30 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 29 (1.98%) VMware
8 27 (1.84%) Workday
9 25 (1.70%) Informatica
10 22 (1.50%) Talend
11 21 (1.43%) Pure Storage
12 20 (1.36%) IFS
13 19 (1.30%) IBM
14 18 (1.23%) Sage
15 17 (1.16%) Google
16 15 (1.02%) MuleSoft
16 15 (1.02%) Red Hat
17 14 (0.95%) Ariba
18 11 (0.75%) Siebel
18 11 (0.75%) Splunk
232 Data Migration jobs in England