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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 95 95
Rank change year-on-year +21 0 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,250 651 857
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.08% 2.70% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 2.96% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 407 595
10th Percentile £358 £375 £363
25th Percentile £446 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £655
90th Percentile £733 £701 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 33
10th Percentile £15.46 £31.26 £25.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £36.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £40.78 £62.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.76% -16.67% +233.33%
75th Percentile £56.58 £71.25 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.35 £76.41 -
UK median hourly rate £38.36 £67.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -43.18% -10.00% +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 34,393 22,003 31,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.23% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,924 14,379 20,694
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -2.13% -1.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,131 924 2,243
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.42 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.36 £18.47 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.60 £36.50
% change year-on-year +48.60% -21.64% +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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +33 617 £525 -4.55% 108
South East -1 177 £609 +11.19% 52
North of England -12 167 £500 +0.81% 41
Midlands -5 130 £488 +2.63% 28
North West +6 104 £473 -14.00% 23
West Midlands -8 89 £450 -5.26% 12
Yorkshire -41 56 £525 +32.91% 16
South West -3 55 £525 +5.00% 19
East of England -14 54 £575 -11.54% 20
East Midlands -5 38 £500 +9.29% 16
North East -12 7 £488 -15.22% 2
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 47 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 43 (3.44%) Confluence
3 8 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.48%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.16%) Appian
7 2 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.080%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.080%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.080%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.080%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 73 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (1.28%) MS Visio
6 14 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.080%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.080%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 144 (11.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (3.60%) Oracle EBS
3 31 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 17 (1.36%) SAP ERP
6 15 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (1.12%) Loan IQ
8 12 (0.96%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 10 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
11 9 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
12 8 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
13 6 (0.48%) Finacle
13 6 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
13 6 (0.48%) SAP Business One
13 6 (0.48%) SAP CO
13 6 (0.48%) SAP FI
13 6 (0.48%) Teamcenter
13 6 (0.48%) Workday HCM
14 5 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 176 (14.08%) Azure
2 122 (9.76%) Power Platform
3 106 (8.48%) AWS
4 91 (7.28%) Dynamics 365
5 78 (6.24%) OCI
6 52 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (3.84%) Azure Data Factory
8 46 (3.68%) SaaS
9 33 (2.64%) GitHub
9 33 (2.64%) Snowflake
10 29 (2.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 25 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (1.52%) GCP
13 17 (1.36%) SuccessFactors
14 14 (1.12%) Entra ID
15 13 (1.04%) Amazon S3
15 13 (1.04%) OpenShift
16 12 (0.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 11 (0.88%) Boomi
17 11 (0.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.12%) DNS
2 13 (1.04%) NAS
2 13 (1.04%) SAN
3 6 (0.48%) Firewall
4 4 (0.32%) VPN
5 2 (0.16%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.16%) HTTP
5 2 (0.16%) VSAN
6 1 (0.080%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.080%) DKIM
6 1 (0.080%) DMARC
6 1 (0.080%) FCoE
6 1 (0.080%) Internet
6 1 (0.080%) Intranet
6 1 (0.080%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.080%) Network Security
6 1 (0.080%) SNMP
6 1 (0.080%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (8.64%) Power BI
2 88 (7.04%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (4.56%) Oracle Reports
4 51 (4.08%) SQL Server
5 33 (2.64%) Metadata
6 31 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 29 (2.32%) Data Lake
8 22 (1.76%) Relational Database
9 19 (1.52%) Oracle Database
9 19 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (1.20%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 13 (1.04%) SAP Data Services
13 11 (0.88%) DB2
14 10 (0.80%) Electronic Patient Records
14 10 (0.80%) Tableau
15 9 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (0.64%) GIS
16 8 (0.64%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 116 (9.28%) JIRA
2 31 (2.48%) Git
3 30 (2.40%) Zephyr
4 24 (1.92%) Postman
5 18 (1.44%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.88%) Selenium
7 7 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.48%) GitLab
8 6 (0.48%) Hudson
8 6 (0.48%) LSMW
9 4 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.32%) JUnit
9 4 (0.32%) Toad
10 3 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.24%) ERwin
10 3 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.16%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.16%) Cypress.io
General
1 408 (32.64%) Finance
2 389 (31.12%) Social Skills
3 160 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 70 (5.60%) Banking
6 58 (4.64%) Manufacturing
7 49 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.44%) Law
9 41 (3.28%) Retail
10 37 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
11 24 (1.92%) General Ledger
11 24 (1.92%) Local Government
11 24 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
12 23 (1.84%) Legal
13 21 (1.68%) Marketing
14 18 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 17 (1.36%) Billing
15 17 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (1.12%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.96%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 287 (22.96%) Lead
2 200 (16.00%) Analyst
3 149 (11.92%) Architect
4 140 (11.20%) Consultant
5 109 (8.72%) Data Migration Lead
6 96 (7.68%) Project Manager
7 92 (7.36%) Business Analyst
8 86 (6.88%) Data Engineer
9 85 (6.80%) Senior
10 69 (5.52%) Data Analyst
11 58 (4.64%) Developer
12 57 (4.56%) Migration Analyst
13 52 (4.16%) Migration Engineer
14 48 (3.84%) Data Architect
15 47 (3.76%) Migration Manager
16 46 (3.68%) SAP Consultant
17 45 (3.60%) Data Migration Engineer
18 43 (3.44%) Data Migration Analyst
19 38 (3.04%) Lead Architect
20 34 (2.72%) Data Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (6.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 33 (2.64%) Middleware
2 33 (2.64%) REST
3 18 (1.44%) SOAP
4 17 (1.36%) XML
5 16 (1.28%) .NET
6 15 (1.20%) Spring
7 14 (1.12%) Kafka
8 11 (0.88%) JSON
8 11 (0.88%) Lightning Web Components
8 11 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (0.56%) PySpark
9 7 (0.56%) Spring Boot
9 7 (0.56%) Web Services
10 6 (0.48%) FHIR
10 6 (0.48%) React
11 4 (0.32%) ADO
11 4 (0.32%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.32%) SAP Fiori
11 4 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 164 (13.12%) Legacy Systems
2 98 (7.84%) Data Structures
3 41 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 39 (3.12%) Management Information System
5 28 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
6 27 (2.16%) Onboarding
7 23 (1.84%) Product Ownership
8 22 (1.76%) Public Cloud
9 18 (1.44%) Replication
10 16 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.20%) Reference Data
12 14 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (1.12%) Mainframe
12 14 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.96%) Data Centre
14 11 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
15 10 (0.80%) NHS
16 9 (0.72%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.92%) Windows
2 9 (0.72%) Linux
3 7 (0.56%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.56%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.56%) zOS
4 6 (0.48%) Unix
5 3 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (0.24%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.16%) VMS
7 1 (0.080%) AIX
7 1 (0.080%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,250 (100.00%) Migration
2 332 (26.56%) Validation
3 279 (22.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 262 (20.96%) ERP
5 253 (20.24%) User Acceptance Testing
6 232 (18.56%) Agile
7 221 (17.68%) ETL
8 191 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
9 182 (14.56%) Data Modelling
10 176 (14.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 144 (11.52%) Data Cleansing
12 136 (10.88%) Business Intelligence
13 128 (10.24%) Project Management
14 125 (10.00%) Data Mapping
15 115 (9.20%) Analytics
16 114 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
17 112 (8.96%) Data Governance
18 99 (7.92%) Workshop Facilitation
19 97 (7.76%) Data Validation
20 95 (7.60%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 235 (18.80%) SQL
2 91 (7.28%) Python
3 36 (2.88%) Java
4 30 (2.40%) PL/SQL
5 20 (1.60%) Bash
6 12 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.88%) PowerShell
8 10 (0.80%) Apex Code
9 9 (0.72%) VBA
10 8 (0.64%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.56%) C#
12 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.40%) PHP
12 5 (0.40%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.32%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.32%) Perl
13 4 (0.32%) SOQL
14 3 (0.24%) ABAP
14 3 (0.24%) COBOL
14 3 (0.24%) Korn
Qualifications
1 201 (16.08%) Security Cleared
2 149 (11.92%) SC Cleared
3 50 (4.00%) Degree
4 30 (2.40%) DV Cleared
5 25 (2.00%) PMP
6 20 (1.60%) ISTQB
7 19 (1.52%) PMI Certification
8 18 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (0.80%) Azure Certification
10 9 (0.72%) ACCA
10 9 (0.72%) CIMA
11 6 (0.48%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.32%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.32%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.32%) OCP
13 4 (0.32%) SAP Certification
14 3 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 3 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (17.44%) Data Quality
2 93 (7.44%) QA
3 57 (4.56%) GDPR
4 24 (1.92%) PMO
5 13 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.96%) SLA
7 10 (0.80%) COBIT
7 10 (0.80%) HL7
8 9 (0.72%) NIST
9 7 (0.56%) IFRS
9 7 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
10 5 (0.40%) DICOM
10 5 (0.40%) GAAP
10 5 (0.40%) GMP
11 4 (0.32%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.32%) Basel III
11 4 (0.32%) PERC
12 3 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.24%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.12%) vSphere
4 12 (0.96%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.72%) NFS
6 8 (0.64%) Docker
7 3 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.24%) SRDF
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.080%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 30 (2.40%) Terraform
2 28 (2.24%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.52%) Ansible
4 14 (1.12%) Grafana
4 14 (1.12%) vCenter Server
5 13 (1.04%) Argo
6 12 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.64%) EMC VPLEX
7 8 (0.64%) SCCM
8 6 (0.48%) vMotion
9 4 (0.32%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.24%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.16%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.16%) SnapMirror
11 2 (0.16%) SnapVault
12 1 (0.080%) Autotask
12 1 (0.080%) Avamar
Vendors
1 245 (19.60%) SAP
2 235 (18.80%) Oracle
3 199 (15.92%) Microsoft
4 62 (4.96%) Salesforce
5 49 (3.92%) Databricks
6 27 (2.16%) VMware
7 24 (1.92%) Workday
8 22 (1.76%) Pure Storage
8 22 (1.76%) Sage
9 21 (1.68%) Informatica
10 19 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.52%) Talend
11 18 (1.44%) Google
12 16 (1.28%) IFS
12 16 (1.28%) MuleSoft
13 15 (1.20%) Avaloq
14 13 (1.04%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.88%) IBM
15 11 (0.88%) Splunk
16 10 (0.80%) Ariba
250 Data Migration jobs in England