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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 92 98
Rank change year-on-year +20 +6 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,365 670 820
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.20% 2.72% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 2.98% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 893 417 566
10th Percentile £363 £363 £361
25th Percentile £450 £448 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.20% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £730 £715
UK median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 10 33
10th Percentile £16.35 £30.86 £25.00
25th Percentile £21.33 £35.09 £40.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -20.00% +233.33%
75th Percentile £41.83 £69.69 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.08 -
UK median hourly rate £38.36 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -40.99% -13.33% +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 36,362 22,469 32,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.16% 91.35% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,009 14,533 20,781
10th Percentile £325 £304 £300
25th Percentile £415 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,276 1,038 2,365
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.13 £16.02
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.66 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.13 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.06% -25.68% +1.67%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +35 680 £550 -1.79% 126
South East -1 184 £550 +1.22% 70
North of England -8 180 £500 +2.88% 51
Midlands +11 142 £489 +2.89% 32
North West +11 113 £475 -12.60% 32
West Midlands +5 103 £473 -5.40% 13
South West +15 73 £525 +5.00% 19
East of England +2 56 £575 -11.54% 15
Yorkshire -43 56 £530 +17.54% 12
East Midlands +3 35 £500 +9.29% 19
North East -24 12 £488 -15.22% 7
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 45 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.64%) Confluence
3 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.37%) Tuxedo
6 4 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.15%) Apache
8 2 (0.15%) Appian
9 1 (0.073%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.073%) CMS
9 1 (0.073%) IIS
9 1 (0.073%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.073%) WebSphere
Applications
1 78 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.073%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 154 (11.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
3 31 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 21 (1.54%) SAP ERP
5 20 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
6 16 (1.17%) NetSuite
7 13 (0.95%) Oracle General Ledger
7 13 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 10 (0.73%) Loan IQ
11 9 (0.66%) iTrent
11 9 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
12 8 (0.59%) NEC Housing
12 8 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
13 7 (0.51%) Workday HCM
14 6 (0.44%) Finacle
14 6 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
14 6 (0.44%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 211 (15.46%) Azure
2 139 (10.18%) AWS
3 129 (9.45%) Power Platform
4 96 (7.03%) Dynamics 365
5 77 (5.64%) OCI
6 62 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (4.10%) SaaS
8 43 (3.15%) Snowflake
9 42 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
10 38 (2.78%) GitHub
11 29 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
12 26 (1.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 22 (1.61%) GCP
14 19 (1.39%) Amazon S3
15 18 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
16 17 (1.25%) Power Automate
17 15 (1.10%) dbt
17 15 (1.10%) OpenShift
17 15 (1.10%) PowerApps
18 13 (0.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.10%) SAN
2 14 (1.03%) DNS
2 14 (1.03%) NAS
3 6 (0.44%) Firewall
4 5 (0.37%) VPN
5 3 (0.22%) VSAN
6 2 (0.15%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.15%) HTTP
7 1 (0.073%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.073%) DKIM
7 1 (0.073%) DMARC
7 1 (0.073%) FCoE
7 1 (0.073%) Internet
7 1 (0.073%) Intranet
7 1 (0.073%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.073%) Network Security
7 1 (0.073%) SNMP
7 1 (0.073%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (8.13%) Power BI
2 100 (7.33%) Data Warehouse
3 63 (4.62%) Oracle Reports
4 61 (4.47%) SQL Server
5 37 (2.71%) Metadata
6 31 (2.27%) Data Lake
7 30 (2.20%) Relational Database
8 26 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 24 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (1.54%) NoSQL
10 21 (1.54%) Oracle Database
11 16 (1.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 14 (1.03%) RDBMS
13 12 (0.88%) SAP Data Services
14 11 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 10 (0.73%) Db2
15 10 (0.73%) Electronic Patient Records
15 10 (0.73%) GIS
15 10 (0.73%) Tableau
16 9 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 119 (8.72%) JIRA
2 45 (3.30%) Git
3 37 (2.71%) Zephyr
4 31 (2.27%) Postman
5 21 (1.54%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.88%) GitLab
7 11 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.73%) Selenium
9 8 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.37%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.37%) Gatling
10 5 (0.37%) Hudson
10 5 (0.37%) LSMW
11 4 (0.29%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.29%) JUnit
12 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.22%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.22%) ERwin
12 3 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 478 (35.02%) Finance
2 412 (30.18%) Social Skills
3 172 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (8.13%) Public Sector
5 91 (6.67%) Banking
6 61 (4.47%) Manufacturing
7 52 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.30%) Law
9 44 (3.22%) Retail
10 34 (2.49%) General Ledger
11 31 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (2.20%) Local Government
13 29 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.68%) Legal
15 22 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 22 (1.61%) Marketing
16 18 (1.32%) Billing
17 17 (1.25%) Automotive
17 17 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (1.17%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 298 (21.83%) Lead
2 201 (14.73%) Analyst
3 184 (13.48%) Architect
4 147 (10.77%) Consultant
5 108 (7.91%) Data Migration Lead
6 103 (7.55%) Project Manager
7 96 (7.03%) Data Engineer
7 96 (7.03%) Senior
8 88 (6.45%) Business Analyst
9 77 (5.64%) Data Analyst
10 67 (4.91%) Data Architect
11 57 (4.18%) Migration Engineer
12 55 (4.03%) Developer
12 55 (4.03%) Migration Analyst
13 50 (3.66%) Migration Manager
14 49 (3.59%) Data Migration Engineer
14 49 (3.59%) SAP Consultant
15 43 (3.15%) Data Migration Analyst
16 41 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
17 39 (2.86%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 41 (3.00%) REST
3 40 (2.93%) Middleware
4 24 (1.76%) SOAP
5 20 (1.47%) XML
6 19 (1.39%) .NET
7 18 (1.32%) Kafka
7 18 (1.32%) Spring
8 15 (1.10%) JSON
9 11 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
9 11 (0.81%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (0.73%) Spring Boot
11 9 (0.66%) ADO
12 8 (0.59%) PySpark
12 8 (0.59%) React
13 7 (0.51%) COM
13 7 (0.51%) ODBC
14 6 (0.44%) FHIR
14 6 (0.44%) Playwright
14 6 (0.44%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 180 (13.19%) Legacy Systems
2 101 (7.40%) Data Structures
3 43 (3.15%) Cloud Native
4 42 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 28 (2.05%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.05%) Product Ownership
6 26 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
6 26 (1.90%) Public Cloud
7 21 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (1.39%) Replication
9 18 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.17%) Reference Data
11 14 (1.03%) Data Centre
11 14 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.03%) Mainframe
12 13 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (0.81%) FMCG
14 11 (0.81%) NHS
15 10 (0.73%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.68%) Windows
2 14 (1.03%) Linux
3 7 (0.51%) zOS
4 5 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
4 5 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.29%) AIX
5 4 (0.29%) VMS
6 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.15%) Unix
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.073%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,365 (100.00%) Migration
2 368 (26.96%) Validation
3 291 (21.32%) ERP
3 291 (21.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 287 (21.03%) User Acceptance Testing
5 246 (18.02%) Agile
6 230 (16.85%) ETL
7 206 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
8 201 (14.73%) Data Modelling
9 198 (14.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 140 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
11 137 (10.04%) Data Cleansing
12 132 (9.67%) Data Governance
13 124 (9.08%) Data Mapping
13 124 (9.08%) Project Management
14 116 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 116 (8.50%) DevOps
15 111 (8.13%) Analytics
16 100 (7.33%) Data Validation
17 99 (7.25%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 272 (19.93%) SQL
2 101 (7.40%) Python
3 41 (3.00%) Java
4 28 (2.05%) PL/SQL
5 23 (1.68%) Bash
6 17 (1.25%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.03%) PowerShell
8 11 (0.81%) C#
9 9 (0.66%) Apex Code
9 9 (0.66%) Kotlin
9 9 (0.66%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.59%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.59%) VBA
11 7 (0.51%) VB
11 7 (0.51%) VB6
12 5 (0.37%) C
12 5 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.22%) COBOL
13 3 (0.22%) Korn
13 3 (0.22%) X++
Qualifications
1 229 (16.78%) Security Cleared
2 183 (13.41%) SC Cleared
3 56 (4.10%) Degree
4 27 (1.98%) ISTQB
4 27 (1.98%) PMP
5 26 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 21 (1.54%) PMI Certification
7 18 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.10%) ACCA
9 15 (1.10%) CIMA
10 13 (0.95%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.44%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 5 (0.37%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
12 5 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.29%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (17.88%) Data Quality
2 113 (8.28%) QA
3 66 (4.84%) GDPR
4 26 (1.90%) PMO
5 16 (1.17%) SLA
6 12 (0.88%) IFRS
7 10 (0.73%) HL7
8 9 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.51%) SNOMED CT
10 6 (0.44%) COBIT
10 6 (0.44%) GAAP
11 5 (0.37%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.37%) DICOM
11 5 (0.37%) NIST
12 4 (0.29%) Basel III
12 4 (0.29%) PERC
12 4 (0.29%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.22%) GMP
14 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 25 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (1.10%) vSphere
3 14 (1.03%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.88%) Docker
4 12 (0.88%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.73%) NFS
6 5 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.29%) SRDF
8 3 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (2.71%) Terraform
2 32 (2.34%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.83%) Ansible
4 15 (1.10%) Grafana
4 15 (1.10%) vCenter Server
5 14 (1.03%) Argo
6 10 (0.73%) EMC VPLEX
7 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.44%) vMotion
9 4 (0.29%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.29%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (0.29%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.29%) NetBackup
9 4 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (0.29%) SCCM
9 4 (0.29%) SnapMirror
10 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.22%) SnapVault
11 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 273 (20.00%) Oracle
2 255 (18.68%) SAP
3 217 (15.90%) Microsoft
4 66 (4.84%) Databricks
5 62 (4.54%) Salesforce
6 30 (2.20%) VMware
7 25 (1.83%) Informatica
7 25 (1.83%) Sage
7 25 (1.83%) ServiceNow
7 25 (1.83%) Workday
8 23 (1.68%) Pure Storage
9 20 (1.47%) Google
10 19 (1.39%) Talend
11 18 (1.32%) IFS
12 15 (1.10%) MuleSoft
12 15 (1.10%) Red Hat
13 14 (1.03%) Avaloq
14 12 (0.88%) Temenos
15 11 (0.81%) IBM
15 11 (0.81%) Siebel