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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 93 101
Rank change year-on-year +20 +8 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,408 708 820
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.21% 2.74% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 3.01% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 440 556
10th Percentile £363 £360 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -2.04% -0.92%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £714
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 13 33
10th Percentile £17.23 £15.56 £25.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £32.31 £40.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% -23.33% +141.94%
75th Percentile £57.52 £67.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £73.25 -
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £60.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -38.82% -20.00% +127.27%

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 37,451 23,541 31,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.15% 85.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,583 15,155 20,721
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.08% -3.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,352 1,173 2,326
10th Percentile £15.26 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +85.35% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.50 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.07
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

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 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 2 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 2 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 +30 702 £541 -1.59% 146
South East +1 191 £550 +4.76% 68
North of England -14 186 £519 +9.26% 52
Midlands +14 145 £488 +2.63% 41
North West +8 121 £500 +3.90% 34
West Midlands +3 106 £473 -5.40% 23
South West +6 76 £523 +1.95% 19
East of England +12 57 £581 -10.58% 15
Yorkshire -45 53 £530 +15.99% 14
East Midlands +4 35 £500 +9.29% 18
North East -18 14 £625 +8.70% 4
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 50 (3.55%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.56%) Confluence
3 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.36%) Tuxedo
6 4 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
8 2 (0.14%) Apache
8 2 (0.14%) Appian
9 1 (0.071%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.071%) CMS
9 1 (0.071%) IIS
9 1 (0.071%) Mendix
9 1 (0.071%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.071%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 77 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
2 20 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
3 16 (1.14%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 153 (10.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (2.63%) Oracle EBS
3 34 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
5 20 (1.42%) NetSuite
5 20 (1.42%) SAP ERP
6 18 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
6 18 (1.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 16 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
8 15 (1.07%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.78%) iTrent
9 11 (0.78%) Loan IQ
9 11 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
10 10 (0.71%) Oracle Assets
11 9 (0.64%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 7 (0.50%) NEC Housing
12 7 (0.50%) SAP SD
12 7 (0.50%) Teamcenter
12 7 (0.50%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.43%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 220 (15.63%) Azure
2 138 (9.80%) AWS
3 133 (9.45%) Power Platform
4 101 (7.17%) Dynamics 365
5 79 (5.61%) OCI
6 70 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (3.91%) SaaS
8 43 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 43 (3.05%) Snowflake
9 41 (2.91%) GitHub
10 32 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
11 29 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 21 (1.49%) Power Automate
12 21 (1.49%) SuccessFactors
13 20 (1.42%) GCP
13 20 (1.42%) PowerApps
14 19 (1.35%) Amazon S3
15 15 (1.07%) dbt
15 15 (1.07%) OpenShift
16 12 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.07%) SAN
2 14 (0.99%) DNS
2 14 (0.99%) NAS
3 6 (0.43%) Firewall
3 6 (0.43%) VPN
4 3 (0.21%) VSAN
5 2 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.14%) HTTP
5 2 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.071%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.071%) DKIM
6 1 (0.071%) DMARC
6 1 (0.071%) FCoE
6 1 (0.071%) Intranet
6 1 (0.071%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.071%) Network Security
6 1 (0.071%) SNMP
6 1 (0.071%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (8.24%) Power BI
2 98 (6.96%) Data Warehouse
3 63 (4.47%) SQL Server
4 61 (4.33%) Oracle Reports
5 40 (2.84%) Metadata
6 34 (2.41%) Relational Database
7 32 (2.27%) Data Lake
8 28 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (1.70%) Oracle Database
10 23 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 20 (1.42%) NoSQL
12 17 (1.21%) RDBMS
13 12 (0.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 12 (0.85%) SAP Data Services
13 12 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (0.71%) Db2
15 10 (0.71%) GIS
16 9 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
16 9 (0.64%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 124 (8.81%) JIRA
2 47 (3.34%) Git
3 37 (2.63%) Zephyr
4 32 (2.27%) Postman
5 22 (1.56%) Jenkins
6 15 (1.07%) GitLab
7 11 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.71%) Selenium
9 8 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.43%) Hudson
11 5 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.36%) Gatling
11 5 (0.36%) LSMW
12 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.28%) JUnit
13 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
13 3 (0.21%) ERwin
13 3 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
13 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 492 (34.94%) Finance
2 415 (29.47%) Social Skills
3 184 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (8.10%) Public Sector
5 83 (5.89%) Banking
6 70 (4.97%) Manufacturing
7 50 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (3.34%) Retail
9 45 (3.20%) Law
10 38 (2.70%) General Ledger
11 31 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (2.13%) Local Government
13 25 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 23 (1.63%) Marketing
15 22 (1.56%) Legal
16 20 (1.42%) Automotive
17 19 (1.35%) Billing
18 17 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
18 17 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 297 (21.09%) Lead
2 203 (14.42%) Analyst
3 191 (13.57%) Architect
4 152 (10.80%) Consultant
5 110 (7.81%) Data Migration Lead
6 104 (7.39%) Data Engineer
6 104 (7.39%) Project Manager
7 103 (7.32%) Senior
8 90 (6.39%) Business Analyst
9 75 (5.33%) Data Analyst
10 68 (4.83%) Data Architect
11 63 (4.47%) Migration Engineer
12 59 (4.19%) Developer
13 54 (3.84%) Migration Analyst
14 52 (3.69%) Data Migration Engineer
15 50 (3.55%) Migration Manager
16 48 (3.41%) SAP Consultant
17 45 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
18 41 (2.91%) Data Migration Analyst
19 38 (2.70%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (6.04%) Oracle Fusion
2 40 (2.84%) Middleware
3 39 (2.77%) REST
4 25 (1.78%) SOAP
5 22 (1.56%) .NET
6 21 (1.49%) XML
7 19 (1.35%) Kafka
8 18 (1.28%) Spring
9 17 (1.21%) JSON
10 11 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
10 11 (0.78%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (0.71%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.64%) ADO
12 9 (0.64%) PySpark
12 9 (0.64%) React
13 8 (0.57%) Oracle GoldenGate
14 7 (0.50%) COM
14 7 (0.50%) ODBC
15 6 (0.43%) FHIR
15 6 (0.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 176 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 103 (7.32%) Data Structures
3 45 (3.20%) Cloud Native
4 44 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 30 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.06%) Public Cloud
7 27 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
8 24 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.28%) Replication
10 17 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.07%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.07%) NHS
12 14 (0.99%) Mainframe
13 13 (0.92%) FMCG
14 12 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (0.78%) Low-Code
15 11 (0.78%) Reference Data
15 11 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.63%) Windows
2 16 (1.14%) Linux
3 7 (0.50%) AIX
3 7 (0.50%) zOS
4 5 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.28%) VMS
5 4 (0.28%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.14%) Unix
7 1 (0.071%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.071%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.071%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,408 (100.00%) Migration
2 380 (26.99%) Validation
3 310 (22.02%) ERP
4 298 (21.16%) User Acceptance Testing
5 296 (21.02%) Stakeholder Management
6 243 (17.26%) Agile
7 234 (16.62%) ETL
8 208 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
9 207 (14.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 203 (14.42%) Data Modelling
11 142 (10.09%) Business Intelligence
12 140 (9.94%) Data Cleansing
13 139 (9.87%) Data Governance
14 133 (9.45%) DevOps
15 128 (9.09%) Project Management
16 126 (8.95%) Data Mapping
17 123 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
18 116 (8.24%) Analytics
19 110 (7.81%) CI/CD
20 107 (7.60%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 278 (19.74%) SQL
2 99 (7.03%) Python
3 42 (2.98%) Java
4 27 (1.92%) PL/SQL
5 22 (1.56%) Bash
5 22 (1.56%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.07%) C#
6 15 (1.07%) PowerShell
7 11 (0.78%) T-SQL
8 9 (0.64%) Apex Code
8 9 (0.64%) Kotlin
8 9 (0.64%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.50%) VB
9 7 (0.50%) VB6
9 7 (0.50%) VBA
10 5 (0.36%) C
10 5 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.21%) COBOL
11 3 (0.21%) SOQL
11 3 (0.21%) X++
Qualifications
1 232 (16.48%) Security Cleared
2 185 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 53 (3.76%) Degree
4 28 (1.99%) ISTQB
4 28 (1.99%) PMP
5 27 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 22 (1.56%) PMI Certification
7 21 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.14%) ACCA
8 16 (1.14%) CIMA
9 14 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (0.92%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.43%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 6 (0.43%) SAP Certification
12 5 (0.36%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.28%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (17.61%) Data Quality
2 117 (8.31%) QA
3 68 (4.83%) GDPR
4 28 (1.99%) PMO
5 16 (1.14%) SLA
6 10 (0.71%) HL7
6 10 (0.71%) IFRS
7 9 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.50%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.50%) SNOMED CT
9 6 (0.43%) COBIT
9 6 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.36%) DICOM
10 5 (0.36%) NIST
11 4 (0.28%) GAAP
11 4 (0.28%) GMP
11 4 (0.28%) PERC
11 4 (0.28%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 26 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (1.14%) Docker
3 15 (1.07%) vSphere
4 13 (0.92%) Active Directory
5 12 (0.85%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.71%) NFS
7 8 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.28%) SRDF
9 3 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 42 (2.98%) Terraform
2 36 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.92%) Ansible
4 15 (1.07%) Grafana
4 15 (1.07%) vCenter Server
5 14 (0.99%) Argo
6 10 (0.71%) EMC VPLEX
7 7 (0.50%) Data Guard
7 7 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
8 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.43%) vMotion
9 5 (0.36%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (0.28%) NetBackup
10 4 (0.28%) SnapMirror
11 3 (0.21%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.21%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.21%) SnapVault
12 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 283 (20.10%) Oracle
2 264 (18.75%) SAP
3 233 (16.55%) Microsoft
4 68 (4.83%) Salesforce
5 64 (4.55%) Databricks
6 31 (2.20%) VMware
7 30 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 25 (1.78%) Workday
9 23 (1.63%) Pure Storage
9 23 (1.63%) Sage
10 21 (1.49%) IFS
10 21 (1.49%) Informatica
11 20 (1.42%) Talend
12 18 (1.28%) Google
13 15 (1.07%) MuleSoft
13 15 (1.07%) Red Hat
14 12 (0.85%) Ariba
14 12 (0.85%) Siebel
15 11 (0.78%) IBM
15 11 (0.78%) Splunk