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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 87 103
Rank change year-on-year +6 +16 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,424 792 760
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 2.85% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 3.14% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 940 495 520
10th Percentile £363 £363 £380
25th Percentile £425 £427 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £632 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 12 13
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.28 £65.10
25th Percentile £23.00 £28.68 £72.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.25 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.40% -37.19% -13.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £68.44 -
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.50 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £36.33 £80.00
% change year-on-year +10.12% -54.59% -13.25%

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 38,818 25,195 28,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.84% 90.79% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,932 16,050 18,115
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,599 1,473 1,445
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +3.56%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +13 695 £538 -2.27% 192
North of England -15 197 £510 +7.37% 47
South East 0 176 £550 -2.22% 89
Midlands +5 163 £474 -5.20% 51
North West +5 121 £525 +10.53% 29
West Midlands +5 112 £450 -10.00% 36
South West +15 88 £523 -0.48% 28
Yorkshire -38 62 £500 +2.56% 9
East of England +12 57 £565 +14.43% 20
East Midlands +4 47 £525 +0.77% 15
North East -23 17 £575 +31.43% 9
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 61 (4.28%) SharePoint
2 42 (2.95%) Confluence
3 11 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.49%) Apache
6 7 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.35%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.14%) CMS
8 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.14%) Mendix
8 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.070%) IIS
9 1 (0.070%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.070%) SAS
9 1 (0.070%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 69 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
3 14 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.21%) Windchill
7 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.070%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 156 (10.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (2.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (1.62%) Oracle ERP
4 22 (1.54%) Oracle Payables
5 21 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
6 20 (1.40%) NetSuite
7 19 (1.33%) SAP ERP
8 18 (1.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 14 (0.98%) Workday HCM
10 12 (0.84%) Oracle Financials
10 12 (0.84%) SAP SD
11 11 (0.77%) iTrent
11 11 (0.77%) Oracle Assets
11 11 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
11 11 (0.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 11 (0.77%) SAP MDG
11 11 (0.77%) Teamcenter
12 9 (0.63%) SAP FI
12 9 (0.63%) SAP MM
13 8 (0.56%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 234 (16.43%) Azure
2 151 (10.60%) Power Platform
3 143 (10.04%) AWS
4 117 (8.22%) Dynamics 365
5 85 (5.97%) OCI
6 75 (5.27%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (4.14%) SaaS
8 47 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 44 (3.09%) Snowflake
10 40 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
11 34 (2.39%) SuccessFactors
12 33 (2.32%) GitHub
12 33 (2.32%) Power Automate
13 29 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 29 (2.04%) PowerApps
14 24 (1.69%) Amazon S3
15 23 (1.62%) GCP
16 17 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
17 15 (1.05%) dbt
18 13 (0.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.49%) DNS
1 7 (0.49%) VPN
2 5 (0.35%) NAS
2 5 (0.35%) SAN
3 4 (0.28%) Firewall
4 3 (0.21%) Intranet
5 2 (0.14%) HTTP
5 2 (0.14%) VSAN
6 1 (0.070%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.070%) DKIM
6 1 (0.070%) DMARC
6 1 (0.070%) Internet
6 1 (0.070%) SNMP
6 1 (0.070%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (8.99%) Power BI
2 101 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (4.71%) SQL Server
4 53 (3.72%) Metadata
5 47 (3.30%) Relational Database
6 41 (2.88%) Oracle Reports
7 37 (2.60%) Data Lake
8 31 (2.18%) Oracle Database
9 25 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (1.40%) RDBMS
11 17 (1.19%) NoSQL
12 14 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (0.91%) DataStage
13 13 (0.91%) Oracle Exadata
14 12 (0.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 11 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 10 (0.70%) SAP Data Services
17 9 (0.63%) GIS
17 9 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 115 (8.08%) JIRA
2 53 (3.72%) Git
3 36 (2.53%) Zephyr
4 29 (2.04%) Postman
5 20 (1.40%) GitLab
6 15 (1.05%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.84%) Oracle Forms
8 8 (0.56%) Selenium
9 6 (0.42%) Hudson
10 5 (0.35%) Gatling
10 5 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.28%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.28%) LSMW
11 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.21%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
13 2 (0.14%) Yeoman
14 1 (0.070%) TestRail
General
1 502 (35.25%) Finance
2 406 (28.51%) Social Skills
3 192 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (9.34%) Public Sector
5 84 (5.90%) Banking
6 75 (5.27%) Manufacturing
7 57 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
8 55 (3.86%) Retail
9 48 (3.37%) Law
10 43 (3.02%) General Ledger
11 33 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
12 32 (2.25%) Local Government
13 26 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 26 (1.83%) Marketing
14 25 (1.76%) Automotive
15 23 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (1.40%) Billing
17 19 (1.33%) Legal
18 17 (1.19%) Aerospace
18 17 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 272 (19.10%) Lead
2 218 (15.31%) Analyst
3 179 (12.57%) Architect
4 157 (11.03%) Consultant
5 124 (8.71%) Data Engineer
6 123 (8.64%) Senior
7 101 (7.09%) Data Migration Lead
8 91 (6.39%) Business Analyst
9 86 (6.04%) Project Manager
10 77 (5.41%) Data Analyst
11 68 (4.78%) Developer
12 60 (4.21%) Data Architect
13 57 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
14 49 (3.44%) SAP Consultant
15 47 (3.30%) Data Migration Engineer
16 44 (3.09%) Migration Analyst
17 43 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
18 42 (2.95%) Data Consultant
19 38 (2.67%) Migration Consultant
20 37 (2.60%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
2 45 (3.16%) Middleware
3 36 (2.53%) Terraform
4 34 (2.39%) REST
5 25 (1.76%) .NET
6 23 (1.62%) XML
7 20 (1.40%) SOAP
8 17 (1.19%) JSON
8 17 (1.19%) Kafka
9 15 (1.05%) PySpark
10 14 (0.98%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 14 (0.98%) Spring
11 8 (0.56%) Lightning Web Components
11 8 (0.56%) Spring Boot
12 7 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
13 6 (0.42%) ADO
13 6 (0.42%) Web Services
14 5 (0.35%) COM
14 5 (0.35%) HTML
14 5 (0.35%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 164 (11.52%) Legacy Systems
2 99 (6.95%) Data Structures
3 43 (3.02%) Management Information System
3 43 (3.02%) Public Cloud
4 40 (2.81%) Cloud Native
5 39 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (2.39%) Product Ownership
8 28 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (1.33%) NHS
10 18 (1.26%) FMCG
11 16 (1.12%) Replication
12 15 (1.05%) Reference Data
13 13 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (0.84%) Data Centre
14 12 (0.84%) Low-Code
15 11 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
16 10 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
17 9 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.54%) Linux
2 21 (1.47%) Windows
3 13 (0.91%) AIX
4 5 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.28%) VMS
6 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.070%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.070%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,424 (100.00%) Migration
2 408 (28.65%) Validation
3 342 (24.02%) Stakeholder Management
4 330 (23.17%) ERP
5 325 (22.82%) User Acceptance Testing
6 242 (16.99%) Agile
7 238 (16.71%) ETL
8 236 (16.57%) Data Modelling
9 229 (16.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 176 (12.36%) Data Governance
11 172 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
12 152 (10.67%) Business Intelligence
13 138 (9.69%) Data Cleansing
14 128 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
15 127 (8.92%) Analytics
16 126 (8.85%) DevOps
17 117 (8.22%) Data Mapping
18 112 (7.87%) CI/CD
19 111 (7.79%) Requirements Gathering
20 105 (7.37%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 290 (20.37%) SQL
2 95 (6.67%) Python
3 37 (2.60%) Java
4 25 (1.76%) PL/SQL
5 19 (1.33%) C#
5 19 (1.33%) JavaScript
6 17 (1.19%) Bash
7 15 (1.05%) PowerShell
8 11 (0.77%) T-SQL
9 9 (0.63%) Kotlin
9 9 (0.63%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.49%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.35%) ABAP
11 5 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.35%) VB
11 5 (0.35%) VB6
11 5 (0.35%) VBA
12 4 (0.28%) C
12 4 (0.28%) X++
13 3 (0.21%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 253 (17.77%) Security Cleared
2 202 (14.19%) SC Cleared
3 52 (3.65%) Degree
4 36 (2.53%) DV Cleared
5 29 (2.04%) ACCA
5 29 (2.04%) CIMA
6 26 (1.83%) PMP
7 25 (1.76%) ISTQB
7 25 (1.76%) PMI Certification
8 19 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (0.77%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (0.56%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.42%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.35%) SAP Certification
14 3 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.21%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (20.01%) Data Quality
2 111 (7.79%) QA
3 64 (4.49%) GDPR
4 32 (2.25%) PMO
5 12 (0.84%) GRC
6 10 (0.70%) HL7
6 10 (0.70%) IFRS
6 10 (0.70%) SLA
7 9 (0.63%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.49%) SNOMED CT
9 6 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.42%) DICOM
10 5 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.28%) PERC
11 4 (0.28%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 2 (0.14%) GAAP
13 2 (0.14%) GMP
13 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 14 (0.98%) Oracle RAC
2 13 (0.91%) Docker
3 12 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.70%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.56%) vSphere
6 5 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.21%) SRDF
8 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.14%) NFS
Systems Management
1 27 (1.90%) Ansible
2 25 (1.76%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.91%) Data Guard
3 13 (0.91%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (0.56%) vCenter Server
5 7 (0.49%) Argo
5 7 (0.49%) Grafana
6 4 (0.28%) EMC VPLEX
6 4 (0.28%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.28%) Karpenter
6 4 (0.28%) SnapMirror
7 3 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (0.21%) NetBackup
7 3 (0.21%) SnapVault
8 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.070%) Autotask
9 1 (0.070%) SCCM
9 1 (0.070%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 286 (20.08%) Oracle
2 274 (19.24%) SAP
3 258 (18.12%) Microsoft
4 80 (5.62%) Databricks
5 61 (4.28%) Salesforce
6 31 (2.18%) Workday
7 30 (2.11%) ServiceNow
8 23 (1.62%) Informatica
9 22 (1.54%) IBM
10 18 (1.26%) Talend
11 17 (1.19%) Ariba
11 17 (1.19%) Google
11 17 (1.19%) IFS
12 13 (0.91%) VMware
13 10 (0.70%) MuleSoft
13 10 (0.70%) Sage
13 10 (0.70%) Siebel
14 9 (0.63%) Atlassian
14 9 (0.63%) InterSystems
15 8 (0.56%) Red Hat