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

 6 months to
25 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 99 93
Rank change year-on-year +19 -6 +49
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,212 655 873
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.04% 2.66% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 2.92% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 431 602
10th Percentile £358 £375 £364
25th Percentile £449 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 35
10th Percentile £14.62 £29.58 £25.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £50.84 £40.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £63.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.82% -15.00% +275.00%
75th Percentile £61.50 £71.88 £80.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.74 -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -48.57% -6.67% +252.94%

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 33,939 22,408 32,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.13% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,724 14,703 21,181
10th Percentile £316 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,107 917 2,235
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.73 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.97
Median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +35 601 £525 -4.55% 92
South East -1 177 £624 +13.45% 72
North of England -14 164 £500 -2.15% 39
Midlands -7 119 £450 -10.89% 29
North West +3 98 £475 -12.60% 23
West Midlands -18 81 £442 -12.57% 17
Yorkshire -43 57 £527 +33.42% 13
East of England -14 50 £575 -11.54% 16
South West -26 46 £538 +4.88% 20
East Midlands -13 35 £500 +7.53% 12
North East -12 9 £488 -20.41% 3
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 38 (3.14%) Confluence
1 38 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (0.66%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 3 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.17%) Appian
4 2 (0.17%) IIS
5 1 (0.083%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.083%) CMS
5 1 (0.083%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.083%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.083%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 20 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
3 19 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.083%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.083%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 131 (10.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (4.46%) Oracle EBS
3 32 (2.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 14 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (1.07%) Loan IQ
7 12 (0.99%) SAP ERP
8 11 (0.91%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 10 (0.83%) NetSuite
9 10 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
10 9 (0.74%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
12 7 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
12 7 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
13 6 (0.50%) Finacle
13 6 (0.50%) SAP CO
13 6 (0.50%) SAP FI
14 5 (0.41%) NEC Housing
14 5 (0.41%) SAP Business One
14 5 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 175 (14.44%) Azure
2 125 (10.31%) Power Platform
3 98 (8.09%) AWS
4 89 (7.34%) Dynamics 365
5 83 (6.85%) OCI
6 51 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (3.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 45 (3.71%) SaaS
9 33 (2.72%) GitHub
10 31 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 30 (2.48%) Snowflake
12 23 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
14 17 (1.40%) GCP
15 15 (1.24%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 14 (1.16%) Amazon S3
16 14 (1.16%) Entra ID
16 14 (1.16%) OpenShift
16 14 (1.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 11 (0.91%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.24%) DNS
2 14 (1.16%) NAS
3 13 (1.07%) SAN
4 6 (0.50%) Firewall
5 4 (0.33%) VPN
6 2 (0.17%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.17%) HTTP
6 2 (0.17%) VSAN
7 1 (0.083%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.083%) DKIM
7 1 (0.083%) DMARC
7 1 (0.083%) FCoE
7 1 (0.083%) Internet
7 1 (0.083%) Intranet
7 1 (0.083%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.083%) Network Security
7 1 (0.083%) SNMP
7 1 (0.083%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (8.91%) Power BI
2 89 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (4.54%) Oracle Reports
3 55 (4.54%) SQL Server
4 34 (2.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 30 (2.48%) Metadata
6 29 (2.39%) Data Lake
7 23 (1.90%) Relational Database
8 22 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (1.65%) Oracle Database
10 15 (1.24%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 14 (1.16%) SAP Data Services
12 12 (0.99%) DB2
12 12 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 10 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (0.83%) Tableau
14 9 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
14 9 (0.74%) MySQL
15 8 (0.66%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 111 (9.16%) JIRA
2 30 (2.48%) Git
3 28 (2.31%) Zephyr
4 24 (1.98%) Postman
5 18 (1.49%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.91%) Selenium
7 8 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.50%) LSMW
9 5 (0.41%) GitLab
9 5 (0.41%) Hudson
10 4 (0.33%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.33%) JUnit
10 4 (0.33%) Toad
11 3 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.25%) ERwin
11 3 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.17%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 405 (33.42%) Finance
2 387 (31.93%) Social Skills
3 153 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 69 (5.69%) Banking
6 56 (4.62%) Manufacturing
7 48 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.55%) Law
9 42 (3.47%) Retail
10 37 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
11 24 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (1.82%) General Ledger
13 21 (1.73%) Legal
13 21 (1.73%) Marketing
14 20 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 20 (1.65%) Local Government
15 17 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
16 16 (1.32%) Billing
17 13 (1.07%) Aerospace
17 13 (1.07%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 275 (22.69%) Lead
2 186 (15.35%) Analyst
3 152 (12.54%) Architect
4 136 (11.22%) Consultant
5 96 (7.92%) Project Manager
6 95 (7.84%) Business Analyst
6 95 (7.84%) Data Migration Lead
7 85 (7.01%) Senior
8 83 (6.85%) Data Engineer
9 62 (5.12%) Data Analyst
10 55 (4.54%) Developer
11 54 (4.46%) Migration Analyst
12 45 (3.71%) Migration Engineer
13 44 (3.63%) Migration Manager
14 43 (3.55%) Data Architect
15 41 (3.38%) Data Migration Engineer
16 40 (3.30%) Data Migration Analyst
17 39 (3.22%) SAP Consultant
18 36 (2.97%) Lead Architect
19 33 (2.72%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (6.68%) Oracle Fusion
2 35 (2.89%) REST
3 32 (2.64%) Middleware
4 24 (1.98%) XML
5 20 (1.65%) SOAP
6 19 (1.57%) .NET
7 15 (1.24%) JSON
8 13 (1.07%) Kafka
8 13 (1.07%) Lightning Web Components
9 12 (0.99%) OpenTelemetry
10 11 (0.91%) Spring
11 8 (0.66%) PySpark
12 7 (0.58%) Web Services
13 5 (0.41%) FHIR
13 5 (0.41%) React
13 5 (0.41%) Visualforce
13 5 (0.41%) XSLT
14 4 (0.33%) AngularJS
14 4 (0.33%) RESTful
14 4 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 162 (13.37%) Legacy Systems
2 94 (7.76%) Data Structures
3 42 (3.47%) Management Information System
4 37 (3.05%) Cloud Native
5 30 (2.48%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
7 26 (2.15%) Product Ownership
8 20 (1.65%) Replication
9 18 (1.49%) Public Cloud
10 17 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (1.16%) Mainframe
12 14 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (0.99%) NHS
14 12 (0.99%) Reference Data
15 11 (0.91%) Data Centre
15 11 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
16 9 (0.74%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.98%) Windows
2 9 (0.74%) Linux
3 7 (0.58%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.58%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.58%) zOS
4 6 (0.50%) Unix
5 3 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (0.25%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.083%) AIX
6 1 (0.083%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,212 (100.00%) Migration
2 304 (25.08%) Validation
3 279 (23.02%) Stakeholder Management
4 259 (21.37%) ERP
5 238 (19.64%) Agile
6 233 (19.22%) User Acceptance Testing
7 215 (17.74%) ETL
8 189 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
9 183 (15.10%) Data Modelling
10 170 (14.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 139 (11.47%) Data Cleansing
12 138 (11.39%) Business Intelligence
13 130 (10.73%) Project Management
14 123 (10.15%) Data Mapping
15 116 (9.57%) Analytics
16 113 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
17 104 (8.58%) Workshop Facilitation
18 101 (8.33%) Data Governance
19 97 (8.00%) Change Management
20 94 (7.76%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 225 (18.56%) SQL
2 86 (7.10%) Python
3 35 (2.89%) Java
4 27 (2.23%) PL/SQL
5 18 (1.49%) Bash
6 14 (1.16%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.99%) Apex Code
8 11 (0.91%) PowerShell
9 10 (0.83%) C#
9 10 (0.83%) VBA
10 9 (0.74%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.41%) Korn
12 5 (0.41%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.41%) PHP
12 5 (0.41%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.33%) Perl
13 4 (0.33%) SOQL
14 3 (0.25%) ABAP
14 3 (0.25%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 200 (16.50%) Security Cleared
2 148 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 48 (3.96%) Degree
4 32 (2.64%) DV Cleared
5 22 (1.82%) PMP
6 19 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (1.57%) ISTQB
7 18 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.32%) PMI Certification
9 10 (0.83%) Azure Certification
10 9 (0.74%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.50%) ACCA
11 6 (0.50%) CIMA
11 6 (0.50%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.33%) OCP
12 4 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.25%) IIBA
13 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.25%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (17.08%) Data Quality
2 96 (7.92%) QA
3 59 (4.87%) GDPR
4 27 (2.23%) PMO
5 14 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.99%) COBIT
7 11 (0.91%) NIST
7 11 (0.91%) SLA
8 9 (0.74%) HL7
9 8 (0.66%) IFRS
10 7 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.41%) DICOM
11 5 (0.41%) GAAP
11 5 (0.41%) GMP
11 5 (0.41%) SNOMED CT
12 4 (0.33%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.33%) Basel III
12 4 (0.33%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.33%) PERC
System Software
1 24 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.24%) vSphere
4 13 (1.07%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.74%) NFS
6 8 (0.66%) Docker
7 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.25%) SRDF
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.083%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 31 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 30 (2.48%) Terraform
3 20 (1.65%) Ansible
4 15 (1.24%) Grafana
4 15 (1.24%) vCenter Server
5 14 (1.16%) Argo
6 12 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.66%) EMC VPLEX
7 8 (0.66%) SCCM
8 6 (0.50%) vMotion
9 4 (0.33%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.25%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.25%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.17%) SnapMirror
11 2 (0.17%) SnapVault
12 1 (0.083%) Avamar
12 1 (0.083%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 229 (18.89%) Oracle
2 225 (18.56%) SAP
3 193 (15.92%) Microsoft
4 66 (5.45%) Salesforce
5 45 (3.71%) Databricks
6 28 (2.31%) VMware
6 28 (2.31%) Workday
7 23 (1.90%) Informatica
7 23 (1.90%) Pure Storage
7 23 (1.90%) Sage
8 20 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 18 (1.49%) Google
9 18 (1.49%) Talend
10 17 (1.40%) Avaloq
10 17 (1.40%) MuleSoft
11 14 (1.16%) Red Hat
12 13 (1.07%) IBM
12 13 (1.07%) IFS
13 12 (0.99%) Splunk
14 10 (0.83%) GoldenSource
233 Data Migration jobs in England