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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 89 101
Rank change year-on-year +14 +12 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,478 780 772
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.24% 2.82% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.11% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 988 477 528
10th Percentile £363 £360 £375
25th Percentile £428 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year - -2.10% -2.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £646
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 12 22
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.28 £64.18
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% +199.07%
75th Percentile £60.13 £68.44 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £73.50 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £36.33 £80.00
% change year-on-year +10.12% -54.59% +158.06%

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 38,792 25,089 28,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.08% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,117 16,022 18,624
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,537 1,415 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -1.35%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +14 713 £550 - 195
South East +7 203 £550 +10.00% 80
North of England -16 200 £525 +10.53% 60
Midlands +6 171 £456 -8.80% 59
West Midlands +1 123 £450 -10.00% 36
North West +11 120 £531 +11.84% 40
South West +19 89 £523 -1.42% 19
Yorkshire -34 66 £519 +9.26% 19
East of England +6 53 £575 -4.88% 18
East Midlands +10 44 £525 +16.67% 23
North East -27 17 £575 - 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 60 (4.06%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.91%) Confluence
3 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
5 7 (0.47%) Apache
6 6 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.34%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.068%) CMS
9 1 (0.068%) IIS
9 1 (0.068%) Mendix
9 1 (0.068%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 76 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
3 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.068%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 155 (10.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (2.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (1.96%) Oracle EBS
4 24 (1.62%) Oracle ERP
5 22 (1.49%) SAP ERP
6 21 (1.42%) Oracle Payables
7 19 (1.29%) NetSuite
8 17 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
9 12 (0.81%) iTrent
9 12 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
10 11 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
10 11 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 11 (0.74%) Workday HCM
11 10 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
11 10 (0.68%) Teamcenter
12 8 (0.54%) SAP MDG
12 8 (0.54%) SAP SD
12 8 (0.54%) Temenos T24
13 7 (0.47%) NEC Housing
14 6 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 238 (16.10%) Azure
2 152 (10.28%) Power Platform
3 149 (10.08%) AWS
4 116 (7.85%) Dynamics 365
5 93 (6.29%) OCI
6 75 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (4.47%) SaaS
8 52 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 43 (2.91%) Snowflake
10 39 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
11 35 (2.37%) GitHub
12 31 (2.10%) Power Automate
12 31 (2.10%) SuccessFactors
13 30 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 26 (1.76%) PowerApps
15 23 (1.56%) GCP
16 22 (1.49%) Amazon S3
17 16 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
18 15 (1.01%) dbt
19 12 (0.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.68%) DNS
2 8 (0.54%) SAN
3 7 (0.47%) NAS
3 7 (0.47%) VPN
4 5 (0.34%) Firewall
5 3 (0.20%) Intranet
5 3 (0.20%) VSAN
6 2 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.14%) HTTP
7 1 (0.068%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.068%) DKIM
7 1 (0.068%) DMARC
7 1 (0.068%) FCoE
7 1 (0.068%) Internet
7 1 (0.068%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.068%) Network Security
7 1 (0.068%) SNMP
7 1 (0.068%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (8.86%) Power BI
2 107 (7.24%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (4.47%) SQL Server
4 60 (4.06%) Oracle Reports
5 47 (3.18%) Metadata
6 43 (2.91%) Relational Database
7 40 (2.71%) Data Lake
8 29 (1.96%) Oracle Database
9 21 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 19 (1.29%) RDBMS
12 18 (1.22%) NoSQL
13 14 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (0.81%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 12 (0.81%) Oracle Exadata
14 12 (0.81%) SAP Data Services
14 12 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 11 (0.74%) DataStage
16 9 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
16 9 (0.61%) GIS
Development Applications
1 133 (9.00%) JIRA
2 60 (4.06%) Git
3 47 (3.18%) Zephyr
4 39 (2.64%) Postman
5 18 (1.22%) GitLab
6 17 (1.15%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.68%) Selenium
9 6 (0.41%) Hudson
10 5 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.34%) Gatling
10 5 (0.34%) LSMW
10 5 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.27%) JUnit
11 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.20%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 521 (35.25%) Finance
2 421 (28.48%) Social Skills
3 199 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (8.80%) Public Sector
5 93 (6.29%) Banking
6 77 (5.21%) Manufacturing
7 51 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (3.32%) Law
8 49 (3.32%) Retail
9 40 (2.71%) General Ledger
10 33 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
11 30 (2.03%) Local Government
12 29 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 27 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
14 26 (1.76%) Marketing
15 23 (1.56%) Automotive
16 22 (1.49%) Legal
17 21 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (1.15%) Aerospace
18 17 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 292 (19.76%) Lead
2 217 (14.68%) Analyst
3 189 (12.79%) Architect
4 155 (10.49%) Consultant
5 126 (8.53%) Data Engineer
6 125 (8.46%) Senior
7 109 (7.37%) Data Migration Lead
8 100 (6.77%) Business Analyst
9 99 (6.70%) Project Manager
10 76 (5.14%) Data Analyst
11 71 (4.80%) Developer
12 65 (4.40%) Data Architect
13 61 (4.13%) Migration Engineer
14 50 (3.38%) Data Migration Engineer
15 48 (3.25%) Migration Analyst
16 47 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
17 46 (3.11%) SAP Consultant
18 44 (2.98%) Migration Manager
19 40 (2.71%) Data Migration Analyst
20 39 (2.64%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (6.36%) Oracle Fusion
2 37 (2.50%) Middleware
3 36 (2.44%) REST
4 26 (1.76%) .NET
5 21 (1.42%) XML
6 20 (1.35%) SOAP
7 19 (1.29%) Kafka
8 16 (1.08%) JSON
9 15 (1.01%) Spring
10 13 (0.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 10 (0.68%) PySpark
12 9 (0.61%) Lightning Web Components
13 8 (0.54%) Spring Boot
14 7 (0.47%) OpenTelemetry
14 7 (0.47%) React
15 6 (0.41%) ADO
15 6 (0.41%) Playwright
15 6 (0.41%) RESTful
15 6 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
16 5 (0.34%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 174 (11.77%) Legacy Systems
2 103 (6.97%) Data Structures
3 45 (3.04%) Cloud Native
3 45 (3.04%) Management Information System
4 39 (2.64%) Onboarding
4 39 (2.64%) Public Cloud
5 38 (2.57%) Product Ownership
6 30 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (1.15%) NHS
8 17 (1.15%) Replication
9 16 (1.08%) Data Centre
9 16 (1.08%) FMCG
10 14 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (0.95%) Reference Data
11 13 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (0.74%) Mainframe
14 10 (0.68%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.76%) Windows
2 22 (1.49%) Linux
3 12 (0.81%) AIX
4 5 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.27%) VMS
5 4 (0.27%) zOS
6 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.068%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.068%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,478 (100.00%) Migration
2 407 (27.54%) Validation
3 332 (22.46%) ERP
3 332 (22.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 316 (21.38%) User Acceptance Testing
5 257 (17.39%) ETL
6 256 (17.32%) Agile
7 238 (16.10%) Data Modelling
8 225 (15.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 181 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
10 175 (11.84%) Data Governance
11 156 (10.55%) Business Intelligence
12 150 (10.15%) Data Cleansing
13 133 (9.00%) Analytics
14 132 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
15 130 (8.80%) DevOps
16 126 (8.53%) Data Mapping
17 117 (7.92%) CI/CD
18 110 (7.44%) Data Transformation
19 108 (7.31%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 293 (19.82%) SQL
2 94 (6.36%) Python
3 42 (2.84%) Java
4 28 (1.89%) PL/SQL
5 21 (1.42%) C#
6 19 (1.29%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.22%) Bash
8 14 (0.95%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.81%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.61%) Kotlin
11 8 (0.54%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.47%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.47%) VBA
13 5 (0.34%) ABAP
13 5 (0.34%) C
13 5 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.34%) VB
13 5 (0.34%) VB6
14 4 (0.27%) SOQL
14 4 (0.27%) X++
Qualifications
1 257 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 204 (13.80%) SC Cleared
3 52 (3.52%) Degree
4 39 (2.64%) DV Cleared
5 34 (2.30%) ISTQB
6 29 (1.96%) PMP
7 27 (1.83%) PMI Certification
8 26 (1.76%) ACCA
8 26 (1.76%) CIMA
9 19 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (0.81%) Azure Certification
11 10 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.54%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.47%) SAP Certification
14 6 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 5 (0.34%) AWS Certification
16 4 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.27%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (19.42%) Data Quality
2 127 (8.59%) QA
3 70 (4.74%) GDPR
4 30 (2.03%) PMO
5 12 (0.81%) SLA
6 11 (0.74%) IFRS
7 10 (0.68%) HL7
8 9 (0.61%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.47%) SNOMED CT
10 6 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.41%) DICOM
10 6 (0.41%) GRC
10 6 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.27%) GMP
11 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.27%) PERC
11 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.20%) GAAP
13 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 15 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (0.88%) Docker
2 13 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
3 12 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.68%) vSphere
5 7 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.27%) SRDF
7 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (0.20%) NFS
7 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (2.64%) Terraform
2 30 (2.03%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.89%) Ansible
4 12 (0.81%) Data Guard
4 12 (0.81%) Oracle RMAN
5 10 (0.68%) vCenter Server
6 9 (0.61%) Argo
6 9 (0.61%) Grafana
7 5 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
7 5 (0.34%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.27%) NetBackup
8 4 (0.27%) SnapMirror
9 3 (0.20%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.20%) SnapVault
10 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.068%) Autotask
11 1 (0.068%) Avamar
Vendors
1 305 (20.64%) Oracle
2 272 (18.40%) SAP
3 249 (16.85%) Microsoft
4 77 (5.21%) Databricks
5 66 (4.47%) Salesforce
6 30 (2.03%) Workday
7 29 (1.96%) ServiceNow
8 24 (1.62%) Informatica
9 21 (1.42%) IBM
9 21 (1.42%) Talend
10 20 (1.35%) IFS
11 19 (1.29%) Google
12 18 (1.22%) Sage
12 18 (1.22%) VMware
13 13 (0.88%) Ariba
13 13 (0.88%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.74%) Pure Storage
14 11 (0.74%) Red Hat
15 10 (0.68%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.68%) Siebel