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

 6 months to
2 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 98 89
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,117 647 899
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.92% 2.67% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.39% 2.94% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 436 618
10th Percentile £363 £375 £392
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £532 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% -3.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £709 £713 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 40
10th Percentile £13.95 £26.21 £25.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £40.03 £40.00
Median hourly rate £51.28 £60.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.54% -25.00% +300.00%
75th Percentile £78.19 £64.69 -
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.03 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £75.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% -6.25% +276.47%

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 32,913 22,023 32,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.03% 90.83% 86.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,101 14,513 21,559
10th Percentile £313 £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 £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,010 854 2,155
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.34 £20.00 £15.92
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.88 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%

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 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 2 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 2 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 +24 583 £531 -3.41% 124
South East -16 148 £609 +15.95% 79
North of England -11 146 £500 -4.76% 47
Midlands -18 108 £470 -8.29% 29
North West +12 85 £460 -16.36% 20
West Midlands -36 67 £470 -8.07% 20
Yorkshire -35 52 £527 +31.75% 22
East of England -13 47 £581 -10.58% 21
East Midlands -7 38 £450 -7.93% 9
South West -23 30 £600 +17.07% 18
North East -7 9 £488 -20.41% 5
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 32 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.51%) Confluence
3 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.72%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.18%) Appian
6 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.18%) CMS
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.090%) Apache
7 1 (0.090%) IIS
7 1 (0.090%) Moodle
7 1 (0.090%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.090%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.090%) WebSphere
Applications
1 65 (5.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.97%) Spreadsheet
3 21 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.43%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.090%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 113 (10.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (4.74%) Oracle EBS
3 32 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 14 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (1.16%) Loan IQ
7 11 (0.98%) Oracle General Ledger
7 11 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
7 11 (0.98%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 10 (0.90%) Workday HCM
9 9 (0.81%) SAP HR
10 8 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
11 7 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
12 6 (0.54%) Finacle
12 6 (0.54%) NetSuite
12 6 (0.54%) Oracle Cash Management
12 6 (0.54%) SAP CO
12 6 (0.54%) SAP FI
13 5 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 161 (14.41%) Azure
2 122 (10.92%) Power Platform
3 102 (9.13%) AWS
4 88 (7.88%) OCI
5 85 (7.61%) Dynamics 365
6 42 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (3.76%) SaaS
7 39 (3.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 35 (3.13%) GitHub
9 25 (2.24%) Snowflake
10 23 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 23 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
11 22 (1.97%) SuccessFactors
12 18 (1.61%) GCP
13 15 (1.34%) Amazon S3
13 15 (1.34%) Entra ID
14 14 (1.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 13 (1.16%) OpenShift
15 13 (1.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 9 (0.81%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.25%) DNS
2 11 (0.98%) NAS
3 10 (0.90%) SAN
4 4 (0.36%) VPN
5 3 (0.27%) Firewall
6 2 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.18%) HTTP
6 2 (0.18%) SSL
7 1 (0.090%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.090%) FCoE
7 1 (0.090%) Internet
7 1 (0.090%) Intranet
7 1 (0.090%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.090%) Network Security
7 1 (0.090%) SNMP
7 1 (0.090%) VSAN
7 1 (0.090%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (9.31%) Power BI
2 79 (7.07%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (4.92%) SQL Server
4 45 (4.03%) Oracle Reports
5 39 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 27 (2.42%) Metadata
6 27 (2.42%) Relational Database
7 24 (2.15%) Data Lake
8 20 (1.79%) Oracle Database
8 20 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 14 (1.25%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (1.16%) SAP Data Services
11 13 (1.16%) Tableau
12 10 (0.90%) Electronic Patient Records
12 10 (0.90%) MySQL
12 10 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 9 (0.81%) DB2
13 9 (0.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 89 (7.97%) JIRA
2 25 (2.24%) Git
3 19 (1.70%) Zephyr
4 17 (1.52%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.34%) Postman
6 8 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.45%) GitLab
7 5 (0.45%) Hudson
7 5 (0.45%) LSMW
7 5 (0.45%) Selenium
8 4 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.36%) JUnit
8 4 (0.36%) Toad
9 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.27%) ERwin
9 3 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 389 (34.83%) Social Skills
2 384 (34.38%) Finance
3 142 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 65 (5.82%) Banking
6 44 (3.94%) Law
7 41 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (3.67%) Manufacturing
8 39 (3.49%) Retail
9 36 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (2.15%) Legal
11 20 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.70%) Marketing
13 18 (1.61%) General Ledger
14 17 (1.52%) Billing
15 16 (1.43%) Local Government
15 16 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.98%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 237 (21.22%) Lead
2 168 (15.04%) Analyst
3 147 (13.16%) Architect
4 130 (11.64%) Consultant
5 96 (8.59%) Project Manager
6 92 (8.24%) Business Analyst
7 79 (7.07%) Senior
8 72 (6.45%) Data Engineer
9 70 (6.27%) Data Migration Lead
10 65 (5.82%) Data Analyst
11 54 (4.83%) Migration Analyst
12 53 (4.74%) Developer
13 39 (3.49%) Data Migration Analyst
14 38 (3.40%) Data Architect
15 37 (3.31%) SAP Consultant
16 36 (3.22%) Migration Manager
16 36 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
17 33 (2.95%) Lead Architect
18 31 (2.78%) Functional Architect
19 30 (2.69%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (6.89%) Oracle Fusion
2 34 (3.04%) REST
3 30 (2.69%) Middleware
4 27 (2.42%) XML
5 19 (1.70%) SOAP
6 15 (1.34%) .NET
6 15 (1.34%) JSON
6 15 (1.34%) Lightning Web Components
7 12 (1.07%) Kafka
7 12 (1.07%) OpenTelemetry
8 11 (0.98%) Spring
9 7 (0.63%) PySpark
9 7 (0.63%) Web Services
10 6 (0.54%) React
10 6 (0.54%) Visualforce
11 5 (0.45%) FHIR
11 5 (0.45%) RESTful
11 5 (0.45%) XSLT
12 4 (0.36%) AngularJS
12 4 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 157 (14.06%) Legacy Systems
2 85 (7.61%) Data Structures
3 38 (3.40%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.04%) Cloud Native
5 26 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 23 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.52%) Replication
9 15 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.16%) NHS
10 13 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.07%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.07%) Reference Data
12 11 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
13 10 (0.90%) Mainframe
14 9 (0.81%) Tandem
14 9 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.15%) Windows
2 9 (0.81%) Linux
3 7 (0.63%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.63%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.63%) zOS
4 6 (0.54%) Unix
4 6 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.090%) AIX
5 1 (0.090%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.090%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,117 (100.00%) Migration
2 268 (23.99%) Stakeholder Management
2 268 (23.99%) Validation
3 241 (21.58%) ERP
4 226 (20.23%) Agile
5 204 (18.26%) User Acceptance Testing
6 198 (17.73%) ETL
7 193 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
8 173 (15.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 169 (15.13%) Data Modelling
10 130 (11.64%) Business Intelligence
11 126 (11.28%) Data Cleansing
12 125 (11.19%) Project Management
13 117 (10.47%) Analytics
14 115 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
15 114 (10.21%) Data Mapping
16 108 (9.67%) Workshop Facilitation
17 106 (9.49%) Change Management
18 91 (8.15%) Data Governance
19 84 (7.52%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 221 (19.79%) SQL
2 82 (7.34%) Python
3 37 (3.31%) Java
4 24 (2.15%) PL/SQL
5 16 (1.43%) Bash
5 16 (1.43%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.25%) Apex Code
7 12 (1.07%) PowerShell
8 11 (0.98%) C#
9 10 (0.90%) VBA
10 7 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.45%) Korn
12 5 (0.45%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.45%) Perl
12 5 (0.45%) PHP
12 5 (0.45%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.36%) SOQL
14 3 (0.27%) ABAP
14 3 (0.27%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 170 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 125 (11.19%) SC Cleared
3 47 (4.21%) Degree
4 24 (2.15%) DV Cleared
4 24 (2.15%) PMP
5 18 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.34%) ISTQB
7 15 (1.34%) PMI Certification
8 12 (1.07%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.54%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.45%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.36%) OCP
12 4 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.27%) IIBA
13 3 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.18%) CBAP
14 2 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (17.19%) Data Quality
2 93 (8.33%) QA
3 56 (5.01%) GDPR
4 21 (1.88%) PMO
5 15 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.07%) COBIT
7 11 (0.98%) NIST
8 9 (0.81%) IFRS
8 9 (0.81%) SLA
9 7 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.54%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.54%) HL7
11 5 (0.45%) GAAP
11 5 (0.45%) GMP
11 5 (0.45%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.36%) Basel III
12 4 (0.36%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.36%) PERC
13 3 (0.27%) DICOM
System Software
1 22 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.16%) VMware NSX
3 13 (1.16%) vSphere
4 9 (0.81%) Docker
5 8 (0.72%) NFS
6 2 (0.18%) SRDF
7 1 (0.090%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 32 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 25 (2.24%) Terraform
3 15 (1.34%) Ansible
4 14 (1.25%) Grafana
5 13 (1.16%) Argo
5 13 (1.16%) vCenter Server
6 12 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.72%) SCCM
8 6 (0.54%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.54%) vMotion
9 3 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.27%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.090%) Avamar
11 1 (0.090%) Control-M
11 1 (0.090%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.090%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.090%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.090%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.090%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 219 (19.61%) Oracle
2 202 (18.08%) SAP
3 178 (15.94%) Microsoft
4 62 (5.55%) Salesforce
5 40 (3.58%) Databricks
6 37 (3.31%) Workday
7 26 (2.33%) Informatica
7 26 (2.33%) VMware
8 23 (2.06%) Sage
9 22 (1.97%) Pure Storage
10 18 (1.61%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.61%) Talend
11 17 (1.52%) Avaloq
11 17 (1.52%) MuleSoft
12 14 (1.25%) Google
12 14 (1.25%) Red Hat
13 13 (1.16%) IFS
14 12 (1.07%) Splunk
15 10 (0.90%) Ariba
15 10 (0.90%) GoldenSource
296 Data Migration jobs in England