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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 94 93
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 +51
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,031 685 870
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.84% 2.78% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 3.06% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 467 600
10th Percentile £363 £375 £399
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £710 £725
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 38
10th Percentile £13.95 £22.96 £25.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £30.70 £40.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £46.25 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.81% -40.32% +189.72%
75th Percentile £78.19 £65.83 £80.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.56 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £85.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -65.29% +6.25% +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 31,421 22,365 33,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.55% 90.61% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,102 14,445 21,880
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,952 795 2,164
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.80 £21.01 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.53
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.81 £71.83
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +15 549 £550 - 105
South East -20 141 £609 +15.95% 83
North of England -30 130 £500 -4.76% 44
Midlands -29 105 £475 -9.52% 31
North West +1 81 £461 -12.14% 19
West Midlands -42 65 £488 -7.14% 25
Yorkshire -56 41 £529 +0.76% 22
East Midlands -8 38 £450 -7.93% 6
South West -21 30 £600 +21.21% 22
East of England -28 24 £498 -23.46% 11
North East -9 8 £494 -26.85% 3
South Coast - 1 £550 -
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 (3.10%) Confluence
2 28 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.78%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 6 (0.58%) GeoServer
5 6 (0.58%) Smallworld
6 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.29%) CMS
6 3 (0.29%) LiveLink
7 2 (0.19%) Appian
7 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.097%) Apache
8 1 (0.097%) IIS
8 1 (0.097%) Moodle
8 1 (0.097%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.097%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.097%) SAS
8 1 (0.097%) WebSphere
Applications
1 61 (5.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
3 19 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.097%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.097%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 92 (8.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (4.85%) Oracle EBS
3 32 (3.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (1.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 15 (1.45%) SAP HR
6 14 (1.36%) Oracle Payables
7 13 (1.26%) Loan IQ
7 13 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (1.26%) Oracle General Ledger
8 12 (1.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 11 (1.07%) Oracle Receivables
10 10 (0.97%) Workday HCM
11 7 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
11 7 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
11 7 (0.68%) SAP ERP
12 6 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
12 6 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
12 6 (0.58%) SAP CO
12 6 (0.58%) SAP FI
13 5 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 160 (15.52%) Azure
2 101 (9.80%) AWS
3 94 (9.12%) Power Platform
4 88 (8.54%) OCI
5 63 (6.11%) Dynamics 365
6 39 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 34 (3.30%) SaaS
8 29 (2.81%) GitHub
9 25 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 25 (2.42%) Snowflake
10 21 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (1.94%) SuccessFactors
12 16 (1.55%) Entra ID
12 16 (1.55%) GCP
13 15 (1.45%) Amazon S3
13 15 (1.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 15 (1.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 14 (1.36%) OpenShift
14 14 (1.36%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.07%) NAS
2 10 (0.97%) SAN
3 9 (0.87%) DNS
4 3 (0.29%) VPN
5 2 (0.19%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.19%) Firewall
5 2 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.097%) FCoE
6 1 (0.097%) Internet
6 1 (0.097%) Intranet
6 1 (0.097%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.097%) Network Security
6 1 (0.097%) VSAN
6 1 (0.097%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (7.37%) Data Warehouse
2 73 (7.08%) Power BI
3 52 (5.04%) SQL Server
4 44 (4.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 43 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
6 35 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 28 (2.72%) Metadata
8 26 (2.52%) Oracle Database
9 24 (2.33%) Data Lake
10 19 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 17 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (1.55%) RDBMS
13 15 (1.45%) Tableau
14 13 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (1.26%) NoSQL
15 12 (1.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 11 (1.07%) MySQL
17 10 (0.97%) Big Data
17 10 (0.97%) DB2
18 9 (0.87%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 85 (8.24%) JIRA
2 22 (2.13%) Git
3 14 (1.36%) Zephyr
4 12 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.16%) Postman
5 7 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.39%) LSMW
6 4 (0.39%) Toad
6 4 (0.39%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.29%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.29%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.29%) ERwin
7 3 (0.29%) GitLab
7 3 (0.29%) Hudson
7 3 (0.29%) JUnit
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.29%) Selenium
7 3 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
General
1 381 (36.95%) Social Skills
2 333 (32.30%) Finance
3 124 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (9.31%) Public Sector
5 70 (6.79%) Banking
6 38 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (3.39%) Manufacturing
8 34 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
8 34 (3.30%) Retail
9 25 (2.42%) Legal
10 21 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (1.65%) General Ledger
11 17 (1.65%) Law
12 16 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.55%) Marketing
13 15 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.26%) Local Government
15 12 (1.16%) Billing
16 10 (0.97%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 187 (18.14%) Lead
2 161 (15.62%) Analyst
3 126 (12.22%) Architect
3 126 (12.22%) Consultant
4 98 (9.51%) Project Manager
5 92 (8.92%) Business Analyst
6 78 (7.57%) Senior
7 67 (6.50%) Data Engineer
8 59 (5.72%) Data Analyst
9 57 (5.53%) Data Migration Lead
10 48 (4.66%) Migration Analyst
11 47 (4.56%) Developer
12 38 (3.69%) Data Architect
12 38 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
13 35 (3.39%) Data Migration Analyst
13 35 (3.39%) Migration Manager
14 31 (3.01%) SAP Consultant
15 29 (2.81%) Data Business Analyst
16 27 (2.62%) Oracle Consultant
17 25 (2.42%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (7.86%) Oracle Fusion
2 34 (3.30%) REST
3 28 (2.72%) Middleware
4 27 (2.62%) XML
5 19 (1.84%) SOAP
6 17 (1.65%) Lightning Web Components
7 13 (1.26%) JSON
8 12 (1.16%) .NET
8 12 (1.16%) Web Services
9 10 (0.97%) Spring
10 8 (0.78%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (0.78%) PySpark
10 8 (0.78%) Visualforce
11 6 (0.58%) Kafka
11 6 (0.58%) React
12 5 (0.48%) XSLT
13 4 (0.39%) ADO
13 4 (0.39%) RESTful
14 3 (0.29%) OAuth
14 3 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 142 (13.77%) Legacy Systems
2 73 (7.08%) Data Structures
3 34 (3.30%) Management Information System
4 30 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.81%) Cloud Native
6 25 (2.42%) Product Ownership
7 20 (1.94%) Replication
8 19 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.16%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (0.97%) NHS
12 10 (0.97%) Reference Data
13 9 (0.87%) Tandem
14 8 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.78%) FMCG
14 8 (0.78%) Mainframe
14 8 (0.78%) Taxonomies
15 7 (0.68%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.23%) Windows
2 8 (0.78%) Linux
3 7 (0.68%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.68%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.68%) zOS
4 6 (0.58%) Unix
5 5 (0.48%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.19%) Solaris
7 1 (0.097%) AIX
7 1 (0.097%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,031 (100.00%) Migration
2 249 (24.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 232 (22.50%) Agile
4 229 (22.21%) Validation
5 192 (18.62%) ERP
6 190 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
7 185 (17.94%) ETL
8 165 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 154 (14.94%) Data Modelling
10 143 (13.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 122 (11.83%) Project Management
12 121 (11.74%) Analytics
13 111 (10.77%) Data Cleansing
14 110 (10.67%) Data Mapping
15 107 (10.38%) Workshop Facilitation
16 100 (9.70%) Business Intelligence
16 100 (9.70%) Change Management
17 88 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
18 87 (8.44%) Data Governance
19 86 (8.34%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 215 (20.85%) SQL
2 77 (7.47%) Python
3 39 (3.78%) Java
4 20 (1.94%) PL/SQL
5 16 (1.55%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.45%) Apex Code
7 12 (1.16%) C#
8 11 (1.07%) Bash
9 9 (0.87%) PowerShell
9 9 (0.87%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.58%) VBA
11 5 (0.48%) Korn
11 5 (0.48%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.48%) Perl
11 5 (0.48%) PHP
11 5 (0.48%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.48%) X++
12 4 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.29%) ABAP
13 3 (0.29%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 155 (15.03%) Security Cleared
2 110 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 55 (5.33%) Degree
4 27 (2.62%) PMP
5 23 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.65%) PMI Certification
7 15 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.45%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.26%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.07%) AWS Certification
10 10 (0.97%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.78%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.58%) SAP Certification
13 4 (0.39%) OCP
13 4 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.29%) ACCA
14 3 (0.29%) CIMA
14 3 (0.29%) IIBA
14 3 (0.29%) PgMP
14 3 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (16.20%) Data Quality
2 81 (7.86%) QA
3 55 (5.33%) GDPR
4 18 (1.75%) PMO
5 14 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.16%) COBIT
7 11 (1.07%) NIST
8 9 (0.87%) IFRS
9 8 (0.78%) SLA
10 7 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.58%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.48%) GAAP
12 5 (0.48%) GMP
12 5 (0.48%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.39%) Basel III
13 4 (0.39%) IFRS 17
14 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 17 (1.65%) Active Directory
1 17 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (1.45%) Docker
3 10 (0.97%) NFS
4 9 (0.87%) VMware NSX
4 9 (0.87%) vSphere
5 2 (0.19%) SRDF
6 1 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 33 (3.20%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.04%) Terraform
3 11 (1.07%) Ansible
3 11 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.97%) Grafana
5 9 (0.87%) Argo
5 9 (0.87%) vCenter Server
6 8 (0.78%) SCCM
7 6 (0.58%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.58%) vMotion
8 3 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.097%) Avamar
10 1 (0.097%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.097%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.097%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.097%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.097%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.097%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.097%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 215 (20.85%) Oracle
2 176 (17.07%) SAP
3 143 (13.87%) Microsoft
4 53 (5.14%) Salesforce
5 40 (3.88%) Workday
6 36 (3.49%) Databricks
7 24 (2.33%) Informatica
7 24 (2.33%) Sage
8 21 (2.04%) VMware
9 18 (1.75%) Pure Storage
10 17 (1.65%) MuleSoft
10 17 (1.65%) Talend
11 15 (1.45%) Avaloq
11 15 (1.45%) ServiceNow
12 13 (1.26%) Google
13 11 (1.07%) IFS
14 10 (0.97%) Red Hat
15 9 (0.87%) ESRI
15 9 (0.87%) GoldenSource
16 8 (0.78%) Kronos