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

 6 months to
31 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 86 94
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 +31
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,479 782 804
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.26% 2.84% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 3.13% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 978 481 543
10th Percentile £364 £360 £370
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £642
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 14 26
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.84 £28.75
25th Percentile £23.00 £32.89 £65.56
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -25.00% +158.06%
75th Percentile £60.13 £70.31 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £83.06 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% -25.00% +142.42%

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 38,641 24,977 29,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.76% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,154 16,016 19,101
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
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% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,371 1,780
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.92 £17.98 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +20 721 £550 - 112
North of England -9 203 £527 +10.95% 41
South East +8 202 £550 +10.00% 60
Midlands +11 164 £473 -5.40% 50
North West 0 125 £525 +10.53% 28
West Midlands 0 121 £450 -10.00% 31
South West +13 87 £523 -0.48% 20
Yorkshire -41 65 £527 +10.37% 11
East of England +9 55 £575 -4.96% 13
East Midlands +8 40 £525 +16.67% 19
North East -29 16 £625 +8.70% 4
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 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
5 7 (0.47%) Apache
6 6 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.34%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
8 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.068%) ArcGIS
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 SOA Suite
Applications
1 72 (4.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
3 13 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.068%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 154 (10.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (2.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (2.30%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
5 22 (1.49%) SAP ERP
6 21 (1.42%) NetSuite
7 20 (1.35%) Oracle Payables
8 18 (1.22%) Oracle Receivables
9 12 (0.81%) iTrent
9 12 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
9 12 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
10 11 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
10 11 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 10 (0.68%) Teamcenter
12 9 (0.61%) Workday HCM
13 8 (0.54%) NEC Housing
13 8 (0.54%) SAP MDG
13 8 (0.54%) SAP SD
13 8 (0.54%) Temenos T24
14 7 (0.47%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 239 (16.16%) Azure
2 152 (10.28%) Power Platform
3 147 (9.94%) AWS
4 120 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
5 90 (6.09%) OCI
6 75 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
7 64 (4.33%) SaaS
8 52 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 45 (3.04%) Snowflake
10 40 (2.70%) GitHub
11 39 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
12 32 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 31 (2.10%) SuccessFactors
14 30 (2.03%) Power Automate
15 26 (1.76%) PowerApps
16 25 (1.69%) Amazon S3
17 23 (1.56%) GCP
18 17 (1.15%) dbt
19 15 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
20 14 (0.95%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.88%) DNS
2 9 (0.61%) SAN
3 8 (0.54%) NAS
4 6 (0.41%) VPN
5 5 (0.34%) Firewall
6 3 (0.20%) Intranet
6 3 (0.20%) VSAN
7 2 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (0.14%) HTTP
8 1 (0.068%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.068%) DKIM
8 1 (0.068%) DMARC
8 1 (0.068%) FCoE
8 1 (0.068%) Internet
8 1 (0.068%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.068%) Network Security
8 1 (0.068%) SNMP
8 1 (0.068%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (8.79%) Power BI
2 98 (6.63%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (4.39%) SQL Server
4 59 (3.99%) Oracle Reports
5 43 (2.91%) Metadata
6 42 (2.84%) Data Lake
6 42 (2.84%) Relational Database
7 23 (1.56%) Oracle Database
7 23 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (1.35%) RDBMS
9 18 (1.22%) NoSQL
10 13 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 13 (0.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 12 (0.81%) Oracle Exadata
11 12 (0.81%) SAP Data Services
12 11 (0.74%) Db2
12 11 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 10 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
13 10 (0.68%) GIS
Development Applications
1 127 (8.59%) JIRA
2 53 (3.58%) Git
3 41 (2.77%) Zephyr
4 32 (2.16%) Postman
5 22 (1.49%) Jenkins
6 20 (1.35%) GitLab
7 10 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
7 10 (0.68%) Selenium
8 7 (0.47%) Hudson
9 6 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.34%) Gatling
10 5 (0.34%) LSMW
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
1 522 (35.29%) Finance
2 415 (28.06%) Social Skills
3 193 (13.05%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (8.45%) Public Sector
5 91 (6.15%) Banking
6 78 (5.27%) Manufacturing
7 50 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (3.25%) Law
9 47 (3.18%) Retail
10 38 (2.57%) General Ledger
11 32 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
12 29 (1.96%) Local Government
13 28 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 26 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
14 26 (1.76%) Marketing
15 22 (1.49%) Automotive
15 22 (1.49%) Legal
16 20 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (1.22%) Billing
18 17 (1.15%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 295 (19.95%) Lead
2 217 (14.67%) Analyst
3 192 (12.98%) Architect
4 152 (10.28%) Consultant
5 131 (8.86%) Data Engineer
6 120 (8.11%) Senior
7 110 (7.44%) Data Migration Lead
8 106 (7.17%) Project Manager
9 100 (6.76%) Business Analyst
10 76 (5.14%) Data Analyst
11 71 (4.80%) Developer
12 67 (4.53%) Data Architect
13 62 (4.19%) Migration Engineer
14 51 (3.45%) Data Migration Engineer
15 50 (3.38%) Migration Analyst
16 46 (3.11%) Migration Manager
16 46 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
17 44 (2.97%) SAP Consultant
18 42 (2.84%) Data Migration Analyst
19 38 (2.57%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (6.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 39 (2.64%) REST
3 37 (2.50%) Middleware
4 25 (1.69%) .NET
5 22 (1.49%) SOAP
6 19 (1.28%) Kafka
6 19 (1.28%) XML
7 16 (1.08%) JSON
7 16 (1.08%) Spring
8 13 (0.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 11 (0.74%) PySpark
10 10 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
10 10 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (0.61%) React
11 9 (0.61%) Spring Boot
12 7 (0.47%) ADO
12 7 (0.47%) Web Services
13 6 (0.41%) COM
13 6 (0.41%) ODBC
13 6 (0.41%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 176 (11.90%) Legacy Systems
2 101 (6.83%) Data Structures
3 49 (3.31%) Cloud Native
4 46 (3.11%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.57%) Product Ownership
6 37 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 35 (2.37%) Public Cloud
8 32 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
9 29 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.15%) FMCG
11 16 (1.08%) Data Centre
11 16 (1.08%) NHS
12 15 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (0.95%) Mainframe
14 13 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (0.88%) Replication
15 12 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
16 11 (0.74%) Low-Code
17 10 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.83%) Windows
2 22 (1.49%) Linux
3 12 (0.81%) AIX
4 7 (0.47%) zOS
5 5 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (0.27%) VMS
7 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.068%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.068%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,479 (100.00%) Migration
2 411 (27.79%) Validation
3 337 (22.79%) ERP
4 328 (22.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 320 (21.64%) User Acceptance Testing
6 255 (17.24%) Agile
7 251 (16.97%) ETL
8 222 (15.01%) Data Modelling
9 219 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 195 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
11 163 (11.02%) Data Governance
12 156 (10.55%) Business Intelligence
13 149 (10.07%) Data Cleansing
14 138 (9.33%) Analytics
15 136 (9.20%) DevOps
16 130 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
17 123 (8.32%) CI/CD
18 120 (8.11%) Data Mapping
19 114 (7.71%) Project Management
20 107 (7.23%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 290 (19.61%) SQL
2 103 (6.96%) Python
3 44 (2.97%) Java
4 29 (1.96%) PL/SQL
5 23 (1.56%) JavaScript
6 21 (1.42%) Bash
7 20 (1.35%) C#
8 15 (1.01%) PowerShell
9 11 (0.74%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.61%) Kotlin
10 9 (0.61%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.54%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.41%) VB
12 6 (0.41%) VB6
12 6 (0.41%) VBA
13 5 (0.34%) C
13 5 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.27%) X++
15 3 (0.20%) COBOL
15 3 (0.20%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 251 (16.97%) Security Cleared
2 197 (13.32%) SC Cleared
3 52 (3.52%) Degree
4 39 (2.64%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.10%) PMP
6 29 (1.96%) PMI Certification
7 28 (1.89%) ISTQB
8 23 (1.56%) ACCA
8 23 (1.56%) CIMA
9 21 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (0.81%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.41%) SAP Certification
15 5 (0.34%) AWS Certification
16 4 (0.27%) OCP
17 3 (0.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (18.26%) Data Quality
2 125 (8.45%) QA
3 71 (4.80%) GDPR
4 33 (2.23%) PMO
5 14 (0.95%) SLA
6 10 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.68%) IFRS
7 9 (0.61%) HL7
8 7 (0.47%) SNOMED CT
9 6 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.41%) GRC
9 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.34%) DICOM
10 5 (0.34%) GMP
11 4 (0.27%) PERC
11 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.20%) COBIT
12 3 (0.20%) GAAP
12 3 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (1.01%) Docker
3 14 (0.95%) vSphere
4 13 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
5 11 (0.74%) Active Directory
5 11 (0.74%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.27%) NFS
6 4 (0.27%) SRDF
7 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 46 (3.11%) Terraform
2 35 (2.37%) Kubernetes
3 31 (2.10%) Ansible
4 14 (0.95%) Grafana
4 14 (0.95%) vCenter Server
5 13 (0.88%) Argo
6 12 (0.81%) Data Guard
6 12 (0.81%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (0.41%) EMC VPLEX
8 5 (0.34%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (0.27%) NetBackup
9 4 (0.27%) SnapMirror
10 3 (0.20%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.20%) SnapVault
11 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.14%) vMotion
12 1 (0.068%) Avamar
Vendors
1 294 (19.88%) Oracle
2 275 (18.59%) SAP
3 247 (16.70%) Microsoft
4 75 (5.07%) Databricks
5 72 (4.87%) Salesforce
6 31 (2.10%) ServiceNow
7 27 (1.83%) Workday
8 26 (1.76%) Informatica
9 23 (1.56%) Talend
9 23 (1.56%) VMware
10 21 (1.42%) IFS
11 19 (1.28%) IBM
12 18 (1.22%) Google
12 18 (1.22%) Sage
13 16 (1.08%) Pure Storage
14 15 (1.01%) MuleSoft
15 14 (0.95%) Red Hat
16 13 (0.88%) Ariba
17 11 (0.74%) Siebel
18 10 (0.68%) Splunk
264 Data Migration jobs in England