Data Migration Contract Job Trends in Essex

Data Migration
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Data Migration skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 19 30
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 10 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 8.26% 2.31% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.01% 2.78% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £456 - £409
25th Percentile £466 - £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £595
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -7.56% +40.00%
75th Percentile £516 - £600
90th Percentile £529 - -
East of England median daily rate £494 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -10.23% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.50 - -
Median hourly rate £38.00 - £89.44
75th Percentile £39.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £38.00 £80.00 £89.44
% change year-on-year -52.50% -10.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 111 108 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 91.74% 83.08% 81.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 45 127
10th Percentile £203 £182 £210
25th Percentile £322 £263 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -30.00% +9.59%
75th Percentile £513 £500 £578
90th Percentile £550 £575 £641
East of England median daily rate £500 £442 £500
% change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 30 13
10th Percentile £13.25 £19.60 £22.59
25th Percentile - £29.17 £41.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £75.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.84% +15.38% +53.79%
75th Percentile £40.06 £80.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 - £79.90
East of England median hourly rate £27.53 £39.50 £19.81
% change year-on-year -30.30% +99.39% -3.37%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration in Essex

Data Migration
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Data Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Data Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 6 September 2025. 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
Basildon - 6 £450 - 1
Brentwood - 1 - - 2
Data Migration
East of England

Data Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) SAP PP
2 1 (10.00%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (50.00%) dbt
1 5 (50.00%) Serverless
1 5 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Database
1 4 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
1 5 (50.00%) Snowflake Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) SAP PP Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (50.00%) ETL
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (30.00%) High Availability
5 1 (10.00%) Data Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) ERP
5 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (10.00%) User Stories
5 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
1 4 (40.00%) StreamSets
2 3 (30.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Sage