Data Migration Contracts in the South East

Data Migration
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Data Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Migration over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 115 76
Rank change year-on-year +45 -39 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 80 92 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.73% 1.64% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 1.96% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 66 122
10th Percentile £344 £313 £414
25th Percentile £422 £453 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £588
90th Percentile £663 £688 £698
England median daily rate £529 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -3.82% +2.80% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £44.28 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - £29.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £31.00
75th Percentile £73.13 - £32.50
90th Percentile £80.40 - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% +233.33% -22.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,680 4,682 5,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.37% 83.41% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,719 2,712 3,444
10th Percentile £250 £260 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £501
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% +2.10% +0.10%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £616
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 448 219
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £22.20
Median hourly rate £27.88 £47.50 £52.10
Median % change year-on-year -41.31% -8.83% +137.57%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.90 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration in the South East

Data Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Migration in the South East

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in the South East

Data Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration in the South East

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Migration in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Migration in the South East

Data Migration
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Thames Valley +43 51 £482 -16.17% 229
Berkshire +40 39 £548 -18.89% 133
Hampshire +29 13 £650 +13.04% 93
Buckinghamshire +8 10 £350 -24.32% 65
Surrey +17 7 £543 +35.85% 55
West Sussex +2 6 £500 -13.04% 28
Oxfordshire +3 4 £360 -1.37% 33
Kent - 4 £568 - 55
Middlesex - 1 £850 -
Sussex - 1 £500 -
Data Migration
England

Data Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.75%) Smallworld
3 2 (2.50%) ArcGIS
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle Spatial
3 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.25%) Adobe Captivate
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (11.25%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (5.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (5.00%) SAP IBP
4 2 (2.50%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (2.50%) Maximo
4 2 (2.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (2.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (1.25%) BPCS
5 1 (1.25%) Infor LN
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (1.25%) SAP EWM
5 1 (1.25%) SAP GTS
5 1 (1.25%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.75%) Azure
2 14 (17.50%) AWS
3 8 (10.00%) GCP
3 8 (10.00%) OCI
4 6 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (7.50%) Snowflake
5 5 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.00%) PaaS
7 3 (3.75%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.50%) GitHub
8 2 (2.50%) IaaS
8 2 (2.50%) Miro
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.25%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.50%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 7 (8.75%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 4 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (5.00%) Big Data
5 4 (5.00%) Metadata
5 4 (5.00%) Power BI
5 4 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.75%) GIS
6 3 (3.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (3.75%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (3.75%) Spatial Data
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.50%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (1.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) JIRA
2 4 (5.00%) ERwin
2 4 (5.00%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (2.50%) DBeaver
3 2 (2.50%) GitLab
3 2 (2.50%) QARun
3 2 (2.50%) WinRunner
4 1 (1.25%) Git
General
1 34 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 22 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.75%) Finance
4 8 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.00%) Agriculture
6 4 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.25%) Automotive
9 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.25%) Local Government
9 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (21.25%) Analyst
2 16 (20.00%) Consultant
3 10 (12.50%) Architect
3 10 (12.50%) Lead
4 9 (11.25%) Data Analyst
4 9 (11.25%) Data Consultant
5 8 (10.00%) Data Migration Analyst
5 8 (10.00%) Migration Analyst
6 6 (7.50%) Project Manager
7 5 (6.25%) Business Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) DBA
7 5 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Data Migration Consultant
8 4 (5.00%) Data Modeller
8 4 (5.00%) Lead Consultant
8 4 (5.00%) Migration Consultant
8 4 (5.00%) Payroll Manager
8 4 (5.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.50%) JSON
2 2 (2.50%) Middleware
2 2 (2.50%) PostGIS
3 1 (1.25%) EDI
3 1 (1.25%) SAP TM
3 1 (1.25%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.75%) Life Science
4 3 (3.75%) Replication
4 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.50%) Learning Management System
5 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.25%) Clustering
6 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Windows
2 3 (3.75%) Linux
2 3 (3.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (100.00%) Migration
2 29 (36.25%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (27.50%) Validation
4 16 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 15 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (17.50%) Agile
7 13 (16.25%) Data Cleansing
7 13 (16.25%) ETL
8 12 (15.00%) Analytics
8 12 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (13.75%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (13.75%) Data Mapping
10 10 (12.50%) Change Management
10 10 (12.50%) Data Security
11 9 (11.25%) DevOps
12 8 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (10.00%) Data Architecture
12 8 (10.00%) ERP
12 8 (10.00%) Project Management
13 7 (8.75%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (40.00%) SQL
2 11 (13.75%) Python
3 6 (7.50%) Bash
4 3 (3.75%) C#
4 3 (3.75%) VB
5 2 (2.50%) Bicep
5 2 (2.50%) Magik
5 2 (2.50%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.25%) ABAP
6 1 (1.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (8.75%) Degree
2 6 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.50%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.50%) PMP
4 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) GDPR
1 6 (7.50%) HIPAA
2 5 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.75%) QA
4 2 (2.50%) COBIT
4 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.50%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (22.50%) Oracle
2 15 (18.75%) SAP
3 14 (17.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.75%) ESRI
5 2 (2.50%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.50%) Google
6 1 (1.25%) Adobe
6 1 (1.25%) Ariba
6 1 (1.25%) Infor
6 1 (1.25%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.25%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.25%) Workday
6 1 (1.25%) Zscaler