Data Migration Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Data Migration
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Data Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 32 41
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 14 7 12
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 2.70% 2.36% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.26% 2.63% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 10
10th Percentile - £488 -
25th Percentile £419 £520 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £543 £456
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +19.10% -20.65%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £533
90th Percentile £593 £623 £625
South East median daily rate £618 £544 £550
% change year-on-year +13.47% -1.06% +4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 429 266 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 82.82% 89.56% 81.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 187 347
10th Percentile £204 £195 £238
25th Percentile £364 £300 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £619
90th Percentile £683 £661 £700
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.20% -1.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 24 54
10th Percentile £25.95 £20.38 £11.71
25th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £13.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% +36.59% -54.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £45.98 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £62.50 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +96.43% -41.05% -4.04%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Data Migration job vacancy trend in Surrey

Data Migration
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in Surrey over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in Surrey

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Data Migration
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Redhill - 4 £550 -
Staines - 2 - -
Guildford - 1 £438 -
Data Migration
South East

Data Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (35.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (28.57%) SAP Business One
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (7.14%) SAP ERP
4 1 (7.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Metadata
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) General Ledger
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Accountant
1 4 (28.57%) Financial Accountant
1 4 (28.57%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Data Migration Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Migration Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Workday Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Developer
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Onboarding
1 4 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Migration
2 6 (42.86%) Data Analysis
2 6 (42.86%) Validation
3 5 (35.71%) Accounts Payable
3 5 (35.71%) Accounts Receivable
3 5 (35.71%) AI
3 5 (35.71%) ERP
3 5 (35.71%) ETL
3 5 (35.71%) LLM
3 5 (35.71%) Machine Learning
3 5 (35.71%) Runbook
3 5 (35.71%) SQL Optimisation
4 4 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Process Improvement
4 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Anomaly Detection
5 3 (21.43%) Impact Analysis
6 2 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 2 (14.29%) Data Security
6 2 (14.29%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Bash
1 5 (35.71%) PL/SQL
1 5 (35.71%) Python
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) ACCA
1 4 (28.57%) CIMA
2 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle
1 5 (35.71%) SAP
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Workday