Data Migration Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Migration
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 92 70
Rank change year-on-year +43 -22 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 53 53 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.51% 1.97% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 2.26% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 44 74
10th Percentile £343 £363 £455
25th Percentile £460 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +16.28% +5.39%
75th Percentile £653 £688 £634
90th Percentile £683 - £692
South East median daily rate £548 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -0.45% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £59.33 - -
25th Percentile £63.95 - -
Median hourly rate £72.28 - -
75th Percentile £79.98 - -
90th Percentile £84.22 - -
South East median hourly rate £67.50 - £31.00
% change year-on-year - - +227.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration in the Thames Valley

Data Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Migration in the Thames Valley

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in the Thames Valley

Data Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Migration in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration in the Thames Valley

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Migration in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Migration in the Thames Valley

Data Migration
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +38 40 £575 -14.81% 24
Buckinghamshire +11 11 £360 -22.16% 13
Oxfordshire +5 4 £360 -1.37% 16
Data Migration
South East

Data Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (5.66%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (9.43%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (7.55%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (5.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (3.77%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (1.89%) SAP EWM
5 1 (1.89%) SAP GTS
5 1 (1.89%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (1.89%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 23 (43.40%) AWS
2 16 (30.19%) Azure
3 8 (15.09%) GCP
4 6 (11.32%) Snowflake
5 5 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (7.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 3 (5.66%) OCI
8 2 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.77%) GitHub
8 2 (3.77%) IaaS
8 2 (3.77%) Miro
8 2 (3.77%) PaaS
8 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.77%) SaaS
9 1 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.89%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.89%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.89%) Serverless
9 1 (1.89%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.42%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (16.98%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (15.09%) Oracle Database
4 6 (11.32%) Data Lake
4 6 (11.32%) Oracle Database 11g
5 5 (9.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (9.43%) Big Data
5 5 (9.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 5 (9.43%) Metadata
6 4 (7.55%) Relational Database
6 4 (7.55%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.77%) Power BI
8 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.89%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.89%) HBase
8 1 (1.89%) HDInsight
8 1 (1.89%) Impala
8 1 (1.89%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) ERwin
1 4 (7.55%) PowerDesigner
2 3 (5.66%) JIRA
3 2 (3.77%) DBeaver
3 2 (3.77%) GitLab
3 2 (3.77%) QARun
3 2 (3.77%) WinRunner
General
1 22 (41.51%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.53%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.09%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (13.21%) Finance
5 4 (7.55%) Agriculture
5 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (22.64%) Architect
2 11 (20.75%) Analyst
3 8 (15.09%) Data Analyst
3 8 (15.09%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (11.32%) Data Migration Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Migration Analyst
5 5 (9.43%) Project Manager
6 4 (7.55%) Consultant
6 4 (7.55%) Data Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Data Modeller
6 4 (7.55%) Payroll Manager
6 4 (7.55%) Senior
6 4 (7.55%) Snowflake Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Data Consultant
7 3 (5.66%) Data Migration Consultant
7 3 (5.66%) HR Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Migration Consultant
7 3 (5.66%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) JSON
2 1 (1.89%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.89%) Kafka
2 1 (1.89%) PySpark
2 1 (1.89%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.66%) Life Science
2 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.77%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (3.77%) Replication
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) IoT
4 1 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Linux
1 4 (7.55%) Unix
2 3 (5.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) Migration
2 24 (45.28%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (32.08%) Performance Tuning
4 12 (22.64%) Agile
4 12 (22.64%) DevOps
5 10 (18.87%) Data Modelling
5 10 (18.87%) Data Security
6 9 (16.98%) ETL
7 8 (15.09%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (15.09%) RBAC
7 8 (15.09%) Software Testing
7 8 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (15.09%) Validation
8 7 (13.21%) CI/CD
8 7 (13.21%) Data Architecture
9 6 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (11.32%) CRUD
9 6 (11.32%) Data Cleansing
9 6 (11.32%) Data Management
9 6 (11.32%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (52.83%) SQL
2 11 (20.75%) Python
3 9 (16.98%) PL/SQL
4 6 (11.32%) Bash
5 3 (5.66%) C#
6 2 (3.77%) Bicep
6 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.77%) VB
7 1 (1.89%) ABAP
7 1 (1.89%) Java
7 1 (1.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) Degree
4 4 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.77%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.77%) PMP
6 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.89%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) Data Quality
2 6 (11.32%) GDPR
2 6 (11.32%) HIPAA
3 4 (7.55%) QA
4 1 (1.89%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Apache Flume
1 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.77%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) Oracle
2 10 (18.87%) SAP
3 9 (16.98%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.66%) Google
5 1 (1.89%) Databricks
5 1 (1.89%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.89%) Zscaler