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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 94 71
Rank change year-on-year +46 -23 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 58 44 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.87% 1.69% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 1.94% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 37 69
10th Percentile £348 £305 -
25th Percentile £431 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.63% +0.47%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £619
90th Percentile £680 - £681
South East median daily rate £545 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -0.91% +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 1,393 2,265 2,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.87% 87.01% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 1,261 1,761
10th Percentile £290 £213 £316
25th Percentile £404 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £510
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 167 63
10th Percentile - £14.17 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £19.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £31.50 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -10.00% +194.12%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.31 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £27.63 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.83% -5.00% +132.56%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +54 45 £575 -14.81% 21
Buckinghamshire +10 11 £360 -22.16% 20
Oxfordshire +1 4 £360 -1.37% 13
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 4 (6.90%) Confluence
2 3 (5.17%) Smallworld
3 2 (3.45%) ArcGIS
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (8.62%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (15.52%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (6.90%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (5.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (3.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (3.45%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (1.72%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (1.72%) SAP EWM
5 1 (1.72%) SAP GTS
5 1 (1.72%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (1.72%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.21%) AWS
2 16 (27.59%) Azure
3 8 (13.79%) GCP
4 6 (10.34%) OCI
4 6 (10.34%) Snowflake
5 5 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (5.17%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 2 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.45%) GitHub
8 2 (3.45%) IaaS
8 2 (3.45%) Miro
8 2 (3.45%) PaaS
8 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.45%) SaaS
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.72%) Serverless
9 1 (1.72%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (24.14%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (13.79%) Data Lake
3 7 (12.07%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (10.34%) Oracle Database
5 5 (8.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (8.62%) Big Data
5 5 (8.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 5 (8.62%) Metadata
6 4 (6.90%) Oracle Database 11g
6 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
6 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
7 3 (5.17%) GIS
7 3 (5.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (5.17%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (5.17%) Spatial Data
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.45%) Power BI
9 1 (1.72%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.72%) HBase
9 1 (1.72%) Impala
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) ERwin
1 4 (6.90%) JIRA
1 4 (6.90%) PowerDesigner
2 2 (3.45%) DBeaver
2 2 (3.45%) GitLab
2 2 (3.45%) QARun
2 2 (3.45%) WinRunner
General
1 24 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (10.34%) Finance
5 4 (6.90%) Agriculture
6 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.17%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.72%) Automotive
8 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (24.14%) Architect
2 13 (22.41%) Analyst
3 9 (15.52%) Data Analyst
4 8 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (12.07%) Data Migration Analyst
5 7 (12.07%) Migration Analyst
6 5 (8.62%) Consultant
7 4 (6.90%) Data Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Data Modeller
7 4 (6.90%) Lead
7 4 (6.90%) Payroll Manager
7 4 (6.90%) Project Manager
7 4 (6.90%) Senior
7 4 (6.90%) Snowflake Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) AWS Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Data Migration Consultant
8 3 (5.17%) HR Analyst
8 3 (5.17%) HR Manager
8 3 (5.17%) Migration Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (3.45%) JSON
2 2 (3.45%) Middleware
2 2 (3.45%) PostGIS
3 1 (1.72%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.72%) Kafka
3 1 (1.72%) PySpark
3 1 (1.72%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.17%) Life Science
2 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (3.45%) Replication
4 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) IoT
4 1 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Linux
1 4 (6.90%) Unix
2 3 (5.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Migration
2 25 (43.10%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (25.86%) Performance Tuning
4 14 (24.14%) Agile
5 13 (22.41%) Validation
6 12 (20.69%) Data Modelling
6 12 (20.69%) DevOps
7 10 (17.24%) Data Security
7 10 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (15.52%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (15.52%) ETL
9 8 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (13.79%) Data Cleansing
9 8 (13.79%) RBAC
10 7 (12.07%) CI/CD
10 7 (12.07%) Data Architecture
10 7 (12.07%) Data Governance
11 6 (10.34%) Continuous Deployment
11 6 (10.34%) Data Validation
11 6 (10.34%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 26 (44.83%) SQL
2 11 (18.97%) Python
3 7 (12.07%) PL/SQL
4 6 (10.34%) Bash
5 3 (5.17%) C#
6 2 (3.45%) Bicep
6 2 (3.45%) Magik
6 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.45%) VB
7 1 (1.72%) ABAP
7 1 (1.72%) Java
7 1 (1.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (12.07%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.34%) Degree
3 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.45%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.45%) PMP
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.72%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) Data Quality
2 6 (10.34%) GDPR
2 6 (10.34%) HIPAA
3 3 (5.17%) QA
4 2 (3.45%) COBIT
4 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Apache Flume
1 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (32.76%) Oracle
2 10 (17.24%) SAP
3 9 (15.52%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.17%) ESRI
4 3 (5.17%) Google
5 1 (1.72%) Databricks
5 1 (1.72%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.72%) Zscaler