Data Migration Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Migration Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Migration Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 340 444
Rank change year-on-year +15 +104 +56
Contract jobs requiring a Data Migration Engineer 15 45 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.22% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.24% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 3
10th Percentile £337 - £316
25th Percentile £475 - £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £80 £388
Median % change year-on-year +556.25% -79.35% -8.82%
75th Percentile £645 £569 £447
90th Percentile £666 £619 £479
UK median daily rate £543 £80 £513
% change year-on-year +578.13% -84.39% +20.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 19 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,943 18,795 21,663
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.49% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,599 11,462 15,116
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.82% +2.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 852 2,267 1,107
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.73 £18.02
Median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.85 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -18.89% +88.21%

Data Migration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Migration Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Migration Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Migration Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Migration Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Migration Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +21 8 £645 +9.79%
North West +19 8 £645 -
Midlands - 4 £500 - 3
West Midlands - 3 £525 - 2
South West +21 2 - -
South East - 1 - - 4
Data Migration Engineer
UK

Data Migration Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, Data Migration Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Data Migration Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Migration
2 14 (93.33%) Data Migration
3 11 (73.33%) ETL
4 10 (66.67%) SQL
4 10 (66.67%) Data Mapping
5 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (60.00%) Validation
6 8 (53.33%) Oracle
6 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
7 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (46.67%) PL/SQL
7 7 (46.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (46.67%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (46.67%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (40.00%) Data Modelling
9 5 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
10 4 (26.67%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
10 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
11 3 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (13.33%) Power BI
12 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
12 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
12 2 (13.33%) Data Integration
12 2 (13.33%) Azure
12 2 (13.33%) Project Management
12 2 (13.33%) Epicor
12 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
12 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
12 2 (13.33%) Data Validation

Data Migration Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
2 1 (6.67%) ShareGate
2 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
2 1 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Flyway
1 1 (6.67%) Liquibase
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Automotive
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) IoT
3 1 (6.67%) Learning Management System
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Migration
2 14 (93.33%) Data Migration
3 11 (73.33%) ETL
4 10 (66.67%) Data Mapping
5 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (60.00%) Validation
6 7 (46.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (40.00%) Data Modelling
8 5 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
9 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
10 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
10 2 (13.33%) Data Extraction
10 2 (13.33%) Data Integration
10 2 (13.33%) Data Management
10 2 (13.33%) Data Validation
10 2 (13.33%) Project Management
11 1 (6.67%) Data Cleansing
11 1 (6.67%) Logistics
11 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
11 1 (6.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 7 (46.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Epicor
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Lotus
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft