Data Migration Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Migration Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Migration Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 July 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
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 369 433
Rank change year-on-year +18 +64 +86
Contract jobs requiring a Data Migration Specialist 13 13 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.087% 0.065% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.071% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 2
10th Percentile - - £468
25th Percentile £525 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £631 £631 £525
90th Percentile £665 £650 £533
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - -

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 13,527 18,336 21,809
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.58% 92.22% 94.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,321 11,167 14,885
10th Percentile £215 £215 £232
25th Percentile £363 £375 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.02% -0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,154 2,085 1,195
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.64 £16.58 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.85% +4.53% +90.48%
75th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.30
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -37.13% -8.57% +70.37%

Data Migration Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Data Migration Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 July 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
Midlands +4 5 - -
South East +31 3 - - 2
North of England +5 3 £550 +7.58% 1
West Midlands - 3 - -
Yorkshire -2 2 £550 +5.77% 1
North West +3 1 £675 +34.33%
South West - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -
Data Migration Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 July 2025, Data Migration Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Migration
1 13 (100.00%) Data Migration
2 9 (69.23%) SQL
3 7 (53.85%) ETL
4 6 (46.15%) Validation
4 6 (46.15%) Azure
4 6 (46.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
5 5 (38.46%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
5 5 (38.46%) SAP
6 4 (30.77%) Python
6 4 (30.77%) Data Mapping
6 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
7 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
7 3 (23.08%) Oracle Database
7 3 (23.08%) IoT
7 3 (23.08%) Kafka
7 3 (23.08%) GDPR
7 3 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (23.08%) Data Extraction
7 3 (23.08%) Informatica
7 3 (23.08%) GIS
7 3 (23.08%) Finance
7 3 (23.08%) Oracle
7 3 (23.08%) SAP PM
7 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (23.08%) SCADA
7 3 (23.08%) Collibra
7 3 (23.08%) Public Sector

Data Migration Specialist 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) SAP PM
2 2 (15.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (7.69%) Sage 200
3 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
1 6 (46.15%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 3 (23.08%) Collibra
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (23.08%) Delta Lake
1 3 (23.08%) GIS
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Aviation
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Military
4 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (23.08%) IoT
2 3 (23.08%) Onboarding
2 3 (23.08%) SCADA
3 2 (15.38%) Learning Management System
4 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
4 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (7.69%) NHS
4 1 (7.69%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 13 (100.00%) Migration
2 7 (53.85%) ETL
3 6 (46.15%) Validation
4 4 (30.77%) Data Mapping
5 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (23.08%) Data Extraction
5 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
6 2 (15.38%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Asset Management
6 2 (15.38%) Business Continuity
6 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (15.38%) CRM
6 2 (15.38%) Data Design
6 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Data Integration
6 2 (15.38%) Data Validation
6 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 3 (23.08%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
1 5 (38.46%) SAP
2 3 (23.08%) Databricks
2 3 (23.08%) Informatica
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Adobe
3 1 (7.69%) Sage
3 1 (7.69%) Workday