Data Migration Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Migration
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 98 96 138
Rank change year-on-year -2 +42 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 330 444 470
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.58% 2.14% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 2.52% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 288 342
10th Percentile £360 £310 £363
25th Percentile £422 £418 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £639 £645 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £699
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 33 6
10th Percentile £37.03 £25.00 £17.06
25th Percentile £57.50 £40.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £75.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +261.45% +3.75%
75th Percentile £73.13 £80.00 £30.31
90th Percentile £80.40 - £41.25
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year -6.67% +252.94% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration in the UK excluding London

Data Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Migration in the UK excluding London

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in the UK excluding London

Data Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration in the UK excluding London

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Migration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Migration in the UK excluding London

Data Migration
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 within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +12 98 £500 -3.85% 70
South East +28 94 £548 -0.45% 95
Midlands +17 54 £500 -13.98% 39
North West +7 53 £537 +2.29% 39
Yorkshire +11 42 £395 -22.93% 30
West Midlands +12 38 £500 -15.97% 21
South West +5 29 £513 -1.44% 29
Scotland -7 28 £475 -5.00% 7
East of England +14 24 £650 +112.07% 20
East Midlands +8 14 £465 -9.71% 16
Wales 0 5 £500 +17.65% 4
North East -2 3 £613 +22.50% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £525 - 1
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Data Migration
UK

Data Migration
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 24 (7.27%) Confluence
2 17 (5.15%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.61%) IBM Notes
4 2 (0.61%) SAS
5 1 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.30%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.30%) nginx
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.30%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 10 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (3.03%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe Captivate
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (7.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (4.85%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.82%) SAP PP
5 5 (1.52%) Infor LN
5 5 (1.52%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (1.21%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (1.21%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.91%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.61%) Maximo
8 2 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.61%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payroll
9 1 (0.30%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 60 (18.18%) AWS
2 58 (17.58%) Azure
3 35 (10.61%) Power Platform
4 18 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
5 17 (5.15%) Amazon S3
5 17 (5.15%) GCP
6 15 (4.55%) Serverless
7 14 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (3.03%) PowerApps
10 9 (2.73%) Power Automate
10 9 (2.73%) Snowflake
11 8 (2.42%) SaaS
12 7 (2.12%) OCI
13 6 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.52%) AWS CodePipeline
14 5 (1.52%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (1.52%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.91%) Firewall
2 2 (0.61%) Intranet
3 1 (0.30%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.30%) GGSN
3 1 (0.30%) SS7
3 1 (0.30%) SSL
3 1 (0.30%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.70%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (9.09%) Oracle Database
3 28 (8.48%) Power BI
4 26 (7.88%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (6.97%) SQL Server
6 16 (4.85%) Oracle Reports
7 14 (4.24%) Data Lake
8 12 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (2.73%) Metadata
9 9 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (2.12%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.82%) Oracle Database 11g
13 5 (1.52%) Big Data
13 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.52%) MySQL
14 4 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (1.21%) Relational Database
15 3 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (7.88%) JIRA
2 14 (4.24%) GitLab
3 7 (2.12%) Git
4 6 (1.82%) ERwin
5 4 (1.21%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.91%) DBeaver
6 3 (0.91%) Selenium
7 2 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.61%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.61%) JMeter
7 2 (0.61%) Postman
7 2 (0.61%) QARun
7 2 (0.61%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.61%) WinRunner
8 1 (0.30%) Hudson
8 1 (0.30%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 121 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 79 (23.94%) Finance
3 66 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (6.97%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.45%) Manufacturing
6 17 (5.15%) Pharmaceutical
7 16 (4.85%) Banking
8 11 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.42%) French Language
9 8 (2.42%) Legal
9 8 (2.42%) Local Government
10 6 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.82%) Retail
11 5 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.21%) Agriculture
12 4 (1.21%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.91%) Aviation
13 3 (0.91%) Marketing
14 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 61 (18.48%) Consultant
2 54 (16.36%) Analyst
3 45 (13.64%) Architect
4 36 (10.91%) Data Analyst
5 30 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 28 (8.48%) Project Manager
7 25 (7.58%) Lead
8 20 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
9 19 (5.76%) Business Analyst
10 18 (5.45%) Senior
11 16 (4.85%) Data Consultant
11 16 (4.85%) Migration Engineer
12 13 (3.94%) Migration Analyst
12 13 (3.94%) SAP Consultant
13 12 (3.64%) Data Migration Analyst
13 12 (3.64%) Data Migration Engineer
13 12 (3.64%) Developer
14 11 (3.33%) Backup Engineer
14 11 (3.33%) Commvault Engineer
15 10 (3.03%) Mainframe Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.12%) Oracle Fusion
1 7 (2.12%) REST
1 7 (2.12%) XML
2 6 (1.82%) AWS CDK
3 4 (1.21%) .NET
3 4 (1.21%) JSON
3 4 (1.21%) PostGIS
3 4 (1.21%) Web Services
4 3 (0.91%) Kafka
4 3 (0.91%) Middleware
4 3 (0.91%) PySpark
5 2 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.61%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (0.61%) FpML
5 2 (0.61%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.61%) Pandas
5 2 (0.61%) React
5 2 (0.61%) RESTful
5 2 (0.61%) SOAP
5 2 (0.61%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 43 (13.03%) Legacy Systems
2 21 (6.36%) Data Structures
3 15 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.24%) Data Centre
5 11 (3.33%) Mainframe
6 9 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.42%) Life Science
8 5 (1.52%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.52%) Replication
9 4 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.91%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.91%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.61%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.61%) IoT
11 2 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.61%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.42%) Windows
2 6 (1.82%) Unix
3 4 (1.21%) Linux
4 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (100.00%) Migration
2 85 (25.76%) Problem-Solving
3 75 (22.73%) ETL
4 57 (17.27%) Agile
5 50 (15.15%) Validation
6 48 (14.55%) ERP
7 46 (13.94%) Data Modelling
8 45 (13.64%) Data Management
9 43 (13.03%) DevOps
10 40 (12.12%) Data Governance
11 39 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
12 38 (11.52%) Analytics
12 38 (11.52%) Data Integration
13 37 (11.21%) Change Management
13 37 (11.21%) Data Mapping
14 36 (10.91%) Performance Tuning
15 35 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
16 33 (10.00%) Project Management
17 27 (8.18%) Translating Business Requirements
18 26 (7.88%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 119 (36.06%) SQL
2 41 (12.42%) Python
3 30 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 10 (3.03%) Bash
5 6 (1.82%) C#
5 6 (1.82%) Java
5 6 (1.82%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.52%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.91%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.61%) ABAP
8 2 (0.61%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.61%) Bicep
8 2 (0.61%) C++
8 2 (0.61%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.61%) VB
9 1 (0.30%) Perl
9 1 (0.30%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 35 (10.61%) Security Cleared
2 26 (7.88%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.58%) Degree
4 10 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.82%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.52%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.52%) PMP
8 3 (0.91%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.91%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.61%) CCSP
9 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.61%) CISSP
10 1 (0.30%) CIPD
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.30%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.73%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.45%) QA
3 12 (3.64%) GDPR
4 6 (1.82%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.52%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.61%) PMO
7 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (2.42%) Docker
2 5 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (3.64%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (2.12%) Grafana
2 7 (2.12%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.82%) Ansible
4 5 (1.52%) Terraform
5 4 (1.21%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.61%) CASB
6 2 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.61%) Puppet
7 1 (0.30%) Kibana
7 1 (0.30%) logstash
7 1 (0.30%) SCSM
Vendors
1 67 (20.30%) Oracle
2 54 (16.36%) SAP
3 49 (14.85%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.64%) Commvault
5 10 (3.03%) BMC
6 6 (1.82%) Ariba
6 6 (1.82%) Infor
6 6 (1.82%) Informatica
7 5 (1.52%) Alteryx
7 5 (1.52%) Google
7 5 (1.52%) IFS
7 5 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.52%) Workday
8 4 (1.21%) Denodo
9 3 (0.91%) Databricks
9 3 (0.91%) IBM
9 3 (0.91%) Teradata
10 2 (0.61%) Epicor
10 2 (0.61%) Lotus
10 2 (0.61%) Remedy