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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 108 122
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 335 413 478
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.47% 1.94% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 2.35% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 283 337
10th Percentile £332 £313 £373
25th Percentile £409 £436 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £604 £629 £588
90th Percentile £688 £697 £700
UK median daily rate £529 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.82% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 33 5
10th Percentile £17.24 £25.00 -
25th Percentile £32.31 £40.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £75.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +233.33% -22.62%
75th Percentile £71.25 £80.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £76.41 - £43.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.00% +180.37% -49.05%

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 12,292 17,554 20,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 82.63% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,533 10,298 13,898
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £367 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 998 2,191 1,271
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.50 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £24.83 £38.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.86% +17.29% +54.76%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +28 103 £478 -8.17% 79
South East +39 87 £543 -1.20% 91
Midlands +14 54 £488 -2.50% 86
North West 0 51 £492 -6.29% 42
Yorkshire +21 50 £457 -10.93% 31
West Midlands +4 38 £500 +2.56% 50
South West +8 33 £513 -2.38% 50
Scotland -22 27 £475 -13.64% 14
East of England +9 25 £650 +73.33% 31
East Midlands +7 13 £458 -13.68% 32
Wales +6 5 £475 +11.76% 11
North East -4 2 £575 -2.13% 7
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 9
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 25 (7.46%) Confluence
2 17 (5.07%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.19%) Smallworld
5 3 (0.90%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle Spatial
6 2 (0.60%) Documentum
6 2 (0.60%) IBM Notes
6 2 (0.60%) SAS
7 1 (0.30%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.99%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Captivate
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 26 (7.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (5.67%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (2.69%) SAP PP
4 6 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.49%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (1.19%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (1.19%) SAP IBP
6 4 (1.19%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.90%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.60%) Maximo
8 2 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.60%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.30%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.30%) SAP EWM
9 1 (0.30%) SAP GTS
9 1 (0.30%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 51 (15.22%) Azure
2 46 (13.73%) AWS
3 25 (7.46%) Power Platform
4 17 (5.07%) Amazon S3
4 17 (5.07%) Snowflake
5 15 (4.48%) Serverless
6 14 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (4.18%) GCP
7 13 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (3.88%) SaaS
8 12 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (3.28%) OCI
10 10 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (2.09%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (1.79%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (1.19%) Amazon EMR
14 4 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (1.19%) dbt
14 4 (1.19%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.49%) Firewall
2 2 (0.60%) Intranet
2 2 (0.60%) Network Security
2 2 (0.60%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.60%) VPN
3 1 (0.30%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.36%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (8.06%) Oracle Database
2 27 (8.06%) SQL Server
3 22 (6.57%) Power BI
4 18 (5.37%) Oracle Reports
5 15 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (3.28%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (2.69%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (2.39%) GIS
10 6 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.79%) MySQL
11 5 (1.49%) Big Data
11 5 (1.49%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.49%) Metadata
12 4 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 30 (8.96%) JIRA
2 8 (2.39%) Git
2 8 (2.39%) GitLab
3 4 (1.19%) ERwin
3 4 (1.19%) Postman
3 4 (1.19%) PowerDesigner
3 4 (1.19%) Selenium
4 3 (0.90%) DBeaver
4 3 (0.90%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.60%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.60%) JMeter
5 2 (0.60%) QARun
5 2 (0.60%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.60%) WinRunner
6 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.30%) Hudson
6 1 (0.30%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.30%) WebDriver
General
1 133 (39.70%) Social Skills
2 99 (29.55%) Finance
3 66 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.46%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.97%) Banking
6 13 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.88%) Local Government
6 13 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (3.58%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.58%) Pharmaceutical
8 10 (2.99%) Legal
8 10 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.39%) French Language
10 5 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.49%) Law
10 5 (1.49%) Retail
10 5 (1.49%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.19%) Agriculture
11 4 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.90%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 63 (18.81%) Analyst
2 45 (13.43%) Consultant
3 40 (11.94%) Lead
4 37 (11.04%) Architect
5 36 (10.75%) Data Analyst
6 32 (9.55%) Project Manager
7 26 (7.76%) Data Engineer
8 19 (5.67%) Business Analyst
8 19 (5.67%) Migration Analyst
9 18 (5.37%) Data Migration Analyst
9 18 (5.37%) Migration Engineer
9 18 (5.37%) SAP Consultant
10 15 (4.48%) Data Migration Engineer
10 15 (4.48%) Developer
10 15 (4.48%) Senior
11 14 (4.18%) Data Consultant
11 14 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.88%) Test Analyst
13 12 (3.58%) Data Migration Lead
14 11 (3.28%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.09%) Lightning Web Components
1 7 (2.09%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.79%) Middleware
3 5 (1.49%) Kafka
4 4 (1.19%) PostGIS
4 4 (1.19%) WebdriverIO
4 4 (1.19%) XML
5 3 (0.90%) Visualforce
6 2 (0.60%) .NET
6 2 (0.60%) JSON
6 2 (0.60%) Pandas
6 2 (0.60%) React
6 2 (0.60%) RESTful
6 2 (0.60%) Web Services
7 1 (0.30%) ADO
7 1 (0.30%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.30%) CSS
7 1 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.30%) PySpark
7 1 (0.30%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 52 (15.52%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (5.97%) Data Structures
3 14 (4.18%) Data Centre
3 14 (4.18%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.39%) Life Science
6 6 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.49%) NHS
7 5 (1.49%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.49%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.19%) IoT
8 4 (1.19%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.19%) SCADA
9 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.90%) Replication
9 3 (0.90%) Robotics
9 3 (0.90%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.88%) Windows
2 4 (1.19%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.60%) Linux
3 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.30%) AIX
4 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.30%) Solaris
4 1 (0.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.30%) Unix
4 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (100.00%) Migration
2 84 (25.07%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (22.99%) ETL
4 68 (20.30%) Validation
5 53 (15.82%) Agile
5 53 (15.82%) Data Modelling
6 45 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 44 (13.13%) Change Management
8 42 (12.54%) Data Governance
9 38 (11.34%) DevOps
10 36 (10.75%) Business Intelligence
10 36 (10.75%) Data Mapping
11 34 (10.15%) User Acceptance Testing
12 33 (9.85%) Analytics
13 32 (9.55%) Data Integration
14 31 (9.25%) Data Management
14 31 (9.25%) ERP
14 31 (9.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 29 (8.66%) Project Management
16 26 (7.76%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 104 (31.04%) SQL
2 34 (10.15%) Python
3 18 (5.37%) PL/SQL
4 10 (2.99%) Bash
5 8 (2.39%) C#
6 7 (2.09%) Apex Code
6 7 (2.09%) Java
6 7 (2.09%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.79%) VB
8 5 (1.49%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.19%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.90%) Magik
11 2 (0.60%) Bicep
11 2 (0.60%) C++
11 2 (0.60%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.30%) ABAP
12 1 (0.30%) SOQL
12 1 (0.30%) X++
Qualifications
1 28 (8.36%) Security Cleared
2 26 (7.76%) Degree
3 17 (5.07%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.49%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.49%) PMP
7 4 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.30%) ACCA
9 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.30%) CIPD
9 1 (0.30%) MBA
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.30%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (14.93%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.67%) GDPR
3 14 (4.18%) QA
4 6 (1.79%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.90%) PMO
6 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.60%) COBIT
6 2 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.60%) NIST
7 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.19%) Docker
2 3 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 12 (3.58%) Oracle RMAN
2 9 (2.69%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.39%) Ansible
4 5 (1.49%) Terraform
5 4 (1.19%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.19%) Puppet
6 3 (0.90%) Grafana
7 2 (0.60%) SCCM
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.30%) SCSM
Vendors
1 75 (22.39%) Oracle
2 67 (20.00%) SAP
3 52 (15.52%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.88%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.58%) Commvault
6 8 (2.39%) Databricks
7 7 (2.09%) Ariba
7 7 (2.09%) Google
8 6 (1.79%) IFS
8 6 (1.79%) Informatica
9 5 (1.49%) StreamSets
9 5 (1.49%) Teradata
10 4 (1.19%) Denodo
10 4 (1.19%) ESRI
10 4 (1.19%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.19%) Workday
11 3 (0.90%) EMC
11 3 (0.90%) IBM
11 3 (0.90%) Sage
11 3 (0.90%) VMware