Data Migration Consultant Contracts

Data Migration Consultant
UK

The median Data Migration Consultant daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 552 686
Rank change year-on-year +64 +134 +101
Contract jobs requiring a Data Migration Consultant 32 30 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.069% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.074% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 18
10th Percentile £363 £325 £389
25th Percentile £400 £475 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £603 £597
90th Percentile £738 £760 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +43.75% -20.00% +8.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Data Migration Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Migration Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration Consultant in the UK

Data Migration Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Migration Consultant.

Daily rate trend for Data Migration Consultant in the UK

Data Migration Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration Consultant over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration Consultant in the UK

Data Migration Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Migration Consultant.

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration Consultant in the UK

Data Migration Consultant
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Migration Consultant within the UK 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
England +56 21 £596 +8.41% 14
Work from Home +42 16 £575 +11.11% 7
London +38 12 £650 +14.54% 7
UK excluding London +60 10 £575 +43.75% 7
South East +49 4 £575 +27.78% 1
Wales +2 4 £400 -
North West +17 2 £680 - 3
North of England +17 2 £680 +60.00% 3

Data Migration Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Migration Consultant 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 featuring Data Migration Consultant in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Migration
2 28 (87.50%) Data Migration
3 14 (43.75%) SQL
4 13 (40.63%) ETL
4 13 (40.63%) Validation
5 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
6 11 (34.38%) SAP
7 10 (31.25%) Azure
8 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (25.00%) Data Mapping
9 8 (25.00%) Oracle
10 7 (21.88%) Data Modelling
10 7 (21.88%) Data Quality
10 7 (21.88%) SAP S/4HANA
10 7 (21.88%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (18.75%) Finance
12 5 (15.63%) Data Validation
12 5 (15.63%) Oracle EBS
12 5 (15.63%) PL/SQL
12 5 (15.63%) ERP
12 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
12 5 (15.63%) Data Structures
13 4 (12.50%) Public Cloud
13 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
13 4 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (12.50%) Azure Certification
13 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
13 4 (12.50%) TOGAF
14 3 (9.38%) Oracle ERP

Data Migration Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (3.13%) Confluence
1 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (21.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (6.25%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (3.13%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (3.13%) NEC Housing
5 1 (3.13%) NetSuite
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (3.13%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (3.13%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (6.25%) OCI
3 2 (6.25%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (3.13%) AWS
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.13%) GCP
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Power Query
3 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.13%) MySQL
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
1 1 (3.13%) LSMW
General
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.25%) Automotive
5 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Billing
6 1 (3.13%) Health Technology
6 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) BAPI
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (15.63%) Data Structures
3 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 4 (12.50%) Public Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) Reference Data
5 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Migration
2 28 (87.50%) Data Migration
3 13 (40.63%) ETL
3 13 (40.63%) Validation
4 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (25.00%) Data Mapping
6 7 (21.88%) Data Modelling
7 5 (15.63%) Data Validation
7 5 (15.63%) ERP
8 4 (12.50%) TOGAF
9 3 (9.38%) Data Cleansing
9 3 (9.38%) Data Extraction
9 3 (9.38%) Data Management
9 3 (9.38%) Data Transformation
9 3 (9.38%) DevOps
9 3 (9.38%) Knowledge Transfer
10 2 (6.25%) CRM
10 2 (6.25%) Order to Cash
10 2 (6.25%) Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) SQL
2 5 (15.63%) PL/SQL
3 3 (9.38%) Python
3 3 (9.38%) T-SQL
4 2 (6.25%) ABAP
4 2 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 4 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) SAP
2 8 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.25%) Sun
4 1 (3.13%) Ariba
4 1 (3.13%) Informatica
4 1 (3.13%) JD Edwards
4 1 (3.13%) NEC
4 1 (3.13%) OpenText
4 1 (3.13%) Zuora