Data Migration Engineer Contract Job Trends

Data Migration Engineer
UK

The median Data Migration Engineer daily rate in the UK is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 529 596
Rank change year-on-year -36 +67 +175
Contract jobs requiring a Data Migration Engineer 17 14 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.047% 0.039% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.042% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 9
10th Percentile £363 £458 -
25th Percentile £413 £480 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +13.89% -2.70%
75th Percentile £495 £547 £538
90th Percentile £650 £553 £578
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £525 £495
% change year-on-year +14.29% +6.06% +23.75%

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 32,988 33,120 42,501
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.74% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,924 20,243 28,641
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £403 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,136 1,517
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.36 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%
75th Percentile £56.81 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.66 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

Data Migration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Migration Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data Migration Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Migration Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Migration Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Data Migration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration Engineer over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration Engineer in the UK

Data Migration Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Migration Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Migration Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Data Migration Engineer
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 December 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 -34 16 £469 -6.25% 1
London +2 10 £469 -8.54%
UK excluding London -41 5 £600 +14.29% 1
Work from Home -1 4 £450 -2.70%
South West - 3 £600 - 1
South East -15 2 £375 -25.00%

Data Migration Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Data Migration Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Data Migration Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Migration
2 16 (94.12%) Data Migration
3 9 (52.94%) SQL
4 8 (47.06%) Azure
5 7 (41.18%) SaaS
6 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
7 5 (29.41%) Asset Management
7 5 (29.41%) Python
7 5 (29.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (23.53%) AWS
8 4 (23.53%) Data Governance
8 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (23.53%) Validation
9 3 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (17.65%) Analytics
9 3 (17.65%) Apache
9 3 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark
9 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
9 3 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (17.65%) Data Science
9 3 (17.65%) Data Transformation
9 3 (17.65%) ETL
9 3 (17.65%) GCP
9 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
9 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
10 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (11.76%) BigQuery

Data Migration Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) Apache
1 3 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 2 (11.76%) Documentum
3 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) SaaS
3 4 (23.53%) AWS
4 3 (17.65%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (11.76%) dbt
5 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (29.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
5 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (5.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Great Expectations
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) PySpark
2 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (5.88%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
1 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
1 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Migration
2 16 (94.12%) Data Migration
3 5 (29.41%) Asset Management
4 4 (23.53%) Data Governance
4 4 (23.53%) Validation
5 3 (17.65%) Analytics
5 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 3 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (17.65%) Data Science
5 3 (17.65%) Data Transformation
5 3 (17.65%) ETL
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
6 2 (11.76%) DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) Fintech
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.76%) Monte Carlo Method
6 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (11.76%) Runbook
6 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Databricks
1 2 (11.76%) EMC
1 2 (11.76%) McAfee
1 2 (11.76%) Sophos
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle