Data Migration Lead Contracts

Data Migration Lead
UK

The median Data Migration Lead daily rate in the UK is £609, 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 498 524 680
Rank change year-on-year +26 +156 +90
Contract jobs requiring a Data Migration Lead 22 58 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.13% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.14% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 36 23
10th Percentile £514 £456 £413
25th Percentile £544 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £609 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £635 £673 £624
90th Percentile £650 £875 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £588 £560
% change year-on-year +10.64% +4.91% +6.67%

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 Lead
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration Lead in the UK

Data Migration Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Migration Lead in the UK

Data Migration Lead
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration Lead in the UK

Data Migration Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration Lead in the UK

Data Migration Lead
Top 9 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 Lead 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 +19 16 £603 +0.42% 7
UK excluding London +47 9 £650 +10.64% 4
Work from Home +30 8 £550 -8.33% 3
South West - 6 £650 -
London +17 4 £550 -8.33% 4
Midlands +10 2 - -
West Midlands +9 2 - -
North of England +16 1 £700 - 2
North West - 1 £700 - 2

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

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

1 22 (100.00%) Migration
2 21 (95.45%) Data Migration
3 10 (45.45%) ETL
4 8 (36.36%) SQL
4 8 (36.36%) SAP
5 7 (31.82%) Python
5 7 (31.82%) AWS
5 7 (31.82%) Data Quality
6 6 (27.27%) Oracle
6 6 (27.27%) Agile
6 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
6 6 (27.27%) Data Strategy
7 5 (22.73%) Data Modelling
8 4 (18.18%) MySQL
8 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (18.18%) MongoDB
8 4 (18.18%) Validation
8 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
8 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (18.18%) DevOps
8 4 (18.18%) MuleSoft
8 4 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (18.18%) Serverless
8 4 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
8 4 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
9 3 (13.64%) DynamoDB
9 3 (13.64%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (13.64%) Azure

Data Migration Lead 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 3 (13.64%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.55%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (9.09%) SAP EHS
3 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
2 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (18.18%) Serverless
3 3 (13.64%) Azure
4 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 2 (9.09%) Route 53
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.55%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 4 (18.18%) MySQL
1 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.64%) DynamoDB
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (9.09%) Big Data
3 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 2 (9.09%) Power BI
3 2 (9.09%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (4.55%) Metadata
4 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Military
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) FMCG
3 1 (4.55%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Migration
2 21 (95.45%) Data Migration
3 10 (45.45%) ETL
4 6 (27.27%) Agile
4 6 (27.27%) Data Strategy
5 5 (22.73%) Data Modelling
6 4 (18.18%) DevOps
6 4 (18.18%) Validation
6 4 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (13.64%) Data Management
7 3 (13.64%) Data Mapping
7 3 (13.64%) Visualisation
8 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (9.09%) Data Analysis
8 2 (9.09%) Data Architecture
8 2 (9.09%) Data Cleansing
8 2 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (9.09%) Document Management
8 2 (9.09%) ERP
8 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) SQL
2 7 (31.82%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 2 (9.09%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) SAP
2 6 (27.27%) Oracle
3 4 (18.18%) MuleSoft
4 2 (9.09%) Alteryx
4 2 (9.09%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.55%) Databricks
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce