Data Migration Lead Contracts

Data Migration Lead
UK

The median Data Migration Lead daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 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
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 530 666
Rank change year-on-year +17 +136 +125
Contract jobs requiring a Data Migration Lead 30 52 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.12% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.13% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 31 27
10th Percentile £513 £450 £413
25th Percentile £537 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £631
90th Percentile £665 £875 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £588 £548
% change year-on-year -2.13% +7.31% +4.29%

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 27,642 40,746 52,377
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.92% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,729 26,106 36,473
10th Percentile £288 £281 £313
25th Percentile £402 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,199 2,996 1,499
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.39 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.35 £37.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.07% -14.77% +76.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £76.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -1.23% +102.50%

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 22 June 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 12 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 22 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
England +44 23 £600 +0.76% 101
UK excluding London +34 14 £575 -2.13% 86
Work from Home +28 10 £600 +0.76% 39
South West - 8 £613 - 11
London +32 4 £630 +5.00% 30
North of England +13 3 £519 - 21
North West - 2 £519 - 12
South East +41 1 £600 +6.90% 18
West Midlands +8 1 - - 9
Yorkshire +5 1 - - 9
Midlands +1 1 - - 17
Scotland - 1 £537 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 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 30 (100.00%) Migration
2 28 (93.33%) Data Migration
3 13 (43.33%) ETL
4 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
5 11 (36.67%) SQL
6 9 (30.00%) SAP
6 9 (30.00%) Data Governance
7 8 (26.67%) Data Quality
7 8 (26.67%) Validation
7 8 (26.67%) Oracle
7 8 (26.67%) AWS
8 7 (23.33%) Data Cleansing
8 7 (23.33%) Data Modelling
8 7 (23.33%) Data Strategy
9 6 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (20.00%) ERP
9 6 (20.00%) Python
10 5 (16.67%) Data Mapping
10 5 (16.67%) Agile
10 5 (16.67%) Finance
10 5 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
10 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (16.67%) DevOps
11 4 (13.33%) MuleSoft
11 4 (13.33%) Confluence
11 4 (13.33%) MongoDB
11 4 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (13.33%) Serverless
11 4 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (13.33%) AWS Lambda

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 4 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 5 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (6.67%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) Amazon S3
2 4 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (13.33%) Serverless
3 3 (10.00%) Azure
3 3 (10.00%) OCI
4 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.67%) Route 53
5 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (13.33%) MongoDB
1 4 (13.33%) MySQL
1 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (6.67%) Big Data
3 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.67%) Power BI
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Military
5 2 (6.67%) Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Police
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) FMCG
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Migration
2 28 (93.33%) Data Migration
3 13 (43.33%) ETL
4 9 (30.00%) Data Governance
5 8 (26.67%) Validation
6 7 (23.33%) Data Cleansing
6 7 (23.33%) Data Modelling
6 7 (23.33%) Data Strategy
7 6 (20.00%) ERP
8 5 (16.67%) Agile
8 5 (16.67%) Data Mapping
8 5 (16.67%) DevOps
8 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (13.33%) Data Validation
9 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (13.33%) Visualisation
10 2 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 2 (6.67%) ITIL
10 2 (6.67%) Project Management
10 2 (6.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) SQL
2 6 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (10.00%) Java
4 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
4 2 (6.67%) R
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) Degree
1 1 (3.33%) SAP Certification
1 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) SAP
2 8 (26.67%) Oracle
3 4 (13.33%) MuleSoft
4 2 (6.67%) Alteryx
4 2 (6.67%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.33%) Databricks
5 1 (3.33%) EXASOL
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.33%) Teradata