Data Migration Project Manager Contract Job Trends

Project Manager - Data Migration
UK

The median Project Manager - Data Migration daily rate in the UK is £685, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 553 586
Rank change year-on-year -13 +33 +177
Contract jobs requiring a Data Migration Project Manager 15 11 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.041% 0.032% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.034% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 18
10th Percentile £516 £463 £510
25th Percentile £578 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £685 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +24.55% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £772 £594 £700
90th Percentile £788 £730 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -11.36% -15.38% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - -

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 33,137 32,079 41,606
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.94% 92.76% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,987 19,722 27,981
10th Percentile £290 £300 £292
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £723 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,959 1,044 1,467
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.48 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.98 £21.05 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -21.35% +48.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £73.28 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%

Data Migration Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data Migration Project Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Migration Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Data Migration Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration Project Manager over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration Project Manager in the UK

Data Migration Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Data Migration Project Manager
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 Project Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 -36 11 £725 +34.88% 1
London +2 7 £750 +57.89% 1
Work from Home +19 5 £775 +24.00% 1
UK excluding London -46 4 £488 -11.36%
Scotland - 3 £488 -
South West -8 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Data Migration Project Manager 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 Project Manager in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Migration
2 14 (93.33%) Data Migration
3 6 (40.00%) Project Management
4 5 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) GDPR
5 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (20.00%) Azure
6 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
6 3 (20.00%) ETL
6 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 3 (20.00%) Runbook
6 3 (20.00%) Validation
7 2 (13.33%) Analytics
7 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (13.33%) Cutover Planning
7 2 (13.33%) Informatica
7 2 (13.33%) Power BI
7 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
7 2 (13.33%) QA
7 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
7 2 (13.33%) SDLC
7 2 (13.33%) SQL
7 2 (13.33%) Talend
7 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
8 1 (6.67%) Acceptance Criteria

Data Migration Project Manager 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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
3 1 (6.67%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) Metadata
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Billing
4 1 (6.67%) General Ledger
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Military
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Migration
2 14 (93.33%) Data Migration
3 6 (40.00%) Project Management
4 5 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (20.00%) ETL
6 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 3 (20.00%) Runbook
6 3 (20.00%) Validation
7 2 (13.33%) Analytics
7 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (13.33%) Cutover Planning
7 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
7 2 (13.33%) SDLC
7 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
8 1 (6.67%) Business Continuity
8 1 (6.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
2 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (13.33%) QA
4 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Informatica
2 2 (13.33%) Talend
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle