Data Migration Contract Job Trends

Data Migration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Data Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 92 90
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,256 804 1,041
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.90% 2.75% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 3.04% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 534 702
10th Percentile £363 £377 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £650
90th Percentile £700 £702 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £517 £505 £503
% change year-on-year +2.38% +0.50% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 8 40
10th Percentile £14.41 £29.58 £25.00
25th Percentile £16.09 £50.84 £40.00
Median hourly rate £29.50 £73.75 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% -7.81% +255.56%
75th Percentile £79.88 £87.16 £81.56
90th Percentile £95.72 £87.50 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £60.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -66.67% -4.00% +228.95%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Data Migration falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,265 26,485 38,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.97% 90.43% 86.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 17,037 25,025
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,203 922 2,327
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.20% -8.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.52 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £30.91
% change year-on-year -13.41% +2.74% -11.68%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data Migration job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Migration
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Migration over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Top 17 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 19 March 2026. 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 +12 1,083 £525 - 286
London +23 569 £550 - 123
UK excluding London -2 521 £517 +2.38% 212
Work from Home -19 347 £525 -2.33% 131
South East -12 150 £599 +14.10% 72
North of England -13 142 £500 -4.76% 42
Midlands -21 105 £450 -11.98% 29
North West +10 85 £460 -16.36% 18
West Midlands -36 65 £473 -6.44% 21
Yorkshire -35 48 £525 +31.25% 18
East Midlands -8 38 £450 -7.93% 8
Scotland +16 37 £550 +15.79% 23
East of England -15 33 £583 -10.38% 22
South West -23 31 £563 +15.38% 19
Northern Ireland +9 15 £400 -23.81% 1
Wales -1 10 £531 +18.06% 8
North East -3 9 £488 -27.78% 6

Data Migration
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 35 (2.79%) Confluence
1 35 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.72%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 6 (0.48%) GeoServer
4 6 (0.48%) Smallworld
5 5 (0.40%) Apache
6 4 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.24%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) Appian
8 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.080%) Moodle
9 1 (0.080%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.080%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.080%) SAS
9 1 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 65 (5.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
4 19 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (1.51%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.080%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.080%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 123 (9.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 56 (4.46%) Oracle EBS
3 35 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 16 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
6 14 (1.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 13 (1.04%) Loan IQ
7 13 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (1.04%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (0.96%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 11 (0.88%) SAP ERP
9 11 (0.88%) SAP HR
9 11 (0.88%) Workday HCM
10 10 (0.80%) Oracle EBS R12
11 9 (0.72%) SAP FI
11 9 (0.72%) SAP MDG
12 8 (0.64%) Oracle Cash Management
12 8 (0.64%) SAP CO
13 7 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 204 (16.24%) Azure
2 128 (10.19%) AWS
3 120 (9.55%) Power Platform
4 94 (7.48%) OCI
5 93 (7.40%) Dynamics 365
6 55 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (3.34%) SaaS
8 41 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 35 (2.79%) GitHub
10 28 (2.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 28 (2.23%) Snowflake
11 25 (1.99%) Amazon S3
11 25 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (1.99%) SuccessFactors
12 20 (1.59%) GCP
12 20 (1.59%) OpenShift
13 16 (1.27%) Entra ID
13 16 (1.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 15 (1.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 13 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.11%) SAN
2 13 (1.04%) DNS
3 12 (0.96%) NAS
4 4 (0.32%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (0.32%) SSL
4 4 (0.32%) VPN
4 4 (0.32%) VSAN
5 3 (0.24%) FCoE
5 3 (0.24%) Firewall
5 3 (0.24%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.16%) Network Security
6 2 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.080%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.080%) Internet
7 1 (0.080%) Intranet
7 1 (0.080%) LAN
7 1 (0.080%) VLAN
7 1 (0.080%) WAN
7 1 (0.080%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (7.72%) Power BI
2 85 (6.77%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (4.94%) SQL Server
4 46 (3.66%) Oracle Reports
5 43 (3.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 38 (3.03%) Relational Database
7 34 (2.71%) Metadata
8 29 (2.31%) Data Lake
9 27 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (1.91%) Oracle Database
11 23 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (1.27%) RDBMS
12 16 (1.27%) Tableau
13 15 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.19%) NoSQL
14 14 (1.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 14 (1.11%) SAP Data Services
15 13 (1.04%) MySQL
16 10 (0.80%) Big Data
16 10 (0.80%) DB2
Development Applications
1 104 (8.28%) JIRA
2 26 (2.07%) Git
3 19 (1.51%) Postman
4 17 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.27%) Zephyr
6 9 (0.72%) GitLab
7 7 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.48%) LSMW
9 5 (0.40%) Hudson
9 5 (0.40%) JUnit
9 5 (0.40%) Selenium
10 4 (0.32%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.32%) Toad
10 4 (0.32%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.24%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.24%) ERwin
11 3 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 465 (37.02%) Social Skills
2 420 (33.44%) Finance
3 149 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (9.39%) Public Sector
5 72 (5.73%) Banking
6 53 (4.22%) Manufacturing
7 50 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
8 39 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
9 37 (2.95%) Retail
10 29 (2.31%) Law
11 28 (2.23%) Legal
12 22 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
13 21 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
14 20 (1.59%) Marketing
15 18 (1.43%) Billing
15 18 (1.43%) General Ledger
16 17 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 15 (1.19%) Local Government
18 13 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
19 11 (0.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 226 (17.99%) Lead
2 184 (14.65%) Analyst
3 174 (13.85%) Consultant
4 153 (12.18%) Architect
5 113 (9.00%) Project Manager
6 102 (8.12%) Business Analyst
7 94 (7.48%) Senior
8 83 (6.61%) Data Engineer
9 64 (5.10%) Data Analyst
10 62 (4.94%) Data Migration Lead
11 57 (4.54%) Migration Analyst
12 56 (4.46%) Developer
13 48 (3.82%) SAP Consultant
14 45 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
15 43 (3.42%) Migration Manager
16 42 (3.34%) Data Architect
16 42 (3.34%) Data Migration Analyst
17 38 (3.03%) Data Consultant
18 37 (2.95%) Migration Consultant
19 34 (2.71%) Data Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (6.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 38 (3.03%) REST
3 30 (2.39%) Middleware
4 28 (2.23%) XML
5 25 (1.99%) SOAP
6 21 (1.67%) JSON
7 16 (1.27%) Lightning Web Components
8 15 (1.19%) .NET
9 13 (1.04%) Spring
9 13 (1.04%) Web Services
10 12 (0.96%) OpenTelemetry
10 12 (0.96%) PySpark
11 9 (0.72%) React
12 8 (0.64%) Visualforce
13 6 (0.48%) AngularJS
13 6 (0.48%) Kafka
13 6 (0.48%) LDAP
13 6 (0.48%) RESTful
14 5 (0.40%) Apache Avro
14 5 (0.40%) BAPI
Miscellaneous
1 171 (13.61%) Legacy Systems
2 88 (7.01%) Data Structures
3 41 (3.26%) Management Information System
4 39 (3.11%) Cloud Native
5 37 (2.95%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.23%) Product Ownership
7 25 (1.99%) Replication
8 23 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (1.19%) Data Centre
10 15 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (0.96%) FMCG
11 12 (0.96%) NHS
11 12 (0.96%) Reference Data
12 11 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.80%) CMDB
13 10 (0.80%) Public Cloud
14 9 (0.72%) Tandem
14 9 (0.72%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.23%) Windows
2 9 (0.72%) Linux
2 9 (0.72%) Windows Server
3 8 (0.64%) Windows 10
4 7 (0.56%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.56%) zOS
5 6 (0.48%) Unix
6 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.16%) Solaris
7 1 (0.080%) AIX
7 1 (0.080%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,256 (100.00%) Migration
2 295 (23.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 282 (22.45%) Validation
4 273 (21.74%) Agile
5 241 (19.19%) ERP
6 221 (17.60%) User Acceptance Testing
7 217 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
8 206 (16.40%) ETL
9 187 (14.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 182 (14.49%) Data Modelling
11 141 (11.23%) Project Management
12 136 (10.83%) Analytics
13 134 (10.67%) Workshop Facilitation
14 132 (10.51%) Business Intelligence
14 132 (10.51%) Data Cleansing
15 121 (9.63%) Data Mapping
16 115 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
16 115 (9.16%) DevOps
17 114 (9.08%) Change Management
18 113 (9.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 245 (19.51%) SQL
2 103 (8.20%) Python
3 41 (3.26%) Java
4 22 (1.75%) PL/SQL
5 19 (1.51%) JavaScript
6 17 (1.35%) Bash
7 15 (1.19%) Apex Code
7 15 (1.19%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.11%) C#
9 8 (0.64%) VBA
10 7 (0.56%) Kotlin
10 7 (0.56%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.48%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.40%) ABAP
12 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.40%) Korn
12 5 (0.40%) Perl
12 5 (0.40%) PHP
13 4 (0.32%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.32%) X++
Qualifications
1 187 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 136 (10.83%) SC Cleared
3 72 (5.73%) Degree
4 35 (2.79%) PMP
5 28 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.23%) PMI Certification
6 26 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (1.43%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 16 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.96%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.96%) SAP Certification
11 11 (0.88%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.56%) OCP
12 7 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (0.48%) CIMA
14 5 (0.40%) ACCA
15 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 4 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (16.72%) Data Quality
2 113 (9.00%) QA
3 66 (5.25%) GDPR
4 20 (1.59%) PMO
5 16 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.04%) COBIT
7 12 (0.96%) NIST
8 9 (0.72%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.72%) IFRS
9 8 (0.64%) SLA
10 7 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.56%) GAAP
10 7 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.48%) GMP
12 5 (0.40%) GxP
12 5 (0.40%) IFRS 9
13 4 (0.32%) Basel III
13 4 (0.32%) HL7
13 4 (0.32%) IFRS 17
14 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
System Software
1 22 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.43%) Docker
4 13 (1.04%) VMware NSX
4 13 (1.04%) vSphere
5 10 (0.80%) NFS
6 5 (0.40%) SRDF
7 1 (0.080%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 41 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.07%) Terraform
3 18 (1.43%) Grafana
4 16 (1.27%) Ansible
5 13 (1.04%) Argo
5 13 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (1.04%) vCenter Server
6 8 (0.64%) SCCM
7 7 (0.56%) HP ALM
8 6 (0.48%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.48%) vMotion
9 4 (0.32%) EMC TimeFinder
9 4 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.24%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.080%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.080%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.080%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.080%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 236 (18.79%) Oracle
2 222 (17.68%) SAP
3 199 (15.84%) Microsoft
4 61 (4.86%) Salesforce
5 50 (3.98%) Databricks
6 42 (3.34%) Workday
7 27 (2.15%) Informatica
7 27 (2.15%) ServiceNow
8 26 (2.07%) VMware
9 25 (1.99%) Sage
10 24 (1.91%) Pure Storage
11 19 (1.51%) MuleSoft
11 19 (1.51%) Talend
12 17 (1.35%) Avaloq
13 16 (1.27%) Red Hat
14 15 (1.19%) IFS
15 14 (1.11%) Ariba
15 14 (1.11%) Google
15 14 (1.11%) IBM
16 13 (1.04%) Splunk