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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 85 101
Rank change year-on-year +9 +16 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,666 925 912
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.13% 2.81% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 3.11% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,077 558 612
10th Percentile £366 £363 £363
25th Percentile £431 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 20 24
10th Percentile £17.75 £17.52 £41.35
25th Percentile £23.00 £32.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -25.00% +142.42%
75th Percentile £62.75 £77.08 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.36 £47.75 £80.00
% change year-on-year -19.68% -40.31% +199.07%

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 45,167 29,748 33,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.41% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,886 18,653 21,488
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,759 1,659 1,873
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.47 £17.30 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.05 £40.94
% change year-on-year +90.72% -43.70% +3.38%

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 5 August 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 5 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Top 18 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 5 August 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 +11 1,475 £530 +0.86% 396
UK excluding London +15 756 £523 +4.50% 259
London +21 721 £550 - 180
Work from Home +4 453 £525 - 232
South East +11 204 £550 +2.96% 71
North of England -5 199 £527 +10.95% 55
Midlands +2 159 £473 -5.40% 74
North West +2 122 £531 +11.84% 39
West Midlands -6 116 £450 -10.00% 50
South West +12 88 £523 -0.48% 19
Yorkshire -36 64 £525 +10.53% 14
East of England +13 55 £575 -4.96% 20
East Midlands +8 39 £525 +16.67% 24
Scotland -12 28 £525 +20.41% 15
Northern Ireland +22 20 £450 -30.77% 4
North East -25 16 £625 +8.70% 4
Wales -9 7 £463 -2.63% 3
Channel Islands +3 2 £450 -

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 66 (3.96%) SharePoint
2 51 (3.06%) Confluence
3 11 (0.66%) Apache
3 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
4 8 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.30%) Tuxedo
6 3 (0.18%) SAS
7 2 (0.12%) CMS
7 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.060%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.060%) IIS
8 1 (0.060%) Mendix
8 1 (0.060%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 76 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
3 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 14 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
4 11 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 176 (10.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (2.28%) Oracle EBS
4 26 (1.56%) Oracle Payables
5 24 (1.44%) Oracle ERP
6 23 (1.38%) Oracle Receivables
7 22 (1.32%) SAP ERP
8 19 (1.14%) NetSuite
9 15 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
9 15 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
10 14 (0.84%) Oracle Assets
10 14 (0.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 13 (0.78%) iTrent
12 11 (0.66%) Teamcenter
12 11 (0.66%) Workday HCM
13 10 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
14 9 (0.54%) SAP MDG
14 9 (0.54%) SAP SD
15 8 (0.48%) NEC Housing
15 8 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 275 (16.51%) Azure
2 167 (10.02%) Power Platform
3 159 (9.54%) AWS
4 136 (8.16%) Dynamics 365
5 102 (6.12%) OCI
6 87 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (4.38%) SaaS
8 56 (3.36%) Azure Data Factory
9 49 (2.94%) Snowflake
10 46 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
11 38 (2.28%) GitHub
12 36 (2.16%) Power Automate
12 36 (2.16%) SuccessFactors
13 34 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 29 (1.74%) Amazon S3
15 27 (1.62%) PowerApps
16 24 (1.44%) GCP
17 18 (1.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
18 17 (1.02%) dbt
18 17 (1.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.78%) SAN
2 10 (0.60%) DNS
3 9 (0.54%) NAS
4 7 (0.42%) VPN
5 6 (0.36%) VSAN
6 5 (0.30%) Firewall
7 4 (0.24%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (0.18%) FCoE
8 3 (0.18%) Intranet
8 3 (0.18%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.12%) HTTP
9 2 (0.12%) Network Security
10 1 (0.060%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.060%) Internet
10 1 (0.060%) LAN
10 1 (0.060%) SNMP
10 1 (0.060%) SSL
10 1 (0.060%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.060%) VLAN
10 1 (0.060%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (8.28%) Power BI
2 116 (6.96%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 69 (4.14%) Oracle Reports
5 49 (2.94%) Data Lake
5 49 (2.94%) Metadata
6 43 (2.58%) Relational Database
7 31 (1.86%) Oracle Database
8 29 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 24 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (1.20%) RDBMS
11 18 (1.08%) NoSQL
12 16 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 14 (0.84%) SAP Data Services
14 14 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 12 (0.72%) Oracle Exadata
16 11 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
16 11 (0.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 143 (8.58%) JIRA
2 60 (3.60%) Git
3 43 (2.58%) Zephyr
4 35 (2.10%) Postman
5 20 (1.20%) GitLab
5 20 (1.20%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
7 12 (0.72%) Selenium
8 8 (0.48%) Hudson
9 6 (0.36%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.36%) Gatling
9 6 (0.36%) JUnit
9 6 (0.36%) LSMW
9 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 6 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.30%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.18%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
General
1 588 (35.29%) Finance
2 472 (28.33%) Social Skills
3 214 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 100 (6.00%) Banking
6 88 (5.28%) Manufacturing
7 60 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
8 52 (3.12%) Retail
9 51 (3.06%) Law
10 42 (2.52%) General Ledger
11 34 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
12 32 (1.92%) Local Government
13 30 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 28 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.68%) Legal
15 27 (1.62%) Marketing
16 23 (1.38%) Billing
17 22 (1.32%) Automotive
17 22 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
17 22 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 325 (19.51%) Lead
2 231 (13.87%) Analyst
3 215 (12.91%) Architect
4 181 (10.86%) Consultant
5 142 (8.52%) Data Engineer
6 135 (8.10%) Senior
7 113 (6.78%) Data Migration Lead
7 113 (6.78%) Project Manager
8 112 (6.72%) Business Analyst
9 88 (5.28%) Developer
10 78 (4.68%) Data Analyst
11 74 (4.44%) Data Architect
12 66 (3.96%) Migration Engineer
13 54 (3.24%) Data Migration Engineer
13 54 (3.24%) SAP Consultant
14 53 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
15 48 (2.88%) Data Consultant
15 48 (2.88%) Migration Analyst
15 48 (2.88%) Migration Manager
16 44 (2.64%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (6.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 45 (2.70%) Middleware
2 45 (2.70%) REST
3 31 (1.86%) .NET
4 26 (1.56%) XML
5 25 (1.50%) SOAP
6 19 (1.14%) JSON
6 19 (1.14%) Kafka
7 16 (0.96%) PySpark
8 15 (0.90%) Spring
9 13 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
9 13 (0.78%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 9 (0.54%) HTML
11 8 (0.48%) RESTful
11 8 (0.48%) Spring Boot
12 7 (0.42%) ADO
12 7 (0.42%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (0.42%) Playwright
12 7 (0.42%) React
13 6 (0.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 188 (11.28%) Legacy Systems
2 113 (6.78%) Data Structures
3 50 (3.00%) Management Information System
4 49 (2.94%) Cloud Native
5 46 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 42 (2.52%) Product Ownership
7 40 (2.40%) Public Cloud
8 34 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
9 33 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (1.38%) Replication
11 20 (1.20%) FMCG
12 18 (1.08%) Data Centre
13 17 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (1.02%) NHS
14 16 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
15 14 (0.84%) Mainframe
16 12 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
17 11 (0.66%) Reference Data
17 11 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
17 11 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (1.98%) Windows
2 31 (1.86%) Linux
3 12 (0.72%) AIX
4 8 (0.48%) Unix
5 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (0.30%) zOS
7 4 (0.24%) VMS
8 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,666 (100.00%) Migration
2 457 (27.43%) Validation
3 384 (23.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 375 (22.51%) ERP
4 375 (22.51%) User Acceptance Testing
5 293 (17.59%) Agile
6 273 (16.39%) ETL
7 261 (15.67%) Data Modelling
8 253 (15.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 214 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
10 189 (11.34%) Data Governance
11 173 (10.38%) Business Intelligence
12 164 (9.84%) Data Cleansing
13 156 (9.36%) DevOps
14 155 (9.30%) Analytics
15 143 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
16 135 (8.10%) Data Mapping
17 133 (7.98%) CI/CD
18 125 (7.50%) Project Management
19 122 (7.32%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 334 (20.05%) SQL
2 118 (7.08%) Python
3 47 (2.82%) Java
4 33 (1.98%) JavaScript
4 33 (1.98%) PL/SQL
5 25 (1.50%) C#
6 19 (1.14%) Bash
7 15 (0.90%) PowerShell
8 13 (0.78%) T-SQL
9 12 (0.72%) Kotlin
10 11 (0.66%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.54%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.42%) VBA
13 6 (0.36%) C
13 6 (0.36%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.36%) VB
13 6 (0.36%) VB6
14 5 (0.30%) ABAP
14 5 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.24%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 278 (16.69%) Security Cleared
2 219 (13.15%) SC Cleared
3 60 (3.60%) Degree
4 41 (2.46%) DV Cleared
5 35 (2.10%) PMP
6 33 (1.98%) ISTQB
6 33 (1.98%) PMI Certification
7 30 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (1.74%) CIMA
9 28 (1.68%) ACCA
10 17 (1.02%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.48%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.48%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 7 (0.42%) SAP Certification
14 6 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
15 5 (0.30%) ISEB
15 5 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 325 (19.51%) Data Quality
2 149 (8.94%) QA
3 78 (4.68%) GDPR
4 34 (2.04%) PMO
5 13 (0.78%) SLA
6 11 (0.66%) Accessibility
6 11 (0.66%) IFRS
7 9 (0.54%) HL7
8 8 (0.48%) GRC
8 8 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
9 7 (0.42%) GMP
9 7 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.30%) DICOM
11 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.24%) GxP
12 4 (0.24%) PERC
12 4 (0.24%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.18%) GAAP
14 2 (0.12%) COBIT
System Software
1 18 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (0.90%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.90%) Docker
3 14 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
4 10 (0.60%) vSphere
5 7 (0.42%) SRDF
5 7 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.30%) NFS
7 3 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 42 (2.52%) Terraform
2 31 (1.86%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.68%) Ansible
4 12 (0.72%) Data Guard
4 12 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
5 11 (0.66%) HP ALM
6 10 (0.60%) Grafana
6 10 (0.60%) vCenter Server
7 9 (0.54%) Argo
8 6 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
9 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
10 4 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (0.24%) EMC TimeFinder
10 4 (0.24%) Karpenter
10 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.24%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.18%) SnapVault
12 2 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.12%) vMotion
Vendors
1 330 (19.81%) Oracle
2 309 (18.55%) SAP
3 279 (16.75%) Microsoft
4 83 (4.98%) Databricks
5 76 (4.56%) Salesforce
6 36 (2.16%) ServiceNow
7 30 (1.80%) Informatica
7 30 (1.80%) Workday
8 25 (1.50%) Talend
9 23 (1.38%) IFS
10 21 (1.26%) Google
10 21 (1.26%) IBM
10 21 (1.26%) VMware
11 20 (1.20%) Ariba
12 18 (1.08%) Sage
13 17 (1.02%) MuleSoft
14 14 (0.84%) Infor
14 14 (0.84%) Pure Storage
15 13 (0.78%) InterSystems
15 13 (0.78%) Red Hat