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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 87 103
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,639 971 829
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.99% 2.94% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 3.24% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,049 591 549
10th Percentile £363 £380 £388
25th Percentile £425 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -0.93% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £647 £638
90th Percentile £733 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 14 5
10th Percentile £17.05 £15.00 £45.80
25th Percentile £21.25 £32.25 £62.00
Median hourly rate £36.71 £35.25 £66.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.14% -46.99% -25.65%
75th Percentile £49.67 £70.31 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £83.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.43 £35.16 £80.00
% change year-on-year -19.13% -56.06% +14.74%

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 46,382 29,970 32,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.48% 90.66% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,008 18,622 19,630
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £733 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,245 1,858 1,349
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.19 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.64 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.01% -48.10% +1.18%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -3 1,402 £525 -2.33% 943
UK excluding London -5 712 £500 - 629
London +14 686 £550 - 444
Work from Home +2 503 £525 -2.28% 447
North of England -18 176 £525 +10.53% 127
Midlands -3 173 £475 -13.64% 110
South East -17 163 £505 -14.04% 168
West Midlands +9 124 £450 -14.29% 79
North West +2 106 £538 +19.44% 62
South West +24 98 £523 -0.48% 46
Yorkshire -38 54 £519 +3.80% 39
East of England -7 48 £510 +3.29% 55
East Midlands -3 45 £525 -4.55% 31
Scotland -19 39 £513 +7.89% 71
North East -21 19 £475 +8.57% 26
Northern Ireland +18 15 £463 +15.63% 31
Wales -11 9 £550 +6.02% 24

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 69 (4.21%) Confluence
2 62 (3.78%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.73%) Apache
6 10 (0.61%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.37%) CICS
8 6 (0.37%) CMS
9 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.31%) SAS
9 5 (0.31%) Tuxedo
10 4 (0.24%) SugarCRM
11 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.12%) Mendix
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.061%) Documentum
12 1 (0.061%) IIS
12 1 (0.061%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 72 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
3 19 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.98%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.24%) Windchill
8 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.061%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.061%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 162 (9.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 55 (3.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (2.01%) Oracle Payables
4 28 (1.71%) Oracle Receivables
5 21 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
6 20 (1.22%) NetSuite
7 18 (1.10%) SAP ERP
7 18 (1.10%) SAP HCM
8 16 (0.98%) Oracle Financials
8 16 (0.98%) Oracle General Ledger
8 16 (0.98%) SAP FI
9 14 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
9 14 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
9 14 (0.85%) SAP CO
9 14 (0.85%) SAP SD
10 13 (0.79%) Teamcenter
10 13 (0.79%) Workday HCM
11 12 (0.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 12 (0.73%) SAP MM
12 11 (0.67%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 273 (16.66%) Azure
2 153 (9.33%) AWS
3 138 (8.42%) Power Platform
4 126 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 90 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
6 81 (4.94%) OCI
7 60 (3.66%) SaaS
8 53 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
9 47 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 45 (2.75%) SuccessFactors
11 43 (2.62%) Snowflake
12 38 (2.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 38 (2.32%) Power Automate
13 34 (2.07%) Amazon S3
14 30 (1.83%) PowerApps
15 28 (1.71%) GCP
15 28 (1.71%) GitHub
16 23 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
17 22 (1.34%) dbt
18 18 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.31%) NAS
1 5 (0.31%) SAN
1 5 (0.31%) VPN
2 3 (0.18%) DMZ
2 3 (0.18%) Firewall
2 3 (0.18%) Intranet
3 2 (0.12%) DNS
3 2 (0.12%) VSAN
4 1 (0.061%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.061%) DKIM
4 1 (0.061%) DMARC
4 1 (0.061%) Internet
4 1 (0.061%) SNMP
4 1 (0.061%) SSL
4 1 (0.061%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (7.20%) Data Warehouse
2 103 (6.28%) Power BI
3 69 (4.21%) Metadata
4 63 (3.84%) SQL Server
5 53 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
6 51 (3.11%) Relational Database
7 50 (3.05%) Data Lake
8 42 (2.56%) Oracle Database
9 33 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (1.28%) RDBMS
10 21 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 19 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (1.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 15 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 14 (0.85%) MongoDB
15 13 (0.79%) Db2
16 12 (0.73%) BigQuery
16 12 (0.73%) GIS
16 12 (0.73%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 152 (9.27%) JIRA
2 53 (3.23%) Git
3 45 (2.75%) Zephyr
4 31 (1.89%) Postman
5 18 (1.10%) GitLab
6 11 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (0.49%) Selenium
8 6 (0.37%) Gatling
8 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 5 (0.31%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.31%) Hudson
9 5 (0.31%) LSMW
9 5 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.18%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
12 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.12%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.12%) Yeoman
General
1 560 (34.17%) Finance
2 464 (28.31%) Social Skills
3 218 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
4 159 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 101 (6.16%) Banking
6 89 (5.43%) Manufacturing
7 63 (3.84%) Retail
8 61 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
9 54 (3.29%) General Ledger
10 41 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
11 36 (2.20%) Local Government
12 31 (1.89%) Legal
13 29 (1.77%) Billing
14 28 (1.71%) Automotive
15 26 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
16 23 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 23 (1.40%) Law
17 22 (1.34%) Marketing
18 19 (1.16%) Military
18 19 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 253 (15.44%) Analyst
2 252 (15.38%) Lead
3 201 (12.26%) Consultant
4 196 (11.96%) Architect
5 143 (8.72%) Data Engineer
6 141 (8.60%) Senior
7 115 (7.02%) Business Analyst
8 100 (6.10%) Data Migration Lead
9 95 (5.80%) Project Manager
10 90 (5.49%) Data Analyst
11 80 (4.88%) Developer
12 79 (4.82%) Data Architect
13 70 (4.27%) Migration Engineer
14 61 (3.72%) SAP Consultant
15 58 (3.54%) Data Migration Engineer
15 58 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
16 53 (3.23%) Data Consultant
17 43 (2.62%) Migration Analyst
17 43 (2.62%) Migration Consultant
18 40 (2.44%) Data Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (6.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 56 (3.42%) Middleware
3 44 (2.68%) REST
4 32 (1.95%) .NET
4 32 (1.95%) Terraform
5 30 (1.83%) SOAP
6 29 (1.77%) XML
7 23 (1.40%) PySpark
8 17 (1.04%) JSON
9 13 (0.79%) ADO
9 13 (0.79%) Keycloak
9 13 (0.79%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 11 (0.67%) HTML
10 11 (0.67%) Kafka
10 11 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
10 11 (0.67%) SAP Fiori
10 11 (0.67%) Web Services
11 9 (0.55%) Spring
11 9 (0.55%) Spring Boot
12 7 (0.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 169 (10.31%) Legacy Systems
2 118 (7.20%) Data Structures
3 56 (3.42%) Onboarding
4 52 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 51 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
6 40 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 40 (2.44%) Public Cloud
7 31 (1.89%) Cloud Native
8 27 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.34%) Reference Data
10 21 (1.28%) Replication
11 18 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (1.10%) NHS
12 17 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
13 16 (0.98%) FMCG
14 14 (0.85%) Reinsurance
15 13 (0.79%) Low-Code
15 13 (0.79%) Mainframe
16 12 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (0.73%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.26%) Windows
2 33 (2.01%) Linux
3 14 (0.85%) Unix
4 12 (0.73%) AIX
5 6 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
5 6 (0.37%) zOS
6 4 (0.24%) VMS
7 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,639 (100.00%) Migration
2 502 (30.63%) Validation
3 467 (28.49%) Stakeholder Management
4 369 (22.51%) User Acceptance Testing
5 347 (21.17%) ERP
6 277 (16.90%) Agile
7 258 (15.74%) Data Modelling
8 257 (15.68%) ETL
9 223 (13.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 213 (13.00%) Data Governance
11 209 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
12 163 (9.95%) DevOps
13 159 (9.70%) Data Cleansing
14 148 (9.03%) Analytics
15 141 (8.60%) Requirements Gathering
16 140 (8.54%) Data Mapping
17 139 (8.48%) Business Intelligence
18 135 (8.24%) System Integration Testing
19 126 (7.69%) CI/CD
20 124 (7.57%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 348 (21.23%) SQL
2 97 (5.92%) Python
3 32 (1.95%) JavaScript
4 29 (1.77%) PL/SQL
5 28 (1.71%) C#
6 27 (1.65%) Java
7 16 (0.98%) PowerShell
8 13 (0.79%) Bash
9 11 (0.67%) T-SQL
9 11 (0.67%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.61%) Apex Code
11 8 (0.49%) ABAP
11 8 (0.49%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.37%) JCL
12 6 (0.37%) MUMPS
12 6 (0.37%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.37%) X++
13 5 (0.31%) C
13 5 (0.31%) VB
13 5 (0.31%) VB6
Qualifications
1 300 (18.30%) Security Cleared
2 247 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 60 (3.66%) Degree
4 37 (2.26%) ACCA
4 37 (2.26%) CIMA
5 33 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 31 (1.89%) PMI Certification
6 31 (1.89%) PMP
7 30 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 29 (1.77%) ISTQB
9 14 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.61%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.49%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.37%) CBAP
14 6 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.37%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.24%) AWS Certification
16 3 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 348 (21.23%) Data Quality
2 128 (7.81%) QA
3 67 (4.09%) GDPR
4 34 (2.07%) PMO
5 15 (0.92%) GRC
6 11 (0.67%) IFRS
7 9 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.55%) HL7
8 8 (0.49%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.49%) SLA
9 6 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
10 5 (0.31%) DICOM
10 5 (0.31%) GxP
11 4 (0.24%) GMP
11 4 (0.24%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.24%) NCSC
12 3 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.18%) SEPA
13 2 (0.12%) GAAP
13 2 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 19 (1.16%) Docker
2 14 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
3 12 (0.73%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (0.18%) NFS
6 3 (0.18%) SRDF
6 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.18%) vSphere
7 1 (0.061%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (1.22%) Ansible
2 19 (1.16%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.73%) Data Guard
3 12 (0.73%) Karpenter
3 12 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
4 7 (0.43%) Control-M
5 6 (0.37%) HP ALM
6 5 (0.31%) SnapMirror
7 4 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
8 3 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (0.18%) NetBackup
8 3 (0.18%) SnapVault
8 3 (0.18%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.12%) Argo
9 2 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.12%) Grafana
9 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.061%) Autotask
10 1 (0.061%) SCCM
Vendors
1 335 (20.44%) Oracle
2 307 (18.73%) SAP
3 278 (16.96%) Microsoft
4 95 (5.80%) Databricks
5 71 (4.33%) Salesforce
6 42 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 33 (2.01%) Workday
8 32 (1.95%) Informatica
9 27 (1.65%) Google
10 22 (1.34%) Ariba
10 22 (1.34%) IBM
10 22 (1.34%) Talend
11 19 (1.16%) IFS
12 15 (0.92%) Sage
13 14 (0.85%) InterSystems
14 13 (0.79%) Infor
15 10 (0.61%) MuleSoft
16 9 (0.55%) Alteryx
16 9 (0.55%) Atlassian
16 9 (0.55%) VMware