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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 93 92
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,192 824 1,025
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.81% 2.79% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.26% 3.09% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 751 547 693
10th Percentile £375 £379 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £519 £508
% change year-on-year +1.20% +2.22% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 7 39
10th Percentile £13.95 £28.12 £25.00
25th Percentile £15.37 £45.63 £40.00
Median hourly rate £29.50 £85.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.29% +6.25% +158.06%
75th Percentile £79.88 £87.28 £83.13
90th Percentile £95.72 £87.50 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -65.22% +15.00% +163.16%

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 36,537 26,694 38,745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.12% 90.29% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,174 17,018 25,183
10th Percentile £313 £306 £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 £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.28% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,160 902 2,347
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.51 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £77.10 £71.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.55 £31.76 £31.80
% change year-on-year -16.40% -0.13% -9.14%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +6 1,018 £538 - 271
London +17 542 £550 - 80
UK excluding London -10 487 £525 +1.20% 202
Work from Home -24 336 £540 -0.92% 109
South East -15 142 £609 +15.95% 83
North of England -25 126 £500 -6.98% 43
Midlands -28 106 £488 -7.14% 27
North West +1 79 £460 -12.38% 17
West Midlands -45 66 £500 -4.76% 23
Scotland +23 40 £550 +15.79% 9
Yorkshire -48 39 £540 -0.69% 21
East Midlands -6 38 £450 -7.93% 4
South West -30 30 £600 +21.21% 21
East of England -38 21 £475 -26.92% 15
Northern Ireland +8 13 £475 -9.52%
Wales +5 10 £531 +6.25% 5
North East -11 8 £494 -26.85% 5

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 (2.94%) Confluence
2 33 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.76%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 6 (0.50%) GeoServer
5 6 (0.50%) Smallworld
6 5 (0.42%) Apache
7 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.25%) CMS
8 3 (0.25%) LiveLink
9 2 (0.17%) Appian
9 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.084%) IIS
10 1 (0.084%) Moodle
10 1 (0.084%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.084%) SAS
10 1 (0.084%) WebSphere
Applications
1 63 (5.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (1.68%) Spreadsheet
4 19 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.34%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.084%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.084%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 117 (9.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (4.45%) Oracle EBS
3 37 (3.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (1.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 17 (1.43%) Oracle Payables
6 15 (1.26%) SAP HR
7 14 (1.17%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (1.17%) Oracle General Ledger
7 14 (1.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 13 (1.09%) Loan IQ
9 12 (1.01%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 11 (0.92%) NetSuite
10 11 (0.92%) SAP ERP
11 10 (0.84%) Oracle EBS R12
11 10 (0.84%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.67%) Oracle Cash Management
12 8 (0.67%) SAP FI
12 8 (0.67%) SAP MDG
13 7 (0.59%) SAP CO
13 7 (0.59%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 191 (16.02%) Azure
2 125 (10.49%) AWS
3 103 (8.64%) Power Platform
4 91 (7.63%) OCI
5 83 (6.96%) Dynamics 365
6 48 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (3.36%) Azure Data Factory
8 36 (3.02%) SaaS
9 29 (2.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 27 (2.27%) GitHub
11 26 (2.18%) Snowflake
12 24 (2.01%) Amazon S3
12 24 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
12 24 (2.01%) SuccessFactors
13 19 (1.59%) GCP
14 16 (1.34%) Entra ID
14 16 (1.34%) OpenShift
15 15 (1.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 15 (1.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 14 (1.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.09%) SAN
2 12 (1.01%) NAS
3 8 (0.67%) DNS
4 4 (0.34%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (0.34%) SSL
4 4 (0.34%) VPN
4 4 (0.34%) VSAN
5 3 (0.25%) FCoE
5 3 (0.25%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.17%) Firewall
6 2 (0.17%) Network Security
6 2 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.084%) Internet
7 1 (0.084%) Intranet
7 1 (0.084%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (6.71%) Data Warehouse
1 80 (6.71%) Power BI
2 54 (4.53%) SQL Server
3 45 (3.78%) Oracle Reports
4 44 (3.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 36 (3.02%) Relational Database
6 32 (2.68%) Metadata
7 30 (2.52%) Data Lake
8 28 (2.35%) Oracle Database
9 25 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
10 23 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (1.34%) RDBMS
12 15 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (1.26%) Tableau
13 14 (1.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 13 (1.09%) NoSQL
15 12 (1.01%) MySQL
16 10 (0.84%) Big Data
16 10 (0.84%) DB2
16 10 (0.84%) GIS
Development Applications
1 97 (8.14%) JIRA
2 24 (2.01%) Git
3 19 (1.59%) Postman
4 15 (1.26%) Zephyr
5 12 (1.01%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.67%) GitLab
7 7 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.50%) LSMW
9 5 (0.42%) JUnit
10 4 (0.34%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.34%) Hudson
10 4 (0.34%) Selenium
10 4 (0.34%) Toad
10 4 (0.34%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.25%) ERwin
11 3 (0.25%) MLflow
11 3 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 446 (37.42%) Social Skills
2 390 (32.72%) Finance
3 139 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (9.31%) Public Sector
5 74 (6.21%) Banking
6 51 (4.28%) Manufacturing
7 48 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
8 38 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
9 35 (2.94%) Retail
10 27 (2.27%) Legal
11 23 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
13 18 (1.51%) Law
14 17 (1.43%) General Ledger
14 17 (1.43%) Marketing
15 16 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (1.26%) Billing
17 14 (1.17%) Local Government
18 13 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
19 11 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 198 (16.61%) Lead
2 177 (14.85%) Analyst
3 166 (13.93%) Consultant
4 141 (11.83%) Architect
5 108 (9.06%) Project Manager
6 99 (8.31%) Business Analyst
7 93 (7.80%) Senior
8 77 (6.46%) Data Engineer
9 60 (5.03%) Data Analyst
9 60 (5.03%) Data Migration Lead
10 55 (4.61%) Developer
10 55 (4.61%) Migration Analyst
11 46 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
12 45 (3.78%) SAP Consultant
13 43 (3.61%) Data Architect
14 41 (3.44%) Data Migration Analyst
15 39 (3.27%) Migration Manager
16 33 (2.77%) Data Consultant
17 32 (2.68%) Migration Consultant
17 32 (2.68%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (7.05%) Oracle Fusion
2 41 (3.44%) REST
3 30 (2.52%) Middleware
4 27 (2.27%) XML
5 23 (1.93%) SOAP
6 18 (1.51%) JSON
7 17 (1.43%) Lightning Web Components
8 13 (1.09%) Web Services
9 12 (1.01%) .NET
9 12 (1.01%) PySpark
10 11 (0.92%) Spring
11 8 (0.67%) React
11 8 (0.67%) Visualforce
12 7 (0.59%) Kafka
12 7 (0.59%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (0.42%) AngularJS
13 5 (0.42%) Apache Avro
13 5 (0.42%) LDAP
13 5 (0.42%) RESTful
13 5 (0.42%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 162 (13.59%) Legacy Systems
2 78 (6.54%) Data Structures
3 38 (3.19%) Onboarding
4 37 (3.10%) Management Information System
5 30 (2.52%) Cloud Native
6 25 (2.10%) Product Ownership
6 25 (2.10%) Replication
7 21 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.17%) Data Centre
10 11 (0.92%) NHS
10 11 (0.92%) Reference Data
11 10 (0.84%) CMDB
11 10 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (0.84%) FMCG
11 10 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (0.84%) Public Cloud
12 9 (0.76%) Tandem
13 8 (0.67%) Mainframe
13 8 (0.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.27%) Windows
2 8 (0.67%) Linux
2 8 (0.67%) Windows 10
2 8 (0.67%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.59%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.59%) zOS
4 6 (0.50%) Unix
5 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.17%) Solaris
7 1 (0.084%) AIX
7 1 (0.084%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,192 (100.00%) Migration
2 288 (24.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 266 (22.32%) Agile
4 255 (21.39%) Validation
5 222 (18.62%) ERP
6 214 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
7 199 (16.69%) ETL
8 193 (16.19%) User Acceptance Testing
9 166 (13.93%) Data Modelling
9 166 (13.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 137 (11.49%) Analytics
11 133 (11.16%) Project Management
12 127 (10.65%) Workshop Facilitation
13 121 (10.15%) Data Cleansing
14 114 (9.56%) Business Intelligence
14 114 (9.56%) Data Mapping
15 111 (9.31%) Change Management
16 102 (8.56%) DevOps
17 99 (8.31%) Continuous Improvement
18 96 (8.05%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 241 (20.22%) SQL
2 89 (7.47%) Python
3 42 (3.52%) Java
4 22 (1.85%) PL/SQL
5 19 (1.59%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.26%) Apex Code
6 15 (1.26%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.17%) C#
8 10 (0.84%) Bash
9 9 (0.76%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.59%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.50%) VBA
12 5 (0.42%) ABAP
12 5 (0.42%) Korn
12 5 (0.42%) Perl
12 5 (0.42%) PHP
12 5 (0.42%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.42%) X++
13 4 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 180 (15.10%) Security Cleared
2 133 (11.16%) SC Cleared
3 72 (6.04%) Degree
4 34 (2.85%) PMP
5 27 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (2.18%) PMI Certification
7 23 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.34%) AWS Certification
8 16 (1.34%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.34%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.01%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.01%) SAP Certification
10 11 (0.92%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.50%) CIMA
12 5 (0.42%) ACCA
13 4 (0.34%) OCP
13 4 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 4 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (15.60%) Data Quality
2 100 (8.39%) QA
3 62 (5.20%) GDPR
4 19 (1.59%) PMO
5 15 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.09%) COBIT
7 12 (1.01%) NIST
8 9 (0.76%) IFRS
9 8 (0.67%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.59%) GAAP
10 7 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.59%) SLA
11 6 (0.50%) GMP
12 5 (0.42%) GxP
12 5 (0.42%) IFRS 9
13 4 (0.34%) Basel III
13 4 (0.34%) GRC
13 4 (0.34%) IFRS 17
14 3 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 18 (1.51%) Active Directory
1 18 (1.51%) Docker
2 16 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.84%) NFS
4 8 (0.67%) VMware NSX
4 8 (0.67%) vSphere
5 5 (0.42%) SRDF
6 1 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 34 (2.85%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.76%) Terraform
3 13 (1.09%) Grafana
4 12 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.84%) Ansible
6 8 (0.67%) Argo
6 8 (0.67%) SCCM
6 8 (0.67%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.50%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.50%) HP ALM
7 6 (0.50%) vMotion
8 4 (0.34%) EMC TimeFinder
8 4 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.25%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.084%) Avamar
11 1 (0.084%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.084%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.084%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 234 (19.63%) Oracle
2 216 (18.12%) SAP
3 177 (14.85%) Microsoft
4 56 (4.70%) Salesforce
5 46 (3.86%) Databricks
6 43 (3.61%) Workday
7 26 (2.18%) Sage
8 25 (2.10%) Informatica
8 25 (2.10%) ServiceNow
9 20 (1.68%) VMware
10 19 (1.59%) Pure Storage
11 18 (1.51%) MuleSoft
11 18 (1.51%) Talend
12 15 (1.26%) Avaloq
13 13 (1.09%) Google
13 13 (1.09%) IFS
14 12 (1.01%) Ariba
14 12 (1.01%) IBM
15 11 (0.92%) Red Hat
16 9 (0.76%) ESRI