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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 92 94
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,034 858 1,056
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.79% 2.54% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 2.88% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 645 572 702
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £461 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £553
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.71% +5.24%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 3 12
10th Percentile £14.61 £40.40 £82.53
25th Percentile £15.94 £48.50 £83.31
Median hourly rate £64.50 £64.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -24.71% +21.00%
75th Percentile £81.00 £67.88 £86.75
90th Percentile £100.00 £69.00 £89.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.25 £66.50 £69.72
% change year-on-year -6.39% -4.62% +292.79%

All Process and 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 32,672 29,808 38,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.28% 88.28% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,566 18,179 25,645
10th Percentile £300 £307 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £743 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.70% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,089 966 1,478
10th Percentile £14.60 £15.62 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.97% +25.43%
75th Percentile £51.02 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.88 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £31.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.40% -30.00% +40.63%

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 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 0 854 £534 -2.95% 692
London +9 454 £550 - 130
UK excluding London -12 411 £500 -4.76% 626
Work from Home -18 319 £525 -0.76% 406
South East -20 119 £624 +13.45% 163
Midlands -11 100 £550 +4.76% 134
North of England -43 82 £473 -9.90% 126
West Midlands -23 54 £550 +4.76% 64
Scotland +30 46 £550 +15.79% 28
East Midlands +11 44 £550 +29.41% 62
North West -30 40 £449 -9.98% 60
Yorkshire -32 36 £525 -7.08% 59
South West -10 25 £513 -2.38% 58
East of England -24 22 £465 -15.55% 96
Wales +5 8 £531 +3.66% 15
Northern Ireland +1 8 £400 -23.81% 17
North East -11 7 £488 -22.00% 7

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 39 (3.77%) Confluence
2 33 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.58%) Apache
4 6 (0.58%) GeoServer
4 6 (0.58%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 6 (0.58%) Smallworld
5 5 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.29%) CMS
6 3 (0.29%) LiveLink
7 2 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.097%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.097%) IIS
8 1 (0.097%) Moodle
8 1 (0.097%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.097%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.097%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.097%) SAP Portal
8 1 (0.097%) SAS
Applications
1 49 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.48%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.097%) Trello
8 1 (0.097%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 110 (10.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (3.68%) Oracle EBS
3 36 (3.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (2.13%) SAP HR
5 18 (1.74%) Oracle Payables
6 15 (1.45%) NetSuite
7 14 (1.35%) Oracle Receivables
8 13 (1.26%) Oracle General Ledger
9 10 (0.97%) SAP ERP
9 10 (0.97%) SAP FI
10 9 (0.87%) Oracle Cash Management
10 9 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
10 9 (0.87%) SAP MDG
10 9 (0.87%) SAP Payroll
10 9 (0.87%) SAP PM
10 9 (0.87%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.77%) Oracle EBS R12
11 8 (0.77%) SAP HCM
11 8 (0.77%) SAP MM
12 7 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 144 (13.93%) Azure
2 94 (9.09%) AWS
3 79 (7.64%) Power Platform
4 78 (7.54%) Dynamics 365
5 65 (6.29%) OCI
6 37 (3.58%) SaaS
7 33 (3.19%) Amazon S3
7 33 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 27 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (2.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 24 (2.32%) Snowflake
12 23 (2.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 23 (2.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 22 (2.13%) Entra ID
13 22 (2.13%) Serverless
14 19 (1.84%) SuccessFactors
15 17 (1.64%) GCP
16 15 (1.45%) dbt
17 14 (1.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.68%) NAS
2 6 (0.58%) Firewall
2 6 (0.58%) VPN
3 4 (0.39%) SSL
4 3 (0.29%) DNS
4 3 (0.29%) Intranet
4 3 (0.29%) Network Security
4 3 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.19%) Internet
5 2 (0.19%) IPv6
5 2 (0.19%) LAN
5 2 (0.19%) SAN
5 2 (0.19%) WAN
6 1 (0.097%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.097%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.097%) IPv4
6 1 (0.097%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.097%) VLAN
6 1 (0.097%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.097%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.90%) Power BI
2 60 (5.80%) SQL Server
3 56 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (3.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 34 (3.29%) Relational Database
6 26 (2.51%) Data Lake
7 23 (2.22%) Metadata
7 23 (2.22%) Oracle Database
8 22 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 22 (2.13%) Tableau
9 20 (1.93%) Oracle Reports
10 17 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (1.64%) DataStage
11 16 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (1.55%) RDBMS
12 15 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (1.26%) Amazon QuickSight
14 12 (1.16%) SAP Data Services
15 10 (0.97%) Big Data
15 10 (0.97%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 80 (7.74%) JIRA
2 6 (0.58%) LSMW
2 6 (0.58%) Postman
3 4 (0.39%) Git
3 4 (0.39%) GitLab
3 4 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (0.39%) Toad
3 4 (0.39%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.29%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.29%) MLflow
4 3 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.19%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.19%) Hudson
6 1 (0.097%) gulp
6 1 (0.097%) Pylint
6 1 (0.097%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.097%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.097%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.097%) webpack
General
1 368 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 337 (32.59%) Finance
3 121 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (8.61%) Public Sector
5 52 (5.03%) Banking
6 40 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
6 40 (3.87%) Manufacturing
7 29 (2.80%) Local Government
8 26 (2.51%) Legal
8 26 (2.51%) Retail
9 25 (2.42%) Marketing
10 24 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.93%) Back Office
13 19 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
14 17 (1.64%) General Ledger
15 12 (1.16%) Billing
15 12 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (1.06%) Law
17 8 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 158 (15.28%) Analyst
2 153 (14.80%) Consultant
3 148 (14.31%) Lead
4 126 (12.19%) Architect
5 96 (9.28%) Business Analyst
6 92 (8.90%) Project Manager
7 78 (7.54%) Senior
8 52 (5.03%) Data Engineer
9 51 (4.93%) Data Migration Lead
9 51 (4.93%) Developer
10 49 (4.74%) SAP Consultant
11 43 (4.16%) Data Analyst
12 41 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
13 36 (3.48%) Migration Specialist
14 33 (3.19%) Data Migration Specialist
14 33 (3.19%) Functional Consultant
15 31 (3.00%) Migration Analyst
16 30 (2.90%) Data Consultant
17 29 (2.80%) Migration Consultant
18 28 (2.71%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (5.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 39 (3.77%) XML
3 37 (3.58%) REST
4 29 (2.80%) Lightning Web Components
5 28 (2.71%) SOAP
6 24 (2.32%) Visualforce
7 22 (2.13%) JSON
7 22 (2.13%) Middleware
8 14 (1.35%) .NET
9 13 (1.26%) Web Services
10 12 (1.16%) PySpark
11 11 (1.06%) SAP Fiori
12 8 (0.77%) SAP PI
12 8 (0.77%) XSLT
13 6 (0.58%) EDI
13 6 (0.58%) SAP Basis
14 5 (0.48%) Apache Avro
14 5 (0.48%) GraphQL
14 5 (0.48%) LDAP
14 5 (0.48%) React
Miscellaneous
1 127 (12.28%) Legacy Systems
2 61 (5.90%) Data Structures
3 39 (3.77%) Onboarding
4 33 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.71%) Management Information System
6 19 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (1.35%) Replication
9 13 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.16%) Data Centre
11 10 (0.97%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.87%) Cloud Native
12 9 (0.87%) CMDB
12 9 (0.87%) Reference Data
13 7 (0.68%) FMCG
13 7 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (0.68%) Life Science
13 7 (0.68%) NHS
13 7 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.42%) Windows
2 8 (0.77%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.48%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.48%) Unix
4 5 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.29%) Linux
5 3 (0.29%) Solaris
6 1 (0.097%) AIX
6 1 (0.097%) MVS
6 1 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.097%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,034 (100.00%) Migration
2 246 (23.79%) Agile
3 216 (20.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 199 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
5 168 (16.25%) Validation
6 167 (16.15%) ERP
7 157 (15.18%) ETL
8 147 (14.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 145 (14.02%) Data Modelling
10 135 (13.06%) User Acceptance Testing
11 110 (10.64%) Analytics
12 106 (10.25%) Project Management
13 101 (9.77%) Data Governance
14 99 (9.57%) Workshop Facilitation
15 95 (9.19%) Data Cleansing
16 89 (8.61%) Change Management
17 80 (7.74%) Business Intelligence
18 78 (7.54%) DevOps
19 76 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
19 76 (7.35%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 203 (19.63%) SQL
2 71 (6.87%) Python
3 36 (3.48%) Java
4 29 (2.80%) Apex Code
5 19 (1.84%) C#
6 15 (1.45%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.35%) PL/SQL
7 14 (1.35%) PowerShell
8 11 (1.06%) T-SQL
9 9 (0.87%) ABAP
9 9 (0.87%) Bicep
10 7 (0.68%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.58%) PHP
12 5 (0.48%) Perl
12 5 (0.48%) X++
13 4 (0.39%) SOQL
13 4 (0.39%) VB
14 3 (0.29%) Bash
14 3 (0.29%) R
14 3 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 116 (11.22%) Security Cleared
2 83 (8.03%) Degree
3 79 (7.64%) SC Cleared
4 32 (3.09%) PMP
5 31 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (2.90%) PMI Certification
7 23 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 21 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.74%) AWS Certification
10 15 (1.45%) SAP Certification
11 12 (1.16%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.68%) CIMA
13 6 (0.58%) ACCA
13 6 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.48%) CFA
14 5 (0.48%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.39%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
16 3 (0.29%) OCP
16 3 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (14.31%) Data Quality
2 77 (7.45%) QA
3 61 (5.90%) GDPR
4 15 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 13 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.97%) PMO
7 8 (0.77%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.77%) GRC
7 8 (0.77%) GxP
8 7 (0.68%) COBIT
8 7 (0.68%) NIST
9 6 (0.58%) GMP
9 6 (0.58%) IFRS
9 6 (0.58%) SLA
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.29%) GAAP
11 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.29%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (1.84%) Docker
2 16 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.29%) NFS
5 1 (0.097%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.097%) SRDF
5 1 (0.097%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.097%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.097%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.03%) Terraform
3 9 (0.87%) SCCM
4 6 (0.58%) Ansible
4 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.19%) Grafana
8 1 (0.097%) Argo
8 1 (0.097%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.097%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.097%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.097%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.097%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 212 (20.50%) SAP
2 166 (16.05%) Oracle
3 161 (15.57%) Microsoft
4 61 (5.90%) Salesforce
5 39 (3.77%) Databricks
6 36 (3.48%) Workday
7 14 (1.35%) IBM
7 14 (1.35%) Informatica
8 12 (1.16%) Ariba
8 12 (1.16%) Google
8 12 (1.16%) MuleSoft
9 11 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.97%) Sage
11 9 (0.87%) OpenText
11 9 (0.87%) Talend
12 8 (0.77%) Kronos
13 7 (0.68%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.58%) ESRI
14 6 (0.58%) IFS
14 6 (0.58%) Intergraph