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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 94 90
Rank change year-on-year +16 -4 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,419 781 1,015
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.97% 2.68% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 2.94% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 900 491 689
10th Percentile £360 £375 £363
25th Percentile £437 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £650
90th Percentile £725 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 12 33
10th Percentile £14.61 £36.79 £25.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £60.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £36.71 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.56% -6.67% +180.37%
75th Percentile £41.83 £87.16 £80.00
90th Percentile £77.40 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.76 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -54.22% -13.33% +233.33%

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 40,321 26,530 37,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.49% 90.95% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,358 17,078 23,948
10th Percentile £321 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +2.30% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,401 1,077 2,439
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.47 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.25 £61.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.13 £37.50
% change year-on-year +62.21% -27.67% +7.14%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +20 1,252 £525 -0.94% 273
UK excluding London +17 631 £523 +4.50% 187
London +34 621 £525 -4.55% 123
Work from Home -4 371 £500 -4.76% 103
South East -5 175 £618 +13.47% 61
North of England -16 168 £500 +0.81% 46
Midlands -4 131 £473 -5.50% 32
North West +8 104 £467 -15.14% 26
West Midlands -11 89 £450 -10.00% 20
Yorkshire -37 57 £525 +34.62% 18
East of England -15 54 £575 -11.54% 22
South West -11 53 £525 +5.00% 20
East Midlands -7 39 £500 +9.29% 12
Scotland +3 30 £550 +15.79% 6
Northern Ireland +19 16 £475 - 2
North East -14 7 £488 -20.41% 2
Wales -9 6 £550 +25.71% 3
Channel Islands - 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 51 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 49 (3.45%) Confluence
3 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.49%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 5 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.28%) Apache
6 4 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.14%) Appian
8 2 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.070%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.070%) CMS
9 1 (0.070%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.070%) WebSphere
Applications
1 73 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (1.13%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.070%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 172 (12.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 51 (3.59%) Oracle EBS
3 39 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (1.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 19 (1.34%) SAP ERP
6 15 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.99%) Loan IQ
7 14 (0.99%) NetSuite
8 11 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
8 11 (0.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 10 (0.70%) Oracle EBS R12
9 10 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
10 9 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
10 9 (0.63%) SAP FI
11 8 (0.56%) SAP CO
11 8 (0.56%) SAP MDG
12 7 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
12 7 (0.49%) Teamcenter
12 7 (0.49%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.42%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 214 (15.08%) Azure
2 136 (9.58%) Power Platform
3 121 (8.53%) AWS
4 107 (7.54%) Dynamics 365
5 81 (5.71%) OCI
6 69 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 51 (3.59%) SaaS
8 35 (2.47%) GitHub
9 34 (2.40%) Snowflake
10 33 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
11 32 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 22 (1.55%) GCP
13 21 (1.48%) SuccessFactors
14 20 (1.41%) Amazon S3
15 17 (1.20%) OpenShift
16 15 (1.06%) Entra ID
17 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
17 14 (0.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
18 13 (0.92%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.20%) SAN
2 15 (1.06%) DNS
3 14 (0.99%) NAS
4 6 (0.42%) Firewall
5 5 (0.35%) VPN
5 5 (0.35%) VSAN
6 4 (0.28%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (0.21%) FCoE
7 3 (0.21%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.14%) HTTP
8 2 (0.14%) Network Security
8 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.070%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.070%) DKIM
9 1 (0.070%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.070%) Internet
9 1 (0.070%) Intranet
9 1 (0.070%) SNMP
9 1 (0.070%) SSL
9 1 (0.070%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (8.10%) Power BI
2 91 (6.41%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (4.30%) Oracle Reports
4 57 (4.02%) SQL Server
5 35 (2.47%) Metadata
5 35 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 32 (2.26%) Data Lake
7 27 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (1.76%) Relational Database
9 22 (1.55%) Oracle Database
10 15 (1.06%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 15 (1.06%) SAP Data Services
11 14 (0.99%) DB2
12 13 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
14 10 (0.70%) MySQL
14 10 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 131 (9.23%) JIRA
2 35 (2.47%) Git
3 32 (2.26%) Zephyr
4 28 (1.97%) Postman
5 20 (1.41%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.92%) Selenium
7 11 (0.78%) GitLab
8 8 (0.56%) LSMW
8 8 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (0.49%) Hudson
10 6 (0.42%) JUnit
11 5 (0.35%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.28%) Toad
13 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.21%) ERwin
13 3 (0.21%) MLflow
13 3 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
13 3 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
General
1 463 (32.63%) Finance
2 444 (31.29%) Social Skills
3 175 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (8.39%) Public Sector
5 79 (5.57%) Manufacturing
6 76 (5.36%) Banking
7 59 (4.16%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (3.31%) Law
9 42 (2.96%) Retail
10 40 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (1.83%) Legal
11 26 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
13 24 (1.69%) Local Government
13 24 (1.69%) Marketing
14 23 (1.62%) General Ledger
15 18 (1.27%) Billing
15 18 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (1.06%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 307 (21.63%) Lead
2 214 (15.08%) Analyst
3 166 (11.70%) Consultant
4 164 (11.56%) Architect
5 111 (7.82%) Data Migration Lead
6 108 (7.61%) Project Manager
7 101 (7.12%) Business Analyst
7 101 (7.12%) Data Engineer
8 99 (6.98%) Senior
9 73 (5.14%) Developer
10 71 (5.00%) Data Analyst
11 58 (4.09%) Migration Analyst
12 55 (3.88%) Migration Engineer
13 52 (3.66%) SAP Consultant
14 49 (3.45%) Data Architect
14 49 (3.45%) Migration Manager
15 48 (3.38%) Data Migration Engineer
16 44 (3.10%) Data Migration Analyst
17 40 (2.82%) Migration Consultant
18 39 (2.75%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (6.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 41 (2.89%) REST
3 35 (2.47%) Middleware
4 22 (1.55%) SOAP
5 19 (1.34%) XML
6 18 (1.27%) .NET
7 16 (1.13%) Spring
8 15 (1.06%) Kafka
9 14 (0.99%) JSON
10 13 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
11 12 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
11 12 (0.85%) PySpark
12 8 (0.56%) React
12 8 (0.56%) Spring Boot
13 7 (0.49%) FHIR
13 7 (0.49%) Web Services
14 6 (0.42%) AngularJS
15 5 (0.35%) RESTful
15 5 (0.35%) Visualforce
16 4 (0.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 178 (12.54%) Legacy Systems
2 107 (7.54%) Data Structures
3 44 (3.10%) Cloud Native
4 41 (2.89%) Management Information System
5 37 (2.61%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
7 27 (1.90%) Product Ownership
8 22 (1.55%) Public Cloud
8 22 (1.55%) Replication
9 20 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.13%) Mainframe
11 15 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (0.99%) Data Centre
12 14 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (0.92%) Reference Data
14 12 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
15 11 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (0.78%) FMCG
15 11 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
15 11 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.97%) Windows
2 10 (0.70%) Linux
3 8 (0.56%) Windows 10
4 7 (0.49%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.49%) zOS
5 6 (0.42%) Unix
6 5 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.070%) AIX
9 1 (0.070%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,419 (100.00%) Migration
2 366 (25.79%) Validation
3 314 (22.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 297 (20.93%) ERP
5 294 (20.72%) User Acceptance Testing
6 272 (19.17%) Agile
7 236 (16.63%) ETL
8 217 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
9 199 (14.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 196 (13.81%) Data Modelling
11 154 (10.85%) Data Cleansing
12 147 (10.36%) Business Intelligence
13 135 (9.51%) Project Management
14 133 (9.37%) Data Mapping
15 130 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
16 127 (8.95%) Analytics
17 121 (8.53%) Data Governance
18 120 (8.46%) DevOps
19 115 (8.10%) Workshop Facilitation
20 108 (7.61%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 263 (18.53%) SQL
2 113 (7.96%) Python
3 44 (3.10%) Java
4 33 (2.33%) PL/SQL
5 22 (1.55%) Bash
6 18 (1.27%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.92%) PowerShell
8 12 (0.85%) Apex Code
9 9 (0.63%) VBA
10 8 (0.56%) C#
10 8 (0.56%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.49%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.42%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.35%) PHP
14 4 (0.28%) ABAP
14 4 (0.28%) C
14 4 (0.28%) Perl
14 4 (0.28%) SOQL
15 3 (0.21%) C++
Qualifications
1 222 (15.64%) Security Cleared
2 164 (11.56%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.37%) Degree
4 33 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 28 (1.97%) PMP
6 25 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (1.76%) PMI Certification
7 23 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.62%) ISTQB
8 14 (0.99%) CIMA
9 13 (0.92%) ACCA
9 13 (0.92%) Azure Certification
10 12 (0.85%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.49%) SAP Certification
12 6 (0.42%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.28%) ISEB
13 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.28%) OCP
13 4 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (17.20%) Data Quality
2 118 (8.32%) QA
3 63 (4.44%) GDPR
4 25 (1.76%) PMO
5 13 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.85%) SLA
7 11 (0.78%) COBIT
7 11 (0.78%) HL7
8 10 (0.70%) NIST
9 9 (0.63%) GxP
10 8 (0.56%) GMP
10 8 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
11 7 (0.49%) IFRS
12 6 (0.42%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.42%) DICOM
13 5 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.35%) GAAP
14 4 (0.28%) Basel III
14 4 (0.28%) PERC
System Software
1 25 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.06%) vSphere
4 13 (0.92%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.85%) Docker
6 9 (0.63%) NFS
7 6 (0.42%) SRDF
8 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.070%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 33 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 31 (2.18%) Terraform
3 20 (1.41%) Ansible
4 19 (1.34%) Grafana
5 15 (1.06%) vCenter Server
6 14 (0.99%) Argo
7 13 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.63%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.56%) EMC VPLEX
9 8 (0.56%) SCCM
10 6 (0.42%) vMotion
11 4 (0.28%) EMC TimeFinder
11 4 (0.28%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (0.21%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.14%) SnapMirror
13 2 (0.14%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 279 (19.66%) SAP
2 258 (18.18%) Oracle
3 226 (15.93%) Microsoft
4 68 (4.79%) Salesforce
5 59 (4.16%) Databricks
6 29 (2.04%) VMware
7 27 (1.90%) ServiceNow
7 27 (1.90%) Workday
8 25 (1.76%) Pure Storage
9 24 (1.69%) Informatica
9 24 (1.69%) Sage
10 20 (1.41%) Talend
11 19 (1.34%) Ariba
11 19 (1.34%) Google
12 18 (1.27%) IFS
13 17 (1.20%) Infor
14 16 (1.13%) MuleSoft
14 16 (1.13%) Red Hat
15 15 (1.06%) Avaloq
16 14 (0.99%) IBM