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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 95 93
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,410 792 1,016
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.96% 2.70% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 2.97% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 506 693
10th Percentile £360 £378 £363
25th Percentile £438 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £650
90th Percentile £725 £703 £727
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 12 33
10th Percentile £14.61 £36.79 £25.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £60.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £36.36 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.06% -6.67% +180.37%
75th Percentile £41.83 £87.16 £80.00
90th Percentile £79.95 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.81 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -64.91% -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 40,206 26,654 37,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.43% 90.92% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,270 17,186 24,018
10th Percentile £320 £307 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £482 £500
% change year-on-year +1.09% -3.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,084 2,441
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.64 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.95
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -19.33% +0.42%
75th Percentile £67.25 £61.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.70 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.84% -26.13% +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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +17 1,235 £525 -0.76% 318
UK excluding London +12 627 £523 +1.95% 234
London +37 609 £525 -4.55% 126
Work from Home -6 367 £500 -4.76% 107
South East -1 172 £618 +13.30% 81
North of England -11 169 £500 -2.44% 54
Midlands -14 128 £470 -6.00% 37
North West +4 103 £471 -12.29% 33
West Midlands -12 87 £442 -11.70% 22
Yorkshire -44 58 £525 +31.25% 18
East of England -4 54 £575 -11.54% 29
South West -11 52 £525 +2.44% 24
East Midlands -6 38 £500 +9.29% 15
Scotland +4 31 £566 +19.56% 9
Northern Ireland +16 17 £475 -9.52% 2
North East -14 8 £488 -20.41% 3
Wales -14 6 £550 +10.00% 4
Channel Islands 0 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 49 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 47 (3.33%) Confluence
3 8 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.50%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 5 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.28%) Apache
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.14%) Appian
8 2 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.071%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.071%) CMS
9 1 (0.071%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.071%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 171 (12.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 52 (3.69%) Oracle EBS
3 38 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (1.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 19 (1.35%) SAP ERP
6 14 (0.99%) Loan IQ
6 14 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.92%) NetSuite
8 11 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
8 11 (0.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 10 (0.71%) Oracle EBS R12
10 9 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
10 9 (0.64%) SAP FI
11 8 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
11 8 (0.57%) SAP CO
11 8 (0.57%) SAP MDG
11 8 (0.57%) Teamcenter
12 7 (0.50%) SAP HCM
12 7 (0.50%) SAP Payroll
12 7 (0.50%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 208 (14.75%) Azure
2 136 (9.65%) Power Platform
3 117 (8.30%) AWS
4 108 (7.66%) Dynamics 365
5 80 (5.67%) OCI
6 66 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 50 (3.55%) SaaS
9 34 (2.41%) GitHub
10 33 (2.34%) Snowflake
11 32 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 32 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
12 23 (1.63%) SuccessFactors
13 20 (1.42%) Amazon S3
14 19 (1.35%) GCP
15 17 (1.21%) OpenShift
16 15 (1.06%) Entra ID
17 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
17 14 (0.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
18 13 (0.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.21%) SAN
2 15 (1.06%) DNS
3 14 (0.99%) NAS
4 6 (0.43%) 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 (0.071%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.071%) DKIM
9 1 (0.071%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.071%) Internet
9 1 (0.071%) Intranet
9 1 (0.071%) SNMP
9 1 (0.071%) SSL
9 1 (0.071%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (8.23%) Power BI
2 90 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (4.26%) Oracle Reports
4 57 (4.04%) SQL Server
5 35 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 34 (2.41%) Metadata
7 31 (2.20%) Data Lake
8 28 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (1.77%) Relational Database
10 21 (1.49%) Oracle Database
11 15 (1.06%) NoSQL
11 15 (1.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 15 (1.06%) SAP Data Services
12 14 (0.99%) DB2
12 14 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
14 10 (0.71%) MySQL
14 10 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 128 (9.08%) JIRA
2 35 (2.48%) Git
3 32 (2.27%) Zephyr
4 29 (2.06%) Postman
5 20 (1.42%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.92%) Selenium
7 11 (0.78%) GitLab
8 8 (0.57%) LSMW
8 8 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.43%) Hudson
9 6 (0.43%) JUnit
10 5 (0.35%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.28%) Toad
12 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.21%) ERwin
12 3 (0.21%) MLflow
12 3 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
General
1 465 (32.98%) Finance
2 444 (31.49%) Social Skills
3 175 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (8.72%) Public Sector
5 85 (6.03%) Manufacturing
6 74 (5.25%) Banking
7 59 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (3.40%) Law
9 45 (3.19%) Retail
10 42 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (1.84%) Legal
12 25 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
13 24 (1.70%) Local Government
14 22 (1.56%) General Ledger
14 22 (1.56%) Marketing
15 18 (1.28%) Billing
15 18 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (1.06%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 308 (21.84%) Lead
2 209 (14.82%) Analyst
3 167 (11.84%) Consultant
4 163 (11.56%) Architect
5 109 (7.73%) Project Manager
6 108 (7.66%) Data Migration Lead
7 100 (7.09%) Business Analyst
8 99 (7.02%) Senior
9 98 (6.95%) Data Engineer
10 71 (5.04%) Developer
11 67 (4.75%) Data Analyst
12 56 (3.97%) Migration Analyst
13 53 (3.76%) Migration Engineer
14 51 (3.62%) SAP Consultant
15 50 (3.55%) Migration Manager
16 48 (3.40%) Data Architect
17 47 (3.33%) Data Migration Engineer
18 42 (2.98%) Data Migration Analyst
19 39 (2.77%) Migration Consultant
20 38 (2.70%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (6.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 41 (2.91%) REST
3 33 (2.34%) Middleware
4 22 (1.56%) SOAP
5 19 (1.35%) XML
6 17 (1.21%) .NET
7 15 (1.06%) JSON
7 15 (1.06%) Spring
8 14 (0.99%) Kafka
9 13 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
10 12 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
10 12 (0.85%) PySpark
11 8 (0.57%) React
12 7 (0.50%) Spring Boot
12 7 (0.50%) Web Services
13 6 (0.43%) AngularJS
13 6 (0.43%) FHIR
14 5 (0.35%) RESTful
14 5 (0.35%) Visualforce
15 4 (0.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 177 (12.55%) Legacy Systems
2 106 (7.52%) Data Structures
3 43 (3.05%) Cloud Native
4 42 (2.98%) Management Information System
5 37 (2.62%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
7 26 (1.84%) Product Ownership
8 24 (1.70%) Replication
9 22 (1.56%) Public Cloud
10 20 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.13%) Mainframe
12 15 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (0.99%) Data Centre
13 14 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (0.92%) Reference Data
15 12 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (0.85%) FMCG
16 11 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
16 11 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
16 11 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.99%) Windows
2 10 (0.71%) Linux
3 8 (0.57%) Windows 10
4 7 (0.50%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.50%) zOS
5 6 (0.43%) Unix
6 5 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.071%) AIX
9 1 (0.071%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,410 (100.00%) Migration
2 360 (25.53%) Validation
3 316 (22.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 298 (21.13%) ERP
5 291 (20.64%) User Acceptance Testing
6 271 (19.22%) Agile
7 234 (16.60%) ETL
8 216 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
9 198 (14.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 193 (13.69%) Data Modelling
11 151 (10.71%) Data Cleansing
12 149 (10.57%) Business Intelligence
13 138 (9.79%) Project Management
14 132 (9.36%) Data Mapping
15 128 (9.08%) Continuous Improvement
16 127 (9.01%) Analytics
17 119 (8.44%) Data Governance
18 116 (8.23%) DevOps
18 116 (8.23%) Workshop Facilitation
19 105 (7.45%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 256 (18.16%) SQL
2 109 (7.73%) Python
3 43 (3.05%) Java
4 30 (2.13%) PL/SQL
5 20 (1.42%) Bash
6 17 (1.21%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.99%) PowerShell
8 12 (0.85%) Apex Code
9 9 (0.64%) VBA
10 8 (0.57%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.50%) C#
11 7 (0.50%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.35%) ABAP
13 5 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.35%) PHP
14 4 (0.28%) C
14 4 (0.28%) Perl
14 4 (0.28%) SOQL
15 3 (0.21%) C++
Qualifications
1 221 (15.67%) Security Cleared
2 164 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 61 (4.33%) Degree
4 33 (2.34%) DV Cleared
5 26 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (1.84%) PMP
6 23 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (1.63%) ISTQB
6 23 (1.63%) PMI Certification
7 13 (0.92%) Azure Certification
7 13 (0.92%) CIMA
8 12 (0.85%) ACCA
8 12 (0.85%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.57%) SAP Certification
10 7 (0.50%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.28%) ISEB
11 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.28%) OCP
11 4 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (17.09%) Data Quality
2 119 (8.44%) QA
3 62 (4.40%) GDPR
4 26 (1.84%) PMO
5 13 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.85%) SLA
7 11 (0.78%) COBIT
8 10 (0.71%) HL7
8 10 (0.71%) NIST
9 9 (0.64%) GxP
10 8 (0.57%) GMP
10 8 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.50%) IFRS
11 7 (0.50%) SNOMED CT
12 6 (0.43%) DICOM
13 5 (0.35%) Accessibility
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 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.06%) vSphere
4 13 (0.92%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.85%) Docker
6 9 (0.64%) NFS
7 6 (0.43%) SRDF
8 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.071%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 33 (2.34%) Kubernetes
2 30 (2.13%) Terraform
3 20 (1.42%) Ansible
4 19 (1.35%) Grafana
5 15 (1.06%) vCenter Server
6 14 (0.99%) Argo
7 13 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.64%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.57%) EMC VPLEX
9 8 (0.57%) SCCM
10 6 (0.43%) 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
1 280 (19.86%) SAP
2 254 (18.01%) Oracle
3 225 (15.96%) Microsoft
4 67 (4.75%) Salesforce
5 59 (4.18%) Databricks
6 29 (2.06%) VMware
7 27 (1.91%) ServiceNow
7 27 (1.91%) Workday
8 25 (1.77%) Pure Storage
9 24 (1.70%) Informatica
9 24 (1.70%) Sage
10 20 (1.42%) Talend
11 19 (1.35%) Ariba
12 18 (1.28%) Google
13 17 (1.21%) IFS
13 17 (1.21%) Infor
14 16 (1.13%) MuleSoft
14 16 (1.13%) Red Hat
15 15 (1.06%) Avaloq
16 14 (0.99%) IBM