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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 94 95
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,011 824 1,002
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.75% 2.58% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 2.91% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 635 552 668
10th Percentile £378 £400 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £538 £564
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -4.66% +7.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £708 £700 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 11
10th Percentile £14.61 £37.83 £82.50
25th Percentile £15.78 £42.06 £83.13
Median hourly rate £62.75 £50.75 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.65% -40.29% +21.00%
75th Percentile £81.00 £61.06 £86.50
90th Percentile £100.00 £66.28 £87.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.25 £66.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -6.39% +33.00% +181.69%

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 32,247 28,287 37,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.87% 88.55% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,360 17,181 24,724
10th Percentile £304 £308 £305
25th Percentile £406 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,986 908 1,544
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.92
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +22.16%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £74.79 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.11 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.86% -33.10% +65.14%

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 January 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 January 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 9 January 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 -1 842 £537 -2.36% 234
London +7 442 £550 - 70
UK excluding London -18 411 £500 -4.76% 203
Work from Home -23 303 £525 -2.33% 75
South East -32 111 £625 +13.64% 74
Midlands -10 101 £550 +4.76% 45
North of England -38 89 £475 -9.52% 31
West Midlands -30 53 £538 +2.38% 26
East Midlands +11 48 £550 +25.71% 19
North West -26 47 £450 -10.00% 17
Scotland +22 44 £550 +15.79% 5
Yorkshire -35 36 £525 -6.50% 12
South West -15 28 £525 - 17
East of England -28 20 £475 -13.64% 27
Northern Ireland +1 9 £400 -23.81% 3
Wales +6 8 £531 +3.66% 6
North East -12 7 £488 -22.00% 2

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 34 (3.36%) Confluence
2 33 (3.26%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.59%) GeoServer
5 6 (0.59%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 6 (0.59%) Smallworld
6 5 (0.49%) Apache
7 4 (0.40%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.30%) CMS
8 3 (0.30%) LiveLink
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.099%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.099%) Moodle
10 1 (0.099%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.099%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.099%) SAP Portal
10 1 (0.099%) SAS
10 1 (0.099%) WebSphere
Applications
1 47 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (1.19%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.099%) Trello
7 1 (0.099%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 115 (11.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (3.66%) Oracle EBS
3 35 (3.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (1.88%) SAP HR
5 17 (1.68%) Oracle Payables
6 16 (1.58%) Oracle General Ledger
7 13 (1.29%) NetSuite
7 13 (1.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 13 (1.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 12 (1.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 12 (1.19%) SAP ERP
9 11 (1.09%) SAP FI
10 9 (0.89%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.79%) Oracle Cash Management
11 8 (0.79%) Oracle EBS R12
11 8 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
11 8 (0.79%) SAP CO
11 8 (0.79%) SAP FI/CO
11 8 (0.79%) SAP HCM
11 8 (0.79%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 140 (13.85%) Azure
2 90 (8.90%) AWS
3 78 (7.72%) Power Platform
4 76 (7.52%) Dynamics 365
5 68 (6.73%) OCI
6 39 (3.86%) SaaS
7 32 (3.17%) Amazon S3
8 31 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (2.77%) Azure Data Factory
10 25 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
11 22 (2.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 21 (2.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 20 (1.98%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 20 (1.98%) Snowflake
14 18 (1.78%) Entra ID
14 18 (1.78%) SuccessFactors
15 17 (1.68%) Serverless
16 13 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
17 12 (1.19%) Power Automate
17 12 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.69%) NAS
2 4 (0.40%) Firewall
2 4 (0.40%) SSL
2 4 (0.40%) VPN
3 3 (0.30%) DNS
3 3 (0.30%) Intranet
3 3 (0.30%) Network Security
3 3 (0.30%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.20%) Internet
4 2 (0.20%) IPv6
4 2 (0.20%) LAN
4 2 (0.20%) SAN
4 2 (0.20%) WAN
5 1 (0.099%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.099%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.099%) IPv4
5 1 (0.099%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.099%) VLAN
5 1 (0.099%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.099%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.93%) Power BI
2 56 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (5.14%) SQL Server
4 37 (3.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 32 (3.17%) Relational Database
6 26 (2.57%) Oracle Database
7 24 (2.37%) Data Lake
7 24 (2.37%) Oracle Reports
8 22 (2.18%) Metadata
9 20 (1.98%) Tableau
10 19 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (1.58%) DataStage
11 16 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
12 14 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
12 14 (1.38%) RDBMS
13 13 (1.29%) Amazon QuickSight
13 13 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (1.19%) SAP Data Services
15 10 (0.99%) Big Data
16 9 (0.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 71 (7.02%) JIRA
2 6 (0.59%) LSMW
3 5 (0.49%) Git
3 5 (0.49%) Postman
4 4 (0.40%) GitLab
4 4 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.40%) Toad
4 4 (0.40%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.30%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.30%) MLflow
5 3 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.20%) Hudson
7 1 (0.099%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.099%) gulp
7 1 (0.099%) Poetry
7 1 (0.099%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.099%) webpack
General
1 351 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 332 (32.84%) Finance
3 108 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (8.80%) Public Sector
5 61 (6.03%) Banking
6 39 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
6 39 (3.86%) Manufacturing
7 31 (3.07%) Retail
8 27 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (2.27%) Legal
9 23 (2.27%) Local Government
9 23 (2.27%) Marketing
10 19 (1.88%) General Ledger
11 18 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (1.58%) Back Office
12 16 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (1.19%) Billing
15 10 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.99%) Law
Job Titles
1 153 (15.13%) Consultant
2 152 (15.03%) Lead
3 151 (14.94%) Analyst
4 115 (11.37%) Architect
5 92 (9.10%) Business Analyst
5 92 (9.10%) Project Manager
6 81 (8.01%) Senior
7 54 (5.34%) Data Engineer
8 52 (5.14%) Data Migration Lead
9 51 (5.04%) SAP Consultant
10 49 (4.85%) Developer
11 46 (4.55%) Data Analyst
12 42 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
13 34 (3.36%) Migration Analyst
14 32 (3.17%) Functional Consultant
15 31 (3.07%) Migration Manager
16 30 (2.97%) Migration Specialist
17 29 (2.87%) Data Consultant
17 29 (2.87%) Data Migration Analyst
18 28 (2.77%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (6.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 40 (3.96%) REST
2 40 (3.96%) XML
3 26 (2.57%) SOAP
4 25 (2.47%) Lightning Web Components
5 23 (2.27%) Middleware
6 21 (2.08%) Visualforce
7 18 (1.78%) JSON
8 13 (1.29%) PySpark
9 12 (1.19%) .NET
10 11 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
10 11 (1.09%) Web Services
11 8 (0.79%) XSLT
12 6 (0.59%) EDI
13 5 (0.49%) Apache Avro
13 5 (0.49%) LDAP
13 5 (0.49%) SAP PI
14 4 (0.40%) BAPI
14 4 (0.40%) Kafka
14 4 (0.40%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 131 (12.96%) Legacy Systems
2 65 (6.43%) Data Structures
3 37 (3.66%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.67%) Product Ownership
5 26 (2.57%) Management Information System
6 19 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.19%) Replication
10 10 (0.99%) Data Centre
10 10 (0.99%) Reference Data
11 9 (0.89%) CMDB
12 8 (0.79%) Cloud Native
12 8 (0.79%) FMCG
13 7 (0.69%) Life Science
13 7 (0.69%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.69%) Smartphone
14 6 (0.59%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.59%) NHS
15 5 (0.49%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.37%) Windows
2 9 (0.89%) Windows 10
3 8 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.40%) Linux
6 4 (0.40%) Unix
7 3 (0.30%) Solaris
8 1 (0.099%) AIX
8 1 (0.099%) MVS
8 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.099%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,011 (100.00%) Migration
2 243 (24.04%) Agile
3 223 (22.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 181 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
5 179 (17.71%) ERP
6 176 (17.41%) Validation
7 151 (14.94%) ETL
8 148 (14.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 138 (13.65%) Data Modelling
10 132 (13.06%) User Acceptance Testing
11 103 (10.19%) Analytics
12 102 (10.09%) Workshop Facilitation
13 100 (9.89%) Project Management
14 93 (9.20%) Data Governance
15 91 (9.00%) Change Management
15 91 (9.00%) Data Cleansing
16 81 (8.01%) Business Intelligence
17 76 (7.52%) Project Delivery
18 75 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
19 74 (7.32%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 193 (19.09%) SQL
2 65 (6.43%) Python
3 30 (2.97%) Java
4 25 (2.47%) Apex Code
5 17 (1.68%) PL/SQL
6 14 (1.38%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.38%) PowerShell
7 12 (1.19%) C#
8 9 (0.89%) ABAP
9 8 (0.79%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.69%) Bicep
10 7 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.59%) PHP
12 5 (0.49%) Perl
13 4 (0.40%) SOQL
13 4 (0.40%) X++
14 3 (0.30%) Bash
14 3 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.30%) R
14 3 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 128 (12.66%) Security Cleared
2 90 (8.90%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.62%) Degree
4 34 (3.36%) PMP
5 31 (3.07%) PMI Certification
6 29 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (2.18%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.58%) AWS Certification
10 15 (1.48%) SAP Certification
11 13 (1.29%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.59%) CIMA
12 6 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (0.49%) ACCA
13 5 (0.49%) CFA
14 4 (0.40%) Azure Certification
15 3 (0.30%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.30%) PgMP
15 3 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 3 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (14.44%) Data Quality
2 67 (6.63%) QA
3 65 (6.43%) GDPR
4 15 (1.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 11 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.09%) PMO
6 8 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.79%) GxP
7 7 (0.69%) COBIT
7 7 (0.69%) GAAP
7 7 (0.69%) IFRS
7 7 (0.69%) NIST
7 7 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.59%) GMP
8 6 (0.59%) GRC
8 6 (0.59%) SLA
9 5 (0.49%) IFRS 9
10 4 (0.40%) Basel III
10 4 (0.40%) IFRS 17
10 4 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (1.58%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.29%) Docker
3 4 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.30%) NFS
5 2 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.099%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.099%) SRDF
6 1 (0.099%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.099%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.099%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (1.58%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.38%) Terraform
3 10 (0.99%) SCCM
4 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.30%) Ansible
7 2 (0.20%) Grafana
8 1 (0.099%) Argo
8 1 (0.099%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.099%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.099%) Control-M
8 1 (0.099%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.099%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 212 (20.97%) SAP
2 176 (17.41%) Oracle
3 145 (14.34%) Microsoft
4 55 (5.44%) Salesforce
5 40 (3.96%) Workday
6 37 (3.66%) Databricks
7 17 (1.68%) Informatica
8 14 (1.38%) IBM
8 14 (1.38%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.19%) Ariba
9 12 (1.19%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.09%) Sage
11 9 (0.89%) Avaloq
11 9 (0.89%) OpenText
12 8 (0.79%) Google
12 8 (0.79%) IFS
12 8 (0.79%) Kronos
12 8 (0.79%) Talend
13 6 (0.59%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.59%) ESRI