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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 90 102
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,612 886 977
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.06% 2.71% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 3.00% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,020 539 657
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £432 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £524 £498 £525
% change year-on-year +5.28% -5.24% +3.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 20 35
10th Percentile £17.75 £17.52 £25.00
25th Percentile £20.67 £32.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -20.00% +127.27%
75th Percentile £52.29 £77.08 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.96 £47.75 £75.00
% change year-on-year -37.26% -36.33% +180.37%

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 44,845 29,559 36,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.12% 90.45% 85.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,888 18,632 23,279
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,513 2,446
10th Percentile £14.90 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.61 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +82.48% -35.31% +0.51%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +19 1,436 £525 - 315
UK excluding London +16 721 £524 +5.28% 219
London +24 714 £550 - 140
Work from Home +1 423 £525 - 182
South East +3 196 £556 +11.25% 70
North of England -12 194 £514 +8.21% 44
Midlands +13 148 £484 -0.77% 47
North West +7 121 £500 +3.90% 26
West Midlands -6 105 £473 -5.40% 33
South West +12 78 £524 +2.20% 22
Yorkshire -43 60 £525 +13.51% 15
East of England +8 56 £581 -7.37% 12
East Midlands +11 39 £509 +9.46% 14
Scotland -16 26 £525 +10.53% 14
Northern Ireland +22 22 £475 -51.28% 10
North East -20 16 £625 +8.70% 3
Wales -12 7 £400 -15.79% 4
Channel Islands +2 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 57 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.67%) Confluence
3 11 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (0.31%) Apache
4 5 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.31%) Tuxedo
5 4 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 2 (0.12%) Appian
7 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.062%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.062%) CMS
8 1 (0.062%) IIS
8 1 (0.062%) Mendix
8 1 (0.062%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.062%) SAS
Applications
1 75 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
3 19 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
4 18 (1.12%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.062%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 174 (10.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (2.67%) Oracle EBS
3 41 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 23 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
4 23 (1.43%) Oracle Payables
5 21 (1.30%) NetSuite
5 21 (1.30%) Oracle Receivables
5 21 (1.30%) SAP ERP
6 16 (0.99%) Oracle General Ledger
6 16 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 14 (0.87%) iTrent
7 14 (0.87%) Oracle Financials
8 13 (0.81%) Oracle Assets
9 11 (0.68%) Loan IQ
9 11 (0.68%) Teamcenter
10 9 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
10 9 (0.56%) SAP MDG
11 8 (0.50%) SAP SD
11 8 (0.50%) Workday HCM
12 7 (0.43%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 261 (16.19%) Azure
2 159 (9.86%) AWS
3 152 (9.43%) Power Platform
4 120 (7.44%) Dynamics 365
5 91 (5.65%) OCI
6 86 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (4.09%) SaaS
8 47 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 45 (2.79%) Snowflake
10 43 (2.67%) GitHub
11 42 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
12 33 (2.05%) SuccessFactors
13 32 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 26 (1.61%) Power Automate
15 25 (1.55%) GCP
16 23 (1.43%) Amazon S3
16 23 (1.43%) PowerApps
17 17 (1.05%) OpenShift
17 17 (1.05%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 17 (1.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.18%) SAN
2 15 (0.93%) NAS
3 14 (0.87%) DNS
4 7 (0.43%) VPN
5 6 (0.37%) Firewall
5 6 (0.37%) VSAN
6 4 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (0.19%) FCoE
7 3 (0.19%) Intranet
7 3 (0.19%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.12%) HTTP
8 2 (0.12%) Internet
8 2 (0.12%) Network Security
9 1 (0.062%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.062%) LAN
9 1 (0.062%) SNMP
9 1 (0.062%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.062%) VLAN
9 1 (0.062%) WAN
9 1 (0.062%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (7.94%) Power BI
2 109 (6.76%) Data Warehouse
3 69 (4.28%) Oracle Reports
4 67 (4.16%) SQL Server
5 47 (2.92%) Metadata
6 41 (2.54%) Data Lake
7 39 (2.42%) Relational Database
8 33 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
9 28 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 26 (1.61%) Oracle Database
11 21 (1.30%) RDBMS
12 20 (1.24%) NoSQL
13 15 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (0.87%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 14 (0.87%) SAP Data Services
15 13 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 12 (0.74%) Db2
17 11 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
17 11 (0.68%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 141 (8.75%) JIRA
2 56 (3.47%) Git
3 40 (2.48%) Zephyr
4 35 (2.17%) Postman
5 24 (1.49%) Jenkins
6 21 (1.30%) GitLab
7 13 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
8 12 (0.74%) Selenium
9 8 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (0.43%) Hudson
11 6 (0.37%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.37%) Gatling
11 6 (0.37%) JUnit
11 6 (0.37%) LSMW
12 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.19%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
13 3 (0.19%) ERwin
13 3 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
General
1 562 (34.86%) Finance
2 472 (29.28%) Social Skills
3 207 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 89 (5.52%) Manufacturing
6 87 (5.40%) Banking
7 58 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
8 51 (3.16%) Retail
9 48 (2.98%) Law
10 40 (2.48%) General Ledger
11 32 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
12 31 (1.92%) Local Government
13 27 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 25 (1.55%) Legal
15 25 (1.55%) Marketing
16 24 (1.49%) Billing
17 20 (1.24%) Automotive
17 20 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
18 19 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 319 (19.79%) Lead
2 231 (14.33%) Analyst
3 209 (12.97%) Architect
4 185 (11.48%) Consultant
5 119 (7.38%) Data Engineer
6 118 (7.32%) Project Manager
6 118 (7.32%) Senior
7 113 (7.01%) Data Migration Lead
8 108 (6.70%) Business Analyst
9 83 (5.15%) Data Analyst
10 78 (4.84%) Developer
11 74 (4.59%) Data Architect
12 67 (4.16%) Migration Engineer
13 58 (3.60%) Migration Analyst
13 58 (3.60%) SAP Consultant
14 55 (3.41%) Data Migration Engineer
15 52 (3.23%) Migration Manager
16 49 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
17 48 (2.98%) Data Consultant
18 45 (2.79%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (5.40%) Oracle Fusion
2 45 (2.79%) REST
3 41 (2.54%) Middleware
4 27 (1.67%) SOAP
5 25 (1.55%) .NET
5 25 (1.55%) XML
6 20 (1.24%) JSON
6 20 (1.24%) Spring
7 19 (1.18%) Kafka
8 14 (0.87%) PySpark
9 13 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
10 12 (0.74%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 12 (0.74%) Spring Boot
11 11 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
11 11 (0.68%) React
12 9 (0.56%) ADO
13 8 (0.50%) HTML
14 7 (0.43%) COM
14 7 (0.43%) FHIR
14 7 (0.43%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 197 (12.22%) Legacy Systems
2 117 (7.26%) Data Structures
3 54 (3.35%) Cloud Native
4 50 (3.10%) Management Information System
5 43 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.30%) Public Cloud
7 35 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 32 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
9 27 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (1.49%) Replication
11 21 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.24%) NHS
13 17 (1.05%) Data Centre
14 16 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
14 16 (0.99%) FMCG
14 16 (0.99%) Mainframe
15 14 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
16 13 (0.81%) Virtual Team
17 12 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
18 11 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.67%) Windows
2 22 (1.36%) Linux
3 11 (0.68%) AIX
4 7 (0.43%) zOS
5 6 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (0.25%) VMS
7 3 (0.19%) Unix
7 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,612 (100.00%) Migration
2 442 (27.42%) Validation
3 366 (22.70%) User Acceptance Testing
4 357 (22.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 348 (21.59%) ERP
6 291 (18.05%) Agile
7 258 (16.00%) ETL
8 239 (14.83%) Data Modelling
8 239 (14.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 233 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
10 165 (10.24%) Data Governance
11 164 (10.17%) DevOps
12 160 (9.93%) Business Intelligence
12 160 (9.93%) Data Cleansing
13 141 (8.75%) Analytics
14 140 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
15 137 (8.50%) Data Mapping
16 136 (8.44%) Project Management
17 132 (8.19%) CI/CD
18 124 (7.69%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 318 (19.73%) SQL
2 121 (7.51%) Python
3 49 (3.04%) Java
4 30 (1.86%) PL/SQL
5 29 (1.80%) JavaScript
6 23 (1.43%) Bash
7 17 (1.05%) C#
8 16 (0.99%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.74%) Kotlin
10 11 (0.68%) Apex Code
10 11 (0.68%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.62%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.43%) C
12 7 (0.43%) VB
12 7 (0.43%) VB6
12 7 (0.43%) VBA
13 5 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.19%) Korn
14 3 (0.19%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.19%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 258 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 201 (12.47%) SC Cleared
3 62 (3.85%) Degree
4 35 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 34 (2.11%) ISTQB
6 31 (1.92%) PMP
7 27 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.61%) PMI Certification
9 21 (1.30%) CIMA
10 20 (1.24%) ACCA
11 17 (1.05%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.50%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.50%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 8 (0.50%) SAP Certification
13 6 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.31%) ISEB
14 5 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (17.74%) Data Quality
2 148 (9.18%) QA
3 75 (4.65%) GDPR
4 34 (2.11%) PMO
5 14 (0.87%) SLA
6 11 (0.68%) HL7
6 11 (0.68%) IFRS
7 9 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.50%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.50%) SNOMED CT
9 7 (0.43%) GMP
10 6 (0.37%) COBIT
10 6 (0.37%) DICOM
10 6 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.31%) NIST
12 4 (0.25%) GxP
12 4 (0.25%) PERC
12 4 (0.25%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.19%) GRC
System Software
1 27 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (1.18%) Docker
3 15 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.93%) vSphere
4 13 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
5 12 (0.74%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.68%) NFS
7 7 (0.43%) SRDF
8 5 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.19%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (2.92%) Terraform
2 39 (2.42%) Kubernetes
3 31 (1.92%) Ansible
4 18 (1.12%) Grafana
5 15 (0.93%) vCenter Server
6 14 (0.87%) Argo
7 11 (0.68%) Data Guard
7 11 (0.68%) HP ALM
7 11 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
8 10 (0.62%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.37%) vMotion
10 5 (0.31%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.31%) SnapMirror
11 4 (0.25%) EMC NetWorker
11 4 (0.25%) EMC TimeFinder
11 4 (0.25%) Karpenter
11 4 (0.25%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.19%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 316 (19.60%) Oracle
2 305 (18.92%) SAP
3 261 (16.19%) Microsoft
4 78 (4.84%) Databricks
5 75 (4.65%) Salesforce
6 34 (2.11%) ServiceNow
7 32 (1.99%) VMware
8 29 (1.80%) Workday
9 25 (1.55%) Pure Storage
10 23 (1.43%) IFS
10 23 (1.43%) Informatica
11 22 (1.36%) Sage
12 21 (1.30%) Talend
13 20 (1.24%) Ariba
13 20 (1.24%) Google
14 17 (1.05%) MuleSoft
14 17 (1.05%) Red Hat
15 16 (0.99%) Infor
16 15 (0.93%) IBM
17 12 (0.74%) HP