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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 98 95
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,036 858 1,055
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.79% 2.54% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 2.88% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 572 700
10th Percentile £375 £400 £413
25th Percentile £430 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £562
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -4.32% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £653
90th Percentile £722 £700 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £555
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.41% +11.00%
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 32,744 29,791 38,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.06% 88.28% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 18,168 25,704
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,071 964 1,544
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%
75th Percentile £51.23 £62.59 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.31 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £31.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.16% -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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -2 857 £534 -2.95% 772
London +12 458 £550 - 118
UK excluding London -17 408 £500 -4.76% 710
Work from Home -13 316 £525 - 490
South East -27 116 £625 +13.64% 188
Midlands -19 101 £550 +4.76% 153
North of England -54 84 £473 -9.90% 142
West Midlands -28 54 £550 +4.76% 75
Scotland +29 45 £550 +15.79% 26
East Midlands +12 45 £550 +29.41% 70
North West -30 40 £449 -9.98% 70
Yorkshire -28 38 £525 -7.08% 65
South West -14 26 £519 -1.19% 73
East of England -26 20 £465 -15.55% 106
Wales +7 8 £531 +3.66% 16
Northern Ireland 0 7 £400 -23.81% 15
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 38 (3.67%) Confluence
2 34 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.58%) Apache
5 6 (0.58%) GeoServer
5 6 (0.58%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 6 (0.58%) Smallworld
6 5 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.29%) CMS
7 3 (0.29%) LiveLink
8 2 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.097%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.097%) IIS
9 1 (0.097%) Moodle
9 1 (0.097%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.097%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.097%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.097%) SAP Portal
9 1 (0.097%) SAS
Applications
1 48 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.48%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.097%) Trello
8 1 (0.097%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 110 (10.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (3.67%) Oracle EBS
3 37 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (2.12%) SAP HR
5 18 (1.74%) Oracle Payables
6 15 (1.45%) NetSuite
7 14 (1.35%) Oracle Receivables
8 13 (1.25%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (1.06%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.97%) SAP ERP
11 9 (0.87%) Oracle Cash Management
11 9 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
11 9 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 9 (0.87%) SAP MDG
11 9 (0.87%) SAP PM
11 9 (0.87%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.77%) SAP CO
12 8 (0.77%) SAP FI/CO
12 8 (0.77%) SAP MM
12 8 (0.77%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 145 (14.00%) Azure
2 94 (9.07%) AWS
3 81 (7.82%) Power Platform
4 79 (7.63%) Dynamics 365
5 68 (6.56%) OCI
6 37 (3.57%) SaaS
7 32 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (2.99%) Amazon S3
9 30 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 27 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
11 26 (2.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 23 (2.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 22 (2.12%) Entra ID
13 22 (2.12%) Snowflake
14 21 (2.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 19 (1.83%) Serverless
15 19 (1.83%) SuccessFactors
16 16 (1.54%) GCP
17 14 (1.35%) Power Automate
17 14 (1.35%) PowerApps
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 62 (5.98%) Power BI
2 59 (5.69%) SQL Server
3 57 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (3.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 32 (3.09%) Relational Database
6 26 (2.51%) Data Lake
7 23 (2.22%) Metadata
8 22 (2.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 22 (2.12%) Tableau
9 21 (2.03%) Oracle Database
9 21 (2.03%) Oracle Reports
10 17 (1.64%) DataStage
11 16 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
12 15 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (1.35%) RDBMS
14 13 (1.25%) Amazon QuickSight
15 12 (1.16%) SAP Data Services
16 10 (0.97%) Big Data
16 10 (0.97%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 78 (7.53%) 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%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.097%) Poetry
6 1 (0.097%) Selenium
6 1 (0.097%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.097%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.097%) TeamCity
General
1 367 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 341 (32.92%) Finance
3 122 (11.78%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (8.69%) Public Sector
5 57 (5.50%) Banking
6 40 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (3.76%) Manufacturing
8 29 (2.80%) Local Government
9 28 (2.70%) Retail
10 26 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (2.41%) Legal
12 24 (2.32%) Marketing
13 20 (1.93%) Back Office
13 20 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 19 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
15 18 (1.74%) General Ledger
16 12 (1.16%) Billing
16 12 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (1.06%) Law
18 9 (0.87%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 156 (15.06%) Analyst
2 154 (14.86%) Consultant
3 151 (14.58%) Lead
4 124 (11.97%) Architect
5 93 (8.98%) Business Analyst
6 91 (8.78%) Project Manager
7 76 (7.34%) Senior
8 54 (5.21%) Data Engineer
9 53 (5.12%) Data Migration Lead
10 51 (4.92%) Developer
11 49 (4.73%) SAP Consultant
12 44 (4.25%) Data Analyst
13 41 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
14 35 (3.38%) Migration Specialist
15 33 (3.19%) Functional Consultant
16 32 (3.09%) Data Migration Specialist
16 32 (3.09%) Migration Analyst
17 30 (2.90%) Data Consultant
18 28 (2.70%) Migration Consultant
18 28 (2.70%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (5.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 39 (3.76%) REST
2 39 (3.76%) XML
3 28 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
4 27 (2.61%) SOAP
5 24 (2.32%) Visualforce
6 22 (2.12%) JSON
7 20 (1.93%) Middleware
8 14 (1.35%) .NET
9 13 (1.25%) 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
14 5 (0.48%) Apache Avro
14 5 (0.48%) GraphQL
14 5 (0.48%) LDAP
14 5 (0.48%) React
14 5 (0.48%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 130 (12.55%) Legacy Systems
2 64 (6.18%) Data Structures
3 39 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 33 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 20 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (1.35%) Replication
9 13 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.16%) Data Centre
11 10 (0.97%) Reference Data
12 9 (0.87%) Cloud Native
12 9 (0.87%) CMDB
13 8 (0.77%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.68%) FMCG
14 7 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.68%) Life Science
14 7 (0.68%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (0.58%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.32%) 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 1,036 (100.00%) Migration
2 249 (24.03%) Agile
3 219 (21.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 197 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
5 173 (16.70%) Validation
6 167 (16.12%) ERP
7 159 (15.35%) ETL
8 148 (14.29%) Data Modelling
9 147 (14.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 138 (13.32%) User Acceptance Testing
11 110 (10.62%) Analytics
12 105 (10.14%) Project Management
13 101 (9.75%) Data Governance
14 98 (9.46%) Workshop Facilitation
15 93 (8.98%) Data Cleansing
16 90 (8.69%) Change Management
17 84 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
18 77 (7.43%) Continuous Improvement
18 77 (7.43%) Project Delivery
19 76 (7.34%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 203 (19.59%) SQL
2 67 (6.47%) Python
3 34 (3.28%) Java
4 28 (2.70%) Apex Code
5 18 (1.74%) C#
6 15 (1.45%) PL/SQL
7 14 (1.35%) JavaScript
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%) R
13 4 (0.39%) SOQL
14 3 (0.29%) Bash
14 3 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 120 (11.58%) Security Cleared
2 84 (8.11%) Degree
3 83 (8.01%) SC Cleared
4 33 (3.19%) PMP
5 31 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (2.90%) PMI Certification
7 23 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 21 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.54%) 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%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (14.58%) Data Quality
2 75 (7.24%) QA
3 64 (6.18%) GDPR
4 15 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 13 (1.25%) 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%) IFRS
8 7 (0.68%) NIST
9 6 (0.58%) GMP
9 6 (0.58%) SLA
10 5 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.39%) GAAP
11 4 (0.39%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.29%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 18 (1.74%) Docker
2 16 (1.54%) 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 21 (2.03%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.93%) 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
1 213 (20.56%) SAP
2 170 (16.41%) Oracle
3 156 (15.06%) Microsoft
4 58 (5.60%) Salesforce
5 39 (3.76%) Databricks
6 37 (3.57%) Workday
7 16 (1.54%) Informatica
8 14 (1.35%) IBM
9 12 (1.16%) Ariba
9 12 (1.16%) Google
9 12 (1.16%) MuleSoft
9 12 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 9 (0.87%) OpenText
10 9 (0.87%) Sage
10 9 (0.87%) Talend
11 8 (0.77%) Kronos
12 7 (0.68%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.68%) Avaloq
12 7 (0.68%) IFS
13 6 (0.58%) ESRI