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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 90 104
Rank change year-on-year +5 +14 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,639 925 853
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.03% 2.83% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.58% 3.13% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,060 562 580
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £541
Median % change year-on-year - -3.00% -1.59%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £733 £736 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 15 9
10th Percentile £17.75 £21.90 £63.00
25th Percentile £21.27 £32.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £38.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -52.50% -13.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £69.38 -
90th Percentile £74.88 £82.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.96 £38.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -21.16% -52.50% -10.55%

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 45,746 29,585 32,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.53% 90.40% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,951 18,359 20,597
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.23%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,952 1,757 1,558
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.20 £14.43
25th Percentile £17.62 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.94
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.43% +2.73%
75th Percentile £67.89 £45.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +87.80% -47.37% +11.25%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 7 September 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 +7 1,422 £525 - 627
UK excluding London +8 728 £500 - 403
London +11 696 £538 -2.27% 345
Work from Home +4 478 £525 -2.05% 334
North of England -19 189 £510 +7.37% 75
South East -3 173 £545 -0.91% 100
Midlands +2 165 £475 -5.47% 68
North West +1 115 £525 +16.67% 47
West Midlands -2 113 £450 -10.45% 49
South West +17 90 £523 -0.48% 33
Yorkshire -35 62 £500 +1.01% 15
East of England +15 61 £565 +14.43% 35
East Midlands +1 48 £525 -4.55% 19
Scotland -29 33 £525 +14.50% 57
Northern Ireland +18 18 £450 -30.77% 37
North East -27 15 £444 +1.43% 13
Wales -16 5 £400 -17.95% 5
Channel Islands -2 2 £450 - 1

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 63 (3.84%) SharePoint
2 50 (3.05%) Confluence
3 16 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (0.73%) Apache
5 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
6 9 (0.55%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.31%) Tuxedo
8 4 (0.24%) SAS
9 3 (0.18%) CMS
9 3 (0.18%) SugarCRM
10 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.12%) Mendix
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.061%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.061%) IIS
11 1 (0.061%) OpenROAD
11 1 (0.061%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 69 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
3 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.18%) Windchill
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.061%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.061%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 175 (10.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 51 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (1.89%) Oracle Payables
4 27 (1.65%) Oracle Receivables
5 21 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
6 20 (1.22%) NetSuite
6 20 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
7 19 (1.16%) SAP ERP
8 16 (0.98%) Oracle Financials
9 15 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
10 14 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
11 13 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 13 (0.79%) SAP SD
11 13 (0.79%) Teamcenter
12 12 (0.73%) SAP MDG
12 12 (0.73%) Workday HCM
13 11 (0.67%) iTrent
13 11 (0.67%) SAP CO
13 11 (0.67%) SAP FI
14 9 (0.55%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 268 (16.35%) Azure
2 162 (9.88%) Power Platform
3 157 (9.58%) AWS
4 145 (8.85%) Dynamics 365
5 87 (5.31%) OCI
6 86 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (4.03%) SaaS
8 49 (2.99%) Snowflake
9 47 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
10 45 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
11 40 (2.44%) GitHub
12 39 (2.38%) SuccessFactors
13 36 (2.20%) Amazon S3
13 36 (2.20%) Power Automate
14 33 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 28 (1.71%) PowerApps
16 24 (1.46%) GCP
17 19 (1.16%) dbt
18 18 (1.10%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 17 (1.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.43%) DNS
2 6 (0.37%) NAS
2 6 (0.37%) SAN
3 5 (0.31%) VPN
4 4 (0.24%) Firewall
5 3 (0.18%) Intranet
6 2 (0.12%) HTTP
6 2 (0.12%) VSAN
7 1 (0.061%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.061%) DKIM
7 1 (0.061%) DMARC
7 1 (0.061%) DMZ
7 1 (0.061%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.061%) Internet
7 1 (0.061%) LAN
7 1 (0.061%) SNMP
7 1 (0.061%) SSL
7 1 (0.061%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.061%) VLAN
7 1 (0.061%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (7.93%) Power BI
2 117 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (4.45%) SQL Server
4 64 (3.90%) Metadata
5 51 (3.11%) Oracle Reports
6 48 (2.93%) Relational Database
7 44 (2.68%) Data Lake
8 39 (2.38%) Oracle Database
9 38 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 19 (1.16%) RDBMS
12 18 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (0.98%) NoSQL
14 15 (0.92%) MongoDB
15 14 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (0.79%) DataStage
16 13 (0.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 13 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 12 (0.73%) Oracle Exadata
17 12 (0.73%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 136 (8.30%) JIRA
2 56 (3.42%) Git
3 42 (2.56%) Zephyr
4 30 (1.83%) Postman
5 20 (1.22%) GitLab
6 17 (1.04%) Jenkins
7 13 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
8 9 (0.55%) Selenium
9 6 (0.37%) Gatling
9 6 (0.37%) Hudson
10 5 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.31%) LSMW
10 5 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.18%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
13 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.12%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.12%) Yeoman
General
1 581 (35.45%) Finance
2 462 (28.19%) Social Skills
3 217 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 96 (5.86%) Banking
6 85 (5.19%) Manufacturing
7 62 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
8 61 (3.72%) Retail
9 51 (3.11%) General Ledger
10 49 (2.99%) Law
11 37 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (2.07%) Local Government
13 29 (1.77%) Automotive
14 28 (1.71%) Billing
15 26 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
16 25 (1.53%) Legal
16 25 (1.53%) Marketing
17 18 (1.10%) Military
17 18 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 303 (18.49%) Lead
2 237 (14.46%) Analyst
3 216 (13.18%) Architect
4 184 (11.23%) Consultant
5 136 (8.30%) Data Engineer
6 134 (8.18%) Senior
7 107 (6.53%) Data Migration Lead
8 105 (6.41%) Business Analyst
9 100 (6.10%) Project Manager
10 85 (5.19%) Developer
11 82 (5.00%) Data Analyst
12 74 (4.51%) Data Architect
13 62 (3.78%) Migration Engineer
14 57 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
15 55 (3.36%) SAP Consultant
16 52 (3.17%) Data Consultant
17 51 (3.11%) Data Migration Engineer
18 45 (2.75%) Migration Consultant
19 44 (2.68%) Migration Analyst
20 43 (2.62%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (6.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 55 (3.36%) Middleware
3 45 (2.75%) REST
4 35 (2.14%) Terraform
5 32 (1.95%) .NET
6 30 (1.83%) XML
7 26 (1.59%) SOAP
8 22 (1.34%) PySpark
9 21 (1.28%) JSON
10 17 (1.04%) Kafka
11 14 (0.85%) Spring
12 13 (0.79%) Keycloak
12 13 (0.79%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 11 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
14 9 (0.55%) HTML
14 9 (0.55%) Spring Boot
15 8 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
15 8 (0.49%) Web Services
16 7 (0.43%) FHIR
17 6 (0.37%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 181 (11.04%) Legacy Systems
2 119 (7.26%) Data Structures
3 53 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 53 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 45 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
5 44 (2.68%) Cloud Native
5 44 (2.68%) Public Cloud
6 38 (2.32%) Product Ownership
7 30 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (1.22%) FMCG
8 20 (1.22%) NHS
8 20 (1.22%) Replication
9 18 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.04%) Reference Data
11 15 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
12 13 (0.79%) Data Centre
12 13 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (0.79%) Reinsurance
13 12 (0.73%) Low-Code
13 12 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.95%) Windows
2 31 (1.89%) Linux
3 12 (0.73%) AIX
4 10 (0.61%) Unix
5 6 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (0.24%) VMS
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.061%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,639 (100.00%) Migration
2 476 (29.04%) Validation
3 422 (25.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 378 (23.06%) User Acceptance Testing
5 375 (22.88%) ERP
6 281 (17.14%) Agile
7 268 (16.35%) Data Modelling
8 260 (15.86%) ETL
9 253 (15.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 207 (12.63%) Data Governance
11 206 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
12 159 (9.70%) DevOps
13 157 (9.58%) Business Intelligence
14 154 (9.40%) Data Cleansing
15 147 (8.97%) Analytics
16 142 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
17 138 (8.42%) Data Mapping
18 134 (8.18%) CI/CD
19 127 (7.75%) Requirements Gathering
20 122 (7.44%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 346 (21.11%) SQL
2 109 (6.65%) Python
3 37 (2.26%) Java
4 31 (1.89%) JavaScript
5 30 (1.83%) PL/SQL
6 25 (1.53%) C#
7 17 (1.04%) Bash
8 13 (0.79%) PowerShell
9 11 (0.67%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.61%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.55%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.49%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.37%) MUMPS
13 6 (0.37%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.31%) ABAP
14 5 (0.31%) C
14 5 (0.31%) VB
14 5 (0.31%) VB6
14 5 (0.31%) VBA
15 4 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 283 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 228 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 55 (3.36%) Degree
4 38 (2.32%) DV Cleared
5 32 (1.95%) ACCA
5 32 (1.95%) CIMA
6 30 (1.83%) ISTQB
6 30 (1.83%) PMI Certification
6 30 (1.83%) PMP
7 29 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (0.61%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 7 (0.43%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.43%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.31%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.24%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 342 (20.87%) Data Quality
2 139 (8.48%) QA
3 74 (4.51%) GDPR
4 33 (2.01%) PMO
5 15 (0.92%) GRC
6 12 (0.73%) HL7
7 11 (0.67%) IFRS
8 9 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.55%) SLA
9 7 (0.43%) DICOM
9 7 (0.43%) SNOMED CT
10 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.24%) GMP
11 4 (0.24%) GxP
11 4 (0.24%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.24%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.18%) NCSC
12 3 (0.18%) PERC
12 3 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 20 (1.22%) Docker
2 14 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
2 14 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (0.73%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.49%) vSphere
5 5 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.31%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (0.18%) NFS
6 3 (0.18%) SRDF
6 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.59%) Ansible
3 12 (0.73%) Data Guard
3 12 (0.73%) Karpenter
3 12 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (0.49%) vCenter Server
5 7 (0.43%) Argo
5 7 (0.43%) Grafana
5 7 (0.43%) HP ALM
6 5 (0.31%) SnapMirror
7 4 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
8 3 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (0.18%) NetBackup
8 3 (0.18%) SnapVault
9 2 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.061%) Autotask
10 1 (0.061%) SCCM
Vendors
1 321 (19.59%) Oracle
2 310 (18.91%) SAP
3 286 (17.45%) Microsoft
4 92 (5.61%) Databricks
5 69 (4.21%) Salesforce
6 34 (2.07%) ServiceNow
7 32 (1.95%) Informatica
8 30 (1.83%) Workday
9 25 (1.53%) Ariba
10 24 (1.46%) Talend
11 23 (1.40%) IBM
12 19 (1.16%) Google
13 17 (1.04%) IFS
14 15 (0.92%) InterSystems
14 15 (0.92%) VMware
15 14 (0.85%) Sage
16 12 (0.73%) MuleSoft
17 11 (0.67%) Infor
18 10 (0.61%) Atlassian
18 10 (0.61%) Siebel