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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 89 104
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,629 919 848
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.04% 2.84% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 3.14% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,052 559 575
10th Percentile £363 £363 £396
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £733 £725 £707
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 15 11
10th Percentile £17.75 £21.90 £63.25
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 45,398 29,222 32,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.44% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,773 18,158 20,413
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
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 2,911 1,744 1,558
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.20 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.84 £46.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.18 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +87.80% -47.37% +12.13%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +3 1,415 £525 - 641
UK excluding London +6 723 £500 - 413
London +8 692 £536 -2.50% 338
Work from Home +6 475 £525 -2.05% 321
North of England -19 189 £510 +7.37% 78
South East -5 172 £545 -0.91% 96
Midlands +8 164 £475 -5.00% 71
North West +11 115 £525 +16.67% 50
West Midlands 0 112 £450 -10.45% 49
South West +18 89 £523 -0.48% 38
Yorkshire -36 62 £500 +1.01% 14
East of England +14 61 £565 +14.43% 40
East Midlands 0 48 £525 +0.77% 22
Scotland -24 31 £525 +14.50% 55
Northern Ireland +19 18 £450 -30.77% 38
North East -25 15 £444 +1.43% 14
Wales -15 5 £400 -17.95% 3
Channel Islands -1 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 (3.87%) SharePoint
2 50 (3.07%) Confluence
3 15 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (0.74%) Apache
5 11 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
6 9 (0.55%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.31%) Tuxedo
8 4 (0.25%) 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 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
3 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.74%) 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 (10.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (1.90%) Oracle Payables
4 27 (1.66%) Oracle Receivables
5 21 (1.29%) Oracle ERP
6 20 (1.23%) NetSuite
6 20 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
7 19 (1.17%) SAP ERP
8 16 (0.98%) Oracle Financials
9 15 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
10 14 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
11 13 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 13 (0.80%) SAP SD
11 13 (0.80%) Teamcenter
12 12 (0.74%) SAP MDG
12 12 (0.74%) Workday HCM
13 11 (0.68%) iTrent
13 11 (0.68%) SAP CO
13 11 (0.68%) SAP FI
14 9 (0.55%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 265 (16.27%) Azure
2 160 (9.82%) Power Platform
3 155 (9.52%) AWS
4 143 (8.78%) Dynamics 365
5 87 (5.34%) OCI
6 84 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (4.05%) SaaS
8 48 (2.95%) Snowflake
9 47 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
10 45 (2.76%) Azure Data Factory
11 40 (2.46%) GitHub
12 39 (2.39%) SuccessFactors
13 36 (2.21%) Amazon S3
13 36 (2.21%) Power Automate
14 32 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 28 (1.72%) PowerApps
16 24 (1.47%) GCP
17 18 (1.10%) dbt
17 18 (1.10%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
18 17 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.43%) DNS
2 6 (0.37%) NAS
2 6 (0.37%) SAN
3 5 (0.31%) VPN
4 4 (0.25%) 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%) 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 (7.98%) Power BI
2 117 (7.18%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (4.42%) SQL Server
4 62 (3.81%) Metadata
5 51 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
6 48 (2.95%) Relational Database
7 44 (2.70%) Data Lake
8 39 (2.39%) Oracle Database
9 37 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (1.17%) RDBMS
10 19 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 18 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (0.98%) NoSQL
13 15 (0.92%) MongoDB
14 14 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (0.80%) DataStage
15 13 (0.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 13 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 12 (0.74%) Oracle Exadata
16 12 (0.74%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 136 (8.35%) JIRA
2 56 (3.44%) Git
3 42 (2.58%) Zephyr
4 30 (1.84%) Postman
5 20 (1.23%) GitLab
6 17 (1.04%) Jenkins
7 13 (0.80%) 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 (0.25%) 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
1 580 (35.60%) Finance
2 459 (28.18%) Social Skills
3 217 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (9.39%) Public Sector
5 95 (5.83%) Banking
6 85 (5.22%) Manufacturing
7 62 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
8 61 (3.74%) Retail
9 51 (3.13%) General Ledger
10 49 (3.01%) Law
11 37 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (2.09%) Local Government
13 29 (1.78%) Automotive
14 28 (1.72%) Billing
15 26 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
16 25 (1.53%) Legal
16 25 (1.53%) Marketing
17 18 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 301 (18.48%) Lead
2 237 (14.55%) Analyst
3 212 (13.01%) Architect
4 182 (11.17%) Consultant
5 135 (8.29%) Data Engineer
6 134 (8.23%) Senior
7 106 (6.51%) Data Migration Lead
8 105 (6.45%) Business Analyst
9 100 (6.14%) Project Manager
10 83 (5.10%) Developer
11 82 (5.03%) Data Analyst
12 72 (4.42%) Data Architect
13 61 (3.74%) Migration Engineer
14 55 (3.38%) SAP Consultant
14 55 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
15 52 (3.19%) Data Consultant
16 50 (3.07%) Data Migration Engineer
17 45 (2.76%) Migration Consultant
18 44 (2.70%) Migration Analyst
19 43 (2.64%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (6.02%) Oracle Fusion
2 55 (3.38%) Middleware
3 45 (2.76%) REST
4 35 (2.15%) Terraform
5 32 (1.96%) .NET
6 30 (1.84%) XML
7 26 (1.60%) SOAP
8 22 (1.35%) PySpark
9 21 (1.29%) JSON
10 17 (1.04%) Kafka
11 14 (0.86%) Spring
12 13 (0.80%) Keycloak
12 13 (0.80%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 11 (0.68%) 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 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 118 (7.24%) Data Structures
3 53 (3.25%) Management Information System
3 53 (3.25%) Onboarding
4 45 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
5 44 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 44 (2.70%) Public Cloud
6 38 (2.33%) Product Ownership
7 30 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (1.23%) FMCG
8 20 (1.23%) NHS
8 20 (1.23%) Replication
9 18 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.04%) Reference Data
11 14 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
12 13 (0.80%) Data Centre
12 13 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (0.74%) Low-Code
13 12 (0.74%) Reinsurance
13 12 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.96%) Windows
2 31 (1.90%) Linux
3 12 (0.74%) AIX
4 10 (0.61%) Unix
5 6 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (0.25%) VMS
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.061%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,629 (100.00%) Migration
2 473 (29.04%) Validation
3 420 (25.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 378 (23.20%) User Acceptance Testing
5 374 (22.96%) ERP
6 279 (17.13%) Agile
7 266 (16.33%) Data Modelling
8 259 (15.90%) ETL
9 253 (15.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 205 (12.58%) Data Governance
11 202 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
12 157 (9.64%) Business Intelligence
12 157 (9.64%) DevOps
13 153 (9.39%) Data Cleansing
14 145 (8.90%) Analytics
15 141 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
16 137 (8.41%) Data Mapping
17 133 (8.16%) CI/CD
18 127 (7.80%) Requirements Gathering
19 121 (7.43%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 345 (21.18%) SQL
2 109 (6.69%) Python
3 37 (2.27%) Java
4 31 (1.90%) JavaScript
5 30 (1.84%) PL/SQL
6 25 (1.53%) C#
7 17 (1.04%) Bash
8 13 (0.80%) PowerShell
9 11 (0.68%) 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 (0.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 281 (17.25%) Security Cleared
2 226 (13.87%) SC Cleared
3 55 (3.38%) Degree
4 38 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 32 (1.96%) ACCA
5 32 (1.96%) CIMA
6 30 (1.84%) ISTQB
6 30 (1.84%) PMI Certification
6 30 (1.84%) PMP
7 29 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (0.68%) 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 (0.25%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 338 (20.75%) Data Quality
2 139 (8.53%) QA
3 74 (4.54%) GDPR
4 33 (2.03%) PMO
5 15 (0.92%) GRC
6 12 (0.74%) HL7
7 11 (0.68%) 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 (0.25%) GMP
11 4 (0.25%) GxP
11 4 (0.25%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.25%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.18%) NCSC
12 3 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 20 (1.23%) Docker
2 14 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
2 14 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (0.74%) 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 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.60%) Ansible
3 12 (0.74%) Data Guard
3 12 (0.74%) Karpenter
3 12 (0.74%) 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 (0.25%) 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
1 319 (19.58%) Oracle
2 310 (19.03%) SAP
3 284 (17.43%) Microsoft
4 91 (5.59%) Databricks
5 69 (4.24%) Salesforce
6 34 (2.09%) ServiceNow
7 30 (1.84%) Informatica
7 30 (1.84%) Workday
8 25 (1.53%) Ariba
9 23 (1.41%) IBM
9 23 (1.41%) Talend
10 19 (1.17%) Google
11 17 (1.04%) IFS
12 15 (0.92%) InterSystems
12 15 (0.92%) VMware
13 14 (0.86%) Sage
14 12 (0.74%) MuleSoft
15 11 (0.68%) Infor
16 10 (0.61%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.61%) Siebel