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

 6 months to
29 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 103 95
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,022 796 986
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.66% 2.53% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 2.84% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 524 661
10th Percentile £388 £390 £406
25th Percentile £450 £457 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £637 £660
90th Percentile £708 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 1 19
10th Percentile £14.61 - -
25th Percentile £15.94 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £84.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -58.58% +20.71%
75th Percentile £81.00 - £86.50
90th Percentile £98.78 - £86.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +169.81%

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 33,625 28,045 38,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.37% 89.09% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,290 17,011 25,209
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £640
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -3.86% -0.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,022 880 1,958
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.62% +10.65%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.45 £37.18
% change year-on-year -18.85% -18.10% +39.38%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +1 859 £545 -0.91% 223
London +13 456 £550 - 86
UK excluding London -20 419 £525 - 184
Work from Home -16 300 £538 -0.23% 95
South East -35 117 £625 +16.28% 66
Midlands -30 97 £550 +6.02% 29
North of England -33 94 £475 -9.52% 37
North West -5 53 £450 -10.00% 20
West Midlands -33 52 £550 +4.76% 15
Scotland +24 44 £559 +17.63% 10
East Midlands +4 44 £550 +30.95% 13
Yorkshire -41 35 £513 -8.73% 14
South West -26 26 £525 +5.00% 19
East of England -17 22 £475 -13.64% 17
Northern Ireland +4 9 £400 -23.81% 2
Wales +4 9 £531 +3.66% 6
North East -14 7 £488 -25.00% 3

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 32 (3.13%) Confluence
2 30 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.68%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 6 (0.59%) GeoServer
5 6 (0.59%) Smallworld
6 5 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.39%) Apache
8 3 (0.29%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.29%) CMS
8 3 (0.29%) LiveLink
9 2 (0.20%) Appian
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.098%) Moodle
10 1 (0.098%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.098%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.098%) SAP Portal
10 1 (0.098%) SAS
10 1 (0.098%) WebSphere
Applications
1 55 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
3 19 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.37%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.098%) Trello
6 1 (0.098%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 114 (11.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (3.72%) Oracle EBS
3 32 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 18 (1.76%) Oracle Payables
5 17 (1.66%) Oracle General Ledger
5 17 (1.66%) SAP HR
6 16 (1.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (1.47%) Oracle Receivables
7 15 (1.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 12 (1.17%) SAP FI
9 11 (1.08%) NetSuite
10 10 (0.98%) SAP ERP
11 9 (0.88%) Loan IQ
11 9 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
11 9 (0.88%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.88%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.88%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.78%) Oracle Cash Management
12 8 (0.78%) SAP MM
13 7 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 148 (14.48%) Azure
2 91 (8.90%) AWS
3 82 (8.02%) Power Platform
4 75 (7.34%) OCI
5 69 (6.75%) Dynamics 365
6 37 (3.62%) SaaS
7 33 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (2.45%) Amazon S3
9 25 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (2.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 22 (2.15%) SuccessFactors
11 21 (2.05%) Snowflake
12 18 (1.76%) Entra ID
13 16 (1.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 16 (1.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 14 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (1.37%) GCP
14 14 (1.37%) Serverless
15 12 (1.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.78%) NAS
2 4 (0.39%) SSL
3 3 (0.29%) DNS
3 3 (0.29%) Firewall
3 3 (0.29%) Internet
3 3 (0.29%) Intranet
3 3 (0.29%) Network Security
3 3 (0.29%) SAN
3 3 (0.29%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.20%) IPv6
4 2 (0.20%) LAN
4 2 (0.20%) VPN
4 2 (0.20%) WAN
4 2 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.098%) IPv4
5 1 (0.098%) VLAN
5 1 (0.098%) WebEx
5 1 (0.098%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (6.26%) Power BI
2 60 (5.87%) SQL Server
3 56 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (3.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 33 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 27 (2.64%) Metadata
6 27 (2.64%) Oracle Database
7 24 (2.35%) Oracle Reports
8 23 (2.25%) Tableau
9 22 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 21 (2.05%) Data Lake
10 21 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
11 15 (1.47%) RDBMS
12 13 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.08%) MySQL
13 11 (1.08%) SAP Data Services
14 10 (0.98%) Big Data
15 9 (0.88%) DataStage
15 9 (0.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 73 (7.14%) JIRA
2 7 (0.68%) Git
3 6 (0.59%) LSMW
4 5 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (0.49%) Postman
5 4 (0.39%) GitLab
5 4 (0.39%) Toad
5 4 (0.39%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.29%) ERwin
6 3 (0.29%) MLflow
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.20%) Hudson
7 2 (0.20%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.098%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.098%) SonarQube
General
1 370 (36.20%) Social Skills
2 337 (32.97%) Finance
3 108 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 64 (6.26%) Banking
6 42 (4.11%) Manufacturing
7 41 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
8 40 (3.91%) Retail
9 32 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
10 25 (2.45%) Legal
11 22 (2.15%) General Ledger
12 21 (2.05%) Local Government
12 21 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (1.66%) Marketing
14 16 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 14 (1.37%) Billing
16 12 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 11 (1.08%) Back Office
17 11 (1.08%) Investment Banking
17 11 (1.08%) Law
Job Titles
1 171 (16.73%) Lead
2 154 (15.07%) Consultant
3 151 (14.77%) Analyst
4 109 (10.67%) Architect
5 92 (9.00%) Project Manager
6 90 (8.81%) Business Analyst
7 83 (8.12%) Senior
8 55 (5.38%) Data Engineer
8 55 (5.38%) Data Migration Lead
9 48 (4.70%) Developer
10 46 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
11 45 (4.40%) Data Analyst
11 45 (4.40%) SAP Consultant
12 40 (3.91%) Migration Analyst
13 34 (3.33%) Functional Consultant
14 32 (3.13%) Migration Manager
15 30 (2.94%) Data Migration Analyst
16 28 (2.74%) Data Consultant
17 27 (2.64%) Oracle Consultant
18 26 (2.54%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
2 37 (3.62%) REST
3 33 (3.23%) XML
4 23 (2.25%) Middleware
5 22 (2.15%) SOAP
6 19 (1.86%) JSON
7 17 (1.66%) Lightning Web Components
8 14 (1.37%) PySpark
8 14 (1.37%) Visualforce
9 12 (1.17%) .NET
10 11 (1.08%) Web Services
11 10 (0.98%) SAP Fiori
12 8 (0.78%) XSLT
13 6 (0.59%) EDI
14 5 (0.49%) Apache Avro
14 5 (0.49%) LDAP
15 4 (0.39%) BAPI
15 4 (0.39%) Kafka
15 4 (0.39%) SAP Basis
15 4 (0.39%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 146 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 76 (7.44%) Data Structures
3 40 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 31 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 24 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
6 21 (2.05%) Product Ownership
7 15 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.37%) Replication
9 12 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.17%) Reference Data
10 10 (0.98%) Cloud Native
10 10 (0.98%) Data Centre
10 10 (0.98%) Public Cloud
11 9 (0.88%) CMDB
12 8 (0.78%) FMCG
12 8 (0.78%) Life Science
12 8 (0.78%) NHS
13 7 (0.68%) Derivative
13 7 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.68%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.25%) Windows
2 8 (0.78%) Windows 10
2 8 (0.78%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.59%) Linux
4 6 (0.59%) Unix
5 5 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.29%) Solaris
7 1 (0.098%) AIX
7 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.098%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,022 (100.00%) Migration
2 239 (23.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 237 (23.19%) Agile
4 191 (18.69%) Validation
5 187 (18.30%) ERP
6 183 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
7 157 (15.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 150 (14.68%) User Acceptance Testing
9 149 (14.58%) ETL
10 142 (13.89%) Data Modelling
11 112 (10.96%) Workshop Facilitation
12 111 (10.86%) Project Management
13 110 (10.76%) Analytics
14 103 (10.08%) Data Cleansing
15 100 (9.78%) Change Management
16 87 (8.51%) Data Mapping
17 85 (8.32%) Business Intelligence
18 81 (7.93%) Data Governance
19 80 (7.83%) Data Analysis
20 78 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 201 (19.67%) SQL
2 73 (7.14%) Python
3 29 (2.84%) Java
4 16 (1.57%) Apex Code
4 16 (1.57%) PL/SQL
5 15 (1.47%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.37%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.08%) C#
8 9 (0.88%) Shell Script
8 9 (0.88%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.49%) Bicep
9 5 (0.49%) Perl
9 5 (0.49%) PHP
10 4 (0.39%) ABAP
10 4 (0.39%) Korn
10 4 (0.39%) VBA
10 4 (0.39%) X++
11 3 (0.29%) Bash
11 3 (0.29%) SOQL
11 3 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 122 (11.94%) Security Cleared
2 87 (8.51%) SC Cleared
3 72 (7.05%) Degree
4 37 (3.62%) PMP
5 32 (3.13%) PMI Certification
6 23 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.66%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.27%) AWS Certification
9 13 (1.27%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.27%) SAP Certification
10 6 (0.59%) CIMA
11 5 (0.49%) ACCA
11 5 (0.49%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.49%) CFA
12 4 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.29%) OCP
13 3 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (13.99%) Data Quality
2 66 (6.46%) QA
3 58 (5.68%) GDPR
4 13 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.27%) PMO
5 9 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 9 (0.88%) COBIT
5 9 (0.88%) IFRS
5 9 (0.88%) NIST
6 8 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.78%) GxP
7 7 (0.68%) GAAP
7 7 (0.68%) 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 (0.39%) Basel III
10 4 (0.39%) IFRS 17
10 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (1.57%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.17%) Docker
3 5 (0.49%) NFS
4 4 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.098%) SRDF
5 1 (0.098%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.098%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (1.47%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.08%) Terraform
3 10 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.88%) SCCM
5 5 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.29%) Ansible
6 3 (0.29%) Grafana
7 2 (0.20%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (0.20%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.20%) vMotion
8 1 (0.098%) Argo
8 1 (0.098%) Control-M
8 1 (0.098%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.098%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 204 (19.96%) SAP
2 187 (18.30%) Oracle
3 153 (14.97%) Microsoft
4 45 (4.40%) Salesforce
5 43 (4.21%) Workday
6 40 (3.91%) Databricks
7 18 (1.76%) Informatica
8 17 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.47%) Sage
10 13 (1.27%) Avaloq
11 12 (1.17%) Ariba
11 12 (1.17%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.98%) Google
12 10 (0.98%) IBM
13 9 (0.88%) OpenText
13 9 (0.88%) Talend
14 8 (0.78%) IFS
14 8 (0.78%) Kronos
15 7 (0.68%) GoldenSource
15 7 (0.68%) Temenos
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