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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 93 102
Rank change year-on-year +14 +9 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,560 817 955
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.07% 2.70% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 2.97% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 989 505 647
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £733 £725 £727
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 18 33
10th Percentile £17.58 £27.92 £25.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £32.27 £40.00
Median hourly rate £38.36 £60.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.08% -20.00% +180.37%
75th Percentile £49.62 £83.73 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.96 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -47.90% -23.33% +233.33%

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 43,249 27,546 37,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 91.07% 85.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,953 17,432 23,598
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -4.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £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 2,594 1,315 2,564
10th Percentile £14.81 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.71 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +82.48% -35.31% +17.65%

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 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +25 1,401 £525 -0.85% 234
London +36 700 £550 - 97
UK excluding London +18 694 £525 +5.00% 190
Work from Home +4 416 £525 -0.94% 120
South East +9 188 £550 +4.76% 64
North of England -10 183 £519 +8.69% 51
Midlands +2 145 £491 +0.72% 29
North West +9 119 £500 +1.63% 30
West Midlands 0 105 £475 -5.00% 12
South West +7 77 £523 +1.95% 20
East of England +3 57 £581 -10.58% 13
Yorkshire -41 53 £530 +15.99% 14
East Midlands +14 36 £500 +9.29% 17
Northern Ireland +23 22 £475 -51.28% 5
Scotland -17 21 £494 +3.95% 7
North East -20 13 £625 +8.70% 7
Wales -12 6 £400 -15.79% 6
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 55 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.76%) Confluence
3 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.32%) Tuxedo
5 4 (0.26%) Apache
5 4 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.13%) Appian
8 1 (0.064%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.064%) CMS
8 1 (0.064%) IIS
8 1 (0.064%) Mendix
8 1 (0.064%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.064%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.064%) WebSphere
Applications
1 78 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
3 20 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
4 18 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.064%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.064%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 175 (11.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (2.63%) Oracle EBS
3 39 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.35%) Oracle ERP
4 21 (1.35%) SAP ERP
5 19 (1.22%) NetSuite
5 19 (1.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 16 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
7 15 (0.96%) Oracle General Ledger
8 14 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.71%) iTrent
10 10 (0.64%) Loan IQ
10 10 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
10 10 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
11 9 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
11 9 (0.58%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 8 (0.51%) SAP SD
12 8 (0.51%) Teamcenter
13 7 (0.45%) SAP CO
13 7 (0.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 255 (16.35%) Azure
2 154 (9.87%) AWS
3 146 (9.36%) Power Platform
4 111 (7.12%) Dynamics 365
5 85 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
6 78 (5.00%) OCI
7 63 (4.04%) SaaS
8 49 (3.14%) Azure Data Factory
9 46 (2.95%) Snowflake
10 44 (2.82%) GitHub
11 38 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
12 33 (2.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 26 (1.67%) SuccessFactors
14 24 (1.54%) Amazon S3
15 23 (1.47%) GCP
15 23 (1.47%) Power Automate
16 20 (1.28%) PowerApps
17 17 (1.09%) OpenShift
18 16 (1.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
18 16 (1.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.22%) SAN
2 15 (0.96%) NAS
3 14 (0.90%) DNS
4 7 (0.45%) VPN
5 6 (0.38%) Firewall
5 6 (0.38%) VSAN
6 4 (0.26%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (0.19%) FCoE
7 3 (0.19%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.13%) HTTP
8 2 (0.13%) Internet
8 2 (0.13%) Network Security
9 1 (0.064%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.064%) Intranet
9 1 (0.064%) LAN
9 1 (0.064%) SNMP
9 1 (0.064%) SSL
9 1 (0.064%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.064%) WAN
9 1 (0.064%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (7.82%) Power BI
2 109 (6.99%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (4.29%) Oracle Reports
4 66 (4.23%) SQL Server
5 44 (2.82%) Metadata
6 37 (2.37%) Data Lake
7 34 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (2.18%) Relational Database
8 31 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 27 (1.73%) Oracle Database
10 20 (1.28%) NoSQL
11 16 (1.03%) RDBMS
12 14 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 14 (0.90%) SAP Data Services
12 14 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 13 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (0.77%) Db2
15 10 (0.64%) GIS
15 10 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 137 (8.78%) JIRA
2 52 (3.33%) Git
3 40 (2.56%) Zephyr
4 35 (2.24%) Postman
5 24 (1.54%) Jenkins
6 16 (1.03%) GitLab
7 12 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
7 12 (0.77%) Selenium
8 8 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.45%) Hudson
10 6 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.38%) Gatling
10 6 (0.38%) JUnit
10 6 (0.38%) LSMW
11 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.19%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 543 (34.81%) Finance
2 463 (29.68%) Social Skills
3 195 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (8.46%) Public Sector
5 93 (5.96%) Banking
6 83 (5.32%) Manufacturing
7 58 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (3.08%) Retail
9 47 (3.01%) Law
10 39 (2.50%) General Ledger
11 31 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (1.92%) Local Government
13 29 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
14 27 (1.73%) Legal
15 24 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 23 (1.47%) Marketing
17 21 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
18 20 (1.28%) Billing
19 19 (1.22%) Automotive
20 17 (1.09%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 324 (20.77%) Lead
2 216 (13.85%) Analyst
3 205 (13.14%) Architect
4 176 (11.28%) Consultant
5 116 (7.44%) Data Migration Lead
6 113 (7.24%) Project Manager
7 111 (7.12%) Data Engineer
7 111 (7.12%) Senior
8 97 (6.22%) Business Analyst
9 81 (5.19%) Data Analyst
10 74 (4.74%) Data Architect
11 73 (4.68%) Developer
12 67 (4.29%) Migration Engineer
13 59 (3.78%) SAP Consultant
14 56 (3.59%) Migration Analyst
15 55 (3.53%) Data Migration Engineer
16 54 (3.46%) Migration Manager
17 48 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
18 45 (2.88%) Data Consultant
19 44 (2.82%) Data Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (5.83%) Oracle Fusion
2 46 (2.95%) Middleware
3 44 (2.82%) REST
4 25 (1.60%) SOAP
5 24 (1.54%) .NET
6 23 (1.47%) XML
7 20 (1.28%) Spring
8 18 (1.15%) JSON
8 18 (1.15%) Kafka
9 14 (0.90%) PySpark
10 13 (0.83%) Lightning Web Components
11 12 (0.77%) Spring Boot
12 11 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
13 10 (0.64%) React
14 9 (0.58%) ADO
15 7 (0.45%) COM
15 7 (0.45%) FHIR
15 7 (0.45%) ODBC
15 7 (0.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
15 7 (0.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 196 (12.56%) Legacy Systems
2 114 (7.31%) Data Structures
3 49 (3.14%) Cloud Native
4 46 (2.95%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.44%) Onboarding
6 31 (1.99%) Product Ownership
6 31 (1.99%) Public Cloud
7 29 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
8 24 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (1.54%) Replication
9 22 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.09%) Data Centre
11 16 (1.03%) FMCG
11 16 (1.03%) Mainframe
12 15 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (0.96%) NHS
13 14 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (0.90%) Reference Data
14 13 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.73%) Windows
2 18 (1.15%) Linux
3 7 (0.45%) zOS
4 6 (0.38%) AIX
4 6 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
5 5 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.26%) VMS
7 3 (0.19%) Unix
7 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,560 (100.00%) Migration
2 413 (26.47%) Validation
3 341 (21.86%) ERP
4 340 (21.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 338 (21.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 283 (18.14%) Agile
7 255 (16.35%) ETL
8 228 (14.62%) Data Modelling
9 225 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
9 225 (14.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 160 (10.26%) DevOps
11 155 (9.94%) Business Intelligence
12 151 (9.68%) Data Cleansing
13 145 (9.29%) Data Governance
14 136 (8.72%) Data Mapping
15 135 (8.65%) Project Management
16 134 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
17 126 (8.08%) Analytics
18 125 (8.01%) CI/CD
19 117 (7.50%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 315 (20.19%) SQL
2 121 (7.76%) Python
3 49 (3.14%) Java
4 31 (1.99%) PL/SQL
5 27 (1.73%) JavaScript
6 23 (1.47%) Bash
7 16 (1.03%) C#
8 15 (0.96%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.77%) Kotlin
10 11 (0.71%) Apex Code
10 11 (0.71%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.64%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.51%) VB
13 7 (0.45%) C
13 7 (0.45%) VB6
13 7 (0.45%) VBA
14 5 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.26%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.19%) Korn
16 3 (0.19%) X++
Qualifications
1 257 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 204 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 60 (3.85%) Degree
4 34 (2.18%) ISTQB
5 31 (1.99%) PMP
6 30 (1.92%) DV Cleared
7 26 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (1.67%) PMI Certification
8 19 (1.22%) CIMA
8 19 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (1.15%) ACCA
10 16 (1.03%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.51%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 7 (0.45%) SAP Certification
13 6 (0.38%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.32%) ISEB
14 5 (0.32%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (17.82%) Data Quality
2 144 (9.23%) QA
3 73 (4.68%) GDPR
4 29 (1.86%) PMO
5 16 (1.03%) SLA
6 11 (0.71%) HL7
6 11 (0.71%) IFRS
7 9 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.51%) SNOMED CT
9 7 (0.45%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.38%) COBIT
10 6 (0.38%) DICOM
10 6 (0.38%) GMP
11 5 (0.32%) GAAP
11 5 (0.32%) NIST
12 4 (0.26%) GxP
12 4 (0.26%) PERC
12 4 (0.26%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.13%) GRC
System Software
1 27 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (1.15%) Docker
3 16 (1.03%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.96%) vSphere
5 12 (0.77%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.71%) NFS
7 8 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
8 7 (0.45%) SRDF
9 5 (0.32%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.19%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 41 (2.63%) Terraform
2 38 (2.44%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.67%) Ansible
4 18 (1.15%) Grafana
5 15 (0.96%) vCenter Server
6 14 (0.90%) Argo
7 10 (0.64%) EMC VPLEX
7 10 (0.64%) HP ALM
8 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.38%) Data Guard
9 6 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
9 6 (0.38%) vMotion
10 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.32%) SnapMirror
11 4 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
11 4 (0.26%) EMC TimeFinder
11 4 (0.26%) Karpenter
11 4 (0.26%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.19%) SCCM
12 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 302 (19.36%) Oracle
2 292 (18.72%) SAP
3 251 (16.09%) Microsoft
4 76 (4.87%) Databricks
5 73 (4.68%) Salesforce
6 34 (2.18%) ServiceNow
7 32 (2.05%) VMware
8 27 (1.73%) Workday
9 25 (1.60%) Pure Storage
9 25 (1.60%) Sage
10 24 (1.54%) IFS
10 24 (1.54%) Informatica
11 21 (1.35%) Talend
12 20 (1.28%) Ariba
13 19 (1.22%) Google
14 17 (1.09%) MuleSoft
14 17 (1.09%) Red Hat
15 16 (1.03%) Infor
16 14 (0.90%) IBM
17 12 (0.77%) Siebel