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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 91 99
Rank change year-on-year +11 +8 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,426 780 982
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.96% 2.67% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 2.94% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 487 667
10th Percentile £363 £375 £359
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £632 £629 £650
90th Percentile £737 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 13 33
10th Percentile £15.81 £35.00 £25.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £56.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £38.36 £67.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.18% -10.00% +180.37%
75th Percentile £41.83 £87.05 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.81 £62.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -63.50% -16.67% +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 40,582 26,548 36,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.29% 91.02% 86.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,477 17,040 23,631
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,387 1,106 2,443
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.80 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.17 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +50.90% -21.86% +0.13%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.70 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -32.93% +7.14%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +20 1,276 £525 -0.76% 231
UK excluding London +21 648 £525 +5.00% 159
London +39 618 £525 -4.55% 102
Work from Home -5 375 £513 -3.30% 89
South East -5 183 £599 +9.41% 45
North of England -12 176 £500 +1.32% 41
Midlands +2 129 £490 +3.16% 34
North West +7 108 £475 -12.60% 24
West Midlands -3 87 £473 -0.53% 21
South West -7 61 £525 +2.44% 15
Yorkshire -39 60 £550 +37.50% 15
East of England -5 56 £575 -11.54% 18
East Midlands -3 39 £500 +9.29% 13
Scotland -13 24 £575 +20.95% 5
Northern Ireland +13 16 £475 - 1
North East -17 8 £488 -15.22% 2
Wales -10 5 £550 +25.71% 5
Channel Islands - 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 52 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 46 (3.23%) Confluence
3 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (0.35%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 4 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.21%) Apache
6 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.14%) Appian
7 2 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.070%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.070%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.070%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.070%) WebSphere
Applications
1 74 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (1.12%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.070%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 167 (11.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
3 36 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 18 (1.26%) SAP ERP
6 14 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.91%) Loan IQ
7 13 (0.91%) NetSuite
8 11 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
8 11 (0.77%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 10 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
10 9 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
10 9 (0.63%) SAP FI
11 8 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
11 8 (0.56%) SAP CO
12 7 (0.49%) iTrent
12 7 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
12 7 (0.49%) SAP SD
12 7 (0.49%) Teamcenter
13 6 (0.42%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 225 (15.78%) Azure
2 136 (9.54%) Power Platform
3 127 (8.91%) AWS
4 106 (7.43%) Dynamics 365
5 79 (5.54%) OCI
6 69 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (3.86%) SaaS
8 48 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
9 37 (2.59%) Snowflake
10 35 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
11 34 (2.38%) GitHub
12 30 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 23 (1.61%) GCP
14 22 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
15 17 (1.19%) Amazon S3
16 16 (1.12%) OpenShift
16 16 (1.12%) Power Automate
17 15 (1.05%) Entra ID
17 15 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
18 13 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.19%) SAN
2 14 (0.98%) DNS
3 13 (0.91%) NAS
4 6 (0.42%) Firewall
5 5 (0.35%) VPN
5 5 (0.35%) VSAN
6 4 (0.28%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (0.21%) FCoE
7 3 (0.21%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.14%) HTTP
8 2 (0.14%) Network Security
8 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.070%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.070%) DKIM
9 1 (0.070%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.070%) Internet
9 1 (0.070%) Intranet
9 1 (0.070%) SNMP
9 1 (0.070%) SSL
9 1 (0.070%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (7.92%) Power BI
2 95 (6.66%) Data Warehouse
3 59 (4.14%) Oracle Reports
4 56 (3.93%) SQL Server
5 37 (2.59%) Metadata
6 33 (2.31%) Data Lake
6 33 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 24 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
8 23 (1.61%) Oracle Database
8 23 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.19%) NoSQL
10 14 (0.98%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 13 (0.91%) DB2
11 13 (0.91%) SAP Data Services
12 12 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.84%) Tableau
13 10 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
13 10 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 9 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (0.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 127 (8.91%) JIRA
2 34 (2.38%) Git
3 32 (2.24%) Zephyr
4 28 (1.96%) Postman
5 19 (1.33%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.91%) Selenium
7 9 (0.63%) GitLab
8 7 (0.49%) Hudson
9 6 (0.42%) JUnit
9 6 (0.42%) LSMW
9 6 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.35%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.21%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.21%) ERwin
11 3 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.14%) Toad
General
1 471 (33.03%) Finance
2 437 (30.65%) Social Skills
3 175 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (8.27%) Public Sector
5 80 (5.61%) Banking
6 76 (5.33%) Manufacturing
7 57 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (3.09%) Law
9 42 (2.95%) Retail
10 37 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (1.82%) Legal
11 26 (1.82%) Local Government
11 26 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (1.75%) General Ledger
13 24 (1.68%) Marketing
14 23 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
15 18 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 17 (1.19%) Billing
17 16 (1.12%) Aerospace
18 13 (0.91%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 314 (22.02%) Lead
2 213 (14.94%) Analyst
3 172 (12.06%) Architect
4 166 (11.64%) Consultant
5 116 (8.13%) Data Migration Lead
6 107 (7.50%) Project Manager
7 101 (7.08%) Data Engineer
8 100 (7.01%) Business Analyst
9 94 (6.59%) Senior
10 73 (5.12%) Data Analyst
11 72 (5.05%) Developer
12 62 (4.35%) Data Architect
13 58 (4.07%) SAP Consultant
14 57 (4.00%) Migration Analyst
14 57 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
15 51 (3.58%) Migration Manager
16 47 (3.30%) Data Migration Engineer
17 43 (3.02%) Data Migration Analyst
18 40 (2.81%) Migration Consultant
18 40 (2.81%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (5.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 40 (2.81%) REST
3 35 (2.45%) Middleware
4 21 (1.47%) XML
5 20 (1.40%) SOAP
6 19 (1.33%) .NET
7 18 (1.26%) Spring
8 17 (1.19%) Kafka
9 14 (0.98%) JSON
10 11 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (0.70%) PySpark
11 10 (0.70%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.63%) Lightning Web Components
12 9 (0.63%) React
13 7 (0.49%) FHIR
13 7 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
14 6 (0.42%) AngularJS
14 6 (0.42%) Web Services
15 5 (0.35%) RESTful
16 4 (0.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 184 (12.90%) Legacy Systems
2 107 (7.50%) Data Structures
3 45 (3.16%) Cloud Native
4 40 (2.81%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.45%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
7 26 (1.82%) Public Cloud
8 22 (1.54%) Product Ownership
9 21 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (1.40%) Replication
11 17 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.12%) Mainframe
12 16 (1.12%) Reference Data
13 15 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
15 13 (0.91%) Data Centre
16 11 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
16 11 (0.77%) FMCG
16 11 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
16 11 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.10%) Windows
2 12 (0.84%) Linux
3 8 (0.56%) Windows 10
4 7 (0.49%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.49%) zOS
5 5 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.28%) Unix
6 4 (0.28%) VMS
7 3 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.070%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,426 (100.00%) Migration
2 374 (26.23%) Validation
3 309 (21.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 300 (21.04%) User Acceptance Testing
5 294 (20.62%) ERP
6 262 (18.37%) Agile
7 228 (15.99%) ETL
8 216 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
9 205 (14.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 203 (14.24%) Data Modelling
11 154 (10.80%) Data Cleansing
12 143 (10.03%) Business Intelligence
13 134 (9.40%) Project Management
14 131 (9.19%) Data Mapping
15 126 (8.84%) Data Governance
16 125 (8.77%) Analytics
17 124 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
18 123 (8.63%) DevOps
19 110 (7.71%) Translating Business Requirements
20 108 (7.57%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 263 (18.44%) SQL
2 114 (7.99%) Python
3 45 (3.16%) Java
4 31 (2.17%) PL/SQL
5 23 (1.61%) Bash
6 21 (1.47%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.84%) PowerShell
8 9 (0.63%) C#
8 9 (0.63%) VBA
9 8 (0.56%) Apex Code
9 8 (0.56%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.42%) Kotlin
10 6 (0.42%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.28%) C
12 4 (0.28%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.21%) ABAP
13 3 (0.21%) C++
13 3 (0.21%) COBOL
13 3 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 236 (16.55%) Security Cleared
2 176 (12.34%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.35%) Degree
4 35 (2.45%) DV Cleared
5 29 (2.03%) PMP
6 24 (1.68%) PMI Certification
7 23 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 23 (1.61%) ISTQB
8 21 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (0.98%) CIMA
10 13 (0.91%) ACCA
10 13 (0.91%) Azure Certification
11 9 (0.63%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.42%) SAP Certification
13 5 (0.35%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 4 (0.28%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 243 (17.04%) Data Quality
2 119 (8.35%) QA
3 61 (4.28%) GDPR
4 23 (1.61%) PMO
5 13 (0.91%) SLA
6 12 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.77%) HL7
8 9 (0.63%) COBIT
9 8 (0.56%) GMP
9 8 (0.56%) NIST
9 8 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
10 7 (0.49%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.49%) GxP
10 7 (0.49%) IFRS
11 6 (0.42%) DICOM
12 5 (0.35%) GAAP
13 4 (0.28%) Basel III
13 4 (0.28%) PERC
14 3 (0.21%) GRC
System Software
1 24 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.98%) Docker
3 14 (0.98%) vSphere
4 12 (0.84%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.63%) NFS
6 6 (0.42%) SRDF
7 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.070%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 32 (2.24%) Kubernetes
2 31 (2.17%) Terraform
3 21 (1.47%) Ansible
4 18 (1.26%) Grafana
5 14 (0.98%) vCenter Server
6 13 (0.91%) Argo
6 13 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.63%) HP ALM
8 8 (0.56%) EMC VPLEX
8 8 (0.56%) SCCM
9 6 (0.42%) vMotion
10 4 (0.28%) EMC TimeFinder
10 4 (0.28%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (0.21%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.14%) SnapMirror
12 2 (0.14%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 275 (19.28%) SAP
2 262 (18.37%) Oracle
3 233 (16.34%) Microsoft
4 67 (4.70%) Databricks
5 60 (4.21%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.96%) VMware
7 27 (1.89%) Workday
8 25 (1.75%) ServiceNow
9 24 (1.68%) Pure Storage
9 24 (1.68%) Sage
10 22 (1.54%) Informatica
11 21 (1.47%) Google
12 20 (1.40%) IFS
12 20 (1.40%) Talend
13 17 (1.19%) Ariba
13 17 (1.19%) Infor
14 15 (1.05%) Avaloq
14 15 (1.05%) MuleSoft
14 15 (1.05%) Red Hat
15 14 (0.98%) IBM