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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 86 99
Rank change year-on-year +8 +13 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,668 930 938
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.15% 2.83% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 3.13% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 564 633
10th Percentile £363 £361 £364
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +0.47%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £646
90th Percentile £738 £738 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.71% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 21 26
10th Percentile £17.75 £17.80 £28.75
25th Percentile £22.17 £32.25 £65.56
Median hourly rate £40.00 £62.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -21.88% +142.42%
75th Percentile £60.13 £87.05 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.34 £47.75 £80.00
% change year-on-year -30.19% -40.31% +199.07%

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 45,002 29,684 34,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.46% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,855 18,648 21,888
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,714 1,621 1,980
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.89 £17.33 £17.74
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.55% -41.56% -

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +14 1,476 £525 - 254
UK excluding London +15 755 £523 +5.56% 195
London +20 724 £550 - 100
Work from Home -1 443 £525 - 149
South East +6 201 £550 +10.00% 66
North of England -13 199 £530 +11.58% 38
Midlands +6 163 £473 -5.40% 49
North West +1 123 £531 +11.84% 27
West Midlands -4 120 £450 -10.00% 32
South West +16 87 £523 -0.48% 19
Yorkshire -39 63 £530 +10.89% 10
East of England +12 55 £575 -4.96% 12
East Midlands +7 40 £525 +16.67% 17
Scotland -14 29 £525 +20.41% 9
Northern Ireland +16 20 £450 -30.77% 2
North East -31 16 £625 +8.70% 2
Wales -13 7 £463 -2.63% 2
Channel Islands +3 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 66 (3.96%) SharePoint
2 51 (3.06%) Confluence
3 11 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
4 10 (0.60%) Apache
4 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.30%) Tuxedo
7 3 (0.18%) SAS
8 2 (0.12%) CMS
8 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.060%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.060%) IIS
9 1 (0.060%) Mendix
9 1 (0.060%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 74 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
3 15 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 176 (10.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 41 (2.46%) Oracle EBS
4 25 (1.50%) Oracle Payables
5 23 (1.38%) Oracle ERP
5 23 (1.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 22 (1.32%) SAP ERP
7 21 (1.26%) NetSuite
8 15 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
8 15 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
9 14 (0.84%) Oracle Assets
9 14 (0.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 13 (0.78%) iTrent
11 11 (0.66%) Teamcenter
12 10 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
13 9 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
13 9 (0.54%) SAP MDG
13 9 (0.54%) SAP SD
13 9 (0.54%) Workday HCM
14 8 (0.48%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 271 (16.25%) Azure
2 168 (10.07%) Power Platform
3 162 (9.71%) AWS
4 136 (8.15%) Dynamics 365
5 98 (5.88%) OCI
6 84 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (4.32%) SaaS
8 54 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
9 48 (2.88%) Snowflake
10 46 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
11 41 (2.46%) GitHub
12 36 (2.16%) SuccessFactors
13 35 (2.10%) Power Automate
14 34 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 30 (1.80%) Amazon S3
16 27 (1.62%) PowerApps
17 24 (1.44%) GCP
18 18 (1.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 17 (1.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
20 16 (0.96%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.84%) SAN
2 13 (0.78%) DNS
3 10 (0.60%) NAS
4 7 (0.42%) VPN
5 6 (0.36%) VSAN
6 5 (0.30%) Firewall
7 4 (0.24%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (0.18%) FCoE
8 3 (0.18%) Intranet
8 3 (0.18%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.12%) HTTP
9 2 (0.12%) Network Security
10 1 (0.060%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.060%) DKIM
10 1 (0.060%) DMARC
10 1 (0.060%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.060%) Internet
10 1 (0.060%) SNMP
10 1 (0.060%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.060%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (8.21%) Power BI
2 114 (6.83%) Data Warehouse
3 70 (4.20%) Oracle Reports
4 68 (4.08%) SQL Server
5 48 (2.88%) Data Lake
6 44 (2.64%) Metadata
7 43 (2.58%) Relational Database
8 29 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 28 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
10 26 (1.56%) Oracle Database
11 20 (1.20%) RDBMS
12 18 (1.08%) NoSQL
13 15 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 14 (0.84%) SAP Data Services
15 13 (0.78%) Db2
16 12 (0.72%) Oracle Exadata
16 12 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 12 (0.72%) Star Schema
17 11 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 143 (8.57%) JIRA
2 58 (3.48%) Git
3 44 (2.64%) Zephyr
4 35 (2.10%) Postman
5 24 (1.44%) Jenkins
6 22 (1.32%) GitLab
7 12 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
7 12 (0.72%) Selenium
8 8 (0.48%) Hudson
9 6 (0.36%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.36%) Gatling
9 6 (0.36%) JUnit
9 6 (0.36%) LSMW
9 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 6 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.30%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.18%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
General
1 586 (35.13%) Finance
2 470 (28.18%) Social Skills
3 211 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 99 (5.94%) Banking
6 90 (5.40%) Manufacturing
7 56 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
8 51 (3.06%) Retail
9 50 (3.00%) Law
10 41 (2.46%) General Ledger
11 35 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
12 31 (1.86%) Local Government
13 29 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 27 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.62%) Legal
14 27 (1.62%) Marketing
15 23 (1.38%) Billing
16 22 (1.32%) Automotive
16 22 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 323 (19.36%) Lead
2 234 (14.03%) Analyst
3 212 (12.71%) Architect
4 184 (11.03%) Consultant
5 139 (8.33%) Data Engineer
6 133 (7.97%) Senior
7 117 (7.01%) Project Manager
8 115 (6.89%) Data Migration Lead
9 112 (6.71%) Business Analyst
10 88 (5.28%) Developer
11 82 (4.92%) Data Analyst
12 74 (4.44%) Data Architect
13 66 (3.96%) Migration Engineer
14 55 (3.30%) SAP Consultant
15 54 (3.24%) Data Migration Engineer
16 52 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
17 51 (3.06%) Migration Analyst
18 50 (3.00%) Data Consultant
19 48 (2.88%) Migration Manager
20 46 (2.76%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 47 (2.82%) Middleware
3 46 (2.76%) REST
4 30 (1.80%) .NET
5 26 (1.56%) SOAP
6 23 (1.38%) XML
7 19 (1.14%) JSON
7 19 (1.14%) Kafka
8 17 (1.02%) Spring
9 16 (0.96%) PySpark
10 13 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
10 13 (0.78%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 10 (0.60%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (0.60%) React
11 10 (0.60%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.54%) HTML
13 8 (0.48%) RESTful
14 7 (0.42%) ADO
14 7 (0.42%) Playwright
14 7 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 192 (11.51%) Legacy Systems
2 113 (6.77%) Data Structures
3 54 (3.24%) Cloud Native
4 49 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 47 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.58%) Product Ownership
7 37 (2.22%) Public Cloud
8 34 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
9 33 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (1.20%) FMCG
10 20 (1.20%) Replication
11 18 (1.08%) Data Centre
11 18 (1.08%) NHS
12 16 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (0.96%) Mainframe
13 13 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.66%) Low-Code
15 11 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.16%) Windows
2 30 (1.80%) Linux
3 12 (0.72%) AIX
4 8 (0.48%) Unix
5 7 (0.42%) zOS
6 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (0.24%) VMS
8 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,668 (100.00%) Migration
2 459 (27.52%) Validation
3 383 (22.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 377 (22.60%) User Acceptance Testing
5 373 (22.36%) ERP
6 297 (17.81%) Agile
7 275 (16.49%) ETL
8 247 (14.81%) Data Modelling
9 246 (14.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 221 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
11 178 (10.67%) Data Governance
12 170 (10.19%) Business Intelligence
13 162 (9.71%) Data Cleansing
14 160 (9.59%) DevOps
15 156 (9.35%) Analytics
16 144 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
17 139 (8.33%) CI/CD
18 134 (8.03%) Data Mapping
19 129 (7.73%) Project Management
20 124 (7.43%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 333 (19.96%) SQL
2 120 (7.19%) Python
3 50 (3.00%) Java
4 35 (2.10%) JavaScript
5 33 (1.98%) PL/SQL
6 24 (1.44%) C#
7 22 (1.32%) Bash
8 16 (0.96%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.72%) Kotlin
10 11 (0.66%) Apex Code
10 11 (0.66%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.60%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.36%) C
12 6 (0.36%) VB
12 6 (0.36%) VB6
12 6 (0.36%) VBA
13 5 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.30%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.24%) MUMPS
14 4 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 279 (16.73%) Security Cleared
2 220 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 60 (3.60%) Degree
4 41 (2.46%) DV Cleared
5 36 (2.16%) PMP
6 34 (2.04%) ISTQB
6 34 (2.04%) PMI Certification
7 28 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (1.62%) CIMA
9 26 (1.56%) ACCA
10 16 (0.96%) Azure Certification
11 13 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.48%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.48%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 7 (0.42%) SAP Certification
15 6 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
16 5 (0.30%) ISEB
16 5 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 310 (18.59%) Data Quality
2 152 (9.11%) QA
3 79 (4.74%) GDPR
4 35 (2.10%) PMO
5 14 (0.84%) SLA
6 11 (0.66%) Accessibility
6 11 (0.66%) IFRS
7 10 (0.60%) HL7
8 8 (0.48%) GRC
8 8 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
9 7 (0.42%) GMP
9 7 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.36%) DICOM
10 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.24%) GxP
11 4 (0.24%) PERC
11 4 (0.24%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.18%) COBIT
12 3 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (1.02%) Docker
3 14 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
3 14 (0.84%) vSphere
4 11 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.42%) SRDF
6 6 (0.36%) NFS
7 5 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 46 (2.76%) Terraform
2 37 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 31 (1.86%) Ansible
4 16 (0.96%) Grafana
5 14 (0.84%) vCenter Server
6 13 (0.78%) Argo
7 12 (0.72%) Data Guard
7 12 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
8 11 (0.66%) HP ALM
9 7 (0.42%) EMC VPLEX
10 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
11 4 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
11 4 (0.24%) EMC TimeFinder
11 4 (0.24%) Karpenter
11 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.24%) NetBackup
11 4 (0.24%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.18%) SnapVault
12 3 (0.18%) vMotion
13 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 329 (19.72%) Oracle
2 312 (18.71%) SAP
3 274 (16.43%) Microsoft
4 82 (4.92%) Databricks
5 79 (4.74%) Salesforce
6 39 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 30 (1.80%) Informatica
8 28 (1.68%) Workday
9 26 (1.56%) VMware
10 25 (1.50%) Talend
11 22 (1.32%) IFS
12 21 (1.26%) IBM
13 20 (1.20%) Ariba
14 19 (1.14%) Google
14 19 (1.14%) Pure Storage
14 19 (1.14%) Sage
15 17 (1.02%) MuleSoft
16 16 (0.96%) Red Hat
17 14 (0.84%) Infor
18 13 (0.78%) InterSystems