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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 87 99
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,657 925 959
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.14% 2.83% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 3.13% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,059 566 650
10th Percentile £363 £360 £374
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £541
Median % change year-on-year - -3.00% +3.10%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £731 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £493 £525
% change year-on-year +5.98% -6.10% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 21 28
10th Percentile £17.75 £17.80 £25.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £32.25 £56.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £62.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -21.88% +142.42%
75th Percentile £58.81 £87.05 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.96 £47.75 £80.00
% change year-on-year -37.26% -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 44,871 29,543 34,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.02% 90.39% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,803 18,563 22,435
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.46%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,660 1,589 2,131
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £13.46
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £17.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.13 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £69.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +82.83% -39.15% -1.95%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +13 1,468 £525 - 250
UK excluding London +11 751 £523 +5.98% 195
London +17 725 £550 - 94
Work from Home +1 436 £525 - 152
North of England -7 201 £525 +10.53% 38
South East +15 200 £550 +10.00% 66
Midlands +6 156 £473 -5.40% 49
North West +8 123 £500 +5.26% 27
West Midlands -4 115 £450 -10.00% 32
South West +8 85 £523 -0.48% 17
Yorkshire -32 65 £529 +11.37% 11
East of England +9 55 £575 -4.96% 11
East Midlands +6 38 £525 +16.67% 17
Scotland -8 30 £525 +20.41% 12
Northern Ireland +23 22 £475 -26.92% 1
North East -21 16 £625 +8.70% 1
Wales -12 8 £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 64 (3.86%) SharePoint
2 51 (3.08%) 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%) Appian
9 1 (0.060%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.060%) IIS
9 1 (0.060%) Mendix
9 1 (0.060%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 75 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
4 15 (0.91%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 179 (10.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 48 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 40 (2.41%) Oracle EBS
4 25 (1.51%) Oracle Payables
5 24 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
6 22 (1.33%) NetSuite
6 22 (1.33%) Oracle Receivables
7 21 (1.27%) SAP ERP
8 16 (0.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 15 (0.91%) Oracle General Ledger
10 14 (0.84%) Oracle Assets
10 14 (0.84%) Oracle Financials
11 13 (0.78%) iTrent
12 11 (0.66%) Teamcenter
13 9 (0.54%) 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%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 270 (16.29%) Azure
2 163 (9.84%) Power Platform
3 162 (9.78%) AWS
4 132 (7.97%) Dynamics 365
5 96 (5.79%) OCI
6 86 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
7 71 (4.28%) SaaS
8 52 (3.14%) Azure Data Factory
9 48 (2.90%) Snowflake
10 46 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
11 43 (2.60%) GitHub
12 34 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 34 (2.05%) SuccessFactors
13 33 (1.99%) Power Automate
14 29 (1.75%) Amazon S3
15 27 (1.63%) PowerApps
16 24 (1.45%) GCP
17 17 (1.03%) OpenShift
17 17 (1.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 17 (1.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.09%) SAN
2 14 (0.84%) DNS
2 14 (0.84%) NAS
3 7 (0.42%) VPN
4 6 (0.36%) VSAN
5 5 (0.30%) Firewall
6 4 (0.24%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (0.18%) FCoE
7 3 (0.18%) Intranet
7 3 (0.18%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.12%) HTTP
8 2 (0.12%) Network Security
9 1 (0.060%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.060%) Internet
9 1 (0.060%) LAN
9 1 (0.060%) SNMP
9 1 (0.060%) SSL
9 1 (0.060%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.060%) WAN
9 1 (0.060%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (7.97%) Power BI
2 112 (6.76%) Data Warehouse
3 70 (4.22%) Oracle Reports
3 70 (4.22%) SQL Server
4 48 (2.90%) Data Lake
5 46 (2.78%) Metadata
6 43 (2.60%) Relational Database
7 29 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 26 (1.57%) Oracle Database
9 21 (1.27%) RDBMS
10 19 (1.15%) NoSQL
11 15 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (0.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 14 (0.84%) SAP Data Services
13 13 (0.78%) Db2
14 12 (0.72%) Oracle Exadata
14 12 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (0.72%) Star Schema
15 11 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 148 (8.93%) JIRA
2 59 (3.56%) Git
3 44 (2.66%) Zephyr
4 35 (2.11%) Postman
5 26 (1.57%) Jenkins
6 22 (1.33%) GitLab
7 12 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
7 12 (0.72%) Selenium
8 7 (0.42%) Hudson
8 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
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)
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
1 580 (35.00%) Finance
2 470 (28.36%) Social Skills
3 214 (12.91%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (8.99%) Public Sector
5 97 (5.85%) Banking
6 91 (5.49%) Manufacturing
7 56 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
8 52 (3.14%) Retail
9 51 (3.08%) Law
10 39 (2.35%) General Ledger
11 31 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (1.81%) Local Government
13 28 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 27 (1.63%) Legal
15 26 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
15 26 (1.57%) Marketing
16 25 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
17 23 (1.39%) Billing
17 23 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
18 20 (1.21%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 323 (19.49%) Lead
2 237 (14.30%) Analyst
3 210 (12.67%) Architect
4 176 (10.62%) Consultant
5 134 (8.09%) Data Engineer
6 128 (7.72%) Senior
7 115 (6.94%) Business Analyst
8 114 (6.88%) Project Manager
9 113 (6.82%) Data Migration Lead
10 84 (5.07%) Data Analyst
10 84 (5.07%) Developer
11 75 (4.53%) Data Architect
12 66 (3.98%) Migration Engineer
13 56 (3.38%) SAP Consultant
14 55 (3.32%) Migration Analyst
15 54 (3.26%) Data Migration Engineer
16 48 (2.90%) Data Consultant
16 48 (2.90%) Migration Manager
16 48 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
17 45 (2.72%) Data Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (5.55%) Oracle Fusion
2 48 (2.90%) Middleware
2 48 (2.90%) REST
3 28 (1.69%) .NET
3 28 (1.69%) SOAP
4 24 (1.45%) XML
5 19 (1.15%) JSON
5 19 (1.15%) Kafka
6 18 (1.09%) Spring
7 16 (0.97%) PySpark
8 14 (0.84%) Lightning Web Components
9 13 (0.78%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 11 (0.66%) 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
1 194 (11.71%) Legacy Systems
2 115 (6.94%) Data Structures
3 55 (3.32%) Cloud Native
4 51 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 47 (2.84%) Onboarding
6 40 (2.41%) Product Ownership
7 38 (2.29%) Public Cloud
8 34 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
9 33 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (1.39%) Replication
11 20 (1.21%) FMCG
12 19 (1.15%) Data Centre
13 18 (1.09%) NHS
14 16 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
14 16 (0.97%) Mainframe
15 14 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
16 12 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (0.72%) Virtual Team
17 11 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (2.11%) Windows
2 28 (1.69%) Linux
3 12 (0.72%) AIX
4 7 (0.42%) Unix
4 7 (0.42%) zOS
5 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (0.24%) VMS
7 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,657 (100.00%) Migration
2 457 (27.58%) Validation
3 376 (22.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 373 (22.51%) ERP
4 373 (22.51%) User Acceptance Testing
5 300 (18.11%) Agile
6 274 (16.54%) ETL
7 250 (15.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 246 (14.85%) Data Modelling
9 228 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
10 175 (10.56%) Data Governance
11 164 (9.90%) Business Intelligence
11 164 (9.90%) DevOps
12 160 (9.66%) Data Cleansing
13 155 (9.35%) Analytics
14 144 (8.69%) Continuous Improvement
15 139 (8.39%) CI/CD
16 135 (8.15%) Data Mapping
17 134 (8.09%) Project Management
18 124 (7.48%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 329 (19.86%) SQL
2 121 (7.30%) Python
3 50 (3.02%) Java
4 33 (1.99%) JavaScript
5 32 (1.93%) PL/SQL
6 23 (1.39%) Bash
7 22 (1.33%) C#
8 16 (0.97%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.72%) Apex Code
9 12 (0.72%) Kotlin
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%) X++
15 3 (0.18%) Korn
Qualifications
1 285 (17.20%) Security Cleared
2 222 (13.40%) SC Cleared
3 62 (3.74%) Degree
4 41 (2.47%) DV Cleared
5 37 (2.23%) PMP
6 35 (2.11%) PMI Certification
7 34 (2.05%) ISTQB
8 28 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.51%) CIMA
10 24 (1.45%) ACCA
11 16 (0.97%) Azure Certification
12 14 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.48%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.48%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 8 (0.48%) SAP Certification
15 6 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
16 5 (0.30%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 306 (18.47%) Data Quality
2 154 (9.29%) QA
3 79 (4.77%) GDPR
4 35 (2.11%) PMO
5 14 (0.84%) SLA
6 11 (0.66%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.60%) HL7
7 10 (0.60%) IFRS
8 8 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
9 7 (0.42%) GMP
9 7 (0.42%) GRC
9 7 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.36%) DICOM
11 4 (0.24%) COBIT
11 4 (0.24%) GxP
11 4 (0.24%) PERC
11 4 (0.24%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.18%) GAAP
System Software
1 27 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (1.09%) Docker
3 15 (0.91%) vSphere
4 14 (0.84%) Active Directory
4 14 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
5 12 (0.72%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.60%) NFS
7 7 (0.42%) SRDF
8 5 (0.30%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 48 (2.90%) Terraform
2 38 (2.29%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.93%) Ansible
4 17 (1.03%) Grafana
5 15 (0.91%) vCenter Server
6 14 (0.84%) Argo
7 13 (0.78%) HP ALM
8 12 (0.72%) Data Guard
8 12 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
9 9 (0.54%) EMC VPLEX
10 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
10 5 (0.30%) vMotion
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%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.18%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 326 (19.67%) Oracle
2 312 (18.83%) SAP
3 273 (16.48%) Microsoft
4 79 (4.77%) Databricks
5 77 (4.65%) Salesforce
6 35 (2.11%) ServiceNow
7 32 (1.93%) VMware
8 31 (1.87%) Informatica
9 29 (1.75%) Workday
10 24 (1.45%) Pure Storage
11 23 (1.39%) Talend
12 22 (1.33%) Ariba
12 22 (1.33%) IFS
13 20 (1.21%) Sage
14 19 (1.15%) Google
14 19 (1.15%) IBM
15 17 (1.03%) MuleSoft
15 17 (1.03%) Red Hat
16 16 (0.97%) Infor
17 14 (0.84%) HP