Data Migration Contracts

Data Migration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Migration over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 92 136
Rank change year-on-year -3 +44 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 784 1,035 1,146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.68% 2.37% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.75% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 703 808
10th Percentile £375 £363 £381
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £629 £650 £631
90th Percentile £703 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 35 8
10th Percentile £36.79 £25.00 £17.24
25th Percentile £60.00 £40.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +252.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £87.16 £80.00 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 - £39.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £75.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -13.33% +261.45% +3.75%

All Process and 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 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Migration.

Daily rate trend for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Migration.

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Migration over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Top 18 Contract 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 April 2025. 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 -4 654 £535 -2.73% 350
UK excluding London +1 329 £525 - 215
London -21 317 £550 - 138
Work from Home -3 309 £534 -2.95% 201
North of England +12 97 £511 -2.20% 62
South East +26 91 £545 -0.91% 66
Midlands +21 56 £505 -13.12% 35
North West +2 53 £537 +2.29% 33
Yorkshire +16 41 £390 -24.46% 26
West Midlands +16 40 £505 -15.13% 21
South West +4 29 £513 -1.44% 26
Scotland -11 28 £475 -5.00% 7
East of England +17 24 £650 +112.07% 17
East Midlands +8 14 £465 -9.71% 13
Wales +3 4 £450 +5.88% 4
North East -2 3 £613 +22.50% 3
Channel Islands - 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 2 £525 - 1

Data Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 39 (4.97%) Confluence
2 34 (4.34%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.77%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.77%) CMS
3 6 (0.77%) SAS
4 4 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.38%) PowerExchange
6 2 (0.26%) IBM Notes
6 2 (0.26%) IIS
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.13%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.13%) Drupal
7 1 (0.13%) JBoss
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 30 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.53%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.13%) Trello
6 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 68 (8.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (3.83%) Oracle EBS
3 27 (3.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (1.15%) SAP MDG
5 8 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (1.02%) SAP CO
5 8 (1.02%) SAP HR
6 7 (0.89%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.89%) SAP FI/CO
6 7 (0.89%) SAP PP
7 6 (0.77%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.77%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.77%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.64%) Infor LN
8 5 (0.64%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 5 (0.64%) SAP CAR
8 5 (0.64%) SAP Retail
8 5 (0.64%) SAP SD
9 4 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 132 (16.84%) Azure
2 127 (16.20%) AWS
3 65 (8.29%) Power Platform
4 57 (7.27%) Dynamics 365
5 41 (5.23%) GCP
6 31 (3.95%) Amazon S3
7 30 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (3.19%) Serverless
9 21 (2.68%) OCI
9 21 (2.68%) SaaS
10 20 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (2.42%) PowerApps
11 19 (2.42%) Snowflake
12 18 (2.30%) Power Automate
13 17 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (1.91%) Amazon ELB
16 14 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
17 11 (1.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.89%) Firewall
2 4 (0.51%) VPN
3 3 (0.38%) Diameter Protocol
3 3 (0.38%) GGSN
3 3 (0.38%) Intranet
3 3 (0.38%) SS7
4 1 (0.13%) LAN
4 1 (0.13%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.13%) SAN
4 1 (0.13%) SSL
4 1 (0.13%) VSAN
4 1 (0.13%) WAN
4 1 (0.13%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (8.42%) Data Warehouse
2 54 (6.89%) SQL Server
3 51 (6.51%) Oracle Database
4 46 (5.87%) Power BI
5 38 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
6 31 (3.95%) Oracle Reports
7 24 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (3.06%) Data Lake
8 19 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (1.91%) Metadata
10 14 (1.79%) Big Data
11 13 (1.66%) MySQL
11 13 (1.66%) Relational Database
11 13 (1.66%) SAP Data Services
12 11 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.40%) Tableau
13 10 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.28%) Oracle Database 11g
14 8 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (5.61%) JIRA
2 26 (3.32%) GitLab
3 9 (1.15%) Git
4 8 (1.02%) ERwin
5 5 (0.64%) DBeaver
5 5 (0.64%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.51%) Postman
6 4 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.51%) REST Assured
6 4 (0.51%) Selenium
7 3 (0.38%) LSMW
7 3 (0.38%) Subversion
8 2 (0.26%) JMeter
8 2 (0.26%) QARun
8 2 (0.26%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.26%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.26%) WinRunner
General
1 252 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 217 (27.68%) Finance
3 131 (16.71%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 36 (4.59%) Banking
5 36 (4.59%) Manufacturing
6 30 (3.83%) Retail
7 27 (3.44%) Marketing
8 19 (2.42%) Pharmaceutical
9 18 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (2.04%) Local Government
11 13 (1.66%) Legal
12 11 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.02%) French Language
13 8 (1.02%) General Ledger
13 8 (1.02%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.89%) Billing
14 7 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 163 (20.79%) Consultant
2 122 (15.56%) Analyst
3 111 (14.16%) Architect
4 81 (10.33%) Lead
5 64 (8.16%) Data Engineer
6 63 (8.04%) Project Manager
7 52 (6.63%) Data Analyst
8 46 (5.87%) Business Analyst
9 45 (5.74%) Developer
9 45 (5.74%) SAP Consultant
10 44 (5.61%) Senior
11 38 (4.85%) Data Consultant
12 33 (4.21%) Migration Engineer
12 33 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
13 30 (3.83%) Migration Consultant
14 28 (3.57%) Data Architect
14 28 (3.57%) Data Migration Consultant
14 28 (3.57%) Oracle Consultant
15 27 (3.44%) Functional Consultant
16 23 (2.93%) Data Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.81%) REST
2 16 (2.04%) XML
3 15 (1.91%) Oracle Fusion
4 11 (1.40%) .NET
4 11 (1.40%) Lightning Web Components
4 11 (1.40%) Middleware
4 11 (1.40%) SOAP
5 10 (1.28%) JSON
5 10 (1.28%) Web Services
6 9 (1.15%) Kafka
6 9 (1.15%) Visualforce
7 7 (0.89%) PySpark
8 6 (0.77%) AWS CDK
9 5 (0.64%) Gherkin
9 5 (0.64%) OAuth
9 5 (0.64%) RESTful
9 5 (0.64%) Spring
9 5 (0.64%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.51%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (10.97%) Legacy Systems
2 42 (5.36%) Data Structures
3 25 (3.19%) Management Information System
4 21 (2.68%) Data Centre
4 21 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 18 (2.30%) Mainframe
6 16 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 12 (1.53%) Public Cloud
8 11 (1.40%) Life Science
9 10 (1.28%) Reference Data
10 8 (1.02%) NHS
11 7 (0.89%) Cloud Native
11 7 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.77%) Replication
13 5 (0.64%) FMCG
13 5 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.64%) Taxonomies
13 5 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.70%) Unix
2 13 (1.66%) Linux
3 11 (1.40%) Windows
4 4 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.51%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.13%) CentOS
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (100.00%) Migration
2 172 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
3 148 (18.88%) ETL
4 119 (15.18%) Agile
5 107 (13.65%) Validation
6 105 (13.39%) ERP
7 94 (11.99%) Data Modelling
8 92 (11.73%) Stakeholder Management
9 91 (11.61%) DevOps
10 88 (11.22%) Data Management
11 85 (10.84%) Data Integration
12 82 (10.46%) Analytics
12 82 (10.46%) Data Governance
13 74 (9.44%) Project Management
14 72 (9.18%) User Acceptance Testing
15 70 (8.93%) Change Management
16 65 (8.29%) Business Intelligence
17 54 (6.89%) Data Mapping
17 54 (6.89%) Performance Tuning
18 53 (6.76%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 227 (28.95%) SQL
2 99 (12.63%) Python
3 41 (5.23%) PL/SQL
4 19 (2.42%) Java
5 17 (2.17%) T-SQL
6 16 (2.04%) C#
7 13 (1.66%) Bash
8 11 (1.40%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.28%) Apex Code
10 9 (1.15%) VBA
11 8 (1.02%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.77%) Bicep
12 6 (0.77%) R
13 5 (0.64%) ABAP
13 5 (0.64%) C
14 4 (0.51%) VB
15 3 (0.38%) C++
15 3 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.38%) SOQL
15 3 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 94 (11.99%) Security Cleared
2 80 (10.20%) SC Cleared
3 59 (7.53%) Degree
4 25 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.53%) PMI Certification
7 11 (1.40%) PMP
8 8 (1.02%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.89%) CBAP
9 7 (0.89%) SAP Certification
10 6 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.26%) ACCA
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.26%) CCSP
12 2 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.26%) CISSP
12 2 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (13.39%) Data Quality
2 41 (5.23%) QA
3 27 (3.44%) GDPR
4 10 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.15%) PMO
6 7 (0.89%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.64%) SEPA
8 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.26%) GAAP
8 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.13%) DICOM
9 1 (0.13%) GRC
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (2.81%) Docker
2 9 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) SRDF
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (2.30%) Terraform
2 17 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.79%) Oracle RMAN
4 11 (1.40%) Ansible
5 7 (0.89%) Grafana
5 7 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.77%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.51%) CEMLI
7 4 (0.51%) Puppet
8 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.26%) CASB
8 2 (0.26%) Control-M
8 2 (0.26%) OMEGAMON
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.26%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.13%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.13%) EMC TimeFinder
9 1 (0.13%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 147 (18.75%) Oracle
2 141 (17.98%) SAP
3 113 (14.41%) Microsoft
4 32 (4.08%) Salesforce
5 28 (3.57%) Google
6 21 (2.68%) Ariba
7 19 (2.42%) Databricks
8 18 (2.30%) Workday
9 15 (1.91%) Informatica
10 13 (1.66%) BMC
10 13 (1.66%) IBM
11 12 (1.53%) Commvault
12 10 (1.28%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.89%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.89%) Infor
14 6 (0.77%) Guidewire
14 6 (0.77%) IFS
15 5 (0.64%) MuleSoft
15 5 (0.64%) Red Hat
15 5 (0.64%) ServiceNow