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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 97 91
Rank change year-on-year +13 -6 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,349 780 1,029
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.93% 2.66% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 2.93% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 505 697
10th Percentile £363 £375 £378
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £650
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 11 38
10th Percentile £14.61 £34.63 £25.00
25th Percentile £17.38 £58.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £72.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.68% -9.38% +276.47%
75th Percentile £75.57 £87.28 -
90th Percentile £90.00 £87.50 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.71 £62.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -41.26% -16.67% +261.45%

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 39,116 26,622 37,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.70% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,735 17,238 24,535
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -0.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,315 1,028 2,411
10th Percentile £14.98 £14.96 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.43 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +23.25% -7.98% -8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.75 £33.07
% change year-on-year +39.13% -13.05% -7.64%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 +18 1,177 £525 -0.38% 283
London +25 595 £525 -4.55% 126
UK excluding London +5 578 £525 +2.44% 195
Work from Home -8 359 £500 -6.98% 153
South East -4 169 £600 +9.09% 71
North of England -10 157 £500 -2.15% 45
Midlands -24 118 £450 -11.76% 33
North West +11 93 £461 -13.14% 30
West Midlands -23 78 £425 -15.84% 21
Yorkshire -38 55 £527 +31.75% 13
East of England -4 47 £588 -9.62% 10
East Midlands -8 37 £500 +2.30% 12
South West -24 35 £600 +17.07% 21
Scotland +8 33 £559 +18.13% 8
Northern Ireland +14 14 £463 -11.90% 5
North East -12 9 £488 -20.41% 2
Wales -5 7 £550 +46.67% 2
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 42 (3.11%) SharePoint
2 39 (2.89%) Confluence
3 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.67%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 5 (0.37%) Apache
5 5 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.15%) Appian
9 1 (0.074%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.074%) CMS
9 1 (0.074%) IIS
9 1 (0.074%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.074%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.074%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.074%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
4 19 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.074%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 150 (11.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 58 (4.30%) Oracle EBS
3 35 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 23 (1.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 16 (1.19%) SAP ERP
6 13 (0.96%) Loan IQ
6 13 (0.96%) NetSuite
6 13 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
7 11 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
7 11 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
7 11 (0.82%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 11 (0.82%) Workday HCM
8 10 (0.74%) Oracle EBS R12
8 10 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
9 8 (0.59%) SAP FI
9 8 (0.59%) SAP MDG
10 7 (0.52%) SAP CO
11 6 (0.44%) Finacle
11 6 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
11 6 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 202 (14.97%) Azure
2 137 (10.16%) Power Platform
3 124 (9.19%) AWS
4 100 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
5 92 (6.82%) OCI
6 59 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (3.78%) SaaS
8 47 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 36 (2.67%) GitHub
10 32 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
11 31 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 29 (2.15%) Snowflake
13 27 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
14 23 (1.70%) Amazon S3
15 20 (1.48%) GCP
16 17 (1.26%) OpenShift
17 15 (1.11%) Entra ID
17 15 (1.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
18 14 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
18 14 (1.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.19%) SAN
2 15 (1.11%) DNS
3 14 (1.04%) NAS
4 5 (0.37%) VPN
4 5 (0.37%) VSAN
5 4 (0.30%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (0.22%) FCoE
6 3 (0.22%) Firewall
6 3 (0.22%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.15%) HTTP
7 2 (0.15%) Network Security
7 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.074%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.074%) Internet
8 1 (0.074%) Intranet
8 1 (0.074%) LAN
8 1 (0.074%) SNMP
8 1 (0.074%) SSL
8 1 (0.074%) VLAN
8 1 (0.074%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (8.52%) Power BI
2 94 (6.97%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (4.52%) SQL Server
4 58 (4.30%) Oracle Reports
5 38 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 35 (2.59%) Metadata
7 33 (2.45%) Data Lake
8 28 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 23 (1.70%) Oracle Database
10 18 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 15 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (1.11%) NoSQL
11 15 (1.11%) SAP Data Services
12 14 (1.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 12 (0.89%) Tableau
14 10 (0.74%) DB2
14 10 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
15 9 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (0.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 116 (8.60%) JIRA
2 33 (2.45%) Git
3 30 (2.22%) Zephyr
4 29 (2.15%) Postman
5 19 (1.41%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.96%) Selenium
7 10 (0.74%) GitLab
8 9 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (0.59%) LSMW
10 6 (0.44%) Hudson
10 6 (0.44%) JUnit
11 5 (0.37%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.30%) Toad
13 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.22%) ERwin
13 3 (0.22%) MLflow
13 3 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
13 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 456 (33.80%) Social Skills
2 453 (33.58%) Finance
3 168 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (8.97%) Public Sector
5 71 (5.26%) Banking
5 71 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 56 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (3.56%) Law
8 41 (3.04%) Retail
9 40 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (1.78%) Legal
10 24 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
11 23 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
12 21 (1.56%) General Ledger
12 21 (1.56%) Marketing
13 20 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (1.48%) Local Government
14 17 (1.26%) Billing
15 13 (0.96%) Aerospace
16 12 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 287 (21.28%) Lead
2 195 (14.46%) Analyst
3 166 (12.31%) Architect
4 160 (11.86%) Consultant
5 107 (7.93%) Project Manager
6 104 (7.71%) Business Analyst
7 96 (7.12%) Senior
8 92 (6.82%) Data Engineer
9 89 (6.60%) Data Migration Lead
10 67 (4.97%) Developer
11 66 (4.89%) Data Analyst
12 58 (4.30%) Migration Analyst
13 48 (3.56%) SAP Consultant
14 45 (3.34%) Data Architect
15 44 (3.26%) Migration Manager
16 43 (3.19%) Data Migration Analyst
17 41 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
18 40 (2.97%) Data Consultant
19 39 (2.89%) Migration Consultant
20 38 (2.82%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (6.30%) Oracle Fusion
2 40 (2.97%) REST
3 31 (2.30%) Middleware
4 28 (2.08%) XML
5 21 (1.56%) SOAP
6 20 (1.48%) JSON
7 16 (1.19%) .NET
8 14 (1.04%) Kafka
9 13 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
9 13 (0.96%) PySpark
9 13 (0.96%) Spring
10 12 (0.89%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (0.52%) React
11 7 (0.52%) Web Services
12 6 (0.44%) AngularJS
13 5 (0.37%) FHIR
13 5 (0.37%) RESTful
13 5 (0.37%) Spring Boot
13 5 (0.37%) Visualforce
13 5 (0.37%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 183 (13.57%) Legacy Systems
2 99 (7.34%) Data Structures
3 43 (3.19%) Management Information System
4 41 (3.04%) Onboarding
5 40 (2.97%) Cloud Native
6 26 (1.93%) Product Ownership
7 25 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
8 23 (1.70%) Replication
9 21 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.56%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (0.96%) Data Centre
11 13 (0.96%) NHS
11 13 (0.96%) Reference Data
11 13 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.89%) FMCG
12 12 (0.89%) Mainframe
13 11 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.08%) Windows
2 11 (0.82%) Linux
3 8 (0.59%) Windows 10
4 7 (0.52%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.52%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.52%) zOS
5 6 (0.44%) Unix
6 3 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.074%) AIX
8 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,349 (100.00%) Migration
2 329 (24.39%) Validation
3 314 (23.28%) Stakeholder Management
4 288 (21.35%) ERP
5 269 (19.94%) Agile
6 267 (19.79%) User Acceptance Testing
7 224 (16.60%) ETL
8 215 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
9 201 (14.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 189 (14.01%) Data Modelling
11 150 (11.12%) Business Intelligence
12 147 (10.90%) Data Cleansing
13 138 (10.23%) Project Management
14 130 (9.64%) Analytics
14 130 (9.64%) Data Mapping
15 128 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 119 (8.82%) Workshop Facilitation
17 113 (8.38%) Change Management
18 112 (8.30%) DevOps
19 109 (8.08%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 256 (18.98%) SQL
2 111 (8.23%) Python
3 47 (3.48%) Java
4 31 (2.30%) PL/SQL
5 20 (1.48%) Bash
6 18 (1.33%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.19%) PowerShell
8 12 (0.89%) Apex Code
9 11 (0.82%) C#
10 10 (0.74%) VBA
11 9 (0.67%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.52%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.37%) ABAP
14 5 (0.37%) Korn
14 5 (0.37%) Perl
14 5 (0.37%) PHP
15 4 (0.30%) C
15 4 (0.30%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 217 (16.09%) Security Cleared
2 162 (12.01%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.60%) Degree
4 29 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 29 (2.15%) DV Cleared
5 28 (2.08%) PMP
6 23 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (1.70%) PMI Certification
7 22 (1.63%) ISTQB
8 16 (1.19%) AWS Certification
9 13 (0.96%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.82%) CIMA
11 10 (0.74%) ACCA
12 9 (0.67%) SAP Certification
13 8 (0.59%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.30%) ISEB
14 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.30%) OCP
14 4 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 4 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (16.83%) Data Quality
2 118 (8.75%) QA
3 61 (4.52%) GDPR
4 25 (1.85%) PMO
5 15 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.96%) COBIT
7 12 (0.89%) NIST
8 10 (0.74%) SLA
9 8 (0.59%) GMP
9 8 (0.59%) GxP
9 8 (0.59%) HL7
9 8 (0.59%) IFRS
9 8 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.44%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.44%) GAAP
11 5 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.37%) DICOM
12 4 (0.30%) Basel III
12 4 (0.30%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 25 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.11%) vSphere
4 13 (0.96%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.82%) Docker
6 9 (0.67%) NFS
7 6 (0.44%) SRDF
8 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.074%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 35 (2.59%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.00%) Terraform
3 19 (1.41%) Grafana
4 16 (1.19%) Ansible
5 15 (1.11%) vCenter Server
6 14 (1.04%) Argo
7 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.67%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.59%) EMC VPLEX
9 8 (0.59%) SCCM
10 6 (0.44%) vMotion
11 4 (0.30%) EMC TimeFinder
11 4 (0.30%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (0.22%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.15%) SnapMirror
13 2 (0.15%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 258 (19.13%) Oracle
2 255 (18.90%) SAP
3 218 (16.16%) Microsoft
4 64 (4.74%) Salesforce
5 55 (4.08%) Databricks
6 39 (2.89%) Workday
7 29 (2.15%) VMware
8 27 (2.00%) ServiceNow
9 25 (1.85%) Pure Storage
9 25 (1.85%) Sage
10 24 (1.78%) Informatica
11 21 (1.56%) Ariba
12 20 (1.48%) Talend
13 18 (1.33%) Google
14 17 (1.26%) Avaloq
14 17 (1.26%) Red Hat
15 16 (1.19%) IFS
16 15 (1.11%) IBM
16 15 (1.11%) MuleSoft
17 13 (0.96%) Splunk