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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 96 94
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,054 807 1,021
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.69% 2.59% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 2.90% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 534 691
10th Percentile £375 £380 £412
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 2 22
10th Percentile £14.61 £39.75 £26.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £46.88 £40.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +33.33% -35.71%
75th Percentile £81.00 £74.38 £86.50
90th Percentile £97.56 £82.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.81 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +169.81%

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 34,126 27,826 38,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.15% 89.30% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,616 16,956 25,656
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -3.47% -0.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,067 860 2,108
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.45
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.55 £61.31
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £30.88 £35.50
% change year-on-year -19.03% -13.03% +18.89%

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 6 February 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 6 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Top 17 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 6 February 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 +2 887 £538 -0.46% 285
London +17 474 £550 - 115
UK excluding London -22 425 £525 - 201
Work from Home -26 310 £544 +2.02% 142
South East -33 113 £625 +14.68% 93
Midlands -21 103 £528 +1.69% 27
North of England -26 98 £478 -9.05% 41
West Midlands -38 56 £523 -0.48% 20
North West -6 55 £449 -5.42% 28
East Midlands +6 46 £550 +12.53% 7
Scotland +27 44 £559 +17.63% 8
Yorkshire -45 37 £525 -6.50% 11
South West -30 26 £525 +5.53% 12
East of England -26 23 £475 -13.64% 19
Northern Ireland +3 10 £400 -23.81% 1
Wales +6 9 £531 +3.66% 4
North East -13 7 £488 -25.00% 2

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 31 (2.94%) Confluence
2 30 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.66%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 6 (0.57%) GeoServer
5 6 (0.57%) Smallworld
6 5 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.38%) Apache
8 3 (0.28%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.28%) CMS
8 3 (0.28%) LiveLink
9 2 (0.19%) Appian
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.095%) Moodle
10 1 (0.095%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.095%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.095%) SAP Portal
10 1 (0.095%) SAS
10 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 54 (5.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (1.42%) MS Visio
6 14 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.095%) Trello
8 1 (0.095%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 114 (10.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (3.80%) Oracle EBS
3 34 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
4 18 (1.71%) Oracle Payables
5 17 (1.61%) Oracle General Ledger
5 17 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 15 (1.42%) Oracle Receivables
6 15 (1.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 15 (1.42%) SAP HR
7 13 (1.23%) NetSuite
7 13 (1.23%) SAP FI
8 11 (1.04%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.95%) Loan IQ
9 10 (0.95%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.85%) SAP ERP
10 9 (0.85%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.76%) Oracle Cash Management
11 8 (0.76%) SAP MM
12 7 (0.66%) Oracle EBS R12
12 7 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 151 (14.33%) Azure
2 94 (8.92%) AWS
3 83 (7.87%) Power Platform
4 75 (7.12%) OCI
5 71 (6.74%) Dynamics 365
6 35 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (3.13%) SaaS
8 31 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (2.37%) Amazon S3
9 25 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
10 24 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (1.99%) SuccessFactors
12 19 (1.80%) GitHub
12 19 (1.80%) Snowflake
13 18 (1.71%) Entra ID
14 16 (1.52%) GCP
15 15 (1.42%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 15 (1.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 12 (1.14%) Azure Logic Apps
16 12 (1.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.04%) NAS
2 7 (0.66%) DNS
2 7 (0.66%) SAN
3 4 (0.38%) SSL
4 3 (0.28%) Firewall
4 3 (0.28%) Internet
4 3 (0.28%) Intranet
4 3 (0.28%) Network Security
4 3 (0.28%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.19%) IPv6
5 2 (0.19%) LAN
5 2 (0.19%) VPN
5 2 (0.19%) WAN
5 2 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.095%) IPv4
6 1 (0.095%) VLAN
6 1 (0.095%) WebEx
6 1 (0.095%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (5.98%) Power BI
2 60 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
3 59 (5.60%) SQL Server
4 39 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 35 (3.32%) Relational Database
6 29 (2.75%) Oracle Database
7 28 (2.66%) Metadata
8 25 (2.37%) Oracle Reports
9 24 (2.28%) Data Lake
9 24 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
10 23 (2.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 21 (1.99%) Tableau
12 16 (1.52%) RDBMS
13 13 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (1.14%) MySQL
15 11 (1.04%) SAP Data Services
16 10 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
16 10 (0.95%) Big Data
17 9 (0.85%) Amazon QuickSight
17 9 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 75 (7.12%) JIRA
2 9 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 8 (0.76%) Git
4 6 (0.57%) GitLab
4 6 (0.57%) LSMW
4 6 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.47%) Postman
6 4 (0.38%) Toad
6 4 (0.38%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.28%) ERwin
7 3 (0.28%) Hudson
7 3 (0.28%) MLflow
7 3 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.19%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.095%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.095%) Selenium
General
1 388 (36.81%) Social Skills
2 346 (32.83%) Finance
3 111 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (9.58%) Public Sector
5 67 (6.36%) Banking
6 45 (4.27%) Manufacturing
7 42 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
8 37 (3.51%) Retail
9 33 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
10 25 (2.37%) Legal
11 23 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.09%) General Ledger
13 21 (1.99%) Local Government
14 16 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
15 14 (1.33%) Billing
15 14 (1.33%) Marketing
16 13 (1.23%) Law
17 12 (1.14%) Investment Banking
18 11 (1.04%) Back Office
18 11 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 174 (16.51%) Lead
2 162 (15.37%) Consultant
3 155 (14.71%) Analyst
4 113 (10.72%) Architect
5 96 (9.11%) Project Manager
6 90 (8.54%) Business Analyst
7 78 (7.40%) Senior
8 57 (5.41%) Data Engineer
9 56 (5.31%) Data Migration Lead
10 51 (4.84%) Developer
11 49 (4.65%) Data Analyst
12 48 (4.55%) SAP Consultant
13 44 (4.17%) Migration Analyst
13 44 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
14 35 (3.32%) Functional Consultant
15 34 (3.23%) Migration Manager
16 33 (3.13%) Data Migration Analyst
17 31 (2.94%) Oracle Consultant
18 30 (2.85%) Data Consultant
19 29 (2.75%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (6.55%) Oracle Fusion
2 38 (3.61%) REST
3 33 (3.13%) XML
4 26 (2.47%) Middleware
5 23 (2.18%) SOAP
6 19 (1.80%) JSON
7 15 (1.42%) Lightning Web Components
8 14 (1.33%) PySpark
9 13 (1.23%) Web Services
10 11 (1.04%) .NET
10 11 (1.04%) Visualforce
11 10 (0.95%) SAP Fiori
12 8 (0.76%) XSLT
13 6 (0.57%) EDI
13 6 (0.57%) React
14 5 (0.47%) Apache Avro
14 5 (0.47%) Kafka
14 5 (0.47%) LDAP
14 5 (0.47%) OpenTelemetry
14 5 (0.47%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 142 (13.47%) Legacy Systems
2 76 (7.21%) Data Structures
3 41 (3.89%) Onboarding
4 33 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 18 (1.71%) Replication
8 15 (1.42%) Cloud Native
9 14 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.14%) Reference Data
11 11 (1.04%) Public Cloud
12 10 (0.95%) Data Centre
13 9 (0.85%) CMDB
13 9 (0.85%) NHS
14 8 (0.76%) FMCG
14 8 (0.76%) Life Science
15 7 (0.66%) Derivative
15 7 (0.66%) Smartphone
15 7 (0.66%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.37%) Windows
2 9 (0.85%) Windows 10
3 8 (0.76%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.66%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.57%) Unix
6 5 (0.47%) Linux
6 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.28%) Solaris
8 2 (0.19%) zOS
9 1 (0.095%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,054 (100.00%) Migration
2 249 (23.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 237 (22.49%) Agile
4 205 (19.45%) Validation
5 195 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
6 191 (18.12%) ERP
7 166 (15.75%) User Acceptance Testing
8 160 (15.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 158 (14.99%) ETL
10 140 (13.28%) Data Modelling
11 115 (10.91%) Analytics
12 114 (10.82%) Project Management
12 114 (10.82%) Workshop Facilitation
13 104 (9.87%) Data Cleansing
14 100 (9.49%) Change Management
15 92 (8.73%) Data Mapping
16 86 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
17 83 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
18 82 (7.78%) Data Governance
19 78 (7.40%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 210 (19.92%) SQL
2 76 (7.21%) Python
3 30 (2.85%) Java
4 18 (1.71%) JavaScript
4 18 (1.71%) PL/SQL
5 15 (1.42%) PowerShell
6 14 (1.33%) Apex Code
7 11 (1.04%) C#
8 8 (0.76%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.66%) Bash
10 5 (0.47%) Perl
10 5 (0.47%) PHP
10 5 (0.47%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.38%) ABAP
11 4 (0.38%) Korn
11 4 (0.38%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.38%) VB
11 4 (0.38%) VBA
11 4 (0.38%) X++
12 3 (0.28%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 132 (12.52%) Security Cleared
2 93 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 74 (7.02%) Degree
4 37 (3.51%) PMP
5 32 (3.04%) PMI Certification
6 26 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.71%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.33%) SAP Certification
10 13 (1.23%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.23%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.57%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.57%) CIMA
12 5 (0.47%) ACCA
12 5 (0.47%) CFA
13 4 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 4 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.28%) IIBA
14 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.28%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (14.42%) Data Quality
2 73 (6.93%) QA
3 58 (5.50%) GDPR
4 15 (1.42%) PMO
5 14 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.04%) COBIT
7 10 (0.95%) NIST
8 9 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 9 (0.85%) IFRS
9 8 (0.76%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.76%) GxP
10 7 (0.66%) GAAP
10 7 (0.66%) SLA
11 6 (0.57%) GMP
11 6 (0.57%) GRC
11 6 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.47%) IFRS 9
13 4 (0.38%) Basel III
13 4 (0.38%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.42%) Docker
3 12 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.85%) NFS
5 6 (0.57%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.57%) vSphere
6 1 (0.095%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 22 (2.09%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.42%) Terraform
3 10 (0.95%) Grafana
3 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (0.95%) SCCM
4 7 (0.66%) Ansible
5 6 (0.57%) Argo
5 6 (0.57%) vCenter Server
6 5 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
7 4 (0.38%) vMotion
8 3 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.28%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.28%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.095%) Control-M
Vendors
1 202 (19.17%) SAP
2 194 (18.41%) Oracle
3 157 (14.90%) Microsoft
4 45 (4.27%) Salesforce
5 43 (4.08%) Databricks
6 41 (3.89%) Workday
7 20 (1.90%) Informatica
7 20 (1.90%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.52%) Sage
9 14 (1.33%) VMware
10 13 (1.23%) Ariba
10 13 (1.23%) Avaloq
11 12 (1.14%) Pure Storage
12 10 (0.95%) Google
12 10 (0.95%) IBM
12 10 (0.95%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.95%) Talend
13 9 (0.85%) IFS
13 9 (0.85%) OpenText
14 8 (0.76%) Kronos