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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 94 96
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,134 820 992
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.77% 2.71% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 3.02% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 719 537 666
10th Percentile £375 £384 £400
25th Percentile £447 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £629 £650
90th Percentile £713 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 6 31
10th Percentile £14.35 £45.63 £25.00
25th Percentile £15.94 £62.81 £40.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £85.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.65% +6.25% +142.42%
75th Percentile £80.25 £87.39 £86.50
90th Percentile £96.34 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.41 £72.28 £40.00
% change year-on-year -70.38% +80.69% +110.53%

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 35,552 27,150 38,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.77% 89.86% 87.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,564 16,816 25,267
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £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 £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 854 2,192
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £33.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.91% -2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £60.90 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.43 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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 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 24 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 24 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 -1 967 £540 - 240
London +18 521 £550 - 81
UK excluding London -5 458 £525 - 200
Work from Home -22 324 £550 +0.92% 100
South East -28 123 £625 +15.47% 96
North of England -32 110 £500 -9.09% 40
Midlands -20 108 £500 -3.61% 28
North West -7 65 £456 -11.03% 29
West Midlands -44 63 £500 -4.76% 23
Scotland +32 44 £559 +17.63% 6
East Midlands +2 43 £538 +15.59% 4
Yorkshire -42 41 £527 -6.14% 10
South West -27 30 £525 +2.44% 17
East of England -20 26 £475 -20.83% 13
Northern Ireland +7 10 £400 -23.81%
Wales +3 8 £525 +2.44%
North East -16 5 £488 -25.00% 1

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 33 (2.91%) Confluence
2 29 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.79%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 6 (0.53%) GeoServer
5 6 (0.53%) Smallworld
6 4 (0.35%) Apache
6 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.26%) CMS
7 3 (0.26%) LiveLink
8 2 (0.18%) Appian
8 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.088%) Moodle
9 1 (0.088%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.088%) SAP Portal
9 1 (0.088%) SAS
9 1 (0.088%) WebSphere
Applications
1 57 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
4 17 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.32%) MS Visio
6 13 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
7 4 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.088%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 115 (10.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (3.97%) Oracle EBS
3 34 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (1.76%) Oracle Payables
5 19 (1.68%) Oracle General Ledger
5 19 (1.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 17 (1.50%) Oracle Receivables
7 16 (1.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 15 (1.32%) SAP HR
9 13 (1.15%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.97%) Loan IQ
10 11 (0.97%) NetSuite
10 11 (0.97%) SAP CO
11 10 (0.88%) Oracle Cash Management
11 10 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
11 10 (0.88%) SAP ERP
11 10 (0.88%) SAP FI/CO
12 9 (0.79%) SAP MM
13 7 (0.62%) Oracle EBS R12
13 7 (0.62%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 168 (14.81%) Azure
2 113 (9.96%) AWS
3 85 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 79 (6.97%) OCI
5 73 (6.44%) Dynamics 365
6 37 (3.26%) SaaS
7 35 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 34 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
10 28 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 26 (2.29%) Amazon S3
12 23 (2.03%) Snowflake
12 23 (2.03%) SuccessFactors
13 22 (1.94%) GitHub
14 18 (1.59%) Entra ID
15 16 (1.41%) OpenShift
15 16 (1.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 16 (1.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 15 (1.32%) GCP
17 12 (1.06%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.15%) SAN
2 12 (1.06%) NAS
3 9 (0.79%) DNS
4 4 (0.35%) SSL
4 4 (0.35%) VSAN
5 3 (0.26%) FCoE
5 3 (0.26%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (0.26%) Firewall
5 3 (0.26%) iSCSI
5 3 (0.26%) Network Security
6 2 (0.18%) Internet
6 2 (0.18%) Intranet
6 2 (0.18%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.088%) IPv4
7 1 (0.088%) IPv6
7 1 (0.088%) VLAN
7 1 (0.088%) VPN
7 1 (0.088%) WebEx
7 1 (0.088%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
2 64 (5.64%) Power BI
3 55 (4.85%) SQL Server
4 41 (3.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 37 (3.26%) Relational Database
6 32 (2.82%) Oracle Reports
7 29 (2.56%) Oracle Database
8 28 (2.47%) Data Lake
9 27 (2.38%) Metadata
10 24 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.41%) RDBMS
13 15 (1.32%) Tableau
14 12 (1.06%) MySQL
15 11 (0.97%) SAP Data Services
16 10 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
16 10 (0.88%) Big Data
16 10 (0.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
17 9 (0.79%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 89 (7.85%) JIRA
2 16 (1.41%) Git
3 15 (1.32%) Postman
4 11 (0.97%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.88%) Zephyr
6 6 (0.53%) GitLab
6 6 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.44%) LSMW
8 4 (0.35%) Hudson
8 4 (0.35%) JUnit
8 4 (0.35%) Toad
8 4 (0.35%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.26%) ERwin
9 3 (0.26%) MLflow
9 3 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 427 (37.65%) Social Skills
2 377 (33.25%) Finance
3 120 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 74 (6.53%) Banking
6 45 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
7 40 (3.53%) Manufacturing
8 37 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
8 37 (3.26%) Retail
9 25 (2.20%) Legal
10 23 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (1.94%) General Ledger
12 17 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
13 16 (1.41%) Local Government
13 16 (1.41%) Marketing
14 14 (1.23%) Billing
14 14 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (1.23%) Law
15 11 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 186 (16.40%) Lead
2 175 (15.43%) Analyst
3 166 (14.64%) Consultant
4 123 (10.85%) Architect
5 104 (9.17%) Project Manager
6 103 (9.08%) Business Analyst
7 88 (7.76%) Senior
8 73 (6.44%) Data Engineer
9 57 (5.03%) Data Analyst
10 55 (4.85%) Data Migration Lead
11 52 (4.59%) Developer
12 50 (4.41%) Migration Analyst
12 50 (4.41%) SAP Consultant
13 44 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
14 41 (3.62%) Migration Manager
15 38 (3.35%) Data Migration Analyst
16 36 (3.17%) Functional Consultant
17 35 (3.09%) Data Architect
18 33 (2.91%) Oracle Consultant
19 32 (2.82%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (6.61%) Oracle Fusion
2 41 (3.62%) REST
3 30 (2.65%) XML
4 28 (2.47%) Middleware
5 23 (2.03%) SOAP
6 18 (1.59%) Lightning Web Components
7 17 (1.50%) JSON
8 14 (1.23%) PySpark
8 14 (1.23%) Web Services
9 11 (0.97%) .NET
10 9 (0.79%) Visualforce
11 7 (0.62%) Kafka
11 7 (0.62%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (0.62%) React
12 6 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
12 6 (0.53%) Spring
12 6 (0.53%) XSLT
13 5 (0.44%) Apache Avro
13 5 (0.44%) LDAP
14 4 (0.35%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 153 (13.49%) Legacy Systems
2 77 (6.79%) Data Structures
3 39 (3.44%) Onboarding
4 35 (3.09%) Management Information System
5 24 (2.12%) Replication
6 23 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (1.76%) Cloud Native
8 19 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (1.59%) Product Ownership
10 14 (1.23%) Data Centre
11 13 (1.15%) Reference Data
12 10 (0.88%) CMDB
12 10 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (0.88%) Public Cloud
13 9 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (0.71%) FMCG
14 8 (0.71%) NHS
14 8 (0.71%) Tandem
15 7 (0.62%) Derivative
15 7 (0.62%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.38%) Windows
2 9 (0.79%) Windows 10
3 8 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.53%) Unix
6 5 (0.44%) Linux
6 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.35%) zOS
8 3 (0.26%) Solaris
9 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,134 (100.00%) Migration
2 273 (24.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 250 (22.05%) Agile
4 225 (19.84%) Validation
5 206 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
6 201 (17.72%) ERP
7 179 (15.78%) ETL
8 169 (14.90%) User Acceptance Testing
9 157 (13.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 150 (13.23%) Data Modelling
11 128 (11.29%) Project Management
12 121 (10.67%) Workshop Facilitation
13 120 (10.58%) Analytics
14 114 (10.05%) Data Cleansing
15 107 (9.44%) Change Management
16 106 (9.35%) Data Mapping
17 93 (8.20%) Business Intelligence
18 89 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
19 85 (7.50%) Data Governance
19 85 (7.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 222 (19.58%) SQL
2 85 (7.50%) Python
3 31 (2.73%) Java
4 19 (1.68%) JavaScript
5 18 (1.59%) PL/SQL
6 16 (1.41%) Apex Code
7 15 (1.32%) PowerShell
8 13 (1.15%) C#
9 10 (0.88%) Bash
10 6 (0.53%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.53%) VBA
11 5 (0.44%) ABAP
11 5 (0.44%) Perl
11 5 (0.44%) PHP
11 5 (0.44%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.35%) Korn
12 4 (0.35%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.35%) VB
12 4 (0.35%) X++
13 3 (0.26%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 164 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 121 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 74 (6.53%) Degree
4 36 (3.17%) PMP
5 29 (2.56%) PMI Certification
6 26 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.41%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 13 (1.15%) SAP Certification
10 8 (0.71%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.62%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.53%) CIMA
13 5 (0.44%) ACCA
13 5 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.35%) OCP
14 4 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (14.99%) Data Quality
2 87 (7.67%) QA
3 60 (5.29%) GDPR
4 16 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.41%) PMO
5 13 (1.15%) COBIT
6 12 (1.06%) NIST
7 8 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (0.71%) IFRS
7 8 (0.71%) SLA
8 7 (0.62%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.62%) GMP
9 6 (0.53%) GAAP
9 6 (0.53%) GRC
9 6 (0.53%) GxP
10 5 (0.44%) IFRS 9
10 5 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.35%) Basel III
11 4 (0.35%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.41%) Docker
2 16 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.97%) NFS
4 8 (0.71%) VMware NSX
4 8 (0.71%) vSphere
5 5 (0.44%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 28 (2.47%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.59%) Terraform
3 13 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.06%) Grafana
5 9 (0.79%) Ansible
5 9 (0.79%) SCCM
6 8 (0.71%) Argo
6 8 (0.71%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.53%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.53%) vMotion
8 5 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.35%) EMC TimeFinder
10 3 (0.26%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.26%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.088%) Control-M
Vendors
1 215 (18.96%) Oracle
2 210 (18.52%) SAP
3 165 (14.55%) Microsoft
4 56 (4.94%) Salesforce
5 45 (3.97%) Databricks
6 38 (3.35%) Workday
7 25 (2.20%) Informatica
8 24 (2.12%) Sage
8 24 (2.12%) ServiceNow
9 19 (1.68%) VMware
10 18 (1.59%) MuleSoft
10 18 (1.59%) Pure Storage
11 17 (1.50%) Talend
12 15 (1.32%) Avaloq
13 13 (1.15%) IFS
14 12 (1.06%) Ariba
15 11 (0.97%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.88%) Google
16 10 (0.88%) IBM
17 9 (0.79%) GoldenSource