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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 94 94
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,039 869 1,075
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.83% 2.54% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% 2.89% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 572 711
10th Percentile £366 £400 £412
25th Percentile £425 £457 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 3 12
10th Percentile £14.61 £40.40 £82.53
25th Percentile £15.62 £48.50 £83.31
Median hourly rate £61.00 £64.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% -24.71% +21.00%
75th Percentile £81.00 £67.88 £86.75
90th Percentile £100.00 £69.00 £89.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £66.50 £69.72
% change year-on-year -9.77% -4.62% +292.79%

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 32,471 30,121 39,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.45% 87.99% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,452 18,385 26,091
10th Percentile £300 £306 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £745 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,000 1,510
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.61 £14.49
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £19.02
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.85
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.88% +25.29%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.04 £32.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.87% -27.21% +39.06%

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 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 -3 858 £535 -2.28% 306
London +7 461 £550 - 85
UK excluding London -19 409 £500 -4.76% 292
Work from Home -20 316 £525 - 228
South East -22 120 £621 +12.86% 95
Midlands -4 101 £550 +4.76% 68
North of England -44 81 £461 -12.10% 51
West Midlands -21 56 £550 +4.76% 37
Scotland +28 45 £513 +7.89% 16
East Midlands +13 43 £550 +29.41% 29
North West -37 41 £450 -5.26% 22
Yorkshire -35 37 £525 -6.79% 26
South West -16 25 £524 -0.24% 26
East of England -24 20 £465 -15.55% 31
Northern Ireland +1 8 £400 -23.81% 4
Wales +6 7 £525 +2.44% 6
North East -14 4 £438 -30.00% 3
Channel Islands -3 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 38 (3.66%) Confluence
2 34 (3.27%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.58%) Apache
4 6 (0.58%) GeoServer
4 6 (0.58%) Smallworld
5 5 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.48%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
6 3 (0.29%) CMS
6 3 (0.29%) LiveLink
7 2 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.096%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.096%) Documentum
8 1 (0.096%) IIS
8 1 (0.096%) Moodle
8 1 (0.096%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.096%) SAP Portal
8 1 (0.096%) SAS
Applications
1 51 (4.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.48%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.096%) Trello
7 1 (0.096%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 107 (10.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (3.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (3.37%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (2.12%) SAP HR
5 20 (1.92%) Oracle Payables
6 14 (1.35%) NetSuite
6 14 (1.35%) Oracle Receivables
7 13 (1.25%) Oracle General Ledger
8 10 (0.96%) SAP ERP
9 9 (0.87%) Oracle Cash Management
9 9 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
9 9 (0.87%) SAP FI
9 9 (0.87%) SAP Payroll
9 9 (0.87%) SAP PM
9 9 (0.87%) Workday HCM
10 8 (0.77%) Oracle EBS R12
10 8 (0.77%) SAP HCM
10 8 (0.77%) SAP MDG
10 8 (0.77%) SAP MM
11 7 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 148 (14.24%) Azure
2 95 (9.14%) AWS
3 80 (7.70%) Power Platform
4 78 (7.51%) Dynamics 365
5 62 (5.97%) OCI
6 38 (3.66%) SaaS
7 37 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (3.37%) Amazon S3
9 32 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
10 28 (2.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 28 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
11 26 (2.50%) Snowflake
12 22 (2.12%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 22 (2.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 22 (2.12%) Serverless
13 21 (2.02%) Entra ID
14 20 (1.92%) SuccessFactors
15 17 (1.64%) dbt
15 17 (1.64%) GCP
16 15 (1.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.67%) NAS
2 6 (0.58%) Firewall
2 6 (0.58%) VPN
3 4 (0.38%) SSL
4 3 (0.29%) DNS
4 3 (0.29%) Intranet
4 3 (0.29%) Network Security
4 3 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.19%) Internet
5 2 (0.19%) IPv6
5 2 (0.19%) LAN
5 2 (0.19%) SAN
5 2 (0.19%) WAN
6 1 (0.096%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.096%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.096%) IPv4
6 1 (0.096%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.096%) VLAN
6 1 (0.096%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.096%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 60 (5.77%) Power BI
3 58 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (3.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 35 (3.37%) Relational Database
6 23 (2.21%) Data Lake
6 23 (2.21%) Oracle Database
7 22 (2.12%) Metadata
7 22 (2.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 21 (2.02%) Oracle Reports
8 21 (2.02%) Tableau
9 17 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (1.64%) DataStage
10 16 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (1.54%) RDBMS
11 13 (1.25%) Amazon QuickSight
12 12 (1.15%) SAP Data Services
13 11 (1.06%) MySQL
14 10 (0.96%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 83 (7.99%) JIRA
2 6 (0.58%) Postman
3 5 (0.48%) LSMW
4 4 (0.38%) Git
4 4 (0.38%) GitLab
4 4 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.38%) Selenium
4 4 (0.38%) Toad
4 4 (0.38%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.29%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.29%) MLflow
5 3 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.19%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.19%) Hudson
6 2 (0.19%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.096%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.096%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.096%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.096%) WebDriver
General
1 367 (35.32%) Social Skills
2 341 (32.82%) Finance
3 120 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 54 (5.20%) Banking
6 40 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.66%) Manufacturing
8 31 (2.98%) Local Government
9 26 (2.50%) Legal
9 26 (2.50%) Retail
10 25 (2.41%) Marketing
11 22 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (1.92%) Back Office
14 19 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
15 17 (1.64%) General Ledger
16 12 (1.15%) Billing
16 12 (1.15%) Law
17 10 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.77%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 165 (15.88%) Analyst
2 154 (14.82%) Consultant
3 147 (14.15%) Lead
4 122 (11.74%) Architect
5 96 (9.24%) Business Analyst
6 91 (8.76%) Project Manager
7 76 (7.31%) Senior
8 55 (5.29%) Data Engineer
9 52 (5.00%) Data Migration Lead
9 52 (5.00%) Developer
10 48 (4.62%) SAP Consultant
11 46 (4.43%) Data Analyst
12 40 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
13 33 (3.18%) Functional Consultant
14 32 (3.08%) Migration Analyst
15 31 (2.98%) Data Consultant
15 31 (2.98%) Migration Specialist
16 30 (2.89%) Migration Consultant
17 29 (2.79%) Data Migration Specialist
18 28 (2.69%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 38 (3.66%) XML
3 36 (3.46%) REST
4 29 (2.79%) Lightning Web Components
5 27 (2.60%) SOAP
6 24 (2.31%) Visualforce
7 22 (2.12%) Middleware
8 21 (2.02%) JSON
9 14 (1.35%) .NET
10 13 (1.25%) Web Services
11 12 (1.15%) PySpark
12 10 (0.96%) SAP Fiori
13 8 (0.77%) SAP PI
14 7 (0.67%) EDI
14 7 (0.67%) XSLT
15 6 (0.58%) SAP Basis
16 5 (0.48%) Apache Avro
16 5 (0.48%) GraphQL
16 5 (0.48%) LDAP
16 5 (0.48%) React
Miscellaneous
1 131 (12.61%) Legacy Systems
2 65 (6.26%) Data Structures
3 39 (3.75%) Onboarding
4 33 (3.18%) Product Ownership
5 30 (2.89%) Management Information System
6 20 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.25%) Replication
9 12 (1.15%) Data Centre
10 10 (0.96%) CMDB
10 10 (0.96%) Virtual Team
11 9 (0.87%) Cloud Native
11 9 (0.87%) Reference Data
12 7 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (0.67%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (0.58%) FMCG
13 6 (0.58%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.50%) Windows
2 8 (0.77%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.67%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.48%) Unix
4 5 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.38%) Linux
6 3 (0.29%) Solaris
7 1 (0.096%) AIX
7 1 (0.096%) MVS
7 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.096%) VMS
7 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,039 (100.00%) Migration
2 243 (23.39%) Agile
3 208 (20.02%) Stakeholder Management
4 201 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 171 (16.46%) Validation
6 167 (16.07%) ERP
7 158 (15.21%) ETL
8 149 (14.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 144 (13.86%) Data Modelling
10 137 (13.19%) User Acceptance Testing
11 108 (10.39%) Project Management
12 103 (9.91%) Analytics
13 101 (9.72%) Data Governance
14 99 (9.53%) Workshop Facilitation
15 93 (8.95%) Data Cleansing
16 87 (8.37%) Change Management
17 81 (7.80%) DevOps
18 78 (7.51%) Business Intelligence
19 77 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
20 76 (7.31%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 208 (20.02%) SQL
2 72 (6.93%) Python
3 37 (3.56%) Java
4 29 (2.79%) Apex Code
5 21 (2.02%) C#
6 16 (1.54%) JavaScript
7 15 (1.44%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.35%) PL/SQL
9 12 (1.15%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.87%) Bicep
11 8 (0.77%) ABAP
12 7 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.58%) PHP
14 5 (0.48%) Perl
14 5 (0.48%) VB
14 5 (0.48%) X++
15 4 (0.38%) SOQL
16 3 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.29%) R
16 3 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 111 (10.68%) Security Cleared
2 83 (7.99%) Degree
3 77 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 32 (3.08%) PMP
5 30 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.89%) PMI Certification
6 23 (2.21%) Master's Degree
7 21 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.73%) AWS Certification
9 15 (1.44%) SAP Certification
10 12 (1.15%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.67%) CIMA
12 6 (0.58%) ACCA
12 6 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (0.48%) CFA
13 5 (0.48%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.38%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.29%) OCP
15 3 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (13.96%) Data Quality
2 77 (7.41%) QA
3 60 (5.77%) GDPR
4 15 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 12 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.06%) PMO
7 10 (0.96%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.77%) GRC
8 8 (0.77%) GxP
9 6 (0.58%) COBIT
9 6 (0.58%) GMP
9 6 (0.58%) IFRS
9 6 (0.58%) NIST
9 6 (0.58%) SLA
10 4 (0.38%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.29%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.29%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 19 (1.83%) Docker
2 15 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.29%) NFS
5 1 (0.096%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.096%) SRDF
5 1 (0.096%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.096%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.096%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (2.21%) Kubernetes
1 23 (2.21%) Terraform
2 8 (0.77%) SCCM
3 5 (0.48%) Ansible
3 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.29%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.19%) Grafana
7 1 (0.096%) Argo
7 1 (0.096%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.096%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.096%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.096%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 210 (20.21%) SAP
2 168 (16.17%) Oracle
3 163 (15.69%) Microsoft
4 62 (5.97%) Salesforce
5 40 (3.85%) Databricks
6 37 (3.56%) Workday
7 14 (1.35%) IBM
7 14 (1.35%) Informatica
8 13 (1.25%) Ariba
8 13 (1.25%) Google
8 13 (1.25%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.15%) MuleSoft
10 9 (0.87%) Kronos
10 9 (0.87%) OpenText
10 9 (0.87%) Sage
10 9 (0.87%) Talend
11 7 (0.67%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.58%) ESRI
12 6 (0.58%) Intergraph
13 5 (0.48%) Avaloq