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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 93 98
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,421 788 982
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.96% 2.68% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 2.95% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 901 490 667
10th Percentile £360 £375 £359
25th Percentile £447 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £626 £627 £650
90th Percentile £733 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 13 33
10th Percentile £15.02 £35.00 £25.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £56.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £36.71 £67.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.61% -10.00% +180.37%
75th Percentile £41.83 £87.05 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.81 £62.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -63.50% -16.67% +233.33%

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 40,423 26,734 36,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.29% 90.97% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,371 17,185 23,631
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.68% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,395 1,096 2,442
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.72 £18.22 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +50.82% -21.77% +1.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.23 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.39% -32.73% +7.14%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +22 1,269 £525 -0.76% 261
UK excluding London +11 635 £525 +5.00% 175
London +35 623 £525 -4.55% 112
Work from Home 0 375 £500 -5.21% 114
South East -11 176 £600 +10.09% 53
North of England -16 172 £500 +1.32% 46
Midlands +1 131 £488 +2.63% 29
North West +8 106 £475 -12.60% 27
West Midlands -6 89 £460 -3.16% 14
Yorkshire -41 59 £540 +34.88% 17
South West +5 58 £525 +5.00% 17
East of England -4 56 £575 -11.54% 20
East Midlands -1 39 £500 +9.29% 15
Scotland -4 23 £575 +20.95% 3
Northern Ireland +16 15 £475 - 2
North East -15 7 £488 -15.22% 2
Wales -9 6 £550 +25.71% 8
Channel Islands - 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 53 (3.73%) SharePoint
2 48 (3.38%) Confluence
3 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.35%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.14%) Apache
8 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.14%) Appian
8 2 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.070%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.070%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.070%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 20 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
4 17 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.070%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.070%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 166 (11.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (3.31%) Oracle EBS
3 37 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 19 (1.34%) SAP ERP
6 15 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.99%) Loan IQ
8 13 (0.91%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.77%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 10 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
11 9 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
11 9 (0.63%) SAP FI
12 8 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
12 8 (0.56%) SAP CO
13 7 (0.49%) iTrent
13 7 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
13 7 (0.49%) Teamcenter
14 6 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
14 6 (0.42%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 223 (15.69%) Azure
2 138 (9.71%) Power Platform
3 121 (8.52%) AWS
4 108 (7.60%) Dynamics 365
5 78 (5.49%) OCI
6 68 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (3.73%) SaaS
8 50 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 35 (2.46%) Snowflake
10 34 (2.39%) GitHub
10 34 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
11 32 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 22 (1.55%) GCP
12 22 (1.55%) SuccessFactors
13 16 (1.13%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
13 16 (1.13%) OpenShift
14 15 (1.06%) Entra ID
14 15 (1.06%) Power Automate
15 12 (0.84%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.20%) SAN
2 14 (0.99%) DNS
2 14 (0.99%) NAS
3 6 (0.42%) Firewall
4 5 (0.35%) VPN
4 5 (0.35%) VSAN
5 4 (0.28%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (0.21%) FCoE
6 3 (0.21%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.14%) HTTP
7 2 (0.14%) Network Security
7 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.070%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.070%) DKIM
8 1 (0.070%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.070%) Internet
8 1 (0.070%) Intranet
8 1 (0.070%) SNMP
8 1 (0.070%) SSL
8 1 (0.070%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (8.09%) Power BI
2 94 (6.62%) Data Warehouse
3 59 (4.15%) Oracle Reports
4 57 (4.01%) SQL Server
5 36 (2.53%) Metadata
6 34 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 33 (2.32%) Data Lake
8 24 (1.69%) Relational Database
9 23 (1.62%) Oracle Database
9 23 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (1.13%) NoSQL
11 14 (0.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 13 (0.91%) DB2
12 13 (0.91%) SAP Data Services
13 12 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (0.77%) Tableau
15 10 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
16 9 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (0.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 129 (9.08%) JIRA
2 34 (2.39%) Git
3 32 (2.25%) Zephyr
4 27 (1.90%) Postman
5 19 (1.34%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.91%) Selenium
7 9 (0.63%) GitLab
8 7 (0.49%) Hudson
9 6 (0.42%) JUnit
9 6 (0.42%) LSMW
9 6 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.35%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.28%) Toad
12 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.21%) ERwin
12 3 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
General
1 466 (32.79%) Finance
2 437 (30.75%) Social Skills
3 174 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (8.37%) Public Sector
5 80 (5.63%) Banking
6 78 (5.49%) Manufacturing
7 59 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.17%) Law
9 43 (3.03%) Retail
10 38 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (1.90%) Legal
12 26 (1.83%) Local Government
12 26 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
13 24 (1.69%) General Ledger
14 23 (1.62%) Marketing
14 23 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
15 18 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 17 (1.20%) Billing
17 16 (1.13%) Aerospace
18 13 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 313 (22.03%) Lead
2 215 (15.13%) Analyst
3 168 (11.82%) Architect
4 165 (11.61%) Consultant
5 116 (8.16%) Data Migration Lead
6 108 (7.60%) Project Manager
7 102 (7.18%) Business Analyst
8 100 (7.04%) Data Engineer
9 95 (6.69%) Senior
10 72 (5.07%) Data Analyst
11 71 (5.00%) Developer
12 60 (4.22%) Data Architect
13 58 (4.08%) Migration Analyst
14 56 (3.94%) Migration Engineer
14 56 (3.94%) SAP Consultant
15 51 (3.59%) Migration Manager
16 47 (3.31%) Data Migration Engineer
17 44 (3.10%) Data Migration Analyst
18 40 (2.81%) Migration Consultant
19 39 (2.74%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (5.84%) Oracle Fusion
2 39 (2.74%) REST
3 35 (2.46%) Middleware
4 20 (1.41%) SOAP
4 20 (1.41%) XML
5 19 (1.34%) .NET
6 17 (1.20%) Spring
7 15 (1.06%) Kafka
8 13 (0.91%) JSON
9 11 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (0.70%) PySpark
11 9 (0.63%) Lightning Web Components
11 9 (0.63%) Spring Boot
12 8 (0.56%) React
13 7 (0.49%) FHIR
14 6 (0.42%) AngularJS
14 6 (0.42%) Web Services
15 5 (0.35%) SAP Fiori
16 4 (0.28%) Elastic Stack
16 4 (0.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 181 (12.74%) Legacy Systems
2 109 (7.67%) Data Structures
3 44 (3.10%) Cloud Native
4 40 (2.81%) Management Information System
5 36 (2.53%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
7 26 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 22 (1.55%) Product Ownership
8 22 (1.55%) Replication
9 20 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.13%) Mainframe
10 16 (1.13%) Reference Data
11 15 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (0.99%) Data Centre
12 14 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (0.77%) FMCG
13 11 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
13 11 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.04%) Windows
2 11 (0.77%) Linux
3 8 (0.56%) Windows 10
4 7 (0.49%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.49%) zOS
5 6 (0.42%) Unix
6 5 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.14%) VMS
9 1 (0.070%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,421 (100.00%) Migration
2 371 (26.11%) Validation
3 312 (21.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 298 (20.97%) ERP
4 298 (20.97%) User Acceptance Testing
5 264 (18.58%) Agile
6 231 (16.26%) ETL
7 213 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
8 205 (14.43%) Data Modelling
9 203 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 156 (10.98%) Data Cleansing
11 145 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
12 136 (9.57%) Project Management
13 132 (9.29%) Data Mapping
14 128 (9.01%) Analytics
15 125 (8.80%) Data Governance
16 124 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
17 119 (8.37%) DevOps
18 110 (7.74%) Workshop Facilitation
19 109 (7.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 261 (18.37%) SQL
2 109 (7.67%) Python
3 43 (3.03%) Java
4 32 (2.25%) PL/SQL
5 22 (1.55%) Bash
6 19 (1.34%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.84%) PowerShell
8 9 (0.63%) C#
8 9 (0.63%) VBA
9 8 (0.56%) Apex Code
9 8 (0.56%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.42%) Kotlin
10 6 (0.42%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.35%) PHP
12 4 (0.28%) C
12 4 (0.28%) Perl
13 3 (0.21%) C++
13 3 (0.21%) COBOL
13 3 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 233 (16.40%) Security Cleared
2 174 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 63 (4.43%) Degree
4 34 (2.39%) DV Cleared
5 30 (2.11%) PMP
6 25 (1.76%) PMI Certification
7 24 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (1.62%) ISTQB
9 21 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (0.99%) CIMA
11 13 (0.91%) ACCA
11 13 (0.91%) Azure Certification
12 9 (0.63%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.42%) SAP Certification
14 5 (0.35%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.28%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.28%) OCP
15 4 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (17.17%) Data Quality
2 116 (8.16%) QA
3 60 (4.22%) GDPR
4 23 (1.62%) PMO
5 13 (0.91%) SLA
6 12 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.77%) HL7
8 9 (0.63%) COBIT
9 8 (0.56%) GMP
9 8 (0.56%) NIST
9 8 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
10 7 (0.49%) GxP
10 7 (0.49%) IFRS
11 6 (0.42%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.42%) DICOM
12 5 (0.35%) GAAP
13 4 (0.28%) Basel III
13 4 (0.28%) PERC
14 3 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 24 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.99%) vSphere
4 12 (0.84%) Docker
4 12 (0.84%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.63%) NFS
6 6 (0.42%) SRDF
7 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.070%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 31 (2.18%) Kubernetes
2 30 (2.11%) Terraform
3 20 (1.41%) Ansible
4 18 (1.27%) Grafana
5 14 (0.99%) vCenter Server
6 13 (0.91%) Argo
6 13 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.63%) HP ALM
8 8 (0.56%) EMC VPLEX
8 8 (0.56%) SCCM
9 6 (0.42%) vMotion
10 4 (0.28%) EMC TimeFinder
10 4 (0.28%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (0.21%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.14%) SnapMirror
12 2 (0.14%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 277 (19.49%) SAP
2 258 (18.16%) Oracle
3 236 (16.61%) Microsoft
4 67 (4.71%) Databricks
5 62 (4.36%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.97%) VMware
7 27 (1.90%) Workday
8 25 (1.76%) ServiceNow
9 24 (1.69%) Pure Storage
9 24 (1.69%) Sage
10 21 (1.48%) Google
10 21 (1.48%) Informatica
11 20 (1.41%) IFS
12 19 (1.34%) Talend
13 17 (1.20%) Ariba
13 17 (1.20%) Infor
14 15 (1.06%) Avaloq
14 15 (1.06%) MuleSoft
14 15 (1.06%) Red Hat
15 14 (0.99%) IBM