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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 89 101
Rank change year-on-year +9 +12 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,673 924 896
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.13% 2.81% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 3.10% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,089 556 608
10th Percentile £363 £360 £373
25th Percentile £428 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +0.47%
75th Percentile £630 £630 £650
90th Percentile £733 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £512 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +3.43% -5.71% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 16 22
10th Percentile £17.75 £16.40 £64.18
25th Percentile £23.00 £32.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £36.33 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.12% -54.59% +158.06%
75th Percentile £61.44 £68.44 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.63 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.71 £35.16 £80.00
% change year-on-year +4.42% -56.06% +255.56%

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 45,312 29,789 33,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.84% 90.47% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,886 18,626 21,285
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,829 1,693 1,837
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +17.24%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +14 1,478 £525 - 390
UK excluding London +19 769 £512 +3.43% 272
London +14 713 £550 - 171
Work from Home +6 463 £525 - 210
South East +7 203 £550 +10.00% 84
North of England -16 200 £525 +10.53% 64
Midlands +6 171 £456 -8.80% 64
West Midlands +1 123 £450 -10.00% 41
North West +11 120 £531 +11.84% 45
South West +19 89 £523 -1.42% 22
Yorkshire -34 66 £519 +9.26% 18
East of England +6 53 £575 -4.88% 18
East Midlands +10 44 £525 +16.67% 23
Scotland -12 30 £525 +20.41% 17
Northern Ireland +22 20 £450 -30.77% 3
North East -27 17 £575 - 3
Wales -9 7 £463 -2.63% 3
Channel Islands +3 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 66 (3.95%) SharePoint
2 51 (3.05%) Confluence
3 11 (0.66%) Apache
3 11 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
4 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.30%) Tuxedo
7 3 (0.18%) SAS
8 2 (0.12%) CMS
8 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.060%) IIS
9 1 (0.060%) Mendix
9 1 (0.060%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 77 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
3 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.84%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 176 (10.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (2.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (2.03%) Oracle EBS
4 26 (1.55%) Oracle Payables
5 24 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
6 22 (1.32%) Oracle Receivables
6 22 (1.32%) SAP ERP
7 19 (1.14%) NetSuite
8 14 (0.84%) Oracle Financials
8 14 (0.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 13 (0.78%) iTrent
9 13 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
10 12 (0.72%) Oracle Assets
11 11 (0.66%) Teamcenter
11 11 (0.66%) Workday HCM
12 9 (0.54%) SAP MDG
12 9 (0.54%) SAP SD
13 8 (0.48%) Oracle Cash Management
13 8 (0.48%) Temenos T24
14 7 (0.42%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 272 (16.26%) Azure
2 168 (10.04%) Power Platform
3 162 (9.68%) AWS
4 135 (8.07%) Dynamics 365
5 102 (6.10%) OCI
6 86 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (4.36%) SaaS
8 55 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 47 (2.81%) Snowflake
10 45 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
11 40 (2.39%) GitHub
12 36 (2.15%) Power Automate
13 35 (2.09%) SuccessFactors
14 33 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 30 (1.79%) Amazon S3
16 27 (1.61%) PowerApps
17 24 (1.43%) GCP
18 17 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
18 17 (1.02%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 16 (0.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.60%) DNS
1 10 (0.60%) SAN
2 8 (0.48%) NAS
2 8 (0.48%) VPN
3 5 (0.30%) Firewall
4 4 (0.24%) VSAN
5 3 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (0.18%) Intranet
6 2 (0.12%) FCoE
6 2 (0.12%) HTTP
6 2 (0.12%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.060%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.060%) DKIM
7 1 (0.060%) DMARC
7 1 (0.060%) LAN
7 1 (0.060%) Network Security
7 1 (0.060%) SNMP
7 1 (0.060%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.060%) VLAN
7 1 (0.060%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (8.31%) Power BI
2 124 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (4.24%) Oracle Reports
4 70 (4.18%) SQL Server
5 53 (3.17%) Metadata
6 47 (2.81%) Data Lake
7 45 (2.69%) Relational Database
8 33 (1.97%) Oracle Database
9 28 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
10 26 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 19 (1.14%) RDBMS
12 18 (1.08%) NoSQL
13 17 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (0.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 14 (0.84%) SAP Data Services
15 13 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 12 (0.72%) Oracle Exadata
17 11 (0.66%) DataStage
18 10 (0.60%) MongoDB
18 10 (0.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 149 (8.91%) JIRA
2 65 (3.89%) Git
3 49 (2.93%) Zephyr
4 41 (2.45%) Postman
5 20 (1.20%) GitLab
5 20 (1.20%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
7 12 (0.72%) Selenium
8 6 (0.36%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.36%) Gatling
8 6 (0.36%) Hudson
8 6 (0.36%) LSMW
8 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 5 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.30%) JUnit
9 5 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.18%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
General
1 587 (35.09%) Finance
2 480 (28.69%) Social Skills
3 218 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 101 (6.04%) Banking
6 88 (5.26%) Manufacturing
7 57 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
8 53 (3.17%) Retail
9 52 (3.11%) Law
10 43 (2.57%) General Ledger
11 35 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (1.97%) Local Government
13 30 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 28 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.67%) Legal
15 27 (1.61%) Marketing
16 23 (1.37%) Automotive
16 23 (1.37%) Billing
16 23 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
17 22 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 320 (19.13%) Lead
2 235 (14.05%) Analyst
3 216 (12.91%) Architect
4 182 (10.88%) Consultant
5 140 (8.37%) Senior
6 135 (8.07%) Data Engineer
7 113 (6.75%) Business Analyst
8 112 (6.69%) Data Migration Lead
9 109 (6.52%) Project Manager
10 88 (5.26%) Developer
11 81 (4.84%) Data Analyst
12 75 (4.48%) Data Architect
13 65 (3.89%) Migration Engineer
14 56 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
15 55 (3.29%) SAP Consultant
16 53 (3.17%) Data Migration Engineer
17 49 (2.93%) Data Consultant
17 49 (2.93%) Migration Analyst
18 47 (2.81%) Migration Manager
19 46 (2.75%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (5.98%) Oracle Fusion
2 47 (2.81%) Middleware
3 42 (2.51%) REST
4 32 (1.91%) .NET
5 25 (1.49%) XML
6 24 (1.43%) SOAP
7 19 (1.14%) JSON
7 19 (1.14%) Kafka
8 15 (0.90%) PySpark
8 15 (0.90%) Spring
9 13 (0.78%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 12 (0.72%) Lightning Web Components
11 8 (0.48%) Keycloak
11 8 (0.48%) RESTful
11 8 (0.48%) Spring Boot
12 7 (0.42%) HTML
12 7 (0.42%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (0.42%) Playwright
12 7 (0.42%) React
12 7 (0.42%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 190 (11.36%) Legacy Systems
2 116 (6.93%) Data Structures
3 50 (2.99%) Cloud Native
4 49 (2.93%) Management Information System
5 48 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.57%) Product Ownership
7 41 (2.45%) Public Cloud
8 35 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 31 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.26%) Replication
11 19 (1.14%) FMCG
11 19 (1.14%) NHS
12 17 (1.02%) Data Centre
12 17 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (0.90%) Reference Data
14 13 (0.78%) Mainframe
15 12 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
17 10 (0.60%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 35 (2.09%) Windows
2 32 (1.91%) Linux
3 12 (0.72%) AIX
4 9 (0.54%) Unix
5 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (0.24%) VMS
6 4 (0.24%) zOS
7 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.060%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,673 (100.00%) Migration
2 457 (27.32%) Validation
3 394 (23.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 373 (22.30%) User Acceptance Testing
5 371 (22.18%) ERP
6 296 (17.69%) Agile
7 283 (16.92%) ETL
8 269 (16.08%) Data Modelling
9 255 (15.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 205 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
11 197 (11.78%) Data Governance
12 171 (10.22%) Business Intelligence
13 164 (9.80%) Data Cleansing
14 158 (9.44%) DevOps
15 153 (9.15%) Analytics
16 145 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
17 140 (8.37%) Data Mapping
18 136 (8.13%) CI/CD
19 123 (7.35%) Data Transformation
20 122 (7.29%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 339 (20.26%) SQL
2 110 (6.58%) Python
3 47 (2.81%) Java
4 32 (1.91%) PL/SQL
5 31 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 26 (1.55%) C#
7 18 (1.08%) Bash
8 14 (0.84%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.72%) Kotlin
9 12 (0.72%) T-SQL
10 10 (0.60%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.54%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.42%) VBA
13 6 (0.36%) C
13 6 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.30%) ABAP
14 5 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.30%) MUMPS
14 5 (0.30%) VB
14 5 (0.30%) VB6
Qualifications
1 284 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 225 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 60 (3.59%) Degree
4 41 (2.45%) DV Cleared
5 39 (2.33%) ISTQB
6 34 (2.03%) PMP
7 32 (1.91%) PMI Certification
8 30 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (1.79%) CIMA
9 29 (1.73%) ACCA
10 16 (0.96%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.48%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.48%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 8 (0.48%) SAP Certification
13 7 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.30%) ISEB
14 5 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 333 (19.90%) Data Quality
2 152 (9.09%) QA
3 79 (4.72%) GDPR
4 32 (1.91%) PMO
5 12 (0.72%) IFRS
5 12 (0.72%) SLA
6 11 (0.66%) HL7
7 10 (0.60%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.48%) GRC
8 8 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
9 7 (0.42%) DICOM
9 7 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.36%) GMP
11 4 (0.24%) GxP
11 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.24%) PERC
11 4 (0.24%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.18%) GAAP
13 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 17 (1.02%) Docker
1 17 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
4 10 (0.60%) vSphere
5 7 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.30%) SRDF
7 4 (0.24%) NFS
8 3 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (2.33%) Terraform
2 34 (2.03%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.67%) Ansible
4 12 (0.72%) Data Guard
4 12 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
5 11 (0.66%) HP ALM
6 10 (0.60%) Grafana
6 10 (0.60%) vCenter Server
7 9 (0.54%) Argo
8 7 (0.42%) Karpenter
9 5 (0.30%) EMC VPLEX
9 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
10 4 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.24%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.18%) SnapVault
12 2 (0.12%) EMC TimeFinder
12 2 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
13 1 (0.060%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 339 (20.26%) Oracle
2 308 (18.41%) SAP
3 278 (16.62%) Microsoft
4 84 (5.02%) Databricks
5 74 (4.42%) Salesforce
6 34 (2.03%) ServiceNow
7 31 (1.85%) Workday
8 29 (1.73%) Informatica
9 24 (1.43%) Talend
10 23 (1.37%) IBM
11 22 (1.32%) IFS
12 21 (1.26%) Google
13 20 (1.20%) Ariba
13 20 (1.20%) VMware
14 19 (1.14%) Sage
15 15 (0.90%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.84%) Infor
16 14 (0.84%) InterSystems
17 12 (0.72%) Pure Storage
17 12 (0.72%) Red Hat