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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 91 98
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,421 781 983
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.96% 2.67% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 2.94% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 486 668
10th Percentile £360 £375 £359
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £633 £627 £650
90th Percentile £737 £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 40,493 26,571 36,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.28% 90.99% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,428 17,064 23,633
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,382 1,097 2,442
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.26 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.72 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.40 £28.18 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +50.46% -21.77% +0.06%
75th Percentile £67.25 £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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +23 1,270 £525 -0.76% 269
UK excluding London +11 639 £525 +5.00% 186
London +37 620 £526 -4.32% 115
Work from Home -5 374 £500 -5.66% 123
South East -8 179 £600 +10.09% 57
North of England -15 174 £500 +1.63% 50
Midlands -1 129 £490 +3.16% 30
North West +6 107 £475 -12.60% 30
West Midlands -9 87 £473 -0.53% 14
Yorkshire -34 60 £550 +39.24% 18
South West +5 59 £525 +5.00% 14
East of England -5 56 £575 -11.54% 23
East Midlands -4 39 £500 +9.29% 16
Scotland -8 24 £575 +20.95% 5
Northern Ireland +13 15 £475 - 3
North East -16 7 £488 -15.22% 2
Wales -10 5 £550 +25.71% 9
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 47 (3.31%) Confluence
3 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (0.35%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 4 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.14%) Apache
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.14%) Appian
7 2 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.070%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.070%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.070%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.070%) WebSphere
Applications
1 76 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 20 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.070%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 166 (11.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (3.24%) Oracle EBS
3 36 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 18 (1.27%) SAP ERP
6 14 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.91%) Loan IQ
7 13 (0.91%) NetSuite
8 11 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
8 11 (0.77%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 10 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
10 9 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
10 9 (0.63%) SAP FI
11 8 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
11 8 (0.56%) SAP CO
12 7 (0.49%) iTrent
12 7 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
12 7 (0.49%) Teamcenter
13 6 (0.42%) SAP Business One
13 6 (0.42%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 223 (15.69%) Azure
2 135 (9.50%) Power Platform
3 123 (8.66%) AWS
4 105 (7.39%) Dynamics 365
5 79 (5.56%) OCI
6 69 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (3.73%) SaaS
8 48 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
9 35 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
9 35 (2.46%) Snowflake
10 34 (2.39%) GitHub
11 30 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 22 (1.55%) GCP
12 22 (1.55%) SuccessFactors
13 16 (1.13%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.13%) OpenShift
13 16 (1.13%) Power Automate
14 15 (1.06%) Entra ID
14 15 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
15 13 (0.91%) 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
1 112 (7.88%) Power BI
2 93 (6.54%) Data Warehouse
3 59 (4.15%) Oracle Reports
4 55 (3.87%) SQL Server
5 36 (2.53%) Metadata
6 33 (2.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 31 (2.18%) Data Lake
8 25 (1.76%) Oracle Database
9 24 (1.69%) Relational Database
10 23 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (1.13%) NoSQL
12 14 (0.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 13 (0.91%) DB2
13 13 (0.91%) SAP Data Services
14 12 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (0.77%) Tableau
16 10 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
16 10 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 9 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
18 8 (0.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 128 (9.01%) 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%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.21%) ERwin
12 3 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
General
1 465 (32.72%) Finance
2 435 (30.61%) Social Skills
3 173 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (8.30%) Public Sector
5 79 (5.56%) Banking
6 76 (5.35%) Manufacturing
7 57 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.17%) Law
9 42 (2.96%) Retail
10 37 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (1.83%) Legal
11 26 (1.83%) Local Government
11 26 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
12 24 (1.69%) General Ledger
12 24 (1.69%) Marketing
13 23 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
14 18 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 17 (1.20%) Billing
16 16 (1.13%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 313 (22.03%) Lead
2 212 (14.92%) Analyst
3 171 (12.03%) Architect
4 165 (11.61%) Consultant
5 115 (8.09%) Data Migration Lead
6 106 (7.46%) Project Manager
7 100 (7.04%) Business Analyst
7 100 (7.04%) Data Engineer
8 94 (6.62%) Senior
9 73 (5.14%) Developer
10 72 (5.07%) Data Analyst
11 61 (4.29%) Data Architect
12 58 (4.08%) Migration Analyst
13 57 (4.01%) Migration Engineer
13 57 (4.01%) SAP Consultant
14 51 (3.59%) Migration Manager
15 47 (3.31%) Data Migration Engineer
16 44 (3.10%) Data Migration Analyst
17 40 (2.81%) Migration Consultant
18 39 (2.74%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (5.77%) 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 18 (1.27%) Spring
7 15 (1.06%) Kafka
8 13 (0.91%) JSON
9 11 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (0.70%) PySpark
10 10 (0.70%) Spring Boot
11 9 (0.63%) Lightning Web Components
12 8 (0.56%) React
13 7 (0.49%) FHIR
14 6 (0.42%) AngularJS
14 6 (0.42%) SAP Fiori
14 6 (0.42%) Web Services
15 4 (0.28%) RESTful
15 4 (0.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 181 (12.74%) Legacy Systems
2 107 (7.53%) Data Structures
3 45 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 40 (2.81%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.46%) 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 17 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.13%) Mainframe
11 16 (1.13%) Reference Data
12 15 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (0.99%) Data Centre
13 14 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (0.77%) FMCG
14 11 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
14 11 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.11%) Windows
2 12 (0.84%) 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
7 3 (0.21%) VMS
8 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.070%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,421 (100.00%) Migration
2 370 (26.04%) Validation
3 309 (21.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 296 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
5 292 (20.55%) ERP
6 261 (18.37%) Agile
7 229 (16.12%) ETL
8 213 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
9 205 (14.43%) Data Modelling
10 202 (14.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 154 (10.84%) Data Cleansing
12 142 (9.99%) Business Intelligence
13 133 (9.36%) Project Management
14 129 (9.08%) Data Mapping
15 125 (8.80%) Analytics
16 124 (8.73%) Data Governance
17 123 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
18 121 (8.52%) DevOps
19 110 (7.74%) Translating Business Requirements
20 107 (7.53%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 262 (18.44%) SQL
2 111 (7.81%) Python
3 44 (3.10%) Java
4 32 (2.25%) PL/SQL
5 23 (1.62%) Bash
6 20 (1.41%) 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
1 236 (16.61%) Security Cleared
2 176 (12.39%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.36%) Degree
4 35 (2.46%) DV Cleared
5 29 (2.04%) PMP
6 24 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 24 (1.69%) PMI Certification
7 23 (1.62%) ISTQB
8 21 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (0.99%) CIMA
10 13 (0.91%) ACCA
10 13 (0.91%) Azure Certification
11 9 (0.63%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.42%) SAP Certification
13 5 (0.35%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.28%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 4 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (16.96%) Data Quality
2 117 (8.23%) QA
3 59 (4.15%) 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%) GRC
System Software
1 24 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.99%) vSphere
4 13 (0.91%) Docker
5 12 (0.84%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.63%) NFS
7 6 (0.42%) SRDF
8 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.070%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 31 (2.18%) Kubernetes
2 30 (2.11%) Terraform
3 21 (1.48%) 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
1 275 (19.35%) SAP
2 261 (18.37%) Oracle
3 233 (16.40%) Microsoft
4 66 (4.64%) 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