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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 97 97
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,027 852 1,037
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.78% 2.56% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 2.90% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 636 569 690
10th Percentile £375 £400 £413
25th Percentile £428 £463 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -4.44% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £713 £700 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.91% +11.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 3 11
10th Percentile £14.61 £40.40 £82.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £48.50 £83.13
Median hourly rate £64.57 £64.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -24.71% +21.00%
75th Percentile £81.00 £67.88 £86.50
90th Percentile £100.00 £69.00 £87.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.50 £66.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -3.01% +33.00% +181.69%

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 32,589 29,397 38,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.09% 88.30% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,542 17,920 25,365
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £724 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,036 949 1,516
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -26.05% +25.57%
75th Percentile £52.52 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.00 £74.77 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £30.62 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.00% -31.97% +42.45%

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 30 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 30 December 2025.

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 30 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 -1 852 £533 -3.18% 1,238
London +10 452 £550 - 170
UK excluding London -16 408 £500 -4.76% 1,173
Work from Home -17 309 £525 -1.50% 612
South East -26 115 £625 +13.64% 311
Midlands -11 101 £550 +4.76% 228
North of England -47 85 £473 -9.90% 234
West Midlands -21 54 £550 +4.76% 114
East Midlands +9 46 £550 +25.71% 101
Scotland +28 45 £550 +15.79% 44
North West -27 42 £449 -10.25% 114
Yorkshire -33 37 £525 -6.79% 104
South West -9 26 £519 -1.19% 118
East of England -21 20 £465 -15.55% 197
Wales +6 8 £531 +3.66% 29
Northern Ireland -4 7 £400 -23.81% 27
North East -8 7 £488 -22.00% 16

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 (3.70%) Confluence
2 33 (3.21%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.58%) Apache
5 6 (0.58%) GeoServer
5 6 (0.58%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 6 (0.58%) Smallworld
6 5 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.29%) CMS
7 3 (0.29%) LiveLink
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.097%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.097%) Moodle
9 1 (0.097%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.097%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.097%) SAP Portal
9 1 (0.097%) SAS
9 1 (0.097%) WebSphere
Applications
1 48 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.49%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.097%) Trello
8 1 (0.097%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 112 (10.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
3 36 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (2.14%) SAP HR
5 18 (1.75%) Oracle Payables
6 15 (1.46%) NetSuite
7 14 (1.36%) Oracle General Ledger
7 14 (1.36%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (1.07%) SAP ERP
9 10 (0.97%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 10 (0.97%) SAP FI
10 9 (0.88%) Oracle Cash Management
10 9 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
10 9 (0.88%) SAP PM
10 9 (0.88%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.78%) Oracle EBS R12
11 8 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 8 (0.78%) SAP HCM
11 8 (0.78%) SAP MDG
11 8 (0.78%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 146 (14.22%) Azure
2 91 (8.86%) AWS
3 81 (7.89%) Power Platform
4 77 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
5 69 (6.72%) OCI
6 38 (3.70%) SaaS
7 31 (3.02%) Amazon S3
7 31 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 26 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 25 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (2.24%) Entra ID
11 23 (2.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 22 (2.14%) Snowflake
13 21 (2.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 19 (1.85%) Serverless
14 19 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
15 15 (1.46%) GCP
16 13 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
16 13 (1.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.68%) NAS
2 6 (0.58%) Firewall
2 6 (0.58%) VPN
3 4 (0.39%) 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 (0.097%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.097%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.097%) IPv4
6 1 (0.097%) VLAN
6 1 (0.097%) WebEx
6 1 (0.097%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.097%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (6.13%) Power BI
2 58 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (5.55%) SQL Server
4 39 (3.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 32 (3.12%) Relational Database
6 27 (2.63%) Data Lake
7 23 (2.24%) Metadata
8 22 (2.14%) Tableau
9 21 (2.04%) Oracle Database
9 21 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
10 19 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 17 (1.66%) DataStage
12 16 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (1.36%) RDBMS
15 13 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
16 12 (1.17%) SAP Data Services
17 10 (0.97%) Big Data
17 10 (0.97%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 79 (7.69%) JIRA
2 6 (0.58%) LSMW
2 6 (0.58%) Postman
3 4 (0.39%) Git
3 4 (0.39%) GitLab
3 4 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (0.39%) Toad
3 4 (0.39%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.29%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.29%) MLflow
4 3 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.19%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.19%) Hudson
6 1 (0.097%) Selenium
6 1 (0.097%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.097%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.097%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.097%) webpack
General
1 364 (35.44%) Social Skills
2 338 (32.91%) Finance
3 119 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (8.67%) Public Sector
5 59 (5.74%) Banking
6 40 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
6 40 (3.89%) Manufacturing
7 28 (2.73%) Local Government
8 27 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (2.63%) Retail
9 26 (2.53%) Legal
10 24 (2.34%) Marketing
11 19 (1.85%) General Ledger
11 19 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (1.75%) Back Office
13 12 (1.17%) Billing
13 12 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.07%) Law
15 10 (0.97%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 155 (15.09%) Consultant
2 154 (15.00%) Analyst
3 152 (14.80%) Lead
4 122 (11.88%) Architect
5 93 (9.06%) Business Analyst
6 92 (8.96%) Project Manager
7 78 (7.59%) Senior
8 54 (5.26%) Data Engineer
9 52 (5.06%) Data Migration Lead
10 50 (4.87%) Developer
10 50 (4.87%) SAP Consultant
11 44 (4.28%) Data Analyst
12 41 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
13 34 (3.31%) Migration Specialist
14 33 (3.21%) Functional Consultant
15 32 (3.12%) Migration Analyst
16 31 (3.02%) Data Migration Specialist
17 30 (2.92%) Data Consultant
18 28 (2.73%) Migration Consultant
18 28 (2.73%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (5.74%) Oracle Fusion
2 40 (3.89%) XML
3 38 (3.70%) REST
4 28 (2.73%) Lightning Web Components
5 27 (2.63%) SOAP
6 24 (2.34%) Visualforce
7 21 (2.04%) Middleware
8 20 (1.95%) JSON
9 13 (1.27%) PySpark
10 12 (1.17%) .NET
11 11 (1.07%) SAP Fiori
11 11 (1.07%) Web Services
12 8 (0.78%) SAP PI
12 8 (0.78%) XSLT
13 6 (0.58%) EDI
14 5 (0.49%) Apache Avro
14 5 (0.49%) GraphQL
14 5 (0.49%) LDAP
14 5 (0.49%) SAP Basis
15 4 (0.39%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 128 (12.46%) Legacy Systems
2 64 (6.23%) Data Structures
3 39 (3.80%) Onboarding
4 31 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.73%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (1.36%) Replication
9 13 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.17%) Data Centre
11 10 (0.97%) Reference Data
12 9 (0.88%) Cloud Native
13 8 (0.78%) CMDB
13 8 (0.78%) FMCG
13 8 (0.78%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.68%) Life Science
14 7 (0.68%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
15 6 (0.58%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.43%) Windows
2 9 (0.88%) Windows 10
3 8 (0.78%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.49%) Unix
5 5 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.39%) Linux
7 3 (0.29%) Solaris
8 1 (0.097%) AIX
8 1 (0.097%) MVS
8 1 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.097%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,027 (100.00%) Migration
2 249 (24.25%) Agile
3 220 (21.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 196 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
5 175 (17.04%) Validation
6 172 (16.75%) ERP
7 161 (15.68%) ETL
8 146 (14.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 145 (14.12%) Data Modelling
10 136 (13.24%) User Acceptance Testing
11 112 (10.91%) Analytics
12 106 (10.32%) Project Management
13 100 (9.74%) Workshop Facilitation
14 99 (9.64%) Data Governance
15 93 (9.06%) Data Cleansing
16 91 (8.86%) Change Management
17 85 (8.28%) Business Intelligence
18 77 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
18 77 (7.50%) Project Delivery
19 76 (7.40%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 201 (19.57%) SQL
2 68 (6.62%) Python
3 32 (3.12%) Java
4 28 (2.73%) Apex Code
5 16 (1.56%) PL/SQL
6 14 (1.36%) C#
6 14 (1.36%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.36%) PowerShell
7 9 (0.88%) ABAP
7 9 (0.88%) Bicep
7 9 (0.88%) T-SQL
8 7 (0.68%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.58%) PHP
10 5 (0.49%) Perl
11 4 (0.39%) R
11 4 (0.39%) SOQL
11 4 (0.39%) X++
12 3 (0.29%) Bash
12 3 (0.29%) Korn
12 3 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 120 (11.68%) Security Cleared
2 84 (8.18%) Degree
3 83 (8.08%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.31%) PMP
5 32 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.02%) PMI Certification
7 24 (2.34%) Master's Degree
8 21 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.56%) AWS Certification
10 15 (1.46%) SAP Certification
11 12 (1.17%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.68%) CIMA
13 6 (0.58%) ACCA
13 6 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.49%) CFA
15 4 (0.39%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.39%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.29%) PgMP
16 3 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 3 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (14.70%) Data Quality
2 75 (7.30%) QA
3 64 (6.23%) GDPR
4 15 (1.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 13 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.97%) PMO
7 8 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.78%) GRC
7 8 (0.78%) GxP
7 8 (0.78%) IFRS
8 7 (0.68%) COBIT
8 7 (0.68%) NIST
9 6 (0.58%) GMP
9 6 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.58%) SLA
10 5 (0.49%) GAAP
10 5 (0.49%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.39%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (1.66%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.56%) Docker
3 4 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.29%) NFS
5 1 (0.097%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.097%) SRDF
5 1 (0.097%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.097%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.097%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (1.85%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.75%) Terraform
3 10 (0.97%) SCCM
4 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.39%) Ansible
5 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.19%) Grafana
8 1 (0.097%) Argo
8 1 (0.097%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.097%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.097%) Control-M
8 1 (0.097%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.097%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.097%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 214 (20.84%) SAP
2 170 (16.55%) Oracle
3 153 (14.90%) Microsoft
4 58 (5.65%) Salesforce
5 39 (3.80%) Databricks
6 38 (3.70%) Workday
7 17 (1.66%) Informatica
8 15 (1.46%) IBM
9 12 (1.17%) Ariba
9 12 (1.17%) MuleSoft
9 12 (1.17%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.07%) Google
11 9 (0.88%) OpenText
11 9 (0.88%) Sage
11 9 (0.88%) Talend
12 8 (0.78%) Kronos
13 7 (0.68%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.68%) Avaloq
13 7 (0.68%) IFS
14 6 (0.58%) ESRI