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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 93 101
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,464 759 962
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.98% 2.62% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 2.88% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 925 462 649
10th Percentile £363 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £527 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £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 38 14 33
10th Percentile £15.89 £33.00 £25.00
25th Percentile £18.31 £41.44 £40.00
Median hourly rate £36.36 £66.25 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.12% -11.67% +180.37%
75th Percentile £41.83 £87.05 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £60.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -61.67% -20.00% +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 41,594 26,332 36,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.70% 91.01% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,970 16,762 23,491
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,502 1,133 2,525
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.29 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.09% -34.02% +8.91%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +27 1,320 £525 -1.87% 348
UK excluding London +18 661 £525 +5.00% 213
London +37 650 £538 -4.23% 182
Work from Home +5 382 £525 -3.40% 177
South East +6 183 £563 +12.50% 62
North of England -15 175 £500 +0.81% 51
Midlands +16 138 £488 +8.33% 41
North West +11 110 £475 -13.64% 31
West Midlands -2 96 £442 -1.89% 28
South West +9 67 £525 +2.44% 21
East of England 0 56 £575 -11.54% 15
Yorkshire -38 56 £530 +22.78% 14
East Midlands +1 38 £500 +9.29% 13
Scotland -9 21 £599 +26.11% 12
Northern Ireland - 18 £475 - 7
North East -21 9 £488 -15.22% 6
Wales -15 7 £475 +8.57% 7
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 50 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.07%) Confluence
3 9 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
4 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.27%) Apache
5 4 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.27%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 4 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.14%) Appian
6 2 (0.14%) IIS
7 1 (0.068%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.068%) CMS
7 1 (0.068%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 75 (5.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
3 17 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.068%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 166 (11.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (3.01%) Oracle EBS
3 37 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (1.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 20 (1.37%) SAP ERP
6 17 (1.16%) NetSuite
7 16 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
8 13 (0.89%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
9 11 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.75%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 10 (0.68%) iTrent
10 10 (0.68%) Loan IQ
11 9 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
11 9 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
12 8 (0.55%) NEC Housing
12 8 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
12 8 (0.55%) SAP CO
12 8 (0.55%) SAP SD
13 7 (0.48%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 239 (16.33%) Azure
2 146 (9.97%) AWS
3 136 (9.29%) Power Platform
4 106 (7.24%) Dynamics 365
5 75 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
5 75 (5.12%) OCI
6 60 (4.10%) SaaS
7 45 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
8 40 (2.73%) Snowflake
9 35 (2.39%) GitHub
10 33 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
11 30 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 23 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
13 22 (1.50%) GCP
14 21 (1.43%) Amazon S3
15 19 (1.30%) Power Automate
16 17 (1.16%) OpenShift
17 15 (1.02%) PowerApps
18 14 (0.96%) dbt
19 12 (0.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.30%) SAN
2 15 (1.02%) NAS
3 14 (0.96%) DNS
4 6 (0.41%) Firewall
4 6 (0.41%) VPN
4 6 (0.41%) VSAN
5 4 (0.27%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (0.20%) FCoE
6 3 (0.20%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.14%) HTTP
7 2 (0.14%) Network Security
8 1 (0.068%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.068%) DKIM
8 1 (0.068%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.068%) Internet
8 1 (0.068%) Intranet
8 1 (0.068%) SNMP
8 1 (0.068%) SSL
8 1 (0.068%) VLAN
8 1 (0.068%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (7.51%) Power BI
2 103 (7.04%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (4.51%) Oracle Reports
4 59 (4.03%) SQL Server
5 38 (2.60%) Metadata
6 35 (2.39%) Data Lake
7 31 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 22 (1.50%) Oracle Database
8 22 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (1.37%) Relational Database
10 18 (1.23%) NoSQL
11 17 (1.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 14 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 13 (0.89%) Db2
14 12 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (0.82%) SAP Data Services
15 11 (0.75%) Tableau
16 10 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
17 9 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
18 8 (0.55%) GIS
Development Applications
1 136 (9.29%) JIRA
2 42 (2.87%) Git
3 40 (2.73%) Zephyr
4 33 (2.25%) Postman
5 24 (1.64%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.89%) Selenium
7 12 (0.82%) GitLab
8 6 (0.41%) Hudson
8 6 (0.41%) JUnit
8 6 (0.41%) LSMW
8 6 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.20%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.20%) ERwin
10 3 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
General
1 503 (34.36%) Finance
2 444 (30.33%) Social Skills
3 175 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (7.99%) Public Sector
5 93 (6.35%) Banking
6 76 (5.19%) Manufacturing
7 58 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (3.21%) Law
9 43 (2.94%) Retail
10 34 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
11 33 (2.25%) General Ledger
12 32 (2.19%) Local Government
13 27 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (1.71%) Legal
15 24 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (1.57%) Marketing
17 21 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 18 (1.23%) Billing
19 17 (1.16%) Aerospace
20 15 (1.02%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 313 (21.38%) Lead
2 207 (14.14%) Analyst
3 184 (12.57%) Architect
4 167 (11.41%) Consultant
5 112 (7.65%) Project Manager
6 109 (7.45%) Data Migration Lead
7 102 (6.97%) Data Engineer
8 96 (6.56%) Business Analyst
8 96 (6.56%) Senior
9 73 (4.99%) Data Analyst
10 67 (4.58%) Developer
11 63 (4.30%) Data Architect
12 59 (4.03%) Migration Engineer
13 56 (3.83%) SAP Consultant
14 53 (3.62%) Migration Analyst
14 53 (3.62%) Migration Manager
15 49 (3.35%) Data Migration Engineer
16 42 (2.87%) Test Manager
17 41 (2.80%) Data Migration Analyst
18 40 (2.73%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (6.08%) Oracle Fusion
2 42 (2.87%) REST
3 37 (2.53%) Middleware
4 22 (1.50%) .NET
4 22 (1.50%) SOAP
5 21 (1.43%) XML
6 19 (1.30%) Spring
7 17 (1.16%) JSON
7 17 (1.16%) Kafka
8 11 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
8 11 (0.75%) Spring Boot
9 10 (0.68%) PySpark
9 10 (0.68%) React
10 9 (0.61%) Lightning Web Components
11 7 (0.48%) FHIR
11 7 (0.48%) RESTful
11 7 (0.48%) SAP Fiori
12 6 (0.41%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.41%) Web Services
13 5 (0.34%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 183 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 103 (7.04%) Data Structures
3 47 (3.21%) Cloud Native
4 39 (2.66%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 28 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
6 28 (1.91%) Public Cloud
7 25 (1.71%) Product Ownership
8 21 (1.43%) Replication
9 20 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.16%) Reference Data
12 16 (1.09%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.09%) Mainframe
13 14 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (0.82%) FMCG
15 12 (0.82%) NHS
16 11 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
16 11 (0.75%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.91%) Windows
2 13 (0.89%) Linux
3 7 (0.48%) zOS
4 6 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (0.27%) VMS
6 4 (0.27%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.14%) AIX
7 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,464 (100.00%) Migration
2 385 (26.30%) Validation
3 311 (21.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 307 (20.97%) User Acceptance Testing
5 306 (20.90%) ERP
6 271 (18.51%) Agile
7 233 (15.92%) ETL
8 215 (14.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 213 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
10 210 (14.34%) Data Modelling
11 145 (9.90%) Business Intelligence
11 145 (9.90%) Data Cleansing
12 133 (9.08%) DevOps
13 130 (8.88%) Data Governance
13 130 (8.88%) Project Management
14 127 (8.67%) Data Mapping
15 125 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
16 120 (8.20%) Analytics
17 107 (7.31%) Translating Business Requirements
18 106 (7.24%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 285 (19.47%) SQL
2 120 (8.20%) Python
3 46 (3.14%) Java
4 30 (2.05%) PL/SQL
5 24 (1.64%) Bash
6 23 (1.57%) JavaScript
7 15 (1.02%) PowerShell
8 12 (0.82%) C#
9 10 (0.68%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.55%) VBA
11 7 (0.48%) Apex Code
11 7 (0.48%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.41%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.27%) C
14 4 (0.27%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.20%) ABAP
15 3 (0.20%) C++
15 3 (0.20%) COBOL
15 3 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 236 (16.12%) Security Cleared
2 184 (12.57%) SC Cleared
3 60 (4.10%) Degree
4 33 (2.25%) ISTQB
5 30 (2.05%) PMP
6 29 (1.98%) DV Cleared
7 25 (1.71%) PMI Certification
8 20 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (1.23%) CIMA
11 17 (1.16%) ACCA
12 15 (1.02%) Azure Certification
13 8 (0.55%) AWS Certification
14 7 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 6 (0.41%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.41%) ISEB
15 6 (0.41%) SAP Certification
16 5 (0.34%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
17 4 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 256 (17.49%) Data Quality
2 133 (9.08%) QA
3 67 (4.58%) GDPR
4 27 (1.84%) PMO
5 16 (1.09%) SLA
6 12 (0.82%) IFRS
7 11 (0.75%) HL7
8 10 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.55%) GMP
9 8 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.55%) SNOMED CT
10 7 (0.48%) COBIT
10 7 (0.48%) GxP
11 6 (0.41%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.41%) DICOM
11 6 (0.41%) GAAP
11 6 (0.41%) NIST
12 4 (0.27%) Basel III
12 4 (0.27%) PERC
13 3 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.02%) vSphere
4 14 (0.96%) Docker
5 12 (0.82%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.68%) NFS
7 8 (0.55%) SRDF
8 5 (0.34%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (2.39%) Terraform
2 33 (2.25%) Kubernetes
3 23 (1.57%) Ansible
4 18 (1.23%) Grafana
5 15 (1.02%) vCenter Server
6 14 (0.96%) Argo
7 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (0.68%) EMC VPLEX
9 9 (0.61%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.41%) SCCM
10 6 (0.41%) vMotion
11 5 (0.34%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
12 4 (0.27%) EMC TimeFinder
12 4 (0.27%) NetBackup
12 4 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.27%) SnapMirror
13 3 (0.20%) SnapVault
14 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
14 2 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 277 (18.92%) Oracle
2 272 (18.58%) SAP
3 234 (15.98%) Microsoft
4 70 (4.78%) Databricks
5 60 (4.10%) Salesforce
6 31 (2.12%) VMware
7 28 (1.91%) ServiceNow
7 28 (1.91%) Workday
8 25 (1.71%) Pure Storage
8 25 (1.71%) Sage
9 23 (1.57%) Informatica
10 21 (1.43%) Google
11 19 (1.30%) Talend
12 18 (1.23%) IFS
13 17 (1.16%) Ariba
13 17 (1.16%) Red Hat
14 16 (1.09%) Infor
15 13 (0.89%) Avaloq
15 13 (0.89%) MuleSoft
16 12 (0.82%) Splunk