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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 89 102
Rank change year-on-year +3 +13 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,639 934 876
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.04% 2.83% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 3.13% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,052 570 597
10th Percentile £363 £363 £380
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £646
90th Percentile £733 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 16 13
10th Percentile £17.75 £16.40 £65.10
25th Percentile £21.31 £32.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £36.33 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.12% -54.59% -13.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £68.44 -
90th Percentile £75.33 £80.63 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.96 £35.16 £80.00
% change year-on-year -14.78% -56.06% -10.55%

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 45,621 29,800 32,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.64% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,920 18,562 20,756
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £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 £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,892 1,765 1,620
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.21 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.30 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.15 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.11 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +90.48% -47.37% +14.67%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +5 1,435 £525 - 571
UK excluding London +9 732 £500 - 364
London +14 702 £538 -2.27% 308
Work from Home +7 468 £525 -2.23% 282
North of England -13 200 £505 +6.32% 76
South East -4 177 £550 -2.22% 98
Midlands +4 163 £474 -5.20% 69
North West +4 124 £525 +10.53% 49
West Midlands +1 112 £450 -10.00% 47
South West +17 87 £523 -0.48% 39
Yorkshire -38 62 £500 +2.56% 15
East of England +8 57 £565 +13.00% 28
East Midlands +5 47 £525 +0.77% 22
Scotland -23 30 £525 +11.70% 36
Northern Ireland +18 18 £450 -30.77% 21
North East -24 17 £575 +31.43% 12
Wales -15 6 £400 -17.95% 4
Channel Islands 0 2 £450 - 1

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 69 (4.21%) SharePoint
2 51 (3.11%) Confluence
3 13 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.67%) Apache
4 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
5 9 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.31%) Tuxedo
7 4 (0.24%) SAS
8 3 (0.18%) CMS
9 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.12%) Mendix
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.061%) IIS
10 1 (0.061%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.061%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.061%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 72 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
3 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) Windchill
7 1 (0.061%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 177 (10.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (3.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (1.71%) Oracle Payables
4 25 (1.53%) Oracle EBS
5 24 (1.46%) Oracle Receivables
6 23 (1.40%) Oracle ERP
7 20 (1.22%) NetSuite
8 19 (1.16%) SAP ERP
9 15 (0.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 14 (0.85%) Oracle Financials
10 14 (0.85%) Workday HCM
11 13 (0.79%) Oracle Assets
11 13 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
11 13 (0.79%) SAP SD
12 12 (0.73%) SAP MDG
12 12 (0.73%) Teamcenter
13 11 (0.67%) iTrent
13 11 (0.67%) SAP CO
13 11 (0.67%) SAP FI
14 9 (0.55%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 272 (16.60%) Azure
2 170 (10.37%) Power Platform
3 158 (9.64%) AWS
4 144 (8.79%) Dynamics 365
5 95 (5.80%) OCI
6 86 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
7 68 (4.15%) SaaS
8 52 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 48 (2.93%) Snowflake
10 47 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
11 39 (2.38%) Power Automate
12 38 (2.32%) GitHub
12 38 (2.32%) SuccessFactors
13 34 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 32 (1.95%) Amazon S3
15 31 (1.89%) PowerApps
16 24 (1.46%) GCP
17 19 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
18 17 (1.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 16 (0.98%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.55%) VPN
2 7 (0.43%) DNS
2 7 (0.43%) NAS
2 7 (0.43%) SAN
3 4 (0.24%) Firewall
4 3 (0.18%) Intranet
5 2 (0.12%) HTTP
5 2 (0.12%) VSAN
6 1 (0.061%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.061%) DKIM
6 1 (0.061%) DMARC
6 1 (0.061%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.061%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.061%) Internet
6 1 (0.061%) LAN
6 1 (0.061%) Network Security
6 1 (0.061%) SNMP
6 1 (0.061%) SSL
6 1 (0.061%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.061%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (8.42%) Power BI
2 118 (7.20%) Data Warehouse
3 70 (4.27%) SQL Server
4 60 (3.66%) Metadata
5 51 (3.11%) Oracle Reports
6 49 (2.99%) Relational Database
7 45 (2.75%) Data Lake
8 38 (2.32%) Oracle Database
9 32 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (1.22%) RDBMS
10 20 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 19 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (1.04%) NoSQL
13 14 (0.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 13 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (0.79%) DataStage
14 13 (0.79%) Oracle Exadata
15 12 (0.73%) SAP Data Services
15 12 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 11 (0.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 132 (8.05%) JIRA
2 57 (3.48%) Git
3 41 (2.50%) Zephyr
4 31 (1.89%) Postman
5 22 (1.34%) GitLab
6 18 (1.10%) Jenkins
7 14 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (0.67%) Selenium
9 6 (0.37%) Gatling
9 6 (0.37%) Hudson
9 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.31%) LSMW
10 5 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.18%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
13 2 (0.12%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.12%) JMeter
13 2 (0.12%) Yeoman
General
1 581 (35.45%) Finance
2 468 (28.55%) Social Skills
3 214 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (9.58%) Public Sector
5 94 (5.74%) Banking
6 83 (5.06%) Manufacturing
7 63 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
8 59 (3.60%) Retail
9 52 (3.17%) Law
10 47 (2.87%) General Ledger
11 37 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (2.07%) Local Government
13 28 (1.71%) Automotive
14 27 (1.65%) Billing
14 27 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 25 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
15 25 (1.53%) Legal
15 25 (1.53%) Marketing
16 20 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 306 (18.67%) Lead
2 237 (14.46%) Analyst
3 215 (13.12%) Architect
4 187 (11.41%) Consultant
5 138 (8.42%) Senior
6 134 (8.18%) Data Engineer
7 107 (6.53%) Data Migration Lead
8 105 (6.41%) Business Analyst
9 98 (5.98%) Project Manager
10 86 (5.25%) Developer
11 81 (4.94%) Data Analyst
12 73 (4.45%) Data Architect
13 63 (3.84%) Migration Engineer
14 56 (3.42%) SAP Consultant
15 55 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
16 54 (3.29%) Data Consultant
17 51 (3.11%) Data Migration Engineer
18 48 (2.93%) Migration Consultant
19 45 (2.75%) Migration Analyst
20 43 (2.62%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (5.80%) Oracle Fusion
2 54 (3.29%) Middleware
3 41 (2.50%) REST
4 37 (2.26%) Terraform
5 31 (1.89%) .NET
6 28 (1.71%) XML
7 25 (1.53%) SOAP
8 21 (1.28%) JSON
8 21 (1.28%) PySpark
9 17 (1.04%) Kafka
10 15 (0.92%) Spring
11 14 (0.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 10 (0.61%) Lightning Web Components
13 9 (0.55%) Keycloak
13 9 (0.55%) Spring Boot
14 8 (0.49%) HTML
14 8 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
15 7 (0.43%) Web Services
16 6 (0.37%) ADO
16 6 (0.37%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 182 (11.10%) Legacy Systems
2 113 (6.89%) Data Structures
3 51 (3.11%) Management Information System
4 49 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 45 (2.75%) Cloud Native
5 45 (2.75%) Public Cloud
6 41 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 38 (2.32%) Product Ownership
8 30 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.28%) NHS
10 20 (1.22%) FMCG
10 20 (1.22%) Replication
11 17 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (0.98%) Reference Data
13 14 (0.85%) Data Centre
13 14 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
15 12 (0.73%) Low-Code
15 12 (0.73%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.01%) Linux
2 32 (1.95%) Windows
3 13 (0.79%) AIX
4 9 (0.55%) Unix
5 6 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (0.24%) VMS
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.061%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,639 (100.00%) Migration
2 470 (28.68%) Validation
3 413 (25.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 382 (23.31%) User Acceptance Testing
5 378 (23.06%) ERP
6 282 (17.21%) Agile
7 267 (16.29%) ETL
8 266 (16.23%) Data Modelling
9 263 (16.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 205 (12.51%) Data Governance
11 200 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
12 167 (10.19%) Business Intelligence
13 155 (9.46%) Data Cleansing
14 154 (9.40%) DevOps
15 145 (8.85%) Analytics
16 144 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
17 136 (8.30%) Data Mapping
18 132 (8.05%) CI/CD
19 125 (7.63%) System Integration Testing
20 123 (7.50%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 342 (20.87%) SQL
2 112 (6.83%) Python
3 44 (2.68%) Java
4 31 (1.89%) JavaScript
4 31 (1.89%) PL/SQL
5 24 (1.46%) C#
6 17 (1.04%) Bash
7 15 (0.92%) PowerShell
8 13 (0.79%) Kotlin
9 11 (0.67%) T-SQL
10 10 (0.61%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.55%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.37%) C
12 6 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.31%) ABAP
13 5 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.31%) MUMPS
13 5 (0.31%) VB
13 5 (0.31%) VB6
13 5 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 281 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 225 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 57 (3.48%) Degree
4 38 (2.32%) DV Cleared
5 32 (1.95%) ACCA
5 32 (1.95%) CIMA
6 31 (1.89%) ISTQB
7 30 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 30 (1.83%) PMP
8 29 (1.77%) PMI Certification
9 16 (0.98%) Azure Certification
10 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (0.61%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.49%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
15 5 (0.31%) ISEB
15 5 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.31%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 335 (20.44%) Data Quality
2 136 (8.30%) QA
3 74 (4.51%) GDPR
4 34 (2.07%) PMO
5 14 (0.85%) GRC
6 11 (0.67%) HL7
6 11 (0.67%) IFRS
7 10 (0.61%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.61%) SLA
8 8 (0.49%) SNOMED CT
9 7 (0.43%) DICOM
10 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.24%) GMP
11 4 (0.24%) GxP
11 4 (0.24%) PERC
11 4 (0.24%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.18%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (1.10%) Docker
2 15 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
3 14 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.79%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.49%) vSphere
6 5 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (0.18%) NFS
7 3 (0.18%) SRDF
7 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (1.83%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.65%) Ansible
3 13 (0.79%) Data Guard
3 13 (0.79%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (0.49%) Grafana
4 8 (0.49%) HP ALM
4 8 (0.49%) Karpenter
4 8 (0.49%) vCenter Server
5 7 (0.43%) Argo
6 5 (0.31%) SnapMirror
7 4 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
7 4 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
7 4 (0.24%) NetBackup
8 3 (0.18%) SnapVault
9 2 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.061%) Autotask
10 1 (0.061%) Avamar
Vendors
1 321 (19.59%) Oracle
2 312 (19.04%) SAP
3 293 (17.88%) Microsoft
4 89 (5.43%) Databricks
5 68 (4.15%) Salesforce
6 35 (2.14%) ServiceNow
7 32 (1.95%) Workday
8 28 (1.71%) Informatica
9 25 (1.53%) Ariba
10 24 (1.46%) IBM
11 21 (1.28%) Talend
12 19 (1.16%) Google
13 17 (1.04%) IFS
14 16 (0.98%) VMware
15 14 (0.85%) InterSystems
15 14 (0.85%) Sage
16 11 (0.67%) Infor
16 11 (0.67%) MuleSoft
17 10 (0.61%) Atlassian
17 10 (0.61%) Siebel