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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 89 98
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,658 915 894
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.08% 2.77% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 3.07% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 556 612
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £632 £646
90th Percentile £733 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £495 £538
% change year-on-year +1.11% -8.00% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 16 15
10th Percentile £17.75 £16.40 £66.95
25th Percentile £22.16 £32.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £36.33 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.12% -54.59% +42.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £68.44 -
90th Percentile £75.55 £80.63 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.34 £35.16 £80.00
% change year-on-year -5.18% -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 45,630 29,844 33,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.69% 90.49% 85.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,001 18,599 21,039
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% -3.54%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £728 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,875 1,760 1,727
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.29 £17.30 £18.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.86 £47.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.05
% change year-on-year +93.36% -45.93% +12.12%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +13 1,454 £525 - 301
UK excluding London +12 753 £500 +1.11% 218
London +20 703 £550 - 121
Work from Home +10 474 £525 - 137
North of England -3 201 £515 +8.32% 48
South East +4 191 £550 +4.76% 79
Midlands +14 169 £463 -7.35% 32
North West +17 125 £525 +10.53% 38
West Midlands +4 119 £450 -10.00% 19
South West +17 85 £523 -0.48% 32
Yorkshire -33 62 £500 +4.17% 7
East of England +11 56 £565 +0.09% 20
East Midlands +4 46 £525 +16.67% 13
Scotland -15 30 £525 +14.50% 7
Northern Ireland +19 20 £450 -30.77% 3
North East -30 17 £575 +31.43% 3
Wales -17 7 £463 -5.13% 3
Channel Islands +1 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 (4.16%) SharePoint
2 52 (3.14%) Confluence
3 12 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.66%) Apache
4 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
5 8 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.30%) 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 (0.060%) IIS
10 1 (0.060%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.060%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 74 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
3 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
3 14 (0.84%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.060%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 176 (10.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 48 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (1.99%) Oracle EBS
4 28 (1.69%) Oracle Payables
5 24 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
5 24 (1.45%) Oracle Receivables
6 20 (1.21%) SAP ERP
7 19 (1.15%) NetSuite
8 15 (0.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 14 (0.84%) Oracle Financials
9 14 (0.84%) Workday HCM
10 13 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
10 13 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
11 12 (0.72%) SAP MDG
12 11 (0.66%) iTrent
12 11 (0.66%) SAP SD
12 11 (0.66%) Teamcenter
13 9 (0.54%) SAP CO
13 9 (0.54%) SAP FI
14 8 (0.48%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 271 (16.34%) Azure
2 171 (10.31%) Power Platform
3 160 (9.65%) AWS
4 140 (8.44%) Dynamics 365
5 100 (6.03%) OCI
6 89 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (3.98%) SaaS
8 53 (3.20%) Azure Data Factory
9 50 (3.02%) Snowflake
10 46 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
11 39 (2.35%) Power Automate
12 38 (2.29%) SuccessFactors
13 37 (2.23%) GitHub
14 35 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 31 (1.87%) Amazon S3
16 30 (1.81%) PowerApps
17 26 (1.57%) GCP
18 20 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
19 18 (1.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
20 17 (1.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.54%) VPN
2 8 (0.48%) SAN
3 7 (0.42%) DNS
3 7 (0.42%) NAS
4 4 (0.24%) Firewall
5 3 (0.18%) Intranet
5 3 (0.18%) VSAN
6 2 (0.12%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.12%) HTTP
7 1 (0.060%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.060%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.060%) Internet
7 1 (0.060%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.060%) LAN
7 1 (0.060%) Network Security
7 1 (0.060%) SNMP
7 1 (0.060%) SSL
7 1 (0.060%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.060%) VLAN
7 1 (0.060%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (8.56%) Power BI
2 128 (7.72%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (4.28%) SQL Server
4 66 (3.98%) Oracle Reports
5 59 (3.56%) Metadata
6 46 (2.77%) Data Lake
6 46 (2.77%) Relational Database
7 34 (2.05%) Oracle Database
8 32 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 19 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 19 (1.15%) RDBMS
11 18 (1.09%) NoSQL
12 15 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 14 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 13 (0.78%) SAP Data Services
15 12 (0.72%) DataStage
15 12 (0.72%) Oracle Exadata
16 11 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (0.66%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 141 (8.50%) JIRA
2 62 (3.74%) Git
3 46 (2.77%) Zephyr
4 37 (2.23%) Postman
5 20 (1.21%) GitLab
6 18 (1.09%) Jenkins
7 13 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (0.66%) Selenium
9 6 (0.36%) Gatling
9 6 (0.36%) Hudson
9 6 (0.36%) LSMW
9 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.30%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.18%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
13 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.12%) JMeter
General
1 587 (35.40%) Finance
2 475 (28.65%) Social Skills
3 218 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 95 (5.73%) Banking
6 91 (5.49%) Manufacturing
7 62 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
8 60 (3.62%) Retail
9 53 (3.20%) Law
10 45 (2.71%) General Ledger
11 36 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (1.99%) Local Government
13 28 (1.69%) Billing
13 28 (1.69%) Legal
14 26 (1.57%) Automotive
14 26 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 26 (1.57%) Marketing
15 23 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 310 (18.70%) Lead
2 232 (13.99%) Analyst
3 221 (13.33%) Architect
4 185 (11.16%) Consultant
5 134 (8.08%) Senior
6 133 (8.02%) Data Engineer
7 108 (6.51%) Data Migration Lead
8 102 (6.15%) Business Analyst
9 100 (6.03%) Project Manager
10 87 (5.25%) Developer
11 79 (4.76%) Data Analyst
12 77 (4.64%) Data Architect
13 63 (3.80%) Migration Engineer
14 57 (3.44%) SAP Consultant
15 56 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
16 52 (3.14%) Data Consultant
17 51 (3.08%) Data Migration Engineer
18 46 (2.77%) Migration Analyst
18 46 (2.77%) Migration Consultant
19 43 (2.59%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (6.21%) Oracle Fusion
2 54 (3.26%) Middleware
3 42 (2.53%) REST
4 37 (2.23%) Terraform
5 31 (1.87%) .NET
6 25 (1.51%) SOAP
6 25 (1.51%) XML
7 20 (1.21%) PySpark
8 19 (1.15%) JSON
9 16 (0.97%) Kafka
10 14 (0.84%) Spring
11 13 (0.78%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 10 (0.60%) Lightning Web Components
13 9 (0.54%) Keycloak
13 9 (0.54%) SAP Fiori
14 8 (0.48%) Spring Boot
15 7 (0.42%) HTML
15 7 (0.42%) RESTful
16 6 (0.36%) ADO
16 6 (0.36%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 184 (11.10%) Legacy Systems
2 113 (6.82%) Data Structures
3 50 (3.02%) Management Information System
3 50 (3.02%) Onboarding
4 49 (2.96%) Cloud Native
5 44 (2.65%) Product Ownership
5 44 (2.65%) Public Cloud
6 39 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
7 31 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (1.27%) NHS
9 20 (1.21%) FMCG
9 20 (1.21%) Replication
10 17 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (0.97%) Reference Data
12 14 (0.84%) Data Centre
12 14 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
13 12 (0.72%) Mainframe
14 11 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.93%) Linux
1 32 (1.93%) Windows
2 12 (0.72%) AIX
3 9 (0.54%) Unix
4 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.24%) VMS
6 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.18%) zOS
7 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,658 (100.00%) Migration
2 466 (28.11%) Validation
3 405 (24.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 383 (23.10%) User Acceptance Testing
5 381 (22.98%) ERP
6 289 (17.43%) Agile
7 280 (16.89%) ETL
8 273 (16.47%) Data Modelling
9 260 (15.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 204 (12.30%) Data Governance
11 202 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
12 172 (10.37%) Business Intelligence
13 159 (9.59%) DevOps
14 155 (9.35%) Analytics
15 154 (9.29%) Data Cleansing
16 144 (8.69%) Continuous Improvement
17 134 (8.08%) CI/CD
17 134 (8.08%) Data Mapping
18 125 (7.54%) Translating Business Requirements
19 123 (7.42%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 344 (20.75%) SQL
2 114 (6.88%) Python
3 44 (2.65%) Java
4 31 (1.87%) PL/SQL
5 30 (1.81%) JavaScript
6 24 (1.45%) C#
7 17 (1.03%) Bash
8 15 (0.90%) PowerShell
9 13 (0.78%) Kotlin
10 12 (0.72%) T-SQL
11 9 (0.54%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.54%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.36%) C
12 6 (0.36%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.30%) ABAP
13 5 (0.30%) MUMPS
13 5 (0.30%) VB
13 5 (0.30%) VB6
13 5 (0.30%) VBA
13 5 (0.30%) X++
Qualifications
1 280 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 224 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 58 (3.50%) Degree
4 38 (2.29%) DV Cleared
5 36 (2.17%) ISTQB
6 32 (1.93%) PMP
7 31 (1.87%) ACCA
7 31 (1.87%) CIMA
7 31 (1.87%) PMI Certification
8 29 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (0.97%) Azure Certification
10 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (0.54%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.48%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (0.36%) SAP Certification
15 5 (0.30%) ISEB
15 5 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 332 (20.02%) Data Quality
2 145 (8.75%) QA
3 76 (4.58%) GDPR
4 37 (2.23%) PMO
5 13 (0.78%) GRC
6 12 (0.72%) IFRS
7 11 (0.66%) HL7
7 11 (0.66%) SLA
8 10 (0.60%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
10 7 (0.42%) DICOM
10 7 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.24%) GMP
12 4 (0.24%) GxP
12 4 (0.24%) PERC
12 4 (0.24%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.18%) GAAP
13 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 3 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (1.09%) Docker
2 14 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
2 14 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (0.78%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.48%) vSphere
5 5 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.30%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.24%) SRDF
7 3 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (0.18%) NFS
7 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (1.81%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.57%) Ansible
3 12 (0.72%) Data Guard
3 12 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
4 11 (0.66%) HP ALM
5 8 (0.48%) Grafana
5 8 (0.48%) Karpenter
5 8 (0.48%) vCenter Server
6 7 (0.42%) Argo
7 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
8 4 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
8 4 (0.24%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.18%) SnapVault
10 2 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.060%) EMC TimeFinder
11 1 (0.060%) SCCM
Vendors
1 336 (20.27%) Oracle
2 312 (18.82%) SAP
3 282 (17.01%) Microsoft
4 89 (5.37%) Databricks
5 67 (4.04%) Salesforce
6 35 (2.11%) ServiceNow
7 34 (2.05%) Workday
8 28 (1.69%) Informatica
9 25 (1.51%) IBM
10 23 (1.39%) Ariba
11 22 (1.33%) Talend
12 21 (1.27%) Google
13 18 (1.09%) IFS
14 16 (0.97%) VMware
15 15 (0.90%) Sage
16 14 (0.84%) Infor
16 14 (0.84%) InterSystems
17 11 (0.66%) HP
18 10 (0.60%) Atlassian
18 10 (0.60%) Siebel