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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 95 89
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 +47
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,234 806 1,046
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.86% 2.73% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 3.02% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 530 705
10th Percentile £365 £381 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £511 £513
% change year-on-year +1.71% -0.24% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 8 39
10th Percentile £13.95 £29.84 £25.00
25th Percentile £15.37 £50.94 £40.00
Median hourly rate £29.50 £73.75 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% -7.81% +199.07%
75th Percentile £79.88 £87.16 £83.13
90th Percentile £95.72 £87.50 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -66.67% +20.00% +163.16%

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 37,150 26,655 38,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.07% 90.32% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,527 17,023 25,087
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £612 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,218 906 2,334
10th Percentile £14.88 £15.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £31.65
% change year-on-year -15.38% +2.69% -9.57%

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 14 March 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 14 March 2026.

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 14 March 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 +11 1,058 £529 -1.35% 272
London +17 563 £550 - 115
UK excluding London +1 504 £520 +1.71% 203
Work from Home -22 345 £525 -4.55% 112
South East -12 144 £599 +14.10% 77
North of England -18 133 £500 -4.76% 45
Midlands -16 107 £475 -7.32% 31
North West +8 82 £463 -15.91% 21
West Midlands -39 67 £488 -4.41% 22
Yorkshire -41 42 £529 +30.62% 21
Scotland +24 39 £550 +15.79% 14
East Midlands -4 38 £450 -7.93% 8
South West -29 31 £563 +15.38% 20
East of England -28 26 £475 -26.92% 10
Northern Ireland +11 15 £400 -23.81% 1
Wales -1 10 £531 +18.06% 5
North East -9 9 £488 -27.78% 3

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 36 (2.92%) Confluence
2 34 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.73%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 6 (0.49%) GeoServer
5 6 (0.49%) Smallworld
6 5 (0.41%) Apache
7 4 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.24%) CMS
8 3 (0.24%) LiveLink
9 2 (0.16%) Appian
9 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.081%) Moodle
10 1 (0.081%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.081%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.081%) SAS
10 1 (0.081%) WebSphere
Applications
1 67 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
4 19 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.081%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.081%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 121 (9.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (4.38%) Oracle EBS
3 36 (2.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 17 (1.38%) Oracle Payables
6 15 (1.22%) SAP HR
7 14 (1.13%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (1.13%) Oracle Receivables
8 13 (1.05%) Loan IQ
8 13 (1.05%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.89%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.89%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 11 (0.89%) SAP ERP
10 10 (0.81%) Oracle EBS R12
10 10 (0.81%) Workday HCM
11 9 (0.73%) SAP FI
11 9 (0.73%) SAP MDG
12 8 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
12 8 (0.65%) SAP CO
13 7 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 199 (16.13%) Azure
2 127 (10.29%) AWS
3 114 (9.24%) Power Platform
4 91 (7.37%) OCI
5 89 (7.21%) Dynamics 365
6 53 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 39 (3.16%) SaaS
8 32 (2.59%) GitHub
9 29 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 27 (2.19%) Snowflake
11 26 (2.11%) Amazon S3
12 24 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
12 24 (1.94%) SuccessFactors
13 19 (1.54%) GCP
14 17 (1.38%) Entra ID
14 17 (1.38%) OpenShift
15 16 (1.30%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 15 (1.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 14 (1.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.05%) SAN
2 12 (0.97%) NAS
3 9 (0.73%) DNS
4 4 (0.32%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (0.32%) SSL
4 4 (0.32%) VPN
4 4 (0.32%) VSAN
5 3 (0.24%) FCoE
5 3 (0.24%) Firewall
5 3 (0.24%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.16%) Network Security
6 2 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.081%) Internet
7 1 (0.081%) Intranet
7 1 (0.081%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (7.29%) Power BI
2 83 (6.73%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (4.70%) SQL Server
4 45 (3.65%) Oracle Reports
5 44 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 37 (3.00%) Relational Database
7 34 (2.76%) Metadata
8 29 (2.35%) Data Lake
9 28 (2.27%) Oracle Database
10 26 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.30%) RDBMS
12 16 (1.30%) Tableau
13 15 (1.22%) NoSQL
14 14 (1.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 12 (0.97%) MySQL
16 10 (0.81%) Big Data
16 10 (0.81%) DB2
16 10 (0.81%) GIS
Development Applications
1 102 (8.27%) JIRA
2 25 (2.03%) Git
3 19 (1.54%) Postman
4 16 (1.30%) Zephyr
5 13 (1.05%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.73%) GitLab
7 7 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.49%) LSMW
9 5 (0.41%) JUnit
9 5 (0.41%) Selenium
10 4 (0.32%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.32%) Hudson
10 4 (0.32%) Toad
10 4 (0.32%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.24%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.24%) ERwin
11 3 (0.24%) MLflow
11 3 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 459 (37.20%) Social Skills
2 405 (32.82%) Finance
3 149 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (9.40%) Public Sector
5 74 (6.00%) Banking
6 52 (4.21%) Manufacturing
7 50 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
8 39 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
9 35 (2.84%) Retail
10 29 (2.35%) Legal
11 24 (1.94%) Law
12 23 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
14 18 (1.46%) Marketing
15 17 (1.38%) Billing
15 17 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (1.30%) General Ledger
17 15 (1.22%) Local Government
18 13 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
19 11 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 212 (17.18%) Lead
2 185 (14.99%) Analyst
3 166 (13.45%) Consultant
4 149 (12.07%) Architect
5 112 (9.08%) Project Manager
6 104 (8.43%) Business Analyst
7 92 (7.46%) Senior
8 82 (6.65%) Data Engineer
9 63 (5.11%) Data Analyst
10 60 (4.86%) Data Migration Lead
11 58 (4.70%) Developer
12 56 (4.54%) Migration Analyst
13 47 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (3.48%) SAP Consultant
15 42 (3.40%) Data Architect
15 42 (3.40%) Migration Manager
16 41 (3.32%) Data Migration Analyst
17 33 (2.67%) Data Consultant
18 32 (2.59%) Migration Consultant
18 32 (2.59%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (6.97%) Oracle Fusion
2 41 (3.32%) REST
3 30 (2.43%) Middleware
4 29 (2.35%) XML
5 23 (1.86%) SOAP
6 19 (1.54%) JSON
7 17 (1.38%) Lightning Web Components
8 14 (1.13%) .NET
9 13 (1.05%) Spring
9 13 (1.05%) Web Services
10 12 (0.97%) PySpark
11 8 (0.65%) OpenTelemetry
11 8 (0.65%) React
11 8 (0.65%) Visualforce
12 7 (0.57%) Kafka
13 5 (0.41%) AngularJS
13 5 (0.41%) Apache Avro
13 5 (0.41%) FHIR
13 5 (0.41%) RESTful
13 5 (0.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 170 (13.78%) Legacy Systems
2 83 (6.73%) Data Structures
3 39 (3.16%) Management Information System
4 38 (3.08%) Onboarding
5 35 (2.84%) Cloud Native
6 25 (2.03%) Product Ownership
6 25 (2.03%) Replication
7 22 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.13%) Data Centre
10 12 (0.97%) NHS
11 11 (0.89%) FMCG
11 11 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (0.89%) Reference Data
12 10 (0.81%) CMDB
12 10 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (0.81%) Public Cloud
13 9 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.73%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.19%) Windows
2 9 (0.73%) Linux
3 8 (0.65%) Windows 10
3 8 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.57%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.57%) zOS
5 6 (0.49%) Unix
6 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.16%) Solaris
8 1 (0.081%) AIX
8 1 (0.081%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,234 (100.00%) Migration
2 292 (23.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 269 (21.80%) Agile
4 266 (21.56%) Validation
5 232 (18.80%) ERP
6 222 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
7 211 (17.10%) User Acceptance Testing
8 202 (16.37%) ETL
9 177 (14.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 173 (14.02%) Data Modelling
11 140 (11.35%) Analytics
12 138 (11.18%) Project Management
13 132 (10.70%) Workshop Facilitation
14 125 (10.13%) Data Cleansing
15 123 (9.97%) Business Intelligence
16 117 (9.48%) Data Mapping
17 113 (9.16%) Change Management
18 109 (8.83%) DevOps
19 107 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
20 106 (8.59%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 251 (20.34%) SQL
2 97 (7.86%) Python
3 46 (3.73%) Java
4 22 (1.78%) PL/SQL
5 19 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.22%) Apex Code
6 15 (1.22%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.13%) C#
8 13 (1.05%) Bash
9 9 (0.73%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.65%) VBA
11 7 (0.57%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.41%) ABAP
12 5 (0.41%) Korn
12 5 (0.41%) Perl
12 5 (0.41%) PHP
12 5 (0.41%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.41%) X++
13 4 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 183 (14.83%) Security Cleared
2 134 (10.86%) SC Cleared
3 72 (5.83%) Degree
4 36 (2.92%) PMP
5 28 (2.27%) PMI Certification
6 27 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 17 (1.38%) DV Cleared
9 16 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 12 (0.97%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.97%) SAP Certification
11 11 (0.89%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.49%) CIMA
13 5 (0.41%) ACCA
14 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.32%) OCP
14 4 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 4 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (15.88%) Data Quality
2 107 (8.67%) QA
3 64 (5.19%) GDPR
4 20 (1.62%) PMO
5 15 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.05%) COBIT
7 12 (0.97%) NIST
8 9 (0.73%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.73%) IFRS
9 8 (0.65%) SLA
10 7 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.57%) GAAP
10 7 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.49%) GMP
12 5 (0.41%) GxP
12 5 (0.41%) IFRS 9
13 4 (0.32%) Basel III
13 4 (0.32%) HL7
13 4 (0.32%) IFRS 17
14 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
System Software
1 19 (1.54%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.46%) Docker
3 17 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.81%) NFS
5 9 (0.73%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.73%) vSphere
6 5 (0.41%) SRDF
7 1 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 37 (3.00%) Kubernetes
2 22 (1.78%) Terraform
3 14 (1.13%) Grafana
4 12 (0.97%) Ansible
4 12 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.73%) Argo
5 9 (0.73%) vCenter Server
6 8 (0.65%) SCCM
7 7 (0.57%) HP ALM
8 6 (0.49%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.49%) vMotion
9 4 (0.32%) EMC TimeFinder
9 4 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.24%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.081%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.081%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.081%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.081%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 238 (19.29%) Oracle
2 220 (17.83%) SAP
3 192 (15.56%) Microsoft
4 61 (4.94%) Salesforce
5 49 (3.97%) Databricks
6 42 (3.40%) Workday
7 27 (2.19%) Informatica
8 26 (2.11%) Sage
9 25 (2.03%) ServiceNow
10 21 (1.70%) VMware
11 20 (1.62%) Pure Storage
12 19 (1.54%) MuleSoft
12 19 (1.54%) Talend
13 16 (1.30%) Avaloq
14 14 (1.13%) IFS
15 13 (1.05%) Ariba
15 13 (1.05%) Google
15 13 (1.05%) IBM
16 12 (0.97%) Red Hat
17 9 (0.73%) Splunk