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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 94 96
Rank change year-on-year +15 +2 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,431 787 990
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.97% 2.68% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 2.95% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 490 673
10th Percentile £360 £375 £361
25th Percentile £447 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £632 £627 £650
90th Percentile £733 £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 36 13 33
10th Percentile £15.12 £35.00 £25.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £56.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £38.36 £67.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.18% -10.00% +180.37%
75th Percentile £46.75 £87.05 £80.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.76 £62.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -52.38% -16.67% +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 40,590 26,723 36,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.35% 90.97% 86.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,485 17,182 23,610
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,403 1,090 2,438
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.39 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.72 £18.21 £15.96
Median hourly rate £42.30 £28.30 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +49.50% -21.50% +1.11%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.43 £37.50
% change year-on-year +76.96% -32.19% +7.14%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +20 1,277 £525 -0.76% 255
UK excluding London +20 640 £525 +5.00% 167
London +36 626 £525 -4.55% 111
Work from Home +1 378 £500 -5.21% 107
South East -8 179 £609 +11.70% 53
North of England -17 172 £500 +1.32% 42
Midlands -5 132 £481 +1.32% 25
North West +8 106 £475 -12.60% 24
West Midlands -9 90 £450 -5.26% 13
South West -2 59 £525 +5.00% 18
Yorkshire -40 59 £540 +34.88% 16
East of England -4 56 £575 -11.54% 19
East Midlands +1 39 £500 +9.29% 12
Scotland -4 23 £575 +20.95% 4
Northern Ireland +16 15 £475 - 2
North East -15 7 £488 -15.22% 2
Wales -10 6 £550 +25.71% 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 53 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 48 (3.35%) Confluence
3 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.49%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 7 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.14%) Apache
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.14%) Appian
7 2 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.070%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.070%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.070%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.070%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 20 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
4 17 (1.19%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.070%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.070%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 168 (11.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (3.49%) Oracle EBS
3 37 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (1.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 20 (1.40%) SAP ERP
6 15 (1.05%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.98%) Loan IQ
8 13 (0.91%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.77%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 10 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
11 9 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
11 9 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
11 9 (0.63%) SAP FI
12 8 (0.56%) SAP CO
13 7 (0.49%) iTrent
13 7 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
13 7 (0.49%) Teamcenter
14 6 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
14 6 (0.42%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 222 (15.51%) Azure
2 138 (9.64%) Power Platform
3 121 (8.46%) AWS
4 108 (7.55%) Dynamics 365
5 82 (5.73%) OCI
6 68 (4.75%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (3.70%) SaaS
8 50 (3.49%) Azure Data Factory
9 35 (2.45%) Snowflake
10 34 (2.38%) GitHub
10 34 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
11 32 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 22 (1.54%) GCP
12 22 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
13 16 (1.12%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
13 16 (1.12%) OpenShift
14 15 (1.05%) Entra ID
14 15 (1.05%) Power Automate
15 13 (0.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.19%) SAN
2 14 (0.98%) DNS
2 14 (0.98%) NAS
3 6 (0.42%) Firewall
4 5 (0.35%) VPN
4 5 (0.35%) VSAN
5 4 (0.28%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (0.21%) FCoE
6 3 (0.21%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.14%) HTTP
7 2 (0.14%) Network Security
7 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.070%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.070%) Internet
8 1 (0.070%) Intranet
8 1 (0.070%) LAN
8 1 (0.070%) SNMP
8 1 (0.070%) SSL
8 1 (0.070%) VLAN
8 1 (0.070%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (8.04%) Power BI
2 94 (6.57%) Data Warehouse
3 59 (4.12%) Oracle Reports
4 57 (3.98%) SQL Server
5 37 (2.59%) Metadata
6 34 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 33 (2.31%) Data Lake
8 24 (1.68%) Relational Database
9 23 (1.61%) Oracle Database
9 23 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (1.12%) NoSQL
11 14 (0.98%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 14 (0.98%) SAP Data Services
12 13 (0.91%) DB2
13 12 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (0.77%) Tableau
15 10 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
16 9 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (0.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 129 (9.01%) JIRA
2 34 (2.38%) Git
3 32 (2.24%) Zephyr
4 27 (1.89%) Postman
5 19 (1.33%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.91%) Selenium
7 9 (0.63%) GitLab
8 7 (0.49%) Hudson
8 7 (0.49%) LSMW
9 6 (0.42%) JUnit
9 6 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.35%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.28%) Toad
12 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.21%) ERwin
12 3 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
General
1 468 (32.70%) Finance
2 441 (30.82%) Social Skills
3 176 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (8.39%) Public Sector
5 80 (5.59%) Banking
6 78 (5.45%) Manufacturing
7 59 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.14%) Law
9 43 (3.00%) Retail
10 39 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (1.89%) Legal
12 26 (1.82%) Local Government
12 26 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
13 24 (1.68%) General Ledger
13 24 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 23 (1.61%) Marketing
15 18 (1.26%) Billing
15 18 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (1.12%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 316 (22.08%) Lead
2 216 (15.09%) Analyst
3 169 (11.81%) Architect
4 167 (11.67%) Consultant
5 116 (8.11%) Data Migration Lead
6 108 (7.55%) Project Manager
7 102 (7.13%) Business Analyst
8 100 (6.99%) Data Engineer
9 96 (6.71%) Senior
10 73 (5.10%) Developer
11 72 (5.03%) Data Analyst
12 60 (4.19%) Data Architect
13 58 (4.05%) Migration Analyst
14 57 (3.98%) SAP Consultant
15 56 (3.91%) Migration Engineer
16 50 (3.49%) Migration Manager
17 47 (3.28%) Data Migration Engineer
18 44 (3.07%) Data Migration Analyst
19 40 (2.80%) Migration Consultant
20 39 (2.73%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (6.01%) Oracle Fusion
2 39 (2.73%) REST
3 35 (2.45%) Middleware
4 21 (1.47%) XML
5 20 (1.40%) SOAP
6 19 (1.33%) .NET
7 17 (1.19%) Spring
8 15 (1.05%) Kafka
9 13 (0.91%) JSON
10 11 (0.77%) Lightning Web Components
10 11 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (0.70%) PySpark
12 9 (0.63%) Spring Boot
13 8 (0.56%) React
14 7 (0.49%) FHIR
15 6 (0.42%) AngularJS
15 6 (0.42%) Web Services
16 5 (0.35%) SAP Fiori
17 4 (0.28%) ADO
17 4 (0.28%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 181 (12.65%) Legacy Systems
2 110 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 44 (3.07%) Cloud Native
4 41 (2.87%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.45%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
7 26 (1.82%) Public Cloud
8 23 (1.61%) Product Ownership
9 22 (1.54%) Replication
10 20 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.12%) Mainframe
11 16 (1.12%) Reference Data
12 15 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (0.98%) Data Centre
13 14 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (0.77%) FMCG
14 11 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
14 11 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.03%) Windows
2 11 (0.77%) Linux
3 8 (0.56%) Windows 10
4 7 (0.49%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.49%) zOS
5 6 (0.42%) Unix
6 5 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.14%) VMS
9 1 (0.070%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,431 (100.00%) Migration
2 373 (26.07%) Validation
3 318 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 300 (20.96%) ERP
5 299 (20.89%) User Acceptance Testing
6 267 (18.66%) Agile
7 233 (16.28%) ETL
8 215 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
9 206 (14.40%) Data Modelling
10 205 (14.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 159 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
12 146 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
13 136 (9.50%) Project Management
14 134 (9.36%) Data Mapping
15 129 (9.01%) Analytics
16 127 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
17 126 (8.81%) Data Governance
18 120 (8.39%) DevOps
19 112 (7.83%) Workshop Facilitation
20 110 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 262 (18.31%) SQL
2 109 (7.62%) Python
3 43 (3.00%) Java
4 32 (2.24%) PL/SQL
5 22 (1.54%) Bash
6 19 (1.33%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.84%) PowerShell
8 10 (0.70%) Apex Code
9 9 (0.63%) C#
9 9 (0.63%) VBA
10 8 (0.56%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.42%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.42%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.35%) PHP
13 4 (0.28%) ABAP
13 4 (0.28%) C
13 4 (0.28%) Perl
13 4 (0.28%) SOQL
14 3 (0.21%) Korn
Qualifications
1 233 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 174 (12.16%) SC Cleared
3 64 (4.47%) Degree
4 34 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 30 (2.10%) PMP
6 25 (1.75%) PMI Certification
7 24 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (1.61%) ISTQB
9 21 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (0.98%) CIMA
11 13 (0.91%) ACCA
11 13 (0.91%) Azure Certification
12 9 (0.63%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.49%) SAP Certification
14 6 (0.42%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
16 4 (0.28%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.28%) ISEB
16 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.28%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (17.05%) Data Quality
2 119 (8.32%) QA
3 60 (4.19%) GDPR
4 23 (1.61%) PMO
5 14 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.91%) SLA
7 11 (0.77%) COBIT
7 11 (0.77%) HL7
8 10 (0.70%) NIST
9 8 (0.56%) GMP
9 8 (0.56%) GxP
9 8 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
10 7 (0.49%) IFRS
11 6 (0.42%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.42%) DICOM
12 5 (0.35%) GAAP
13 4 (0.28%) Basel III
13 4 (0.28%) PERC
14 3 (0.21%) GRC
System Software
1 24 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.98%) vSphere
4 12 (0.84%) Docker
4 12 (0.84%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.63%) NFS
6 6 (0.42%) SRDF
7 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.070%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 31 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 30 (2.10%) Terraform
3 20 (1.40%) Ansible
4 18 (1.26%) Grafana
5 14 (0.98%) vCenter Server
6 13 (0.91%) Argo
6 13 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.63%) HP ALM
8 8 (0.56%) EMC VPLEX
8 8 (0.56%) SCCM
9 6 (0.42%) vMotion
10 4 (0.28%) EMC TimeFinder
10 4 (0.28%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (0.21%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.14%) SnapMirror
12 2 (0.14%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 280 (19.57%) SAP
2 262 (18.31%) Oracle
3 236 (16.49%) Microsoft
4 67 (4.68%) Databricks
5 65 (4.54%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.96%) VMware
7 27 (1.89%) Workday
8 25 (1.75%) ServiceNow
9 24 (1.68%) Pure Storage
9 24 (1.68%) Sage
10 22 (1.54%) Informatica
11 21 (1.47%) Google
12 20 (1.40%) IFS
12 20 (1.40%) Talend
13 17 (1.19%) Ariba
13 17 (1.19%) Infor
14 16 (1.12%) MuleSoft
15 15 (1.05%) Avaloq
15 15 (1.05%) Red Hat
16 14 (0.98%) IBM