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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 91 103
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,627 945 853
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.97% 2.86% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 3.16% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,042 573 564
10th Percentile £363 £376 £396
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £644 £638
90th Percentile £733 £737 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 14 6
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.00 £48.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £32.25 £62.31
Median hourly rate £38.36 £35.25 £73.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% -51.88% -20.57%
75th Percentile £53.58 £70.31 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £83.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.96 £32.31 £80.00
% change year-on-year -7.27% -59.61% -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 46,295 29,870 32,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.37% 90.52% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,040 18,573 20,019
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,185 1,844 1,407
10th Percentile £13.72 £14.33 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.91% -47.67% +1.18%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -3 1,394 £525 -2.33% 904
UK excluding London 0 716 £500 - 578
London +11 679 £550 - 431
Work from Home +7 490 £525 -3.40% 423
North of England -9 176 £525 +10.53% 120
Midlands +1 171 £475 -13.64% 112
South East -15 164 £540 -8.09% 154
West Midlands +6 123 £450 -14.29% 81
North West -5 106 £538 +19.44% 61
South West +22 95 £523 -0.48% 34
Yorkshire -34 55 £510 +2.00% 36
East of England -9 54 £550 +11.39% 52
East Midlands +1 45 £525 -4.55% 30
Scotland -25 39 £513 +8.47% 60
North East -28 18 £475 +8.57% 23
Northern Ireland +15 15 £463 -28.85% 41
Wales -9 9 £550 +10.00% 11
Channel Islands -4 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 63 (3.87%) Confluence
2 62 (3.81%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.74%) Apache
6 10 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.37%) CMS
8 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.31%) SAS
8 5 (0.31%) Tuxedo
9 4 (0.25%) CICS
9 4 (0.25%) SugarCRM
10 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.12%) Mendix
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.061%) Documentum
11 1 (0.061%) IIS
11 1 (0.061%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 71 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.25%) Windchill
8 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.061%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.061%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 160 (9.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (3.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (1.97%) Oracle Payables
4 27 (1.66%) Oracle Receivables
5 21 (1.29%) Oracle ERP
6 20 (1.23%) NetSuite
7 19 (1.17%) SAP ERP
8 16 (0.98%) Oracle Financials
9 15 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
10 14 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
10 14 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
10 14 (0.86%) SAP SD
11 13 (0.80%) SAP FI
11 13 (0.80%) SAP HCM
11 13 (0.80%) Teamcenter
12 12 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 12 (0.74%) SAP CO
13 11 (0.68%) SAP MDG
13 11 (0.68%) SAP MM
13 11 (0.68%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 274 (16.84%) Azure
2 154 (9.47%) AWS
3 141 (8.67%) Power Platform
4 128 (7.87%) Dynamics 365
5 88 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
6 82 (5.04%) OCI
7 61 (3.75%) SaaS
8 51 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
9 50 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
10 44 (2.70%) Snowflake
11 41 (2.52%) SuccessFactors
12 38 (2.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 35 (2.15%) Power Automate
14 34 (2.09%) Amazon S3
15 29 (1.78%) GCP
16 27 (1.66%) GitHub
16 27 (1.66%) PowerApps
17 22 (1.35%) dbt
17 22 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
18 17 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.31%) NAS
1 5 (0.31%) SAN
1 5 (0.31%) VPN
2 3 (0.18%) DMZ
2 3 (0.18%) Firewall
2 3 (0.18%) Intranet
3 2 (0.12%) DNS
3 2 (0.12%) VSAN
4 1 (0.061%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.061%) DKIM
4 1 (0.061%) DMARC
4 1 (0.061%) Internet
4 1 (0.061%) SNMP
4 1 (0.061%) SSL
4 1 (0.061%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (7.19%) Data Warehouse
2 109 (6.70%) Power BI
3 69 (4.24%) Metadata
4 64 (3.93%) SQL Server
5 54 (3.32%) Oracle Reports
6 51 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 51 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 41 (2.52%) Oracle Database
8 35 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (1.29%) RDBMS
10 19 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 19 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 17 (1.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 15 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (0.92%) MongoDB
13 14 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (0.74%) Delta Lake
14 12 (0.74%) GIS
14 12 (0.74%) NoSQL
14 12 (0.74%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 145 (8.91%) JIRA
2 52 (3.20%) Git
3 44 (2.70%) Zephyr
4 31 (1.91%) Postman
5 18 (1.11%) GitLab
6 13 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (0.68%) Jenkins
8 8 (0.49%) Selenium
9 6 (0.37%) Gatling
9 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.31%) Hudson
10 5 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.25%) LSMW
11 4 (0.25%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.18%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
13 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.12%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.12%) Yeoman
General
1 555 (34.11%) Finance
2 461 (28.33%) Social Skills
3 211 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (9.16%) Public Sector
5 99 (6.08%) Banking
6 87 (5.35%) Manufacturing
7 61 (3.75%) Retail
8 59 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
9 53 (3.26%) General Ledger
10 40 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
11 35 (2.15%) Local Government
12 31 (1.91%) Law
13 29 (1.78%) Automotive
13 29 (1.78%) Legal
14 27 (1.66%) Billing
15 26 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
16 23 (1.41%) Marketing
17 22 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 19 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (1.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 266 (16.35%) Lead
2 240 (14.75%) Analyst
3 201 (12.35%) Architect
4 195 (11.99%) Consultant
5 140 (8.60%) Data Engineer
5 140 (8.60%) Senior
6 110 (6.76%) Business Analyst
7 107 (6.58%) Data Migration Lead
8 95 (5.84%) Project Manager
9 82 (5.04%) Data Analyst
9 82 (5.04%) Developer
10 80 (4.92%) Data Architect
11 68 (4.18%) Migration Engineer
12 59 (3.63%) SAP Consultant
13 58 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
14 56 (3.44%) Data Migration Engineer
15 50 (3.07%) Data Consultant
16 40 (2.46%) Migration Analyst
16 40 (2.46%) Migration Consultant
17 39 (2.40%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (6.70%) Oracle Fusion
2 53 (3.26%) Middleware
3 43 (2.64%) REST
4 32 (1.97%) Terraform
5 30 (1.84%) .NET
6 27 (1.66%) SOAP
6 27 (1.66%) XML
7 23 (1.41%) PySpark
8 19 (1.17%) JSON
9 15 (0.92%) Kafka
10 13 (0.80%) Keycloak
10 13 (0.80%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 12 (0.74%) ADO
12 11 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
12 11 (0.68%) Web Services
13 9 (0.55%) HTML
13 9 (0.55%) Spring
13 9 (0.55%) Spring Boot
14 8 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
15 7 (0.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 169 (10.39%) Legacy Systems
2 115 (7.07%) Data Structures
3 59 (3.63%) Onboarding
4 50 (3.07%) Management Information System
5 49 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
6 39 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 39 (2.40%) Public Cloud
7 32 (1.97%) Cloud Native
8 27 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
9 24 (1.48%) Reference Data
10 21 (1.29%) Replication
11 19 (1.17%) NHS
12 18 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
14 16 (0.98%) FMCG
15 14 (0.86%) Reinsurance
16 13 (0.80%) Low-Code
17 12 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
17 12 (0.74%) Life Science
18 11 (0.68%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.21%) Windows
2 33 (2.03%) Linux
3 13 (0.80%) Unix
4 12 (0.74%) AIX
5 6 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (0.25%) VMS
6 4 (0.25%) zOS
7 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,627 (100.00%) Migration
2 487 (29.93%) Validation
3 451 (27.72%) Stakeholder Management
4 366 (22.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 349 (21.45%) ERP
6 272 (16.72%) Agile
7 262 (16.10%) Data Modelling
8 259 (15.92%) ETL
9 229 (14.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 212 (13.03%) Data Governance
11 200 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
12 159 (9.77%) DevOps
13 152 (9.34%) Analytics
13 152 (9.34%) Data Cleansing
14 144 (8.85%) Business Intelligence
15 139 (8.54%) Data Mapping
16 134 (8.24%) Requirements Gathering
17 128 (7.87%) System Integration Testing
18 123 (7.56%) CRM
18 123 (7.56%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 346 (21.27%) SQL
2 95 (5.84%) Python
3 31 (1.91%) PL/SQL
4 30 (1.84%) JavaScript
5 27 (1.66%) Java
6 26 (1.60%) C#
7 19 (1.17%) PowerShell
8 12 (0.74%) Bash
9 11 (0.68%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.61%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.61%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.49%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.43%) ABAP
13 6 (0.37%) MUMPS
13 6 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.37%) X++
14 5 (0.31%) C
14 5 (0.31%) VB
14 5 (0.31%) VB6
15 4 (0.25%) JCL
Qualifications
1 290 (17.82%) Security Cleared
2 238 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 58 (3.56%) Degree
4 35 (2.15%) ACCA
4 35 (2.15%) CIMA
5 32 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 31 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 31 (1.91%) ISTQB
6 31 (1.91%) PMI Certification
6 31 (1.91%) PMP
7 12 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (0.61%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.49%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 6 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.31%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.31%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.25%) CBAP
12 4 (0.25%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 342 (21.02%) Data Quality
2 129 (7.93%) QA
3 65 (4.00%) GDPR
4 33 (2.03%) PMO
5 15 (0.92%) GRC
6 11 (0.68%) IFRS
7 10 (0.61%) HL7
8 8 (0.49%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.49%) SLA
9 6 (0.37%) DICOM
9 6 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
10 5 (0.31%) GxP
11 4 (0.25%) GMP
11 4 (0.25%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.18%) NCSC
12 3 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.18%) SEPA
13 2 (0.12%) GAAP
13 2 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 19 (1.17%) Docker
2 14 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
3 12 (0.74%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (0.18%) NFS
6 3 (0.18%) SRDF
6 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.18%) vSphere
7 1 (0.061%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (1.23%) Ansible
2 19 (1.17%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.74%) Data Guard
3 12 (0.74%) Karpenter
3 12 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
4 6 (0.37%) HP ALM
5 5 (0.31%) Control-M
5 5 (0.31%) SnapMirror
6 4 (0.25%) EMC VPLEX
7 3 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (0.18%) NetBackup
7 3 (0.18%) SnapVault
7 3 (0.18%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.12%) Argo
8 2 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.12%) Grafana
8 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.061%) Autotask
9 1 (0.061%) SCCM
Vendors
1 330 (20.28%) Oracle
2 297 (18.25%) SAP
3 278 (17.09%) Microsoft
4 97 (5.96%) Databricks
5 72 (4.43%) Salesforce
6 34 (2.09%) ServiceNow
7 33 (2.03%) Informatica
8 31 (1.91%) Workday
9 28 (1.72%) Google
10 23 (1.41%) Talend
11 22 (1.35%) Ariba
12 21 (1.29%) IBM
13 19 (1.17%) IFS
14 15 (0.92%) Sage
15 14 (0.86%) InterSystems
16 13 (0.80%) Infor
17 11 (0.68%) MuleSoft
18 9 (0.55%) Alteryx
18 9 (0.55%) Atlassian
18 9 (0.55%) VMware