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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 92 91
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,249 807 1,040
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.89% 2.75% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 3.04% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 787 532 700
10th Percentile £371 £382 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £712 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £511 £508
% change year-on-year +1.71% +0.74% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 8 40
10th Percentile £14.41 £29.84 £25.00
25th Percentile £16.09 £50.94 £40.00
Median hourly rate £29.50 £73.75 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% -7.81% +255.56%
75th Percentile £79.88 £87.16 £81.56
90th Percentile £95.72 £87.50 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £60.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -66.67% -4.00% +228.95%

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 37,130 26,538 38,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.00% 90.38% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,530 17,031 25,049
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £745 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,210 919 2,337
10th Percentile £14.89 £15.25 £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 £64.62 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £31.50
% change year-on-year -13.41% +0.83% -10.07%

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 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 17 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 17 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 +13 1,076 £526 -2.09% 269
London +27 572 £550 - 113
UK excluding London 0 511 £520 +1.71% 204
Work from Home -20 344 £525 -3.67% 112
South East -8 146 £599 +14.10% 76
North of England -13 137 £500 -4.76% 40
Midlands -12 105 £470 -8.29% 28
North West +10 84 £461 -16.14% 18
West Midlands -44 65 £473 -7.35% 20
Yorkshire -39 44 £527 +30.12% 18
Scotland +21 38 £550 +15.79% 20
East Midlands -6 38 £450 -7.93% 8
South West -27 31 £563 +15.38% 23
East of England -26 30 £575 -11.54% 13
Northern Ireland +7 15 £400 -23.81% 1
Wales -1 10 £531 +18.06% 6
North East -7 9 £488 -27.78% 4

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 (2.88%) Confluence
2 34 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.72%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 6 (0.48%) GeoServer
5 6 (0.48%) Smallworld
6 5 (0.40%) 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 (0.080%) Moodle
10 1 (0.080%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.080%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.080%) SAS
10 1 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 66 (5.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (1.68%) Spreadsheet
4 19 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (1.52%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.080%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.080%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 123 (9.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (4.32%) Oracle EBS
3 36 (2.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 17 (1.36%) Oracle Payables
6 15 (1.20%) SAP HR
7 14 (1.12%) Oracle General Ledger
7 14 (1.12%) Oracle Receivables
8 13 (1.04%) Loan IQ
8 13 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
9 12 (0.96%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 11 (0.88%) NetSuite
10 11 (0.88%) SAP ERP
11 10 (0.80%) Oracle EBS R12
11 10 (0.80%) Workday HCM
12 9 (0.72%) SAP FI
12 9 (0.72%) SAP MDG
13 8 (0.64%) Oracle Cash Management
13 8 (0.64%) SAP CO
14 7 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 203 (16.25%) Azure
2 126 (10.09%) AWS
3 119 (9.53%) Power Platform
4 93 (7.45%) Dynamics 365
5 92 (7.37%) OCI
6 54 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
7 41 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
7 41 (3.28%) SaaS
8 32 (2.56%) GitHub
9 29 (2.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 27 (2.16%) Snowflake
11 25 (2.00%) Amazon S3
11 25 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
12 24 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (1.52%) GCP
14 17 (1.36%) Entra ID
14 17 (1.36%) OpenShift
15 16 (1.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 15 (1.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 14 (1.12%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.04%) SAN
2 11 (0.88%) NAS
3 9 (0.72%) 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 (0.080%) Internet
7 1 (0.080%) Intranet
7 1 (0.080%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (7.61%) Power BI
2 85 (6.81%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (4.88%) SQL Server
4 45 (3.60%) Oracle Reports
5 44 (3.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 36 (2.88%) Relational Database
7 34 (2.72%) Metadata
8 29 (2.32%) Data Lake
9 28 (2.24%) Oracle Database
10 27 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (1.28%) RDBMS
12 16 (1.28%) Tableau
13 15 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.20%) NoSQL
14 14 (1.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 12 (0.96%) MySQL
15 12 (0.96%) SAP Data Services
16 10 (0.80%) Big Data
16 10 (0.80%) DB2
Development Applications
1 104 (8.33%) JIRA
2 26 (2.08%) Git
3 19 (1.52%) Postman
4 16 (1.28%) Zephyr
5 13 (1.04%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.72%) GitLab
7 7 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.48%) LSMW
9 5 (0.40%) Hudson
9 5 (0.40%) JUnit
9 5 (0.40%) Selenium
10 4 (0.32%) Cucumber
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%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 462 (36.99%) Social Skills
2 419 (33.55%) Finance
3 150 (12.01%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (9.37%) Public Sector
5 76 (6.08%) Banking
6 53 (4.24%) Manufacturing
7 51 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
8 40 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
9 37 (2.96%) Retail
10 29 (2.32%) Legal
11 27 (2.16%) Law
12 22 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
14 19 (1.52%) Marketing
15 17 (1.36%) Billing
15 17 (1.36%) General Ledger
15 17 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (1.20%) Local Government
17 13 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 221 (17.69%) Lead
2 184 (14.73%) Analyst
3 170 (13.61%) Consultant
4 151 (12.09%) Architect
5 111 (8.89%) Project Manager
6 104 (8.33%) Business Analyst
7 94 (7.53%) Senior
8 81 (6.49%) Data Engineer
9 64 (5.12%) Data Analyst
10 61 (4.88%) Data Migration Lead
10 61 (4.88%) Developer
11 56 (4.48%) Migration Analyst
12 46 (3.68%) SAP Consultant
12 46 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
13 42 (3.36%) Data Architect
13 42 (3.36%) Migration Manager
14 41 (3.28%) Data Migration Analyst
15 36 (2.88%) Data Consultant
16 35 (2.80%) Migration Consultant
17 32 (2.56%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (6.81%) Oracle Fusion
2 44 (3.52%) REST
3 31 (2.48%) Middleware
4 28 (2.24%) XML
5 25 (2.00%) SOAP
6 19 (1.52%) JSON
7 17 (1.36%) Lightning Web Components
8 15 (1.20%) .NET
9 13 (1.04%) Spring
9 13 (1.04%) Web Services
10 12 (0.96%) PySpark
11 9 (0.72%) React
12 8 (0.64%) OpenTelemetry
12 8 (0.64%) Visualforce
13 7 (0.56%) Kafka
14 6 (0.48%) AngularJS
14 6 (0.48%) RESTful
15 5 (0.40%) Apache Avro
15 5 (0.40%) BAPI
15 5 (0.40%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 169 (13.53%) Legacy Systems
2 85 (6.81%) Data Structures
3 39 (3.12%) Management Information System
4 37 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 35 (2.80%) Cloud Native
6 28 (2.24%) Product Ownership
7 25 (2.00%) Replication
8 23 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.12%) Data Centre
11 12 (0.96%) FMCG
11 12 (0.96%) NHS
11 12 (0.96%) Reference Data
12 11 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (0.80%) CMDB
13 10 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.80%) Public Cloud
13 10 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (0.72%) Tandem
14 9 (0.72%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.16%) Windows
2 9 (0.72%) Linux
3 8 (0.64%) Windows 10
3 8 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.56%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.56%) zOS
5 6 (0.48%) Unix
6 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.16%) Solaris
8 1 (0.080%) AIX
8 1 (0.080%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,249 (100.00%) Migration
2 295 (23.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 275 (22.02%) Validation
4 274 (21.94%) Agile
5 236 (18.90%) ERP
6 222 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
7 220 (17.61%) User Acceptance Testing
8 205 (16.41%) ETL
9 185 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 180 (14.41%) Data Modelling
11 141 (11.29%) Analytics
12 136 (10.89%) Project Management
13 133 (10.65%) Workshop Facilitation
14 130 (10.41%) Business Intelligence
15 129 (10.33%) Data Cleansing
16 120 (9.61%) Data Mapping
17 114 (9.13%) Change Management
18 113 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
19 111 (8.89%) DevOps
20 106 (8.49%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 252 (20.18%) SQL
2 97 (7.77%) Python
3 45 (3.60%) Java
4 23 (1.84%) PL/SQL
5 19 (1.52%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.20%) Apex Code
6 15 (1.20%) C#
6 15 (1.20%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.04%) Bash
8 9 (0.72%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.64%) VBA
10 7 (0.56%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.40%) ABAP
11 5 (0.40%) Korn
11 5 (0.40%) Perl
11 5 (0.40%) PHP
11 5 (0.40%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.40%) X++
12 4 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 186 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 134 (10.73%) SC Cleared
3 72 (5.76%) Degree
4 36 (2.88%) PMP
5 28 (2.24%) PMI Certification
6 27 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 16 (1.28%) AWS Certification
9 16 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 12 (0.96%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.96%) SAP Certification
11 11 (0.88%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.48%) CIMA
13 5 (0.40%) 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
1 203 (16.25%) Data Quality
2 111 (8.89%) QA
3 65 (5.20%) GDPR
4 20 (1.60%) PMO
5 15 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.04%) COBIT
7 12 (0.96%) NIST
8 9 (0.72%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.72%) IFRS
9 8 (0.64%) SLA
10 7 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.56%) GAAP
10 7 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.48%) GMP
12 5 (0.40%) GxP
12 5 (0.40%) 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 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.44%) Docker
3 17 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.80%) NFS
5 9 (0.72%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.72%) vSphere
6 5 (0.40%) SRDF
7 1 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 37 (2.96%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.84%) Terraform
3 14 (1.12%) Grafana
4 12 (0.96%) Ansible
4 12 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.72%) Argo
5 9 (0.72%) vCenter Server
6 8 (0.64%) SCCM
7 7 (0.56%) HP ALM
8 6 (0.48%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.48%) 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 (0.080%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.080%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.080%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.080%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 238 (19.06%) Oracle
2 224 (17.93%) SAP
3 197 (15.77%) Microsoft
4 61 (4.88%) Salesforce
5 50 (4.00%) Databricks
6 42 (3.36%) Workday
7 27 (2.16%) Informatica
8 26 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 25 (2.00%) Sage
10 21 (1.68%) VMware
11 20 (1.60%) Pure Storage
12 19 (1.52%) MuleSoft
12 19 (1.52%) Talend
13 17 (1.36%) Avaloq
14 15 (1.20%) IFS
15 14 (1.12%) Ariba
15 14 (1.12%) Google
15 14 (1.12%) IBM
16 12 (0.96%) Red Hat
17 10 (0.80%) GoldenSource