Data Migration Contracts

Data Migration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Migration over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 101 124
Rank change year-on-year +15 +23 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 902 966 1,162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.77% 2.29% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 2.68% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 647 789
10th Percentile £363 £363 £390
25th Percentile £435 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £715 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.19% +2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 34 8
10th Percentile £17.52 £25.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £32.25 £40.00 £20.31
Median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +127.27% -38.60%
75th Percentile £77.08 £80.00 £59.86
90th Percentile £87.50 - £91.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.75 £75.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -36.33% +180.37% -8.00%

All Process and 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 29,443 36,038 50,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.37% 85.40% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,490 23,058 34,451
10th Percentile £300 £303 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,553 2,324 1,670
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -5.29% +52.19%
75th Percentile £51.65 £61.70 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.75 £73.43 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.04% -4.70% +86.05%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Migration.

Daily rate trend for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Migration.

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Migration over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Top 18 Contract 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 July 2025. 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 +16 764 £525 -1.87% 396
London +10 394 £550 - 196
UK excluding London -3 358 £500 -4.76% 240
Work from Home -11 301 £525 - 215
North of England +17 108 £475 -7.99% 51
South East +23 87 £500 -9.09% 61
Midlands +20 70 £500 - 55
Yorkshire +14 53 £469 -8.54% 12
North West +2 53 £481 -8.33% 33
West Midlands +6 44 £500 +2.56% 35
South West +9 33 £525 +1.94% 32
East of England +3 28 £628 +67.33% 19
Scotland -27 25 £470 -10.48% 11
East Midlands +10 21 £450 -15.09% 19
Wales +7 5 £475 +11.76% 10
North East -7 2 £575 -2.13% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 £975 - 6
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Data Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 47 (5.21%) Confluence
2 40 (4.43%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.55%) CMS
6 4 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.44%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.44%) SAS
6 4 (0.44%) Smallworld
7 3 (0.33%) Apache
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.22%) Documentum
8 2 (0.22%) IBM Notes
8 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.11%) Drupal
9 1 (0.11%) JBoss
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 35 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.44%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.22%) Trello
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 88 (9.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (4.21%) Oracle EBS
3 30 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (1.33%) Oracle EBS R12
5 11 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
5 11 (1.22%) SAP HR
6 9 (1.00%) SAP MDG
6 9 (1.00%) SAP PM
6 9 (1.00%) SAP PP
6 9 (1.00%) SAP SD
7 7 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
7 7 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.67%) Oracle Payroll
8 6 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.67%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
9 5 (0.55%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 142 (15.74%) Azure
2 111 (12.31%) AWS
3 78 (8.65%) Power Platform
4 69 (7.65%) Dynamics 365
5 43 (4.77%) GCP
6 37 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (4.10%) OCI
7 32 (3.55%) Amazon S3
7 32 (3.55%) SaaS
8 30 (3.33%) Snowflake
9 27 (2.99%) Serverless
10 25 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (2.55%) PowerApps
12 22 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (2.00%) Power Automate
13 18 (2.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 16 (1.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 16 (1.77%) SuccessFactors
15 15 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.44%) Firewall
2 10 (1.11%) VPN
3 2 (0.22%) Network Security
3 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.22%) WAN
4 1 (0.11%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.11%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.11%) Intranet
4 1 (0.11%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.11%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.11%) SAN
4 1 (0.11%) VSAN
4 1 (0.11%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.76%) Data Warehouse
2 64 (7.10%) SQL Server
3 53 (5.88%) Power BI
4 38 (4.21%) Oracle Database
5 37 (4.10%) Oracle Reports
6 31 (3.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 27 (2.99%) Data Lake
8 23 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (2.22%) Relational Database
10 18 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (1.88%) SAP Data Services
12 15 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (1.66%) Metadata
12 15 (1.66%) Tableau
13 14 (1.55%) MySQL
14 13 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 11 (1.22%) SAP HANA
17 10 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
17 10 (1.11%) GIS
Development Applications
1 71 (7.87%) JIRA
2 16 (1.77%) GitLab
3 9 (1.00%) Git
3 9 (1.00%) LSMW
4 8 (0.89%) Selenium
5 6 (0.67%) ERwin
5 6 (0.67%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.67%) REST Assured
6 5 (0.55%) DBeaver
6 5 (0.55%) Postman
6 5 (0.55%) Zephyr
7 4 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.33%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.33%) Subversion
8 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.22%) JMeter
9 2 (0.22%) QARun
9 2 (0.22%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.22%) WinRunner
General
1 345 (38.25%) Social Skills
2 323 (35.81%) Finance
3 153 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (6.87%) Public Sector
5 40 (4.43%) Banking
5 40 (4.43%) Marketing
6 36 (3.99%) Local Government
7 35 (3.88%) Manufacturing
8 27 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (2.77%) Retail
10 24 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.44%) Legal
11 22 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (1.77%) General Ledger
12 16 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
13 13 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.22%) Law
15 10 (1.11%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.00%) French Language
16 9 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (16.19%) Consultant
2 138 (15.30%) Analyst
3 126 (13.97%) Architect
4 101 (11.20%) Lead
5 78 (8.65%) Project Manager
6 59 (6.54%) Business Analyst
7 56 (6.21%) Data Engineer
8 55 (6.10%) Senior
9 53 (5.88%) Data Analyst
10 48 (5.32%) Developer
11 46 (5.10%) SAP Consultant
12 37 (4.10%) Migration Engineer
13 32 (3.55%) Data Consultant
14 30 (3.33%) Data Migration Lead
14 30 (3.33%) Oracle Consultant
15 29 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
16 28 (3.10%) Data Migration Engineer
16 28 (3.10%) Migration Specialist
17 26 (2.88%) Data Architect
17 26 (2.88%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.22%) Lightning Web Components
2 22 (2.44%) REST
3 21 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 19 (2.11%) Visualforce
5 18 (2.00%) Middleware
6 17 (1.88%) XML
7 15 (1.66%) SOAP
8 9 (1.00%) .NET
8 9 (1.00%) EDI
8 9 (1.00%) Kafka
9 8 (0.89%) BAPI
9 8 (0.89%) Gherkin
9 8 (0.89%) JSON
9 8 (0.89%) Web Services
10 7 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
11 6 (0.67%) IDoc
11 6 (0.67%) PySpark
11 6 (0.67%) Spring Boot
11 6 (0.67%) WebdriverIO
12 5 (0.55%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 112 (12.42%) Legacy Systems
2 39 (4.32%) Data Structures
2 39 (4.32%) Management Information System
3 27 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.66%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.44%) Onboarding
6 15 (1.66%) Reference Data
7 13 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (1.22%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.11%) Life Science
9 10 (1.11%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.00%) FMCG
11 7 (0.78%) NHS
11 7 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (0.67%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.33%) Windows
2 11 (1.22%) Linux
3 9 (1.00%) Unix
4 6 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.11%) AIX
7 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.11%) CentOS
7 1 (0.11%) MVS
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
7 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 902 (100.00%) Migration
2 213 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
3 162 (17.96%) ETL
4 154 (17.07%) Validation
5 135 (14.97%) Agile
6 128 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
7 124 (13.75%) ERP
8 121 (13.41%) Data Modelling
9 120 (13.30%) User Acceptance Testing
10 105 (11.64%) Data Governance
11 100 (11.09%) Change Management
12 95 (10.53%) DevOps
13 90 (9.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 88 (9.76%) Data Management
15 85 (9.42%) Project Management
16 84 (9.31%) Analytics
17 81 (8.98%) Data Integration
18 80 (8.87%) Business Intelligence
19 70 (7.76%) CRM
20 67 (7.43%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 216 (23.95%) SQL
2 81 (8.98%) Python
3 28 (3.10%) Apex Code
4 26 (2.88%) Java
4 26 (2.88%) PL/SQL
5 23 (2.55%) C#
6 18 (2.00%) T-SQL
7 14 (1.55%) JavaScript
8 12 (1.33%) Bash
9 11 (1.22%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.11%) Bicep
11 9 (1.00%) ABAP
12 8 (0.89%) VB
13 7 (0.78%) R
13 7 (0.78%) VBA
14 4 (0.44%) C++
14 4 (0.44%) SOQL
14 4 (0.44%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.33%) Magik
Qualifications
1 83 (9.20%) Security Cleared
2 78 (8.65%) Degree
3 68 (7.54%) SC Cleared
4 30 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (1.77%) PMI Certification
6 16 (1.77%) PMP
7 13 (1.44%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.22%) CBAP
10 7 (0.78%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.67%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.44%) ACCA
12 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.44%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.33%) CIMA
13 3 (0.33%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (14.75%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.21%) QA
3 43 (4.77%) GDPR
4 9 (1.00%) PMO
5 8 (0.89%) SLA
6 7 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.67%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.67%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.33%) GRC
9 2 (0.22%) COBIT
9 2 (0.22%) IFRS
9 2 (0.22%) NIST
9 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.11%) EMIR
10 1 (0.11%) GAAP
10 1 (0.11%) MiFID
10 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 25 (2.77%) Docker
2 8 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.11%) SRDF
5 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 26 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 25 (2.77%) Terraform
3 15 (1.66%) Ansible
4 14 (1.55%) Oracle RMAN
5 7 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.67%) Puppet
7 4 (0.44%) CEMLI
7 4 (0.44%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.33%) Grafana
8 3 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
8 3 (0.33%) SCCM
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.11%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.11%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.11%) EMC TimeFinder
10 1 (0.11%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.11%) SCSM
Vendors
1 181 (20.07%) SAP
2 172 (19.07%) Oracle
3 151 (16.74%) Microsoft
4 60 (6.65%) Salesforce
5 34 (3.77%) Databricks
6 32 (3.55%) Google
7 23 (2.55%) Workday
8 21 (2.33%) Ariba
9 14 (1.55%) IBM
10 13 (1.44%) Commvault
11 12 (1.33%) Informatica
12 10 (1.11%) IFS
13 9 (1.00%) HP
14 8 (0.89%) VMware
15 7 (0.78%) Alteryx
15 7 (0.78%) Atlassian
16 6 (0.67%) Red Hat
16 6 (0.67%) Teradata
17 5 (0.55%) Cognos
17 5 (0.55%) ESRI