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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 88 100
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,670 926 892
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.12% 2.80% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 3.09% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,084 557 609
10th Percentile £363 £362 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +0.47%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £646
90th Percentile £733 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £498 £538
% change year-on-year +1.71% -7.44% +3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 16 18
10th Percentile £17.75 £16.40 £69.73
25th Percentile £22.16 £32.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £36.33 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.12% -54.59% +158.06%
75th Percentile £57.50 £68.44 -
90th Percentile £75.55 £80.63 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.34 £35.16 £80.00
% change year-on-year -5.18% -56.06% +255.56%

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 45,350 29,954 33,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.75% 90.50% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,857 18,668 21,203
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £424 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,845 1,726 1,796
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.03
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.31 £18.23
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.97
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.61% -1.28%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +13.33%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +15 1,476 £525 - 479
UK excluding London +14 766 £506 +1.71% 323
London +14 713 £550 - 228
Work from Home +11 472 £525 - 257
North of England -10 204 £522 +9.89% 79
South East +6 195 £550 +7.32% 86
Midlands +16 174 £453 -9.40% 59
North West +13 124 £525 +10.53% 57
West Midlands +5 123 £443 -11.50% 35
South West +15 88 £523 -0.48% 30
Yorkshire -25 66 £510 +6.81% 17
East of England +8 55 £570 -5.71% 21
East Midlands +6 46 £525 +16.67% 24
Scotland -11 29 £525 +14.50% 26
Northern Ireland +22 20 £450 -30.77% 21
North East -27 17 £575 - 6
Wales -12 7 £463 -2.63% 5
Channel Islands +3 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 69 (4.13%) SharePoint
2 54 (3.23%) Confluence
3 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.66%) Apache
4 11 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
5 10 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.30%) Tuxedo
8 3 (0.18%) CMS
8 3 (0.18%) SAS
9 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.12%) Mendix
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.060%) IIS
10 1 (0.060%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
10 1 (0.060%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 74 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
3 15 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 171 (10.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (2.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (2.10%) Oracle EBS
4 27 (1.62%) Oracle Payables
5 24 (1.44%) Oracle ERP
6 23 (1.38%) Oracle Receivables
7 20 (1.20%) SAP ERP
8 19 (1.14%) NetSuite
9 15 (0.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 14 (0.84%) Oracle Financials
11 13 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
12 12 (0.72%) iTrent
12 12 (0.72%) Oracle Assets
12 12 (0.72%) Workday HCM
13 11 (0.66%) SAP MDG
13 11 (0.66%) Teamcenter
14 10 (0.60%) SAP SD
15 8 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
15 8 (0.48%) SAP CO
15 8 (0.48%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 277 (16.59%) Azure
2 173 (10.36%) Power Platform
3 165 (9.88%) AWS
4 135 (8.08%) Dynamics 365
5 103 (6.17%) OCI
6 86 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
7 68 (4.07%) SaaS
8 56 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
9 49 (2.93%) Snowflake
10 48 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
11 39 (2.34%) Power Automate
12 38 (2.28%) GitHub
13 37 (2.22%) SuccessFactors
14 35 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 31 (1.86%) Amazon S3
16 30 (1.80%) PowerApps
17 25 (1.50%) GCP
18 20 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
19 18 (1.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
20 17 (1.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.54%) VPN
2 8 (0.48%) DNS
2 8 (0.48%) SAN
3 7 (0.42%) NAS
4 5 (0.30%) Firewall
5 3 (0.18%) Intranet
5 3 (0.18%) VSAN
6 2 (0.12%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.12%) HTTP
7 1 (0.060%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.060%) DKIM
7 1 (0.060%) DMARC
7 1 (0.060%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.060%) Internet
7 1 (0.060%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.060%) Network Security
7 1 (0.060%) SNMP
7 1 (0.060%) SSL
7 1 (0.060%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.060%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (8.56%) Power BI
2 127 (7.60%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (4.25%) Oracle Reports
3 71 (4.25%) SQL Server
4 54 (3.23%) Metadata
5 49 (2.93%) Relational Database
6 47 (2.81%) Data Lake
7 34 (2.04%) Oracle Database
8 30 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 19 (1.14%) RDBMS
11 18 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
11 18 (1.08%) NoSQL
12 15 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 13 (0.78%) SAP Data Services
13 13 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (0.72%) DataStage
14 12 (0.72%) Oracle Exadata
15 11 (0.66%) MongoDB
16 10 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 150 (8.98%) JIRA
2 64 (3.83%) Git
3 49 (2.93%) Zephyr
4 41 (2.46%) Postman
5 20 (1.20%) GitLab
6 18 (1.08%) Jenkins
7 13 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
8 12 (0.72%) Selenium
9 6 (0.36%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.36%) Gatling
9 6 (0.36%) Hudson
9 6 (0.36%) LSMW
9 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.30%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.30%) JUnit
10 5 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.18%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
General
1 587 (35.15%) Finance
2 483 (28.92%) Social Skills
3 219 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (9.10%) Public Sector
5 99 (5.93%) Banking
6 90 (5.39%) Manufacturing
7 61 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
8 56 (3.35%) Retail
9 54 (3.23%) Law
10 43 (2.57%) General Ledger
11 35 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (1.98%) Local Government
13 29 (1.74%) Marketing
14 28 (1.68%) Legal
15 27 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (1.50%) Billing
16 25 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
17 24 (1.44%) Automotive
18 23 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
19 22 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 311 (18.62%) Lead
2 240 (14.37%) Analyst
3 212 (12.69%) Architect
4 185 (11.08%) Consultant
5 140 (8.38%) Senior
6 137 (8.20%) Data Engineer
7 113 (6.77%) Business Analyst
8 108 (6.47%) Data Migration Lead
8 108 (6.47%) Project Manager
9 88 (5.27%) Developer
10 80 (4.79%) Data Analyst
11 72 (4.31%) Data Architect
12 66 (3.95%) Migration Engineer
13 57 (3.41%) SAP Consultant
14 55 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
15 54 (3.23%) Data Migration Engineer
16 50 (2.99%) Data Consultant
17 47 (2.81%) Migration Analyst
18 46 (2.75%) Migration Consultant
19 45 (2.69%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (6.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 51 (3.05%) Middleware
3 43 (2.57%) REST
4 32 (1.92%) .NET
5 25 (1.50%) SOAP
5 25 (1.50%) XML
6 20 (1.20%) PySpark
7 19 (1.14%) JSON
7 19 (1.14%) Kafka
8 14 (0.84%) Spring
9 13 (0.78%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 12 (0.72%) Lightning Web Components
11 9 (0.54%) Keycloak
12 8 (0.48%) RESTful
12 8 (0.48%) Spring Boot
13 7 (0.42%) HTML
13 7 (0.42%) Playwright
13 7 (0.42%) React
13 7 (0.42%) SAP Fiori
14 6 (0.36%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 187 (11.20%) Legacy Systems
2 114 (6.83%) Data Structures
3 50 (2.99%) Management Information System
4 49 (2.93%) Onboarding
5 48 (2.87%) Cloud Native
6 41 (2.46%) Public Cloud
7 40 (2.40%) Product Ownership
8 36 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.26%) NHS
11 19 (1.14%) FMCG
11 19 (1.14%) Replication
12 17 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
13 16 (0.96%) Data Centre
14 15 (0.90%) Reference Data
15 14 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
16 12 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
16 12 (0.72%) Mainframe
17 11 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (2.10%) Windows
2 32 (1.92%) Linux
3 12 (0.72%) AIX
4 9 (0.54%) Unix
5 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (0.24%) VMS
7 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.18%) zOS
8 1 (0.060%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,670 (100.00%) Migration
2 466 (27.90%) Validation
3 400 (23.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 375 (22.46%) User Acceptance Testing
5 374 (22.40%) ERP
6 299 (17.90%) Agile
7 287 (17.19%) ETL
8 271 (16.23%) Data Modelling
9 261 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 204 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
11 202 (12.10%) Data Governance
12 177 (10.60%) Business Intelligence
13 159 (9.52%) Data Cleansing
14 156 (9.34%) DevOps
15 153 (9.16%) Analytics
16 144 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
17 142 (8.50%) Data Mapping
18 133 (7.96%) CI/CD
19 125 (7.49%) Data Transformation
20 124 (7.43%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 345 (20.66%) SQL
2 111 (6.65%) Python
3 47 (2.81%) Java
4 32 (1.92%) PL/SQL
5 30 (1.80%) JavaScript
6 26 (1.56%) C#
7 16 (0.96%) Bash
8 14 (0.84%) PowerShell
9 13 (0.78%) Kotlin
10 12 (0.72%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.60%) Apex Code
12 9 (0.54%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.36%) C
13 6 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.30%) ABAP
14 5 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.30%) MUMPS
14 5 (0.30%) VB
14 5 (0.30%) VB6
14 5 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 284 (17.01%) Security Cleared
2 226 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 57 (3.41%) Degree
4 39 (2.34%) ISTQB
5 38 (2.28%) DV Cleared
6 35 (2.10%) PMP
7 33 (1.98%) PMI Certification
8 30 (1.80%) ACCA
8 30 (1.80%) CIMA
9 29 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (0.96%) Azure Certification
11 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (0.54%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.48%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 8 (0.48%) SAP Certification
15 6 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
16 5 (0.30%) ISEB
16 5 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 330 (19.76%) Data Quality
2 155 (9.28%) QA
3 80 (4.79%) GDPR
4 35 (2.10%) PMO
5 12 (0.72%) IFRS
5 12 (0.72%) SLA
6 11 (0.66%) HL7
7 10 (0.60%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.60%) GRC
8 8 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
9 7 (0.42%) DICOM
9 7 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.36%) GMP
11 4 (0.24%) GxP
11 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.24%) PERC
11 4 (0.24%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.18%) GAAP
13 2 (0.12%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 18 (1.08%) Docker
2 15 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
3 14 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.48%) vSphere
5 5 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.30%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.24%) SRDF
7 3 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (0.18%) NFS
7 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (2.22%) Terraform
2 32 (1.92%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.56%) Ansible
4 12 (0.72%) Data Guard
4 12 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
5 11 (0.66%) HP ALM
6 8 (0.48%) Grafana
6 8 (0.48%) Karpenter
6 8 (0.48%) vCenter Server
7 7 (0.42%) Argo
8 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
9 4 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.24%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.18%) SnapVault
11 2 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.060%) Avamar
Vendors
1 345 (20.66%) Oracle
2 308 (18.44%) SAP
3 284 (17.01%) Microsoft
4 87 (5.21%) Databricks
5 72 (4.31%) Salesforce
6 36 (2.16%) ServiceNow
7 32 (1.92%) Workday
8 29 (1.74%) Informatica
9 25 (1.50%) IBM
10 24 (1.44%) Talend
11 21 (1.26%) Google
12 20 (1.20%) Ariba
13 19 (1.14%) IFS
13 19 (1.14%) Sage
14 17 (1.02%) VMware
15 15 (0.90%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.84%) Infor
16 14 (0.84%) InterSystems
17 11 (0.66%) HP
18 10 (0.60%) Siebel