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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 96 93
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,027 854 1,035
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.77% 2.56% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 2.90% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 570 688
10th Percentile £375 £400 £413
25th Percentile £435 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £535 £563
Median % change year-on-year +0.14% -4.84% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £713 £700 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 3 11
10th Percentile £14.61 £40.40 £82.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £48.50 £83.13
Median hourly rate £64.57 £64.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -24.71% +21.00%
75th Percentile £81.00 £67.88 £86.50
90th Percentile £100.00 £69.00 £87.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.50 £66.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -3.01% +33.00% +181.69%

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 32,632 29,487 37,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.11% 88.32% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,578 17,975 25,172
10th Percentile £304 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,027 953 1,511
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -26.14% +25.71%
75th Percentile £53.44 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.69 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £30.45 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.58% -32.33% +40.63%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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 -5 852 £538 -2.27% 1,327
London +12 452 £550 - 167
UK excluding London -16 409 £500 -4.76% 1,255
Work from Home -19 310 £525 -1.50% 633
South East -30 114 £625 +13.64% 326
Midlands -4 103 £550 +4.76% 251
North of England -42 83 £475 -9.52% 255
West Midlands -23 56 £550 +4.76% 129
East Midlands +14 46 £550 +25.71% 107
Scotland +33 45 £550 +15.79% 46
North West -21 41 £450 -10.00% 128
Yorkshire -36 36 £525 -6.79% 110
South West -8 27 £525 - 125
East of England -23 20 £465 -15.55% 211
Wales +3 8 £531 +3.66% 26
Northern Ireland -1 8 £400 -23.81% 29
North East -10 7 £488 -22.00% 17

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 34 (3.31%) Confluence
2 32 (3.12%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.58%) Apache
5 6 (0.58%) GeoServer
5 6 (0.58%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 6 (0.58%) Smallworld
6 5 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.29%) CMS
7 3 (0.29%) LiveLink
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.097%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.097%) Moodle
9 1 (0.097%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.097%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.097%) SAP Portal
9 1 (0.097%) SAS
9 1 (0.097%) WebSphere
Applications
1 47 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (1.07%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.49%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.097%) Trello
7 1 (0.097%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 114 (11.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
3 35 (3.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (2.14%) SAP HR
5 18 (1.75%) Oracle Payables
6 15 (1.46%) NetSuite
7 14 (1.36%) Oracle General Ledger
7 14 (1.36%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (1.17%) SAP ERP
9 11 (1.07%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.97%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 9 (0.88%) Oracle Cash Management
11 9 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
11 9 (0.88%) SAP PM
11 9 (0.88%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.78%) SAP CO
12 8 (0.78%) SAP FI/CO
12 8 (0.78%) SAP HCM
12 8 (0.78%) SAP MDG
12 8 (0.78%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 148 (14.41%) Azure
2 92 (8.96%) AWS
3 81 (7.89%) Power Platform
4 76 (7.40%) Dynamics 365
5 68 (6.62%) OCI
6 38 (3.70%) SaaS
7 32 (3.12%) Azure Data Factory
7 32 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (3.02%) Amazon S3
9 25 (2.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 25 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (2.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 22 (2.14%) Snowflake
12 21 (2.04%) Entra ID
12 21 (2.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 19 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
14 17 (1.66%) Serverless
15 15 (1.46%) GCP
16 13 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
16 13 (1.27%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.68%) NAS
2 4 (0.39%) Firewall
2 4 (0.39%) SSL
2 4 (0.39%) VPN
3 3 (0.29%) DNS
3 3 (0.29%) Intranet
3 3 (0.29%) Network Security
3 3 (0.29%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.19%) Internet
4 2 (0.19%) IPv6
4 2 (0.19%) LAN
4 2 (0.19%) SAN
4 2 (0.19%) WAN
5 1 (0.097%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.097%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.097%) IPv4
5 1 (0.097%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.097%) VLAN
5 1 (0.097%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.097%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (6.23%) Power BI
2 58 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (5.45%) SQL Server
4 42 (4.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 32 (3.12%) Relational Database
6 26 (2.53%) Data Lake
7 23 (2.24%) Metadata
8 22 (2.14%) Oracle Database
8 22 (2.14%) Tableau
9 21 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
10 19 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 17 (1.66%) DataStage
12 16 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (1.36%) RDBMS
15 13 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
15 13 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
16 12 (1.17%) SAP Data Services
17 10 (0.97%) Big Data
17 10 (0.97%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 75 (7.30%) JIRA
2 6 (0.58%) LSMW
2 6 (0.58%) Postman
3 5 (0.49%) Git
4 4 (0.39%) GitLab
4 4 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.39%) Toad
4 4 (0.39%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.29%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.29%) MLflow
5 3 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.19%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.19%) Hudson
7 1 (0.097%) Poetry
7 1 (0.097%) Selenium
7 1 (0.097%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.097%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.097%) webpack
General
1 362 (35.25%) Social Skills
2 338 (32.91%) Finance
3 118 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 60 (5.84%) Banking
6 39 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
6 39 (3.80%) Manufacturing
7 28 (2.73%) Local Government
7 28 (2.73%) Retail
8 27 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
9 24 (2.34%) Legal
9 24 (2.34%) Marketing
10 19 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (1.75%) Back Office
11 18 (1.75%) General Ledger
12 12 (1.17%) Billing
12 12 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (0.97%) Financial Institution
13 10 (0.97%) Law
Job Titles
1 155 (15.09%) Lead
2 153 (14.90%) Analyst
2 153 (14.90%) Consultant
3 120 (11.68%) Architect
4 93 (9.06%) Project Manager
5 92 (8.96%) Business Analyst
6 77 (7.50%) Senior
7 55 (5.36%) Data Engineer
8 53 (5.16%) Data Migration Lead
9 50 (4.87%) Developer
9 50 (4.87%) SAP Consultant
10 45 (4.38%) Data Analyst
11 41 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
12 34 (3.31%) Migration Analyst
12 34 (3.31%) Migration Specialist
13 32 (3.12%) Functional Consultant
14 31 (3.02%) Data Migration Specialist
15 29 (2.82%) Data Consultant
15 29 (2.82%) Data Migration Analyst
15 29 (2.82%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (5.65%) Oracle Fusion
2 39 (3.80%) XML
3 38 (3.70%) REST
4 28 (2.73%) Lightning Web Components
5 26 (2.53%) SOAP
6 24 (2.34%) Visualforce
7 21 (2.04%) Middleware
8 20 (1.95%) JSON
9 14 (1.36%) PySpark
10 12 (1.17%) .NET
11 11 (1.07%) SAP Fiori
11 11 (1.07%) Web Services
12 8 (0.78%) SAP PI
12 8 (0.78%) XSLT
13 6 (0.58%) EDI
14 5 (0.49%) Apache Avro
14 5 (0.49%) GraphQL
14 5 (0.49%) LDAP
14 5 (0.49%) SAP Basis
15 4 (0.39%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 134 (13.05%) Legacy Systems
2 66 (6.43%) Data Structures
3 38 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 31 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 29 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 20 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (1.36%) Replication
9 13 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.17%) Reference Data
11 10 (0.97%) Data Centre
12 9 (0.88%) CMDB
13 8 (0.78%) Cloud Native
13 8 (0.78%) FMCG
13 8 (0.78%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.68%) Life Science
14 7 (0.68%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
15 6 (0.58%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.58%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.43%) Windows
2 9 (0.88%) Windows 10
3 8 (0.78%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.39%) Linux
6 4 (0.39%) Unix
7 3 (0.29%) Solaris
8 1 (0.097%) AIX
8 1 (0.097%) MVS
8 1 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.097%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,027 (100.00%) Migration
2 249 (24.25%) Agile
3 225 (21.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 194 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
5 178 (17.33%) Validation
6 173 (16.85%) ERP
7 166 (16.16%) ETL
8 150 (14.61%) Data Modelling
9 147 (14.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 135 (13.15%) User Acceptance Testing
11 110 (10.71%) Analytics
12 104 (10.13%) Project Management
13 101 (9.83%) Workshop Facilitation
14 100 (9.74%) Data Governance
15 92 (8.96%) Data Cleansing
16 88 (8.57%) Change Management
17 86 (8.37%) Business Intelligence
18 78 (7.59%) Data Analysis
19 77 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
20 76 (7.40%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 202 (19.67%) SQL
2 72 (7.01%) Python
3 32 (3.12%) Java
4 28 (2.73%) Apex Code
5 17 (1.66%) PL/SQL
6 14 (1.36%) C#
6 14 (1.36%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.36%) PowerShell
7 9 (0.88%) ABAP
7 9 (0.88%) T-SQL
8 7 (0.68%) Bicep
8 7 (0.68%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.58%) PHP
10 5 (0.49%) Perl
10 5 (0.49%) R
11 4 (0.39%) Scala
11 4 (0.39%) SOQL
11 4 (0.39%) VB
11 4 (0.39%) X++
12 3 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 121 (11.78%) Security Cleared
2 83 (8.08%) Degree
2 83 (8.08%) SC Cleared
3 34 (3.31%) PMP
4 33 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.02%) PMI Certification
6 24 (2.34%) Master's Degree
7 20 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.56%) AWS Certification
9 15 (1.46%) SAP Certification
10 13 (1.27%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.58%) CIMA
11 6 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
12 5 (0.49%) ACCA
12 5 (0.49%) CFA
13 4 (0.39%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.39%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.29%) PgMP
14 3 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (15.09%) Data Quality
2 75 (7.30%) QA
3 64 (6.23%) GDPR
4 15 (1.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 13 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.07%) PMO
7 8 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.78%) GRC
7 8 (0.78%) GxP
8 7 (0.68%) COBIT
8 7 (0.68%) IFRS
8 7 (0.68%) NIST
9 6 (0.58%) GMP
9 6 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.58%) SLA
10 5 (0.49%) GAAP
10 5 (0.49%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.39%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (1.46%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.36%) Docker
3 4 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.29%) NFS
5 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.097%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.097%) SRDF
6 1 (0.097%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.097%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.097%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (1.66%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.56%) Terraform
3 10 (0.97%) SCCM
4 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.39%) Ansible
5 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.19%) Grafana
8 1 (0.097%) Argo
8 1 (0.097%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.097%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.097%) Control-M
8 1 (0.097%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.097%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.097%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 215 (20.93%) SAP
2 170 (16.55%) Oracle
3 150 (14.61%) Microsoft
4 58 (5.65%) Salesforce
5 40 (3.89%) Databricks
6 37 (3.60%) Workday
7 18 (1.75%) Informatica
8 15 (1.46%) IBM
9 13 (1.27%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.17%) Ariba
10 12 (1.17%) MuleSoft
11 11 (1.07%) Google
12 9 (0.88%) Avaloq
12 9 (0.88%) OpenText
12 9 (0.88%) Sage
12 9 (0.88%) Talend
13 8 (0.78%) Kronos
14 7 (0.68%) IFS
15 6 (0.58%) ESRI
15 6 (0.58%) Intergraph