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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 97 95
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,385 787 1,023
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.97% 2.67% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 2.94% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 509 695
10th Percentile £360 £375 £363
25th Percentile £449 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £650
90th Percentile £724 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £519 £525
% change year-on-year +1.20% -1.19% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 12 35
10th Percentile £14.61 £36.79 £25.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £60.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.57% -6.67% +252.94%
75th Percentile £67.63 £87.16 £80.00
90th Percentile £83.40 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -69.23% -13.33% +261.45%

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 39,506 26,799 37,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.73% 90.79% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,946 17,322 24,335
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -0.36% -2.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,068 2,432
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £28.00 £35.58
% change year-on-year +49.48% -21.29% -4.62%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +19 1,212 £525 -0.76% 237
UK excluding London +10 609 £525 +1.20% 182
London +35 601 £525 -4.55% 96
Work from Home -9 362 £500 -5.21% 121
South East -1 177 £624 +13.45% 72
North of England -14 164 £500 -2.15% 41
Midlands -7 119 £450 -10.89% 29
North West +3 98 £475 -12.60% 25
West Midlands -18 81 £442 -12.57% 17
Yorkshire -43 57 £527 +33.42% 13
East of England -14 50 £575 -11.54% 15
South West -26 46 £538 +4.88% 20
East Midlands -13 35 £500 +7.53% 12
Scotland +12 33 £559 +17.63% 7
Northern Ireland +16 16 £463 -11.90% 3
North East -12 9 £488 -20.41% 3
Wales -5 6 £550 +46.67% 1
Channel Islands -1 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 44 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 42 (3.03%) Confluence
3 9 (0.65%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.29%) Apache
6 4 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.14%) Appian
8 2 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.072%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.072%) CMS
9 1 (0.072%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.072%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.072%) WebSphere
Applications
1 69 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
4 19 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.08%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.072%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 159 (11.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (4.26%) Oracle EBS
3 37 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (1.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 16 (1.16%) SAP ERP
6 14 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.94%) Loan IQ
8 12 (0.87%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 10 (0.72%) Oracle EBS R12
11 9 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
11 9 (0.65%) SAP FI
11 9 (0.65%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
12 8 (0.58%) SAP CO
12 8 (0.58%) SAP MDG
13 7 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
14 6 (0.43%) Finacle
15 5 (0.36%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 211 (15.23%) Azure
2 137 (9.89%) Power Platform
3 119 (8.59%) AWS
4 106 (7.65%) Dynamics 365
5 87 (6.28%) OCI
6 65 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 50 (3.61%) SaaS
9 34 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 34 (2.45%) GitHub
10 31 (2.24%) Snowflake
11 30 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
12 25 (1.81%) SuccessFactors
13 21 (1.52%) Amazon S3
14 19 (1.37%) GCP
15 17 (1.23%) OpenShift
16 15 (1.08%) Entra ID
16 15 (1.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 14 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
17 14 (1.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.23%) SAN
2 15 (1.08%) DNS
2 15 (1.08%) NAS
3 6 (0.43%) Firewall
4 5 (0.36%) VPN
4 5 (0.36%) VSAN
5 4 (0.29%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (0.22%) FCoE
6 3 (0.22%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.14%) HTTP
7 2 (0.14%) Network Security
7 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.072%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.072%) Internet
8 1 (0.072%) Intranet
8 1 (0.072%) LAN
8 1 (0.072%) SNMP
8 1 (0.072%) SSL
8 1 (0.072%) VLAN
8 1 (0.072%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (8.30%) Power BI
2 92 (6.64%) Data Warehouse
3 59 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 58 (4.19%) Oracle Reports
5 36 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 35 (2.53%) Metadata
7 33 (2.38%) Data Lake
8 28 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (1.81%) Relational Database
10 22 (1.59%) Oracle Database
11 16 (1.16%) SAP Data Services
12 15 (1.08%) NoSQL
12 15 (1.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 15 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 14 (1.01%) DB2
14 12 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (0.72%) MySQL
15 10 (0.72%) Tableau
16 9 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 126 (9.10%) JIRA
2 33 (2.38%) Git
3 30 (2.17%) Zephyr
4 29 (2.09%) Postman
5 19 (1.37%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.94%) Selenium
7 10 (0.72%) GitLab
8 8 (0.58%) LSMW
8 8 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.43%) Hudson
9 6 (0.43%) JUnit
10 5 (0.36%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.29%) Toad
12 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.22%) ERwin
12 3 (0.22%) MLflow
12 3 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 459 (33.14%) Finance
2 447 (32.27%) Social Skills
3 171 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (8.81%) Public Sector
5 76 (5.49%) Manufacturing
6 75 (5.42%) Banking
7 59 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (3.39%) Law
9 44 (3.18%) Retail
10 40 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 23 (1.66%) Legal
13 22 (1.59%) General Ledger
13 22 (1.59%) Marketing
14 21 (1.52%) Local Government
15 20 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 17 (1.23%) Billing
17 14 (1.01%) Aerospace
18 13 (0.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 301 (21.73%) Lead
2 205 (14.80%) Analyst
3 167 (12.06%) Architect
4 164 (11.84%) Consultant
5 108 (7.80%) Project Manager
6 106 (7.65%) Business Analyst
7 98 (7.08%) Data Migration Lead
8 97 (7.00%) Data Engineer
8 97 (7.00%) Senior
9 66 (4.77%) Developer
10 64 (4.62%) Data Analyst
11 57 (4.12%) Migration Analyst
12 49 (3.54%) SAP Consultant
13 48 (3.47%) Migration Engineer
14 47 (3.39%) Data Architect
15 46 (3.32%) Migration Manager
16 43 (3.10%) Data Migration Analyst
16 43 (3.10%) Data Migration Engineer
17 40 (2.89%) Test Manager
18 39 (2.82%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (6.21%) Oracle Fusion
2 41 (2.96%) REST
3 33 (2.38%) Middleware
4 25 (1.81%) XML
5 22 (1.59%) SOAP
6 20 (1.44%) .NET
7 19 (1.37%) JSON
8 14 (1.01%) Kafka
9 13 (0.94%) Lightning Web Components
9 13 (0.94%) PySpark
9 13 (0.94%) Spring
10 12 (0.87%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (0.51%) React
11 7 (0.51%) Web Services
12 6 (0.43%) AngularJS
13 5 (0.36%) FHIR
13 5 (0.36%) RESTful
13 5 (0.36%) Spring Boot
13 5 (0.36%) Visualforce
13 5 (0.36%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 180 (13.00%) Legacy Systems
2 102 (7.36%) Data Structures
3 45 (3.25%) Management Information System
4 40 (2.89%) Cloud Native
5 38 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
7 26 (1.88%) Product Ownership
8 24 (1.73%) Replication
9 21 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 16 (1.16%) Mainframe
12 15 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (0.94%) Data Centre
14 13 (0.94%) Reference Data
15 12 (0.87%) FMCG
15 12 (0.87%) NHS
16 11 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
16 11 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.02%) Windows
2 10 (0.72%) Linux
3 8 (0.58%) Windows 10
4 7 (0.51%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.51%) zOS
5 6 (0.43%) Unix
6 5 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.072%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,385 (100.00%) Migration
2 342 (24.69%) Validation
3 318 (22.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 296 (21.37%) ERP
5 275 (19.86%) User Acceptance Testing
6 272 (19.64%) Agile
7 230 (16.61%) ETL
8 210 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
9 199 (14.37%) Data Modelling
10 197 (14.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 151 (10.90%) Data Cleansing
12 150 (10.83%) Business Intelligence
13 141 (10.18%) Project Management
14 133 (9.60%) Data Mapping
15 128 (9.24%) Analytics
16 127 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
17 121 (8.74%) Workshop Facilitation
18 118 (8.52%) DevOps
19 112 (8.09%) Data Governance
20 109 (7.87%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 250 (18.05%) SQL
2 107 (7.73%) Python
3 42 (3.03%) Java
4 29 (2.09%) PL/SQL
5 19 (1.37%) Bash
6 18 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.01%) PowerShell
8 12 (0.87%) Apex Code
9 10 (0.72%) C#
9 10 (0.72%) VBA
10 9 (0.65%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (0.51%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.36%) ABAP
13 5 (0.36%) Korn
13 5 (0.36%) PHP
14 4 (0.29%) C
14 4 (0.29%) Perl
14 4 (0.29%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 223 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 166 (11.99%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.48%) Degree
4 34 (2.45%) DV Cleared
5 27 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (1.95%) PMP
6 23 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (1.66%) PMI Certification
7 22 (1.59%) ISTQB
8 14 (1.01%) AWS Certification
9 13 (0.94%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.79%) CIMA
11 10 (0.72%) ACCA
12 9 (0.65%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.51%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.29%) ISEB
14 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.29%) OCP
14 4 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 4 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (16.90%) Data Quality
2 124 (8.95%) QA
3 62 (4.48%) GDPR
4 27 (1.95%) PMO
5 15 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.94%) COBIT
7 12 (0.87%) NIST
8 11 (0.79%) SLA
9 9 (0.65%) GxP
9 9 (0.65%) HL7
10 8 (0.58%) GMP
10 8 (0.58%) IFRS
10 8 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.43%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.43%) DICOM
12 5 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.36%) GAAP
12 5 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
13 4 (0.29%) Basel III
13 4 (0.29%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 25 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.08%) vSphere
4 13 (0.94%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.79%) Docker
6 9 (0.65%) NFS
7 6 (0.43%) SRDF
8 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.072%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 34 (2.45%) Kubernetes
2 30 (2.17%) Terraform
3 20 (1.44%) Ansible
4 19 (1.37%) Grafana
5 15 (1.08%) vCenter Server
6 14 (1.01%) Argo
7 13 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.65%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.58%) EMC VPLEX
9 8 (0.58%) SCCM
10 6 (0.43%) vMotion
11 4 (0.29%) EMC TimeFinder
11 4 (0.29%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (0.22%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.14%) SnapMirror
13 2 (0.14%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 263 (18.99%) SAP
2 252 (18.19%) Oracle
3 224 (16.17%) Microsoft
4 68 (4.91%) Salesforce
5 58 (4.19%) Databricks
6 31 (2.24%) Workday
7 29 (2.09%) ServiceNow
7 29 (2.09%) VMware
8 25 (1.81%) Pure Storage
8 25 (1.81%) Sage
9 24 (1.73%) Informatica
10 19 (1.37%) Google
10 19 (1.37%) IBM
10 19 (1.37%) Talend
11 18 (1.30%) Ariba
12 17 (1.23%) Avaloq
12 17 (1.23%) MuleSoft
13 16 (1.16%) IFS
13 16 (1.16%) Infor
13 16 (1.16%) Red Hat