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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 89 105
Rank change year-on-year +3 +16 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,622 929 873
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.02% 2.84% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.58% 3.14% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,041 566 595
10th Percentile £363 £363 £380
25th Percentile £425 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £733 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £545
% change year-on-year - -8.26% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 16 13
10th Percentile £17.75 £16.40 £65.10
25th Percentile £21.31 £32.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £36.33 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.12% -54.59% -13.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £68.44 -
90th Percentile £75.33 £80.63 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.96 £35.16 £80.00
% change year-on-year -14.78% -56.06% -10.55%

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 45,369 29,617 32,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.56% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,730 18,446 20,728
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
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 2,902 1,758 1,607
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.78 £17.30 £18.82
Median hourly rate £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.39% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.88 £47.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.49% -47.37% +14.67%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +4 1,417 £525 - 629
UK excluding London +8 722 £500 - 407
London +15 696 £538 -2.27% 330
Work from Home +11 461 £525 -2.23% 334
North of England -9 194 £500 +5.26% 90
South East -2 173 £550 -4.35% 106
Midlands +5 162 £475 -5.00% 65
North West +1 120 £525 +10.53% 62
West Midlands -5 111 £450 -10.00% 45
South West +20 88 £523 -0.48% 37
Yorkshire -30 62 £500 +2.56% 14
East of England +6 57 £565 +14.43% 30
East Midlands +4 47 £525 +0.77% 20
Scotland -22 30 £525 +11.70% 48
Northern Ireland +19 18 £450 -30.77% 32
North East -34 15 £444 +1.43% 14
Wales -14 6 £400 -17.95% 5
Channel Islands -1 2 £450 - 1

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 (4.25%) SharePoint
2 51 (3.14%) Confluence
3 14 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.68%) Apache
4 11 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
5 9 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.31%) Tuxedo
7 4 (0.25%) SAS
8 3 (0.18%) CMS
8 3 (0.18%) SugarCRM
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 (0.062%) IIS
10 1 (0.062%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.062%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 68 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
3 16 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.99%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.18%) Windchill
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.062%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 175 (10.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 52 (3.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (1.79%) Oracle Payables
4 25 (1.54%) Oracle Receivables
5 23 (1.42%) Oracle ERP
6 21 (1.29%) Oracle EBS
7 20 (1.23%) NetSuite
8 19 (1.17%) SAP ERP
9 15 (0.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 14 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
10 14 (0.86%) Oracle Financials
11 13 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
11 13 (0.80%) SAP SD
11 13 (0.80%) Workday HCM
12 12 (0.74%) SAP MDG
12 12 (0.74%) Teamcenter
13 11 (0.68%) iTrent
13 11 (0.68%) SAP CO
13 11 (0.68%) SAP FI
14 9 (0.55%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 268 (16.52%) Azure
2 165 (10.17%) Power Platform
3 156 (9.62%) AWS
4 145 (8.94%) Dynamics 365
5 90 (5.55%) OCI
6 84 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
7 67 (4.13%) SaaS
8 49 (3.02%) Snowflake
9 48 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 47 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
11 39 (2.40%) Power Automate
12 38 (2.34%) GitHub
12 38 (2.34%) SuccessFactors
13 32 (1.97%) Amazon S3
13 32 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 31 (1.91%) PowerApps
15 25 (1.54%) GCP
16 18 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
16 18 (1.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 17 (1.05%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.43%) DNS
1 7 (0.43%) VPN
2 6 (0.37%) NAS
2 6 (0.37%) SAN
3 4 (0.25%) Firewall
4 3 (0.18%) Intranet
5 2 (0.12%) HTTP
5 2 (0.12%) VSAN
6 1 (0.062%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.062%) DKIM
6 1 (0.062%) DMARC
6 1 (0.062%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.062%) Internet
6 1 (0.062%) LAN
6 1 (0.062%) SNMP
6 1 (0.062%) SSL
6 1 (0.062%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.062%) VLAN
6 1 (0.062%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (8.14%) Power BI
2 117 (7.21%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 60 (3.70%) Metadata
5 50 (3.08%) Oracle Reports
6 49 (3.02%) Relational Database
7 43 (2.65%) Data Lake
8 37 (2.28%) Oracle Database
9 33 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (1.23%) RDBMS
10 20 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 18 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (1.05%) NoSQL
13 14 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (0.86%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 13 (0.80%) DataStage
14 13 (0.80%) Oracle Exadata
14 13 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 12 (0.74%) SAP Data Services
16 11 (0.68%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 131 (8.08%) JIRA
2 58 (3.58%) Git
3 40 (2.47%) Zephyr
4 31 (1.91%) Postman
5 22 (1.36%) GitLab
6 18 (1.11%) Jenkins
7 14 (0.86%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.62%) Selenium
9 6 (0.37%) Gatling
9 6 (0.37%) Hudson
9 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.31%) LSMW
10 5 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.25%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.18%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
13 2 (0.12%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.12%) JMeter
13 2 (0.12%) Yeoman
General
1 580 (35.76%) Finance
2 460 (28.36%) Social Skills
3 212 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (9.49%) Public Sector
5 92 (5.67%) Banking
6 85 (5.24%) Manufacturing
7 63 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
8 60 (3.70%) Retail
9 51 (3.14%) Law
10 48 (2.96%) General Ledger
11 35 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (2.10%) Local Government
13 29 (1.79%) Billing
14 28 (1.73%) Automotive
15 27 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 26 (1.60%) Marketing
17 25 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
18 24 (1.48%) Legal
19 18 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
19 18 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 301 (18.56%) Lead
2 236 (14.55%) Analyst
3 215 (13.26%) Architect
4 186 (11.47%) Consultant
5 133 (8.20%) Senior
6 131 (8.08%) Data Engineer
7 106 (6.54%) Data Migration Lead
8 105 (6.47%) Business Analyst
9 96 (5.92%) Project Manager
10 84 (5.18%) Developer
11 82 (5.06%) Data Analyst
12 74 (4.56%) Data Architect
13 61 (3.76%) Migration Engineer
14 56 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
15 55 (3.39%) SAP Consultant
16 54 (3.33%) Data Consultant
17 50 (3.08%) Data Migration Engineer
18 47 (2.90%) Migration Consultant
19 44 (2.71%) Migration Analyst
20 43 (2.65%) Data Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (5.86%) Oracle Fusion
2 55 (3.39%) Middleware
3 41 (2.53%) REST
4 36 (2.22%) Terraform
5 32 (1.97%) .NET
6 29 (1.79%) XML
7 25 (1.54%) SOAP
8 22 (1.36%) JSON
8 22 (1.36%) PySpark
9 17 (1.05%) Kafka
10 15 (0.92%) Spring
11 14 (0.86%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 11 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
13 9 (0.55%) HTML
13 9 (0.55%) Keycloak
13 9 (0.55%) Spring Boot
14 8 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
15 7 (0.43%) Web Services
16 6 (0.37%) ADO
16 6 (0.37%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 183 (11.28%) Legacy Systems
2 113 (6.97%) Data Structures
3 50 (3.08%) Onboarding
4 49 (3.02%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.77%) Cloud Native
5 45 (2.77%) Public Cloud
6 42 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
7 40 (2.47%) Product Ownership
8 30 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
9 20 (1.23%) FMCG
9 20 (1.23%) NHS
9 20 (1.23%) Replication
10 18 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (0.99%) Reference Data
12 14 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (0.80%) Data Centre
13 13 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (0.74%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.74%) Reinsurance
14 12 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.97%) Linux
2 30 (1.85%) Windows
3 13 (0.80%) AIX
4 9 (0.55%) Unix
5 6 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (0.25%) VMS
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.062%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,622 (100.00%) Migration
2 467 (28.79%) Validation
3 411 (25.34%) Stakeholder Management
4 380 (23.43%) User Acceptance Testing
5 373 (23.00%) ERP
6 280 (17.26%) Agile
7 266 (16.40%) Data Modelling
8 263 (16.21%) ETL
9 258 (15.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 204 (12.58%) Data Governance
11 196 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
12 161 (9.93%) Business Intelligence
13 154 (9.49%) DevOps
14 153 (9.43%) Data Cleansing
15 144 (8.88%) Analytics
16 140 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
17 133 (8.20%) Data Mapping
18 131 (8.08%) CI/CD
19 123 (7.58%) Requirements Gathering
20 122 (7.52%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 340 (20.96%) SQL
2 108 (6.66%) Python
3 42 (2.59%) Java
4 32 (1.97%) JavaScript
5 30 (1.85%) PL/SQL
6 25 (1.54%) C#
7 17 (1.05%) Bash
8 15 (0.92%) PowerShell
9 11 (0.68%) Kotlin
9 11 (0.68%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.62%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.55%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.31%) ABAP
13 5 (0.31%) C
13 5 (0.31%) MUMPS
13 5 (0.31%) VB
13 5 (0.31%) VB6
13 5 (0.31%) VBA
14 4 (0.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 277 (17.08%) Security Cleared
2 221 (13.63%) SC Cleared
3 56 (3.45%) Degree
4 38 (2.34%) DV Cleared
5 32 (1.97%) ACCA
5 32 (1.97%) CIMA
6 30 (1.85%) ISTQB
6 30 (1.85%) PMP
7 29 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (1.79%) PMI Certification
8 13 (0.80%) Azure Certification
8 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (0.62%) AWS Certification
11 8 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 7 (0.43%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.31%) ISEB
14 5 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.31%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 332 (20.47%) Data Quality
2 135 (8.32%) QA
3 73 (4.50%) GDPR
4 33 (2.03%) PMO
5 14 (0.86%) GRC
6 11 (0.68%) HL7
6 11 (0.68%) IFRS
7 10 (0.62%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.62%) SLA
8 7 (0.43%) DICOM
8 7 (0.43%) SNOMED CT
9 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.25%) GMP
10 4 (0.25%) GxP
10 4 (0.25%) PERC
10 4 (0.25%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.18%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (1.05%) Docker
2 15 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
3 14 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.80%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.49%) vSphere
6 5 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (0.18%) NFS
7 3 (0.18%) SRDF
7 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (1.79%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.66%) Ansible
3 13 (0.80%) Data Guard
3 13 (0.80%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (0.49%) Grafana
4 8 (0.49%) Karpenter
4 8 (0.49%) vCenter Server
5 7 (0.43%) Argo
5 7 (0.43%) HP ALM
6 5 (0.31%) SnapMirror
7 4 (0.25%) EMC VPLEX
8 3 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (0.18%) NetBackup
8 3 (0.18%) SnapVault
9 2 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.062%) Autotask
10 1 (0.062%) SCCM
Vendors
1 317 (19.54%) Oracle
2 311 (19.17%) SAP
3 289 (17.82%) Microsoft
4 91 (5.61%) Databricks
5 70 (4.32%) Salesforce
6 35 (2.16%) ServiceNow
7 31 (1.91%) Workday
8 29 (1.79%) Informatica
9 25 (1.54%) Ariba
10 24 (1.48%) IBM
11 22 (1.36%) Talend
12 20 (1.23%) Google
13 17 (1.05%) IFS
14 15 (0.92%) VMware
15 14 (0.86%) InterSystems
15 14 (0.86%) Sage
16 12 (0.74%) MuleSoft
17 11 (0.68%) Infor
18 10 (0.62%) Atlassian
18 10 (0.62%) Siebel