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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 95 94
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,026 855 1,050
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.78% 2.55% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 2.89% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 635 571 697
10th Percentile £375 £400 £413
25th Percentile £427 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -4.44% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £660
90th Percentile £713 £700 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £561
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.42% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 3 12
10th Percentile £14.61 £40.40 £82.53
25th Percentile £15.94 £48.50 £83.31
Median hourly rate £64.50 £64.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -24.71% +21.00%
75th Percentile £81.00 £67.88 £86.75
90th Percentile £100.00 £69.00 £89.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.25 £66.50 £69.72
% change year-on-year -6.39% -4.62% +292.79%

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 32,524 29,621 38,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.04% 88.28% 88.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,487 18,059 25,534
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% -4.00%
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 2,055 961 1,540
10th Percentile £14.69 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.42
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.14% +24.04%
75th Percentile £51.65 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £30.78 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.41% -31.60% +50.00%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +1 851 £531 -3.41% 644
London +12 451 £550 - 177
UK excluding London -16 409 £500 -4.76% 512
Work from Home -20 310 £525 -1.50% 401
South East -27 115 £625 +13.64% 142
Midlands -11 101 £550 +6.02% 111
North of England -34 86 £473 -9.90% 103
West Midlands -22 54 £550 +4.76% 59
East Midlands +8 46 £550 +29.41% 48
Scotland +30 45 £550 +15.79% 20
North West -25 42 £449 -10.25% 52
Yorkshire -33 38 £525 -6.79% 45
South West -9 26 £519 -1.19% 47
East of England -26 20 £465 -15.55% 70
Wales +6 8 £531 +3.66% 9
Northern Ireland -2 7 £400 -23.81% 15
North East -8 7 £488 -22.00% 6

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 38 (3.70%) Confluence
2 33 (3.22%) 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 48 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.49%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.097%) Trello
8 1 (0.097%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 111 (10.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
3 36 (3.51%) 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 10 (0.97%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 10 (0.97%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.97%) SAP FI
9 9 (0.88%) Oracle Cash Management
9 9 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
9 9 (0.88%) SAP PM
9 9 (0.88%) Workday HCM
10 8 (0.78%) Oracle EBS R12
10 8 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 8 (0.78%) SAP HCM
10 8 (0.78%) SAP MDG
10 8 (0.78%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 145 (14.13%) Azure
2 91 (8.87%) AWS
3 80 (7.80%) Power Platform
4 77 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
5 69 (6.73%) OCI
6 38 (3.70%) SaaS
7 31 (3.02%) Amazon S3
7 31 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (2.83%) Azure Data Factory
9 26 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 25 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (2.24%) Entra ID
11 23 (2.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 22 (2.14%) Snowflake
13 21 (2.05%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 19 (1.85%) Serverless
14 19 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
15 15 (1.46%) GCP
16 13 (1.27%) Power Automate
16 13 (1.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.68%) NAS
2 6 (0.58%) Firewall
2 6 (0.58%) VPN
3 4 (0.39%) SSL
4 3 (0.29%) DNS
4 3 (0.29%) Intranet
4 3 (0.29%) Network Security
4 3 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.19%) Internet
5 2 (0.19%) IPv6
5 2 (0.19%) LAN
5 2 (0.19%) SAN
5 2 (0.19%) WAN
6 1 (0.097%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.097%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.097%) IPv4
6 1 (0.097%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.097%) VLAN
6 1 (0.097%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.097%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (6.04%) Power BI
2 58 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 39 (3.80%) 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%) Tableau
9 21 (2.05%) Oracle Database
9 21 (2.05%) 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
13 15 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (1.36%) RDBMS
15 13 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
16 12 (1.17%) SAP Data Services
17 10 (0.97%) Big Data
17 10 (0.97%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 79 (7.70%) JIRA
2 6 (0.58%) LSMW
2 6 (0.58%) Postman
3 4 (0.39%) Git
3 4 (0.39%) GitLab
3 4 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (0.39%) Toad
3 4 (0.39%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.29%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.29%) MLflow
4 3 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.19%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.19%) Hudson
6 1 (0.097%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.097%) Poetry
6 1 (0.097%) Selenium
6 1 (0.097%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.097%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.097%) TeamCity
General
1 364 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 337 (32.85%) Finance
3 119 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (8.67%) Public Sector
5 58 (5.65%) Banking
6 40 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (3.80%) Manufacturing
8 29 (2.83%) Local Government
9 27 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
9 27 (2.63%) Retail
10 26 (2.53%) Legal
11 24 (2.34%) Marketing
12 19 (1.85%) General Ledger
12 19 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.75%) Back Office
14 12 (1.17%) Billing
14 12 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (1.07%) Law
16 9 (0.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 154 (15.01%) Analyst
1 154 (15.01%) Consultant
2 151 (14.72%) Lead
3 122 (11.89%) Architect
4 93 (9.06%) Business Analyst
5 92 (8.97%) Project Manager
6 78 (7.60%) Senior
7 54 (5.26%) Data Engineer
8 52 (5.07%) Data Migration Lead
9 49 (4.78%) Developer
9 49 (4.78%) SAP Consultant
10 44 (4.29%) Data Analyst
11 41 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
12 34 (3.31%) Migration Specialist
13 33 (3.22%) Functional Consultant
14 32 (3.12%) Migration Analyst
15 31 (3.02%) Data Migration Specialist
16 30 (2.92%) Data Consultant
17 28 (2.73%) Migration Consultant
17 28 (2.73%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (5.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 40 (3.90%) XML
3 38 (3.70%) REST
4 28 (2.73%) Lightning Web Components
5 27 (2.63%) SOAP
6 24 (2.34%) Visualforce
7 21 (2.05%) Middleware
8 20 (1.95%) JSON
9 12 (1.17%) .NET
9 12 (1.17%) PySpark
10 11 (1.07%) SAP Fiori
10 11 (1.07%) Web Services
11 8 (0.78%) SAP PI
11 8 (0.78%) XSLT
12 6 (0.58%) EDI
13 5 (0.49%) Apache Avro
13 5 (0.49%) GraphQL
13 5 (0.49%) LDAP
13 5 (0.49%) SAP Basis
14 4 (0.39%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 128 (12.48%) Legacy Systems
2 64 (6.24%) Data Structures
3 39 (3.80%) Onboarding
4 31 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.73%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (1.36%) Replication
9 13 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.17%) Data Centre
11 10 (0.97%) Reference Data
12 9 (0.88%) Cloud Native
13 8 (0.78%) CMDB
13 8 (0.78%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.68%) FMCG
14 7 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.68%) Life Science
14 7 (0.68%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
15 6 (0.58%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.44%) Windows
2 9 (0.88%) Windows 10
3 8 (0.78%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.49%) Unix
5 5 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.39%) Linux
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 1,026 (100.00%) Migration
2 248 (24.17%) Agile
3 219 (21.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 194 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
5 175 (17.06%) Validation
6 171 (16.67%) ERP
7 160 (15.59%) ETL
8 146 (14.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 144 (14.04%) Data Modelling
10 137 (13.35%) User Acceptance Testing
11 111 (10.82%) Analytics
12 106 (10.33%) Project Management
13 100 (9.75%) Workshop Facilitation
14 99 (9.65%) Data Governance
15 93 (9.06%) Data Cleansing
16 90 (8.77%) Change Management
17 84 (8.19%) Business Intelligence
18 78 (7.60%) Continuous Improvement
19 77 (7.50%) Project Delivery
20 76 (7.41%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 200 (19.49%) SQL
2 67 (6.53%) Python
3 32 (3.12%) Java
4 28 (2.73%) Apex Code
5 16 (1.56%) 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%) Bicep
7 9 (0.88%) T-SQL
8 7 (0.68%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.58%) PHP
10 5 (0.49%) Perl
11 4 (0.39%) R
11 4 (0.39%) SOQL
11 4 (0.39%) X++
12 3 (0.29%) Bash
12 3 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 120 (11.70%) Security Cleared
2 84 (8.19%) Degree
3 83 (8.09%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.31%) PMP
5 32 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.02%) PMI Certification
7 24 (2.34%) Master's Degree
8 21 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.56%) AWS Certification
10 15 (1.46%) SAP Certification
11 12 (1.17%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.68%) CIMA
13 6 (0.58%) ACCA
13 6 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.49%) CFA
14 5 (0.49%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.39%) Azure Certification
16 3 (0.29%) PgMP
16 3 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 3 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (14.62%) Data Quality
2 75 (7.31%) QA
3 64 (6.24%) GDPR
4 15 (1.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 13 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.97%) PMO
7 8 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.78%) GRC
7 8 (0.78%) GxP
7 8 (0.78%) IFRS
8 7 (0.68%) COBIT
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 17 (1.66%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.56%) Docker
3 4 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.29%) NFS
5 1 (0.097%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.097%) SRDF
5 1 (0.097%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.097%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.097%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (1.85%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.75%) 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 (20.96%) SAP
2 171 (16.67%) Oracle
3 152 (14.81%) Microsoft
4 58 (5.65%) Salesforce
5 39 (3.80%) Databricks
6 38 (3.70%) Workday
7 17 (1.66%) Informatica
8 15 (1.46%) IBM
9 12 (1.17%) Ariba
9 12 (1.17%) MuleSoft
9 12 (1.17%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.07%) Google
11 10 (0.97%) Sage
12 9 (0.88%) OpenText
12 9 (0.88%) Talend
13 8 (0.78%) Kronos
14 7 (0.68%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.68%) Avaloq
14 7 (0.68%) IFS
15 6 (0.58%) ESRI