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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 92 97
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,429 783 978
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.96% 2.69% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 2.95% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 487 662
10th Percentile £363 £375 £358
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £650
90th Percentile £735 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 13 33
10th Percentile £15.81 £35.00 £25.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £56.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £38.36 £67.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.18% -10.00% +180.37%
75th Percentile £41.83 £87.05 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.81 £62.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -63.50% -16.67% +233.33%

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 40,694 26,498 36,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.34% 91.04% 86.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,533 17,004 23,615
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,106 2,441
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.50 £59.98 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -33.82% +8.57%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 1,280 £525 -0.76% 227
UK excluding London +10 646 £525 +5.00% 168
London +38 621 £525 -4.55% 96
Work from Home -4 376 £519 -2.12% 93
South East +4 183 £599 +9.41% 46
North of England -17 174 £500 +1.01% 41
Midlands +4 129 £490 +3.16% 34
North West +8 108 £475 -13.64% 26
West Midlands -11 87 £473 -0.53% 21
South West -2 61 £525 +2.44% 16
Yorkshire -35 58 £550 +37.50% 13
East of England +1 57 £575 -11.54% 19
East Midlands -1 39 £500 +9.29% 13
Scotland -7 23 £575 +20.95% 5
Northern Ireland +14 16 £475 - 5
North East -17 8 £488 -15.22% 2
Wales -8 5 £550 +25.71% 6
Channel Islands - 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 51 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 46 (3.22%) Confluence
3 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (0.35%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 4 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.21%) Apache
6 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.14%) Appian
7 2 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.070%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.070%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.070%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.070%) WebSphere
Applications
1 74 (5.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
4 17 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (1.12%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.070%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 168 (11.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (3.29%) Oracle EBS
3 36 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (1.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 19 (1.33%) SAP ERP
6 15 (1.05%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.91%) NetSuite
8 12 (0.84%) Loan IQ
8 12 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.77%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 9 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
10 9 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
10 9 (0.63%) SAP FI
11 8 (0.56%) iTrent
11 8 (0.56%) SAP CO
12 7 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
12 7 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
12 7 (0.49%) SAP SD
12 7 (0.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 226 (15.82%) Azure
2 138 (9.66%) Power Platform
3 129 (9.03%) AWS
4 107 (7.49%) Dynamics 365
5 79 (5.53%) OCI
6 70 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (3.71%) SaaS
8 48 (3.36%) Azure Data Factory
9 37 (2.59%) Snowflake
10 35 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
11 34 (2.38%) GitHub
12 30 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 22 (1.54%) GCP
13 22 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
14 20 (1.40%) Amazon S3
15 17 (1.19%) Power Automate
16 16 (1.12%) OpenShift
17 15 (1.05%) Entra ID
17 15 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
17 15 (1.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.19%) SAN
2 14 (0.98%) DNS
3 13 (0.91%) NAS
4 6 (0.42%) Firewall
5 5 (0.35%) VPN
5 5 (0.35%) VSAN
6 4 (0.28%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (0.21%) FCoE
7 3 (0.21%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.14%) HTTP
8 2 (0.14%) Network Security
8 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.070%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.070%) DKIM
9 1 (0.070%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.070%) Internet
9 1 (0.070%) Intranet
9 1 (0.070%) SNMP
9 1 (0.070%) SSL
9 1 (0.070%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (7.91%) Power BI
2 95 (6.65%) Data Warehouse
3 59 (4.13%) Oracle Reports
4 58 (4.06%) SQL Server
5 38 (2.66%) Metadata
6 33 (2.31%) Data Lake
6 33 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 24 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (1.54%) Oracle Database
9 21 (1.47%) Relational Database
10 17 (1.19%) NoSQL
11 14 (0.98%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 13 (0.91%) DB2
12 13 (0.91%) SAP Data Services
13 12 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (0.84%) Tableau
14 10 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
15 9 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 128 (8.96%) JIRA
2 37 (2.59%) Git
3 32 (2.24%) Zephyr
4 28 (1.96%) Postman
5 19 (1.33%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.91%) Selenium
7 9 (0.63%) GitLab
8 7 (0.49%) Hudson
9 6 (0.42%) JUnit
9 6 (0.42%) LSMW
9 6 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.35%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.21%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.21%) ERwin
11 3 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
General
1 473 (33.10%) Finance
2 435 (30.44%) Social Skills
3 174 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (8.19%) Public Sector
5 84 (5.88%) Banking
6 76 (5.32%) Manufacturing
7 57 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (3.08%) Law
9 42 (2.94%) Retail
10 36 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (1.89%) Local Government
12 26 (1.82%) General Ledger
12 26 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
13 25 (1.75%) Legal
14 24 (1.68%) Marketing
15 23 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
16 18 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 17 (1.19%) Billing
18 16 (1.12%) Aerospace
19 12 (0.84%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 315 (22.04%) Lead
2 210 (14.70%) Analyst
3 172 (12.04%) Architect
4 167 (11.69%) Consultant
5 116 (8.12%) Data Migration Lead
6 107 (7.49%) Project Manager
7 102 (7.14%) Data Engineer
8 98 (6.86%) Business Analyst
9 93 (6.51%) Senior
10 73 (5.11%) Data Analyst
11 71 (4.97%) Developer
12 61 (4.27%) Data Architect
13 58 (4.06%) SAP Consultant
14 57 (3.99%) Migration Engineer
15 56 (3.92%) Migration Analyst
16 53 (3.71%) Migration Manager
17 47 (3.29%) Data Migration Engineer
18 43 (3.01%) Data Migration Analyst
19 41 (2.87%) Test Manager
20 40 (2.80%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (5.81%) Oracle Fusion
2 40 (2.80%) REST
3 35 (2.45%) Middleware
4 22 (1.54%) XML
5 20 (1.40%) .NET
5 20 (1.40%) SOAP
6 18 (1.26%) Spring
7 17 (1.19%) Kafka
8 15 (1.05%) JSON
9 11 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (0.70%) PySpark
10 10 (0.70%) Spring Boot
11 9 (0.63%) Lightning Web Components
11 9 (0.63%) React
12 7 (0.49%) FHIR
12 7 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
13 6 (0.42%) AngularJS
13 6 (0.42%) Web Services
14 5 (0.35%) HTML
14 5 (0.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 184 (12.88%) Legacy Systems
2 109 (7.63%) Data Structures
3 45 (3.15%) Cloud Native
4 39 (2.73%) Management Information System
5 34 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 28 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
7 26 (1.82%) Public Cloud
8 22 (1.54%) Product Ownership
9 21 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (1.33%) Replication
11 17 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.12%) Mainframe
12 16 (1.12%) Reference Data
13 14 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (0.91%) Data Centre
15 11 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (0.77%) FMCG
15 11 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
15 11 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.10%) Windows
2 12 (0.84%) Linux
3 8 (0.56%) Windows 10
4 7 (0.49%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.49%) zOS
5 5 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.28%) VMS
7 3 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (0.21%) Unix
8 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.070%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,429 (100.00%) Migration
2 375 (26.24%) Validation
3 307 (21.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 299 (20.92%) User Acceptance Testing
5 297 (20.78%) ERP
6 262 (18.33%) Agile
7 229 (16.03%) ETL
8 214 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
9 209 (14.63%) Data Modelling
10 206 (14.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 154 (10.78%) Data Cleansing
12 143 (10.01%) Business Intelligence
13 134 (9.38%) Project Management
14 133 (9.31%) Data Mapping
15 127 (8.89%) Data Governance
16 124 (8.68%) Analytics
16 124 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
17 122 (8.54%) DevOps
18 111 (7.77%) Translating Business Requirements
19 109 (7.63%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 265 (18.54%) SQL
2 115 (8.05%) Python
3 44 (3.08%) Java
4 31 (2.17%) PL/SQL
5 23 (1.61%) Bash
5 23 (1.61%) JavaScript
6 12 (0.84%) PowerShell
7 11 (0.77%) C#
8 9 (0.63%) VBA
9 8 (0.56%) Apex Code
9 8 (0.56%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.42%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.35%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.35%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.28%) C
13 3 (0.21%) ABAP
13 3 (0.21%) C++
13 3 (0.21%) COBOL
13 3 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 236 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 175 (12.25%) SC Cleared
3 63 (4.41%) Degree
4 35 (2.45%) DV Cleared
5 28 (1.96%) PMP
6 23 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 23 (1.61%) ISTQB
6 23 (1.61%) PMI Certification
7 21 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (0.98%) CIMA
9 13 (0.91%) ACCA
9 13 (0.91%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.56%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.42%) SAP Certification
12 5 (0.35%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
12 5 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 5 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.28%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (16.93%) Data Quality
2 121 (8.47%) QA
3 60 (4.20%) GDPR
4 22 (1.54%) PMO
5 14 (0.98%) SLA
6 12 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.77%) HL7
8 9 (0.63%) COBIT
9 8 (0.56%) GMP
9 8 (0.56%) NIST
9 8 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
10 7 (0.49%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.49%) GxP
10 7 (0.49%) IFRS
11 6 (0.42%) DICOM
12 5 (0.35%) GAAP
13 4 (0.28%) Basel III
13 4 (0.28%) PERC
14 3 (0.21%) GRC
System Software
1 24 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.98%) Docker
3 14 (0.98%) vSphere
4 12 (0.84%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.63%) NFS
6 6 (0.42%) SRDF
7 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.070%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 32 (2.24%) Kubernetes
2 31 (2.17%) Terraform
3 21 (1.47%) Ansible
4 18 (1.26%) Grafana
5 14 (0.98%) vCenter Server
6 13 (0.91%) Argo
6 13 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.63%) HP ALM
8 8 (0.56%) EMC VPLEX
8 8 (0.56%) SCCM
9 6 (0.42%) vMotion
10 4 (0.28%) EMC TimeFinder
10 4 (0.28%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (0.21%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.14%) SnapMirror
12 2 (0.14%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 276 (19.31%) SAP
2 261 (18.26%) Oracle
3 235 (16.45%) Microsoft
4 67 (4.69%) Databricks
5 60 (4.20%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.96%) VMware
7 27 (1.89%) Workday
8 26 (1.82%) ServiceNow
9 24 (1.68%) Pure Storage
9 24 (1.68%) Sage
10 23 (1.61%) Informatica
11 21 (1.47%) Google
12 20 (1.40%) IFS
12 20 (1.40%) Talend
13 17 (1.19%) Infor
14 16 (1.12%) Ariba
15 15 (1.05%) Avaloq
15 15 (1.05%) MuleSoft
15 15 (1.05%) Red Hat
16 14 (0.98%) IBM