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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 97 92
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,384 773 1,026
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.94% 2.65% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 2.92% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 879 499 697
10th Percentile £360 £375 £363
25th Percentile £440 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £650
90th Percentile £717 £705 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 12 35
10th Percentile £14.61 £36.79 £25.00
25th Percentile £16.63 £60.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £29.41 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.99% -6.67% +252.94%
75th Percentile £56.58 £87.16 £80.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £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 39,818 26,498 37,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.82% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,090 17,105 24,099
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.52% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,069 2,428
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.82 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.66 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.87% -16.94% -6.17%
75th Percentile £65.88 £62.24 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.25 £28.00 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.89% -22.27% +0.06%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +23 1,215 £525 -0.76% 204
UK excluding London +9 610 £525 +2.44% 161
London +29 600 £525 -4.55% 80
Work from Home -7 361 £500 -4.76% 74
South East -2 176 £621 +13.38% 57
North of England -13 162 £500 -2.15% 41
Midlands -12 123 £450 -10.89% 27
North West +8 97 £473 -12.97% 28
West Midlands -18 84 £446 -11.73% 15
Yorkshire -45 56 £527 +33.42% 11
East of England -10 51 £575 -11.54% 19
South West -13 48 £538 +4.88% 15
East Midlands -16 36 £500 +7.53% 12
Scotland +4 30 £550 +15.79% 6
Northern Ireland +17 16 £463 -11.90% 1
North East -9 9 £488 -20.41% 2
Wales -9 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 46 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 44 (3.18%) 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 66 (4.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 20 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
3 19 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
4 15 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.072%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 156 (11.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 60 (4.34%) Oracle EBS
3 39 (2.82%) 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
7 13 (0.94%) NetSuite
8 11 (0.79%) Oracle EBS R12
8 11 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
8 11 (0.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 9 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
9 9 (0.65%) SAP FI
9 9 (0.65%) Workday HCM
10 8 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (0.58%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.58%) SAP MDG
11 7 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
12 6 (0.43%) Finacle
12 6 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 207 (14.96%) Azure
2 136 (9.83%) Power Platform
3 113 (8.16%) AWS
4 105 (7.59%) Dynamics 365
5 87 (6.29%) OCI
6 66 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 50 (3.61%) SaaS
9 34 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 34 (2.46%) GitHub
10 32 (2.31%) Snowflake
11 31 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
12 25 (1.81%) SuccessFactors
13 20 (1.45%) Amazon S3
14 18 (1.30%) 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 (8.31%) Power BI
2 92 (6.65%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (4.19%) Oracle Reports
3 58 (4.19%) SQL Server
4 36 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 34 (2.46%) Metadata
6 33 (2.38%) Data Lake
7 28 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (1.81%) Relational Database
9 22 (1.59%) Oracle Database
10 15 (1.08%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 15 (1.08%) SAP Data Services
11 14 (1.01%) DB2
11 14 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 12 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (0.72%) Electronic Patient Records
13 10 (0.72%) MySQL
13 10 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 125 (9.03%) JIRA
2 33 (2.38%) Git
3 30 (2.17%) Zephyr
4 29 (2.10%) 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%) Artifactory
General
1 455 (32.88%) Finance
2 445 (32.15%) Social Skills
3 169 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 80 (5.78%) Manufacturing
6 73 (5.27%) Banking
7 58 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (3.40%) Law
9 44 (3.18%) Retail
10 40 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 24 (1.73%) Legal
12 24 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (1.66%) Marketing
14 22 (1.59%) Local Government
15 21 (1.52%) General Ledger
16 19 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 17 (1.23%) Billing
18 14 (1.01%) Aerospace
19 13 (0.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 301 (21.75%) Lead
2 205 (14.81%) Analyst
3 166 (11.99%) Architect
4 164 (11.85%) Consultant
5 110 (7.95%) Project Manager
6 105 (7.59%) Business Analyst
7 100 (7.23%) Data Migration Lead
8 99 (7.15%) Data Engineer
9 98 (7.08%) Senior
10 67 (4.84%) Developer
11 66 (4.77%) Data Analyst
12 57 (4.12%) Migration Analyst
13 49 (3.54%) Migration Engineer
14 48 (3.47%) SAP Consultant
15 47 (3.40%) Data Architect
16 46 (3.32%) Migration Manager
17 44 (3.18%) Data Migration Engineer
18 43 (3.11%) Data Migration Analyst
19 40 (2.89%) Test Manager
20 39 (2.82%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (6.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 41 (2.96%) REST
3 33 (2.38%) Middleware
4 24 (1.73%) XML
5 22 (1.59%) SOAP
6 19 (1.37%) .NET
6 19 (1.37%) JSON
7 14 (1.01%) Kafka
8 13 (0.94%) Lightning Web Components
8 13 (0.94%) PySpark
8 13 (0.94%) Spring
9 12 (0.87%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (0.51%) React
10 7 (0.51%) Web Services
11 6 (0.43%) AngularJS
12 5 (0.36%) FHIR
12 5 (0.36%) RESTful
12 5 (0.36%) Spring Boot
12 5 (0.36%) Visualforce
12 5 (0.36%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 176 (12.72%) Legacy Systems
2 101 (7.30%) Data Structures
3 42 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 41 (2.96%) Cloud Native
5 38 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 26 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
6 26 (1.88%) Product Ownership
7 24 (1.73%) Replication
8 21 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 20 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.16%) Mainframe
11 15 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (0.94%) Data Centre
13 13 (0.94%) Reference Data
14 12 (0.87%) FMCG
15 11 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
15 11 (0.79%) NHS
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 1,384 (100.00%) Migration
2 341 (24.64%) Validation
3 317 (22.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 297 (21.46%) ERP
5 279 (20.16%) User Acceptance Testing
6 270 (19.51%) Agile
7 232 (16.76%) ETL
8 210 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
9 196 (14.16%) Data Modelling
10 195 (14.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 150 (10.84%) Business Intelligence
12 149 (10.77%) Data Cleansing
13 137 (9.90%) Project Management
14 132 (9.54%) Data Mapping
15 128 (9.25%) Continuous Improvement
16 126 (9.10%) Analytics
17 118 (8.53%) Workshop Facilitation
18 116 (8.38%) DevOps
19 113 (8.16%) Data Governance
20 107 (7.73%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 251 (18.14%) SQL
2 107 (7.73%) Python
3 41 (2.96%) Java
4 29 (2.10%) PL/SQL
5 19 (1.37%) Bash
6 18 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.01%) PowerShell
8 12 (0.87%) Apex Code
9 9 (0.65%) C#
9 9 (0.65%) T-SQL
9 9 (0.65%) VBA
10 7 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.51%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.36%) ABAP
12 5 (0.36%) Korn
12 5 (0.36%) PHP
13 4 (0.29%) C
13 4 (0.29%) Perl
13 4 (0.29%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 221 (15.97%) Security Cleared
2 165 (11.92%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.48%) Degree
4 32 (2.31%) DV Cleared
5 27 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (1.81%) PMP
7 23 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (1.59%) ISTQB
8 22 (1.59%) PMI Certification
9 14 (1.01%) AWS Certification
10 13 (0.94%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.79%) CIMA
12 10 (0.72%) ACCA
13 9 (0.65%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.58%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.29%) ISEB
15 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.29%) OCP
15 4 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (16.98%) Data Quality
2 124 (8.96%) QA
3 61 (4.41%) 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
11 6 (0.43%) SNOMED CT
12 5 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.36%) GAAP
13 4 (0.29%) Basel III
13 4 (0.29%) PERC
System Software
1 25 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (1.45%) 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 33 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 30 (2.17%) Terraform
3 20 (1.45%) 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
1 264 (19.08%) SAP
2 257 (18.57%) Oracle
3 223 (16.11%) Microsoft
4 69 (4.99%) Salesforce
5 57 (4.12%) Databricks
6 30 (2.17%) Workday
7 29 (2.10%) VMware
8 27 (1.95%) ServiceNow
9 25 (1.81%) Pure Storage
9 25 (1.81%) Sage
10 24 (1.73%) Informatica
11 19 (1.37%) Ariba
11 19 (1.37%) Talend
12 18 (1.30%) Google
13 17 (1.23%) IFS
13 17 (1.23%) Infor
14 16 (1.16%) Avaloq
14 16 (1.16%) IBM
14 16 (1.16%) MuleSoft
14 16 (1.16%) Red Hat