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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 92 97
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,141 838 1,015
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.79% 2.73% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 3.04% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 723 547 679
10th Percentile £375 £387 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £712 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £527 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.38% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 6 31
10th Percentile £14.35 £45.63 £25.00
25th Percentile £15.94 £62.81 £40.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £85.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.65% +6.25% +60.00%
75th Percentile £80.25 £87.39 £86.50
90th Percentile £96.34 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.41 £72.28 £40.00
% change year-on-year -70.38% +80.69% +125.35%

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 35,563 27,597 38,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.83% 89.79% 87.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,526 17,059 25,424
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.54% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,133 855 2,176
10th Percentile £14.62 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £60.46 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £73.27
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.29 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.62% -10.60% -

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 February 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 February 2026.

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 21 February 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 -3 971 £540 +0.47% 243
London +12 523 £550 - 80
UK excluding London -12 463 £527 +0.38% 203
Work from Home -24 327 £550 +0.92% 103
South East -20 125 £625 +14.59% 97
North of England -29 112 £500 -9.09% 40
Midlands -21 106 £540 +5.37% 29
North West -9 65 £456 -13.14% 29
West Midlands -45 60 £530 +0.95% 23
Scotland +28 46 £559 +17.63% 8
East Midlands +7 44 £550 +18.28% 5
Yorkshire -48 41 £527 -6.14% 10
South West -28 30 £525 +2.44% 17
East of England -20 26 £475 -13.64% 13
Northern Ireland +5 10 £400 -23.81%
Wales +5 9 £531 +3.66%
North East -19 7 £488 -25.00% 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 30 (2.63%) Confluence
2 29 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.79%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 6 (0.53%) GeoServer
5 6 (0.53%) Smallworld
6 5 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.35%) Apache
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.26%) CMS
8 3 (0.26%) LiveLink
9 2 (0.18%) Appian
9 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.088%) Moodle
10 1 (0.088%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.088%) SAP Portal
10 1 (0.088%) SAS
10 1 (0.088%) WebSphere
Applications
1 57 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
4 17 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.31%) MS Visio
6 13 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
7 4 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.088%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 120 (10.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (3.86%) Oracle EBS
3 34 (2.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (1.75%) Oracle Payables
5 19 (1.67%) Oracle General Ledger
5 19 (1.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 17 (1.49%) Oracle Receivables
7 16 (1.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 15 (1.31%) SAP HR
9 13 (1.14%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.96%) Loan IQ
10 11 (0.96%) NetSuite
10 11 (0.96%) SAP CO
10 11 (0.96%) SAP ERP
11 10 (0.88%) Oracle Cash Management
11 10 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
11 10 (0.88%) SAP FI/CO
12 9 (0.79%) SAP MM
13 7 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
13 7 (0.61%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 169 (14.81%) Azure
2 111 (9.73%) AWS
3 84 (7.36%) Power Platform
4 78 (6.84%) OCI
5 73 (6.40%) Dynamics 365
6 40 (3.51%) SaaS
7 36 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 35 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
10 28 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 26 (2.28%) Amazon S3
12 24 (2.10%) SuccessFactors
13 23 (2.02%) GitHub
13 23 (2.02%) Snowflake
14 20 (1.75%) Entra ID
15 16 (1.40%) GCP
15 16 (1.40%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 16 (1.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 15 (1.31%) OpenShift
17 12 (1.05%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.05%) NAS
1 12 (1.05%) SAN
2 10 (0.88%) DNS
3 4 (0.35%) Firewall
3 4 (0.35%) Network Security
3 4 (0.35%) SSL
4 3 (0.26%) Internet
4 3 (0.26%) Intranet
4 3 (0.26%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.26%) VSAN
5 2 (0.18%) FCoE
5 2 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.18%) IPv6
5 2 (0.18%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.18%) LAN
5 2 (0.18%) VPN
5 2 (0.18%) WAN
5 2 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.088%) WebEx
6 1 (0.088%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.70%) Data Warehouse
2 63 (5.52%) Power BI
3 58 (5.08%) SQL Server
4 40 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 38 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 29 (2.54%) Oracle Database
7 28 (2.45%) Data Lake
7 28 (2.45%) Metadata
7 28 (2.45%) Oracle Reports
8 24 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (1.40%) RDBMS
11 15 (1.31%) Tableau
12 12 (1.05%) MySQL
13 11 (0.96%) SAP Data Services
14 10 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (0.88%) Big Data
14 10 (0.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 9 (0.79%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 82 (7.19%) JIRA
2 14 (1.23%) Git
3 11 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.88%) Postman
5 6 (0.53%) GitLab
5 6 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.44%) LSMW
6 5 (0.44%) Zephyr
7 4 (0.35%) Hudson
7 4 (0.35%) JUnit
7 4 (0.35%) Toad
7 4 (0.35%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.26%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.26%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.26%) ERwin
8 3 (0.26%) MLflow
8 3 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.18%) Selenium
General
1 424 (37.16%) Social Skills
2 377 (33.04%) Finance
3 120 (10.52%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 74 (6.49%) Banking
6 45 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (3.59%) Manufacturing
8 36 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
8 36 (3.16%) Retail
9 25 (2.19%) Legal
10 23 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (1.93%) General Ledger
12 20 (1.75%) Local Government
13 18 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
14 15 (1.31%) Billing
14 15 (1.31%) Law
14 15 (1.31%) Marketing
15 14 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 187 (16.39%) Lead
2 175 (15.34%) Analyst
3 168 (14.72%) Consultant
4 123 (10.78%) Architect
5 106 (9.29%) Project Manager
6 104 (9.11%) Business Analyst
7 89 (7.80%) Senior
8 75 (6.57%) Data Engineer
9 57 (5.00%) Data Analyst
10 55 (4.82%) Data Migration Lead
11 52 (4.56%) Developer
11 52 (4.56%) SAP Consultant
12 49 (4.29%) Migration Analyst
13 44 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
14 42 (3.68%) Migration Manager
15 37 (3.24%) Data Migration Analyst
16 36 (3.16%) Functional Consultant
17 35 (3.07%) Data Architect
18 33 (2.89%) Oracle Consultant
19 32 (2.80%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (6.49%) Oracle Fusion
2 41 (3.59%) REST
3 31 (2.72%) XML
4 28 (2.45%) Middleware
5 23 (2.02%) SOAP
6 19 (1.67%) Lightning Web Components
7 17 (1.49%) JSON
8 15 (1.31%) PySpark
9 14 (1.23%) Web Services
10 11 (0.96%) .NET
11 10 (0.88%) Visualforce
12 8 (0.70%) Kafka
13 7 (0.61%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (0.61%) React
14 6 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
14 6 (0.53%) Spring
14 6 (0.53%) XSLT
15 5 (0.44%) Apache Avro
15 5 (0.44%) LDAP
16 4 (0.35%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 155 (13.58%) Legacy Systems
2 79 (6.92%) Data Structures
3 40 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 35 (3.07%) Management Information System
5 24 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
6 23 (2.02%) Replication
7 19 (1.67%) Cloud Native
7 19 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (1.58%) Product Ownership
9 14 (1.23%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.05%) Reference Data
11 11 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (0.96%) Public Cloud
12 10 (0.88%) CMDB
13 9 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (0.70%) FMCG
14 8 (0.70%) NHS
14 8 (0.70%) Tandem
15 7 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (0.61%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.45%) Windows
2 10 (0.88%) Windows 10
3 8 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.53%) Unix
6 5 (0.44%) Linux
6 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.35%) zOS
8 3 (0.26%) Solaris
9 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,141 (100.00%) Migration
2 273 (23.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 247 (21.65%) Agile
4 228 (19.98%) Validation
5 210 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
6 203 (17.79%) ERP
7 178 (15.60%) ETL
8 166 (14.55%) User Acceptance Testing
9 159 (13.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 149 (13.06%) Data Modelling
11 129 (11.31%) Project Management
12 121 (10.60%) Workshop Facilitation
13 118 (10.34%) Analytics
14 116 (10.17%) Data Cleansing
15 107 (9.38%) Data Mapping
16 105 (9.20%) Change Management
17 92 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
18 89 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
19 86 (7.54%) DevOps
20 83 (7.27%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 222 (19.46%) SQL
2 85 (7.45%) Python
3 31 (2.72%) Java
4 19 (1.67%) JavaScript
4 19 (1.67%) PL/SQL
5 17 (1.49%) Apex Code
6 16 (1.40%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.14%) C#
8 10 (0.88%) Bash
9 8 (0.70%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.53%) VBA
11 5 (0.44%) ABAP
11 5 (0.44%) Perl
11 5 (0.44%) PHP
11 5 (0.44%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.35%) Korn
12 4 (0.35%) SOQL
12 4 (0.35%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.35%) VB
12 4 (0.35%) X++
Qualifications
1 159 (13.94%) Security Cleared
2 116 (10.17%) SC Cleared
3 73 (6.40%) Degree
4 36 (3.16%) PMP
5 29 (2.54%) PMI Certification
6 26 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (1.58%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.40%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.14%) AWS Certification
9 13 (1.14%) SAP Certification
10 7 (0.61%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.53%) CIMA
12 5 (0.44%) ACCA
12 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.35%) OCP
13 4 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (15.16%) Data Quality
2 84 (7.36%) QA
3 60 (5.26%) GDPR
4 16 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.31%) PMO
6 13 (1.14%) COBIT
7 12 (1.05%) NIST
8 8 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 8 (0.70%) GMP
8 8 (0.70%) IFRS
8 8 (0.70%) SLA
9 7 (0.61%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.61%) GxP
10 6 (0.53%) GAAP
10 6 (0.53%) GRC
11 5 (0.44%) IFRS 9
11 5 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.35%) Basel III
12 4 (0.35%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.40%) Docker
2 16 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.96%) NFS
4 8 (0.70%) VMware NSX
4 8 (0.70%) vSphere
5 4 (0.35%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 28 (2.45%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.67%) Terraform
3 13 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.05%) Grafana
5 10 (0.88%) SCCM
6 9 (0.79%) Ansible
7 8 (0.70%) Argo
7 8 (0.70%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.53%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.53%) vMotion
9 4 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.26%) EMC TimeFinder
10 3 (0.26%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.26%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.088%) Control-M
Vendors
1 217 (19.02%) SAP
2 210 (18.40%) Oracle
3 165 (14.46%) Microsoft
4 56 (4.91%) Salesforce
5 46 (4.03%) Databricks
6 38 (3.33%) Workday
7 25 (2.19%) Informatica
8 24 (2.10%) ServiceNow
9 22 (1.93%) Sage
10 19 (1.67%) VMware
11 18 (1.58%) MuleSoft
12 17 (1.49%) Pure Storage
13 15 (1.31%) Talend
14 14 (1.23%) Avaloq
15 13 (1.14%) IFS
16 12 (1.05%) Ariba
17 11 (0.96%) Google
18 10 (0.88%) IBM
18 10 (0.88%) Red Hat
19 8 (0.70%) Dell