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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 86 102
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,634 972 836
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.98% 2.94% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 3.25% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,031 603 558
10th Percentile £363 £376 £388
25th Percentile £425 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -0.56% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £733 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 14 5
10th Percentile £17.23 £15.00 £45.80
25th Percentile £21.25 £32.25 £62.00
Median hourly rate £38.36 £35.25 £66.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% -46.99% -21.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.31 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.83 £87.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.96 £35.16 £80.00
% change year-on-year -14.78% -56.06% +14.74%

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 46,438 29,893 32,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.54% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,948 18,567 19,512
10th Percentile £325 £295 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,331 1,864 1,314
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.08 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.87 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.56% -39.40% -2.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.20 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.13 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +70.85% -48.10% +1.18%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 1,395 £525 -2.33% 917
UK excluding London -6 712 £500 - 582
London +8 687 £550 - 451
Work from Home 0 500 £525 -2.55% 430
North of England -14 180 £525 +10.53% 123
Midlands +4 172 £475 -13.64% 89
South East -26 159 £475 -19.15% 171
West Midlands +5 123 £450 -14.29% 68
North West +12 110 £538 +19.44% 56
South West +20 95 £523 -0.48% 36
Yorkshire -36 51 £515 +2.90% 41
East of England -6 46 £509 +3.09% 50
East Midlands -8 45 £538 -6.52% 21
Scotland -14 44 £488 +2.63% 67
North East -19 22 £475 +8.57% 26
Northern Ireland +16 15 £463 +15.63% 30
Wales -7 10 £550 +6.02% 20

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 70 (4.28%) Confluence
2 60 (3.67%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.73%) Apache
6 10 (0.61%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.37%) CICS
8 6 (0.37%) CMS
8 6 (0.37%) SAS
9 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.31%) Tuxedo
10 4 (0.24%) SugarCRM
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.12%) Documentum
12 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.12%) Mendix
12 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.061%) IIS
13 1 (0.061%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 69 (4.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
3 16 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.24%) Windchill
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.061%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.061%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 163 (9.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (2.02%) Oracle Payables
4 28 (1.71%) Oracle Receivables
5 21 (1.29%) Oracle ERP
6 20 (1.22%) SAP HCM
7 19 (1.16%) NetSuite
7 19 (1.16%) SAP FI
8 17 (1.04%) SAP ERP
9 16 (0.98%) Oracle Financials
9 16 (0.98%) Oracle General Ledger
9 16 (0.98%) SAP CO
10 14 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
10 14 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
10 14 (0.86%) SAP SD
10 14 (0.86%) Teamcenter
11 12 (0.73%) SAP MM
11 12 (0.73%) SAP Payroll
11 12 (0.73%) Workday HCM
12 11 (0.67%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 275 (16.83%) Azure
2 154 (9.42%) AWS
3 138 (8.45%) Power Platform
4 125 (7.65%) Dynamics 365
5 93 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
6 81 (4.96%) OCI
7 65 (3.98%) SaaS
8 54 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
9 47 (2.88%) SuccessFactors
10 45 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
11 42 (2.57%) Snowflake
12 38 (2.33%) Power Automate
13 37 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 34 (2.08%) Amazon S3
15 31 (1.90%) GitHub
16 30 (1.84%) PowerApps
17 29 (1.77%) GCP
18 23 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
19 21 (1.29%) dbt
20 19 (1.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.31%) NAS
1 5 (0.31%) SAN
1 5 (0.31%) VPN
2 3 (0.18%) DMZ
2 3 (0.18%) Firewall
2 3 (0.18%) Intranet
3 2 (0.12%) VSAN
4 1 (0.061%) DKIM
4 1 (0.061%) DMARC
4 1 (0.061%) DNS
4 1 (0.061%) Internet
4 1 (0.061%) SSL
4 1 (0.061%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (7.53%) Data Warehouse
2 102 (6.24%) Power BI
3 69 (4.22%) Metadata
4 66 (4.04%) SQL Server
5 54 (3.30%) Relational Database
6 50 (3.06%) Oracle Reports
7 49 (3.00%) Data Lake
8 46 (2.82%) Oracle Database
9 35 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
10 23 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
11 21 (1.29%) RDBMS
12 17 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 16 (0.98%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 15 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (0.86%) MongoDB
16 13 (0.80%) BigQuery
16 13 (0.80%) Db2
17 12 (0.73%) GIS
17 12 (0.73%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 156 (9.55%) JIRA
2 55 (3.37%) Git
3 43 (2.63%) Zephyr
4 30 (1.84%) Postman
5 18 (1.10%) GitLab
6 13 (0.80%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
8 7 (0.43%) Selenium
9 6 (0.37%) Gatling
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 (0.24%) Hudson
11 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.18%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
13 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.12%) Yeoman
General
1 565 (34.58%) Finance
2 464 (28.40%) Social Skills
3 217 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (10.10%) Public Sector
5 103 (6.30%) Banking
6 90 (5.51%) Manufacturing
7 64 (3.92%) Retail
8 60 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
9 57 (3.49%) General Ledger
10 41 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
11 39 (2.39%) Local Government
12 32 (1.96%) Legal
13 29 (1.77%) Billing
14 28 (1.71%) Automotive
15 26 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
16 22 (1.35%) Law
16 22 (1.35%) Marketing
17 21 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
18 20 (1.22%) Military
19 19 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 250 (15.30%) Analyst
2 243 (14.87%) Lead
3 205 (12.55%) Consultant
4 199 (12.18%) Architect
5 145 (8.87%) Senior
6 142 (8.69%) Data Engineer
7 113 (6.92%) Business Analyst
8 95 (5.81%) Project Manager
9 90 (5.51%) Data Migration Lead
10 85 (5.20%) Data Analyst
11 83 (5.08%) Developer
12 82 (5.02%) Data Architect
13 69 (4.22%) Migration Engineer
14 65 (3.98%) SAP Consultant
15 59 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
16 57 (3.49%) Data Migration Engineer
17 55 (3.37%) Data Consultant
18 45 (2.75%) Migration Consultant
19 41 (2.51%) Data Migration Consultant
19 41 (2.51%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (6.98%) Oracle Fusion
2 57 (3.49%) Middleware
3 46 (2.82%) REST
4 34 (2.08%) .NET
5 33 (2.02%) Terraform
6 30 (1.84%) SOAP
7 29 (1.77%) XML
8 23 (1.41%) PySpark
9 18 (1.10%) JSON
10 14 (0.86%) Keycloak
10 14 (0.86%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 13 (0.80%) ADO
12 12 (0.73%) Kafka
12 12 (0.73%) SAP Fiori
13 11 (0.67%) HTML
13 11 (0.67%) Web Services
14 10 (0.61%) Lightning Web Components
14 10 (0.61%) Spring
14 10 (0.61%) Spring Boot
15 7 (0.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 167 (10.22%) Legacy Systems
2 119 (7.28%) Data Structures
3 57 (3.49%) Management Information System
4 56 (3.43%) Onboarding
5 52 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (2.57%) Product Ownership
7 38 (2.33%) Public Cloud
8 34 (2.08%) Cloud Native
9 25 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (1.41%) Reference Data
11 22 (1.35%) Replication
12 18 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
12 18 (1.10%) NHS
13 16 (0.98%) FMCG
14 14 (0.86%) Life Science
14 14 (0.86%) Reinsurance
15 13 (0.80%) Data Centre
15 13 (0.80%) Low-Code
16 11 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.26%) Windows
2 35 (2.14%) Linux
3 15 (0.92%) Unix
4 12 (0.73%) AIX
5 6 (0.37%) zOS
6 5 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (0.24%) VMS
8 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.061%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,634 (100.00%) Migration
2 508 (31.09%) Validation
3 475 (29.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 368 (22.52%) User Acceptance Testing
5 340 (20.81%) ERP
6 281 (17.20%) Agile
7 261 (15.97%) Data Modelling
8 256 (15.67%) ETL
9 222 (13.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 218 (13.34%) Data Governance
11 210 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
12 168 (10.28%) DevOps
13 162 (9.91%) Data Cleansing
14 154 (9.42%) Analytics
15 143 (8.75%) Requirements Gathering
16 139 (8.51%) Data Mapping
17 138 (8.45%) Business Intelligence
18 136 (8.32%) System Integration Testing
19 127 (7.77%) CI/CD
20 125 (7.65%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 347 (21.24%) SQL
2 95 (5.81%) Python
3 33 (2.02%) JavaScript
4 32 (1.96%) PL/SQL
5 30 (1.84%) C#
6 27 (1.65%) Java
7 15 (0.92%) PowerShell
8 13 (0.80%) Bash
9 12 (0.73%) T-SQL
9 12 (0.73%) TypeScript
10 9 (0.55%) Apex Code
11 8 (0.49%) ABAP
11 8 (0.49%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.43%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.37%) JCL
13 6 (0.37%) MUMPS
13 6 (0.37%) X++
14 5 (0.31%) C
14 5 (0.31%) VB
14 5 (0.31%) VB6
Qualifications
1 298 (18.24%) Security Cleared
2 247 (15.12%) SC Cleared
3 63 (3.86%) Degree
4 37 (2.26%) ACCA
4 37 (2.26%) CIMA
5 35 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 32 (1.96%) PMI Certification
6 32 (1.96%) PMP
7 27 (1.65%) ISTQB
8 26 (1.59%) DV Cleared
9 16 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.67%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.49%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.43%) CBAP
13 7 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.37%) SAP Certification
15 5 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (0.24%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 355 (21.73%) Data Quality
2 127 (7.77%) QA
3 68 (4.16%) GDPR
4 31 (1.90%) PMO
5 15 (0.92%) GRC
6 11 (0.67%) IFRS
7 9 (0.55%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.43%) GxP
8 7 (0.43%) HL7
8 7 (0.43%) SLA
9 5 (0.31%) GMP
9 5 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
10 4 (0.24%) DICOM
10 4 (0.24%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.24%) NCSC
10 4 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.18%) SEPA
12 2 (0.12%) GAAP
12 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (1.22%) Docker
2 14 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
3 13 (0.80%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.18%) NFS
5 3 (0.18%) SRDF
5 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.18%) vSphere
6 1 (0.061%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (1.35%) Ansible
2 21 (1.29%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.80%) Karpenter
4 12 (0.73%) Data Guard
4 12 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
5 8 (0.49%) Control-M
6 5 (0.31%) HP ALM
6 5 (0.31%) SnapMirror
7 4 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
7 4 (0.24%) Grafana
8 3 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (0.18%) NetBackup
8 3 (0.18%) SnapVault
8 3 (0.18%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.12%) Argo
9 2 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
9 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 334 (20.44%) Oracle
2 307 (18.79%) SAP
3 282 (17.26%) Microsoft
4 94 (5.75%) Databricks
5 70 (4.28%) Salesforce
6 42 (2.57%) ServiceNow
7 35 (2.14%) Informatica
8 33 (2.02%) Workday
9 27 (1.65%) Google
10 24 (1.47%) Ariba
11 23 (1.41%) Talend
12 21 (1.29%) IBM
13 18 (1.10%) IFS
14 17 (1.04%) Sage
15 14 (0.86%) InterSystems
16 13 (0.80%) Infor
17 10 (0.61%) MuleSoft
18 9 (0.55%) Alteryx
18 9 (0.55%) Atlassian
19 8 (0.49%) VMware