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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 94 101
Rank change year-on-year +14 +7 +31
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,440 755 965
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.95% 2.64% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.50% 2.90% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 467 654
10th Percentile £360 £375 £350
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 £627 £650
90th Percentile £734 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 41,181 26,010 36,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 91.03% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,765 16,696 23,578
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,066 2,486
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.73 £17.92 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +69.72% -33.38% +7.86%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +22 1,295 £525 -0.76% 266
UK excluding London +14 651 £520 +4.00% 171
London +34 632 £536 -2.55% 119
Work from Home +4 377 £525 -0.47% 118
South East +10 183 £563 +5.30% 46
North of England -18 172 £500 +1.63% 45
Midlands -1 135 £488 +6.56% 38
North West +6 107 £475 -10.55% 31
West Midlands -6 92 £470 +4.44% 24
South West +5 64 £525 +5.00% 16
East of England 0 57 £575 -11.54% 12
Yorkshire -38 57 £550 +37.50% 13
East Midlands -2 40 £500 +9.29% 14
Scotland -8 22 £575 +20.95% 8
Northern Ireland - 17 £475 - 3
North East -18 8 £488 -15.22% 1
Wales -15 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 50 (3.47%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.13%) Confluence
3 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (0.28%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.21%) Apache
5 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.14%) Appian
6 2 (0.14%) IIS
7 1 (0.069%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.069%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.069%) WebSphere
Applications
1 74 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.53%) Spreadsheet
3 18 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 167 (11.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (3.06%) Oracle EBS
3 35 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (1.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 18 (1.25%) SAP ERP
6 16 (1.11%) NetSuite
7 15 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.76%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 10 (0.69%) Loan IQ
11 9 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
11 9 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
11 9 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
11 9 (0.63%) SAP FI
12 8 (0.56%) iTrent
12 8 (0.56%) NEC Housing
12 8 (0.56%) SAP CO
13 7 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
13 7 (0.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 232 (16.11%) Azure
2 139 (9.65%) AWS
3 137 (9.51%) Power Platform
4 106 (7.36%) Dynamics 365
5 74 (5.14%) OCI
6 72 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (3.96%) SaaS
8 48 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 37 (2.57%) Snowflake
10 35 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
11 34 (2.36%) GitHub
12 31 (2.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 22 (1.53%) Amazon S3
13 22 (1.53%) GCP
13 22 (1.53%) SuccessFactors
14 17 (1.18%) Power Automate
15 16 (1.11%) OpenShift
16 15 (1.04%) Entra ID
16 15 (1.04%) PowerApps
17 14 (0.97%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.18%) SAN
2 14 (0.97%) DNS
3 13 (0.90%) NAS
4 6 (0.42%) Firewall
4 6 (0.42%) 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 (0.069%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.069%) DKIM
9 1 (0.069%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.069%) Internet
9 1 (0.069%) Intranet
9 1 (0.069%) SNMP
9 1 (0.069%) SSL
9 1 (0.069%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (7.78%) Power BI
2 100 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (4.24%) Oracle Reports
4 58 (4.03%) SQL Server
5 40 (2.78%) Metadata
6 35 (2.43%) Data Lake
7 32 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 24 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (1.46%) Oracle Database
10 20 (1.39%) Relational Database
11 18 (1.25%) NoSQL
12 17 (1.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 13 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (0.90%) DB2
13 13 (0.90%) SAP Data Services
14 12 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (0.83%) Tableau
15 10 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
16 8 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 130 (9.03%) JIRA
2 37 (2.57%) Git
3 36 (2.50%) Zephyr
4 29 (2.01%) Postman
5 23 (1.60%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.90%) Selenium
7 12 (0.83%) GitLab
8 7 (0.49%) Hudson
8 7 (0.49%) LSMW
9 6 (0.42%) JUnit
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%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 490 (34.03%) Finance
2 436 (30.28%) Social Skills
3 174 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (8.13%) Public Sector
5 88 (6.11%) Banking
6 77 (5.35%) Manufacturing
7 53 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.13%) Law
9 42 (2.92%) Retail
10 35 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (2.08%) General Ledger
12 29 (2.01%) Local Government
13 27 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (1.74%) Legal
15 24 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (1.60%) Marketing
17 18 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 17 (1.18%) Billing
19 16 (1.11%) Aerospace
20 14 (0.97%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 312 (21.67%) Lead
2 208 (14.44%) Analyst
3 180 (12.50%) Architect
4 166 (11.53%) Consultant
5 111 (7.71%) Data Migration Lead
6 110 (7.64%) Project Manager
7 102 (7.08%) Data Engineer
8 99 (6.88%) Business Analyst
9 94 (6.53%) Senior
10 73 (5.07%) Data Analyst
11 68 (4.72%) Developer
12 65 (4.51%) Data Architect
13 58 (4.03%) Migration Engineer
13 58 (4.03%) SAP Consultant
14 54 (3.75%) Migration Analyst
15 52 (3.61%) Migration Manager
16 48 (3.33%) Data Migration Engineer
17 43 (2.99%) Data Migration Analyst
18 41 (2.85%) Test Manager
19 38 (2.64%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (5.97%) Oracle Fusion
2 42 (2.92%) REST
3 35 (2.43%) Middleware
4 22 (1.53%) SOAP
5 21 (1.46%) XML
6 20 (1.39%) .NET
7 18 (1.25%) Spring
8 17 (1.18%) Kafka
9 16 (1.11%) JSON
10 11 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (0.69%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.63%) PySpark
12 9 (0.63%) React
13 8 (0.56%) Lightning Web Components
14 7 (0.49%) FHIR
14 7 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
15 6 (0.42%) AngularJS
15 6 (0.42%) RESTful
15 6 (0.42%) Web Services
16 5 (0.35%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 184 (12.78%) Legacy Systems
2 106 (7.36%) Data Structures
3 46 (3.19%) Cloud Native
4 37 (2.57%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.43%) Onboarding
6 27 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
7 26 (1.81%) Public Cloud
8 23 (1.60%) Product Ownership
9 20 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (1.32%) Replication
11 18 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (1.18%) Reference Data
13 16 (1.11%) Mainframe
14 14 (0.97%) Data Centre
14 14 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
16 11 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
16 11 (0.76%) FMCG
16 11 (0.76%) NHS
17 10 (0.69%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.15%) Windows
2 12 (0.83%) 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
8 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.14%) Unix
9 1 (0.069%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,440 (100.00%) Migration
2 377 (26.18%) Validation
3 306 (21.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 302 (20.97%) ERP
5 299 (20.76%) User Acceptance Testing
6 265 (18.40%) Agile
7 231 (16.04%) ETL
8 214 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
9 212 (14.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 209 (14.51%) Data Modelling
11 152 (10.56%) Data Cleansing
12 145 (10.07%) Business Intelligence
13 131 (9.10%) Project Management
14 130 (9.03%) Data Mapping
15 129 (8.96%) Data Governance
16 126 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 126 (8.75%) DevOps
17 125 (8.68%) Analytics
18 110 (7.64%) Translating Business Requirements
19 106 (7.36%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 273 (18.96%) SQL
2 119 (8.26%) Python
3 45 (3.13%) Java
4 31 (2.15%) PL/SQL
5 23 (1.60%) Bash
5 23 (1.60%) JavaScript
6 12 (0.83%) PowerShell
7 11 (0.76%) C#
8 9 (0.63%) VBA
9 8 (0.56%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.49%) Apex Code
10 7 (0.49%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.42%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.28%) C
13 4 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.21%) ABAP
14 3 (0.21%) C++
14 3 (0.21%) COBOL
14 3 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 235 (16.32%) Security Cleared
2 180 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 61 (4.24%) Degree
4 30 (2.08%) DV Cleared
5 29 (2.01%) PMP
6 27 (1.88%) ISTQB
7 24 (1.67%) PMI Certification
8 21 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.18%) CIMA
11 16 (1.11%) ACCA
12 14 (0.97%) Azure Certification
13 8 (0.56%) AWS Certification
14 7 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 6 (0.42%) SAP Certification
16 5 (0.35%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.35%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
16 5 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
17 4 (0.28%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (16.94%) Data Quality
2 127 (8.82%) QA
3 64 (4.44%) GDPR
4 22 (1.53%) PMO
5 15 (1.04%) SLA
6 13 (0.90%) IFRS
7 11 (0.76%) HL7
8 10 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.56%) GMP
9 8 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
10 7 (0.49%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.49%) COBIT
10 7 (0.49%) GxP
11 6 (0.42%) DICOM
11 6 (0.42%) GAAP
11 6 (0.42%) NIST
12 4 (0.28%) Basel III
12 4 (0.28%) PERC
13 3 (0.21%) GRC
System Software
1 24 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.97%) Docker
3 14 (0.97%) vSphere
4 12 (0.83%) 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 (0.069%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 33 (2.29%) Terraform
2 32 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.46%) Ansible
4 18 (1.25%) Grafana
5 14 (0.97%) vCenter Server
6 13 (0.90%) Argo
6 13 (0.90%) 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
1 272 (18.89%) SAP
2 265 (18.40%) Oracle
3 238 (16.53%) Microsoft
4 71 (4.93%) Databricks
5 59 (4.10%) Salesforce
6 29 (2.01%) VMware
7 27 (1.88%) ServiceNow
7 27 (1.88%) Workday
8 24 (1.67%) Informatica
8 24 (1.67%) Pure Storage
8 24 (1.67%) Sage
9 21 (1.46%) Google
10 20 (1.39%) IFS
10 20 (1.39%) Talend
11 17 (1.18%) Infor
12 16 (1.11%) Ariba
13 15 (1.04%) Red Hat
14 14 (0.97%) Avaloq
15 13 (0.90%) MuleSoft
16 12 (0.83%) Splunk