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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 85 100
Rank change year-on-year +4 +15 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,628 916 967
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.08% 2.79% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 3.09% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 557 647
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £445 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £646
90th Percentile £733 £738 £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 20 34
10th Percentile £17.75 £17.52 £25.00
25th Percentile £20.67 £32.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -20.00% +127.27%
75th Percentile £60.13 £77.08 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.96 £47.75 £75.00
% change year-on-year -37.26% -36.33% +180.37%

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 44,857 29,633 35,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.35% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,817 18,625 22,863
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.02%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,658 1,571 2,253
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.82
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%
75th Percentile £68.50 £51.05 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.41 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +87.50% -37.04% -6.09%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +12 1,443 £525 - 226
UK excluding London +13 731 £523 +4.50% 170
London +19 716 £548 -0.45% 89
Work from Home 0 432 £525 - 135
South East +4 197 £563 +12.50% 65
North of England -11 195 £525 +9.95% 35
Midlands +9 150 £475 -5.00% 41
North West +7 120 £500 +3.90% 26
West Midlands -11 109 £450 -10.00% 28
South West +8 83 £523 -0.48% 15
Yorkshire -42 62 £525 +10.53% 9
East of England +9 54 £581 -7.37% 8
East Midlands +2 37 £525 +16.67% 13
Scotland -14 29 £525 +17.45% 6
Northern Ireland +23 22 £475 -51.28%
North East -22 16 £625 +8.70%
Wales -13 7 £400 -15.79% 2
Channel Islands +3 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 61 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 45 (2.76%) Confluence
3 11 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
4 9 (0.55%) Apache
5 7 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.37%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.31%) Tuxedo
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
8 3 (0.18%) SAS
9 2 (0.12%) CMS
9 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.061%) Appian
10 1 (0.061%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.061%) IIS
10 1 (0.061%) Mendix
10 1 (0.061%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 76 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
3 17 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (0.98%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.061%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 176 (10.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 43 (2.64%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (1.41%) Oracle ERP
4 23 (1.41%) Oracle Payables
5 21 (1.29%) Oracle Receivables
5 21 (1.29%) SAP ERP
6 20 (1.23%) NetSuite
7 15 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
7 15 (0.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 14 (0.86%) Oracle Financials
9 13 (0.80%) iTrent
9 13 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
10 11 (0.68%) Teamcenter
11 10 (0.61%) Loan IQ
12 9 (0.55%) Oracle EBS R12
12 9 (0.55%) SAP MDG
12 9 (0.55%) SAP SD
13 8 (0.49%) NEC Housing
13 8 (0.49%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 266 (16.34%) Azure
2 159 (9.77%) AWS
3 158 (9.71%) Power Platform
4 128 (7.86%) Dynamics 365
5 92 (5.65%) OCI
6 87 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
7 68 (4.18%) SaaS
8 48 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 47 (2.89%) Snowflake
10 46 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
11 43 (2.64%) GitHub
12 36 (2.21%) SuccessFactors
13 32 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 31 (1.90%) Power Automate
15 26 (1.60%) Amazon S3
15 26 (1.60%) PowerApps
16 25 (1.54%) GCP
17 17 (1.04%) OpenShift
17 17 (1.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 17 (1.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.17%) SAN
2 15 (0.92%) NAS
3 14 (0.86%) DNS
4 7 (0.43%) VPN
5 6 (0.37%) Firewall
5 6 (0.37%) VSAN
6 4 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (0.18%) FCoE
7 3 (0.18%) Intranet
7 3 (0.18%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.12%) HTTP
8 2 (0.12%) Network Security
9 1 (0.061%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.061%) DKIM
9 1 (0.061%) DMARC
9 1 (0.061%) Internet
9 1 (0.061%) LAN
9 1 (0.061%) SNMP
9 1 (0.061%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.061%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (7.86%) Power BI
2 113 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (4.36%) Oracle Reports
4 70 (4.30%) SQL Server
5 47 (2.89%) Metadata
6 45 (2.76%) Data Lake
7 40 (2.46%) Relational Database
8 30 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
9 28 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 27 (1.66%) Oracle Database
11 22 (1.35%) RDBMS
12 19 (1.17%) NoSQL
13 15 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (0.86%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 14 (0.86%) SAP Data Services
15 13 (0.80%) Db2
15 13 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 12 (0.74%) Oracle Exadata
16 12 (0.74%) Star Schema
17 11 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 144 (8.85%) JIRA
2 59 (3.62%) Git
3 42 (2.58%) Zephyr
4 35 (2.15%) Postman
5 25 (1.54%) Jenkins
6 22 (1.35%) GitLab
7 13 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
8 12 (0.74%) Selenium
9 8 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (0.43%) Hudson
11 6 (0.37%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.37%) Gatling
11 6 (0.37%) JUnit
11 6 (0.37%) LSMW
12 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 4 (0.25%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.18%) Claude Code
14 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
14 3 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
General
1 563 (34.58%) Finance
2 463 (28.44%) Social Skills
3 209 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (8.66%) Public Sector
5 93 (5.71%) Manufacturing
6 89 (5.47%) Banking
7 60 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (3.01%) Retail
9 48 (2.95%) Law
10 38 (2.33%) General Ledger
11 33 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
12 29 (1.78%) Local Government
13 28 (1.72%) Legal
14 27 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 26 (1.60%) Marketing
16 24 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
17 23 (1.41%) Billing
18 21 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
19 20 (1.23%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 316 (19.41%) Lead
2 236 (14.50%) Analyst
3 207 (12.71%) Architect
4 180 (11.06%) Consultant
5 127 (7.80%) Data Engineer
6 121 (7.43%) Senior
7 116 (7.13%) Project Manager
8 113 (6.94%) Business Analyst
9 111 (6.82%) Data Migration Lead
10 83 (5.10%) Data Analyst
11 82 (5.04%) Developer
12 75 (4.61%) Data Architect
13 66 (4.05%) Migration Engineer
14 58 (3.56%) Migration Analyst
15 57 (3.50%) SAP Consultant
16 54 (3.32%) Data Migration Engineer
17 49 (3.01%) Migration Manager
18 48 (2.95%) Data Consultant
19 45 (2.76%) Data Migration Analyst
19 45 (2.76%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (5.34%) Oracle Fusion
2 46 (2.83%) REST
3 44 (2.70%) Middleware
4 28 (1.72%) SOAP
5 26 (1.60%) .NET
6 24 (1.47%) XML
7 19 (1.17%) JSON
7 19 (1.17%) Kafka
8 18 (1.11%) Spring
9 15 (0.92%) PySpark
10 13 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
10 13 (0.80%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 11 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
12 10 (0.61%) React
12 10 (0.61%) Spring Boot
13 9 (0.55%) HTML
14 8 (0.49%) ADO
14 8 (0.49%) RESTful
15 7 (0.43%) COM
15 7 (0.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 195 (11.98%) Legacy Systems
2 117 (7.19%) Data Structures
3 54 (3.32%) Cloud Native
4 51 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.83%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 37 (2.27%) Public Cloud
7 33 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
8 31 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (1.47%) Replication
10 20 (1.23%) FMCG
11 19 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (1.11%) Data Centre
12 18 (1.11%) NHS
13 16 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (0.98%) Mainframe
14 14 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
15 13 (0.80%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
17 11 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.97%) Windows
2 26 (1.60%) Linux
3 12 (0.74%) AIX
4 7 (0.43%) zOS
5 6 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
5 6 (0.37%) Unix
6 4 (0.25%) VMS
7 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,628 (100.00%) Migration
2 450 (27.64%) Validation
3 374 (22.97%) User Acceptance Testing
4 369 (22.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 360 (22.11%) ERP
6 296 (18.18%) Agile
7 265 (16.28%) ETL
8 244 (14.99%) Data Modelling
9 242 (14.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 225 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
11 171 (10.50%) Data Governance
12 164 (10.07%) DevOps
13 160 (9.83%) Business Intelligence
14 159 (9.77%) Data Cleansing
15 148 (9.09%) Analytics
16 138 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
17 135 (8.29%) CI/CD
17 135 (8.29%) Data Mapping
17 135 (8.29%) Project Management
18 127 (7.80%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 321 (19.72%) SQL
2 118 (7.25%) Python
3 46 (2.83%) Java
4 32 (1.97%) JavaScript
5 30 (1.84%) PL/SQL
6 23 (1.41%) Bash
7 20 (1.23%) C#
8 16 (0.98%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.74%) Kotlin
10 11 (0.68%) Apex Code
10 11 (0.68%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.61%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.43%) C
12 7 (0.43%) VB
12 7 (0.43%) VB6
13 6 (0.37%) VBA
14 5 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.25%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.25%) X++
16 3 (0.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 273 (16.77%) Security Cleared
2 212 (13.02%) SC Cleared
3 60 (3.69%) Degree
4 38 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 34 (2.09%) ISTQB
6 33 (2.03%) PMP
7 31 (1.90%) PMI Certification
8 29 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.35%) CIMA
10 21 (1.29%) ACCA
11 17 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 14 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (0.49%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.49%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 8 (0.49%) SAP Certification
14 6 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
15 5 (0.31%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 295 (18.12%) Data Quality
2 152 (9.34%) QA
3 78 (4.79%) GDPR
4 37 (2.27%) PMO
5 14 (0.86%) SLA
6 11 (0.68%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.61%) HL7
8 9 (0.55%) IFRS
8 9 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.49%) SNOMED CT
10 7 (0.43%) GMP
11 6 (0.37%) COBIT
11 6 (0.37%) DICOM
11 6 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.31%) GRC
12 5 (0.31%) NIST
13 4 (0.25%) GxP
13 4 (0.25%) PERC
13 4 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 27 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (1.11%) Docker
3 15 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.92%) vSphere
4 14 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
5 12 (0.74%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.68%) NFS
7 7 (0.43%) SRDF
8 5 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 48 (2.95%) Terraform
2 38 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.97%) Ansible
4 17 (1.04%) Grafana
5 15 (0.92%) vCenter Server
6 14 (0.86%) Argo
7 13 (0.80%) HP ALM
8 12 (0.74%) Data Guard
8 12 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
9 10 (0.61%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (0.37%) vMotion
11 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.31%) SnapMirror
12 4 (0.25%) EMC NetWorker
12 4 (0.25%) EMC TimeFinder
12 4 (0.25%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.25%) NetBackup
12 4 (0.25%) Prometheus
13 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.18%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 318 (19.53%) Oracle
2 310 (19.04%) SAP
3 265 (16.28%) Microsoft
4 77 (4.73%) Salesforce
5 74 (4.55%) Databricks
6 35 (2.15%) ServiceNow
7 32 (1.97%) VMware
8 30 (1.84%) Informatica
9 28 (1.72%) Workday
10 25 (1.54%) Pure Storage
11 23 (1.41%) IFS
12 21 (1.29%) Ariba
12 21 (1.29%) Sage
12 21 (1.29%) Talend
13 20 (1.23%) Google
14 17 (1.04%) IBM
14 17 (1.04%) MuleSoft
14 17 (1.04%) Red Hat
15 16 (0.98%) Infor
16 14 (0.86%) HP