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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 94 102
Rank change year-on-year +16 +8 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,550 807 957
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.05% 2.69% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 2.96% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 497 648
10th Percentile £363 £364 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £735 £712 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 18 33
10th Percentile £17.58 £27.92 £25.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £32.27 £40.00
Median hourly rate £38.36 £60.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.08% -20.00% +180.37%
75th Percentile £49.62 £83.73 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.96 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -47.90% -23.33% +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 43,108 27,270 37,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.89% 91.01% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,889 17,271 23,587
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,584 1,289 2,614
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.70
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 1,394 £525 -1.87% 229
London +34 698 £549 -0.23% 101
UK excluding London +17 690 £525 +5.00% 186
Work from Home +13 408 £525 -0.94% 116
South East +4 186 £550 +1.22% 64
North of England -14 182 £519 +8.13% 43
Midlands +15 144 £491 +0.72% 33
North West +11 117 £500 -1.67% 28
West Midlands -3 104 £474 -5.20% 17
South West +10 78 £524 +2.20% 17
East of England +5 56 £581 -10.58% 13
Yorkshire -44 56 £530 +15.99% 9
East Midlands +5 36 £513 +12.02% 16
Northern Ireland - 22 £475 - 5
Scotland -20 21 £494 +3.95% 8
North East -27 10 £625 +8.70% 6
Wales -13 6 £400 -15.79% 7
Channel Islands +2 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 52 (3.35%) SharePoint
2 41 (2.65%) Confluence
3 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.32%) Tuxedo
5 4 (0.26%) Apache
5 4 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.13%) Appian
8 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.065%) CMS
8 1 (0.065%) IIS
8 1 (0.065%) Mendix
8 1 (0.065%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.065%) WebSphere
Applications
1 80 (5.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
3 20 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.065%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.065%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 175 (11.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (2.65%) Oracle EBS
3 37 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (1.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 21 (1.35%) Oracle ERP
5 21 (1.35%) SAP ERP
6 19 (1.23%) NetSuite
7 16 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
8 15 (0.97%) Oracle General Ledger
9 14 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
10 11 (0.71%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 10 (0.65%) iTrent
11 10 (0.65%) Loan IQ
11 10 (0.65%) Oracle Assets
11 10 (0.65%) Oracle Financials
12 9 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
13 8 (0.52%) SAP CO
13 8 (0.52%) SAP SD
14 7 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
14 7 (0.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 256 (16.52%) Azure
2 155 (10.00%) AWS
3 145 (9.35%) Power Platform
4 108 (6.97%) Dynamics 365
5 83 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
6 80 (5.16%) OCI
7 62 (4.00%) SaaS
8 47 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
9 46 (2.97%) Snowflake
10 40 (2.58%) GitHub
11 35 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
12 32 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 25 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
14 23 (1.48%) GCP
15 22 (1.42%) Power Automate
16 21 (1.35%) Amazon S3
17 19 (1.23%) PowerApps
18 17 (1.10%) OpenShift
19 16 (1.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 16 (1.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.23%) SAN
2 15 (0.97%) NAS
3 14 (0.90%) DNS
4 7 (0.45%) VPN
5 6 (0.39%) Firewall
5 6 (0.39%) VSAN
6 4 (0.26%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (0.19%) FCoE
7 3 (0.19%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.13%) HTTP
8 2 (0.13%) Internet
8 2 (0.13%) Network Security
9 1 (0.065%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.065%) LAN
9 1 (0.065%) SNMP
9 1 (0.065%) SSL
9 1 (0.065%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.065%) VLAN
9 1 (0.065%) WAN
9 1 (0.065%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (7.74%) Power BI
2 109 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
3 69 (4.45%) Oracle Reports
4 65 (4.19%) SQL Server
5 44 (2.84%) Metadata
6 36 (2.32%) Data Lake
7 32 (2.06%) Relational Database
8 30 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
8 30 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 25 (1.61%) Oracle Database
10 20 (1.29%) NoSQL
11 17 (1.10%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 14 (0.90%) RDBMS
13 13 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (0.84%) SAP Data Services
13 13 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (0.77%) Db2
15 11 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
16 10 (0.65%) GIS
16 10 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 134 (8.65%) JIRA
2 50 (3.23%) Git
3 40 (2.58%) Zephyr
4 35 (2.26%) Postman
5 24 (1.55%) Jenkins
6 14 (0.90%) GitLab
7 12 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
7 12 (0.77%) Selenium
8 8 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.39%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.39%) Gatling
9 6 (0.39%) Hudson
9 6 (0.39%) JUnit
10 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.26%) LSMW
12 3 (0.19%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.19%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.19%) ERwin
12 3 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
General
1 538 (34.71%) Finance
2 463 (29.87%) Social Skills
3 190 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 97 (6.26%) Banking
6 79 (5.10%) Manufacturing
7 58 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (3.10%) Retail
9 47 (3.03%) Law
10 40 (2.58%) General Ledger
11 31 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (1.94%) Local Government
12 30 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
13 27 (1.74%) Legal
14 24 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 22 (1.42%) Marketing
16 21 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
17 20 (1.29%) Billing
18 19 (1.23%) Automotive
19 18 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 327 (21.10%) Lead
2 215 (13.87%) Analyst
3 205 (13.23%) Architect
4 176 (11.35%) Consultant
5 118 (7.61%) Data Migration Lead
6 111 (7.16%) Data Engineer
6 111 (7.16%) Project Manager
7 105 (6.77%) Senior
8 95 (6.13%) Business Analyst
9 82 (5.29%) Data Analyst
10 75 (4.84%) Data Architect
11 73 (4.71%) Developer
12 67 (4.32%) Migration Engineer
13 58 (3.74%) Migration Analyst
13 58 (3.74%) SAP Consultant
14 55 (3.55%) Data Migration Engineer
15 54 (3.48%) Migration Manager
16 47 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
17 46 (2.97%) Data Migration Analyst
18 44 (2.84%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (6.19%) Oracle Fusion
2 46 (2.97%) Middleware
2 46 (2.97%) REST
3 25 (1.61%) SOAP
4 22 (1.42%) .NET
5 21 (1.35%) XML
6 20 (1.29%) Spring
7 18 (1.16%) Kafka
8 16 (1.03%) JSON
9 13 (0.84%) Lightning Web Components
10 12 (0.77%) PySpark
10 12 (0.77%) Spring Boot
11 11 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
12 10 (0.65%) React
13 9 (0.58%) ADO
14 7 (0.45%) COM
14 7 (0.45%) FHIR
14 7 (0.45%) ODBC
14 7 (0.45%) Playwright
14 7 (0.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 199 (12.84%) Legacy Systems
2 115 (7.42%) Data Structures
3 48 (3.10%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.90%) Management Information System
5 37 (2.39%) Onboarding
6 30 (1.94%) Product Ownership
7 29 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
7 29 (1.87%) Public Cloud
8 24 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (1.55%) Replication
9 22 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.10%) Data Centre
11 16 (1.03%) Mainframe
12 15 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (0.97%) FMCG
12 15 (0.97%) Reference Data
13 14 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (0.90%) NHS
13 14 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.74%) Windows
2 16 (1.03%) Linux
3 7 (0.45%) zOS
4 6 (0.39%) Data ONTAP
5 5 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.26%) AIX
6 4 (0.26%) VMS
7 3 (0.19%) Unix
7 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,550 (100.00%) Migration
2 411 (26.52%) Validation
3 338 (21.81%) User Acceptance Testing
4 335 (21.61%) ERP
4 335 (21.61%) Stakeholder Management
5 283 (18.26%) Agile
6 253 (16.32%) ETL
7 228 (14.71%) Data Modelling
8 223 (14.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 221 (14.26%) Problem-Solving
10 155 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
11 150 (9.68%) DevOps
12 148 (9.55%) Data Cleansing
13 145 (9.35%) Data Governance
14 137 (8.84%) Data Mapping
15 133 (8.58%) Project Management
16 131 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 125 (8.06%) Analytics
18 118 (7.61%) CI/CD
19 116 (7.48%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 311 (20.06%) SQL
2 120 (7.74%) Python
3 49 (3.16%) Java
4 31 (2.00%) PL/SQL
5 25 (1.61%) JavaScript
6 23 (1.48%) Bash
7 15 (0.97%) PowerShell
8 14 (0.90%) C#
9 12 (0.77%) Kotlin
10 11 (0.71%) Apex Code
10 11 (0.71%) TypeScript
11 10 (0.65%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.52%) VB
13 7 (0.45%) C
13 7 (0.45%) VB6
13 7 (0.45%) VBA
14 5 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.26%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.19%) Korn
16 3 (0.19%) X++
Qualifications
1 254 (16.39%) Security Cleared
2 203 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.00%) Degree
4 34 (2.19%) ISTQB
5 30 (1.94%) PMP
6 29 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 25 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (1.61%) PMI Certification
8 20 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (1.23%) CIMA
10 18 (1.16%) ACCA
11 16 (1.03%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.52%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 7 (0.45%) SAP Certification
14 6 (0.39%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
15 5 (0.32%) ISEB
15 5 (0.32%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (17.87%) Data Quality
2 144 (9.29%) QA
3 74 (4.77%) GDPR
4 28 (1.81%) PMO
5 16 (1.03%) SLA
6 12 (0.77%) IFRS
7 11 (0.71%) HL7
8 10 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.52%) SNOMED CT
11 7 (0.45%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.39%) COBIT
12 6 (0.39%) DICOM
12 6 (0.39%) GAAP
13 5 (0.32%) GMP
13 5 (0.32%) NIST
14 4 (0.26%) Basel III
14 4 (0.26%) GxP
14 4 (0.26%) PERC
14 4 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.97%) vSphere
4 14 (0.90%) Docker
5 12 (0.77%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.71%) NFS
7 7 (0.45%) SRDF
8 6 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (0.32%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.19%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (2.39%) Terraform
2 34 (2.19%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.55%) Ansible
4 18 (1.16%) Grafana
5 15 (0.97%) vCenter Server
6 14 (0.90%) Argo
7 10 (0.65%) EMC VPLEX
7 10 (0.65%) HP ALM
8 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.39%) vMotion
10 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.32%) SnapMirror
11 4 (0.26%) Data Guard
11 4 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
11 4 (0.26%) EMC TimeFinder
11 4 (0.26%) NetBackup
11 4 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (0.19%) SCCM
12 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.19%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 305 (19.68%) Oracle
2 289 (18.65%) SAP
3 242 (15.61%) Microsoft
4 76 (4.90%) Databricks
5 71 (4.58%) Salesforce
6 32 (2.06%) ServiceNow
7 31 (2.00%) VMware
8 28 (1.81%) Workday
9 26 (1.68%) Informatica
10 25 (1.61%) Pure Storage
10 25 (1.61%) Sage
11 22 (1.42%) IFS
12 20 (1.29%) Talend
13 19 (1.23%) Ariba
13 19 (1.23%) Google
14 17 (1.10%) MuleSoft
14 17 (1.10%) Red Hat
15 16 (1.03%) Infor
16 14 (0.90%) IBM
17 13 (0.84%) Avaloq