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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 87 99
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,655 937 944
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.13% 2.84% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 3.14% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,059 571 640
10th Percentile £363 £360 £368
25th Percentile £434 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £541
Median % change year-on-year - -3.00% +0.70%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.71% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 21 27
10th Percentile £17.75 £17.80 £25.00
25th Percentile £22.17 £32.25 £62.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £62.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -21.88% +142.42%
75th Percentile £60.13 £87.05 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.34 £47.75 £80.00
% change year-on-year -30.19% -40.31% +199.07%

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 44,856 29,798 34,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.42% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,798 18,719 22,071
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -3.67%
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 2,670 1,616 2,026
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.56
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.33 £17.55
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.38 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.38 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.82 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.59% -40.46% -

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 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 27 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 27 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 +14 1,467 £525 - 224
UK excluding London +13 748 £523 +5.56% 168
London +21 723 £550 - 89
Work from Home -1 438 £525 - 132
South East +5 198 £550 +10.00% 59
North of England -12 198 £525 +10.53% 32
Midlands +10 161 £475 -5.00% 42
North West +2 120 £500 +5.26% 23
West Midlands +5 118 £450 -10.00% 28
South West +9 84 £523 -0.48% 18
Yorkshire -35 65 £529 +10.79% 9
East of England +10 55 £575 -4.96% 10
East Midlands +6 40 £525 +16.67% 14
Scotland -5 28 £513 +17.55% 6
Northern Ireland +20 22 £475 -26.92% 1
North East -26 16 £625 +8.70% 1
Wales -10 8 £463 -2.63% 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 64 (3.87%) SharePoint
2 52 (3.14%) Confluence
3 11 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
4 10 (0.60%) Apache
4 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.30%) Tuxedo
7 3 (0.18%) SAS
8 2 (0.12%) CMS
8 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.060%) Appian
9 1 (0.060%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.060%) IIS
9 1 (0.060%) Mendix
9 1 (0.060%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 73 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
2 16 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
3 15 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 176 (10.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 48 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 40 (2.42%) Oracle EBS
4 25 (1.51%) Oracle Payables
5 23 (1.39%) Oracle ERP
5 23 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 21 (1.27%) NetSuite
6 21 (1.27%) SAP ERP
7 15 (0.91%) Oracle General Ledger
8 14 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
8 14 (0.85%) Oracle Financials
8 14 (0.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 13 (0.79%) iTrent
10 11 (0.66%) Teamcenter
11 10 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
12 9 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
12 9 (0.54%) SAP MDG
12 9 (0.54%) SAP SD
12 9 (0.54%) Workday HCM
13 8 (0.48%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 272 (16.44%) Azure
2 164 (9.91%) Power Platform
3 162 (9.79%) AWS
4 133 (8.04%) Dynamics 365
5 97 (5.86%) OCI
6 86 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (4.35%) SaaS
8 54 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 48 (2.90%) Snowflake
10 46 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
11 43 (2.60%) GitHub
12 34 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 34 (2.05%) SuccessFactors
13 33 (1.99%) Power Automate
14 29 (1.75%) Amazon S3
15 27 (1.63%) PowerApps
16 24 (1.45%) GCP
17 18 (1.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 18 (1.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 17 (1.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.03%) SAN
2 14 (0.85%) DNS
3 13 (0.79%) NAS
4 7 (0.42%) VPN
5 6 (0.36%) VSAN
6 5 (0.30%) Firewall
7 4 (0.24%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (0.18%) FCoE
8 3 (0.18%) Intranet
8 3 (0.18%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.12%) HTTP
9 2 (0.12%) Network Security
10 1 (0.060%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.060%) DKIM
10 1 (0.060%) DMARC
10 1 (0.060%) Internet
10 1 (0.060%) SNMP
10 1 (0.060%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.060%) VLAN
10 1 (0.060%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (8.04%) Power BI
2 114 (6.89%) Data Warehouse
3 70 (4.23%) Oracle Reports
4 68 (4.11%) SQL Server
5 48 (2.90%) Data Lake
6 44 (2.66%) Metadata
7 42 (2.54%) Relational Database
8 29 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
8 29 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 26 (1.57%) Oracle Database
10 20 (1.21%) RDBMS
11 19 (1.15%) NoSQL
12 15 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (0.91%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 14 (0.85%) SAP Data Services
14 13 (0.79%) Db2
15 12 (0.73%) Oracle Exadata
15 12 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 12 (0.73%) Star Schema
16 11 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 148 (8.94%) JIRA
2 58 (3.50%) Git
3 44 (2.66%) Zephyr
4 35 (2.11%) Postman
5 26 (1.57%) Jenkins
6 22 (1.33%) GitLab
7 12 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
7 12 (0.73%) Selenium
8 7 (0.42%) Hudson
9 6 (0.36%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.36%) Gatling
9 6 (0.36%) JUnit
9 6 (0.36%) LSMW
9 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 6 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.30%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.18%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
General
1 581 (35.11%) Finance
2 469 (28.34%) Social Skills
3 211 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (9.06%) Public Sector
5 97 (5.86%) Banking
6 91 (5.50%) Manufacturing
7 57 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
8 51 (3.08%) Law
9 50 (3.02%) Retail
10 40 (2.42%) General Ledger
11 32 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (1.81%) Local Government
13 28 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 27 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.63%) Legal
15 26 (1.57%) Marketing
16 24 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
17 23 (1.39%) Billing
17 23 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
18 20 (1.21%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 321 (19.40%) Lead
2 238 (14.38%) Analyst
3 210 (12.69%) Architect
4 176 (10.63%) Consultant
5 135 (8.16%) Data Engineer
6 129 (7.79%) Senior
7 116 (7.01%) Business Analyst
8 115 (6.95%) Project Manager
9 113 (6.83%) Data Migration Lead
10 85 (5.14%) Developer
11 84 (5.08%) Data Analyst
12 75 (4.53%) Data Architect
13 66 (3.99%) Migration Engineer
14 55 (3.32%) SAP Consultant
15 54 (3.26%) Data Migration Engineer
16 53 (3.20%) Migration Analyst
17 49 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
18 48 (2.90%) Data Consultant
18 48 (2.90%) Migration Manager
19 44 (2.66%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (5.68%) Oracle Fusion
2 48 (2.90%) Middleware
3 47 (2.84%) REST
4 28 (1.69%) .NET
5 27 (1.63%) SOAP
6 24 (1.45%) XML
7 19 (1.15%) JSON
7 19 (1.15%) Kafka
8 17 (1.03%) Spring
9 16 (0.97%) PySpark
10 14 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
11 13 (0.79%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 11 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
13 10 (0.60%) React
13 10 (0.60%) Spring Boot
14 9 (0.54%) HTML
15 8 (0.48%) RESTful
16 7 (0.42%) ADO
16 7 (0.42%) Playwright
16 7 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 190 (11.48%) Legacy Systems
2 114 (6.89%) Data Structures
3 55 (3.32%) Cloud Native
4 51 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 47 (2.84%) Onboarding
6 42 (2.54%) Product Ownership
7 38 (2.30%) Public Cloud
8 34 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
9 32 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.33%) Replication
11 20 (1.21%) FMCG
12 19 (1.15%) Data Centre
13 18 (1.09%) NHS
14 16 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
14 16 (0.97%) Mainframe
15 14 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
16 12 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (0.73%) Virtual Team
17 11 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (2.11%) Windows
2 29 (1.75%) Linux
3 12 (0.73%) AIX
4 7 (0.42%) Unix
4 7 (0.42%) zOS
5 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (0.24%) VMS
7 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,655 (100.00%) Migration
2 452 (27.31%) Validation
3 375 (22.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 374 (22.60%) User Acceptance Testing
5 371 (22.42%) ERP
6 299 (18.07%) Agile
7 275 (16.62%) ETL
8 250 (15.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 246 (14.86%) Data Modelling
10 223 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
11 175 (10.57%) Data Governance
12 166 (10.03%) Business Intelligence
13 164 (9.91%) DevOps
14 160 (9.67%) Data Cleansing
15 155 (9.37%) Analytics
16 142 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
17 139 (8.40%) CI/CD
18 134 (8.10%) Data Mapping
19 132 (7.98%) Project Management
20 123 (7.43%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 331 (20.00%) SQL
2 120 (7.25%) Python
3 50 (3.02%) Java
4 33 (1.99%) JavaScript
5 32 (1.93%) PL/SQL
6 23 (1.39%) Bash
7 22 (1.33%) C#
8 16 (0.97%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.73%) Apex Code
9 12 (0.73%) Kotlin
10 11 (0.66%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.60%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.36%) C
12 6 (0.36%) VB
12 6 (0.36%) VB6
12 6 (0.36%) VBA
13 5 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.30%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.24%) X++
15 3 (0.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 282 (17.04%) Security Cleared
2 220 (13.29%) SC Cleared
3 61 (3.69%) Degree
4 41 (2.48%) DV Cleared
5 37 (2.24%) PMP
6 35 (2.11%) PMI Certification
7 34 (2.05%) ISTQB
8 28 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.51%) CIMA
10 24 (1.45%) ACCA
11 16 (0.97%) Azure Certification
12 13 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.48%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.48%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 8 (0.48%) SAP Certification
15 6 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
16 5 (0.30%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 306 (18.49%) Data Quality
2 152 (9.18%) QA
3 79 (4.77%) GDPR
4 35 (2.11%) PMO
5 14 (0.85%) SLA
6 11 (0.66%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.60%) HL7
7 10 (0.60%) IFRS
8 8 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
9 7 (0.42%) GMP
9 7 (0.42%) GRC
9 7 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.36%) DICOM
10 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.24%) COBIT
11 4 (0.24%) GxP
11 4 (0.24%) PERC
11 4 (0.24%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.18%) GAAP
System Software
1 26 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (1.09%) Docker
3 15 (0.91%) vSphere
4 14 (0.85%) Active Directory
4 14 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
5 12 (0.73%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.54%) NFS
7 7 (0.42%) SRDF
8 5 (0.30%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 48 (2.90%) Terraform
2 38 (2.30%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.93%) Ansible
4 17 (1.03%) Grafana
5 15 (0.91%) vCenter Server
6 14 (0.85%) Argo
7 13 (0.79%) HP ALM
8 12 (0.73%) Data Guard
8 12 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
9 8 (0.48%) EMC VPLEX
10 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
11 4 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
11 4 (0.24%) EMC TimeFinder
11 4 (0.24%) Karpenter
11 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.24%) NetBackup
11 4 (0.24%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.24%) vMotion
12 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.18%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 325 (19.64%) Oracle
2 309 (18.67%) SAP
3 273 (16.50%) Microsoft
4 80 (4.83%) Databricks
5 78 (4.71%) Salesforce
6 36 (2.18%) ServiceNow
7 31 (1.87%) VMware
8 30 (1.81%) Informatica
9 28 (1.69%) Workday
10 24 (1.45%) Talend
11 23 (1.39%) Pure Storage
12 22 (1.33%) Ariba
12 22 (1.33%) IFS
13 21 (1.27%) IBM
14 19 (1.15%) Google
14 19 (1.15%) Sage
15 17 (1.03%) MuleSoft
15 17 (1.03%) Red Hat
16 16 (0.97%) Infor
17 14 (0.85%) HP