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

 6 months to
28 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 96 96
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,157 824 999
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.78% 2.69% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 2.99% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 734 538 672
10th Percentile £375 £381 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £700 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 6 31
10th Percentile £14.35 £45.63 £25.00
25th Percentile £15.94 £62.81 £40.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £85.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.65% +6.25% +158.06%
75th Percentile £80.25 £87.39 £86.50
90th Percentile £96.34 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.41 £72.28 £40.00
% change year-on-year -70.38% +80.69% +110.53%

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 36,087 27,535 38,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.65% 89.98% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,916 17,126 25,279
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £739 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -1.83% -1.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,149 888 2,215
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -2.99% -4.29%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.75 £59.47
90th Percentile £72.71 £75.08 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +6 985 £540 - 216
London +11 526 £550 - 80
UK excluding London -14 473 £525 - 180
Work from Home -22 332 £538 -0.46% 87
South East -20 131 £618 +17.62% 85
North of England -32 111 £500 -9.09% 34
Midlands -19 110 £500 -4.76% 30
West Midlands -34 66 £500 -4.76% 24
North West -12 65 £456 -11.03% 20
Scotland +28 43 £550 +15.79% 4
East Midlands +8 42 £525 +12.90% 6
Yorkshire -50 41 £527 -6.14% 11
South West -31 31 £525 +5.53% 16
East of England -24 26 £475 -26.92% 11
Northern Ireland +7 13 £475 -9.52%
Wales +1 9 £531 +3.66% 1
North East -15 5 £488 -25.00% 3

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 33 (2.85%) Confluence
2 30 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.78%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 6 (0.52%) GeoServer
5 6 (0.52%) Smallworld
6 4 (0.35%) Apache
6 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.26%) CMS
7 3 (0.26%) LiveLink
8 2 (0.17%) Appian
8 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.086%) Moodle
9 1 (0.086%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.086%) SAP Portal
9 1 (0.086%) SAS
9 1 (0.086%) WebSphere
Applications
1 61 (5.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 19 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
3 17 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.086%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 116 (10.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 51 (4.41%) Oracle EBS
3 34 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (1.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 18 (1.56%) Oracle General Ledger
5 18 (1.56%) Oracle Payables
6 15 (1.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 15 (1.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 15 (1.30%) SAP HR
7 11 (0.95%) Loan IQ
7 11 (0.95%) NetSuite
7 11 (0.95%) Oracle EBS R12
7 11 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
7 11 (0.95%) SAP ERP
7 11 (0.95%) SAP FI
8 9 (0.78%) Oracle Cash Management
8 9 (0.78%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.69%) SAP FI/CO
9 8 (0.69%) SAP MDG
9 8 (0.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 174 (15.04%) Azure
2 117 (10.11%) AWS
3 90 (7.78%) Power Platform
4 84 (7.26%) OCI
5 75 (6.48%) Dynamics 365
6 41 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (3.11%) SaaS
8 35 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
9 28 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 28 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (2.33%) Snowflake
11 26 (2.25%) Amazon S3
12 23 (1.99%) SuccessFactors
13 22 (1.90%) GitHub
14 17 (1.47%) Entra ID
14 17 (1.47%) GCP
15 16 (1.38%) OpenShift
15 16 (1.38%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 16 (1.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 13 (1.12%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.12%) SAN
2 12 (1.04%) NAS
3 8 (0.69%) DNS
4 4 (0.35%) SSL
4 4 (0.35%) VSAN
5 3 (0.26%) FCoE
5 3 (0.26%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (0.26%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.17%) Firewall
6 2 (0.17%) Network Security
6 2 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.086%) Internet
7 1 (0.086%) Intranet
7 1 (0.086%) IPv4
7 1 (0.086%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.086%) VLAN
7 1 (0.086%) WebEx
7 1 (0.086%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (6.83%) Data Warehouse
2 70 (6.05%) Power BI
3 57 (4.93%) SQL Server
4 44 (3.80%) Oracle Reports
4 44 (3.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 37 (3.20%) Relational Database
6 29 (2.51%) Data Lake
6 29 (2.51%) Oracle Database
7 28 (2.42%) Metadata
8 24 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
8 24 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (1.38%) RDBMS
10 15 (1.30%) Tableau
11 12 (1.04%) MySQL
11 12 (1.04%) SAP Data Services
12 11 (0.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 10 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (0.86%) Big Data
14 9 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 95 (8.21%) JIRA
2 18 (1.56%) Git
2 18 (1.56%) Postman
3 14 (1.21%) Zephyr
4 11 (0.95%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.52%) GitLab
5 6 (0.52%) LSMW
5 6 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.35%) Hudson
6 4 (0.35%) JUnit
6 4 (0.35%) Toad
6 4 (0.35%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.26%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.26%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.26%) ERwin
7 3 (0.26%) MLflow
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 436 (37.68%) Social Skills
2 382 (33.02%) Finance
3 129 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (8.90%) Public Sector
5 73 (6.31%) Banking
6 49 (4.24%) Manufacturing
7 44 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
8 37 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
9 36 (3.11%) Retail
10 26 (2.25%) Legal
11 21 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (1.73%) General Ledger
13 18 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
14 17 (1.47%) Marketing
15 16 (1.38%) Local Government
16 15 (1.30%) Billing
16 15 (1.30%) Law
17 14 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
19 11 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 188 (16.25%) Lead
2 177 (15.30%) Analyst
3 168 (14.52%) Consultant
4 128 (11.06%) Architect
5 104 (8.99%) Project Manager
6 101 (8.73%) Business Analyst
7 91 (7.87%) Senior
8 74 (6.40%) Data Engineer
9 60 (5.19%) Data Analyst
10 55 (4.75%) Data Migration Lead
11 53 (4.58%) Developer
12 52 (4.49%) Migration Analyst
13 49 (4.24%) SAP Consultant
14 46 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
15 41 (3.54%) Migration Manager
16 40 (3.46%) Data Migration Analyst
17 37 (3.20%) Data Architect
18 35 (3.03%) Functional Consultant
18 35 (3.03%) Oracle Consultant
19 34 (2.94%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (6.91%) Oracle Fusion
2 43 (3.72%) REST
3 29 (2.51%) Middleware
3 29 (2.51%) XML
4 24 (2.07%) SOAP
5 18 (1.56%) Lightning Web Components
6 17 (1.47%) JSON
7 14 (1.21%) Web Services
8 13 (1.12%) PySpark
9 12 (1.04%) .NET
10 9 (0.78%) Visualforce
11 8 (0.69%) React
12 7 (0.61%) Kafka
12 7 (0.61%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
13 6 (0.52%) Spring
13 6 (0.52%) XSLT
14 5 (0.43%) AngularJS
14 5 (0.43%) BAPI
14 5 (0.43%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 154 (13.31%) Legacy Systems
2 74 (6.40%) Data Structures
3 41 (3.54%) Onboarding
4 35 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 24 (2.07%) Cloud Native
5 24 (2.07%) Replication
6 23 (1.99%) Product Ownership
7 22 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.12%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.12%) Reference Data
10 10 (0.86%) CMDB
10 10 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (0.86%) Public Cloud
11 9 (0.78%) FMCG
11 9 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (0.69%) NHS
12 8 (0.69%) Tandem
13 7 (0.61%) Derivative
13 7 (0.61%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.33%) Windows
2 9 (0.78%) Windows 10
3 8 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.52%) Unix
6 5 (0.43%) Linux
6 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.43%) zOS
7 3 (0.26%) Solaris
8 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.086%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,157 (100.00%) Migration
2 274 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 256 (22.13%) Agile
4 232 (20.05%) Validation
5 210 (18.15%) ERP
5 210 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
6 191 (16.51%) ETL
7 178 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
8 158 (13.66%) Data Modelling
8 158 (13.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 132 (11.41%) Project Management
10 130 (11.24%) Analytics
11 126 (10.89%) Workshop Facilitation
12 116 (10.03%) Data Cleansing
13 109 (9.42%) Change Management
14 108 (9.33%) Data Mapping
15 102 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
16 95 (8.21%) DevOps
17 91 (7.87%) Data Governance
18 89 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 228 (19.71%) SQL
2 86 (7.43%) Python
3 33 (2.85%) Java
4 19 (1.64%) JavaScript
4 19 (1.64%) PL/SQL
5 16 (1.38%) Apex Code
6 15 (1.30%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.21%) C#
8 10 (0.86%) Bash
9 7 (0.61%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.52%) ABAP
10 6 (0.52%) VBA
11 5 (0.43%) Perl
11 5 (0.43%) PHP
11 5 (0.43%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.43%) X++
12 4 (0.35%) Korn
12 4 (0.35%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.35%) VB
13 3 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 169 (14.61%) Security Cleared
2 124 (10.72%) SC Cleared
3 70 (6.05%) Degree
4 35 (3.03%) PMP
5 29 (2.51%) PMI Certification
6 26 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.38%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 13 (1.12%) SAP Certification
10 10 (0.86%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.61%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.52%) CIMA
13 5 (0.43%) ACCA
14 4 (0.35%) OCP
14 4 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 4 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (15.04%) Data Quality
2 94 (8.12%) QA
3 60 (5.19%) GDPR
4 18 (1.56%) PMO
5 16 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.12%) COBIT
7 12 (1.04%) NIST
8 9 (0.78%) IFRS
8 9 (0.78%) SLA
9 8 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.61%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.61%) GAAP
11 6 (0.52%) GMP
11 6 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.43%) GRC
12 5 (0.43%) GxP
12 5 (0.43%) IFRS 9
13 4 (0.35%) Basel III
13 4 (0.35%) IFRS 17
14 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.38%) Docker
2 16 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.95%) NFS
4 8 (0.69%) VMware NSX
4 8 (0.69%) vSphere
5 5 (0.43%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 28 (2.42%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.64%) Terraform
3 13 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.04%) Grafana
5 9 (0.78%) Ansible
5 9 (0.78%) SCCM
6 8 (0.69%) Argo
6 8 (0.69%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.52%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.52%) HP ALM
7 6 (0.52%) vMotion
8 4 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.35%) EMC TimeFinder
8 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.26%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.086%) Control-M
Vendors
1 227 (19.62%) Oracle
2 213 (18.41%) SAP
3 165 (14.26%) Microsoft
4 57 (4.93%) Salesforce
5 47 (4.06%) Databricks
6 41 (3.54%) Workday
7 25 (2.16%) Sage
8 24 (2.07%) Informatica
8 24 (2.07%) ServiceNow
9 19 (1.64%) VMware
10 18 (1.56%) MuleSoft
10 18 (1.56%) Pure Storage
10 18 (1.56%) Talend
11 15 (1.30%) Avaloq
12 14 (1.21%) IFS
13 12 (1.04%) Google
14 11 (0.95%) Ariba
14 11 (0.95%) IBM
14 11 (0.95%) Red Hat
15 9 (0.78%) Dell
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