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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 88 101
Rank change year-on-year +11 +13 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 1,522 799 948
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.04% 2.70% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.58% 2.97% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 966 495 643
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £736 £703 £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 38 15 33
10th Percentile £17.23 £32.27 £25.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £35.56 £40.00
Median hourly rate £38.36 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.99% -13.33% +180.37%
75th Percentile £41.83 £87.05 £80.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.34 £60.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -44.44% -20.00% +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 42,464 26,928 37,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.77% 91.04% 85.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,499 17,092 23,693
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,543 1,207 2,592
10th Percentile £14.81 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.00 £37.09
Median % change year-on-year +62.81% -27.20% +5.97%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +16 1,371 £525 -3.38% 284
London +29 684 £550 -1.79% 130
UK excluding London +15 683 £525 +5.00% 209
Work from Home +4 405 £525 -3.40% 146
South East +2 184 £550 +1.22% 70
North of England -12 181 £500 +1.63% 54
Midlands +10 142 £489 +0.26% 32
North West +8 113 £475 -12.60% 31
West Midlands +2 103 £473 -5.40% 14
South West +14 74 £525 +5.00% 18
Yorkshire -40 57 £530 +16.10% 15
East of England 0 56 £575 -11.54% 17
East Midlands -1 35 £500 +9.29% 18
Scotland -22 22 £599 +26.11% 13
Northern Ireland - 21 £475 - 6
North East -23 12 £488 -15.22% 8
Wales -13 7 £475 - 4
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 52 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.83%) Confluence
3 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.33%) Tuxedo
5 4 (0.26%) Apache
5 4 (0.26%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.26%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 4 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.13%) Appian
7 1 (0.066%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.066%) CMS
7 1 (0.066%) IIS
7 1 (0.066%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 79 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
3 19 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (1.05%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.066%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 171 (11.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (2.89%) Oracle EBS
3 37 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (1.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 21 (1.38%) SAP ERP
6 20 (1.31%) Oracle ERP
7 17 (1.12%) NetSuite
8 14 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
8 14 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
10 11 (0.72%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 10 (0.66%) iTrent
11 10 (0.66%) Loan IQ
11 10 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
12 9 (0.59%) Oracle EBS R12
12 9 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
13 8 (0.53%) NEC Housing
13 8 (0.53%) SAP CO
14 7 (0.46%) Teamcenter
14 7 (0.46%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 247 (16.23%) Azure
2 153 (10.05%) AWS
3 142 (9.33%) Power Platform
4 108 (7.10%) Dynamics 365
5 80 (5.26%) OCI
6 77 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (4.14%) SaaS
8 46 (3.02%) Snowflake
9 45 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 39 (2.56%) GitHub
11 36 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
12 29 (1.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 24 (1.58%) GCP
14 23 (1.51%) SuccessFactors
15 21 (1.38%) Amazon S3
16 20 (1.31%) Power Automate
17 17 (1.12%) OpenShift
18 16 (1.05%) PowerApps
19 15 (0.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 15 (0.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.25%) SAN
2 15 (0.99%) NAS
3 14 (0.92%) DNS
4 6 (0.39%) Firewall
4 6 (0.39%) VPN
4 6 (0.39%) VSAN
5 4 (0.26%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (0.20%) FCoE
6 3 (0.20%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.13%) HTTP
7 2 (0.13%) Network Security
8 1 (0.066%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.066%) Intranet
8 1 (0.066%) LAN
8 1 (0.066%) SNMP
8 1 (0.066%) SSL
8 1 (0.066%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.066%) VLAN
8 1 (0.066%) WAN
8 1 (0.066%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (7.62%) Power BI
2 108 (7.10%) Data Warehouse
3 68 (4.47%) Oracle Reports
4 64 (4.20%) SQL Server
5 43 (2.83%) Metadata
6 36 (2.37%) Data Lake
7 31 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 30 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 28 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (1.58%) Oracle Database
11 21 (1.38%) NoSQL
12 17 (1.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 14 (0.92%) RDBMS
14 13 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (0.85%) SAP Data Services
14 13 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 12 (0.79%) Db2
16 10 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
16 10 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
16 10 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 133 (8.74%) JIRA
2 49 (3.22%) Git
3 40 (2.63%) Zephyr
4 34 (2.23%) Postman
5 23 (1.51%) Jenkins
6 14 (0.92%) GitLab
7 12 (0.79%) Selenium
8 11 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.39%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.39%) Gatling
10 6 (0.39%) Hudson
10 6 (0.39%) JUnit
11 5 (0.33%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.33%) LSMW
11 5 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.20%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.20%) ERwin
12 3 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
General
1 528 (34.69%) Finance
2 460 (30.22%) Social Skills
3 184 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (8.34%) Public Sector
5 97 (6.37%) Banking
6 76 (4.99%) Manufacturing
7 59 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (3.09%) Law
9 46 (3.02%) Retail
10 35 (2.30%) General Ledger
11 33 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (2.04%) Local Government
13 29 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
14 27 (1.77%) Legal
15 23 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 23 (1.51%) Marketing
16 22 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
17 19 (1.25%) Billing
18 17 (1.12%) Aerospace
18 17 (1.12%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 325 (21.35%) Lead
2 215 (14.13%) Analyst
3 199 (13.07%) Architect
4 170 (11.17%) Consultant
5 115 (7.56%) Data Migration Lead
6 112 (7.36%) Project Manager
7 107 (7.03%) Data Engineer
8 103 (6.77%) Senior
9 97 (6.37%) Business Analyst
10 79 (5.19%) Data Analyst
11 73 (4.80%) Data Architect
12 69 (4.53%) Developer
13 61 (4.01%) Migration Engineer
14 57 (3.75%) SAP Consultant
15 56 (3.68%) Migration Analyst
16 54 (3.55%) Migration Manager
17 52 (3.42%) Data Migration Engineer
18 45 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
19 44 (2.89%) Data Consultant
19 44 (2.89%) Data Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (6.31%) Oracle Fusion
2 46 (3.02%) REST
3 43 (2.83%) Middleware
4 26 (1.71%) SOAP
5 22 (1.45%) XML
6 21 (1.38%) .NET
7 20 (1.31%) Spring
8 18 (1.18%) Kafka
9 17 (1.12%) JSON
10 12 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
10 12 (0.79%) Spring Boot
11 11 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
11 11 (0.72%) PySpark
12 10 (0.66%) React
13 9 (0.59%) ADO
14 7 (0.46%) COM
14 7 (0.46%) ODBC
14 7 (0.46%) Playwright
14 7 (0.46%) RESTful
14 7 (0.46%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 196 (12.88%) Legacy Systems
2 111 (7.29%) Data Structures
3 47 (3.09%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.96%) Management Information System
5 37 (2.43%) Onboarding
6 29 (1.91%) Product Ownership
6 29 (1.91%) Public Cloud
7 28 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
8 24 (1.58%) Replication
9 22 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.12%) Reference Data
11 16 (1.05%) Data Centre
11 16 (1.05%) Mainframe
12 15 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (0.92%) FMCG
13 14 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (0.79%) NHS
15 11 (0.72%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.71%) Windows
2 15 (0.99%) Linux
3 7 (0.46%) zOS
4 6 (0.39%) Data ONTAP
5 5 (0.33%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.26%) AIX
6 4 (0.26%) VMS
7 3 (0.20%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,522 (100.00%) Migration
2 406 (26.68%) Validation
3 330 (21.68%) User Acceptance Testing
4 329 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 325 (21.35%) ERP
6 279 (18.33%) Agile
7 246 (16.16%) ETL
8 221 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
8 221 (14.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 220 (14.45%) Data Modelling
10 151 (9.92%) Business Intelligence
11 147 (9.66%) Data Cleansing
12 141 (9.26%) DevOps
13 140 (9.20%) Data Governance
14 135 (8.87%) Data Mapping
15 131 (8.61%) Project Management
16 126 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
17 123 (8.08%) Analytics
18 112 (7.36%) CI/CD
18 112 (7.36%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 303 (19.91%) SQL
2 121 (7.95%) Python
3 48 (3.15%) Java
4 30 (1.97%) PL/SQL
5 24 (1.58%) Bash
6 23 (1.51%) JavaScript
7 15 (0.99%) PowerShell
8 12 (0.79%) C#
8 12 (0.79%) Kotlin
9 11 (0.72%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.66%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.59%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.53%) VB
12 8 (0.53%) VBA
13 7 (0.46%) C
13 7 (0.46%) VB6
14 5 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.26%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.20%) Korn
16 3 (0.20%) X++
Qualifications
1 251 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 198 (13.01%) SC Cleared
3 65 (4.27%) Degree
4 33 (2.17%) ISTQB
5 29 (1.91%) DV Cleared
5 29 (1.91%) PMP
6 24 (1.58%) PMI Certification
7 21 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (1.25%) CIMA
9 18 (1.18%) ACCA
10 16 (1.05%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.53%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.39%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.39%) ISEB
13 6 (0.39%) SAP Certification
14 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (17.74%) Data Quality
2 142 (9.33%) QA
3 69 (4.53%) GDPR
4 28 (1.84%) PMO
5 16 (1.05%) SLA
6 12 (0.79%) IFRS
7 11 (0.72%) HL7
8 10 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.53%) SNOMED CT
10 7 (0.46%) COBIT
11 6 (0.39%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.39%) DICOM
11 6 (0.39%) GAAP
11 6 (0.39%) NIST
12 5 (0.33%) GMP
13 4 (0.26%) Basel III
13 4 (0.26%) GxP
13 4 (0.26%) PERC
13 4 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.99%) vSphere
4 14 (0.92%) Docker
5 12 (0.79%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.72%) NFS
7 7 (0.46%) SRDF
8 6 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (0.33%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (2.43%) Terraform
2 34 (2.23%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.64%) Ansible
4 18 (1.18%) Grafana
5 15 (0.99%) vCenter Server
6 14 (0.92%) Argo
7 10 (0.66%) EMC VPLEX
8 9 (0.59%) HP ALM
8 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.39%) vMotion
10 5 (0.33%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.33%) 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
11 4 (0.26%) SCCM
11 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.20%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 299 (19.65%) Oracle
2 282 (18.53%) SAP
3 242 (15.90%) Microsoft
4 76 (4.99%) Databricks
5 67 (4.40%) Salesforce
6 31 (2.04%) ServiceNow
6 31 (2.04%) VMware
7 28 (1.84%) Workday
8 27 (1.77%) Sage
9 26 (1.71%) Informatica
10 25 (1.64%) Pure Storage
11 22 (1.45%) IFS
12 21 (1.38%) Google
13 20 (1.31%) Talend
14 17 (1.12%) Ariba
14 17 (1.12%) Infor
14 17 (1.12%) Red Hat
15 16 (1.05%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.92%) Avaloq
17 13 (0.85%) IBM