Data Migration Specialist Contracts

Data Migration Specialist
UK

The median Data Migration Specialist daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 710 840
Rank change year-on-year +151 +130 -164
Contract jobs requiring a Data Migration Specialist 32 8 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.014% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.014% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 7 12
10th Percentile £475 £443 £300
25th Percentile £485 £463 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £502
90th Percentile £650 £643 £640
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £500 £315
% change year-on-year +6.00% +58.73% -37.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.15
Median hourly rate - - £38.16
75th Percentile - - £39.16
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £38.16

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Data Migration Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Migration Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration Specialist in the UK

Data Migration Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Migration Specialist.

Daily rate trend for Data Migration Specialist in the UK

Data Migration Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration Specialist over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration Specialist in the UK

Data Migration Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Migration Specialist.

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration Specialist in the UK

Data Migration Specialist
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Migration Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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 +131 29 £550 +4.76% 7
UK excluding London +79 16 £530 +6.00% 5
Work from Home +141 14 £523 +16.11% 2
London +107 11 £600 +14.29% 2
South East +30 9 £550 - 3
South West - 2 - -
East of England - 2 £550 - 3
North of England - 2 £511 -
Midlands +28 1 £530 +6.00%
North West - 1 £503 -
Yorkshire - 1 £520 -
East Midlands - 1 £530 -

Data Migration Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Data Migration Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Data Migration Specialist in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Migration
1 32 (100.00%) Data Migration
2 7 (21.88%) SQL
3 6 (18.75%) Oracle
3 6 (18.75%) SQL Server
3 6 (18.75%) Oracle Database 10g
3 6 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (18.75%) Retail
3 6 (18.75%) AWS
3 6 (18.75%) Oracle Database
4 5 (15.63%) Data Quality
4 5 (15.63%) Data Extraction
4 5 (15.63%) Azure
4 5 (15.63%) CRM
4 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
4 5 (15.63%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (12.50%) Informatica
5 4 (12.50%) ERP
5 4 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (9.38%) Data Mapping
6 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
6 3 (9.38%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (9.38%) Business Transformation
6 3 (9.38%) ETL
6 3 (9.38%) Python
6 3 (9.38%) SAP
6 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (9.38%) Finance
6 3 (9.38%) dbt
7 2 (6.25%) Snowflake

Data Migration Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) NEC Housing
1 2 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.13%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) Azure
3 3 (9.38%) dbt
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (6.25%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.13%) ShareGate
5 1 (3.13%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle Database
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle Database 10g
1 6 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Data Mining
2 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.13%) Metadata
3 1 (3.13%) MS Access
3 1 (3.13%) SQLPlus
General
1 6 (18.75%) Retail
2 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Finance
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Social Housing
5 1 (3.13%) Legal
5 1 (3.13%) Local Government
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.13%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 32 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (15.63%) CRM
2 5 (15.63%) Data Extraction
3 4 (12.50%) ERP
4 3 (9.38%) Business Transformation
4 3 (9.38%) Data Mapping
4 3 (9.38%) ETL
4 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (9.38%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (6.25%) Data Design
5 2 (6.25%) Data Matching
5 2 (6.25%) Data Protection
5 2 (6.25%) Quality Management
5 2 (6.25%) Unit Testing
6 1 (3.13%) Agile
6 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis
6 1 (3.13%) Data Management
6 1 (3.13%) Data Reconciliation
6 1 (3.13%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) SQL
2 3 (9.38%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) GDPR
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle
2 4 (12.50%) Informatica
3 3 (9.38%) SAP
4 2 (6.25%) Civica
4 2 (6.25%) Liquidlogic
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.25%) NEC