Data Migration Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Migration
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Data Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Migration over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 108 130
Rank change year-on-year +32 +22 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 416 570 930
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.79% 2.26% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 2.52% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 392 668
10th Percentile £412 £400 £375
25th Percentile £483 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -1.90% +7.14%
75th Percentile £688 £604 £600
90th Percentile £712 £706 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 6
10th Percentile - - £16.75
25th Percentile - £17.50 £21.85
Median hourly rate - £20.00 £45.33
Median % change year-on-year - -55.88% +72.22%
75th Percentile - £35.00 £57.50
90th Percentile - £72.50 £79.38
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £26.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year +180.37% +33.75% +26.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Migration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,143 22,599 40,333
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.00% 89.72% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,800 15,969 29,287
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 519 542
10th Percentile £14.96 £18.63 £14.28
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £37.39
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +42.69% +52.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Data Migration
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Migration trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Migration
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Migration.

Data Migration daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Migration over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Data Migration daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Migration.

Data Migration hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Migration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 33 (7.93%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.68%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (0.96%) Confluence
5 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.72%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.48%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Apache
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.24%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 31 (7.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (6.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (2.40%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (2.16%) SAP MDG
5 8 (1.92%) Loan IQ
6 7 (1.68%) NEC Housing
7 6 (1.44%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (1.20%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (1.20%) Oracle EBS R12
8 5 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.96%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.96%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.96%) SAP Retail
9 4 (0.96%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.72%) Infor M3
10 3 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.72%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.72%) SAP Payroll
10 3 (0.72%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 98 (23.56%) Azure
2 47 (11.30%) Dynamics 365
3 35 (8.41%) Power Platform
4 29 (6.97%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (6.49%) AWS
6 16 (3.85%) SaaS
7 13 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (3.13%) GCP
7 13 (3.13%) OCI
8 12 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (2.16%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.16%) Serverless
10 7 (1.68%) Azure Functions
10 7 (1.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (1.68%) PaaS
10 7 (1.68%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (1.44%) dbt
12 5 (1.20%) IaaS
12 5 (1.20%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.68%) Firewall
2 4 (0.96%) VSAN
3 3 (0.72%) PuTTY
3 3 (0.72%) VPN
4 2 (0.48%) IPsec
5 1 (0.24%) DNS
5 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.24%) Internet
5 1 (0.24%) MPLS
5 1 (0.24%) NAS
5 1 (0.24%) SAN
5 1 (0.24%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.24%) SSL
5 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.17%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (7.21%) SQL Server
3 24 (5.77%) Power BI
4 18 (4.33%) Oracle Database
5 15 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.13%) Oracle Database 11g
6 13 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (2.88%) Big Data
8 11 (2.64%) Data Lake
8 11 (2.64%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (2.16%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.68%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.68%) Data Mining
10 7 (1.68%) SAP Data Services
10 7 (1.68%) SAP HANA
10 7 (1.68%) Tableau
11 6 (1.44%) Metadata
12 5 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.96%) GIS
Development Applications
1 16 (3.85%) JIRA
2 4 (0.96%) Eclipse
2 4 (0.96%) Git
2 4 (0.96%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.72%) ERwin
3 3 (0.72%) LSMW
3 3 (0.72%) Postman
3 3 (0.72%) Selenium
3 3 (0.72%) Toad
3 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio Team System
4 2 (0.48%) GitLab
4 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.48%) SoapUI
4 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.24%) Deequ
5 1 (0.24%) JMeter
5 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.24%) WebDriver
General
1 125 (30.05%) Finance
2 120 (28.85%) Social Skills
3 47 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 29 (6.97%) Banking
5 21 (5.05%) Retail
6 19 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (3.37%) Marketing
9 10 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.16%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.16%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.92%) Billing
12 7 (1.68%) Local Government
13 6 (1.44%) Social Housing
14 5 (1.20%) Back Office
14 5 (1.20%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.20%) Law
15 4 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 91 (21.88%) Consultant
2 66 (15.87%) Architect
3 65 (15.63%) Analyst
4 44 (10.58%) Developer
5 39 (9.38%) Lead
6 38 (9.13%) Project Manager
7 36 (8.65%) Business Analyst
8 28 (6.73%) Data Consultant
9 27 (6.49%) Senior
10 26 (6.25%) Technical Architect
11 23 (5.53%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 22 (5.29%) Data Analyst
12 22 (5.29%) Migration Consultant
13 20 (4.81%) Data Engineer
14 19 (4.57%) Data Migration Lead
15 18 (4.33%) Data Migration Analyst
15 18 (4.33%) Migration Analyst
16 16 (3.85%) Data Architect
16 16 (3.85%) Financial Analyst
16 16 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.33%) .NET
2 11 (2.64%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (2.16%) Web Services
4 7 (1.68%) .NET Framework
4 7 (1.68%) JSON
5 6 (1.44%) Entity Framework
5 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
5 6 (1.44%) WCF
6 4 (0.96%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.96%) BAPI
6 4 (0.96%) REST
6 4 (0.96%) Web Dynpro
6 4 (0.96%) XML
7 3 (0.72%) Apache Camel
7 3 (0.72%) Middleware
7 3 (0.72%) PySpark
7 3 (0.72%) SAML
7 3 (0.72%) SAP ALE
7 3 (0.72%) SAP PI
7 3 (0.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.45%) Legacy Systems
2 25 (6.01%) Data Structures
3 20 (4.81%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.61%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.16%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.16%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.20%) NHS
8 4 (0.96%) Derivative
8 4 (0.96%) Fixed Income
8 4 (0.96%) FMCG
8 4 (0.96%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 3 (0.72%) Online Banking
9 3 (0.72%) Replication
9 3 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.48%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.48%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.64%) Windows
2 6 (1.44%) Linux
3 5 (1.20%) Unix
4 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (100.00%) Migration
2 65 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (14.66%) Agile
4 54 (12.98%) ETL
5 52 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 51 (12.26%) CRM
7 48 (11.54%) ERP
8 46 (11.06%) User Acceptance Testing
9 44 (10.58%) DevOps
9 44 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
10 40 (9.62%) Project Management
11 38 (9.13%) Validation
12 36 (8.65%) Change Management
13 32 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
14 31 (7.45%) Decision-Making
15 29 (6.97%) Data Security
16 28 (6.73%) Data Management
17 27 (6.49%) Data Cleansing
18 25 (6.01%) Data Governance
18 25 (6.01%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 92 (22.12%) SQL
2 26 (6.25%) Python
3 20 (4.81%) PL/SQL
4 19 (4.57%) C#
5 18 (4.33%) JavaScript
6 15 (3.61%) Java
7 10 (2.40%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.92%) ABAP
9 6 (1.44%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.96%) Scala
11 3 (0.72%) Bash
12 2 (0.48%) Bicep
13 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.24%) Go
13 1 (0.24%) Groovy
13 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 48 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.86%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.53%) Degree
4 10 (2.40%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (0.96%) APMP
6 4 (0.96%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (0.96%) SAP Certification
7 3 (0.72%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.72%) PMP
8 2 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CCA
9 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (11.78%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.25%) QA
3 18 (4.33%) PMO
4 14 (3.37%) GDPR
5 5 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.24%) HL7
8 1 (0.24%) NIST
8 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (2.40%) vSphere
2 9 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.68%) Docker
4 5 (1.20%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.24%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (1.92%) Kubernetes
1 8 (1.92%) Terraform
2 4 (0.96%) Ansible
2 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.96%) vCenter Server
2 4 (0.96%) VxRail
3 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.24%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.24%) Istio
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 84 (20.19%) Microsoft
2 74 (17.79%) SAP
3 66 (15.87%) Oracle
4 18 (4.33%) NetApp
5 14 (3.37%) Databricks
6 13 (3.13%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.64%) VMware
8 10 (2.40%) Dell
8 10 (2.40%) Google
9 9 (2.16%) Informatica
10 8 (1.92%) Workday
11 7 (1.68%) Cisco
11 7 (1.68%) IBM
11 7 (1.68%) NEC
12 5 (1.20%) Adobe
12 5 (1.20%) HubSpot
13 4 (0.96%) Citrix
13 4 (0.96%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.72%) Ariba
14 3 (0.72%) OpenText