Data Migration Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Migration
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Migration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Migration over the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 72 94
Rank change year-on-year -13 +22 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 309 363 538
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.05% 2.74% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 3.14% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 247 380
10th Percentile £400 £400 £393
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £606 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £699 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £538
% change year-on-year -2.55% +0.23% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £29.58 - -
25th Percentile £36.03 - £17.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £27.00
75th Percentile £75.20 - £50.63
90th Percentile £87.05 - £78.75
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £80.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +142.42% -40.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,312 11,546 20,095
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.81% 87.25% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,243 7,760 14,146
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 405 488
10th Percentile £12.62 £17.03 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.54 £30.75 £25.75
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.03 £67.50
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £78.83
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +60.38%

Data Migration
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Migration trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Migration
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Data Migration over the 6 months to 1 August 2025.

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 remote working options citing Data Migration.

Data Migration hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Migration over the 6 months to 1 August 2025.

Data Migration hourly rate histogram 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 16 (5.18%) Confluence
2 13 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.65%) CMS
3 2 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.32%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.32%) Drupal
4 1 (0.32%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.32%) IBM Notes
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.94%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.65%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (9.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (5.18%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (3.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (2.27%) SAP MDG
5 5 (1.62%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (1.62%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (1.62%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (1.29%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (1.29%) SAP HCM
6 4 (1.29%) SAP HR
6 4 (1.29%) SAP IBP
6 4 (1.29%) SAP Payroll
7 3 (0.97%) Maximo
7 3 (0.97%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.97%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.97%) SAP EHS
7 3 (0.97%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.97%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.65%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 45 (14.56%) Azure
2 33 (10.68%) AWS
2 33 (10.68%) Dynamics 365
3 25 (8.09%) Power Platform
4 12 (3.88%) Amazon S3
4 12 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (3.56%) SaaS
6 10 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (3.24%) OCI
7 9 (2.91%) GCP
7 9 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (2.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (2.59%) Serverless
8 8 (2.59%) Snowflake
9 7 (2.27%) SuccessFactors
10 6 (1.94%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.94%) PowerApps
10 6 (1.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 6 (1.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 5 (1.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.62%) Firewall
2 3 (0.97%) VPN
3 2 (0.65%) WAN
4 1 (0.32%) NAS
4 1 (0.32%) SAN
4 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.32%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (5.18%) Power BI
3 11 (3.56%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.24%) Oracle Database
4 10 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (2.91%) Oracle Reports
6 8 (2.59%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.94%) SAP Data Services
8 5 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.62%) SAP HANA
9 4 (1.29%) Metadata
9 4 (1.29%) MySQL
10 3 (0.97%) GIS
10 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.65%) Big Data
11 2 (0.65%) DataStage
11 2 (0.65%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (5.83%) JIRA
2 5 (1.62%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.62%) REST Assured
3 4 (1.29%) GitLab
4 3 (0.97%) LSMW
5 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.32%) Git
6 1 (0.32%) Hudson
6 1 (0.32%) Postman
6 1 (0.32%) Selenium
6 1 (0.32%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.32%) Subversion
6 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 113 (36.57%) Social Skills
2 108 (34.95%) Finance
3 54 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.41%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.83%) Banking
6 17 (5.50%) Manufacturing
7 16 (5.18%) Local Government
8 11 (3.56%) Marketing
9 10 (3.24%) General Ledger
10 9 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.27%) Retail
12 6 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.97%) Agriculture
15 3 (0.97%) Legal
15 3 (0.97%) Military
16 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 78 (25.24%) Consultant
2 44 (14.24%) Analyst
3 39 (12.62%) Lead
4 31 (10.03%) Architect
5 28 (9.06%) Project Manager
6 27 (8.74%) SAP Consultant
7 22 (7.12%) Data Analyst
8 21 (6.80%) Data Engineer
9 18 (5.83%) Data Consultant
10 16 (5.18%) Business Analyst
11 14 (4.53%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 13 (4.21%) Developer
12 13 (4.21%) Migration Consultant
12 13 (4.21%) Oracle Consultant
13 11 (3.56%) Data Migration Consultant
13 11 (3.56%) Data Migration Lead
13 11 (3.56%) Data Migration Specialist
13 11 (3.56%) Migration Engineer
13 11 (3.56%) Migration Specialist
14 10 (3.24%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.21%) REST
2 12 (3.88%) Lightning Web Components
3 10 (3.24%) Visualforce
4 8 (2.59%) Middleware
4 8 (2.59%) SOAP
5 7 (2.27%) XML
6 6 (1.94%) Gherkin
7 4 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.29%) Spring
7 4 (1.29%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.97%) .NET
8 3 (0.97%) BAPI
8 3 (0.97%) GWT
8 3 (0.97%) JWT
8 3 (0.97%) OAuth
8 3 (0.97%) Servlets
8 3 (0.97%) Spring Security
8 3 (0.97%) Web Services
9 2 (0.65%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.65%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 45 (14.56%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (4.85%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.56%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.59%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.94%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.94%) Reference Data
6 5 (1.62%) FMCG
6 5 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.29%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.29%) Life Science
7 4 (1.29%) NHS
7 4 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.97%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.97%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.65%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.65%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.62%) Windows
2 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.32%) Linux
3 1 (0.32%) MVS
3 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (100.00%) Migration
2 66 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (17.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 49 (15.86%) Agile
4 49 (15.86%) Validation
5 48 (15.53%) ETL
6 42 (13.59%) User Acceptance Testing
7 38 (12.30%) DevOps
8 35 (11.33%) Data Modelling
9 34 (11.00%) Data Governance
10 28 (9.06%) Data Mapping
11 27 (8.74%) Data Cleansing
11 27 (8.74%) Data Management
12 26 (8.41%) Change Management
12 26 (8.41%) Project Management
12 26 (8.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 25 (8.09%) ERP
14 24 (7.77%) Business Intelligence
15 21 (6.80%) Analytics
15 21 (6.80%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 65 (21.04%) SQL
2 23 (7.44%) Python
3 12 (3.88%) Apex Code
4 11 (3.56%) Java
5 7 (2.27%) T-SQL
6 6 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.94%) PL/SQL
7 5 (1.62%) ABAP
7 5 (1.62%) C#
8 3 (0.97%) Bicep
9 2 (0.65%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.65%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.32%) Bash
10 1 (0.32%) C++
10 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.32%) LookML
10 1 (0.32%) R
10 1 (0.32%) Scala
10 1 (0.32%) SOQL
10 1 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 31 (10.03%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.09%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.83%) Degree
4 17 (5.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.59%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.94%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.94%) PMP
8 4 (1.29%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.29%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.65%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.65%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.32%) ACCA
10 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.32%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (16.50%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.18%) QA
3 14 (4.53%) GDPR
4 5 (1.62%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.97%) SLA
6 1 (0.32%) COBIT
6 1 (0.32%) GAAP
6 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.32%) IFRS
6 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.32%) NIST
6 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (2.59%) Docker
2 5 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.32%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 11 (3.56%) Terraform
2 5 (1.62%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.62%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (0.97%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.65%) Ansible
4 2 (0.65%) Grafana
5 1 (0.32%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.32%) CEMLI
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.32%) Puppet
5 1 (0.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 61 (19.74%) SAP
2 51 (16.50%) Oracle
3 43 (13.92%) Microsoft
4 21 (6.80%) Salesforce
5 20 (6.47%) Databricks
6 6 (1.94%) Google
7 5 (1.62%) Ariba
7 5 (1.62%) Workday
8 4 (1.29%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.29%) Commvault
9 3 (0.97%) HP
9 3 (0.97%) Teradata
9 3 (0.97%) VMware
10 2 (0.65%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.65%) IBM
10 2 (0.65%) IFS
10 2 (0.65%) Informatica
10 2 (0.65%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.65%) Siebel
11 1 (0.32%) LabWare