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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 107 126
Rank change year-on-year +34 +19 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 414 552 928
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.80% 2.24% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 2.50% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 377 667
10th Percentile £413 £400 £371
25th Percentile £478 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -2.38% +7.42%
75th Percentile £678 £604 £600
90th Percentile £712 £715 £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 13,021 22,109 40,018
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,736 15,644 29,065
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +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 565 507 537
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.63 £14.15
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.86 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +35.06% +61.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.00 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

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 16 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 (7.97%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.69%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (0.97%) Confluence
5 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.72%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.24%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.24%) CMS
6 1 (0.24%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 30 (7.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (7.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (2.42%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (2.17%) SAP MDG
5 7 (1.69%) NEC Housing
6 6 (1.45%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (1.21%) Loan IQ
7 5 (1.21%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (1.21%) Oracle EBS R12
7 5 (1.21%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (1.21%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.97%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.97%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.97%) SAP Retail
8 4 (0.97%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.72%) Infor M3
9 3 (0.72%) MIS ActiveH
9 3 (0.72%) Oracle FAH
9 3 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.72%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 98 (23.67%) Azure
2 47 (11.35%) Dynamics 365
3 36 (8.70%) Power Platform
4 29 (7.00%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (6.52%) AWS
6 16 (3.86%) SaaS
7 14 (3.38%) OCI
8 13 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.14%) GCP
9 12 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (2.17%) Entra ID
10 9 (2.17%) Serverless
11 7 (1.69%) Azure Functions
11 7 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (1.69%) PaaS
11 7 (1.69%) Snowflake
12 6 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (1.45%) dbt
13 5 (1.21%) Power Automate
13 5 (1.21%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.69%) Firewall
2 4 (0.97%) 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 (8.21%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (7.25%) SQL Server
3 25 (6.04%) Power BI
4 18 (4.35%) Oracle Database
5 15 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.14%) Oracle Database 11g
6 13 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (2.90%) Big Data
8 11 (2.66%) Data Lake
8 11 (2.66%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (2.17%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.69%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.69%) Data Mining
10 7 (1.69%) SAP Data Services
10 7 (1.69%) SAP HANA
10 7 (1.69%) Tableau
11 6 (1.45%) Metadata
12 5 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (3.62%) JIRA
2 4 (0.97%) Eclipse
2 4 (0.97%) Git
2 4 (0.97%) 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%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.48%) SoapUI
4 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.24%) Deequ
5 1 (0.24%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.24%) GitLab
5 1 (0.24%) JMeter
5 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.24%) WebDriver
General
1 122 (29.47%) Finance
2 116 (28.02%) Social Skills
3 47 (11.35%) Public Sector
4 28 (6.76%) Banking
5 21 (5.07%) Retail
6 18 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (3.14%) Marketing
9 10 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.42%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.17%) Billing
11 7 (1.69%) Local Government
12 6 (1.45%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.45%) Social Housing
13 5 (1.21%) Back Office
13 5 (1.21%) Law
14 4 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.97%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 88 (21.26%) Consultant
2 67 (16.18%) Analyst
2 67 (16.18%) Architect
3 42 (10.14%) Developer
4 41 (9.90%) Lead
5 38 (9.18%) Project Manager
6 35 (8.45%) Business Analyst
7 27 (6.52%) Data Consultant
7 27 (6.52%) Senior
8 26 (6.28%) Technical Architect
9 23 (5.56%) Data Analyst
10 22 (5.31%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 21 (5.07%) Migration Consultant
12 20 (4.83%) Data Engineer
13 19 (4.59%) Data Migration Lead
13 19 (4.59%) Migration Analyst
14 18 (4.35%) Data Migration Analyst
15 17 (4.11%) Data Architect
15 17 (4.11%) Financial Analyst
16 16 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.35%) .NET
2 11 (2.66%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (2.17%) Web Services
4 7 (1.69%) .NET Framework
5 6 (1.45%) Entity Framework
5 6 (1.45%) JSON
5 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
5 6 (1.45%) WCF
6 4 (0.97%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.97%) BAPI
6 4 (0.97%) REST
6 4 (0.97%) XML
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
7 3 (0.72%) Web Dynpro
8 2 (0.48%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.00%) Legacy Systems
2 25 (6.04%) Data Structures
3 20 (4.83%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.62%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.21%) NHS
8 4 (0.97%) Derivative
8 4 (0.97%) Fixed Income
8 4 (0.97%) FMCG
8 4 (0.97%) 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 8 (1.93%) Windows
2 5 (1.21%) Unix
3 3 (0.72%) Linux
4 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (100.00%) Migration
2 61 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (13.53%) Agile
4 52 (12.56%) ETL
5 50 (12.08%) CRM
5 50 (12.08%) Data Modelling
6 46 (11.11%) ERP
7 45 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 44 (10.63%) DevOps
8 44 (10.63%) User Acceptance Testing
9 40 (9.66%) Project Management
10 38 (9.18%) Validation
11 36 (8.70%) Change Management
12 32 (7.73%) Business Intelligence
13 31 (7.49%) Decision-Making
14 30 (7.25%) Data Security
15 29 (7.00%) Data Cleansing
16 28 (6.76%) Data Management
17 25 (6.04%) Data Governance
17 25 (6.04%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 89 (21.50%) SQL
2 25 (6.04%) Python
3 20 (4.83%) PL/SQL
4 19 (4.59%) C#
5 17 (4.11%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.90%) Java
7 10 (2.42%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.69%) ABAP
8 7 (1.69%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.97%) Scala
10 3 (0.72%) Bash
11 2 (0.48%) Bicep
12 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.24%) Go
12 1 (0.24%) Groovy
12 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 48 (11.59%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.90%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.31%) Degree
4 10 (2.42%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (0.97%) APMP
6 4 (0.97%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.72%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.72%) PMP
7 3 (0.72%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CCA
9 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (12.08%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.28%) QA
3 17 (4.11%) PMO
4 14 (3.38%) GDPR
5 5 (1.21%) 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 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (2.42%) vSphere
2 9 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.69%) Docker
4 5 (1.21%) 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 (1.93%) Kubernetes
1 8 (1.93%) Terraform
2 4 (0.97%) Ansible
2 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.97%) vCenter Server
2 4 (0.97%) 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 85 (20.53%) Microsoft
2 73 (17.63%) SAP
3 68 (16.43%) Oracle
4 18 (4.35%) NetApp
5 14 (3.38%) Databricks
5 14 (3.38%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.66%) VMware
7 10 (2.42%) Dell
7 10 (2.42%) Google
8 9 (2.17%) Informatica
9 8 (1.93%) Workday
10 7 (1.69%) Cisco
10 7 (1.69%) NEC
11 5 (1.21%) HubSpot
11 5 (1.21%) IBM
12 4 (0.97%) Adobe
12 4 (0.97%) Ariba
12 4 (0.97%) Citrix
12 4 (0.97%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.72%) OpenText