Data Migration Job Trends in the South East

Data Migration
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data Migration skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 199 234
Rank change year-on-year -48 +35 +80
Permanent jobs citing Data Migration 27 98 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.26% 1.07% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 1.21% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 15 56 33
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £62,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £72,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +1.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Data Migration falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,339 8,072 7,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.75% 87.75% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,932 3,932 5,018
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,188 £45,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +8.49% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Migration relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Data Migration job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Migration
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Migration.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in the South East over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Migration in the South East

Data Migration
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Migration within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -22 12 £52,500 -19.23% 11
Hampshire +12 6 £65,000 +32.65% 4
Buckinghamshire -5 5 £55,000 -2.22%
Berkshire -15 5 £40,000 -42.86% 10
Surrey -5 4 - - 4
Oxfordshire +15 2 - - 1
Sussex - 2 £55,000 -
West Sussex +2 1 - - 1
Kent -12 1 £130,000 -
Middlesex - 1 - -
Data Migration
England

Data Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (14.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (11.11%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (3.70%) NetSuite
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (3.70%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) Power Platform
1 5 (18.52%) SaaS
2 4 (14.81%) dbt
2 4 (14.81%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (14.81%) Snowflake
3 3 (11.11%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) Fivetran
4 2 (7.41%) Azure
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (7.41%) Dataform
4 2 (7.41%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Power BI
2 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.11%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (7.41%) Airbyte
3 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
3 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
3 2 (7.41%) Looker
3 2 (7.41%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.70%) Data Hub
4 1 (3.70%) DB2
4 1 (3.70%) Metadata
4 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Manufacturing
3 4 (14.81%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Local Government
4 3 (11.11%) Electronics
5 2 (7.41%) Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Legal
5 2 (7.41%) Marketing
5 2 (7.41%) Retail
6 1 (3.70%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Analyst
2 4 (14.81%) CRM Analyst
2 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Salesforce Analyst
2 4 (14.81%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Configuration Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Senior
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Architect
4 2 (7.41%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Integration Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Solutions Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Data Migration Lead
5 1 (3.70%) Head of Engineering
5 1 (3.70%) Lead Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Principal Data Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.70%) SAP Architect
5 1 (3.70%) SAP Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Node.js
1 2 (7.41%) SAPUI5
1 2 (7.41%) Snowpark
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.70%) NHS
3 1 (3.70%) Replication
3 1 (3.70%) Taxonomies
3 1 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Migration
2 10 (37.04%) Analytics
3 7 (25.93%) CRM
3 7 (25.93%) DevOps
3 7 (25.93%) ERP
3 7 (25.93%) Project Delivery
3 7 (25.93%) Test Automation
4 6 (22.22%) Agile
4 6 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
5 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (18.52%) Data Analytics
5 5 (18.52%) Data Engineering
5 5 (18.52%) Service Management
5 5 (18.52%) Validation
6 4 (14.81%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) ABAP
3 2 (7.41%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) HND
2 3 (11.11%) NVQ Level 5
3 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (40.74%) Data Quality
2 4 (14.81%) QA
3 3 (11.11%) SLA
4 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.70%) GDPR
4 1 (3.70%) GMP
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
1 5 (18.52%) Salesforce
2 4 (14.81%) MuleSoft
2 4 (14.81%) SAP
3 2 (7.41%) Databricks
3 2 (7.41%) Google
3 2 (7.41%) Workday
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow