Data Migration Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Migration
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Migration skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 246 337
Rank change year-on-year -76 +91 +85
Permanent jobs citing Data Migration 209 403 223
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 1.08% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.23% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 140 198 180
10th Percentile £39,925 - £36,250
25th Percentile £49,375 £38,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,250 £55,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% +8.91% -8.18%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,500 £85,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,518 32,882 27,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.71% 88.16% 90.59%
Number of salaries quoted 19,196 15,153 20,782
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.83%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,700 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data Migration job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Migration
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Migration.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Migration in the UK excluding London

Data Migration
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Migration within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Midlands -8 71 £69,000 +62.35% 251
West Midlands -20 48 £70,000 +64.71% 128
North of England -45 36 £63,750 +49.48% 257
Scotland -4 29 £45,000 -21.74% 47
South East -42 26 £56,750 +0.89% 324
South West +17 25 £50,000 -9.09% 121
Yorkshire +5 20 £65,000 +55.73% 113
East Midlands -4 19 £63,750 +15.91% 106
North West -40 16 £60,000 +41.18% 127
East of England +23 15 £60,000 -12.73% 210
Northern Ireland -3 4 £60,250 - 28
Wales +2 3 £50,000 -34.43% 25
Data Migration
UK

Data Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.35%) Apache
2 7 (3.35%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 29 (13.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (8.13%) Oracle Payables
3 15 (7.18%) Oracle ERP
3 15 (7.18%) Oracle Receivables
4 14 (6.70%) Oracle Assets
4 14 (6.70%) Oracle Financials
4 14 (6.70%) Oracle General Ledger
5 7 (3.35%) NetSuite
5 7 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (1.44%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.96%) iTrent
7 2 (0.96%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.96%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.96%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.96%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.96%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.48%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 37 (17.70%) Dynamics 365
2 33 (15.79%) Azure
2 33 (15.79%) Power Platform
3 19 (9.09%) AWS
4 14 (6.70%) PowerApps
4 14 (6.70%) SaaS
5 12 (5.74%) Power Automate
6 10 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (4.78%) dbt
6 10 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (4.31%) Amazon S3
7 9 (4.31%) Serverless
8 8 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (3.83%) OCI
9 6 (2.87%) Snowflake
10 5 (2.39%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.91%) GCP
11 4 (1.91%) GitHub
12 3 (1.44%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.91%) VPN
2 3 (1.44%) DHCP
2 3 (1.44%) DNS
2 3 (1.44%) LAN
2 3 (1.44%) WAN
2 3 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.48%) Firewall
3 1 (0.48%) NAS
3 1 (0.48%) RFID
3 1 (0.48%) SAN
3 1 (0.48%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.53%) Power BI
2 18 (8.61%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (8.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 14 (6.70%) SQL Server
4 11 (5.26%) Data Lake
5 9 (4.31%) MySQL
6 8 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.39%) SAP Data Services
8 5 (2.39%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.91%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.44%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.44%) DB2
10 3 (1.44%) Looker
10 3 (1.44%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.44%) Pentaho
10 3 (1.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (6.70%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (2.39%) Git
3 3 (1.44%) JIRA
4 1 (0.48%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (0.48%) GitLab
4 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.48%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.48%) LSMW
4 1 (0.48%) Postman
4 1 (0.48%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 59 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 55 (26.32%) Finance
3 38 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.61%) Manufacturing
5 17 (8.13%) Local Government
6 16 (7.66%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (6.70%) Legal
7 14 (6.70%) Public Sector
7 14 (6.70%) Retail
8 13 (6.22%) Fire and Rescue
9 10 (4.78%) Marketing
10 9 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (3.83%) Banking
11 8 (3.83%) Health Technology
12 5 (2.39%) Aerospace
12 5 (2.39%) Electronics
12 5 (2.39%) Law
12 5 (2.39%) Tech for Good
13 4 (1.91%) General Ledger
14 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (30.14%) Analyst
2 34 (16.27%) Senior
3 28 (13.40%) Lead
4 19 (9.09%) Developer
5 17 (8.13%) Architect
5 17 (8.13%) Senior Analyst
6 14 (6.70%) Business Analyst
6 14 (6.70%) Data Engineer
6 14 (6.70%) Oracle Analyst
6 14 (6.70%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 13 (6.22%) Business Change Analyst
7 13 (6.22%) Change Analyst
8 12 (5.74%) Consultant
9 11 (5.26%) Data Migration Lead
9 11 (5.26%) Data Migration Specialist
9 11 (5.26%) Migration Specialist
10 10 (4.78%) ERP Analyst
10 10 (4.78%) Senior Data Engineer
11 9 (4.31%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 8 (3.83%) CRM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.26%) .NET
2 8 (3.83%) .NET Framework
3 7 (3.35%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (2.39%) REST
5 4 (1.91%) PySpark
5 4 (1.91%) SOAP
6 3 (1.44%) Pandas
7 2 (0.96%) HTML
7 2 (0.96%) JSON
7 2 (0.96%) Kafka
7 2 (0.96%) Node.js
7 2 (0.96%) SAPUI5
7 2 (0.96%) Snowpark
8 1 (0.48%) CSS
8 1 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.48%) Middleware
8 1 (0.48%) OAuth
8 1 (0.48%) ODBC
8 1 (0.48%) React
8 1 (0.48%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.61%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (6.22%) NHS
3 11 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 10 (4.78%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.35%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.87%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.44%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.44%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.96%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.96%) FMCG
8 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.96%) Life Science
8 2 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.96%) Replication
9 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.48%) SCADA
9 1 (0.48%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.96%) Linux
1 2 (0.96%) Windows
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (100.00%) Migration
2 61 (29.19%) Agile
3 56 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (24.40%) ERP
5 49 (23.44%) Business Intelligence
6 40 (19.14%) CRM
7 39 (18.66%) Validation
8 37 (17.70%) ETL
8 37 (17.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 30 (14.35%) Analytics
10 29 (13.88%) Data Modelling
11 27 (12.92%) Data Management
11 27 (12.92%) DevOps
11 27 (12.92%) Roadmaps
12 26 (12.44%) CI/CD
13 25 (11.96%) Mentoring
14 23 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (10.53%) Data Governance
15 22 (10.53%) GAP Analysis
16 19 (9.09%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (32.06%) SQL
2 23 (11.00%) Python
3 20 (9.57%) C#
4 9 (4.31%) PL/SQL
4 9 (4.31%) TypeScript
5 6 (2.87%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.91%) Java
7 3 (1.44%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.96%) ABAP
9 1 (0.48%) Bash
9 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.48%) Go
9 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (8.61%) Degree
2 13 (6.22%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (2.87%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.44%) HND
6 3 (1.44%) NVQ Level 5
7 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.48%) PMP
8 1 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.40%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.22%) QA
3 7 (3.35%) GDPR
4 6 (2.87%) SLA
5 5 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.96%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.96%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.96%) NIST
7 2 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.48%) GMP
8 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (2.39%) Docker
2 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.44%) Terraform
2 2 (0.96%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.48%) Ansible
3 1 (0.48%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.48%) Grafana
Vendors
1 37 (17.70%) Microsoft
2 36 (17.22%) Oracle
3 18 (8.61%) SAP
4 11 (5.26%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.39%) Databricks
5 5 (2.39%) Google
5 5 (2.39%) MuleSoft
6 4 (1.91%) Cisco
7 3 (1.44%) Informatica
7 3 (1.44%) Meraki
7 3 (1.44%) Talend
8 2 (0.96%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.96%) Workday
9 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.48%) ESRI
9 1 (0.48%) IFS
9 1 (0.48%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.48%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.48%) VMware