Data Migration Engineer Jobs

Data Migration Engineer
UK

The median Data Migration Engineer salary in the UK is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 682 905 958
Rank change year-on-year +223 +53 +270
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Migration Engineer 5 9 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.009% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.010% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £48,875 - £35,500
25th Percentile £52,813 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £127,185 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -51.84% +217.96% +6.67%
75th Percentile £70,313 - £83,750
90th Percentile £74,625 - £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 - £40,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 47,606 93,229 94,684
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,326 66,845 59,589
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Data Migration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Migration Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration Engineer in the UK

Data Migration Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Migration Engineer.

Salary trend for Data Migration Engineer in the UK

Data Migration Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Migration Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Migration Engineer in the UK

Data Migration Engineer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Migration Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 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
England +185 5 £61,250 - 1
UK excluding London - 4 £47,500 -
Work from Home +165 2 - -
Midlands - 2 £47,500 -
South East - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £47,500 -
London +100 1 £75,000 -

Data Migration Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Data Migration Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Data Migration Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
1 5 (100.00%) Data Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Data Transformation
2 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (80.00%) Validation
2 4 (80.00%) MySQL
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) ETL
3 3 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) Data Management
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Reverse Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Pentaho
4 2 (40.00%) SPARQL
4 2 (40.00%) Dublin Core
4 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (40.00%) Data Validation
4 2 (40.00%) Data Extraction
4 2 (40.00%) Data Mapping
4 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (40.00%) Talend
4 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (40.00%) Informatica
4 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (40.00%) SQL

Data Migration Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) Metadata
2 2 (40.00%) Metadata Repository
2 2 (40.00%) Pentaho
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) Triplestore
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Jena
1 2 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Data Transformation
2 4 (80.00%) ETL
2 4 (80.00%) Validation
3 3 (60.00%) Data Management
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Data Extraction
4 2 (40.00%) Data Mapping
4 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (40.00%) Data Validation
4 2 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (40.00%) Metadata Management
4 2 (40.00%) Reverse Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (40.00%) SPARQL
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (40.00%) Dublin Core
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Informatica
2 2 (40.00%) Talend