Data Migration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Migration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Migration over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 370 391
Rank change year-on-year +24 +21 -48
Permanent jobs citing Data Migration 808 930 1,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.90% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.94% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 496 571 813
10th Percentile £37,125 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £94,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Migration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Migration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Migration over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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 +8 648 £57,500 -11.54% 168
UK excluding London +43 494 £50,000 -16.67% 97
Work from Home +65 401 £57,500 -8.00% 82
London +36 233 £75,000 +7.14% 68
North of England +57 132 £45,000 -22.41% 17
South East +15 101 £50,000 -4.76% 26
Midlands +15 91 £50,000 -23.08% 17
North West +44 89 £45,000 -28.00% 7
West Midlands +15 62 £50,000 -23.08% 13
Scotland -33 52 £45,000 -37.93% 6
East of England +41 41 £50,000 -13.04% 13
South West -49 38 £47,500 -17.39% 14
Yorkshire +70 35 £45,000 -10.00% 3
East Midlands -15 25 £37,500 -44.44% 4
Northern Ireland - 23 £54,408 - 7
Wales +27 17 £67,500 +26.17% 1
North East - 8 £61,250 - 7

Data Migration
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:

Application Platforms
1 46 (5.69%) WebLogic
2 41 (5.07%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.72%) Confluence
4 12 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (0.74%) Appian
6 5 (0.62%) nginx
7 4 (0.50%) Drupal
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.37%) IIS
8 3 (0.37%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.25%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.25%) Documentum
9 2 (0.25%) FileNet
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.25%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.12%) CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 46 (5.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 33 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 32 (3.96%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (2.48%) NetSuite
5 13 (1.61%) Oracle General Ledger
5 13 (1.61%) Oracle Payables
5 13 (1.61%) Oracle Receivables
6 12 (1.49%) Oracle Cash Management
7 9 (1.11%) NEC Housing
7 9 (1.11%) SAP CX
7 9 (1.11%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
8 4 (0.50%) Oracle Payroll
8 4 (0.50%) ResourceLink
9 3 (0.37%) Maximo
9 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.37%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.37%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 226 (27.97%) AWS
2 153 (18.94%) Azure
3 118 (14.60%) Power Platform
4 49 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
5 46 (5.69%) Amazon SQS
6 45 (5.57%) Microsoft 365
7 42 (5.20%) Dynamics 365
8 41 (5.07%) SaaS
9 33 (4.08%) OCI
10 31 (3.84%) Azure Data Factory
11 24 (2.97%) GCP
12 21 (2.60%) Amazon S3
12 21 (2.60%) PowerApps
13 17 (2.10%) Power Automate
14 16 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (1.98%) GitHub
14 16 (1.98%) PaaS
14 16 (1.98%) Route 53
14 16 (1.98%) Serverless
14 16 (1.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 55 (6.81%) DNS
2 46 (5.69%) BGP
2 46 (5.69%) SSL
2 46 (5.69%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.99%) Firewall
4 7 (0.87%) Intranet
5 5 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.37%) HTTP
6 3 (0.37%) Internet
6 3 (0.37%) Wireless
7 2 (0.25%) DHCP
7 2 (0.25%) LAN
7 2 (0.25%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) NAS
8 1 (0.12%) SAN
8 1 (0.12%) VPN
8 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (20.17%) Oracle Database
2 113 (13.99%) PostgreSQL
3 106 (13.12%) Oracle Database 11g
4 98 (12.13%) Power BI
5 75 (9.28%) Relational Database
6 71 (8.79%) Data Warehouse
7 62 (7.67%) SQL Server
8 61 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
9 50 (6.19%) RDBMS
10 40 (4.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 30 (3.71%) MySQL
12 28 (3.47%) Data Lake
12 28 (3.47%) Metadata
13 16 (1.98%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 13 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
15 12 (1.49%) Big Data
16 11 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
16 11 (1.36%) MS Access
17 10 (1.24%) SAP HANA
18 9 (1.11%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 75 (9.28%) JIRA
2 23 (2.85%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.10%) Bitbucket
4 16 (1.98%) Git
5 14 (1.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 13 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (1.61%) Subversion
7 7 (0.87%) Postman
8 6 (0.74%) Oracle APEX
8 6 (0.74%) Toad
9 5 (0.62%) Eclipse
9 5 (0.62%) GitLab
10 4 (0.50%) Ant
11 3 (0.37%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.37%) ClearCase
11 3 (0.37%) ClearQuest
11 3 (0.37%) Redmine
11 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.25%) Fiddler
12 2 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 258 (31.93%) Social Skills
2 214 (26.49%) Finance
3 91 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (5.94%) Manufacturing
5 39 (4.83%) Banking
6 37 (4.58%) Public Sector
7 35 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 31 (3.84%) Marketing
9 30 (3.71%) Retail
10 26 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (2.72%) Law
11 22 (2.72%) Retail Banking
12 20 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.61%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.61%) Legal
14 12 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (1.24%) Games
17 9 (1.11%) Back Office
18 6 (0.74%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 196 (24.26%) Developer
2 183 (22.65%) Senior
3 147 (18.19%) Analyst
4 119 (14.73%) Architect
5 115 (14.23%) Senior Developer
6 107 (13.24%) Database Developer
7 106 (13.12%) Consultant
8 105 (13.00%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 94 (11.63%) Senior Database Developer
10 92 (11.39%) Lead
11 62 (7.67%) Business Analyst
11 62 (7.67%) Solutions Architect
12 49 (6.06%) Lead Architect
13 46 (5.69%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 45 (5.57%) Data Architect
15 33 (4.08%) Administrator
16 29 (3.59%) Functional Consultant
17 28 (3.47%) Senior Consultant
18 25 (3.09%) Data Engineer
18 25 (3.09%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.69%) RabbitMQ
1 46 (5.69%) Spring Boot
2 24 (2.97%) HTML
3 21 (2.60%) REST
3 21 (2.60%) SOAP
4 19 (2.35%) Web Services
4 19 (2.35%) XML
5 16 (1.98%) .NET
6 12 (1.49%) JSON
6 12 (1.49%) Visualforce
7 11 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (1.11%) CSS
8 9 (1.11%) Itk
8 9 (1.11%) Kafka
9 8 (0.99%) Middleware
10 7 (0.87%) XHTML
11 6 (0.74%) Ajax
11 6 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
12 5 (0.62%) Node.js
12 5 (0.62%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 70 (8.66%) Enterprise Software
2 62 (7.67%) Management Information System
3 54 (6.68%) Public Cloud
4 39 (4.83%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (3.71%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (2.35%) Data Structures
7 14 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.36%) Renewable Energy
9 10 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.24%) NHS
10 8 (0.99%) Cloud Native
10 8 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (0.87%) Clustering
11 7 (0.87%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.74%) Driving Licence
12 6 (0.74%) Mobile Payment
13 5 (0.62%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.62%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.80%) Linux
2 46 (5.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (2.35%) Windows
4 11 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.50%) AIX
6 3 (0.37%) Unix
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 808 (100.00%) Migration
2 197 (24.38%) Actionable Insight
3 193 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
4 169 (20.92%) Agile
5 147 (18.19%) ERP
6 122 (15.10%) Project Management
7 117 (14.48%) Business Intelligence
8 114 (14.11%) Artificial Intelligence
9 112 (13.86%) Performance Tuning
10 106 (13.12%) Secure Coding
10 106 (13.12%) Unit Testing
11 104 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 103 (12.75%) Collaborative Working
13 94 (11.63%) Requirements Gathering
14 90 (11.14%) ETL
15 88 (10.89%) Data Management
15 88 (10.89%) Data Modelling
16 87 (10.77%) Roadmaps
17 86 (10.64%) Computer Science
18 69 (8.54%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 292 (36.14%) SQL
2 134 (16.58%) PL/SQL
3 51 (6.31%) Python
4 49 (6.06%) Java
5 31 (3.84%) JavaScript
6 24 (2.97%) T-SQL
7 18 (2.23%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.73%) Apex Code
9 11 (1.36%) Bash
9 11 (1.36%) C#
9 11 (1.36%) PHP
10 10 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.11%) C++
12 6 (0.74%) SOQL
13 5 (0.62%) C
13 5 (0.62%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.50%) RPG
15 3 (0.37%) Go
15 3 (0.37%) VBA
16 2 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 127 (15.72%) Security Cleared
2 124 (15.35%) Degree
3 106 (13.12%) SC Cleared
4 63 (7.80%) AWS Certification
5 62 (7.67%) Azure Certification
6 50 (6.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 44 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (2.60%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.61%) DBS Check
11 12 (1.49%) PMP
12 9 (1.11%) CISM
12 9 (1.11%) CISSP
12 9 (1.11%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.62%) MCAD
15 4 (0.50%) OCP
16 3 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 24 (2.97%) GDPR
3 18 (2.23%) QA
4 6 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.50%) SLA
7 3 (0.37%) GMP
7 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.37%) PMO
8 1 (0.12%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 25 (3.09%) Docker
2 8 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.37%) HDFS
5 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.25%) iptables
5 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.25%) vSphere
6 1 (0.12%) NFS
6 1 (0.12%) Shibboleth
6 1 (0.12%) Varnish
6 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (2.72%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.60%) Terraform
3 11 (1.36%) Ansible
3 11 (1.36%) Puppet
4 10 (1.24%) Packer
5 7 (0.87%) Progress Chef
5 7 (0.87%) Salt
6 6 (0.74%) CloudHub
7 5 (0.62%) Grafana
7 5 (0.62%) Kibana
8 4 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.12%) SCCM
10 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.12%) VxRail
Vendors
1 254 (31.44%) Oracle
2 174 (21.53%) Microsoft
3 79 (9.78%) SAP
4 46 (5.69%) Sparx
5 35 (4.33%) Salesforce
6 21 (2.60%) Atlassian
7 19 (2.35%) IFS
8 12 (1.49%) IBM
9 11 (1.36%) Sage
9 11 (1.36%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.11%) Databricks
10 9 (1.11%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.11%) NEC
11 7 (0.87%) VMware
12 6 (0.74%) Civica
12 6 (0.74%) Splunk
12 6 (0.74%) Sybase
12 6 (0.74%) Zuora
13 5 (0.62%) Google
13 5 (0.62%) Informatica