Data Migration Contracts

Data Migration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 130 139
Rank change year-on-year +28 +9 -25
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 967 1,121 1,723
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.25% 2.00% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 2.23% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 769 1,194
10th Percentile £350 £394 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £620
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £495
% change year-on-year +5.00% +1.01% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 8 9
10th Percentile £25.00 £17.50 £15.75
25th Percentile £40.00 £19.38 £16.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +180.37% +33.75% +31.15%
75th Percentile £80.00 £38.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £64.25 £57.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +233.33% +12.50% +36.61%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Migration over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Migration in the UK

Data Migration
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Migration within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +32 825 £550 +2.33% 190
London +52 430 £550 -1.35% 87
UK excluding London +18 423 £525 +5.00% 108
Work from Home +27 390 £550 +6.28% 88
North of England +29 95 £525 +5.00% 27
South East -34 92 £550 +4.76% 21
South West +49 72 £588 +4.44% 9
Midlands -11 59 £525 - 22
Scotland +33 58 £500 +1.73% 10
North West +38 57 £525 +7.69% 12
West Midlands -7 45 £500 -6.98% 17
East of England +8 39 £307 -18.27% 10
Yorkshire +9 33 £516 +3.25% 12
East Midlands +7 13 £530 +24.71% 5
Wales +20 5 £425 - 3
North East +12 5 £588 +11.90% 3

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 54 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.31%) Confluence
3 21 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.24%) Apache
5 10 (1.03%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.41%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.31%) CMS
10 2 (0.21%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.10%) SAS
11 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 29 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.07%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.10%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 73 (7.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (1.96%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (1.45%) NetSuite
5 11 (1.14%) NEC Housing
6 7 (0.72%) Dynamics AX
6 7 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
6 7 (0.72%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.52%) MIS ActiveH
7 5 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
7 5 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.52%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.52%) SAP IS-U
8 4 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.41%) Infor SunSystems
8 4 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.41%) SAP GTS
8 4 (0.41%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 188 (19.44%) Azure
2 97 (10.03%) Dynamics 365
3 86 (8.89%) Power Platform
4 84 (8.69%) AWS
5 39 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (3.52%) Serverless
7 31 (3.21%) OCI
8 28 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (2.38%) GCP
10 23 (2.38%) Snowflake
11 22 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 22 (2.28%) SaaS
12 18 (1.86%) Amazon S3
12 18 (1.86%) Entra ID
13 17 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (1.76%) GitHub
14 15 (1.55%) Azure Functions
14 15 (1.55%) PaaS
15 14 (1.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.65%) Firewall
2 11 (1.14%) DNS
3 10 (1.03%) SAN
4 9 (0.93%) MPLS
5 8 (0.83%) DHCP
5 8 (0.83%) LAN
5 8 (0.83%) WAN
5 8 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.72%) VPN
7 6 (0.62%) VSAN
8 4 (0.41%) IPsec
9 3 (0.31%) PuTTY
10 2 (0.21%) NAS
11 1 (0.10%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.10%) Intranet
11 1 (0.10%) OpenLDAP
11 1 (0.10%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.10%) SSL
11 1 (0.10%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (9.72%) Data Warehouse
2 70 (7.24%) SQL Server
3 62 (6.41%) Power BI
4 43 (4.45%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (3.62%) Data Lake
6 28 (2.90%) Oracle Database
7 27 (2.79%) NoSQL
8 24 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (2.28%) Big Data
9 22 (2.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 21 (2.17%) Metadata
11 20 (2.07%) Tableau
12 18 (1.86%) SAP Data Services
13 16 (1.65%) Relational Database
14 14 (1.45%) MySQL
15 12 (1.24%) Oracle Database 11g
16 11 (1.14%) Data Mining
17 10 (1.03%) DB2
17 10 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
17 10 (1.03%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 48 (4.96%) JIRA
2 15 (1.55%) Git
3 13 (1.34%) GitLab
4 11 (1.14%) LSMW
5 8 (0.83%) ERwin
5 8 (0.83%) Postman
6 7 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 6 (0.62%) Eclipse
7 6 (0.62%) Visual Studio Team System
8 5 (0.52%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.41%) Deequ
10 3 (0.31%) SoapUI
10 3 (0.31%) Toad
11 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.21%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.21%) Selenium
12 1 (0.10%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.10%) TestComplete
General
1 254 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 242 (25.03%) Finance
3 93 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 72 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (4.45%) Banking
6 42 (4.34%) Retail
7 30 (3.10%) Manufacturing
8 28 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
9 20 (2.07%) Billing
10 18 (1.86%) Aerospace
10 18 (1.86%) Legal
11 16 (1.65%) Local Government
12 15 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.24%) Marketing
15 10 (1.03%) Social Housing
16 8 (0.83%) Back Office
17 7 (0.72%) Financial Institution
17 7 (0.72%) General Ledger
18 6 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 168 (17.37%) Analyst
2 152 (15.72%) Architect
3 150 (15.51%) Consultant
4 104 (10.75%) Lead
5 82 (8.48%) Data Engineer
6 80 (8.27%) Project Manager
7 72 (7.45%) Business Analyst
8 67 (6.93%) Developer
9 59 (6.10%) Migration Engineer
10 56 (5.79%) Data Architect
11 53 (5.48%) Data Analyst
12 50 (5.17%) Data Migration Lead
13 48 (4.96%) Senior
14 47 (4.86%) Data Migration Engineer
15 41 (4.24%) Data Consultant
15 41 (4.24%) Migration Analyst
16 38 (3.93%) Data Migration Analyst
17 35 (3.62%) Technical Architect
18 34 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
19 33 (3.41%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (3.83%) Web Services
2 29 (3.00%) .NET
3 20 (2.07%) Oracle Fusion
3 20 (2.07%) REST
4 15 (1.55%) JSON
5 12 (1.24%) ARM Templates
6 10 (1.03%) .NET Framework
7 9 (0.93%) Entity Framework
7 9 (0.93%) WCF
7 9 (0.93%) XML
8 8 (0.83%) Apache Avro
8 8 (0.83%) BAPI
8 8 (0.83%) PySpark
8 8 (0.83%) Spring Boot
9 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
9 7 (0.72%) Middleware
9 7 (0.72%) Spring
10 6 (0.62%) CSS
10 6 (0.62%) JSON Schema
11 5 (0.52%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 55 (5.69%) Legacy Systems
2 45 (4.65%) Data Centre
3 37 (3.83%) Data Structures
4 28 (2.90%) Management Information System
5 23 (2.38%) Cloud Native
6 20 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (1.65%) Clustering
8 15 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.45%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.45%) Product Ownership
10 11 (1.14%) FMCG
10 11 (1.14%) Replication
11 9 (0.93%) NHS
12 8 (0.83%) Client/Server
12 8 (0.83%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 6 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (0.62%) VxBlock/Vblock
15 5 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
16 4 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.72%) Windows
2 26 (2.69%) Linux
3 24 (2.48%) Unix
4 13 (1.34%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.31%) VMS
7 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 967 (100.00%) Migration
2 134 (13.86%) Agile
3 125 (12.93%) Data Modelling
4 112 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
5 110 (11.38%) ETL
6 104 (10.75%) ERP
7 100 (10.34%) Data Management
8 86 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
9 82 (8.48%) Analytics
9 82 (8.48%) CRM
10 78 (8.07%) DevOps
10 78 (8.07%) Project Management
11 76 (7.86%) Business Intelligence
12 75 (7.76%) Validation
13 72 (7.45%) Data Governance
13 72 (7.45%) User Acceptance Testing
14 59 (6.10%) Data Cleansing
15 57 (5.89%) Data Analysis
15 57 (5.89%) Data Mapping
16 53 (5.48%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 187 (19.34%) SQL
2 65 (6.72%) Python
3 38 (3.93%) PowerShell
4 33 (3.41%) C#
5 32 (3.31%) Java
6 26 (2.69%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.38%) PL/SQL
8 16 (1.65%) ABAP
8 16 (1.65%) Bash
9 14 (1.45%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.93%) Scala
11 5 (0.52%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.41%) Bicep
12 4 (0.41%) Go
13 3 (0.31%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.31%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.21%) PHP
15 1 (0.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.10%) R
15 1 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 138 (14.27%) Security Cleared
2 110 (11.38%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.24%) Degree
4 25 (2.59%) DV Cleared
5 21 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.52%) ACCA
9 5 (0.52%) CIMA
9 5 (0.52%) PMP
9 5 (0.52%) SAP Certification
9 5 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.41%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (0.31%) APMG
11 3 (0.31%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.31%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.10%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 50 (5.17%) QA
3 33 (3.41%) GDPR
4 17 (1.76%) PMO
5 10 (1.03%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.83%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.62%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.41%) SLA
9 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.31%) NIST
10 2 (0.21%) GxP
11 1 (0.10%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.10%) IASME
11 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 31 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.28%) vSphere
4 18 (1.86%) Docker
5 12 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.03%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (0.83%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.10%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (3.41%) Terraform
2 13 (1.34%) Ansible
2 13 (1.34%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (0.83%) Nagios
3 8 (0.83%) NetBackup
3 8 (0.83%) SCCM
4 7 (0.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 7 (0.72%) VxRail
5 6 (0.62%) vCenter Server
6 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.41%) Data Guard
7 4 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (0.41%) Podman
8 2 (0.21%) Grafana
8 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.10%) Istio
9 1 (0.10%) Packer
9 1 (0.10%) vRealize
Vendors
1 168 (17.37%) Microsoft
2 154 (15.93%) SAP
3 128 (13.24%) Oracle
4 37 (3.83%) Micro Focus
5 35 (3.62%) VMware
6 34 (3.52%) Databricks
7 33 (3.41%) Salesforce
8 30 (3.10%) NetApp
9 22 (2.28%) Dell
10 21 (2.17%) Informatica
11 20 (2.07%) Atlassian
12 13 (1.34%) Cisco
12 13 (1.34%) Workday
13 12 (1.24%) Google
14 11 (1.14%) NEC
14 11 (1.14%) SolarWinds
15 10 (1.03%) Red Hat
16 9 (0.93%) Ariba
17 8 (0.83%) Hitachi
17 8 (0.83%) Remedy