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 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 129 143
Rank change year-on-year +29 +14 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 957 1,113 1,720
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.22% 2.01% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 2.24% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 645 762 1,191
10th Percentile £350 £398 £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 £619
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £493
% change year-on-year +5.00% +1.52% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 8 8
10th Percentile £25.00 £17.50 £15.25
25th Percentile £40.00 £19.38 £19.19
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.75 £29.08
Median % change year-on-year +180.37% -8.00% +90.67%
75th Percentile £80.00 £38.75 £54.69
90th Percentile - £64.25 £57.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +233.33% +12.50% +31.15%

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 36,767 49,750 79,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.37% 89.73% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,536 34,430 55,867
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
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% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,538 1,657 1,878
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.51
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.64%
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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +34 817 £550 +2.33% 173
London +39 431 £550 -1.79% 75
UK excluding London +17 414 £525 +5.00% 101
Work from Home +29 384 £550 +6.80% 91
North of England +21 91 £525 +5.00% 28
South East -29 88 £550 +4.76% 18
South West +51 73 £569 +1.11% 10
Scotland +43 58 £500 +1.73% 11
Midlands -14 58 £528 +0.48% 17
North West +27 52 £525 +5.00% 14
West Midlands -4 44 £513 -4.65% 13
East of England +10 38 £307 -18.27% 8
Yorkshire +7 33 £516 +3.25% 11
East Midlands +5 13 £530 +24.71% 4
North East +11 6 £588 +11.90% 3
Wales +21 5 £425 - 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 52 (5.43%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.45%) Confluence
3 21 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.25%) Apache
5 10 (1.04%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.42%) 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 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.09%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.10%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 71 (7.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (4.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (1.99%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (1.46%) NetSuite
5 13 (1.36%) NEC Housing
6 7 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
6 7 (0.73%) SAP MDG
7 6 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.52%) MIS ActiveH
8 5 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
8 5 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.52%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.52%) SAP IS-U
9 4 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.42%) Infor SunSystems
9 4 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.42%) SAP Retail
9 4 (0.42%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 185 (19.33%) Azure
2 94 (9.82%) Dynamics 365
3 86 (8.99%) Power Platform
4 85 (8.88%) AWS
5 39 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (3.55%) Serverless
7 31 (3.24%) OCI
8 28 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (2.40%) GCP
10 23 (2.40%) Snowflake
11 22 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 20 (2.09%) SaaS
13 18 (1.88%) Amazon S3
13 18 (1.88%) Entra ID
14 17 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (1.78%) GitHub
15 15 (1.57%) Azure Functions
15 15 (1.57%) PaaS
16 14 (1.46%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.67%) Firewall
2 11 (1.15%) DNS
3 10 (1.04%) SAN
4 9 (0.94%) MPLS
5 8 (0.84%) DHCP
5 8 (0.84%) LAN
5 8 (0.84%) WAN
5 8 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.73%) VPN
7 6 (0.63%) VSAN
8 4 (0.42%) 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 92 (9.61%) Data Warehouse
2 71 (7.42%) SQL Server
3 63 (6.58%) Power BI
4 42 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (3.66%) Data Lake
6 27 (2.82%) NoSQL
6 27 (2.82%) Oracle Database
7 24 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (2.30%) Big Data
8 22 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (2.09%) Metadata
9 20 (2.09%) Tableau
10 18 (1.88%) SAP Data Services
11 16 (1.67%) Relational Database
12 14 (1.46%) MySQL
13 11 (1.15%) Data Mining
13 11 (1.15%) Oracle Database 11g
14 10 (1.04%) DB2
14 10 (1.04%) Metadata Repository
14 10 (1.04%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 49 (5.12%) JIRA
2 15 (1.57%) Git
3 13 (1.36%) GitLab
4 11 (1.15%) LSMW
5 8 (0.84%) ERwin
5 8 (0.84%) Postman
5 8 (0.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.63%) Eclipse
6 6 (0.63%) Visual Studio Team System
7 5 (0.52%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.42%) Deequ
9 3 (0.31%) SoapUI
9 3 (0.31%) Toad
10 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.21%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.21%) Selenium
11 1 (0.10%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.10%) Zephyr
General
1 249 (26.02%) Social Skills
2 239 (24.97%) Finance
3 92 (9.61%) Public Sector
4 72 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (4.39%) Banking
5 42 (4.39%) Retail
6 29 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 28 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (1.99%) Billing
8 19 (1.99%) Legal
9 18 (1.88%) Aerospace
9 18 (1.88%) Local Government
10 15 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.15%) Social Housing
13 10 (1.04%) Marketing
14 8 (0.84%) Back Office
15 7 (0.73%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.63%) Law
16 6 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 167 (17.45%) Analyst
2 150 (15.67%) Architect
3 146 (15.26%) Consultant
4 101 (10.55%) Lead
5 83 (8.67%) Data Engineer
6 82 (8.57%) Project Manager
7 71 (7.42%) Business Analyst
8 63 (6.58%) Developer
9 61 (6.37%) Migration Engineer
10 55 (5.75%) Data Architect
11 52 (5.43%) Data Analyst
12 50 (5.22%) Data Migration Lead
13 49 (5.12%) Data Migration Engineer
14 48 (5.02%) Senior
15 41 (4.28%) Data Consultant
15 41 (4.28%) Migration Analyst
16 37 (3.87%) Data Migration Analyst
17 34 (3.55%) Technical Architect
18 33 (3.45%) Migration Manager
18 33 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (3.87%) Web Services
2 28 (2.93%) .NET
3 21 (2.19%) REST
4 20 (2.09%) Oracle Fusion
5 15 (1.57%) JSON
6 12 (1.25%) ARM Templates
7 10 (1.04%) .NET Framework
8 9 (0.94%) Entity Framework
8 9 (0.94%) WCF
9 8 (0.84%) Apache Avro
9 8 (0.84%) BAPI
9 8 (0.84%) PySpark
9 8 (0.84%) Spring Boot
9 8 (0.84%) XML
10 7 (0.73%) CSS
10 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
10 7 (0.73%) Middleware
10 7 (0.73%) Spring
11 6 (0.63%) HTML
11 6 (0.63%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 54 (5.64%) Legacy Systems
2 46 (4.81%) Data Centre
3 35 (3.66%) Data Structures
4 28 (2.93%) Management Information System
5 23 (2.40%) Cloud Native
6 21 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (1.67%) Clustering
8 15 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.46%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.46%) Product Ownership
10 11 (1.15%) FMCG
10 11 (1.15%) Replication
11 9 (0.94%) NHS
12 8 (0.84%) Client/Server
12 8 (0.84%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 6 (0.63%) VxBlock/Vblock
15 5 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
15 5 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
16 4 (0.42%) e-Health
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.76%) Windows
2 27 (2.82%) Linux
3 24 (2.51%) Unix
4 13 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.42%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.42%) 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
1 957 (100.00%) Migration
2 131 (13.69%) Agile
3 122 (12.75%) Data Modelling
4 108 (11.29%) ETL
5 107 (11.18%) Problem-Solving
6 101 (10.55%) ERP
7 99 (10.34%) Data Management
8 84 (8.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 80 (8.36%) Analytics
10 79 (8.25%) CRM
10 79 (8.25%) DevOps
11 78 (8.15%) Project Management
12 73 (7.63%) Business Intelligence
12 73 (7.63%) Validation
13 68 (7.11%) Data Governance
14 65 (6.79%) User Acceptance Testing
15 59 (6.17%) Data Cleansing
16 57 (5.96%) Data Analysis
16 57 (5.96%) Data Mapping
17 52 (5.43%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 183 (19.12%) SQL
2 66 (6.90%) Python
3 38 (3.97%) PowerShell
4 33 (3.45%) C#
5 31 (3.24%) Java
6 27 (2.82%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.40%) PL/SQL
8 16 (1.67%) Bash
9 14 (1.46%) T-SQL
10 13 (1.36%) ABAP
11 9 (0.94%) Scala
12 5 (0.52%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.42%) Bicep
13 4 (0.42%) Go
14 3 (0.31%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.31%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.21%) PHP
15 2 (0.21%) VBA
16 1 (0.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 138 (14.42%) Security Cleared
2 110 (11.49%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.31%) Degree
4 25 (2.61%) DV Cleared
5 21 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.84%) 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 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (0.31%) APMG
11 3 (0.31%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.31%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.31%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (11.70%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.02%) QA
3 33 (3.45%) GDPR
4 17 (1.78%) PMO
5 10 (1.04%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.84%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.63%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.42%) 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 (4.60%) Active Directory
2 31 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.30%) vSphere
4 18 (1.88%) Docker
5 12 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.04%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (0.84%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.10%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 35 (3.66%) Terraform
2 13 (1.36%) Ansible
2 13 (1.36%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (0.84%) Nagios
3 8 (0.84%) NetBackup
3 8 (0.84%) SCCM
4 7 (0.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 7 (0.73%) VxRail
5 6 (0.63%) vCenter Server
6 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.42%) Data Guard
7 4 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (0.42%) 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
1 166 (17.35%) Microsoft
2 150 (15.67%) SAP
3 127 (13.27%) Oracle
4 37 (3.87%) Micro Focus
5 35 (3.66%) VMware
6 33 (3.45%) Salesforce
7 32 (3.34%) Databricks
8 30 (3.13%) NetApp
9 22 (2.30%) Dell
10 21 (2.19%) Atlassian
10 21 (2.19%) Informatica
11 13 (1.36%) Cisco
11 13 (1.36%) NEC
11 13 (1.36%) Workday
12 12 (1.25%) Google
13 11 (1.15%) SolarWinds
14 10 (1.04%) Red Hat
15 9 (0.94%) Ariba
16 8 (0.84%) Hitachi
16 8 (0.84%) Remedy