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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 130 135
Rank change year-on-year +35 +5 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 991 1,121 1,758
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.33% 1.96% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 2.19% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 770 1,195
10th Percentile £363 £385 £365
25th Percentile £463 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £631 £616
90th Percentile £727 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £490
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.04% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 8 10
10th Percentile £25.00 £17.50 £11.47
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% +26.10%
75th Percentile £80.00 £38.75 £50.10
90th Percentile - £64.25 £62.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +233.33% +12.50% +26.10%

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 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +38 849 £550 +4.76% 190
London +64 441 £550 - 79
UK excluding London +29 433 £525 +5.00% 119
Work from Home +35 413 £550 +7.32% 100
North of England +37 100 £520 +4.00% 25
South East -27 97 £550 +4.76% 30
South West +56 72 £541 +3.09% 15
North West +34 60 £525 +10.53% 14
Midlands +2 60 £563 +12.50% 22
Scotland +40 54 £500 +2.25% 6
West Midlands +1 45 £581 +8.14% 19
East of England +19 41 £403 +7.53% 9
Yorkshire +21 35 £513 - 5
East Midlands +14 14 £530 +26.19% 3
Wales +26 6 £425 - 3
North East +13 5 £588 +11.90% 6

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 62 (6.26%) SharePoint
2 26 (2.62%) Confluence
3 20 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.21%) Apache
5 10 (1.01%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.50%) CMS
9 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.20%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.02%) MS Visio
3 16 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.10%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 58 (5.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 52 (5.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (1.92%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (1.41%) Loan IQ
5 13 (1.31%) SAP MDG
6 8 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.81%) NEC Housing
6 8 (0.81%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.81%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.71%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.71%) SAP Retail
7 7 (0.71%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.61%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
9 5 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
9 5 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.40%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 198 (19.98%) Azure
2 103 (10.39%) Dynamics 365
3 91 (9.18%) Power Platform
4 82 (8.27%) AWS
5 40 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (2.83%) OCI
6 28 (2.83%) SaaS
7 27 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (2.72%) Serverless
8 24 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (2.42%) GCP
8 24 (2.42%) Snowflake
9 22 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 17 (1.72%) Entra ID
11 15 (1.51%) GitHub
12 14 (1.41%) PaaS
13 13 (1.31%) Amazon S3
13 13 (1.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 13 (1.31%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (1.31%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.72%) Firewall
2 11 (1.11%) DNS
3 10 (1.01%) SAN
4 9 (0.91%) MPLS
5 8 (0.81%) DHCP
5 8 (0.81%) LAN
5 8 (0.81%) WAN
5 8 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.71%) VPN
7 6 (0.61%) VSAN
8 4 (0.40%) IPsec
9 3 (0.30%) PuTTY
10 2 (0.20%) NAS
11 1 (0.10%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.10%) Internet
11 1 (0.10%) Intranet
11 1 (0.10%) OpenLDAP
11 1 (0.10%) SSL
11 1 (0.10%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (9.69%) Data Warehouse
2 70 (7.06%) SQL Server
3 65 (6.56%) Power BI
4 44 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (3.53%) Data Lake
6 30 (3.03%) Oracle Database
7 27 (2.72%) NoSQL
8 22 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (2.12%) Big Data
9 21 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 21 (2.12%) Tableau
10 19 (1.92%) Metadata
11 17 (1.72%) SAP Data Services
12 16 (1.61%) Relational Database
13 14 (1.41%) MySQL
13 14 (1.41%) Oracle Database 11g
14 11 (1.11%) SAP HANA
15 10 (1.01%) Data Mining
16 9 (0.91%) BusinessObjects
16 9 (0.91%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 42 (4.24%) JIRA
2 14 (1.41%) GitLab
3 13 (1.31%) Git
4 9 (0.91%) ERwin
4 9 (0.91%) LSMW
5 7 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.61%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.61%) Visual Studio Team System
7 5 (0.50%) Eclipse
7 5 (0.50%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.40%) Deequ
8 4 (0.40%) Postman
9 3 (0.30%) Selenium
9 3 (0.30%) SoapUI
9 3 (0.30%) Toad
10 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.10%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.10%) TestComplete
General
1 268 (27.04%) Finance
2 266 (26.84%) Social Skills
3 97 (9.79%) Public Sector
4 70 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (4.74%) Banking
6 44 (4.44%) Retail
7 30 (3.03%) Manufacturing
8 22 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
9 20 (2.02%) Financial Institution
10 18 (1.82%) Aerospace
10 18 (1.82%) Legal
10 18 (1.82%) Local Government
11 17 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.61%) Billing
12 16 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.51%) Marketing
14 10 (1.01%) Social Housing
15 9 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.81%) Back Office
16 8 (0.81%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 158 (15.94%) Analyst
2 155 (15.64%) Consultant
3 144 (14.53%) Architect
4 105 (10.60%) Lead
5 102 (10.29%) Project Manager
6 85 (8.58%) Data Engineer
7 76 (7.67%) Business Analyst
8 67 (6.76%) Developer
9 56 (5.65%) Data Migration Lead
10 55 (5.55%) Migration Engineer
11 53 (5.35%) Data Analyst
12 52 (5.25%) Data Architect
13 50 (5.05%) Senior
14 46 (4.64%) Data Consultant
15 43 (4.34%) Data Migration Engineer
16 41 (4.14%) Data Manager
16 41 (4.14%) Migration Analyst
17 40 (4.04%) Migration Manager
18 38 (3.83%) Data Migration Analyst
19 35 (3.53%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (3.13%) Web Services
2 30 (3.03%) .NET
3 20 (2.02%) REST
4 19 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
5 18 (1.82%) JSON
6 11 (1.11%) XML
7 10 (1.01%) ARM Templates
8 9 (0.91%) PySpark
9 8 (0.81%) .NET Framework
9 8 (0.81%) Apache Avro
9 8 (0.81%) Spring Boot
10 7 (0.71%) Apache Camel
10 7 (0.71%) BAPI
10 7 (0.71%) Entity Framework
10 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
10 7 (0.71%) Middleware
10 7 (0.71%) WCF
11 6 (0.61%) JSON Schema
11 6 (0.61%) Spring
12 5 (0.50%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 66 (6.66%) Legacy Systems
2 45 (4.54%) Data Centre
3 39 (3.94%) Data Structures
4 24 (2.42%) Management Information System
5 23 (2.32%) Cloud Native
6 20 (2.02%) Product Ownership
7 19 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
8 16 (1.61%) Clustering
9 15 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.31%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.11%) FMCG
11 11 (1.11%) Replication
12 10 (1.01%) NHS
13 8 (0.81%) Client/Server
13 8 (0.81%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 6 (0.61%) Fixed Income
15 6 (0.61%) Reinsurance
15 6 (0.61%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.44%) Windows
2 32 (3.23%) Linux
3 22 (2.22%) Unix
4 12 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.40%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.20%) VMS
6 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 991 (100.00%) Migration
2 152 (15.34%) Agile
3 137 (13.82%) Data Modelling
4 129 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
5 120 (12.11%) ETL
6 103 (10.39%) Project Management
7 102 (10.29%) Data Management
7 102 (10.29%) ERP
8 98 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
9 92 (9.28%) CRM
10 87 (8.78%) Analytics
11 84 (8.48%) Business Intelligence
11 84 (8.48%) User Acceptance Testing
12 81 (8.17%) Data Governance
13 79 (7.97%) DevOps
13 79 (7.97%) Validation
14 63 (6.36%) Data Analysis
15 57 (5.75%) Change Management
15 57 (5.75%) Data Cleansing
16 55 (5.55%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 201 (20.28%) SQL
2 62 (6.26%) Python
3 37 (3.73%) Java
4 36 (3.63%) PowerShell
5 33 (3.33%) C#
6 25 (2.52%) JavaScript
6 25 (2.52%) PL/SQL
7 16 (1.61%) Bash
8 12 (1.21%) ABAP
8 12 (1.21%) T-SQL
9 9 (0.91%) Scala
10 5 (0.50%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.40%) Bicep
11 4 (0.40%) Go
12 3 (0.30%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.20%) PHP
14 1 (0.10%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.10%) Groovy
14 1 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 136 (13.72%) Security Cleared
2 111 (11.20%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.06%) Degree
4 24 (2.42%) DV Cleared
5 18 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.11%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.61%) PMP
9 6 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.50%) ACCA
10 5 (0.50%) CIMA
10 5 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 5 (0.50%) SAP Certification
11 4 (0.40%) APMP
11 4 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.40%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 1 (0.10%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (12.01%) Data Quality
2 54 (5.45%) QA
3 36 (3.63%) GDPR
4 28 (2.83%) PMO
5 10 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 9 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.61%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.40%) SLA
9 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.30%) NIST
10 2 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.20%) GxP
11 1 (0.10%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.10%) HL7
11 1 (0.10%) IASME
11 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (4.34%) Active Directory
2 30 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.22%) vSphere
4 14 (1.41%) Docker
5 11 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.01%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (0.81%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.10%) HDFS
10 1 (0.10%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 29 (2.93%) Terraform
2 13 (1.31%) Ansible
2 13 (1.31%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (0.81%) Nagios
3 8 (0.81%) NetBackup
3 8 (0.81%) SCCM
4 7 (0.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 7 (0.71%) VxRail
5 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.61%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.40%) Data Guard
6 4 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.20%) Grafana
7 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.10%) Istio
8 1 (0.10%) Packer
8 1 (0.10%) vRealize
Vendors
1 173 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 156 (15.74%) SAP
3 138 (13.93%) Oracle
4 37 (3.73%) Databricks
4 37 (3.73%) Micro Focus
5 34 (3.43%) VMware
6 33 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 30 (3.03%) NetApp
8 22 (2.22%) Dell
8 22 (2.22%) Informatica
9 19 (1.92%) Atlassian
10 17 (1.72%) Workday
11 13 (1.31%) Cisco
11 13 (1.31%) Google
11 13 (1.31%) IBM
12 11 (1.11%) SolarWinds
13 10 (1.01%) Red Hat
14 9 (0.91%) Alteryx
15 8 (0.81%) Ariba
15 8 (0.81%) IFS