Data Migration Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Migration
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 84 66
Rank change year-on-year +25 -18 +51
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 78 38 57
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.41% 2.19% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 2.35% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 20 38
10th Percentile £356 £329 £380
25th Percentile £450 £375 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £495 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.06% -9.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £632 £554 -
90th Percentile £746 £640 £672
Central London median daily rate £550 £495 £550
% change year-on-year +11.06% -9.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.65 -
Central London median hourly rate - £34.65 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Data Migration falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,946 1,619 1,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.05% 93.26% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,321 1,021 1,389
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Migration job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Migration
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in the City of London

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.13%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (7.69%) NetSuite
2 5 (6.41%) Workday HCM
3 4 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (3.85%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (3.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (2.56%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (2.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (2.56%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (2.56%) SAP HCM
6 1 (1.28%) Aladdin
6 1 (1.28%) iTrent
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (1.28%) SAP ERP
6 1 (1.28%) SAP FI-AR
6 1 (1.28%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.26%) Azure
1 8 (10.26%) OCI
1 8 (10.26%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.41%) AWS
3 4 (5.13%) SaaS
4 3 (3.85%) GCP
4 3 (3.85%) GitHub
5 2 (2.56%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (2.56%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.56%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.28%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) NAS
1 1 (1.28%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (8.97%) Power BI
3 5 (6.41%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.13%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.85%) Oracle Database
5 3 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (3.85%) Tableau
6 2 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.56%) Metadata
6 2 (2.56%) MySQL
6 2 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.56%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.56%) SQLPlus
7 1 (1.28%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.28%) DB2
7 1 (1.28%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.28%) OLAP
7 1 (1.28%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (7.69%) JIRA
2 3 (3.85%) Git
3 2 (2.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (2.56%) Toad
4 1 (1.28%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.28%) ERwin
4 1 (1.28%) Selenium
General
1 30 (38.46%) Finance
2 18 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 16 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.97%) Banking
4 7 (8.97%) General Ledger
5 6 (7.69%) Legal
6 3 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.56%) Front Office
7 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.56%) Law
7 2 (2.56%) Marketing
8 1 (1.28%) Billing
8 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (24.36%) Analyst
2 18 (23.08%) Lead
3 11 (14.10%) Data Analyst
4 9 (11.54%) Business Analyst
4 9 (11.54%) Data Migration Analyst
4 9 (11.54%) Data Migration Lead
4 9 (11.54%) Migration Analyst
5 7 (8.97%) Technical Leader
6 6 (7.69%) Architect
6 6 (7.69%) Consultant
6 6 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 6 (7.69%) Senior
7 5 (6.41%) NetSuite Analyst
8 4 (5.13%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Data Migration Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Oracle Consultant
9 3 (3.85%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (3.85%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.97%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (6.41%) Middleware
3 2 (2.56%) Spring
3 2 (2.56%) XML
4 1 (1.28%) ADO
4 1 (1.28%) FHIR
4 1 (1.28%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.85%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.56%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.56%) Derivative
3 2 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.56%) Equities
3 2 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.56%) Reference Data
3 2 (2.56%) Replication
4 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.28%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.28%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.28%) Life Science
4 1 (1.28%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.28%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (100.00%) Migration
2 19 (24.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (19.23%) Agile
4 13 (16.67%) ERP
5 12 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
5 12 (15.38%) Validation
6 11 (14.10%) Data Governance
6 11 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (12.82%) Analytics
7 10 (12.82%) ETL
8 9 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (10.26%) Data Mapping
9 8 (10.26%) Data Transformation
10 7 (8.97%) Project Management
10 7 (8.97%) Risk Management
11 6 (7.69%) Data Modelling
11 6 (7.69%) PRINCE2
11 6 (7.69%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 24 (30.77%) SQL
2 5 (6.41%) Python
3 4 (5.13%) PL/SQL
4 3 (3.85%) Java
5 2 (2.56%) Perl
5 2 (2.56%) PHP
5 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.28%) Bash
6 1 (1.28%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (8.97%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.41%) PMP
4 4 (5.13%) Degree
4 4 (5.13%) PMI Certification
5 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.28%) CISA
6 1 (1.28%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.26%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.13%) GDPR
3 3 (3.85%) GAAP
3 3 (3.85%) IFRS
3 3 (3.85%) QA
4 1 (1.28%) Basel III
4 1 (1.28%) GRC
4 1 (1.28%) HL7
4 1 (1.28%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.28%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.28%) PMO
4 1 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.28%) SEPA
4 1 (1.28%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.28%) Docker
1 1 (1.28%) NFS
1 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.28%) Ansible
2 1 (1.28%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (1.28%) vMotion
Vendors
1 21 (26.92%) Oracle
2 17 (21.79%) SAP
3 15 (19.23%) Microsoft
4 9 (11.54%) Workday
5 3 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.56%) Google
6 2 (2.56%) Informatica
7 1 (1.28%) Cerner
7 1 (1.28%) Charles River
7 1 (1.28%) Commvault
7 1 (1.28%) Databricks
7 1 (1.28%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.28%) IBM
7 1 (1.28%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.28%) Murex
7 1 (1.28%) OpenText
7 1 (1.28%) Pure Storage
7 1 (1.28%) SimCorp
7 1 (1.28%) Talend
7 1 (1.28%) VMware