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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 75 86
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 54 46 63
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.07% 2.20% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 2.40% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 31 48
10th Percentile £335 £363 £484
25th Percentile £427 £475 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +3.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £688 £673 £675
90th Percentile £735 £701 £738
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% +4.76%

All Process and 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 1,644 1,914 2,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.36% 91.67% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 1,173 1,733
10th Percentile £329 £375 £363
25th Percentile £417 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £760 £782 £812
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.50% +52.67% -30.13%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.22%

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 18 November 2025.

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 3 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (3.70%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.85%) Maximo
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.85%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.85%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.85%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.85%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.67%) AWS
2 7 (12.96%) Azure
3 5 (9.26%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.56%) GCP
4 3 (5.56%) GitHub
4 3 (5.56%) SaaS
5 2 (3.70%) dbt
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.85%) Boomi
6 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.85%) iPaaS
6 1 (1.85%) npm
6 1 (1.85%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.85%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.26%) Power BI
1 5 (9.26%) Relational Database
2 4 (7.41%) DataStage
2 4 (7.41%) MySQL
3 3 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
3 3 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.70%) Metadata
4 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.70%) Tableau
5 1 (1.85%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.85%) Informix
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.85%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Git
1 3 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.85%) gulp
2 1 (1.85%) Postman
2 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (1.85%) webpack
General
1 34 (62.96%) Finance
2 11 (20.37%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.52%) Banking
4 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (14.81%) Public Sector
5 6 (11.11%) Back Office
6 5 (9.26%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (5.56%) Front Office
8 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.70%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.70%) Legal
9 1 (1.85%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.85%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.85%) Marketing
9 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.85%) Retail
9 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (31.48%) Analyst
2 9 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 7 (12.96%) Lead
4 6 (11.11%) Consultant
4 6 (11.11%) Senior
5 5 (9.26%) Data Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Project Manager
6 4 (7.41%) Data Analyst
6 4 (7.41%) Data Migration Lead
7 3 (5.56%) Data Manager
7 3 (5.56%) Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Financial Analyst
8 2 (3.70%) Architect
8 2 (3.70%) Data Migration Specialist
8 2 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (3.70%) Front Office Developer
8 2 (3.70%) SAP Consultant
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Manager
8 2 (3.70%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (3.70%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) XML
2 3 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (3.70%) JSON
4 1 (1.85%) CSS
4 1 (1.85%) EDI
4 1 (1.85%) HTML
4 1 (1.85%) HTML5
4 1 (1.85%) Jest
4 1 (1.85%) Middleware
4 1 (1.85%) Node.js
4 1 (1.85%) Playwright
4 1 (1.85%) React
4 1 (1.85%) REST
4 1 (1.85%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.85%) Sass
4 1 (1.85%) SPFx
4 1 (1.85%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.85%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 5 (9.26%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (5.56%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.70%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.85%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.85%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.85%) NHS
6 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) Migration
2 14 (25.93%) Agile
3 13 (24.07%) User Acceptance Testing
4 12 (22.22%) Data Cleansing
4 12 (22.22%) Validation
5 11 (20.37%) ETL
5 11 (20.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (18.52%) Analytics
6 10 (18.52%) Data Mapping
6 10 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (16.67%) Data Analysis
7 9 (16.67%) Data Governance
7 9 (16.67%) ERP
8 7 (12.96%) Data Modelling
8 7 (12.96%) Data Validation
9 6 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (11.11%) Decision-Making
9 6 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
10 5 (9.26%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (22.22%) SQL
2 7 (12.96%) Java
3 3 (5.56%) Python
4 2 (3.70%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) Degree
2 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.56%) CBAP
5 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.85%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 7 (12.96%) QA
3 3 (5.56%) GDPR
4 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Oracle
2 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.41%) SAP
4 3 (5.56%) Databricks
4 3 (5.56%) Workday
5 2 (3.70%) Informatica
5 2 (3.70%) Talend
6 1 (1.85%) Adobe
6 1 (1.85%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.85%) Concur
6 1 (1.85%) IBM
6 1 (1.85%) MEDITECH
6 1 (1.85%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.85%) Palantir
6 1 (1.85%) Salesforce