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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 84 72
Rank change year-on-year +12 -12 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 52 35 62
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.77% 1.89% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.11% 2.06% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 19 45
10th Percentile £416 £329 £464
25th Percentile £509 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £614 £625
90th Percentile £756 £693 £706
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.73% - +10.00%

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 1,671 1,700 2,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.98% 91.84% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 1,034 1,570
10th Percentile £350 £363 £352
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - -3.36%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -6.09% +1.77% -2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 13
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +18.18% -21.43%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £49.83 £112.00 £69.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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 27 January 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 5 (9.62%) SharePoint
2 4 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (7.69%) MS Visio
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (5.77%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (5.77%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (3.85%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (3.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (3.85%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (1.92%) Aladdin
4 1 (1.92%) Maximo
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.92%) SAP CO
4 1 (1.92%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.92%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.92%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 7 (13.46%) Azure
2 6 (11.54%) AWS
3 4 (7.69%) OCI
3 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 4 (7.69%) SaaS
4 3 (5.77%) GCP
4 3 (5.77%) GitHub
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.92%) Boomi
6 1 (1.92%) dbt
6 1 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.92%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.92%) iPaaS
6 1 (1.92%) npm
6 1 (1.92%) Slack
6 1 (1.92%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.92%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.92%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) NAS
1 1 (1.92%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (13.46%) Relational Database
2 5 (9.62%) MySQL
3 4 (7.69%) Power BI
3 4 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (5.77%) Tableau
5 2 (3.85%) DataStage
5 2 (3.85%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (3.85%) Metadata
5 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (3.85%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.85%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.92%) Informix
6 1 (1.92%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) JIRA
2 3 (5.77%) Git
3 2 (3.85%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.85%) Toad
4 1 (1.92%) ERwin
4 1 (1.92%) gulp
4 1 (1.92%) Selenium
4 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.92%) webpack
General
1 28 (53.85%) Finance
2 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 9 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (17.31%) Banking
4 6 (11.54%) Legal
5 5 (9.62%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
6 4 (7.69%) Front Office
6 4 (7.69%) General Ledger
7 3 (5.77%) Back Office
8 2 (3.85%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.85%) Retail
9 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.92%) Marketing
9 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) Analyst
2 10 (19.23%) Business Analyst
2 10 (19.23%) Lead
3 6 (11.54%) Developer
3 6 (11.54%) Senior
4 5 (9.62%) Consultant
4 5 (9.62%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.77%) Data Migration Lead
5 3 (5.77%) Migration Specialist
5 3 (5.77%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (5.77%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Data Migration Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Data Migration Specialist
6 2 (3.85%) ERP Specialist
6 2 (3.85%) Front Office Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Records Management Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) XML
2 4 (7.69%) Middleware
2 4 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (3.85%) Playwright
4 1 (1.92%) CSS
4 1 (1.92%) EDI
4 1 (1.92%) FHIR
4 1 (1.92%) HTML
4 1 (1.92%) HTML5
4 1 (1.92%) Jest
4 1 (1.92%) JSON
4 1 (1.92%) Node.js
4 1 (1.92%) React
4 1 (1.92%) REST
4 1 (1.92%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.92%) Sass
4 1 (1.92%) SPFx
4 1 (1.92%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Data Structures
2 4 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.77%) Fixed Income
3 3 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.77%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.85%) Derivative
4 2 (3.85%) Equities
4 2 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.85%) NHS
4 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.92%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.92%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.92%) Life Science
5 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) Migration
2 14 (26.92%) Agile
3 13 (25.00%) ETL
3 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 11 (21.15%) Data Governance
4 11 (21.15%) Data Mapping
4 11 (21.15%) ERP
4 11 (21.15%) Validation
5 9 (17.31%) Analytics
5 9 (17.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (13.46%) Data Cleansing
6 7 (13.46%) Decision-Making
7 6 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (11.54%) Cutover Planning
7 6 (11.54%) Project Management
7 6 (11.54%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (11.54%) Test Strategy
8 5 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 20 (38.46%) SQL
2 3 (5.77%) Java
2 3 (5.77%) PL/SQL
2 3 (5.77%) Python
3 2 (3.85%) Kotlin
3 2 (3.85%) Perl
3 2 (3.85%) PHP
3 2 (3.85%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.92%) Bash
4 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.69%) Degree
2 4 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) PMP
4 2 (3.85%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.92%) CFA
5 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.31%) Data Quality
2 8 (15.38%) QA
3 4 (7.69%) GDPR
4 3 (5.77%) GAAP
4 3 (5.77%) IFRS
5 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.92%) Basel III
5 1 (1.92%) HL7
5 1 (1.92%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) NFS
2 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (1.92%) vMotion
Vendors
1 14 (26.92%) Oracle
2 9 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 9 (17.31%) SAP
3 7 (13.46%) Workday
4 3 (5.77%) Informatica
5 2 (3.85%) Databricks
5 2 (3.85%) Google
5 2 (3.85%) Talend
6 1 (1.92%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.92%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.92%) Cerner
6 1 (1.92%) IBM
6 1 (1.92%) MEDITECH
6 1 (1.92%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.92%) Murex
6 1 (1.92%) Palantir
6 1 (1.92%) Pure Storage
6 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.92%) SimCorp
6 1 (1.92%) VMware