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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 75 80
Rank change year-on-year +27 +5 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 102 53 49
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.29% 2.82% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 2.99% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 32 34
10th Percentile £365 £318 £363
25th Percentile £450 £386 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £642 £650
90th Percentile £768 £708 £688
Central London median daily rate £598 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +13.81% - -2.33%
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 2,081 1,772 1,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.47% 94.21% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,418 1,161 1,284
10th Percentile £375 £329 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £765 £791
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -1.82%
75th Percentile £37.17 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.83 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%

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 10 August 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 3 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.96%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.98%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.90%) NetSuite
1 5 (4.90%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (4.90%) Oracle Financials
1 5 (4.90%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (4.90%) Oracle Receivables
1 5 (4.90%) Workday HCM
2 4 (3.92%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.96%) iTrent
4 2 (1.96%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.96%) SAP HCM
4 2 (1.96%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.98%) Maximo
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.98%) SAP FI-AR
5 1 (0.98%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.98%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 13 (12.75%) Azure
2 8 (7.84%) Power Platform
3 5 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (4.90%) OCI
4 4 (3.92%) AWS
4 4 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.94%) GitHub
5 3 (2.94%) SaaS
6 2 (1.96%) Azure AKS
6 2 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (1.96%) GCP
6 2 (1.96%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.98%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.98%) Boomi
7 1 (0.98%) Google Drive
7 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.98%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.86%) Power BI
2 5 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.92%) Metadata
3 4 (3.92%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.98%) DataStage
6 1 (0.98%) Db2
6 1 (0.98%) GIS
6 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.98%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.98%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (7.84%) JIRA
2 2 (1.96%) Git
2 2 (1.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.98%) ER Studio
General
1 44 (43.14%) Finance
2 30 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 16 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.75%) General Ledger
5 8 (7.84%) Banking
6 5 (4.90%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.92%) Law
8 2 (1.96%) Back Office
8 2 (1.96%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.96%) Front Office
8 2 (1.96%) Marketing
9 1 (0.98%) Billing
9 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Legal
9 1 (0.98%) Local Government
9 1 (0.98%) Military
9 1 (0.98%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (19.61%) Analyst
2 19 (18.63%) Lead
3 16 (15.69%) Consultant
4 14 (13.73%) Data Migration Lead
5 13 (12.75%) Data Analyst
6 10 (9.80%) Architect
6 10 (9.80%) Migration Analyst
7 9 (8.82%) Business Analyst
8 8 (7.84%) Data Migration Analyst
8 8 (7.84%) Oracle Consultant
9 6 (5.88%) Data Consultant
9 6 (5.88%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Data Migration Consultant
10 5 (4.90%) Developer
10 5 (4.90%) Migration Consultant
10 5 (4.90%) NetSuite Analyst
10 5 (4.90%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
10 5 (4.90%) Senior
10 5 (4.90%) Technical Leader
11 4 (3.92%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.78%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.90%) Middleware
3 3 (2.94%) JSON
3 3 (2.94%) XML
4 2 (1.96%) Kafka
4 2 (1.96%) React
4 2 (1.96%) REST
4 2 (1.96%) SOAP
4 2 (1.96%) Spring
4 2 (1.96%) Web Services
5 1 (0.98%) ADO
5 1 (0.98%) EDI
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.98%) PySpark
5 1 (0.98%) Snowpark
5 1 (0.98%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.80%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.90%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.90%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.92%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.96%) Credit Risk
4 2 (1.96%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.96%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.96%) Replication
5 1 (0.98%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.98%) Derivative
5 1 (0.98%) Equities
5 1 (0.98%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.98%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.98%) LIMS
5 1 (0.98%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.98%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (100.00%) Migration
2 28 (27.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 26 (25.49%) ERP
4 22 (21.57%) User Acceptance Testing
5 19 (18.63%) Validation
6 17 (16.67%) Agile
7 14 (13.73%) Data Governance
7 14 (13.73%) Data Modelling
7 14 (13.73%) ETL
8 13 (12.75%) Project Delivery
9 11 (10.78%) Accounts Receivable
9 11 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (9.80%) Accounts Payable
10 10 (9.80%) Analytics
10 10 (9.80%) Data Transformation
11 9 (8.82%) AI
11 9 (8.82%) Data Analysis
12 8 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (7.84%) Data Mapping
12 8 (7.84%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 18 (17.65%) SQL
2 4 (3.92%) Java
2 4 (3.92%) Python
3 3 (2.94%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.96%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.96%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.98%) SOQL
5 1 (0.98%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.94%) Degree
4 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.96%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.96%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.96%) PMP
5 1 (0.98%) CISA
5 1 (0.98%) CSPO
5 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.92%) QA
3 3 (2.94%) GDPR
4 2 (1.96%) GRC
4 2 (1.96%) IFRS
5 1 (0.98%) Basel III
5 1 (0.98%) GAAP
5 1 (0.98%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.98%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.98%) PMO
5 1 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.98%) SEPA
5 1 (0.98%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (22.55%) Oracle
2 21 (20.59%) Microsoft
3 16 (15.69%) SAP
4 6 (5.88%) Workday
5 5 (4.90%) Databricks
5 5 (4.90%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.92%) IFS
7 2 (1.96%) IBM
7 2 (1.96%) Lotus
8 1 (0.98%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.98%) Citrix
8 1 (0.98%) Google
8 1 (0.98%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.98%) Informatica
8 1 (0.98%) Jitterbit
8 1 (0.98%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.98%) OpenText
8 1 (0.98%) Palantir
8 1 (0.98%) Talend