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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 85 73
Rank change year-on-year +35 -12 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 93 38 53
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.87% 2.21% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 2.36% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 24 39
10th Percentile £356 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £380 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.90% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £606 -
90th Percentile £771 £663 £678
Central London median daily rate £589 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +17.80% -4.76% +5.00%
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 2,062 1,609 1,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.81% 93.76% 90.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,386 1,024 1,363
10th Percentile £361 £355 £356
25th Percentile £450 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £554 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -2.04% -5.83%
75th Percentile £674 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 16 13
10th Percentile £17.49 £19.25 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £24.47 £29.75 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +13.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £45.29 £52.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £61.31 £76.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -7.12% +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 14 June 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 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.15%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (6.45%) NetSuite
2 5 (5.38%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (5.38%) Workday HCM
3 4 (4.30%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (4.30%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (4.30%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (4.30%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (3.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (2.15%) iTrent
5 2 (2.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (2.15%) SAP ERP
5 2 (2.15%) SAP HCM
5 2 (2.15%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (1.08%) Aladdin
6 1 (1.08%) Maximo
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (1.08%) SAP FI-AR
6 1 (1.08%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.83%) Azure
2 9 (9.68%) Power Platform
3 8 (8.60%) OCI
4 5 (5.38%) SaaS
5 4 (4.30%) AWS
6 3 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.23%) GCP
6 3 (3.23%) GitHub
7 2 (2.15%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.15%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.15%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.08%) dbt
8 1 (1.08%) Google Docs
8 1 (1.08%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.08%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) NAS
1 1 (1.08%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.60%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (8.60%) Power BI
2 4 (4.30%) Metadata
2 4 (4.30%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (4.30%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.23%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.23%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.15%) Tableau
5 1 (1.08%) DataStage
5 1 (1.08%) Db2
5 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.08%) MySQL
5 1 (1.08%) OLAP
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.08%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (6.45%) JIRA
2 2 (2.15%) Git
2 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.08%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.08%) ERwin
General
1 40 (43.01%) Finance
2 27 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.28%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.90%) General Ledger
5 9 (9.68%) Banking
6 4 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.30%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.23%) Law
7 3 (3.23%) Legal
8 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.15%) Marketing
9 1 (1.08%) Back Office
9 1 (1.08%) Billing
9 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.08%) Front Office
9 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Local Government
9 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (21.51%) Lead
2 19 (20.43%) Analyst
3 13 (13.98%) Consultant
4 12 (12.90%) Data Analyst
5 11 (11.83%) Data Migration Lead
6 10 (10.75%) Architect
6 10 (10.75%) Migration Analyst
7 9 (9.68%) Business Analyst
7 9 (9.68%) Data Migration Analyst
8 7 (7.53%) Oracle Consultant
8 7 (7.53%) Technical Leader
9 5 (5.38%) Data Consultant
9 5 (5.38%) Data Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) NetSuite Analyst
10 4 (4.30%) Data Migration Consultant
10 4 (4.30%) Data Migration Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Migration Consultant
10 4 (4.30%) Migration Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
10 4 (4.30%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (6.45%) Middleware
3 4 (4.30%) XML
4 2 (2.15%) JSON
4 2 (2.15%) Spring
5 1 (1.08%) ADO
5 1 (1.08%) EDI
5 1 (1.08%) FHIR
5 1 (1.08%) Kafka
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (1.08%) React
5 1 (1.08%) REST
5 1 (1.08%) Snowpark
5 1 (1.08%) SOAP
5 1 (1.08%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.75%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.30%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.30%) Fixed Income
3 3 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.23%) Derivative
3 3 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.23%) Equities
3 3 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.23%) Reference Data
3 3 (3.23%) Replication
4 2 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.15%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.08%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.08%) Life Science
5 1 (1.08%) LIMS
5 1 (1.08%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.08%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.08%) NHS
5 1 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (100.00%) Migration
2 24 (25.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (24.73%) ERP
4 19 (20.43%) User Acceptance Testing
5 17 (18.28%) Validation
6 14 (15.05%) Agile
7 13 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (12.90%) Data Governance
8 12 (12.90%) ETL
9 11 (11.83%) Project Delivery
10 10 (10.75%) Analytics
10 10 (10.75%) Data Modelling
10 10 (10.75%) Data Transformation
10 10 (10.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (9.68%) Data Mapping
12 8 (8.60%) Accounts Receivable
12 8 (8.60%) Asset Management
12 8 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (8.60%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (22.58%) SQL
2 5 (5.38%) Python
3 2 (2.15%) Java
3 2 (2.15%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.08%) Bash
4 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (10.75%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.30%) Degree
3 4 (4.30%) PMP
4 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.23%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.15%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.08%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.98%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.30%) GAAP
2 4 (4.30%) GDPR
2 4 (4.30%) IFRS
3 2 (2.15%) QA
3 2 (2.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.08%) Basel III
4 1 (1.08%) GRC
4 1 (1.08%) HL7
4 1 (1.08%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.08%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.08%) PMO
4 1 (1.08%) SEPA
4 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.08%) Docker
1 1 (1.08%) NFS
1 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.08%) Ansible
2 1 (1.08%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (1.08%) vMotion
Vendors
1 25 (26.88%) Oracle
2 20 (21.51%) SAP
3 19 (20.43%) Microsoft
4 9 (9.68%) Workday
5 4 (4.30%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.23%) Databricks
6 3 (3.23%) Google
7 2 (2.15%) IBM
7 2 (2.15%) IFS
7 2 (2.15%) Informatica
8 1 (1.08%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.08%) Cerner
8 1 (1.08%) Charles River
8 1 (1.08%) Commvault
8 1 (1.08%) Murex
8 1 (1.08%) OpenText
8 1 (1.08%) Palantir
8 1 (1.08%) SimCorp
8 1 (1.08%) Talend
8 1 (1.08%) VMware