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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 83 74
Rank change year-on-year +23 -9 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 81 38 54
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.54% 2.19% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.18% 2.34% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 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 £743 £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 1,940 1,624 1,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.72% 93.44% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,314 1,023 1,381
10th Percentile £360 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -0.44% -5.42%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £28.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% +12.60% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £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 14 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 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.94%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (7.41%) NetSuite
2 5 (6.17%) Workday HCM
3 4 (4.94%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (3.70%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (3.70%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (2.47%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (2.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (2.47%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (2.47%) SAP HCM
5 2 (2.47%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (1.23%) Aladdin
6 1 (1.23%) iTrent
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (1.23%) SAP ERP
6 1 (1.23%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 8 (9.88%) Azure
2 8 (9.88%) OCI
3 4 (4.94%) AWS
3 4 (4.94%) SaaS
4 3 (3.70%) GCP
4 3 (3.70%) GitHub
5 2 (2.47%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.47%) Google Workspace
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (2.47%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.47%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.23%) Collibra
6 1 (1.23%) dbt
6 1 (1.23%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) NAS
1 1 (1.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (9.88%) Power BI
3 4 (4.94%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.94%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.70%) Metadata
4 3 (3.70%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (3.70%) Tableau
5 2 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.47%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.47%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.47%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.23%) DB2
6 1 (1.23%) MySQL
6 1 (1.23%) OLAP
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.23%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.41%) JIRA
2 2 (2.47%) Git
2 2 (2.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (2.47%) Toad
3 1 (1.23%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.23%) ERwin
3 1 (1.23%) Selenium
General
1 30 (37.04%) Finance
2 19 (23.46%) Social Skills
3 16 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.88%) Banking
4 8 (9.88%) General Ledger
5 6 (7.41%) Legal
6 3 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.47%) Law
7 2 (2.47%) Marketing
8 1 (1.23%) Billing
8 1 (1.23%) Front Office
8 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (23.46%) Analyst
2 18 (22.22%) Lead
3 11 (13.58%) Data Analyst
4 9 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 9 (11.11%) Data Migration Analyst
4 9 (11.11%) Data Migration Lead
4 9 (11.11%) Migration Analyst
5 8 (9.88%) Architect
5 8 (9.88%) Consultant
6 7 (8.64%) Technical Leader
7 6 (7.41%) Project Manager
7 6 (7.41%) Senior
8 5 (6.17%) NetSuite Analyst
9 4 (4.94%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Data Migration Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Migration Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Oracle Consultant
10 3 (3.70%) Senior Business Analyst
10 3 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (7.41%) Middleware
3 2 (2.47%) Spring
3 2 (2.47%) XML
4 1 (1.23%) ADO
4 1 (1.23%) FHIR
4 1 (1.23%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.64%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.70%) Fixed Income
2 3 (3.70%) Reference Data
3 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.47%) Derivative
3 2 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.47%) Equities
3 2 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.47%) Replication
4 1 (1.23%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.23%) Life Science
4 1 (1.23%) LIMS
4 1 (1.23%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.23%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.23%) NHS
4 1 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (100.00%) Migration
2 19 (23.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (17.28%) Agile
3 14 (17.28%) ERP
3 14 (17.28%) User Acceptance Testing
4 12 (14.81%) Data Governance
4 12 (14.81%) Validation
5 11 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (12.35%) Analytics
6 10 (12.35%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (12.35%) ETL
6 10 (12.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (11.11%) Data Transformation
8 8 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (9.88%) Data Mapping
8 8 (9.88%) Risk Management
9 7 (8.64%) Data Modelling
9 7 (8.64%) Project Management
9 7 (8.64%) Test Strategy
9 7 (8.64%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 24 (29.63%) SQL
2 5 (6.17%) Python
3 4 (4.94%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.47%) Java
4 2 (2.47%) Perl
4 2 (2.47%) PHP
4 2 (2.47%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.23%) Bash
5 1 (1.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (9.88%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.64%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.17%) PMP
4 4 (4.94%) Degree
4 4 (4.94%) PMI Certification
5 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.47%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.23%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.94%) GDPR
3 3 (3.70%) GAAP
3 3 (3.70%) IFRS
3 3 (3.70%) QA
4 1 (1.23%) Basel III
4 1 (1.23%) GRC
4 1 (1.23%) HL7
4 1 (1.23%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.23%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.23%) PMO
4 1 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.23%) SEPA
4 1 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.23%) NFS
1 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.47%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.23%) Ansible
2 1 (1.23%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (1.23%) vMotion
Vendors
1 21 (25.93%) Oracle
2 18 (22.22%) SAP
3 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
4 10 (12.35%) Workday
5 3 (3.70%) Google
5 3 (3.70%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.47%) Informatica
7 1 (1.23%) Cerner
7 1 (1.23%) Charles River
7 1 (1.23%) Commvault
7 1 (1.23%) Databricks
7 1 (1.23%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.23%) IBM
7 1 (1.23%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.23%) Murex
7 1 (1.23%) OpenText
7 1 (1.23%) Pure Storage
7 1 (1.23%) SimCorp
7 1 (1.23%) Talend
7 1 (1.23%) VMware