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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 76 86
Rank change year-on-year +28 +10 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 107 47 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.86% 2.72% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.44% 2.89% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 28 27
10th Percentile £356 £332 £284
25th Percentile £425 £446 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £619 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% +23.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £678 £688 £644
90th Percentile £778 £704 £693
Central London median daily rate £600 £613 £520
% change year-on-year -2.04% +17.79% -5.45%

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 1,968 1,629 1,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.37% 94.33% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,358 1,094 1,216
10th Percentile £368 £325 £371
25th Percentile £455 £423 £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 £764 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 19
10th Percentile £16.91 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.06% -26.88% +40.00%
75th Percentile £29.78 £50.25 £102.25
90th Percentile £51.54 £68.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.28% -18.57% +30.84%

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 28 September 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 (4.67%) Confluence
2 2 (1.87%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.93%) CMS
3 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.74%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.93%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (4.67%) NetSuite
1 5 (4.67%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (4.67%) Oracle Financials
1 5 (4.67%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (4.67%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (3.74%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.80%) SAP HCM
3 3 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.87%) iTrent
4 2 (1.87%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.87%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (1.87%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.93%) Maximo
5 1 (0.93%) SAP FI-AR
5 1 (0.93%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.93%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 20 (18.69%) Azure
2 9 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (8.41%) Power Platform
3 5 (4.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.80%) GCP
4 3 (2.80%) SaaS
5 2 (1.87%) AWS
5 2 (1.87%) Google Workspace
5 2 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.87%) OCI
5 2 (1.87%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.87%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Databricks
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.93%) Google Docs
6 1 (0.93%) Google Sheets
6 1 (0.93%) Matillion
6 1 (0.93%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.48%) Power BI
2 7 (6.54%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.61%) Metadata
4 5 (4.67%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.74%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.80%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (2.80%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.87%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.93%) DataStage
8 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.93%) GIS
8 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.93%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (10.28%) JIRA
2 2 (1.87%) Git
2 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.93%) ER Studio
General
1 42 (39.25%) Finance
2 32 (29.91%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.21%) General Ledger
4 11 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.61%) Banking
6 5 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.67%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.80%) Law
7 3 (2.80%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.87%) Back Office
8 2 (1.87%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.87%) Front Office
8 2 (1.87%) Marketing
8 2 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Legal
9 1 (0.93%) Local Government
9 1 (0.93%) Military
9 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (20.56%) Analyst
2 16 (14.95%) Lead
3 14 (13.08%) Consultant
3 14 (13.08%) Data Analyst
4 11 (10.28%) Business Analyst
4 11 (10.28%) Data Engineer
5 10 (9.35%) Architect
6 9 (8.41%) Migration Analyst
7 8 (7.48%) Data Migration Lead
7 8 (7.48%) Oracle Consultant
8 7 (6.54%) Data Migration Analyst
8 7 (6.54%) Migration Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Data Consultant
9 6 (5.61%) Data Migration Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Developer
10 5 (4.67%) Data Migration Consultant
10 5 (4.67%) Migration Consultant
10 5 (4.67%) NetSuite Analyst
10 5 (4.67%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
11 4 (3.74%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.67%) Middleware
3 4 (3.74%) JSON
3 4 (3.74%) XML
4 3 (2.80%) Web Services
5 2 (1.87%) ADO
5 2 (1.87%) Kafka
5 2 (1.87%) PySpark
5 2 (1.87%) React
5 2 (1.87%) REST
5 2 (1.87%) SOAP
6 1 (0.93%) .NET
6 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.93%) CSS
6 1 (0.93%) EDI
6 1 (0.93%) HTML
6 1 (0.93%) JDBC
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.93%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.93%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.48%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (6.54%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.67%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.80%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.87%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.87%) Life Science
5 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.87%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.87%) Replication
6 1 (0.93%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.93%) Derivative
6 1 (0.93%) Equities
6 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.93%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (100.00%) Migration
2 37 (34.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 31 (28.97%) Validation
4 28 (26.17%) ERP
5 26 (24.30%) User Acceptance Testing
6 20 (18.69%) Agile
7 15 (14.02%) Data Modelling
8 14 (13.08%) Data Governance
8 14 (13.08%) ETL
9 12 (11.21%) Data Validation
10 11 (10.28%) Analytics
10 11 (10.28%) Data Analysis
10 11 (10.28%) Project Delivery
10 11 (10.28%) Requirements Gathering
11 10 (9.35%) Accounts Receivable
11 10 (9.35%) DevOps
11 10 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (8.41%) Accounts Payable
12 9 (8.41%) Data Mapping
13 8 (7.48%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.63%) SQL
2 8 (7.48%) Python
3 3 (2.80%) Java
3 3 (2.80%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.80%) PL/SQL
3 3 (2.80%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.87%) Korn
5 1 (0.93%) C#
5 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.93%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 10 (9.35%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.48%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.67%) Degree
3 5 (4.67%) PMI Certification
3 5 (4.67%) PMP
4 2 (1.87%) CAPM
4 2 (1.87%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.93%) CISA
5 1 (0.93%) CSPO
5 1 (0.93%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.93%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (23.36%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.74%) QA
3 2 (1.87%) GDPR
3 2 (1.87%) GRC
3 2 (1.87%) IFRS
3 2 (1.87%) PMO
4 1 (0.93%) Basel III
4 1 (0.93%) GAAP
4 1 (0.93%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.93%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.93%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (1.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.87%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (24.30%) Oracle
2 23 (21.50%) Microsoft
3 19 (17.76%) SAP
4 7 (6.54%) Databricks
5 4 (3.74%) IFS
5 4 (3.74%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.74%) Workday
6 3 (2.80%) Google
7 2 (1.87%) IBM
7 2 (1.87%) JD Edwards
7 2 (1.87%) Lotus
8 1 (0.93%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.93%) Citrix
8 1 (0.93%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.93%) iManage
8 1 (0.93%) Jitterbit
8 1 (0.93%) Palantir
8 1 (0.93%) PTC