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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 81 64
Rank change year-on-year +8 -17 +61
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 51 36 67
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.65% 2.00% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 2.18% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 19 46
10th Percentile £393 £329 £409
25th Percentile £466 £450 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +11.39%
75th Percentile £644 £614 £581
90th Percentile £745 £693 £675
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +11.39%

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 1,709 1,651 2,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.96% 91.57% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,184 995 1,522
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £571
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +0.66% -4.79%
75th Percentile £671 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £784 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 14
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £28.94 £19.18
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +24.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile £43.86 £64.56 £45.52
90th Percentile £54.35 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.34 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -24.74% +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 17 February 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 (9.80%) SharePoint
2 4 (7.84%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (7.84%) MS Visio
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (5.88%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (5.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (3.92%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (3.92%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.96%) Aladdin
4 1 (1.96%) Maximo
4 1 (1.96%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.96%) SAP CO
4 1 (1.96%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.96%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.96%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.69%) AWS
1 8 (15.69%) Azure
2 4 (7.84%) GitHub
2 4 (7.84%) OCI
2 4 (7.84%) Power Platform
3 3 (5.88%) GCP
3 3 (5.88%) SaaS
4 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.96%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.96%) dbt
5 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.96%) npm
5 1 (1.96%) Serverless
5 1 (1.96%) Slack
5 1 (1.96%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.96%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) NAS
1 1 (1.96%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (13.73%) Relational Database
2 5 (9.80%) MySQL
3 4 (7.84%) Power BI
3 4 (7.84%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (5.88%) Tableau
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.92%) DataStage
5 2 (3.92%) Metadata
5 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (3.92%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.92%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.96%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.96%) Informix
6 1 (1.96%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Git
1 4 (7.84%) JIRA
2 2 (3.92%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.92%) Toad
3 1 (1.96%) ERwin
3 1 (1.96%) gulp
3 1 (1.96%) Selenium
3 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.96%) webpack
General
1 26 (50.98%) Finance
2 16 (31.37%) Social Skills
3 11 (21.57%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (19.61%) Banking
5 6 (11.76%) Legal
6 4 (7.84%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (7.84%) Front Office
6 4 (7.84%) General Ledger
7 3 (5.88%) Back Office
8 2 (3.92%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) Analyst
2 10 (19.61%) Business Analyst
3 9 (17.65%) Lead
4 7 (13.73%) Senior
5 6 (11.76%) Developer
5 6 (11.76%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Consultant
6 3 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Data Migration Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Migration Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Data Migration Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Data Migration Lead
7 2 (3.92%) Oracle Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Records Management Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) SAP Consultant
7 2 (3.92%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) XML
2 4 (7.84%) Middleware
2 4 (7.84%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (3.92%) Playwright
4 1 (1.96%) CSS
4 1 (1.96%) EDI
4 1 (1.96%) FHIR
4 1 (1.96%) HTML
4 1 (1.96%) HTML5
4 1 (1.96%) Jest
4 1 (1.96%) JSON
4 1 (1.96%) Node.js
4 1 (1.96%) React
4 1 (1.96%) REST
4 1 (1.96%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.96%) Sass
4 1 (1.96%) SPFx
4 1 (1.96%) Spring
4 1 (1.96%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.88%) Fixed Income
2 3 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (5.88%) Reference Data
3 2 (3.92%) Derivative
3 2 (3.92%) Equities
3 2 (3.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.96%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.96%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.96%) Life Science
4 1 (1.96%) LIMS
4 1 (1.96%) NHS
4 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) Migration
2 16 (31.37%) Agile
3 15 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (25.49%) ETL
5 12 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (17.65%) Analytics
6 9 (17.65%) Data Governance
6 9 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
6 9 (17.65%) Validation
7 8 (15.69%) Data Mapping
7 8 (15.69%) ERP
7 8 (15.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (13.73%) Project Management
9 6 (11.76%) Decision-Making
9 6 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
9 6 (11.76%) Test Strategy
10 5 (9.80%) Cutover Planning
10 5 (9.80%) Process Improvement
10 5 (9.80%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 20 (39.22%) SQL
2 4 (7.84%) Java
2 4 (7.84%) Python
3 3 (5.88%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.92%) Kotlin
4 2 (3.92%) Perl
4 2 (3.92%) PHP
4 2 (3.92%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.96%) Bash
5 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.80%) Degree
2 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) PMP
4 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.92%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.96%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.57%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.84%) GDPR
2 4 (7.84%) QA
3 3 (5.88%) GAAP
3 3 (5.88%) IFRS
4 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.96%) Basel III
4 1 (1.96%) HL7
4 1 (1.96%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) NFS
2 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Ansible
2 1 (1.96%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (1.96%) vMotion
Vendors
1 14 (27.45%) Oracle
2 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
3 9 (17.65%) SAP
4 7 (13.73%) Workday
5 3 (5.88%) Informatica
6 2 (3.92%) Databricks
6 2 (3.92%) Google
6 2 (3.92%) Talend
7 1 (1.96%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.96%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.96%) Cerner
7 1 (1.96%) Charles River
7 1 (1.96%) Commvault
7 1 (1.96%) IBM
7 1 (1.96%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.96%) Murex
7 1 (1.96%) Palantir
7 1 (1.96%) Pure Storage
7 1 (1.96%) SimCorp
7 1 (1.96%) VMware