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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 81 71
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 51 41 64
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.84% 2.17% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 2.36% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 21 49
10th Percentile £353 £425 £473
25th Percentile £468 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.81% +0.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £638
90th Percentile £756 £701 £728
Central London median daily rate £565 £551 £550
% change year-on-year +2.63% +0.09% +4.76%

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 1,608 1,738 2,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.53% 92.01% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,128 1,056 1,550
10th Percentile £350 £367 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £761 £791 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £14.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +46.67% -35.19%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £137.50 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -27.15%

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 12 January 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 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (5.88%) MS Visio
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
3 2 (3.92%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (1.96%) Maximo
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 7 (13.73%) AWS
2 6 (11.76%) Azure
3 3 (5.88%) Amazon S3
3 3 (5.88%) GitHub
3 3 (5.88%) OCI
3 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.92%) GCP
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (3.92%) SaaS
5 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.96%) Boomi
5 1 (1.96%) dbt
5 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.96%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.96%) iPaaS
5 1 (1.96%) npm
5 1 (1.96%) Slack
5 1 (1.96%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.96%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (13.73%) Relational Database
3 4 (7.84%) DataStage
3 4 (7.84%) MySQL
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
4 3 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (5.88%) Power BI
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.92%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.92%) SQLPlus
5 2 (3.92%) Tableau
6 1 (1.96%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.96%) Informix
6 1 (1.96%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) JIRA
2 3 (5.88%) Git
3 2 (3.92%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.92%) Toad
4 1 (1.96%) gulp
4 1 (1.96%) Selenium
4 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.96%) webpack
General
1 26 (50.98%) Finance
2 11 (21.57%) Banking
3 9 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 8 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (13.73%) Public Sector
6 6 (11.76%) Legal
7 5 (9.80%) Back Office
7 5 (9.80%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (7.84%) Front Office
9 3 (5.88%) General Ledger
10 2 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (3.92%) Investment Banking
10 2 (3.92%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.96%) Marketing
11 1 (1.96%) Retail
11 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) Analyst
2 11 (21.57%) Business Analyst
3 8 (15.69%) Lead
4 6 (11.76%) Project Manager
4 6 (11.76%) Senior
5 5 (9.80%) Consultant
5 5 (9.80%) Developer
6 4 (7.84%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Data Migration Lead
7 3 (5.88%) Migration Specialist
7 3 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) ACBS Business Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Data Migration Specialist
8 2 (3.92%) ERP Specialist
8 2 (3.92%) Front Office Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Records Management Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) SAP Consultant
9 1 (1.96%) Cloud Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.61%) XML
2 4 (7.84%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (5.88%) Middleware
4 2 (3.92%) Playwright
5 1 (1.96%) CSS
5 1 (1.96%) EDI
5 1 (1.96%) HTML
5 1 (1.96%) HTML5
5 1 (1.96%) Jest
5 1 (1.96%) JSON
5 1 (1.96%) Node.js
5 1 (1.96%) React
5 1 (1.96%) REST
5 1 (1.96%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.96%) Sass
5 1 (1.96%) SPFx
5 1 (1.96%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.88%) Reference Data
3 2 (3.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.96%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.96%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.96%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.96%) Life Science
4 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.96%) NHS
4 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) Migration
2 15 (29.41%) Agile
3 14 (27.45%) ETL
4 11 (21.57%) Data Mapping
5 10 (19.61%) Data Governance
5 10 (19.61%) ERP
5 10 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (19.61%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (19.61%) User Acceptance Testing
6 9 (17.65%) Validation
7 8 (15.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (13.73%) Analytics
8 7 (13.73%) Data Cleansing
8 7 (13.73%) Decision-Making
9 6 (11.76%) Cutover Planning
10 5 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (9.80%) Data Analysis
10 5 (9.80%) Project Management
10 5 (9.80%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (35.29%) SQL
2 5 (9.80%) Java
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%) Python
4 2 (3.92%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.96%) Bash
5 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (9.80%) Degree
1 5 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.92%) PMP
4 1 (1.96%) CFA
4 1 (1.96%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) Data Quality
2 8 (15.69%) QA
3 3 (5.88%) GAAP
3 3 (5.88%) GDPR
4 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.96%) Basel III
4 1 (1.96%) IFRS
4 1 (1.96%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Oracle
2 8 (15.69%) SAP
3 7 (13.73%) Workday
4 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.88%) Informatica
6 2 (3.92%) Databricks
6 2 (3.92%) Talend
7 1 (1.96%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.96%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.96%) Google
7 1 (1.96%) IBM
7 1 (1.96%) MEDITECH
7 1 (1.96%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.96%) Murex
7 1 (1.96%) Palantir
7 1 (1.96%) Salesforce