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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 78 72
Rank change year-on-year +26 -6 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 89 39 51
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.75% 2.29% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 2.44% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 21 37
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £450 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £491 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.13% -10.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £565 -
90th Percentile £760 £625 £658
Central London median daily rate £550 £483 £525
% change year-on-year +13.93% -8.05% +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 2,034 1,598 1,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.64% 93.72% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,384 1,008 1,378
10th Percentile £358 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £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 25 15 13
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.70 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.21 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +8.57% -25.00%
75th Percentile £52.16 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £78.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.82% +2.48% -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 7 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 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.25%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (6.74%) NetSuite
1 6 (6.74%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (5.62%) Oracle Financials
2 5 (5.62%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (5.62%) Oracle Receivables
2 5 (5.62%) Workday HCM
3 4 (4.49%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (4.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (3.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (2.25%) iTrent
5 2 (2.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (2.25%) SAP ERP
5 2 (2.25%) SAP HCM
5 2 (2.25%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (1.12%) Aladdin
6 1 (1.12%) Maximo
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (1.12%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.11%) Azure
1 9 (10.11%) Power Platform
2 8 (8.99%) OCI
3 5 (5.62%) SaaS
4 4 (4.49%) AWS
5 3 (3.37%) GCP
5 3 (3.37%) GitHub
6 2 (2.25%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.25%) Google Workspace
6 2 (2.25%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.25%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.12%) Collibra
7 1 (1.12%) dbt
7 1 (1.12%) Google Docs
7 1 (1.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) NAS
1 1 (1.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.11%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (8.99%) Power BI
3 4 (4.49%) Metadata
3 4 (4.49%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.37%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (3.37%) Tableau
5 2 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.25%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (2.25%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.12%) DataStage
6 1 (1.12%) Db2
6 1 (1.12%) MySQL
6 1 (1.12%) OLAP
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.12%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.62%) JIRA
2 2 (2.25%) Git
2 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.12%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.12%) ERwin
3 1 (1.12%) Selenium
General
1 39 (43.82%) Finance
2 23 (25.84%) Social Skills
3 16 (17.98%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.36%) General Ledger
5 8 (8.99%) Banking
6 4 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.49%) Legal
6 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.37%) Law
8 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.25%) Marketing
9 1 (1.12%) Back Office
9 1 (1.12%) Billing
9 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.12%) Front Office
9 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Local Government
9 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (21.35%) Analyst
2 18 (20.22%) Lead
3 13 (14.61%) Consultant
4 12 (13.48%) Data Analyst
5 10 (11.24%) Migration Analyst
6 9 (10.11%) Architect
6 9 (10.11%) Business Analyst
6 9 (10.11%) Data Migration Analyst
6 9 (10.11%) Data Migration Lead
7 7 (7.87%) Oracle Consultant
7 7 (7.87%) Technical Leader
8 6 (6.74%) Project Manager
9 5 (5.62%) Data Consultant
9 5 (5.62%) Data Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) NetSuite Analyst
10 4 (4.49%) Data Migration Consultant
10 4 (4.49%) Data Migration Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Migration Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
10 4 (4.49%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.48%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (6.74%) Middleware
3 3 (3.37%) XML
4 2 (2.25%) Spring
5 1 (1.12%) ADO
5 1 (1.12%) EDI
5 1 (1.12%) FHIR
5 1 (1.12%) JSON
5 1 (1.12%) Kafka
5 1 (1.12%) Playwright
5 1 (1.12%) React
5 1 (1.12%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.11%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.49%) Fixed Income
3 3 (3.37%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.37%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.37%) Derivative
3 3 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.37%) Equities
3 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.37%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.25%) Replication
5 1 (1.12%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.12%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.12%) Life Science
5 1 (1.12%) LIMS
5 1 (1.12%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.12%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.12%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (100.00%) Migration
2 21 (23.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (22.47%) ERP
4 17 (19.10%) User Acceptance Testing
5 16 (17.98%) Validation
6 14 (15.73%) Agile
7 12 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (13.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (12.36%) Data Governance
9 10 (11.24%) Analytics
9 10 (11.24%) Data Transformation
9 10 (11.24%) ETL
10 9 (10.11%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (10.11%) Data Mapping
10 9 (10.11%) Data Modelling
10 9 (10.11%) Project Delivery
11 8 (8.99%) Asset Management
11 8 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (8.99%) Risk Management
12 7 (7.87%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (24.72%) SQL
2 6 (6.74%) Python
3 2 (2.25%) Java
3 2 (2.25%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.12%) Bash
4 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (11.24%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.11%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.62%) PMP
4 4 (4.49%) Degree
4 4 (4.49%) PMI Certification
5 3 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.25%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.12%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.36%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.49%) GAAP
2 4 (4.49%) GDPR
2 4 (4.49%) IFRS
3 3 (3.37%) QA
4 1 (1.12%) Basel III
4 1 (1.12%) GRC
4 1 (1.12%) HL7
4 1 (1.12%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.12%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.12%) PMO
4 1 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.12%) SEPA
4 1 (1.12%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.12%) Docker
1 1 (1.12%) NFS
1 1 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.37%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.12%) Ansible
2 1 (1.12%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (1.12%) vMotion
Vendors
1 24 (26.97%) Oracle
2 19 (21.35%) SAP
3 17 (19.10%) Microsoft
4 10 (11.24%) Workday
5 3 (3.37%) Google
5 3 (3.37%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.25%) Databricks
6 2 (2.25%) IBM
6 2 (2.25%) Informatica
7 1 (1.12%) Cerner
7 1 (1.12%) Charles River
7 1 (1.12%) Commvault
7 1 (1.12%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.12%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.12%) Murex
7 1 (1.12%) OpenText
7 1 (1.12%) Palantir
7 1 (1.12%) Pure Storage
7 1 (1.12%) Talend
7 1 (1.12%) VMware