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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 85 84
Rank change year-on-year +20 -1 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 57 44 64
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.20% 2.03% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 2.22% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 28 48
10th Percentile £342 £460 £475
25th Percentile £464 £500 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £581 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.34% +5.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £675
90th Percentile £724 £704 £729
Central London median daily rate £565 £569 £550
% change year-on-year -0.66% +3.41% +4.76%

All Process and 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 1,654 1,982 2,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.87% 91.51% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,217 1,711
10th Percentile £339 £375 £363
25th Percentile £421 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £756 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 13
10th Percentile £20.02 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £25.75 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +54.55% -47.12%
75th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.75
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.84% -47.55%

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 29 November 2025.

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 (8.77%) SharePoint
2 4 (7.02%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (5.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (3.51%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.75%) Maximo
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.75%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.75%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.75%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.75%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.79%) AWS
2 7 (12.28%) Azure
3 4 (7.02%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.26%) GCP
4 3 (5.26%) GitHub
4 3 (5.26%) SaaS
5 2 (3.51%) dbt
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.75%) Boomi
6 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.75%) iPaaS
6 1 (1.75%) npm
6 1 (1.75%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.75%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.75%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.75%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) Relational Database
2 4 (7.02%) DataStage
2 4 (7.02%) MySQL
2 4 (7.02%) Power BI
3 3 (5.26%) Amazon QuickSight
3 3 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.51%) Metadata
4 2 (3.51%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.51%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.51%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.51%) SQLPlus
5 1 (1.75%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.75%) Informix
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.75%) Pentaho
5 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) JIRA
2 3 (5.26%) Git
3 2 (3.51%) Toad
4 1 (1.75%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.75%) gulp
4 1 (1.75%) Postman
4 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.75%) webpack
General
1 33 (57.89%) Finance
2 11 (19.30%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (17.54%) Banking
4 8 (14.04%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.53%) Back Office
6 4 (7.02%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (7.02%) Legal
7 3 (5.26%) Front Office
8 2 (3.51%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.51%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.75%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.75%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.75%) Marketing
9 1 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.75%) Retail
9 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (31.58%) Analyst
2 10 (17.54%) Business Analyst
3 8 (14.04%) Senior
4 7 (12.28%) Lead
5 6 (10.53%) Consultant
6 5 (8.77%) Data Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Developer
6 5 (8.77%) Project Manager
7 4 (7.02%) Data Migration Lead
7 4 (7.02%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Data Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Data Manager
8 3 (5.26%) Financial Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Business Analyst
9 2 (3.51%) ACBS Business Analyst
9 2 (3.51%) Data Migration Specialist
9 2 (3.51%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (3.51%) ERP Specialist
9 2 (3.51%) Oracle Developer
9 2 (3.51%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.79%) XML
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (3.51%) JSON
4 1 (1.75%) CSS
4 1 (1.75%) EDI
4 1 (1.75%) HTML
4 1 (1.75%) HTML5
4 1 (1.75%) Jest
4 1 (1.75%) Middleware
4 1 (1.75%) Node.js
4 1 (1.75%) Playwright
4 1 (1.75%) React
4 1 (1.75%) REST
4 1 (1.75%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.75%) Sass
4 1 (1.75%) SPFx
4 1 (1.75%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.75%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Data Structures
2 5 (8.77%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.02%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (5.26%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.51%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.75%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.75%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.75%) NHS
6 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (100.00%) Migration
2 16 (28.07%) Agile
3 13 (22.81%) ETL
4 12 (21.05%) Data Cleansing
4 12 (21.05%) User Acceptance Testing
5 11 (19.30%) Data Governance
5 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (19.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 11 (19.30%) Validation
6 10 (17.54%) Analytics
6 10 (17.54%) Data Mapping
7 9 (15.79%) Data Analysis
7 9 (15.79%) ERP
8 8 (14.04%) Decision-Making
8 8 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (12.28%) Data Modelling
10 6 (10.53%) Data Validation
10 6 (10.53%) Workshop Facilitation
11 5 (8.77%) Computer Science
11 5 (8.77%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.32%) SQL
2 7 (12.28%) Java
3 3 (5.26%) Python
4 2 (3.51%) Kotlin
4 2 (3.51%) Perl
4 2 (3.51%) PHP
4 2 (3.51%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (15.79%) Degree
2 6 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.26%) CBAP
5 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.75%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.05%) Data Quality
2 7 (12.28%) QA
3 3 (5.26%) GDPR
4 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) Oracle
2 9 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.02%) SAP
4 3 (5.26%) Databricks
4 3 (5.26%) Workday
5 2 (3.51%) Informatica
5 2 (3.51%) Talend
6 1 (1.75%) Adobe
6 1 (1.75%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.75%) Concur
6 1 (1.75%) IBM
6 1 (1.75%) MEDITECH
6 1 (1.75%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.75%) Palantir
6 1 (1.75%) Salesforce