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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 69 79
Rank change year-on-year +14 +10 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 91 51 43
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.99% 2.85% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 3.03% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 29 31
10th Percentile £356 £335 £300
25th Percentile £425 £434 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £650
90th Percentile £777 £693 £688
Central London median daily rate £600 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.65 -
Central London median hourly rate £40.00 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year +15.44% - -

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 2,013 1,683 1,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.29% 94.02% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,389 1,107 1,242
10th Percentile £375 £325 £386
25th Percentile £456 £424 £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 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.78% +7.67% -1.82%

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 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 3 (3.30%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) HCL Notes
2 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (5.49%) NetSuite
1 5 (5.49%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (5.49%) Oracle Financials
1 5 (5.49%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (5.49%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (4.40%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (2.20%) iTrent
4 2 (2.20%) SAP ERP
4 2 (2.20%) SAP HCM
4 2 (2.20%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (2.20%) Workday HCM
5 1 (1.10%) Maximo
5 1 (1.10%) SAP FI-AR
5 1 (1.10%) SAP R/3
5 1 (1.10%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.58%) Azure
2 9 (9.89%) Power Platform
3 5 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (3.30%) SaaS
5 2 (2.20%) GCP
5 2 (2.20%) OCI
5 2 (2.20%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Databricks
6 1 (1.10%) Collibra
6 1 (1.10%) dbt
6 1 (1.10%) Google Docs
6 1 (1.10%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.10%) Matillion
6 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.10%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.10%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.79%) Power BI
2 6 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (5.49%) Metadata
4 4 (4.40%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.30%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (2.20%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.20%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.10%) DataStage
7 1 (1.10%) Db2
7 1 (1.10%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.10%) GIS
7 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.10%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (12.09%) JIRA
2 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.10%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.10%) Git
General
1 41 (45.05%) Finance
2 27 (29.67%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.29%) General Ledger
4 10 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.49%) Banking
6 4 (4.40%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Law
7 3 (3.30%) Marketing
8 2 (2.20%) Back Office
8 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.20%) Front Office
9 1 (1.10%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Legal
9 1 (1.10%) Local Government
9 1 (1.10%) Military
9 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (20.88%) Analyst
2 15 (16.48%) Consultant
3 12 (13.19%) Data Analyst
3 12 (13.19%) Lead
4 10 (10.99%) Migration Analyst
5 8 (8.79%) Data Engineer
5 8 (8.79%) Data Migration Analyst
5 8 (8.79%) Data Migration Lead
5 8 (8.79%) Oracle Consultant
6 7 (7.69%) Architect
6 7 (7.69%) Business Analyst
7 6 (6.59%) Data Consultant
8 5 (5.49%) Data Migration Consultant
8 5 (5.49%) Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Migration Consultant
8 5 (5.49%) NetSuite Analyst
8 5 (5.49%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
9 4 (4.40%) Migration Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) SAP Consultant
9 4 (4.40%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.09%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (4.40%) JSON
2 4 (4.40%) Middleware
2 4 (4.40%) XML
3 2 (2.20%) Kafka
3 2 (2.20%) PySpark
3 2 (2.20%) React
3 2 (2.20%) REST
3 2 (2.20%) SOAP
3 2 (2.20%) Web Services
4 1 (1.10%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.10%) ADO
4 1 (1.10%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.10%) CSS
4 1 (1.10%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.10%) JDBC
4 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.10%) Snowpark
4 1 (1.10%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.49%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.49%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.20%) Credit Risk
3 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.20%) Reference Data
3 2 (2.20%) Replication
4 1 (1.10%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.10%) Derivative
4 1 (1.10%) Equities
4 1 (1.10%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.10%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.10%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.10%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.10%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (100.00%) Migration
2 26 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (27.47%) ERP
4 22 (24.18%) User Acceptance Testing
5 21 (23.08%) Validation
6 17 (18.68%) Agile
7 14 (15.38%) Data Modelling
8 13 (14.29%) Project Delivery
9 12 (13.19%) Data Governance
9 12 (13.19%) ETL
10 11 (12.09%) Accounts Receivable
10 11 (12.09%) Data Analysis
10 11 (12.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (10.99%) Accounts Payable
11 10 (10.99%) Analytics
12 8 (8.79%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (8.79%) Data Mapping
12 8 (8.79%) Translating Business Requirements
13 7 (7.69%) Data Lineage
13 7 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.88%) SQL
2 6 (6.59%) Python
3 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.30%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.20%) Java
4 2 (2.20%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.10%) C#
5 1 (1.10%) SOQL
5 1 (1.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.49%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.20%) Degree
3 2 (2.20%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.20%) PMP
4 1 (1.10%) CISA
4 1 (1.10%) CSPO
4 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (21.98%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.30%) QA
3 2 (2.20%) GDPR
3 2 (2.20%) GRC
3 2 (2.20%) IFRS
4 1 (1.10%) Basel III
4 1 (1.10%) GAAP
4 1 (1.10%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.10%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.10%) PMO
4 1 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.10%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (2.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (21.98%) Microsoft
2 19 (20.88%) Oracle
3 16 (17.58%) SAP
4 6 (6.59%) Databricks
5 4 (4.40%) IFS
5 4 (4.40%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.30%) Workday
7 2 (2.20%) IBM
7 2 (2.20%) Lotus
8 1 (1.10%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.10%) Citrix
8 1 (1.10%) Google
8 1 (1.10%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.10%) Jitterbit
8 1 (1.10%) Palantir
8 1 (1.10%) PTC