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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 76 76
Rank change year-on-year +27 0 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 94 40 52
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.88% 2.32% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 2.47% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 25 37
10th Percentile £356 £356 £338
25th Percentile £450 £381 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £625 -
90th Percentile £768 £663 £672
Central London median daily rate £590 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +15.02% -2.38% +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 2,078 1,617 1,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.76% 93.74% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 1,029 1,372
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
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 30 16 14
10th Percentile £17.56 £19.25 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.29
Median hourly rate £24.47 £29.75 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +11.74% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.91 £52.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £76.25 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.44% +8.00% -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 21 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 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.13%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (6.38%) NetSuite
2 5 (5.32%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (5.32%) Workday HCM
3 4 (4.26%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (4.26%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (4.26%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (4.26%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (3.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (3.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (2.13%) iTrent
5 2 (2.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (2.13%) SAP ERP
5 2 (2.13%) SAP HCM
5 2 (2.13%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (1.06%) Maximo
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (1.06%) SAP FI-AR
6 1 (1.06%) SAP R/3
6 1 (1.06%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.70%) Azure
2 9 (9.57%) Power Platform
3 8 (8.51%) OCI
4 4 (4.26%) AWS
4 4 (4.26%) SaaS
5 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.19%) GCP
5 3 (3.19%) GitHub
6 2 (2.13%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.13%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.06%) Collibra
7 1 (1.06%) dbt
7 1 (1.06%) Google Docs
7 1 (1.06%) Google Sheets
7 1 (1.06%) Matillion
7 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) NAS
1 1 (1.06%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (8.51%) Power BI
2 4 (4.26%) Metadata
2 4 (4.26%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.19%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (3.19%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.13%) Tableau
5 1 (1.06%) DataStage
5 1 (1.06%) Db2
5 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.06%) MySQL
5 1 (1.06%) OLAP
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.06%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (6.38%) JIRA
2 2 (2.13%) Git
2 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.06%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.06%) ERwin
General
1 41 (43.62%) Finance
2 28 (29.79%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.96%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.83%) General Ledger
5 9 (9.57%) Banking
6 4 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.19%) Law
7 3 (3.19%) Legal
8 2 (2.13%) Marketing
9 1 (1.06%) Back Office
9 1 (1.06%) Billing
9 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.06%) Front Office
9 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Local Government
9 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (22.34%) Lead
2 19 (20.21%) Analyst
3 14 (14.89%) Consultant
4 13 (13.83%) Data Migration Lead
5 12 (12.77%) Data Analyst
6 10 (10.64%) Architect
6 10 (10.64%) Migration Analyst
7 9 (9.57%) Business Analyst
7 9 (9.57%) Data Migration Analyst
8 7 (7.45%) Oracle Consultant
9 6 (6.38%) Technical Leader
10 5 (5.32%) Data Consultant
10 5 (5.32%) Data Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) NetSuite Analyst
11 4 (4.26%) Data Migration Consultant
11 4 (4.26%) Data Migration Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) Migration Consultant
11 4 (4.26%) Migration Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
11 4 (4.26%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (6.38%) Middleware
3 4 (4.26%) XML
4 2 (2.13%) JSON
4 2 (2.13%) Spring
5 1 (1.06%) ADO
5 1 (1.06%) EDI
5 1 (1.06%) FHIR
5 1 (1.06%) Kafka
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (1.06%) React
5 1 (1.06%) REST
5 1 (1.06%) Snowpark
5 1 (1.06%) SOAP
5 1 (1.06%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.64%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.26%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.26%) Fixed Income
3 3 (3.19%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.19%) Derivative
3 3 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.19%) Equities
3 3 (3.19%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.19%) Replication
4 2 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.13%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.13%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.06%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.06%) LIMS
5 1 (1.06%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.06%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.06%) NHS
5 1 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (100.00%) Migration
2 26 (27.66%) ERP
3 23 (24.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (20.21%) User Acceptance Testing
5 16 (17.02%) Validation
6 13 (13.83%) Agile
7 12 (12.77%) ETL
7 12 (12.77%) Project Delivery
8 11 (11.70%) Data Governance
8 11 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (10.64%) Data Modelling
9 10 (10.64%) Data Transformation
9 10 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (9.57%) Accounts Receivable
10 9 (9.57%) Analytics
10 9 (9.57%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (9.57%) Data Mapping
11 8 (8.51%) Asset Management
11 8 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (8.51%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (22.34%) SQL
2 4 (4.26%) Python
3 2 (2.13%) Java
3 2 (2.13%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.06%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (10.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.57%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.26%) Degree
3 4 (4.26%) PMP
4 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.19%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.13%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.06%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.77%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.26%) GAAP
2 4 (4.26%) GDPR
2 4 (4.26%) IFRS
3 2 (2.13%) QA
3 2 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.06%) Basel III
4 1 (1.06%) GRC
4 1 (1.06%) HL7
4 1 (1.06%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.06%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.06%) PMO
4 1 (1.06%) SEPA
4 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.06%) Docker
1 1 (1.06%) NFS
1 1 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.06%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (1.06%) vMotion
Vendors
1 25 (26.60%) Oracle
2 20 (21.28%) Microsoft
2 20 (21.28%) SAP
3 9 (9.57%) Workday
4 4 (4.26%) IFS
4 4 (4.26%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.19%) Databricks
6 2 (2.13%) Google
6 2 (2.13%) IBM
6 2 (2.13%) Informatica
7 1 (1.06%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.06%) Cerner
7 1 (1.06%) Charles River
7 1 (1.06%) Commvault
7 1 (1.06%) Murex
7 1 (1.06%) OpenText
7 1 (1.06%) Palantir
7 1 (1.06%) SimCorp
7 1 (1.06%) Talend
7 1 (1.06%) VMware