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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 75 74
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 64 39 60
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.89% 2.23% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 2.41% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 24 39
10th Percentile £400 £355 £392
25th Percentile £450 £384 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £585 -
90th Percentile £727 £723 £680
Central London median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +7.32%
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 1,916 1,619 2,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.38% 92.57% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,315 1,032 1,428
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £674 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 14
10th Percentile - £22.00 £17.58
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.07 £32.83 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +36.77% -36.42%
75th Percentile £52.16 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £67.38 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -14.34% +11.47% -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 16 April 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 6 (9.38%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Workday HCM
2 3 (4.69%) NetSuite
2 3 (4.69%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (4.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 3 (4.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.56%) Aladdin
4 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.56%) Maximo
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.56%) SAP FI-AR
4 1 (1.56%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.50%) OCI
2 6 (9.38%) Azure
2 6 (9.38%) Power Platform
3 5 (7.81%) AWS
4 3 (4.69%) GCP
4 3 (4.69%) SaaS
5 2 (3.13%) Azure AKS
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.13%) GitHub
5 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (3.13%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.56%) Boomi
6 1 (1.56%) Collibra
6 1 (1.56%) FinancialForce
6 1 (1.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Serverless
6 1 (1.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) NAS
1 1 (1.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.94%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (7.81%) Power BI
2 5 (7.81%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.25%) Tableau
4 3 (4.69%) Metadata
4 3 (4.69%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.13%) MySQL
5 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.13%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.13%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.56%) DataStage
6 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.56%) OLAP
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (1.56%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) JIRA
2 3 (4.69%) Git
3 2 (3.13%) Toad
4 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.56%) ERwin
4 1 (1.56%) Selenium
General
1 23 (35.94%) Finance
2 19 (29.69%) Social Skills
3 16 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.94%) Banking
5 5 (7.81%) Legal
6 4 (6.25%) General Ledger
7 3 (4.69%) Front Office
8 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.56%) Back Office
9 1 (1.56%) Billing
9 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.56%) Law
9 1 (1.56%) Marketing
9 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (28.13%) Lead
2 14 (21.88%) Analyst
3 10 (15.63%) Business Analyst
3 10 (15.63%) Data Migration Lead
4 9 (14.06%) Senior
5 7 (10.94%) Technical Leader
6 5 (7.81%) Data Analyst
6 5 (7.81%) Data Migration Analyst
6 5 (7.81%) Migration Analyst
7 4 (6.25%) Architect
7 4 (6.25%) Consultant
7 4 (6.25%) Developer
7 4 (6.25%) Project Manager
7 4 (6.25%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Data Migration Business Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Technical Architect
9 2 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) Middleware
1 4 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (4.69%) XML
3 2 (3.13%) Spring
4 1 (1.56%) EDI
4 1 (1.56%) FHIR
4 1 (1.56%) JSON
4 1 (1.56%) Playwright
4 1 (1.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.69%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.13%) Derivative
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.13%) Equities
4 2 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.13%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.56%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.56%) Life Science
5 1 (1.56%) LIMS
5 1 (1.56%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.56%) NHS
5 1 (1.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (100.00%) Migration
2 18 (28.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (23.44%) Agile
4 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (17.19%) Data Governance
5 11 (17.19%) ERP
5 11 (17.19%) ETL
5 11 (17.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 11 (17.19%) User Acceptance Testing
6 9 (14.06%) Data Mapping
6 9 (14.06%) Validation
7 8 (12.50%) Analytics
7 8 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 8 (12.50%) Data Transformation
8 7 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (10.94%) Project Management
9 6 (9.38%) Decision-Making
9 6 (9.38%) Requirements Gathering
9 6 (9.38%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 21 (32.81%) SQL
2 5 (7.81%) Python
3 4 (6.25%) PL/SQL
4 3 (4.69%) Java
5 2 (3.13%) Perl
5 2 (3.13%) PHP
5 2 (3.13%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.56%) Bash
6 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) Degree
4 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.69%) PMP
5 2 (3.13%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.56%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.25%) GDPR
3 3 (4.69%) GAAP
3 3 (4.69%) IFRS
3 3 (4.69%) QA
4 1 (1.56%) Basel III
4 1 (1.56%) GRC
4 1 (1.56%) HL7
4 1 (1.56%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.56%) PMO
4 1 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.56%) Docker
1 1 (1.56%) NFS
1 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.56%) Ansible
2 1 (1.56%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (1.56%) vMotion
Vendors
1 17 (26.56%) Oracle
2 14 (21.88%) Microsoft
3 12 (18.75%) SAP
4 10 (15.63%) Workday
5 2 (3.13%) Google
5 2 (3.13%) Informatica
5 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.56%) Cerner
6 1 (1.56%) Charles River
6 1 (1.56%) Commvault
6 1 (1.56%) Databricks
6 1 (1.56%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.56%) IBM
6 1 (1.56%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.56%) Murex
6 1 (1.56%) OpenText
6 1 (1.56%) Palantir
6 1 (1.56%) SimCorp
6 1 (1.56%) Talend
6 1 (1.56%) VMware