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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 83 66
Rank change year-on-year +15 -17 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 73 39 58
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.19% 2.22% 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 2.38% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 22 39
10th Percentile £356 £352 £383
25th Percentile £450 £378 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £628 £561 -
90th Percentile £758 £726 £671
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 1,948 1,639 1,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.07% 93.28% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,326 1,037 1,395
10th Percentile £363 £361 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 11
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.41 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -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 4 May 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 (8.22%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.48%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (6.85%) NetSuite
1 5 (6.85%) Workday HCM
2 3 (4.11%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (4.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 3 (4.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (2.74%) SAP HCM
4 1 (1.37%) Aladdin
4 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.37%) iTrent
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.37%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.37%) SAP FI-AR
4 1 (1.37%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.96%) Azure
1 8 (10.96%) OCI
1 8 (10.96%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.85%) AWS
3 4 (5.48%) SaaS
4 3 (4.11%) GCP
5 2 (2.74%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.74%) GitHub
5 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (2.74%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.74%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.37%) FinancialForce
6 1 (1.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) NAS
1 1 (1.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.33%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (9.59%) Power BI
3 5 (6.85%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.11%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.11%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (4.11%) Tableau
6 2 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.74%) Metadata
6 2 (2.74%) MySQL
6 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.74%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.74%) SQLPlus
7 1 (1.37%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.37%) DB2
7 1 (1.37%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.37%) OLAP
7 1 (1.37%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (6.85%) JIRA
2 3 (4.11%) Git
3 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (2.74%) Toad
4 1 (1.37%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.37%) ERwin
4 1 (1.37%) Selenium
General
1 28 (38.36%) Finance
2 16 (21.92%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (21.92%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.22%) Banking
3 6 (8.22%) General Ledger
3 6 (8.22%) Legal
4 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.74%) Front Office
5 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.37%) Billing
6 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Law
6 1 (1.37%) Marketing
6 1 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (24.66%) Analyst
1 18 (24.66%) Lead
2 10 (13.70%) Data Analyst
3 9 (12.33%) Business Analyst
3 9 (12.33%) Data Migration Lead
4 8 (10.96%) Data Migration Analyst
4 8 (10.96%) Migration Analyst
5 7 (9.59%) Technical Leader
6 6 (8.22%) Architect
6 6 (8.22%) Senior
7 5 (6.85%) Consultant
8 4 (5.48%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Data Migration Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Migration Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) NetSuite Analyst
8 4 (5.48%) Project Manager
9 3 (4.11%) Data Business Analyst
9 3 (4.11%) Data Migration Business Analyst
9 3 (4.11%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (6.85%) Middleware
3 2 (2.74%) Spring
3 2 (2.74%) XML
4 1 (1.37%) FHIR
4 1 (1.37%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (4.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.11%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.74%) Derivative
3 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.74%) Equities
3 2 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.74%) Reference Data
3 2 (2.74%) Replication
4 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.37%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.37%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.37%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (100.00%) Migration
2 17 (23.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (16.44%) Agile
3 12 (16.44%) ERP
3 12 (16.44%) User Acceptance Testing
3 12 (16.44%) Validation
4 11 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (13.70%) Analytics
5 10 (13.70%) Data Governance
5 10 (13.70%) ETL
6 9 (12.33%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (12.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (10.96%) Data Mapping
7 8 (10.96%) Data Transformation
8 7 (9.59%) Risk Management
9 6 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (8.22%) Data Modelling
9 6 (8.22%) Translating Business Requirements
10 5 (6.85%) Decision-Making
10 5 (6.85%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.51%) SQL
2 5 (6.85%) Python
3 4 (5.48%) PL/SQL
4 3 (4.11%) Java
5 2 (2.74%) Perl
5 2 (2.74%) PHP
5 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.37%) Bash
6 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (9.59%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.11%) Degree
3 3 (4.11%) PMP
4 2 (2.74%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.37%) CISA
5 1 (1.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.96%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.48%) GDPR
3 3 (4.11%) GAAP
3 3 (4.11%) IFRS
3 3 (4.11%) QA
4 1 (1.37%) Basel III
4 1 (1.37%) GRC
4 1 (1.37%) HL7
4 1 (1.37%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.37%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.37%) PMO
4 1 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.37%) SEPA
4 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.37%) Docker
1 1 (1.37%) NFS
1 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) Ansible
2 1 (1.37%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (1.37%) vMotion
Vendors
1 20 (27.40%) Oracle
2 16 (21.92%) SAP
3 15 (20.55%) Microsoft
4 9 (12.33%) Workday
5 2 (2.74%) Google
5 2 (2.74%) Informatica
5 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.37%) Cerner
6 1 (1.37%) Charles River
6 1 (1.37%) Commvault
6 1 (1.37%) Databricks
6 1 (1.37%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.37%) IBM
6 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.37%) Murex
6 1 (1.37%) OpenText
6 1 (1.37%) Pure Storage
6 1 (1.37%) SimCorp
6 1 (1.37%) Talend
6 1 (1.37%) VMware