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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 78 80
Rank change year-on-year +28 +2 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 94 48 46
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.17% 2.71% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 2.88% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 28 31
10th Percentile £356 £332 £300
25th Percentile £425 £421 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £584 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +12.26% -5.45%
75th Percentile £644 £688 £650
90th Percentile £777 £704 £688
Central London median daily rate £600 £584 £525
% change year-on-year +2.78% +11.19% -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 2,001 1,669 1,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.74% 94.24% 92.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,376 1,107 1,230
10th Percentile £368 £325 £387
25th Percentile £456 £420 £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 £763 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 22 17
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.20
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £21.75 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +4.91% -13.60%
75th Percentile £32.57 £53.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £51.54 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.57 £31.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.19% -10.71% +27.27%

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 14 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 4 (4.26%) Confluence
2 2 (2.13%) HCL Notes
3 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.19%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.06%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (5.32%) NetSuite
1 5 (5.32%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (5.32%) Oracle Financials
1 5 (5.32%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (5.32%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (4.26%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (3.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (3.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (2.13%) iTrent
4 2 (2.13%) SAP ERP
4 2 (2.13%) SAP HCM
4 2 (2.13%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (2.13%) Workday HCM
5 1 (1.06%) Maximo
5 1 (1.06%) SAP FI-AR
5 1 (1.06%) SAP R/3
5 1 (1.06%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.09%) Azure
2 9 (9.57%) Power Platform
3 6 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.19%) GCP
5 3 (3.19%) SaaS
6 2 (2.13%) AWS
6 2 (2.13%) OCI
6 2 (2.13%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Databricks
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.06%) Google Docs
7 1 (1.06%) Google Drive
7 1 (1.06%) Google Sheets
7 1 (1.06%) Matillion
7 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.06%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.51%) Power BI
2 6 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.26%) Metadata
3 4 (4.26%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.19%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (2.13%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.06%) DataStage
6 1 (1.06%) Db2
6 1 (1.06%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.06%) GIS
6 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.06%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (12.77%) JIRA
2 2 (2.13%) Git
2 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.06%) ER Studio
General
1 41 (43.62%) Finance
2 30 (31.91%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.83%) General Ledger
4 12 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.38%) Banking
6 4 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.19%) Law
8 2 (2.13%) Back Office
8 2 (2.13%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.13%) Front Office
8 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.13%) Marketing
8 2 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.06%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.06%) Legal
9 1 (1.06%) Local Government
9 1 (1.06%) Military
9 1 (1.06%) Retail
9 1 (1.06%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (19.15%) Analyst
2 14 (14.89%) Consultant
2 14 (14.89%) Lead
3 12 (12.77%) Data Analyst
4 10 (10.64%) Migration Analyst
5 8 (8.51%) Architect
5 8 (8.51%) Data Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) Data Migration Analyst
5 8 (8.51%) Data Migration Lead
5 8 (8.51%) Oracle Consultant
6 7 (7.45%) Business Analyst
7 6 (6.38%) Data Consultant
8 5 (5.32%) Data Migration Consultant
8 5 (5.32%) Developer
8 5 (5.32%) Migration Consultant
8 5 (5.32%) Migration Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) NetSuite Analyst
8 5 (5.32%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
9 4 (4.26%) SAP Consultant
9 4 (4.26%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (4.26%) JSON
2 4 (4.26%) Middleware
2 4 (4.26%) XML
3 2 (2.13%) Kafka
3 2 (2.13%) PySpark
3 2 (2.13%) React
3 2 (2.13%) REST
3 2 (2.13%) SOAP
3 2 (2.13%) Web Services
4 1 (1.06%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.06%) ADO
4 1 (1.06%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.06%) CSS
4 1 (1.06%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.06%) JDBC
4 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.06%) Snowpark
4 1 (1.06%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.45%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (6.38%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.32%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.19%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.13%) Life Science
5 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.13%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.13%) Replication
6 1 (1.06%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.06%) Derivative
6 1 (1.06%) Equities
6 1 (1.06%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.06%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.06%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (100.00%) Migration
2 30 (31.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (28.72%) ERP
4 25 (26.60%) Validation
5 22 (23.40%) User Acceptance Testing
6 20 (21.28%) Agile
7 14 (14.89%) Data Modelling
8 13 (13.83%) Data Governance
9 12 (12.77%) ETL
9 12 (12.77%) Project Delivery
10 11 (11.70%) Accounts Receivable
11 10 (10.64%) Accounts Payable
11 10 (10.64%) Analytics
11 10 (10.64%) Data Analysis
11 10 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (8.51%) Data Integration
12 8 (8.51%) Data Mapping
12 8 (8.51%) Data Validation
12 8 (8.51%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (19.15%) SQL
2 6 (6.38%) Python
3 3 (3.19%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.19%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.13%) Java
4 2 (2.13%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.06%) C#
5 1 (1.06%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 7 (7.45%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.32%) Degree
2 5 (5.32%) PMI Certification
2 5 (5.32%) PMP
2 5 (5.32%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.13%) CAPM
3 2 (2.13%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.06%) CISA
4 1 (1.06%) CSPO
4 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.06%) SAFe Agilist
4 1 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (22.34%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.19%) PMO
2 3 (3.19%) QA
3 2 (2.13%) GDPR
3 2 (2.13%) GRC
3 2 (2.13%) IFRS
4 1 (1.06%) Basel III
4 1 (1.06%) GAAP
4 1 (1.06%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.06%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.06%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (23.40%) Microsoft
1 22 (23.40%) Oracle
2 18 (19.15%) SAP
3 6 (6.38%) Databricks
4 4 (4.26%) IFS
5 3 (3.19%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.19%) Workday
6 2 (2.13%) IBM
6 2 (2.13%) JD Edwards
6 2 (2.13%) Lotus
7 1 (1.06%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.06%) Citrix
7 1 (1.06%) Google
7 1 (1.06%) Jitterbit
7 1 (1.06%) Palantir
7 1 (1.06%) PTC