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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 74 64
Rank change year-on-year +7 -10 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 65 42 67
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.05% 2.43% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 2.63% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 28 46
10th Percentile £402 £361 £403
25th Percentile £453 £425 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £593 £588
90th Percentile £727 £720 £675
Central London median daily rate £550 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +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 1,871 1,595 2,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.88% 92.20% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,290 1,026 1,486
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £447 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.19% -5.29%
75th Percentile £669 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.46 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +24.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £45.08 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £58.53 £51.75 £50.25
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 27 March 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 7 (10.77%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.69%) MS Visio
3 4 (6.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (4.62%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 3 (4.62%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (4.62%) Workday HCM
2 2 (3.08%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (3.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (3.08%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.54%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.54%) Maximo
3 1 (1.54%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.54%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.85%) Azure
2 7 (10.77%) AWS
2 7 (10.77%) OCI
3 6 (9.23%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.15%) GitHub
5 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.62%) GCP
5 3 (4.62%) SaaS
6 2 (3.08%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.08%) Boomi
6 2 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (3.08%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.54%) Collibra
7 1 (1.54%) dbt
7 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.54%) Serverless
7 1 (1.54%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) NAS
1 1 (1.54%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.77%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (7.69%) Power BI
2 5 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.15%) MySQL
3 4 (6.15%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (6.15%) Tableau
4 3 (4.62%) Metadata
4 3 (4.62%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.08%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.08%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.08%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.54%) DataStage
6 1 (1.54%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.54%) Informix
6 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.54%) OLAP
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) JIRA
2 4 (6.15%) Git
3 2 (3.08%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.08%) Toad
4 1 (1.54%) ERwin
4 1 (1.54%) gulp
4 1 (1.54%) Selenium
4 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.54%) webpack
General
1 26 (40.00%) Finance
2 19 (29.23%) Social Skills
3 17 (26.15%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (15.38%) Banking
5 6 (9.23%) Legal
6 5 (7.69%) General Ledger
7 4 (6.15%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.62%) Front Office
9 2 (3.08%) Back Office
9 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (3.08%) Investment Banking
9 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.54%) Billing
10 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.54%) Law
10 1 (1.54%) Marketing
10 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (23.08%) Analyst
1 15 (23.08%) Lead
2 12 (18.46%) Business Analyst
3 9 (13.85%) Senior
4 7 (10.77%) Data Migration Lead
5 5 (7.69%) Architect
5 5 (7.69%) Developer
5 5 (7.69%) Project Manager
5 5 (7.69%) Technical Leader
6 4 (6.15%) Consultant
6 4 (6.15%) Data Migration Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Migration Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Data Migration Business Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.08%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.69%) Middleware
2 4 (6.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (6.15%) XML
3 2 (3.08%) Playwright
3 2 (3.08%) Spring
4 1 (1.54%) CSS
4 1 (1.54%) EDI
4 1 (1.54%) FHIR
4 1 (1.54%) HTML
4 1 (1.54%) HTML5
4 1 (1.54%) Jest
4 1 (1.54%) JSON
4 1 (1.54%) Node.js
4 1 (1.54%) React
4 1 (1.54%) REST
4 1 (1.54%) Sass
4 1 (1.54%) SPFx
4 1 (1.54%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.15%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.62%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.08%) Derivative
4 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.08%) Equities
4 2 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.08%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.54%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.54%) Life Science
5 1 (1.54%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.54%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (100.00%) Migration
2 18 (27.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (26.15%) Agile
4 15 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 13 (20.00%) ETL
6 12 (18.46%) ERP
6 12 (18.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (18.46%) User Acceptance Testing
7 11 (16.92%) Data Mapping
7 11 (16.92%) Validation
8 10 (15.38%) Analytics
9 8 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (12.31%) Data Modelling
9 8 (12.31%) Project Management
9 8 (12.31%) Requirements Gathering
10 7 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (10.77%) Data Transformation
10 7 (10.77%) Test Strategy
11 6 (9.23%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.38%) SQL
2 5 (7.69%) Python
3 4 (6.15%) PL/SQL
4 3 (4.62%) Java
5 2 (3.08%) Perl
5 2 (3.08%) PHP
5 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.54%) Bash
6 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.54%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.69%) Degree
4 3 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.62%) PMP
5 2 (3.08%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.54%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.46%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.69%) GDPR
2 5 (7.69%) QA
3 3 (4.62%) GAAP
3 3 (4.62%) IFRS
4 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.54%) Basel III
4 1 (1.54%) HL7
4 1 (1.54%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.54%) PMO
4 1 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.54%) SLA
4 1 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.54%) Docker
1 1 (1.54%) NFS
1 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.54%) Ansible
2 1 (1.54%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (1.54%) vMotion
Vendors
1 18 (27.69%) Oracle
2 14 (21.54%) Microsoft
3 10 (15.38%) SAP
4 9 (13.85%) Workday
5 4 (6.15%) Informatica
6 3 (4.62%) Talend
7 2 (3.08%) Google
7 2 (3.08%) MuleSoft
7 2 (3.08%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.54%) Cerner
8 1 (1.54%) Charles River
8 1 (1.54%) Commvault
8 1 (1.54%) Databricks
8 1 (1.54%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.54%) IBM
8 1 (1.54%) Murex
8 1 (1.54%) OpenText
8 1 (1.54%) Pure Storage
8 1 (1.54%) SimCorp
8 1 (1.54%) VMware