Data Migration Contract Job Trends in London

Data Migration
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 96 94
Rank change year-on-year +17 -2 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 565 343 438
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.45% 2.63% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 2.89% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 242 328
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £465 £466 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £638 £629 £675
90th Percentile £713 £738 £741
England median daily rate £528 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -1.86% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £82.70
25th Percentile - - £83.50
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -58.82% +74.36%
75th Percentile - - £86.50
90th Percentile - - £86.70
England median hourly rate £60.50 £57.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +5.22% -28.13% +255.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,719 11,874 16,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.80% 91.07% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,879 7,921 11,507
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 160 344
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.41 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.45
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.67% -16.44%
75th Percentile £57.00 £54.06 £49.91
90th Percentile £70.50 £77.59 £69.28
England median hourly rate £30.50 £34.06 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.44% +4.78% -12.16%

Data Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Data Migration job vacancy trend in London

Data Migration
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Migration in London over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Migration in London

Data Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Migration

Data Migration
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Migration within the London region over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +13 73 £550 +1.57% 25
West London -11 7 £900 +80.00% 6
East London 0 5 £500 +25.00% 3
North London - 3 £550 -
South London - 2 - - 2
Data Migration
England

Data Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 21 (3.72%) Confluence
2 15 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.53%) CMS
3 3 (0.53%) LiveLink
4 2 (0.35%) Appian
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.18%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.18%) IIS
5 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 34 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (2.48%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (1.77%) MS Visio
5 9 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 30 (5.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (3.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (2.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 14 (2.48%) SAP HR
5 13 (2.30%) Loan IQ
6 8 (1.42%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (1.42%) Workday HCM
7 7 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (1.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 5 (0.88%) Finacle
8 5 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.71%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.71%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.71%) SAP Payroll
9 4 (0.71%) Temenos T24
10 3 (0.53%) Oracle FAH
10 3 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.53%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.53%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 91 (16.11%) Azure
2 70 (12.39%) Power Platform
3 64 (11.33%) AWS
4 48 (8.50%) Dynamics 365
5 34 (6.02%) OCI
6 30 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (3.72%) SaaS
8 20 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
9 19 (3.36%) GitHub
10 18 (3.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 18 (3.19%) Snowflake
11 14 (2.48%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 10 (1.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 9 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (1.59%) GCP
14 9 (1.59%) Power Automate
14 9 (1.59%) PowerApps
14 9 (1.59%) SuccessFactors
15 7 (1.24%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.95%) NAS
2 9 (1.59%) SAN
3 3 (0.53%) DNS
3 3 (0.53%) Firewall
4 1 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.18%) Network Security
4 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (9.56%) Power BI
2 50 (8.85%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (7.26%) SQL Server
4 33 (5.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 25 (4.42%) Relational Database
6 20 (3.54%) Oracle Database
7 16 (2.83%) Data Lake
8 14 (2.48%) Metadata
8 14 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (2.12%) RDBMS
9 12 (2.12%) Tableau
10 10 (1.77%) Big Data
10 10 (1.77%) DB2
10 10 (1.77%) MySQL
10 10 (1.77%) NoSQL
11 9 (1.59%) DataStage
12 8 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (1.24%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 57 (10.09%) JIRA
2 9 (1.59%) Git
3 4 (0.71%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.71%) LSMW
3 4 (0.71%) Selenium
3 4 (0.71%) Toad
4 3 (0.53%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.53%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.53%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.53%) ERwin
4 3 (0.53%) JUnit
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.35%) GitLab
5 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.35%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.18%) gulp
6 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.18%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.18%) webpack
General
1 202 (35.75%) Finance
2 195 (34.51%) Social Skills
3 79 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (10.80%) Banking
5 41 (7.26%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (5.13%) Retail
7 20 (3.54%) Legal
8 19 (3.36%) Law
8 19 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.77%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.77%) Local Government
10 10 (1.77%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.59%) General Ledger
12 8 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.42%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.24%) Back Office
13 7 (1.24%) Billing
13 7 (1.24%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 113 (20.00%) Lead
2 105 (18.58%) Analyst
3 77 (13.63%) Architect
4 70 (12.39%) Business Analyst
5 54 (9.56%) Consultant
6 52 (9.20%) Data Engineer
7 46 (8.14%) Senior
8 44 (7.79%) Project Manager
9 34 (6.02%) Migration Analyst
10 32 (5.66%) Developer
11 29 (5.13%) Data Analyst
12 28 (4.96%) Data Migration Lead
13 27 (4.78%) Migration Manager
14 24 (4.25%) Data Business Analyst
15 22 (3.89%) Data Migration Analyst
16 21 (3.72%) Data Architect
16 21 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
16 21 (3.72%) Technical Leader
17 20 (3.54%) Data Manager
18 19 (3.36%) Data Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (3.36%) REST
2 19 (3.36%) XML
3 16 (2.83%) Middleware
4 12 (2.12%) SOAP
5 11 (1.95%) .NET
6 10 (1.77%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (1.06%) JSON
7 6 (1.06%) Kafka
7 6 (1.06%) Spring
8 4 (0.71%) PySpark
8 4 (0.71%) React
8 4 (0.71%) Web Services
9 3 (0.53%) Playwright
9 3 (0.53%) XSLT
10 2 (0.35%) ADO
10 2 (0.35%) FHIR
10 2 (0.35%) OpenTelemetry
11 1 (0.18%) Apache Beam
11 1 (0.18%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 78 (13.81%) Legacy Systems
2 38 (6.73%) Data Structures
3 22 (3.89%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.19%) Cloud Native
5 15 (2.65%) Replication
6 13 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.12%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.59%) Tandem
10 8 (1.42%) Mainframe
10 8 (1.42%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.24%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.06%) Derivative
12 6 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.06%) Taxonomies
13 5 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.71%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.42%) Windows
2 7 (1.24%) zOS
3 6 (1.06%) Unix
4 5 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.71%) Linux
6 2 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (100.00%) Migration
2 133 (23.54%) Agile
3 132 (23.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 116 (20.53%) ETL
5 101 (17.88%) User Acceptance Testing
6 99 (17.52%) Validation
7 95 (16.81%) Data Modelling
8 94 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
9 91 (16.11%) ERP
10 79 (13.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 72 (12.74%) Analytics
12 71 (12.57%) Data Mapping
13 68 (12.04%) Business Intelligence
14 64 (11.33%) Project Management
15 56 (9.91%) Data Governance
15 56 (9.91%) Decision-Making
16 51 (9.03%) DevOps
17 50 (8.85%) Data Cleansing
18 48 (8.50%) Data Transformation
19 47 (8.32%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 156 (27.61%) SQL
2 50 (8.85%) Python
3 32 (5.66%) Java
4 14 (2.48%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.12%) PL/SQL
6 10 (1.77%) C#
7 8 (1.42%) Apex Code
8 7 (1.24%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.88%) PHP
9 5 (0.88%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.88%) VBA
10 4 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.71%) Perl
11 3 (0.53%) Bash
11 3 (0.53%) Bicep
11 3 (0.53%) Korn
11 3 (0.53%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.35%) Scala
12 2 (0.35%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.35%) X++
Qualifications
1 74 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 61 (10.80%) SC Cleared
3 36 (6.37%) Degree
4 16 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.48%) PMP
6 10 (1.77%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.59%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.24%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.35%) CFA
10 2 (0.35%) CIPD
10 2 (0.35%) IIBA
10 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.35%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.18%) CAPM
11 1 (0.18%) CBAP
11 1 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (18.23%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.90%) QA
3 28 (4.96%) GDPR
4 9 (1.59%) IFRS
5 6 (1.06%) SLA
6 5 (0.88%) GAAP
6 5 (0.88%) IFRS 9
6 5 (0.88%) PMO
6 5 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.71%) Basel III
7 4 (0.71%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.53%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.35%) GMP
9 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.18%) COBIT
10 1 (0.18%) HL7
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (2.30%) Docker
2 10 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.42%) NFS
4 5 (0.88%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (4.25%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.12%) Terraform
3 6 (1.06%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (1.06%) vMotion
4 5 (0.88%) Ansible
5 4 (0.71%) Grafana
6 2 (0.35%) Argo
6 2 (0.35%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.35%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.18%) Avamar
7 1 (0.18%) Control-M
7 1 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.18%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 103 (18.23%) Oracle
2 91 (16.11%) Microsoft
3 82 (14.51%) SAP
4 33 (5.84%) Salesforce
5 30 (5.31%) Workday
6 25 (4.42%) Databricks
7 22 (3.89%) Informatica
8 16 (2.83%) Avaloq
9 13 (2.30%) MuleSoft
10 12 (2.12%) VMware
11 11 (1.95%) Pure Storage
11 11 (1.95%) ServiceNow
12 10 (1.77%) Talend
13 9 (1.59%) GoldenSource
14 8 (1.42%) Kronos
14 8 (1.42%) Temenos
15 7 (1.24%) Google
16 6 (1.06%) Commvault
16 6 (1.06%) IBM
17 3 (0.53%) Murex