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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 112 98
Rank change year-on-year +38 -14 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 637 308 430
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.48% 2.53% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 2.75% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 185 316
10th Percentile £388 £400 £384
25th Percentile £463 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% +1.82% -1.35%
75th Percentile £643 £638 £666
90th Percentile £750 £783 £743
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £37.66 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £42.22 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £49.83 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.47% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £57.42 -
90th Percentile - £61.97 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% -20.00% +233.33%

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 16,221 11,218 15,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 92.28% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,826 7,519 11,090
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 192 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.19 £24.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.18% -28.97%
75th Percentile £58.92 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.63 £63.23 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.43%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +22 88 £550 +12.13% 20
West London -14 14 £800 +28.00% 14
East London -3 3 £675 +25.00% 1
North London -2 2 £523 -4.13% 1
South London -12 1 £350 - 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 23 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.67%) Confluence
3 4 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.31%) Apache
5 2 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.31%) Appian
5 2 (0.31%) IIS
6 1 (0.16%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (5.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.94%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 46 (7.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 16 (2.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (2.04%) SAP ERP
5 11 (1.73%) NetSuite
6 10 (1.57%) Loan IQ
6 10 (1.57%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (1.41%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (1.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 7 (1.10%) iTrent
9 7 (1.10%) Oracle General Ledger
10 6 (0.94%) Finacle
10 6 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.78%) SAP Payroll
11 5 (0.78%) Workday HCM
12 4 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
12 4 (0.63%) SAP CO
12 4 (0.63%) SAP HCM
12 4 (0.63%) Temenos T24
13 3 (0.47%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 109 (17.11%) Azure
2 87 (13.66%) Power Platform
3 65 (10.20%) AWS
4 63 (9.89%) Dynamics 365
5 39 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (4.08%) OCI
7 21 (3.30%) SaaS
8 20 (3.14%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (2.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 18 (2.83%) Snowflake
10 17 (2.67%) Amazon S3
11 15 (2.35%) GitHub
12 12 (1.88%) Power Automate
13 11 (1.73%) GCP
13 11 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (1.57%) dbt
14 10 (1.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 10 (1.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 10 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
15 8 (1.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.57%) NAS
1 10 (1.57%) SAN
2 3 (0.47%) DNS
2 3 (0.47%) Firewall
2 3 (0.47%) VPN
3 2 (0.31%) HTTP
4 1 (0.16%) DKIM
4 1 (0.16%) DMARC
4 1 (0.16%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.16%) Network Security
4 1 (0.16%) SNMP
4 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (11.93%) Power BI
2 43 (6.75%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 20 (3.14%) Data Lake
5 17 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (2.20%) Metadata
6 14 (2.20%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (1.73%) DB2
9 10 (1.57%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (1.41%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.26%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.26%) Tableau
12 6 (0.94%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (0.94%) MySQL
12 6 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.78%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.63%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 62 (9.73%) JIRA
2 11 (1.73%) Git
3 5 (0.78%) LSMW
3 5 (0.78%) Selenium
4 4 (0.63%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.63%) JUnit
4 4 (0.63%) Zephyr
5 3 (0.47%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.47%) ERwin
5 3 (0.47%) GitLab
6 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.16%) Gatling
7 1 (0.16%) Postman
7 1 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.16%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 246 (38.62%) Finance
2 195 (30.61%) Social Skills
3 84 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (10.68%) Banking
5 41 (6.44%) Law
6 40 (6.28%) Public Sector
7 30 (4.71%) Retail
8 29 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (2.83%) General Ledger
11 17 (2.67%) Legal
12 16 (2.51%) Local Government
13 14 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (2.04%) Marketing
15 11 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.73%) Manufacturing
16 10 (1.57%) Billing
17 9 (1.41%) Aviation
17 9 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 169 (26.53%) Lead
2 109 (17.11%) Architect
3 98 (15.38%) Analyst
4 57 (8.95%) Business Analyst
5 54 (8.48%) Consultant
6 53 (8.32%) Data Engineer
7 49 (7.69%) Data Migration Lead
8 46 (7.22%) Senior
9 39 (6.12%) Data Analyst
10 38 (5.97%) Project Manager
11 36 (5.65%) Migration Analyst
12 32 (5.02%) Lead Architect
13 31 (4.87%) Functional Architect
13 31 (4.87%) Migration Manager
14 30 (4.71%) Data Architect
15 27 (4.24%) Technical Leader
16 25 (3.92%) Data Migration Analyst
16 25 (3.92%) Test Manager
17 22 (3.45%) Data Business Analyst
17 22 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (5.49%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (3.45%) Middleware
3 15 (2.35%) REST
4 12 (1.88%) SOAP
5 11 (1.73%) XML
6 8 (1.26%) .NET
7 7 (1.10%) JSON
7 7 (1.10%) Kafka
7 7 (1.10%) Lightning Web Components
8 6 (0.94%) Spring
9 3 (0.47%) FHIR
9 3 (0.47%) Playwright
9 3 (0.47%) React
10 2 (0.31%) ADO
10 2 (0.31%) PySpark
10 2 (0.31%) Web Services
11 1 (0.16%) BAPI
11 1 (0.16%) Flash
11 1 (0.16%) HTML
11 1 (0.16%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 79 (12.40%) Legacy Systems
2 48 (7.54%) Data Structures
3 20 (3.14%) Management Information System
4 19 (2.98%) Cloud Native
5 12 (1.88%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.88%) Product Ownership
5 12 (1.88%) Reference Data
6 11 (1.73%) Mainframe
6 11 (1.73%) Replication
7 10 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.41%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.26%) Derivative
9 8 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (0.94%) Legacy Code
11 6 (0.94%) PACS
11 6 (0.94%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.04%) Windows
2 7 (1.10%) zOS
3 6 (0.94%) Linux
4 2 (0.31%) Unix
4 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (100.00%) Migration
2 152 (23.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 148 (23.23%) User Acceptance Testing
4 145 (22.76%) Validation
5 126 (19.78%) Agile
6 123 (19.31%) ERP
7 109 (17.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 104 (16.33%) Data Modelling
9 89 (13.97%) ETL
10 85 (13.34%) Business Intelligence
11 78 (12.24%) Data Mapping
11 78 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
12 70 (10.99%) Data Governance
13 68 (10.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 62 (9.73%) Data Transformation
15 61 (9.58%) Translating Business Requirements
16 59 (9.26%) DevOps
16 59 (9.26%) Procure-to-Pay
17 57 (8.95%) Project Management
18 56 (8.79%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 119 (18.68%) SQL
2 53 (8.32%) Python
3 24 (3.77%) Java
4 11 (1.73%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.41%) PL/SQL
6 6 (0.94%) Apex Code
6 6 (0.94%) T-SQL
7 5 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (0.78%) VBA
8 4 (0.63%) C#
9 3 (0.47%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.47%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.47%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.31%) Bash
10 2 (0.31%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.31%) R
10 2 (0.31%) Scala
10 2 (0.31%) SOQL
11 1 (0.16%) Korn
11 1 (0.16%) X++
Qualifications
1 86 (13.50%) Security Cleared
2 71 (11.15%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.55%) Degree
4 16 (2.51%) PMP
5 13 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.04%) PMI Certification
6 7 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.78%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.47%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.47%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.31%) IIBA
10 2 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.16%) CAPM
11 1 (0.16%) CBAP
11 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.16%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (19.15%) Data Quality
2 50 (7.85%) QA
3 26 (4.08%) GDPR
4 12 (1.88%) SLA
5 10 (1.57%) PMO
6 8 (1.26%) IFRS
7 6 (0.94%) GAAP
7 6 (0.94%) HL7
8 5 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.63%) Basel III
10 3 (0.47%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.47%) DICOM
10 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.47%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.31%) GMP
11 2 (0.31%) GRC
11 2 (0.31%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.16%) SOC 1
12 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.26%) NFS
3 5 (0.78%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.63%) Docker
5 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (2.20%) Terraform
2 13 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.94%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (0.94%) vMotion
4 4 (0.63%) Ansible
5 3 (0.47%) Grafana
5 3 (0.47%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.16%) Argo
6 1 (0.16%) Avamar
6 1 (0.16%) Control-M
6 1 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.16%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 119 (18.68%) Microsoft
2 103 (16.17%) Oracle
3 102 (16.01%) SAP
4 35 (5.49%) Databricks
5 26 (4.08%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.98%) Workday
7 17 (2.67%) Informatica
8 14 (2.20%) Avaloq
9 13 (2.04%) ServiceNow
9 13 (2.04%) VMware
10 10 (1.57%) Pure Storage
11 9 (1.41%) GoldenSource
11 9 (1.41%) Temenos
12 8 (1.26%) Google
12 8 (1.26%) MuleSoft
13 7 (1.10%) Talend
14 6 (0.94%) Commvault
14 6 (0.94%) IBM
15 5 (0.78%) Ariba
16 4 (0.63%) Bloomberg