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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 101 110
Rank change year-on-year +19 +9 +55
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 481 382 434
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.37% 2.44% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 2.72% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 261 295
10th Percentile £400 £400 £410
25th Percentile £453 £468 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £66.25 £37.70 £82.70
25th Percentile £71.88 £41.75 £83.50
Median hourly rate £85.00 £49.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.72% -41.76% +36.00%
75th Percentile £99.38 £58.25 £86.50
90th Percentile £105.75 £62.90 £86.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -24.71% +31.78%

All Process and 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 13,094 14,043 17,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.85% 89.80% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,631 9,077 12,422
10th Percentile £338 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 166 232
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.59
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.69
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.25 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -20.81% +3.60% -9.55%
75th Percentile £47.50 £53.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

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 3 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Migration in London over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Migration in London

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 3 December 2025. 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 +11 64 £600 +5.49% 12
East London +9 11 £540 +35.00% 3
North London - 6 £550 -
West London -12 5 £600 +20.00% 4
South London -2 4 £458 +1.67%
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 25 (5.20%) Confluence
2 14 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.83%) CMS
5 3 (0.62%) Apache
5 3 (0.62%) LiveLink
6 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.21%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.21%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 26 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.25%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.62%) Oracle Smart View
5 3 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 42 (8.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (4.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (2.91%) SAP HR
4 10 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (1.87%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (1.46%) NetSuite
6 7 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (1.46%) SAP Payroll
7 6 (1.25%) Endur
7 6 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (1.04%) Oracle EBS R12
8 5 (1.04%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (1.04%) SAP ERP
8 5 (1.04%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.83%) Loan IQ
9 4 (0.83%) Oracle FAH
9 4 (0.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.83%) Unit4 Business World
10 3 (0.62%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.62%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 66 (13.72%) Azure
2 48 (9.98%) Power Platform
3 45 (9.36%) AWS
4 31 (6.44%) OCI
5 30 (6.24%) SaaS
6 29 (6.03%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (3.74%) Snowflake
9 13 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (2.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 11 (2.29%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.29%) GCP
12 9 (1.87%) dbt
12 9 (1.87%) GitHub
12 9 (1.87%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.66%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (1.46%) PaaS
14 7 (1.46%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.62%) NAS
2 2 (0.42%) WAN
3 1 (0.21%) DNS
3 1 (0.21%) Firewall
3 1 (0.21%) IPv4
3 1 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.21%) SAN
3 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.21%) VLAN
3 1 (0.21%) VPN
3 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.52%) SQL Server
2 40 (8.32%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (7.48%) Power BI
4 27 (5.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 25 (5.20%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 14 (2.91%) Oracle Database
8 13 (2.70%) Metadata
8 13 (2.70%) RDBMS
9 12 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (2.29%) DataStage
10 11 (2.29%) Tableau
11 10 (2.08%) Big Data
12 9 (1.87%) Data Lake
13 8 (1.66%) MongoDB
13 8 (1.66%) MySQL
14 7 (1.46%) Amazon QuickSight
14 7 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (1.46%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (1.25%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 48 (9.98%) JIRA
2 4 (0.83%) Toad
2 4 (0.83%) Zephyr
3 3 (0.62%) Git
3 3 (0.62%) LSMW
3 3 (0.62%) Selenium
4 2 (0.42%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.42%) TestRail
4 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.21%) ERwin
5 1 (0.21%) gulp
5 1 (0.21%) Postman
5 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.21%) webpack
General
1 197 (40.96%) Finance
2 157 (32.64%) Social Skills
3 62 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 34 (7.07%) Banking
6 22 (4.57%) Local Government
7 20 (4.16%) Back Office
7 20 (4.16%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (3.53%) Retail
9 12 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.49%) Legal
9 12 (2.49%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.29%) Marketing
11 9 (1.87%) Billing
12 8 (1.66%) Front Office
12 8 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.46%) General Ledger
13 7 (1.46%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (19.13%) Analyst
2 69 (14.35%) Lead
3 61 (12.68%) Consultant
4 60 (12.47%) Business Analyst
5 54 (11.23%) Architect
6 44 (9.15%) Project Manager
7 36 (7.48%) Data Engineer
8 34 (7.07%) Senior
9 24 (4.99%) Data Analyst
9 24 (4.99%) Data Migration Lead
9 24 (4.99%) Developer
10 20 (4.16%) SAP Consultant
11 19 (3.95%) Migration Analyst
12 17 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
13 16 (3.33%) Data Migration Analyst
14 15 (3.12%) Data Architect
14 15 (3.12%) Functional Consultant
15 14 (2.91%) Data Migration Specialist
15 14 (2.91%) Migration Engineer
15 14 (2.91%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.78%) XML
2 19 (3.95%) REST
3 17 (3.53%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (2.91%) Lightning Web Components
5 11 (2.29%) SOAP
6 8 (1.66%) Middleware
7 7 (1.46%) .NET
7 7 (1.46%) PySpark
7 7 (1.46%) Visualforce
8 6 (1.25%) JSON
9 5 (1.04%) React
10 4 (0.83%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.83%) Swagger
11 3 (0.62%) EDI
11 3 (0.62%) Web Services
11 3 (0.62%) XSLT
12 2 (0.42%) BAPI
12 2 (0.42%) Great Expectations
12 2 (0.42%) SAP ALE
12 2 (0.42%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 60 (12.47%) Legacy Systems
2 30 (6.24%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.95%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.49%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.49%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (1.66%) Virtual Team
6 7 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.46%) Reference Data
7 6 (1.25%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.25%) Replication
8 5 (1.04%) Credit Risk
9 4 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.83%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.83%) Grid Computing
9 4 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.83%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.62%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (0.83%) Unix
3 3 (0.62%) Windows
4 1 (0.21%) AIX
4 1 (0.21%) Linux
4 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (100.00%) Migration
2 108 (22.45%) Agile
3 98 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
4 87 (18.09%) ETL
5 81 (16.84%) User Acceptance Testing
6 80 (16.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 77 (16.01%) ERP
8 69 (14.35%) Data Modelling
9 68 (14.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 67 (13.93%) Validation
11 57 (11.85%) Analytics
12 54 (11.23%) Project Management
13 51 (10.60%) Business Intelligence
14 50 (10.40%) Data Cleansing
15 48 (9.98%) CRM
16 47 (9.77%) Workshop Facilitation
17 46 (9.56%) Data Governance
18 43 (8.94%) Change Management
19 42 (8.73%) Data Analysis
20 38 (7.90%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 125 (25.99%) SQL
2 40 (8.32%) Python
3 28 (5.82%) Java
4 14 (2.91%) C#
5 13 (2.70%) Apex Code
6 11 (2.29%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.46%) Shell Script
8 6 (1.25%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.04%) ABAP
9 5 (1.04%) PHP
9 5 (1.04%) SOQL
10 4 (0.83%) Perl
10 4 (0.83%) SOSL
10 4 (0.83%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.62%) Bicep
11 3 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.62%) VB
12 2 (0.42%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.42%) R
12 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (8.32%) Degree
1 40 (8.32%) Security Cleared
2 33 (6.86%) SC Cleared
3 13 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (2.49%) PMI Certification
4 12 (2.49%) PMP
5 11 (2.29%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.04%) CFA
9 4 (0.83%) CBAP
9 4 (0.83%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.83%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.83%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.42%) CIMA
11 2 (0.42%) CIPD
12 1 (0.21%) APMG
12 1 (0.21%) CCAB
12 1 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (14.76%) Data Quality
2 36 (7.48%) QA
3 18 (3.74%) GDPR
4 5 (1.04%) IFRS
4 5 (1.04%) SLA
5 3 (0.62%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.62%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.62%) IFRS 9
5 3 (0.62%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.62%) PMO
6 2 (0.42%) EMIR
6 2 (0.42%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.42%) MiFID
7 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.21%) GAAP
7 1 (0.21%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (3.12%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.08%) Terraform
3 5 (1.04%) Ansible
4 4 (0.83%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.21%) Argo
5 1 (0.21%) Grafana
5 1 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 90 (18.71%) SAP
2 80 (16.63%) Oracle
3 58 (12.06%) Microsoft
4 32 (6.65%) Salesforce
5 25 (5.20%) Workday
6 19 (3.95%) Databricks
7 11 (2.29%) Informatica
8 8 (1.66%) Kronos
8 8 (1.66%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.25%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.25%) Google
9 6 (1.25%) Talend
10 5 (1.04%) HP
10 5 (1.04%) Liquidlogic
10 5 (1.04%) Siebel
11 4 (0.83%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.83%) IBM
11 4 (0.83%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.62%) Ariba
12 3 (0.62%) Hitachi