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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 99 97
Rank change year-on-year +24 -2 +51
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 714 389 432
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.61% 2.86% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.06% 3.10% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 233 300
10th Percentile £375 £400 £388
25th Percentile £463 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.90%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £666
90th Percentile £764 £766 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £54.95 £40.20 -
25th Percentile £56.00 £48.56 £62.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +1.56% -32.63%
75th Percentile £71.00 £66.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.65 £67.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% -23.33% +141.94%

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 17,596 12,550 15,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.20% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,685 8,395 10,963
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £441 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £769 £790 £800
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 234 284
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.36 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% +6.93% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +31 104 £590 +9.67% 30
West London +7 28 £475 -24.00% 4
East London -1 3 £675 - 2
South London -15 3 £543 - 2
North London -7 2 £523 -5.00%
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 37 (5.18%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.96%) Confluence
3 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.42%) Apache
5 3 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.28%) Appian
6 2 (0.28%) HCL Notes
6 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) CMS
7 1 (0.14%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 34 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (1.40%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 54 (7.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (2.52%) Oracle ERP
4 15 (2.10%) NetSuite
5 13 (1.82%) Oracle Payables
5 13 (1.82%) SAP ERP
6 12 (1.68%) Oracle Receivables
7 11 (1.54%) Loan IQ
7 11 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (1.26%) iTrent
8 9 (1.26%) Oracle General Ledger
8 9 (1.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 8 (1.12%) Oracle Financials
10 7 (0.98%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.84%) SAP Payroll
12 5 (0.70%) SAP MDG
13 4 (0.56%) Finacle
13 4 (0.56%) Maximo
13 4 (0.56%) SAP HCM
13 4 (0.56%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 125 (17.51%) Azure
2 97 (13.59%) Power Platform
3 73 (10.22%) Dynamics 365
4 63 (8.82%) AWS
5 49 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (4.20%) OCI
7 27 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (3.36%) SaaS
9 23 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
10 22 (3.08%) Snowflake
11 18 (2.52%) Amazon S3
11 18 (2.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 17 (2.38%) GitHub
13 16 (2.24%) Power Automate
14 15 (2.10%) GCP
15 14 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
16 13 (1.82%) PowerApps
17 10 (1.40%) dbt
17 10 (1.40%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 10 (1.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.40%) NAS
1 10 (1.40%) SAN
2 3 (0.42%) DNS
2 3 (0.42%) Firewall
2 3 (0.42%) Intranet
2 3 (0.42%) VPN
3 2 (0.28%) HTTP
4 1 (0.14%) DKIM
4 1 (0.14%) DMARC
4 1 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.14%) Network Security
4 1 (0.14%) SNMP
4 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (12.32%) Power BI
2 40 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (3.64%) SQL Server
4 21 (2.94%) Data Lake
4 21 (2.94%) Metadata
5 16 (2.24%) NoSQL
5 16 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (1.82%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.40%) Db2
8 10 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (1.26%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (0.98%) DataStage
10 7 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (0.84%) MySQL
11 6 (0.84%) Star Schema
12 5 (0.70%) Tableau
13 4 (0.56%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 65 (9.10%) JIRA
2 12 (1.68%) Git
3 4 (0.56%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.56%) JUnit
3 4 (0.56%) LSMW
3 4 (0.56%) Selenium
3 4 (0.56%) Zephyr
4 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.42%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.42%) ERwin
4 3 (0.42%) Gatling
4 3 (0.42%) GitLab
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.28%) Postman
5 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.14%) JMeter
6 1 (0.14%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 281 (39.36%) Finance
2 215 (30.11%) Social Skills
3 99 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (8.54%) Banking
5 58 (8.12%) Public Sector
6 42 (5.88%) Law
7 28 (3.92%) Retail
8 27 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (3.36%) General Ledger
10 20 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (2.24%) Local Government
12 16 (2.24%) Manufacturing
13 15 (2.10%) Legal
14 14 (1.96%) Aviation
14 14 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (1.68%) Billing
15 12 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.68%) Marketing
16 10 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 175 (24.51%) Lead
2 117 (16.39%) Architect
3 113 (15.83%) Analyst
4 71 (9.94%) Consultant
5 66 (9.24%) Business Analyst
6 61 (8.54%) Data Engineer
7 57 (7.98%) Data Migration Lead
8 53 (7.42%) Senior
9 43 (6.02%) Data Analyst
9 43 (6.02%) Project Manager
10 38 (5.32%) Migration Analyst
11 33 (4.62%) Lead Architect
12 31 (4.34%) Data Architect
12 31 (4.34%) Functional Architect
13 29 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
14 26 (3.64%) Data Migration Analyst
14 26 (3.64%) Migration Manager
14 26 (3.64%) Technical Leader
15 24 (3.36%) Data Business Analyst
16 23 (3.22%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (6.16%) Oracle Fusion
2 23 (3.22%) REST
3 22 (3.08%) Middleware
4 16 (2.24%) SOAP
5 14 (1.96%) XML
6 12 (1.68%) .NET
7 10 (1.40%) JSON
7 10 (1.40%) Lightning Web Components
8 8 (1.12%) Kafka
9 6 (0.84%) Spring
10 5 (0.70%) PySpark
11 4 (0.56%) HTML5 Canvas
11 4 (0.56%) Keycloak
11 4 (0.56%) Playwright
11 4 (0.56%) React
11 4 (0.56%) XSLT
12 3 (0.42%) FHIR
12 3 (0.42%) HTML
12 3 (0.42%) Web Services
13 2 (0.28%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 87 (12.18%) Legacy Systems
2 57 (7.98%) Data Structures
3 27 (3.78%) Management Information System
4 21 (2.94%) Cloud Native
5 18 (2.52%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.10%) Product Ownership
7 13 (1.82%) Replication
8 11 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.54%) FMCG
8 11 (1.54%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.26%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.12%) NHS
12 7 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (0.98%) Reference Data
13 6 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.84%) Legacy Code
13 6 (0.84%) PACS
13 6 (0.84%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.96%) Windows
2 7 (0.98%) zOS
3 3 (0.42%) Linux
4 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (100.00%) Migration
2 182 (25.49%) Validation
3 176 (24.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 174 (24.37%) User Acceptance Testing
5 155 (21.71%) ERP
6 127 (17.79%) Agile
7 126 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 111 (15.55%) Data Modelling
9 95 (13.31%) Business Intelligence
10 92 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
11 91 (12.75%) ETL
12 84 (11.76%) Data Mapping
13 82 (11.48%) Data Governance
13 82 (11.48%) DevOps
14 74 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 73 (10.22%) Translating Business Requirements
16 65 (9.10%) Data Cleansing
17 63 (8.82%) Decision-Making
18 60 (8.40%) Data Transformation
19 59 (8.26%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 124 (17.37%) SQL
2 55 (7.70%) Python
3 25 (3.50%) Java
4 16 (2.24%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.26%) C#
6 8 (1.12%) Apex Code
7 7 (0.98%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.84%) PL/SQL
8 6 (0.84%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.70%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.42%) SOQL
10 3 (0.42%) VBA
11 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.14%) Bash
12 1 (0.14%) Bicep
12 1 (0.14%) Korn
12 1 (0.14%) Scala
12 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.14%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 81 (11.34%) Security Cleared
2 66 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.34%) Degree
4 15 (2.10%) PMP
5 13 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.54%) PMI Certification
7 10 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.84%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.70%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.56%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.28%) ACCA
11 2 (0.28%) CFA
11 2 (0.28%) CIMA
11 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.14%) IIBA
12 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (18.77%) Data Quality
2 57 (7.98%) QA
3 31 (4.34%) GDPR
4 18 (2.52%) PMO
5 10 (1.40%) SLA
6 6 (0.84%) HL7
7 5 (0.70%) IFRS
8 4 (0.56%) GMP
9 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.42%) DICOM
9 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.42%) SNOMED CT
10 2 (0.28%) GAAP
10 2 (0.28%) GRC
10 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) NCSC
11 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.12%) Docker
2 8 (1.12%) NFS
3 6 (0.84%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.24%) Terraform
3 6 (0.84%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (0.84%) vMotion
4 4 (0.56%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.42%) Ansible
5 3 (0.42%) Grafana
5 3 (0.42%) Karpenter
5 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.14%) Argo
6 1 (0.14%) Avamar
6 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 147 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 117 (16.39%) Oracle
2 117 (16.39%) SAP
3 42 (5.88%) Databricks
4 31 (4.34%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.08%) ServiceNow
6 16 (2.24%) Informatica
7 15 (2.10%) Workday
8 13 (1.82%) VMware
9 11 (1.54%) IFS
10 10 (1.40%) MuleSoft
10 10 (1.40%) Pure Storage
11 9 (1.26%) IBM
12 8 (1.12%) Talend
13 7 (0.98%) Avaloq
13 7 (0.98%) Google
13 7 (0.98%) Temenos
14 6 (0.84%) Ariba
14 6 (0.84%) Commvault
15 5 (0.70%) Bloomberg