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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 112 95
Rank change year-on-year +35 -17 +51
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 623 311 438
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.47% 2.49% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 2.70% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 192 329
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £461 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% +4.76%
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 £62.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -36.00% -16.67% +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 15,848 11,538 15,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 92.22% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 7,808 11,112
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 178 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.11 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% +22.13% -27.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +0.69%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +23 88 £550 +12.13% 27
West London -16 12 £800 +28.00% 6
East London -4 4 £613 +13.43%
North London 0 2 £523 -4.13%
South London -11 1 £350 -
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 26 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.37%) Confluence
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.32%) Appian
4 2 (0.32%) IIS
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.16%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 36 (5.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.73%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.44%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 44 (7.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (2.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (2.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 14 (2.25%) Loan IQ
4 11 (1.77%) SAP ERP
5 10 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (1.61%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (1.28%) NetSuite
6 8 (1.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 6 (0.96%) Finacle
7 6 (0.96%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.80%) iTrent
8 5 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.80%) SAP Payroll
8 5 (0.80%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.64%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.64%) SAP HCM
9 4 (0.64%) Temenos T24
10 3 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.48%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 96 (15.41%) Azure
2 89 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 64 (10.27%) Dynamics 365
4 53 (8.51%) AWS
5 34 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (4.49%) OCI
7 23 (3.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (3.37%) SaaS
9 20 (3.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (2.41%) GitHub
10 15 (2.41%) Snowflake
11 12 (1.93%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.61%) GCP
12 10 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (1.61%) Power Automate
12 10 (1.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 10 (1.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 10 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
13 8 (1.28%) PowerApps
14 6 (0.96%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.77%) NAS
2 10 (1.61%) SAN
3 3 (0.48%) DNS
3 3 (0.48%) Firewall
4 2 (0.32%) HTTP
4 2 (0.32%) VPN
5 1 (0.16%) DKIM
5 1 (0.16%) DMARC
5 1 (0.16%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
5 1 (0.16%) SNMP
5 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (12.68%) Power BI
2 45 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (4.01%) SQL Server
4 20 (3.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (3.05%) Data Lake
6 13 (2.09%) Metadata
6 13 (2.09%) Oracle Database
7 12 (1.93%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.93%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (1.93%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.77%) DB2
8 11 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (1.28%) Tableau
10 7 (1.12%) MySQL
11 6 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.80%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.64%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 65 (10.43%) JIRA
2 9 (1.44%) Git
3 5 (0.80%) LSMW
3 5 (0.80%) Selenium
4 4 (0.64%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.64%) JUnit
4 4 (0.64%) Toad
4 4 (0.64%) Zephyr
5 3 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.48%) ERwin
5 3 (0.48%) GitLab
6 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.16%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.16%) TeamCity
General
1 231 (37.08%) Finance
2 195 (31.30%) Social Skills
3 80 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (9.47%) Banking
5 39 (6.26%) Law
5 39 (6.26%) Public Sector
6 31 (4.98%) Retail
7 27 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
9 19 (3.05%) Legal
10 14 (2.25%) General Ledger
10 14 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.09%) Local Government
11 13 (2.09%) Marketing
12 10 (1.61%) Billing
12 10 (1.61%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.12%) Aviation
14 7 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 163 (26.16%) Lead
2 109 (17.50%) Analyst
3 101 (16.21%) Architect
4 63 (10.11%) Business Analyst
5 51 (8.19%) Data Engineer
6 49 (7.87%) Consultant
6 49 (7.87%) Data Migration Lead
7 45 (7.22%) Senior
8 40 (6.42%) Migration Analyst
8 40 (6.42%) Project Manager
9 39 (6.26%) Data Analyst
10 32 (5.14%) Lead Architect
11 31 (4.98%) Functional Architect
11 31 (4.98%) Migration Manager
12 28 (4.49%) Data Architect
13 27 (4.33%) Data Migration Analyst
13 27 (4.33%) Developer
13 27 (4.33%) Technical Leader
14 24 (3.85%) Data Business Analyst
15 22 (3.53%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.78%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (3.37%) Middleware
3 16 (2.57%) REST
4 13 (2.09%) SOAP
4 13 (2.09%) XML
5 8 (1.28%) .NET
5 8 (1.28%) Lightning Web Components
6 7 (1.12%) JSON
6 7 (1.12%) Kafka
7 6 (0.96%) Spring
8 3 (0.48%) FHIR
9 2 (0.32%) ADO
9 2 (0.32%) Playwright
9 2 (0.32%) PySpark
9 2 (0.32%) React
9 2 (0.32%) Web Services
9 2 (0.32%) XSLT
10 1 (0.16%) HTML
10 1 (0.16%) SAP Fiori
10 1 (0.16%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 75 (12.04%) Legacy Systems
2 49 (7.87%) Data Structures
3 22 (3.53%) Management Information System
4 18 (2.89%) Cloud Native
5 14 (2.25%) Replication
6 11 (1.77%) Mainframe
6 11 (1.77%) Reference Data
7 10 (1.61%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.44%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.44%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.44%) Tandem
9 8 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.12%) Derivative
10 7 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (0.96%) PACS
12 5 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.93%) Windows
2 7 (1.12%) zOS
3 6 (0.96%) Linux
3 6 (0.96%) Unix
4 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 623 (100.00%) Migration
2 153 (24.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 148 (23.76%) User Acceptance Testing
4 139 (22.31%) Validation
5 126 (20.22%) Agile
6 121 (19.42%) ERP
7 104 (16.69%) Data Modelling
8 99 (15.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 94 (15.09%) ETL
10 89 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
11 78 (12.52%) Data Mapping
12 77 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
13 69 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 67 (10.75%) Data Governance
15 63 (10.11%) Project Management
16 62 (9.95%) Data Cleansing
17 61 (9.79%) Translating Business Requirements
18 60 (9.63%) Decision-Making
19 53 (8.51%) Analytics
19 53 (8.51%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 125 (20.06%) SQL
2 48 (7.70%) Python
3 23 (3.69%) Java
4 12 (1.93%) PL/SQL
5 10 (1.61%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.12%) Apex Code
7 6 (0.96%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.80%) PHP
8 5 (0.80%) Shell Script
8 5 (0.80%) VBA
9 4 (0.64%) C#
9 4 (0.64%) Perl
10 2 (0.32%) Bash
10 2 (0.32%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.32%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.32%) R
10 2 (0.32%) Scala
10 2 (0.32%) SOQL
11 1 (0.16%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 84 (13.48%) Security Cleared
2 68 (10.91%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.14%) Degree
4 15 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (2.41%) PMP
5 12 (1.93%) PMI Certification
6 9 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.80%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.48%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.32%) IIBA
9 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.16%) CCA
10 1 (0.16%) CISA
10 1 (0.16%) ISEB
10 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.16%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (18.94%) Data Quality
2 42 (6.74%) QA
3 27 (4.33%) GDPR
4 10 (1.61%) SLA
5 9 (1.44%) PMO
6 7 (1.12%) IFRS
7 6 (0.96%) HL7
8 5 (0.80%) GAAP
8 5 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.64%) Basel III
10 3 (0.48%) DICOM
10 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.32%) GMP
11 2 (0.32%) GRC
11 2 (0.32%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.28%) NFS
3 5 (0.80%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.48%) Docker
5 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (1.93%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.77%) Terraform
3 6 (0.96%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (0.96%) vMotion
4 4 (0.64%) Ansible
5 3 (0.48%) Grafana
5 3 (0.48%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.48%) 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
1 120 (19.26%) Microsoft
2 105 (16.85%) Oracle
3 102 (16.37%) SAP
4 31 (4.98%) Databricks
4 31 (4.98%) Salesforce
5 19 (3.05%) Workday
6 16 (2.57%) Informatica
7 15 (2.41%) Avaloq
8 12 (1.93%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.93%) VMware
9 10 (1.61%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.61%) Pure Storage
10 9 (1.44%) GoldenSource
10 9 (1.44%) Temenos
11 8 (1.28%) Google
11 8 (1.28%) IBM
12 7 (1.12%) Talend
13 6 (0.96%) Commvault
14 5 (0.80%) Ariba
15 4 (0.64%) Bloomberg