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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 99 90
Rank change year-on-year +19 -9 +60
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 591 343 461
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.43% 2.70% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 2.95% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 236 344
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £465 £464 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £633 £630 £675
90th Percentile £700 £766 £750
England median daily rate £525 £532 £550
% change year-on-year -1.22% -3.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
10th Percentile - £37.66 £83.10
25th Percentile - £42.22 £83.50
Median hourly rate - £49.83 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.38% +325.00%
75th Percentile - £57.42 £86.50
90th Percentile - £61.97 £86.90
England median hourly rate £41.56 £60.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -30.74% -25.00% +300.00%

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 15,405 11,613 15,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.35% 91.51% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,348 7,877 11,316
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £760 £806 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 170 332
10th Percentile £18.09 £17.96 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.05 £23.90 £19.83
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £38.25 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +17.69% -1.52% -12.00%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 +4 71 £550 +10.00% 28
West London -16 9 £950 +90.00% 11
East London 0 5 £550 +37.50% 3
North London - 3 £550 - 1
South London -17 1 - - 1
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 18 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.88%) Confluence
3 3 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.34%) Appian
4 2 (0.34%) CMS
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.17%) Apache
5 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.17%) IIS
5 1 (0.17%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 34 (5.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 17 (2.88%) Microsoft Project
3 12 (2.03%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (1.52%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 36 (6.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (3.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (2.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 13 (2.20%) Loan IQ
5 9 (1.52%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (1.52%) Workday HCM
6 8 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (1.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 7 (1.18%) SAP ERP
8 6 (1.02%) Finacle
8 6 (1.02%) SAP HR
9 5 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.68%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.68%) SAP Payroll
10 4 (0.68%) Temenos T24
11 3 (0.51%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.51%) Oracle FAH
11 3 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.51%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 93 (15.74%) Azure
1 93 (15.74%) Power Platform
2 67 (11.34%) Dynamics 365
3 56 (9.48%) AWS
4 35 (5.92%) OCI
5 33 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (3.72%) SaaS
7 20 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (3.05%) GitHub
9 14 (2.37%) Amazon S3
10 13 (2.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 12 (2.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 12 (2.03%) Snowflake
11 12 (2.03%) SuccessFactors
12 10 (1.69%) GCP
13 8 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (1.18%) dbt
14 7 (1.18%) Power Automate
15 6 (1.02%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.86%) NAS
2 9 (1.52%) SAN
3 3 (0.51%) DNS
3 3 (0.51%) Firewall
4 2 (0.34%) HTTP
4 2 (0.34%) VPN
5 1 (0.17%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.17%) Network Security
5 1 (0.17%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (13.37%) Power BI
2 44 (7.45%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (5.25%) SQL Server
4 29 (4.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (2.88%) Data Lake
6 16 (2.71%) Relational Database
7 15 (2.54%) Oracle Database
8 14 (2.37%) Metadata
9 13 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (1.86%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.86%) Tableau
11 10 (1.69%) DB2
12 9 (1.52%) MySQL
12 9 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (1.18%) DataStage
15 6 (1.02%) Star Schema
16 5 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 54 (9.14%) JIRA
2 8 (1.35%) Git
3 5 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.85%) Selenium
4 4 (0.68%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.68%) JUnit
4 4 (0.68%) LSMW
4 4 (0.68%) Toad
5 3 (0.51%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.51%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.51%) ERwin
5 3 (0.51%) GitLab
5 3 (0.51%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.17%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.17%) gulp
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.17%) webpack
General
1 227 (38.41%) Finance
2 198 (33.50%) Social Skills
3 83 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (9.64%) Banking
5 43 (7.28%) Public Sector
6 42 (7.11%) Law
7 33 (5.58%) Retail
8 26 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (3.05%) Legal
11 15 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.86%) Billing
12 11 (1.86%) General Ledger
12 11 (1.86%) Local Government
12 11 (1.86%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (1.52%) Marketing
15 8 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.35%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 139 (23.52%) Lead
2 103 (17.43%) Analyst
3 102 (17.26%) Architect
4 66 (11.17%) Business Analyst
5 53 (8.97%) Data Engineer
6 48 (8.12%) Consultant
6 48 (8.12%) Senior
7 40 (6.77%) Project Manager
8 37 (6.26%) Migration Analyst
9 35 (5.92%) Data Migration Lead
10 32 (5.41%) Data Analyst
10 32 (5.41%) Lead Architect
11 31 (5.25%) Functional Architect
12 29 (4.91%) Developer
13 27 (4.57%) Migration Manager
14 26 (4.40%) Data Business Analyst
14 26 (4.40%) Technical Leader
15 24 (4.06%) Data Migration Analyst
16 23 (3.89%) Data Architect
16 23 (3.89%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.91%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (3.05%) Middleware
2 18 (3.05%) REST
3 17 (2.88%) XML
4 14 (2.37%) SOAP
5 10 (1.69%) .NET
5 10 (1.69%) Lightning Web Components
6 6 (1.02%) JSON
6 6 (1.02%) Kafka
6 6 (1.02%) Spring
7 3 (0.51%) Playwright
7 3 (0.51%) PySpark
7 3 (0.51%) React
7 3 (0.51%) Web Services
7 3 (0.51%) XSLT
8 2 (0.34%) FHIR
8 2 (0.34%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.34%) Visualforce
9 1 (0.17%) HTML5
9 1 (0.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 78 (13.20%) Legacy Systems
2 44 (7.45%) Data Structures
3 23 (3.89%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.05%) Cloud Native
5 15 (2.54%) Replication
6 12 (2.03%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.52%) Mainframe
9 9 (1.52%) Reference Data
9 9 (1.52%) Tandem
10 8 (1.35%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.02%) Derivative
12 6 (1.02%) Taxonomies
13 5 (0.85%) CMDB
13 5 (0.85%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.52%) Windows
2 7 (1.18%) zOS
3 6 (1.02%) Unix
4 5 (0.85%) Linux
5 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 591 (100.00%) Migration
2 145 (24.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 133 (22.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 131 (22.17%) Agile
5 121 (20.47%) ERP
6 115 (19.46%) Validation
7 104 (17.60%) ETL
7 104 (17.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 96 (16.24%) Data Modelling
9 91 (15.40%) Business Intelligence
10 87 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
11 73 (12.35%) Data Mapping
12 67 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 65 (11.00%) Project Management
14 62 (10.49%) Analytics
15 59 (9.98%) Decision-Making
16 54 (9.14%) DevOps
16 54 (9.14%) Procure-to-Pay
17 53 (8.97%) Translating Business Requirements
18 52 (8.80%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 137 (23.18%) SQL
2 48 (8.12%) Python
3 28 (4.74%) Java
4 14 (2.37%) JavaScript
5 11 (1.86%) PL/SQL
6 9 (1.52%) Apex Code
7 8 (1.35%) C#
8 7 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (1.02%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.02%) VBA
10 5 (0.85%) PHP
10 5 (0.85%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.68%) Perl
12 3 (0.51%) Bash
12 3 (0.51%) Korn
12 3 (0.51%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.51%) SOQL
13 2 (0.34%) Bicep
13 2 (0.34%) R
13 2 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 81 (13.71%) Security Cleared
2 67 (11.34%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.41%) Degree
4 15 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.37%) PMP
6 9 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.52%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.02%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.85%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.51%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.34%) CFA
10 2 (0.34%) CIPD
10 2 (0.34%) IIBA
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.34%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.17%) CCA
11 1 (0.17%) ISEB
11 1 (0.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (17.94%) Data Quality
2 44 (7.45%) QA
3 28 (4.74%) GDPR
4 9 (1.52%) IFRS
5 7 (1.18%) PMO
5 7 (1.18%) SLA
6 5 (0.85%) GAAP
6 5 (0.85%) IFRS 9
6 5 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.68%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.68%) Basel III
7 4 (0.68%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.51%) HL7
9 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.34%) GMP
9 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.17%) COBIT
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.35%) NFS
3 4 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.68%) Docker
4 2 (0.34%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (2.71%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.86%) Terraform
3 6 (1.02%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (1.02%) vMotion
4 4 (0.68%) Ansible
4 4 (0.68%) Grafana
5 3 (0.51%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.34%) Argo
6 2 (0.34%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.17%) Avamar
7 1 (0.17%) Control-M
7 1 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.17%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 113 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 100 (16.92%) Oracle
3 82 (13.87%) SAP
4 34 (5.75%) Salesforce
5 27 (4.57%) Workday
6 23 (3.89%) Databricks
7 20 (3.38%) Informatica
8 17 (2.88%) Avaloq
9 14 (2.37%) ServiceNow
10 13 (2.20%) MuleSoft
11 12 (2.03%) VMware
12 11 (1.86%) Pure Storage
13 10 (1.69%) GoldenSource
14 9 (1.52%) Temenos
15 8 (1.35%) Talend
16 7 (1.18%) Google
16 7 (1.18%) IBM
17 6 (1.02%) Commvault
18 4 (0.68%) Ariba
19 3 (0.51%) Murex