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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 104 97
Rank change year-on-year +14 -7 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 486 339 424
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.19% 2.49% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 2.75% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 234 311
10th Percentile £400 £390 £406
25th Percentile £463 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £738
England median daily rate £540 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +0.47% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £82.70
25th Percentile - - £83.50
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -58.82% +9.68%
75th Percentile - - £86.50
90th Percentile - - £86.70
England median hourly rate £60.50 £57.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +5.22% +43.75% -37.25%

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 13,833 12,324 16,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.73% 90.63% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,202 7,872 11,677
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 152 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.03 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.56 £19.49
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +24.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.25 £55.38 £51.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.88 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 February 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 February 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 +6 62 £550 - 22
East London +3 5 £500 +25.00% 1
North London - 4 £600 -
West London -18 3 £800 +60.00% 3
South London - 3 - - 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 21 (4.32%) Confluence
2 10 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.62%) CMS
3 3 (0.62%) LiveLink
4 2 (0.41%) Appian
5 1 (0.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.21%) IIS
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.21%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.21%) SAP Portal
5 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 29 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.85%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.62%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 33 (6.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (2.88%) SAP HR
4 12 (2.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (2.06%) Loan IQ
5 10 (2.06%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 8 (1.65%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (1.65%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (1.44%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (1.44%) SAP CO
8 6 (1.23%) Oracle FAH
8 6 (1.23%) SAP FI
8 6 (1.23%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (1.03%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.82%) Finacle
10 4 (0.82%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.62%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.62%) SAP MM
11 3 (0.62%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 67 (13.79%) Azure
2 54 (11.11%) AWS
3 51 (10.49%) Power Platform
4 33 (6.79%) OCI
5 29 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
6 20 (4.12%) SaaS
7 16 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (3.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 15 (3.09%) Snowflake
9 13 (2.67%) GitHub
10 12 (2.47%) Amazon S3
11 10 (2.06%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 10 (2.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 9 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
13 8 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (1.44%) GCP
14 7 (1.44%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.44%) PowerApps
15 6 (1.23%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.06%) NAS
2 8 (1.65%) SAN
3 2 (0.41%) DNS
4 1 (0.21%) Firewall
4 1 (0.21%) IPv4
4 1 (0.21%) Network Security
4 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.21%) VLAN
4 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.05%) Data Warehouse
2 42 (8.64%) SQL Server
3 39 (8.02%) Power BI
4 28 (5.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (4.94%) Relational Database
6 20 (4.12%) Oracle Database
7 16 (3.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (2.88%) Metadata
8 14 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (2.88%) Tableau
9 12 (2.47%) RDBMS
10 11 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (2.26%) Data Lake
11 10 (2.06%) Big Data
11 10 (2.06%) MySQL
12 8 (1.65%) DataStage
13 7 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
14 6 (1.23%) DB2
14 6 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (9.47%) JIRA
2 5 (1.03%) Git
3 4 (0.82%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.82%) Toad
4 3 (0.62%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.62%) ERwin
4 3 (0.62%) LSMW
5 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.21%) GitLab
6 1 (0.21%) gulp
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.21%) Selenium
6 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.21%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.21%) webpack
General
1 178 (36.63%) Finance
2 156 (32.10%) Social Skills
3 59 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (9.88%) Banking
5 39 (8.02%) Public Sector
6 27 (5.56%) Retail
7 25 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (3.09%) Legal
9 14 (2.88%) Local Government
9 14 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (2.47%) Investment Banking
10 12 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (2.06%) Back Office
11 10 (2.06%) General Ledger
12 9 (1.85%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.65%) Front Office
13 8 (1.65%) Law
14 7 (1.44%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.23%) Billing
15 6 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 91 (18.72%) Lead
2 87 (17.90%) Analyst
3 57 (11.73%) Business Analyst
3 57 (11.73%) Consultant
4 49 (10.08%) Architect
5 44 (9.05%) Data Engineer
6 38 (7.82%) Senior
7 35 (7.20%) Project Manager
8 32 (6.58%) Developer
9 27 (5.56%) Migration Analyst
10 25 (5.14%) Data Analyst
11 22 (4.53%) Data Migration Lead
12 18 (3.70%) Data Migration Analyst
13 17 (3.50%) Data Architect
13 17 (3.50%) Migration Manager
14 16 (3.29%) Data Manager
15 15 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
16 14 (2.88%) SAP Consultant
16 14 (2.88%) Technical Leader
17 13 (2.67%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (3.91%) REST
2 19 (3.91%) XML
3 14 (2.88%) Middleware
4 11 (2.26%) SOAP
5 10 (2.06%) .NET
6 8 (1.65%) Lightning Web Components
7 7 (1.44%) PySpark
8 5 (1.03%) JSON
9 4 (0.82%) React
9 4 (0.82%) Web Services
10 3 (0.62%) Kafka
10 3 (0.62%) SAP Fiori
10 3 (0.62%) Visualforce
10 3 (0.62%) XSLT
11 2 (0.41%) ADO
11 2 (0.41%) FHIR
11 2 (0.41%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (0.41%) Playwright
11 2 (0.41%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 69 (14.20%) Legacy Systems
2 38 (7.82%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.91%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.88%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.67%) Replication
6 11 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.65%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.65%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.44%) Reference Data
8 7 (1.44%) Tandem
9 6 (1.23%) Derivative
9 6 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.03%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.03%) Taxonomies
11 4 (0.82%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.82%) Equities
11 4 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.23%) Unix
1 6 (1.23%) Windows
2 5 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (0.62%) Linux
3 3 (0.62%) zOS
4 2 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (100.00%) Migration
2 120 (24.69%) Agile
3 106 (21.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 103 (21.19%) ETL
5 88 (18.11%) Problem-Solving
6 82 (16.87%) Data Modelling
7 81 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
8 78 (16.05%) Validation
9 71 (14.61%) ERP
10 66 (13.58%) Analytics
11 63 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 55 (11.32%) Data Mapping
13 54 (11.11%) Project Management
14 51 (10.49%) Business Intelligence
15 46 (9.47%) Data Cleansing
16 45 (9.26%) Data Governance
16 45 (9.26%) Workshop Facilitation
17 43 (8.85%) Data Analysis
17 43 (8.85%) Decision-Making
18 36 (7.41%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 144 (29.63%) SQL
2 44 (9.05%) Python
3 21 (4.32%) Java
4 13 (2.67%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.06%) PL/SQL
6 9 (1.85%) C#
7 7 (1.44%) Apex Code
8 5 (1.03%) PHP
8 5 (1.03%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.03%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.82%) Perl
9 4 (0.82%) VBA
10 3 (0.62%) Bash
10 3 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.62%) Korn
11 2 (0.41%) ABAP
11 2 (0.41%) R
11 2 (0.41%) Scala
11 2 (0.41%) SOQL
11 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 63 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 54 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 37 (7.61%) Degree
4 15 (3.09%) PMP
5 14 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.47%) PMI Certification
7 9 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.85%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.65%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.03%) CFA
10 2 (0.41%) CIPD
10 2 (0.41%) IIBA
10 2 (0.41%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.21%) CBAP
11 1 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (17.90%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.79%) QA
3 22 (4.53%) GDPR
4 8 (1.65%) IFRS
5 5 (1.03%) IFRS 9
5 5 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.03%) SLA
6 4 (0.82%) Basel III
6 4 (0.82%) GAAP
6 4 (0.82%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.62%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.62%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.62%) PMO
8 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.21%) GRC
9 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.21%) NCSC
9 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (2.47%) Docker
2 9 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.44%) NFS
4 3 (0.62%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (3.29%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.26%) Terraform
3 5 (1.03%) EMC VPLEX
3 5 (1.03%) vMotion
4 4 (0.82%) Ansible
4 4 (0.82%) Grafana
5 2 (0.41%) Argo
5 2 (0.41%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.21%) Control-M
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (18.52%) Oracle
2 81 (16.67%) SAP
3 62 (12.76%) Microsoft
4 25 (5.14%) Salesforce
4 25 (5.14%) Workday
5 23 (4.73%) Databricks
6 17 (3.50%) Informatica
7 13 (2.67%) Avaloq
8 11 (2.26%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.85%) Pure Storage
9 9 (1.85%) VMware
10 8 (1.65%) GoldenSource
10 8 (1.65%) Kronos
11 7 (1.44%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.44%) Temenos
12 6 (1.23%) Talend
13 5 (1.03%) Commvault
13 5 (1.03%) Google
13 5 (1.03%) IBM
14 4 (0.82%) Alteryx