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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 98 96
Rank change year-on-year +18 -2 +56
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 552 343 432
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.41% 2.66% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.79% 2.92% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 242 326
10th Percentile £400 £400 £419
25th Percentile £464 £470 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £638 £629 £675
90th Percentile £715 £738 £743
England median daily rate £533 £532 £550
% change year-on-year +0.19% -3.36% +4.76%
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 £77.50
% change year-on-year +5.22% -25.81% +189.72%

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 14,548 11,757 16,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.83% 91.07% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,771 7,824 11,523
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% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 159 352
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £19.54
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.96 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.68 £69.95
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 +5 72 £550 +1.57% 25
West London -12 6 £900 +80.00% 5
East London 0 5 £500 +25.00% 3
North London - 3 £550 -
South London - 2 - - 2
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 (3.80%) Confluence
2 15 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.54%) CMS
3 3 (0.54%) LiveLink
4 2 (0.36%) Appian
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.18%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.18%) IIS
5 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 33 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (2.54%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (1.81%) MS Visio
5 9 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 29 (5.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (2.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 14 (2.54%) SAP HR
4 13 (2.36%) Loan IQ
5 8 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (1.45%) Workday HCM
6 7 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (1.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 5 (0.91%) Finacle
7 5 (0.91%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.72%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.72%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.72%) SAP Payroll
8 4 (0.72%) Temenos T24
9 3 (0.54%) Oracle FAH
9 3 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.54%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.54%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 89 (16.12%) Azure
2 66 (11.96%) Power Platform
3 62 (11.23%) AWS
4 44 (7.97%) Dynamics 365
5 33 (5.98%) OCI
6 28 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (3.44%) SaaS
9 18 (3.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 18 (3.26%) GitHub
9 18 (3.26%) Snowflake
10 13 (2.36%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 10 (1.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 9 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (1.63%) GCP
12 9 (1.63%) Power Automate
12 9 (1.63%) PowerApps
12 9 (1.63%) SuccessFactors
13 7 (1.27%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.99%) NAS
2 9 (1.63%) SAN
3 3 (0.54%) DNS
4 2 (0.36%) Firewall
5 1 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.18%) Network Security
5 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (9.06%) Power BI
2 49 (8.88%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (7.25%) SQL Server
4 33 (5.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 20 (3.62%) Oracle Database
7 16 (2.90%) Data Lake
8 14 (2.54%) Metadata
8 14 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (2.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (2.17%) RDBMS
9 12 (2.17%) Tableau
10 11 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.81%) Big Data
11 10 (1.81%) DB2
11 10 (1.81%) MySQL
11 10 (1.81%) NoSQL
12 8 (1.45%) DataStage
12 8 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 55 (9.96%) JIRA
2 9 (1.63%) Git
3 4 (0.72%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.72%) LSMW
3 4 (0.72%) Toad
4 3 (0.54%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.54%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.54%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.54%) ERwin
4 3 (0.54%) JUnit
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.54%) Selenium
5 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.18%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.18%) GitLab
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.18%) webpack
6 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 194 (35.14%) Finance
2 191 (34.60%) Social Skills
3 76 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (11.05%) Banking
5 41 (7.43%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.25%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (5.25%) Retail
7 19 (3.44%) Legal
7 19 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (2.72%) Law
8 15 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.81%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.81%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.63%) General Ledger
10 9 (1.63%) Local Government
11 8 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.45%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.27%) Back Office
12 7 (1.27%) Billing
12 7 (1.27%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 106 (19.20%) Lead
2 104 (18.84%) Analyst
3 74 (13.41%) Architect
4 69 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 54 (9.78%) Consultant
6 50 (9.06%) Data Engineer
7 47 (8.51%) Senior
8 43 (7.79%) Project Manager
9 34 (6.16%) Migration Analyst
10 32 (5.80%) Developer
11 29 (5.25%) Data Analyst
12 28 (5.07%) Data Migration Lead
13 25 (4.53%) Migration Manager
14 24 (4.35%) Data Business Analyst
15 22 (3.99%) Data Migration Analyst
16 21 (3.80%) Data Architect
16 21 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
17 20 (3.62%) Data Manager
17 20 (3.62%) Technical Leader
18 17 (3.08%) Data Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.89%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (3.44%) REST
3 18 (3.26%) XML
4 16 (2.90%) Middleware
5 12 (2.17%) SOAP
6 10 (1.81%) .NET
6 10 (1.81%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (1.09%) JSON
7 6 (1.09%) Kafka
7 6 (1.09%) Spring
8 4 (0.72%) PySpark
8 4 (0.72%) React
8 4 (0.72%) Web Services
9 3 (0.54%) Playwright
9 3 (0.54%) XSLT
10 2 (0.36%) ADO
10 2 (0.36%) FHIR
10 2 (0.36%) OpenTelemetry
11 1 (0.18%) Apache Beam
11 1 (0.18%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 76 (13.77%) Legacy Systems
2 38 (6.88%) Data Structures
3 21 (3.80%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.26%) Cloud Native
5 15 (2.72%) Replication
6 13 (2.36%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.63%) Tandem
10 8 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.45%) Mainframe
10 8 (1.45%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.27%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.09%) Derivative
12 6 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.09%) Taxonomies
13 5 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.72%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.45%) Windows
2 7 (1.27%) zOS
3 6 (1.09%) Unix
4 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.72%) Linux
6 2 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 552 (100.00%) Migration
2 128 (23.19%) Agile
3 127 (23.01%) Stakeholder Management
4 114 (20.65%) ETL
5 98 (17.75%) Validation
6 95 (17.21%) User Acceptance Testing
7 94 (17.03%) Data Modelling
8 91 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
9 86 (15.58%) ERP
10 73 (13.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 72 (13.04%) Analytics
12 71 (12.86%) Data Mapping
13 64 (11.59%) Business Intelligence
14 60 (10.87%) Project Management
15 56 (10.14%) Data Governance
15 56 (10.14%) Decision-Making
16 50 (9.06%) Data Cleansing
17 49 (8.88%) DevOps
18 48 (8.70%) Data Transformation
19 46 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 154 (27.90%) SQL
2 49 (8.88%) Python
3 31 (5.62%) Java
4 14 (2.54%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.17%) PL/SQL
6 10 (1.81%) C#
7 8 (1.45%) Apex Code
8 7 (1.27%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.91%) PHP
9 5 (0.91%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.91%) VBA
10 4 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.72%) Perl
11 3 (0.54%) Bash
11 3 (0.54%) Bicep
11 3 (0.54%) Korn
11 3 (0.54%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.36%) R
12 2 (0.36%) Scala
12 2 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 74 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 61 (11.05%) SC Cleared
3 35 (6.34%) Degree
4 16 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.36%) PMP
6 9 (1.63%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.45%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.36%) CFA
10 2 (0.36%) CIPD
10 2 (0.36%) IIBA
10 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.36%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.18%) CAPM
11 1 (0.18%) CBAP
11 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (18.12%) Data Quality
2 37 (6.70%) QA
3 27 (4.89%) GDPR
4 9 (1.63%) IFRS
5 6 (1.09%) SLA
6 5 (0.91%) GAAP
6 5 (0.91%) IFRS 9
6 5 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.72%) Basel III
7 4 (0.72%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.72%) PMO
8 3 (0.54%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.36%) GMP
9 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.18%) HL7
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (2.36%) Docker
2 10 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.45%) NFS
4 5 (0.91%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.99%) Terraform
3 6 (1.09%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (1.09%) vMotion
4 4 (0.72%) Ansible
4 4 (0.72%) Grafana
5 2 (0.36%) Argo
5 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.36%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.18%) Avamar
6 1 (0.18%) Control-M
6 1 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.18%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 101 (18.30%) Oracle
2 86 (15.58%) Microsoft
3 81 (14.67%) SAP
4 32 (5.80%) Salesforce
5 30 (5.43%) Workday
6 25 (4.53%) Databricks
7 21 (3.80%) Informatica
8 15 (2.72%) Avaloq
9 13 (2.36%) MuleSoft
10 12 (2.17%) ServiceNow
10 12 (2.17%) VMware
11 11 (1.99%) Pure Storage
12 10 (1.81%) Talend
13 9 (1.63%) GoldenSource
14 8 (1.45%) Kronos
14 8 (1.45%) Temenos
15 7 (1.27%) Google
16 6 (1.09%) Commvault
17 5 (0.91%) IBM
18 3 (0.54%) Murex