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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 104 95
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 477 337 431
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.21% 2.49% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 2.75% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 231 317
10th Percentile £400 £385 £413
25th Percentile £463 £473 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £629 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £738
England median daily rate £539 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +0.23% -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% +21.43%
75th Percentile - - £86.50
90th Percentile - - £86.70
England median hourly rate £61.00 £57.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.09% +43.75% -42.86%

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 13,484 12,268 16,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.74% 90.53% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,972 7,787 11,832
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 207 153 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.80 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.81 £25.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +23.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.73 £55.25 £50.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.23% - -

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 9 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 9 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 0 60 £565 +2.73% 20
East London -1 5 £500 +25.00% 1
West London -13 4 £800 +60.00% 2
North London - 4 £600 - 1
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 22 (4.61%) Confluence
2 10 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.63%) CMS
3 3 (0.63%) LiveLink
4 2 (0.42%) 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 (6.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.89%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.68%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.63%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 33 (6.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (2.94%) SAP HR
4 12 (2.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (2.10%) Loan IQ
5 10 (2.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 8 (1.68%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (1.47%) SAP CO
8 6 (1.26%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (1.26%) Oracle FAH
8 6 (1.26%) SAP FI
8 6 (1.26%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (1.05%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.84%) Finacle
11 3 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.63%) SAP MM
11 3 (0.63%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.63%) Temenos T24
12 2 (0.42%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 67 (14.05%) Azure
2 51 (10.69%) Power Platform
3 50 (10.48%) AWS
4 32 (6.71%) OCI
5 29 (6.08%) Dynamics 365
6 20 (4.19%) SaaS
7 15 (3.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (3.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (2.94%) Snowflake
9 12 (2.52%) GitHub
10 10 (2.10%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 9 (1.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 8 (1.68%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (1.68%) SuccessFactors
13 7 (1.47%) GCP
13 7 (1.47%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.47%) PowerApps
14 4 (0.84%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.10%) NAS
2 8 (1.68%) SAN
3 2 (0.42%) 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 43 (9.01%) Data Warehouse
2 42 (8.81%) SQL Server
3 39 (8.18%) Power BI
4 28 (5.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (5.03%) Relational Database
6 20 (4.19%) Oracle Database
7 16 (3.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (2.94%) Metadata
8 14 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (2.94%) Tableau
9 12 (2.52%) RDBMS
10 11 (2.31%) Data Lake
11 10 (2.10%) Big Data
11 10 (2.10%) MySQL
12 8 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (1.68%) DataStage
12 8 (1.68%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (1.26%) DB2
13 6 (1.26%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 47 (9.85%) JIRA
2 4 (0.84%) Git
2 4 (0.84%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.84%) Toad
3 3 (0.63%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.63%) ERwin
3 3 (0.63%) LSMW
4 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.21%) GitLab
5 1 (0.21%) gulp
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.21%) Selenium
5 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.21%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.21%) webpack
General
1 176 (36.90%) Finance
2 155 (32.49%) Social Skills
3 59 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (10.27%) Banking
5 38 (7.97%) Public Sector
6 28 (5.87%) Retail
7 24 (5.03%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.94%) Legal
8 14 (2.94%) Local Government
8 14 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.52%) Investment Banking
9 12 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (2.10%) Back Office
10 10 (2.10%) General Ledger
10 10 (2.10%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.68%) Front Office
12 7 (1.47%) Law
12 7 (1.47%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.26%) Billing
13 6 (1.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 87 (18.24%) Lead
2 86 (18.03%) Analyst
3 57 (11.95%) Consultant
4 56 (11.74%) Business Analyst
5 47 (9.85%) Architect
6 40 (8.39%) Data Engineer
7 37 (7.76%) Senior
8 35 (7.34%) Project Manager
9 32 (6.71%) Developer
10 27 (5.66%) Migration Analyst
11 25 (5.24%) Data Analyst
12 22 (4.61%) Data Migration Lead
13 18 (3.77%) Data Migration Analyst
14 17 (3.56%) Data Architect
14 17 (3.56%) Migration Manager
15 16 (3.35%) Data Manager
16 15 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
17 14 (2.94%) Functional Consultant
17 14 (2.94%) SAP Consultant
18 13 (2.73%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.19%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (3.98%) REST
2 19 (3.98%) XML
3 14 (2.94%) Middleware
4 11 (2.31%) SOAP
5 10 (2.10%) .NET
6 7 (1.47%) Lightning Web Components
6 7 (1.47%) PySpark
7 5 (1.05%) JSON
8 4 (0.84%) React
8 4 (0.84%) Web Services
9 3 (0.63%) Kafka
9 3 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
9 3 (0.63%) Visualforce
9 3 (0.63%) XSLT
10 2 (0.42%) ADO
10 2 (0.42%) FHIR
10 2 (0.42%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (0.42%) Playwright
11 1 (0.21%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 69 (14.47%) Legacy Systems
2 38 (7.97%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.98%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.73%) Replication
6 10 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.47%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.47%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.47%) Reference Data
7 7 (1.47%) Tandem
8 6 (1.26%) Derivative
8 6 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.05%) Credit Risk
10 4 (0.84%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.84%) Equities
10 4 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.84%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.26%) Unix
1 6 (1.26%) Windows
2 5 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (0.63%) Linux
3 3 (0.63%) zOS
4 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (100.00%) Migration
2 119 (24.95%) Agile
3 104 (21.80%) Stakeholder Management
4 102 (21.38%) ETL
5 89 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
6 81 (16.98%) Data Modelling
7 80 (16.77%) User Acceptance Testing
8 75 (15.72%) Validation
9 68 (14.26%) ERP
10 65 (13.63%) Analytics
11 64 (13.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 54 (11.32%) Data Mapping
12 54 (11.32%) Project Management
13 51 (10.69%) Business Intelligence
14 46 (9.64%) Workshop Facilitation
15 45 (9.43%) Data Governance
16 44 (9.22%) Data Cleansing
17 43 (9.01%) Data Analysis
18 42 (8.81%) Decision-Making
19 35 (7.34%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 140 (29.35%) SQL
2 42 (8.81%) Python
3 21 (4.40%) Java
4 12 (2.52%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.10%) PL/SQL
6 9 (1.89%) C#
7 6 (1.26%) Apex Code
8 5 (1.05%) PHP
8 5 (1.05%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.05%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.84%) Perl
9 4 (0.84%) VBA
10 3 (0.63%) Bash
10 3 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.63%) Korn
11 2 (0.42%) Bicep
11 2 (0.42%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.42%) R
11 2 (0.42%) SOQL
11 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 63 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 54 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 35 (7.34%) Degree
4 15 (3.14%) PMP
5 13 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.73%) PMI Certification
6 9 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.68%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.05%) CFA
9 2 (0.42%) CIPD
9 2 (0.42%) IIBA
9 2 (0.42%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.21%) CCA
10 1 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (17.82%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.50%) QA
3 22 (4.61%) GDPR
4 9 (1.89%) IFRS
5 5 (1.05%) GAAP
5 5 (1.05%) IFRS 9
5 5 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.05%) SLA
6 4 (0.84%) Basel III
6 4 (0.84%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.63%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.63%) PMO
8 2 (0.42%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.21%) COBIT
9 1 (0.21%) GRC
9 1 (0.21%) HL7
9 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (2.52%) Docker
2 9 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.47%) NFS
4 3 (0.63%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.42%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.89%) Terraform
3 5 (1.05%) EMC VPLEX
3 5 (1.05%) vMotion
4 4 (0.84%) Ansible
4 4 (0.84%) Grafana
5 2 (0.42%) Argo
5 2 (0.42%) 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 89 (18.66%) Oracle
2 79 (16.56%) SAP
3 61 (12.79%) Microsoft
4 25 (5.24%) Workday
5 24 (5.03%) Salesforce
6 23 (4.82%) Databricks
7 17 (3.56%) Informatica
8 13 (2.73%) Avaloq
9 11 (2.31%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.89%) Pure Storage
10 9 (1.89%) VMware
11 8 (1.68%) GoldenSource
11 8 (1.68%) Kronos
12 7 (1.47%) Temenos
13 6 (1.26%) MuleSoft
13 6 (1.26%) Talend
14 5 (1.05%) Commvault
14 5 (1.05%) Google
14 5 (1.05%) IBM
15 4 (0.84%) Alteryx