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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 97 101
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 525 349 414
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.31% 2.60% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 2.86% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 244 309
10th Percentile £400 £386 £413
25th Percentile £463 £464 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £638 £629 £675
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
England median daily rate £540 £540 £550
% change year-on-year - -1.82% +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 £61.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +142.99%

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 14,339 12,191 16,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.30% 90.76% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,629 7,896 11,545
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £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 218 158 346
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.93 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.40 £25.81 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +22.50% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.99 £54.88 £49.97
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.51 £72.00
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
% change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%

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 27 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 27 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 +4 61 £550 - 14
East London +1 5 £500 +25.00% 1
West London -14 5 £900 +80.00% 4
North London - 3 £550 -
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 (4.00%) Confluence
2 11 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.57%) CMS
3 3 (0.57%) LiveLink
4 2 (0.38%) Appian
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.19%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Portal
5 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 29 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (1.52%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.57%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 31 (5.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (3.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (2.67%) SAP HR
4 12 (2.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (2.10%) Loan IQ
6 10 (1.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 9 (1.71%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (1.52%) Oracle General Ledger
9 7 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (1.14%) Oracle FAH
10 6 (1.14%) Workday HCM
11 5 (0.95%) Finacle
11 5 (0.95%) SAP CO
12 4 (0.76%) SAP ERP
12 4 (0.76%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.76%) SAP FI/CO
12 4 (0.76%) SAP MM
12 4 (0.76%) SAP Payroll
12 4 (0.76%) Temenos T24
13 3 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 77 (14.67%) Azure
2 58 (11.05%) AWS
3 53 (10.10%) Power Platform
4 34 (6.48%) OCI
5 33 (6.29%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (3.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (3.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 18 (3.43%) SaaS
7 16 (3.05%) Snowflake
8 14 (2.67%) GitHub
9 12 (2.29%) Amazon S3
10 11 (2.10%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 11 (2.10%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 9 (1.71%) SuccessFactors
12 8 (1.52%) GCP
13 7 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (1.33%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.33%) PowerApps
14 6 (1.14%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.10%) NAS
2 9 (1.71%) SAN
3 3 (0.57%) DNS
4 2 (0.38%) Firewall
5 1 (0.19%) IPv4
5 1 (0.19%) Network Security
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.19%) VLAN
5 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (7.62%) Power BI
2 40 (7.62%) SQL Server
3 32 (6.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 24 (4.57%) Relational Database
5 20 (3.81%) Oracle Database
6 15 (2.86%) Data Lake
6 15 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 14 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (2.48%) Metadata
9 12 (2.29%) RDBMS
10 11 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (2.10%) Tableau
11 10 (1.90%) Big Data
11 10 (1.90%) MySQL
12 8 (1.52%) DataStage
12 8 (1.52%) DB2
12 8 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (1.14%) NoSQL
13 6 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 51 (9.71%) JIRA
2 5 (0.95%) Git
3 4 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.76%) LSMW
3 4 (0.76%) Toad
4 3 (0.57%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.57%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.57%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.57%) ERwin
4 3 (0.57%) JUnit
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.38%) Selenium
5 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.19%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.19%) GitLab
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 189 (36.00%) Finance
2 177 (33.71%) Social Skills
3 70 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (11.24%) Banking
5 37 (7.05%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.52%) Retail
7 26 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (3.62%) Legal
9 18 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.90%) General Ledger
11 10 (1.90%) Local Government
11 10 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.71%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.71%) Law
13 8 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.52%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.33%) Front Office
14 7 (1.33%) Marketing
15 6 (1.14%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 99 (18.86%) Analyst
2 98 (18.67%) Lead
3 66 (12.57%) Business Analyst
4 57 (10.86%) Consultant
5 56 (10.67%) Architect
6 50 (9.52%) Data Engineer
7 44 (8.38%) Senior
8 42 (8.00%) Project Manager
9 32 (6.10%) Developer
9 32 (6.10%) Migration Analyst
10 29 (5.52%) Data Analyst
11 25 (4.76%) Data Migration Lead
12 24 (4.57%) Migration Manager
13 22 (4.19%) Data Business Analyst
13 22 (4.19%) Data Migration Analyst
14 19 (3.62%) Data Manager
15 18 (3.43%) Data Architect
16 17 (3.24%) Data Migration Manager
17 16 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
17 16 (3.05%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (3.81%) REST
3 18 (3.43%) XML
4 15 (2.86%) Middleware
5 12 (2.29%) SOAP
6 11 (2.10%) Lightning Web Components
7 10 (1.90%) .NET
8 6 (1.14%) Kafka
8 6 (1.14%) PySpark
9 5 (0.95%) JSON
10 4 (0.76%) React
10 4 (0.76%) Web Services
11 3 (0.57%) Playwright
11 3 (0.57%) SAP Fiori
11 3 (0.57%) XSLT
12 2 (0.38%) ADO
12 2 (0.38%) FHIR
12 2 (0.38%) OpenTelemetry
12 2 (0.38%) Spring
12 2 (0.38%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 71 (13.52%) Legacy Systems
2 38 (7.24%) Data Structures
3 20 (3.81%) Management Information System
4 15 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.67%) Replication
6 11 (2.10%) Cloud Native
6 11 (2.10%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.71%) Reference Data
9 8 (1.52%) Tandem
10 7 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.14%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.14%) Derivative
11 6 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.14%) Taxonomies
12 5 (0.95%) Mainframe
13 4 (0.76%) Equities
13 4 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
14 3 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.52%) Windows
2 6 (1.14%) Unix
3 5 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (0.95%) zOS
4 3 (0.57%) Linux
5 2 (0.38%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (100.00%) Migration
2 124 (23.62%) Agile
3 116 (22.10%) Stakeholder Management
4 113 (21.52%) ETL
5 91 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
6 90 (17.14%) Data Modelling
6 90 (17.14%) Validation
7 80 (15.24%) User Acceptance Testing
8 73 (13.90%) ERP
9 68 (12.95%) Analytics
10 67 (12.76%) Data Mapping
11 64 (12.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 61 (11.62%) Project Management
13 53 (10.10%) Business Intelligence
14 50 (9.52%) Data Cleansing
15 49 (9.33%) Data Governance
15 49 (9.33%) Decision-Making
16 47 (8.95%) Workshop Facilitation
17 41 (7.81%) Data Analysis
17 41 (7.81%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 147 (28.00%) SQL
2 48 (9.14%) Python
3 26 (4.95%) Java
4 14 (2.67%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.10%) PL/SQL
6 10 (1.90%) C#
7 9 (1.71%) Apex Code
8 6 (1.14%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.95%) PHP
9 5 (0.95%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.76%) Perl
10 4 (0.76%) VBA
11 3 (0.57%) Bash
11 3 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.57%) Korn
12 2 (0.38%) Bicep
12 2 (0.38%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.38%) R
12 2 (0.38%) SOQL
12 2 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 68 (12.95%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.29%) Degree
4 15 (2.86%) PMP
5 14 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.10%) PMI Certification
7 9 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.71%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.52%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.38%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.38%) CFA
9 2 (0.38%) CIPD
9 2 (0.38%) IIBA
9 2 (0.38%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.19%) CAPM
10 1 (0.19%) CBAP
10 1 (0.19%) CCA
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (18.29%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.48%) QA
3 28 (5.33%) GDPR
4 9 (1.71%) IFRS
5 7 (1.33%) SLA
6 5 (0.95%) GAAP
6 5 (0.95%) IFRS 9
6 5 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.76%) Basel III
7 4 (0.76%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.76%) PMO
8 3 (0.57%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.38%) GMP
9 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.19%) COBIT
10 1 (0.19%) HL7
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (2.29%) Docker
2 10 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.52%) NFS
4 4 (0.76%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (3.62%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.90%) Terraform
3 6 (1.14%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (1.14%) vMotion
4 4 (0.76%) Ansible
4 4 (0.76%) Grafana
5 2 (0.38%) Argo
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.38%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.19%) Control-M
6 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 97 (18.48%) Oracle
2 84 (16.00%) SAP
3 69 (13.14%) Microsoft
4 32 (6.10%) Salesforce
5 28 (5.33%) Workday
6 26 (4.95%) Databricks
7 19 (3.62%) Informatica
8 15 (2.86%) Avaloq
9 12 (2.29%) MuleSoft
9 12 (2.29%) ServiceNow
10 11 (2.10%) VMware
11 10 (1.90%) Pure Storage
12 9 (1.71%) GoldenSource
12 9 (1.71%) Talend
13 8 (1.52%) Kronos
13 8 (1.52%) Temenos
14 6 (1.14%) Commvault
14 6 (1.14%) Google
15 5 (0.95%) IBM
16 4 (0.76%) Alteryx