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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 98 95
Rank change year-on-year +16 -3 +57
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 542 344 428
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.38% 2.64% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 2.90% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 245 322
10th Percentile £400 £386 £414
25th Percentile £463 £465 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £638 £629 £675
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
England median daily rate £540 £539 £550
% change year-on-year +0.23% -2.05% +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 £46.25 £77.50
% change year-on-year +30.81% -40.32% +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 14,434 11,882 16,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.99% 91.01% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,713 7,889 11,534
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% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £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 218 162 355
10th Percentile £18.05 £20.45 £16.01
25th Percentile £21.65 £24.66 £19.74
Median hourly rate £35.25 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +16.67% -17.81%
75th Percentile £56.38 £53.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.55 £77.25 £69.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%

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 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 9 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 +7 72 £550 +1.57% 11
West London -12 6 £900 +80.00% 5
East London 0 5 £500 +25.00% 2
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 (3.87%) Confluence
2 14 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.55%) CMS
3 3 (0.55%) LiveLink
4 2 (0.37%) Appian
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.18%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.18%) IIS
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 31 (5.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.66%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 28 (5.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (3.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (2.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 14 (2.58%) SAP HR
4 13 (2.40%) Loan IQ
5 9 (1.66%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 8 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (1.48%) Workday HCM
7 7 (1.29%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (1.29%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.92%) Finacle
8 5 (0.92%) Oracle FAH
9 4 (0.74%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.74%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.74%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.74%) SAP Payroll
9 4 (0.74%) Temenos T24
10 3 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.55%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.55%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 84 (15.50%) Azure
2 61 (11.25%) AWS
3 60 (11.07%) Power Platform
4 40 (7.38%) Dynamics 365
5 36 (6.64%) OCI
6 24 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (3.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (3.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (3.32%) Snowflake
9 17 (3.14%) SaaS
10 15 (2.77%) GitHub
11 12 (2.21%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 10 (1.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 9 (1.66%) GCP
13 9 (1.66%) Power Automate
13 9 (1.66%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.66%) SuccessFactors
14 8 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
15 6 (1.11%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.03%) NAS
2 9 (1.66%) SAN
3 3 (0.55%) DNS
4 2 (0.37%) Firewall
5 1 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.18%) Network Security
5 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (9.04%) Data Warehouse
2 45 (8.30%) Power BI
3 39 (7.20%) SQL Server
4 33 (6.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (4.43%) Relational Database
6 20 (3.69%) Oracle Database
7 16 (2.95%) Data Lake
8 14 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (2.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (2.40%) Metadata
10 12 (2.21%) RDBMS
11 11 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (2.03%) Tableau
12 10 (1.85%) Big Data
12 10 (1.85%) DB2
12 10 (1.85%) MySQL
13 8 (1.48%) DataStage
13 8 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (1.29%) NoSQL
14 7 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 54 (9.96%) JIRA
2 6 (1.11%) Git
3 4 (0.74%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.74%) LSMW
3 4 (0.74%) Toad
4 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.55%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.55%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.55%) ERwin
4 3 (0.55%) JUnit
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.55%) Selenium
5 2 (0.37%) 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%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 193 (35.61%) Finance
2 182 (33.58%) Social Skills
3 72 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (11.25%) Banking
5 40 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 28 (5.17%) Retail
7 27 (4.98%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (3.51%) Legal
8 19 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.21%) Law
11 10 (1.85%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.85%) Local Government
11 10 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.66%) General Ledger
13 8 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.48%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.29%) Back Office
14 7 (1.29%) Front Office
15 6 (1.11%) Billing
Job Titles
1 103 (19.00%) Lead
2 101 (18.63%) Analyst
3 68 (12.55%) Business Analyst
4 66 (12.18%) Architect
5 57 (10.52%) Consultant
6 49 (9.04%) Data Engineer
7 45 (8.30%) Senior
8 42 (7.75%) Project Manager
9 34 (6.27%) Migration Analyst
10 31 (5.72%) Developer
11 30 (5.54%) Data Migration Lead
12 28 (5.17%) Data Analyst
13 25 (4.61%) Migration Manager
14 24 (4.43%) Data Business Analyst
15 22 (4.06%) Data Migration Analyst
16 21 (3.87%) Data Architect
17 20 (3.69%) Data Manager
18 19 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
18 19 (3.51%) Technical Leader
19 17 (3.14%) Data Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.61%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (3.32%) REST
2 18 (3.32%) XML
3 15 (2.77%) Middleware
4 11 (2.03%) SOAP
5 10 (1.85%) .NET
5 10 (1.85%) Lightning Web Components
6 6 (1.11%) JSON
6 6 (1.11%) Kafka
7 4 (0.74%) PySpark
7 4 (0.74%) React
8 3 (0.55%) Playwright
8 3 (0.55%) Spring
8 3 (0.55%) Web Services
8 3 (0.55%) XSLT
9 2 (0.37%) ADO
9 2 (0.37%) FHIR
9 2 (0.37%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.18%) Jest
10 1 (0.18%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 71 (13.10%) Legacy Systems
2 37 (6.83%) Data Structures
3 21 (3.87%) Management Information System
4 15 (2.77%) Replication
5 13 (2.40%) Cloud Native
5 13 (2.40%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.21%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.66%) Reference Data
7 9 (1.66%) Tandem
8 8 (1.48%) Mainframe
9 7 (1.29%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.11%) Derivative
10 6 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.11%) Taxonomies
11 5 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.74%) Equities
13 3 (0.55%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.48%) Windows
2 7 (1.29%) zOS
3 6 (1.11%) Unix
4 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.74%) Linux
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (100.00%) Migration
2 125 (23.06%) Agile
3 124 (22.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 114 (21.03%) ETL
5 95 (17.53%) Validation
6 93 (17.16%) Data Modelling
7 90 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
8 87 (16.05%) User Acceptance Testing
9 82 (15.13%) ERP
10 71 (13.10%) Data Mapping
11 69 (12.73%) Analytics
12 68 (12.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 60 (11.07%) Business Intelligence
13 60 (11.07%) Project Management
14 55 (10.15%) Decision-Making
15 51 (9.41%) Data Governance
16 50 (9.23%) Data Cleansing
17 46 (8.49%) Data Transformation
18 44 (8.12%) DevOps
18 44 (8.12%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 148 (27.31%) SQL
2 47 (8.67%) Python
3 27 (4.98%) Java
4 14 (2.58%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.03%) PL/SQL
6 10 (1.85%) C#
7 8 (1.48%) Apex Code
8 7 (1.29%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.92%) PHP
9 5 (0.92%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.74%) Perl
10 4 (0.74%) VBA
11 3 (0.55%) Bash
11 3 (0.55%) Bicep
11 3 (0.55%) Korn
11 3 (0.55%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.37%) R
12 2 (0.37%) Scala
12 2 (0.37%) X++
Qualifications
1 73 (13.47%) Security Cleared
2 60 (11.07%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.09%) Degree
4 14 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (2.58%) PMP
5 9 (1.66%) AWS Certification
5 9 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (1.66%) PMI Certification
6 7 (1.29%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.37%) CFA
8 2 (0.37%) CIPD
8 2 (0.37%) IIBA
8 2 (0.37%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.18%) CAPM
9 1 (0.18%) CBAP
9 1 (0.18%) CCA
9 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (17.53%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.27%) QA
3 27 (4.98%) GDPR
4 9 (1.66%) IFRS
5 7 (1.29%) SLA
6 5 (0.92%) GAAP
6 5 (0.92%) IFRS 9
6 5 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.74%) Basel III
7 4 (0.74%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.74%) PMO
8 3 (0.55%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.37%) GMP
9 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.18%) COBIT
10 1 (0.18%) HL7
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (2.40%) Docker
2 10 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.48%) NFS
4 4 (0.74%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.37%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (3.87%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.03%) Terraform
3 6 (1.11%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (1.11%) vMotion
4 4 (0.74%) Ansible
4 4 (0.74%) Grafana
5 2 (0.37%) Argo
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.37%) 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
1 102 (18.82%) Oracle
2 81 (14.94%) SAP
3 79 (14.58%) Microsoft
4 32 (5.90%) Salesforce
5 30 (5.54%) Workday
6 25 (4.61%) Databricks
7 19 (3.51%) Informatica
8 15 (2.77%) Avaloq
9 12 (2.21%) MuleSoft
9 12 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 12 (2.21%) VMware
10 11 (2.03%) Pure Storage
11 9 (1.66%) GoldenSource
11 9 (1.66%) Talend
12 8 (1.48%) Kronos
12 8 (1.48%) Temenos
13 7 (1.29%) Google
14 6 (1.11%) Commvault
15 5 (0.92%) IBM
16 3 (0.55%) Murex