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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 99 101
Rank change year-on-year +20 +2 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 703 391 399
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.48% 2.90% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 3.14% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 230 267
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £460 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% -6.96%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £650
90th Percentile £769 £750 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile - £42.99 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.53 £62.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +1.56% -32.63%
75th Percentile £62.75 £78.13 £66.00
90th Percentile £69.35 £97.25 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £50.25 £80.00
% change year-on-year -20.40% -37.19% +42.93%

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 17,998 12,460 14,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.21% 92.49% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,805 8,287 10,011
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £778 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 257 191
10th Percentile £17.50 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -15.49% -11.25%
75th Percentile £57.13 £47.50 £54.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 +28 106 £600 +8.60% 28
West London +10 38 £710 +13.60% 6
South London -4 4 £514 +12.30% 4
East London -1 3 £675 - 5
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 41 (5.83%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.70%) Confluence
3 9 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.85%) Apache
5 5 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.28%) CMS
7 2 (0.28%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 30 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 62 (8.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (2.84%) Oracle ERP
4 18 (2.56%) Oracle Payables
5 15 (2.13%) NetSuite
6 14 (1.99%) Oracle Receivables
7 11 (1.56%) SAP ERP
8 10 (1.42%) Oracle EBS
9 9 (1.28%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (1.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 8 (1.14%) iTrent
10 8 (1.14%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (1.14%) Workday HCM
11 7 (1.00%) Temenos T24
12 6 (0.85%) Finacle
13 5 (0.71%) SAP MDG
13 5 (0.71%) SAP Payroll
14 4 (0.57%) Maximo
14 4 (0.57%) SAP HCM
14 4 (0.57%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 124 (17.64%) Azure
2 108 (15.36%) Power Platform
3 82 (11.66%) Dynamics 365
4 58 (8.25%) AWS
5 54 (7.68%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (4.84%) OCI
7 30 (4.27%) SaaS
8 27 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (3.70%) Snowflake
10 25 (3.56%) Power Automate
11 23 (3.27%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (3.13%) Amazon S3
13 20 (2.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 18 (2.56%) PowerApps
15 17 (2.42%) GCP
16 16 (2.28%) SuccessFactors
17 15 (2.13%) GitHub
18 12 (1.71%) dbt
19 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
19 9 (1.28%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.43%) Intranet
1 3 (0.43%) VPN
2 2 (0.28%) HTTP
2 2 (0.28%) NAS
2 2 (0.28%) SAN
3 1 (0.14%) DKIM
3 1 (0.14%) DMARC
3 1 (0.14%) DNS
3 1 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.14%) Firewall
3 1 (0.14%) Network Security
3 1 (0.14%) SNMP
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (13.51%) Power BI
2 41 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (3.98%) SQL Server
4 23 (3.27%) Metadata
5 22 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 16 (2.28%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.99%) NoSQL
8 13 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (1.28%) BusinessObjects
12 8 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (1.00%) DataStage
13 7 (1.00%) Db2
14 6 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.85%) Oracle Database
15 5 (0.71%) BigQuery
15 5 (0.71%) MongoDB
15 5 (0.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 60 (8.53%) JIRA
2 15 (2.13%) Git
3 6 (0.85%) Zephyr
4 4 (0.57%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.57%) LSMW
4 4 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.43%) ER Studio
5 3 (0.43%) Gatling
5 3 (0.43%) Selenium
6 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.28%) GitLab
6 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.14%) JMeter
7 1 (0.14%) JUnit
7 1 (0.14%) Postman
7 1 (0.14%) ScriptRunner
General
1 297 (42.25%) Finance
2 209 (29.73%) Social Skills
3 92 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (8.82%) Banking
5 52 (7.40%) Public Sector
6 41 (5.83%) Law
7 31 (4.41%) Retail
8 26 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.70%) General Ledger
9 20 (2.84%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.13%) Local Government
10 15 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (1.99%) Aviation
11 14 (1.99%) Billing
11 14 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.99%) Marketing
12 13 (1.85%) Legal
13 11 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.28%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 163 (23.19%) Lead
2 113 (16.07%) Architect
3 109 (15.50%) Analyst
4 78 (11.10%) Consultant
5 59 (8.39%) Business Analyst
6 56 (7.97%) Data Migration Lead
7 55 (7.82%) Senior
8 51 (7.25%) Data Engineer
9 44 (6.26%) Data Analyst
10 36 (5.12%) Project Manager
11 33 (4.69%) Lead Architect
12 32 (4.55%) Data Architect
12 32 (4.55%) Functional Architect
13 29 (4.13%) Developer
13 29 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
14 28 (3.98%) Migration Analyst
15 23 (3.27%) Technical Leader
16 22 (3.13%) Data Migration Analyst
17 21 (2.99%) Oracle Consultant
17 21 (2.99%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.39%) Oracle Fusion
2 29 (4.13%) Middleware
3 22 (3.13%) REST
4 14 (1.99%) .NET
4 14 (1.99%) SOAP
5 12 (1.71%) XML
6 10 (1.42%) PySpark
6 10 (1.42%) Terraform
7 9 (1.28%) JSON
8 6 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
9 5 (0.71%) Kafka
9 5 (0.71%) Keycloak
9 5 (0.71%) Web Services
10 4 (0.57%) HTML5 Canvas
10 4 (0.57%) Spring
10 4 (0.57%) XSLT
11 3 (0.43%) HTML
11 3 (0.43%) Playwright
12 2 (0.28%) EDI
12 2 (0.28%) React
Miscellaneous
1 83 (11.81%) Legacy Systems
2 53 (7.54%) Data Structures
3 25 (3.56%) Management Information System
4 24 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.99%) Cloud Native
7 18 (2.56%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.13%) FMCG
9 12 (1.71%) Reference Data
10 10 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.14%) Replication
12 7 (1.00%) Mainframe
12 7 (1.00%) Reinsurance
13 6 (0.85%) Credit Risk
13 6 (0.85%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.85%) Legacy Code
13 6 (0.85%) NHS
13 6 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.13%) Windows
2 5 (0.71%) Linux
3 3 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 703 (100.00%) Migration
2 191 (27.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 190 (27.03%) Validation
4 189 (26.88%) User Acceptance Testing
5 179 (25.46%) ERP
6 134 (19.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 127 (18.07%) Agile
8 121 (17.21%) Data Modelling
9 104 (14.79%) Business Intelligence
10 92 (13.09%) Data Governance
11 89 (12.66%) ETL
12 84 (11.95%) DevOps
13 79 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
14 74 (10.53%) Translating Business Requirements
15 71 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
16 68 (9.67%) Data Mapping
16 68 (9.67%) Requirements Gathering
17 61 (8.68%) Cutover Planning
17 61 (8.68%) Data Cleansing
17 61 (8.68%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 129 (18.35%) SQL
2 47 (6.69%) Python
3 23 (3.27%) Java
4 14 (1.99%) JavaScript
5 12 (1.71%) C#
6 8 (1.14%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.85%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.71%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.71%) Kotlin
8 5 (0.71%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.43%) SOQL
9 3 (0.43%) VBA
9 3 (0.43%) X++
10 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.28%) R
10 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.14%) ABAP
11 1 (0.14%) C
11 1 (0.14%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 77 (10.95%) Security Cleared
2 67 (9.53%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.55%) Degree
4 16 (2.28%) PMP
5 15 (2.13%) PMI Certification
6 11 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.14%) ACCA
8 8 (1.14%) CIMA
9 7 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.57%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.57%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.28%) CBAP
12 2 (0.28%) CFA
12 2 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.14%) CSPO
13 1 (0.14%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (19.91%) Data Quality
2 55 (7.82%) QA
3 26 (3.70%) GDPR
4 21 (2.99%) PMO
5 9 (1.28%) SLA
6 7 (1.00%) GRC
7 5 (0.71%) HL7
8 4 (0.57%) IFRS
9 3 (0.43%) DICOM
9 3 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.43%) SNOMED CT
10 2 (0.28%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.28%) GAAP
10 2 (0.28%) GMP
10 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.14%) AIFMD
11 1 (0.14%) Basel III
System Software
1 7 (1.00%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (1.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.57%) HP ALM
2 4 (0.57%) Karpenter
3 2 (0.28%) Ansible
4 1 (0.14%) Avamar
4 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 151 (21.48%) Microsoft
2 131 (18.63%) Oracle
3 122 (17.35%) SAP
4 47 (6.69%) Databricks
5 23 (3.27%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.84%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.56%) Informatica
7 18 (2.56%) Workday
8 12 (1.71%) IBM
9 9 (1.28%) IFS
9 9 (1.28%) Talend
10 8 (1.14%) Google
11 7 (1.00%) Ariba
11 7 (1.00%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.85%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.85%) Temenos
13 5 (0.71%) Avaloq
13 5 (0.71%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.57%) Alteryx
14 4 (0.57%) Palantir