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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 97 106
Rank change year-on-year +21 +9 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 722 398 399
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.59% 2.94% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% 3.19% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 229 273
10th Percentile £381 £398 £400
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £755 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile - £42.99 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.53 £62.00
Median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +1.56% -32.63%
75th Percentile £65.50 £78.13 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.45 £97.25 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £50.25 £80.00
% change year-on-year -20.40% -37.19% +199.07%

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 17,900 12,495 14,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.36% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,322 10,079
10th Percentile £363 £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 £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £777 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 253 201
10th Percentile £17.07 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.39% -12.41%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%

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 14 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 14 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 +24 106 £598 +13.81% 13
West London +11 37 £710 +13.60% 4
South London -9 4 £514 +12.30% 3
East London -3 3 £675 - 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 41 (5.68%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.63%) Confluence
3 7 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.83%) Apache
5 5 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.28%) HCL Notes
6 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) CMS
7 1 (0.14%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 30 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 58 (8.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (3.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (2.63%) Oracle ERP
4 17 (2.35%) Oracle Payables
5 15 (2.08%) NetSuite
6 13 (1.80%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (1.66%) SAP ERP
8 10 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
9 9 (1.25%) iTrent
9 9 (1.25%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (1.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 8 (1.11%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (1.11%) Temenos T24
11 7 (0.97%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.83%) Finacle
13 5 (0.69%) Loan IQ
13 5 (0.69%) SAP MDG
13 5 (0.69%) SAP Payroll
14 4 (0.55%) Maximo
14 4 (0.55%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 128 (17.73%) Azure
2 108 (14.96%) Power Platform
3 82 (11.36%) Dynamics 365
4 56 (7.76%) AWS
5 53 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (4.71%) OCI
7 31 (4.29%) SaaS
8 28 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
10 24 (3.32%) Power Automate
10 24 (3.32%) Snowflake
11 22 (3.05%) Amazon S3
12 20 (2.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 17 (2.35%) PowerApps
14 16 (2.22%) GCP
14 16 (2.22%) GitHub
15 15 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
16 10 (1.39%) dbt
17 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
17 9 (1.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.42%) Intranet
1 3 (0.42%) VPN
2 2 (0.28%) DNS
2 2 (0.28%) Firewall
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%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.14%) Network Security
3 1 (0.14%) SNMP
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (13.02%) Power BI
2 37 (5.12%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (3.60%) SQL Server
4 23 (3.19%) Data Lake
5 20 (2.77%) Metadata
6 15 (2.08%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.94%) NoSQL
8 13 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
11 9 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (1.11%) Db2
12 8 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (0.97%) DataStage
14 5 (0.69%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.69%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.69%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 5 (0.69%) Oracle Database
15 4 (0.55%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 64 (8.86%) JIRA
2 14 (1.94%) Git
3 6 (0.83%) Zephyr
4 4 (0.55%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.55%) JUnit
4 4 (0.55%) LSMW
4 4 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.55%) Selenium
5 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.42%) ER Studio
5 3 (0.42%) Gatling
6 2 (0.28%) GitLab
6 2 (0.28%) Postman
6 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.14%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.14%) JMeter
7 1 (0.14%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 305 (42.24%) Finance
2 222 (30.75%) Social Skills
3 96 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (10.11%) Banking
5 52 (7.20%) Public Sector
6 41 (5.68%) Law
7 28 (3.88%) Retail
8 27 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (3.46%) General Ledger
10 20 (2.77%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (2.08%) Local Government
13 14 (1.94%) Aviation
13 14 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.94%) Marketing
13 14 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.80%) Legal
15 12 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (1.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 167 (23.13%) Lead
2 113 (15.65%) Analyst
3 111 (15.37%) Architect
4 80 (11.08%) Consultant
5 69 (9.56%) Business Analyst
6 60 (8.31%) Senior
7 58 (8.03%) Data Migration Lead
8 57 (7.89%) Data Engineer
9 43 (5.96%) Data Analyst
9 43 (5.96%) Project Manager
10 33 (4.57%) Lead Architect
11 31 (4.29%) Functional Architect
12 30 (4.16%) Data Architect
12 30 (4.16%) Migration Analyst
12 30 (4.16%) Solutions Architect
13 29 (4.02%) Developer
14 23 (3.19%) Data Migration Analyst
14 23 (3.19%) Migration Manager
14 23 (3.19%) Technical Leader
15 22 (3.05%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.03%) Oracle Fusion
2 26 (3.60%) Middleware
3 23 (3.19%) REST
4 15 (2.08%) SOAP
5 14 (1.94%) .NET
6 12 (1.66%) XML
7 10 (1.39%) PySpark
8 9 (1.25%) JSON
8 9 (1.25%) Lightning Web Components
9 8 (1.11%) Kafka
10 5 (0.69%) Keycloak
10 5 (0.69%) Web Services
11 4 (0.55%) HTML5 Canvas
11 4 (0.55%) Playwright
11 4 (0.55%) Spring
11 4 (0.55%) XSLT
12 3 (0.42%) HTML
13 2 (0.28%) EDI
13 2 (0.28%) React
13 2 (0.28%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 83 (11.50%) Legacy Systems
2 53 (7.34%) Data Structures
3 24 (3.32%) Management Information System
4 20 (2.77%) Cloud Native
4 20 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (2.77%) Product Ownership
5 19 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.94%) FMCG
7 11 (1.52%) Reference Data
8 10 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.11%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.11%) Mainframe
11 7 (0.97%) Replication
12 6 (0.83%) Credit Risk
12 6 (0.83%) Legacy Code
12 6 (0.83%) NHS
13 5 (0.69%) PACS
13 5 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.35%) Windows
2 5 (0.69%) Linux
3 4 (0.55%) zOS
4 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 722 (100.00%) Migration
2 189 (26.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 189 (26.18%) Validation
3 186 (25.76%) User Acceptance Testing
4 174 (24.10%) ERP
5 134 (18.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 127 (17.59%) Agile
7 117 (16.20%) Data Modelling
8 102 (14.13%) Business Intelligence
9 93 (12.88%) ETL
10 91 (12.60%) Data Governance
11 82 (11.36%) DevOps
11 82 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
12 75 (10.39%) Data Mapping
13 73 (10.11%) Translating Business Requirements
14 72 (9.97%) Continuous Improvement
15 69 (9.56%) Requirements Gathering
16 65 (9.00%) Data Cleansing
16 65 (9.00%) Data Transformation
17 59 (8.17%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 127 (17.59%) SQL
2 47 (6.51%) Python
3 26 (3.60%) Java
4 14 (1.94%) JavaScript
5 13 (1.80%) C#
6 8 (1.11%) PL/SQL
7 7 (0.97%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.83%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.69%) Kotlin
9 5 (0.69%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.55%) SOQL
11 3 (0.42%) VBA
12 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.28%) X++
13 1 (0.14%) Bicep
13 1 (0.14%) R
13 1 (0.14%) Scala
13 1 (0.14%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 77 (10.66%) Security Cleared
2 64 (8.86%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.16%) Degree
4 17 (2.35%) PMP
5 15 (2.08%) PMI Certification
6 9 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.11%) ACCA
7 8 (1.11%) CIMA
8 6 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.69%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.55%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.55%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.55%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.28%) CFA
11 2 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.14%) CSPO
12 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (19.25%) Data Quality
2 59 (8.17%) QA
3 30 (4.16%) GDPR
4 21 (2.91%) PMO
5 10 (1.39%) SLA
6 5 (0.69%) GRC
6 5 (0.69%) HL7
7 4 (0.55%) GMP
7 4 (0.55%) IFRS
8 3 (0.42%) DICOM
8 3 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.42%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.28%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.28%) GAAP
9 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) SOC 1
10 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (0.97%) Docker
2 4 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (2.08%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.39%) Terraform
3 4 (0.55%) HP ALM
3 4 (0.55%) Karpenter
4 2 (0.28%) Ansible
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.14%) Avamar
5 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 151 (20.91%) Microsoft
2 131 (18.14%) Oracle
3 121 (16.76%) SAP
4 47 (6.51%) Databricks
5 27 (3.74%) Salesforce
6 21 (2.91%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.49%) Informatica
8 17 (2.35%) Workday
9 11 (1.52%) IBM
9 11 (1.52%) IFS
10 10 (1.39%) Talend
11 9 (1.25%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.11%) Google
13 6 (0.83%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.83%) Avaloq
13 6 (0.83%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.83%) Temenos
14 5 (0.69%) Ariba
15 4 (0.55%) HP
15 4 (0.55%) Sage