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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 102 110
Rank change year-on-year +18 +8 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 472 382 438
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.30% 2.45% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 2.73% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 263 298
10th Percentile £400 £400 £421
25th Percentile £453 £475 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £641 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £741
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £66.25 £37.70 £82.70
25th Percentile £71.88 £41.75 £83.50
Median hourly rate £85.00 £49.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.72% -41.76% +36.00%
75th Percentile £99.38 £58.25 £86.50
90th Percentile £105.75 £62.90 £86.70
England median hourly rate £64.82 £64.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +1.27% -24.71% +31.78%

All Process and 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 13,110 14,014 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.71% 89.83% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,647 9,052 12,526
10th Percentile £338 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 165 236
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 7 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Migration in London over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Migration in London

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 7 December 2025. 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 +13 63 £600 +5.73% 8
East London +10 11 £540 +35.00% 3
North London - 6 £550 -
West London -10 5 £600 +20.00% 3
South London -2 4 £458 +1.67% 4
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 25 (5.30%) Confluence
2 14 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.85%) CMS
5 3 (0.64%) Apache
5 3 (0.64%) LiveLink
6 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.21%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.21%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 25 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.64%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 41 (8.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (4.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (2.97%) SAP HR
4 10 (2.12%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (1.91%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (1.48%) NetSuite
6 7 (1.48%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (1.48%) SAP Payroll
7 6 (1.27%) Endur
7 6 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (1.06%) Oracle EBS R12
8 5 (1.06%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (1.06%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.85%) Loan IQ
9 4 (0.85%) Oracle FAH
9 4 (0.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.85%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.85%) Unit4 Business World
10 3 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.64%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 66 (13.98%) Azure
2 48 (10.17%) Power Platform
3 45 (9.53%) AWS
4 31 (6.57%) OCI
5 30 (6.36%) SaaS
6 27 (5.72%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (3.81%) Snowflake
9 13 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (2.33%) Amazon S3
11 10 (2.12%) GCP
11 10 (2.12%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 9 (1.91%) dbt
12 9 (1.91%) GitHub
12 9 (1.91%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.69%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (1.48%) PaaS
15 6 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.64%) NAS
2 2 (0.42%) WAN
3 1 (0.21%) DNS
3 1 (0.21%) Firewall
3 1 (0.21%) IPv4
3 1 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.21%) SAN
3 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.21%) VLAN
3 1 (0.21%) VPN
3 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.69%) SQL Server
2 40 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (7.63%) Power BI
4 27 (5.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 25 (5.30%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 14 (2.97%) Oracle Database
8 13 (2.75%) Metadata
8 13 (2.75%) RDBMS
9 12 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (2.33%) DataStage
10 11 (2.33%) Tableau
11 10 (2.12%) Big Data
12 9 (1.91%) Data Lake
13 8 (1.69%) MongoDB
13 8 (1.69%) MySQL
14 7 (1.48%) Amazon QuickSight
14 7 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 48 (10.17%) JIRA
2 4 (0.85%) Toad
2 4 (0.85%) Zephyr
3 3 (0.64%) Git
3 3 (0.64%) Selenium
4 2 (0.42%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.42%) LSMW
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.42%) TestRail
4 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.21%) ERwin
5 1 (0.21%) gulp
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.21%) Postman
5 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.21%) webpack
General
1 192 (40.68%) Finance
2 154 (32.63%) Social Skills
3 60 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 34 (7.20%) Banking
6 22 (4.66%) Local Government
7 20 (4.24%) Back Office
7 20 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (3.81%) Retail
9 12 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.54%) Legal
9 12 (2.54%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.91%) Billing
11 8 (1.69%) Front Office
11 8 (1.69%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.69%) Marketing
11 8 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.48%) General Ledger
13 6 (1.27%) Law
13 6 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 90 (19.07%) Analyst
2 68 (14.41%) Lead
3 60 (12.71%) Business Analyst
4 59 (12.50%) Consultant
5 53 (11.23%) Architect
6 43 (9.11%) Project Manager
7 36 (7.63%) Data Engineer
8 31 (6.57%) Senior
9 24 (5.08%) Data Migration Lead
9 24 (5.08%) Developer
10 22 (4.66%) Data Analyst
11 19 (4.03%) Migration Analyst
12 18 (3.81%) SAP Consultant
13 17 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (3.39%) Data Migration Analyst
15 15 (3.18%) Data Architect
15 15 (3.18%) Functional Consultant
16 14 (2.97%) Data Migration Specialist
16 14 (2.97%) Migration Engineer
16 14 (2.97%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.87%) XML
2 17 (3.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 17 (3.60%) REST
3 12 (2.54%) Lightning Web Components
4 9 (1.91%) SOAP
5 8 (1.69%) Middleware
6 7 (1.48%) .NET
6 7 (1.48%) PySpark
6 7 (1.48%) Visualforce
7 6 (1.27%) JSON
8 5 (1.06%) React
9 4 (0.85%) Swagger
10 3 (0.64%) SAP Fiori
10 3 (0.64%) Web Services
10 3 (0.64%) XSLT
11 2 (0.42%) EDI
11 2 (0.42%) Great Expectations
11 2 (0.42%) Kafka
11 2 (0.42%) SAP Basis
11 2 (0.42%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 59 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 30 (6.36%) Data Structures
3 18 (3.81%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.54%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.69%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.27%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.27%) Reference Data
8 6 (1.27%) Replication
9 5 (1.06%) Credit Risk
10 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.85%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.85%) Grid Computing
10 4 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.85%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.64%) Educational Technology
11 3 (0.64%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (0.85%) Unix
3 3 (0.64%) Windows
4 1 (0.21%) AIX
4 1 (0.21%) Linux
4 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (100.00%) Migration
2 109 (23.09%) Agile
3 97 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
4 87 (18.43%) ETL
5 79 (16.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 77 (16.31%) User Acceptance Testing
7 73 (15.47%) ERP
8 68 (14.41%) Data Modelling
9 67 (14.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 66 (13.98%) Validation
11 55 (11.65%) Analytics
12 54 (11.44%) Project Management
13 51 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
14 48 (10.17%) Data Cleansing
15 47 (9.96%) Data Governance
16 46 (9.75%) CRM
16 46 (9.75%) Workshop Facilitation
17 43 (9.11%) Data Analysis
18 40 (8.47%) Change Management
19 38 (8.05%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 124 (26.27%) SQL
2 40 (8.47%) Python
3 28 (5.93%) Java
4 14 (2.97%) C#
5 11 (2.33%) Apex Code
6 9 (1.91%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.48%) Shell Script
8 6 (1.27%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.06%) PHP
9 5 (1.06%) SOQL
10 4 (0.85%) ABAP
10 4 (0.85%) Perl
10 4 (0.85%) SOSL
10 4 (0.85%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.64%) Bicep
11 3 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.64%) VB
12 2 (0.42%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (8.47%) Security Cleared
2 39 (8.26%) Degree
3 33 (6.99%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.33%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.33%) PMI Certification
5 11 (2.33%) PMP
6 9 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.06%) CFA
9 4 (0.85%) CBAP
9 4 (0.85%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.85%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.85%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.42%) CIMA
11 2 (0.42%) CIPD
12 1 (0.21%) ACCA
12 1 (0.21%) CCAB
12 1 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (14.83%) Data Quality
2 36 (7.63%) QA
3 18 (3.81%) GDPR
4 6 (1.27%) IFRS
5 4 (0.85%) SLA
6 3 (0.64%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.64%) IFRS 17
6 3 (0.64%) IFRS 9
6 3 (0.64%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.64%) PMO
7 2 (0.42%) EMIR
7 2 (0.42%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.42%) MiFID
8 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
8 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (3.18%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (3.81%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.12%) Terraform
3 5 (1.06%) Ansible
4 4 (0.85%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.21%) Argo
5 1 (0.21%) Grafana
5 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 87 (18.43%) SAP
2 80 (16.95%) Oracle
3 58 (12.29%) Microsoft
4 30 (6.36%) Salesforce
5 25 (5.30%) Workday
6 19 (4.03%) Databricks
7 11 (2.33%) Informatica
8 8 (1.69%) Kronos
8 8 (1.69%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.27%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.27%) Talend
10 5 (1.06%) Google
10 5 (1.06%) Liquidlogic
11 4 (0.85%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.85%) Avaloq
11 4 (0.85%) HP
11 4 (0.85%) IBM
11 4 (0.85%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.64%) Ariba
12 3 (0.64%) Siebel