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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 93 102
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 722 403 426
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.64% 2.96% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 3.21% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 241 293
10th Percentile £375 £388 £388
25th Percentile £463 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £638 £660
90th Percentile £764 £769 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -1.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £52.85 £42.99 -
25th Percentile £53.38 £55.53 £62.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £65.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.56% -32.63%
75th Percentile £68.25 £78.13 £66.00
90th Percentile £71.55 £97.25 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% -22.58% +150.00%

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 17,636 12,537 14,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.16% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,638 8,379 10,607
10th Percentile £363 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £686
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 237 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.39
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.81 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.92% -9.40% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.38 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

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 July 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 July 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 +23 105 £589 +12.19% 10
West London +13 33 £588 -6.00% 3
East London -1 3 £675 - 1
South London -15 3 £543 +18.58% 1
North London -7 1 £495 -10.00% 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 41 (5.68%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.63%) Confluence
3 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.69%) Apache
5 4 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.28%) HCL Notes
6 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) Appian
7 1 (0.14%) CMS
7 1 (0.14%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 32 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.97%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 56 (7.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (3.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (2.63%) Oracle ERP
4 16 (2.22%) NetSuite
5 15 (2.08%) Oracle Payables
6 13 (1.80%) Oracle Receivables
6 13 (1.80%) SAP ERP
7 11 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
8 10 (1.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 9 (1.25%) iTrent
9 9 (1.25%) Oracle General Ledger
10 8 (1.11%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.97%) Loan IQ
11 7 (0.97%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.83%) SAP Payroll
12 6 (0.83%) Temenos T24
13 5 (0.69%) SAP MDG
14 4 (0.55%) Finacle
14 4 (0.55%) Maximo
14 4 (0.55%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 124 (17.17%) Azure
2 100 (13.85%) Power Platform
3 77 (10.66%) Dynamics 365
4 59 (8.17%) AWS
5 52 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (4.43%) OCI
7 31 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
8 28 (3.88%) SaaS
9 26 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 22 (3.05%) Amazon S3
10 22 (3.05%) Snowflake
11 20 (2.77%) Power Automate
12 19 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 17 (2.35%) GitHub
14 16 (2.22%) PowerApps
15 14 (1.94%) GCP
15 14 (1.94%) SuccessFactors
16 11 (1.52%) dbt
17 9 (1.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 9 (1.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.39%) NAS
1 10 (1.39%) SAN
2 3 (0.42%) DNS
2 3 (0.42%) Firewall
2 3 (0.42%) Intranet
2 3 (0.42%) VPN
3 2 (0.28%) HTTP
4 1 (0.14%) DKIM
4 1 (0.14%) DMARC
4 1 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.14%) Network Security
4 1 (0.14%) SNMP
4 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (12.19%) Power BI
2 36 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (3.19%) Data Lake
3 23 (3.19%) SQL Server
4 18 (2.49%) Metadata
5 15 (2.08%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.94%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (1.52%) Db2
9 9 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
9 9 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (0.97%) DataStage
11 6 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (0.83%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.55%) SAP Data Services
12 4 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 65 (9.00%) JIRA
2 14 (1.94%) Git
3 6 (0.83%) Zephyr
4 5 (0.69%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.55%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.55%) JUnit
5 4 (0.55%) LSMW
5 4 (0.55%) Selenium
6 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.42%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.42%) Gatling
6 3 (0.42%) GitLab
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.28%) Postman
7 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.14%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.14%) JMeter
8 1 (0.14%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 293 (40.58%) Finance
2 210 (29.09%) Social Skills
3 96 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.14%) Banking
5 58 (8.03%) Public Sector
6 43 (5.96%) Law
7 28 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.60%) Retail
9 24 (3.32%) General Ledger
10 18 (2.49%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (2.08%) Aviation
12 15 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (2.08%) Legal
12 15 (2.08%) Local Government
13 14 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.80%) Marketing
15 11 (1.52%) Billing
15 11 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 175 (24.24%) Lead
2 115 (15.93%) Architect
3 111 (15.37%) Analyst
4 70 (9.70%) Consultant
5 68 (9.42%) Business Analyst
6 61 (8.45%) Data Engineer
7 58 (8.03%) Data Migration Lead
8 52 (7.20%) Senior
9 42 (5.82%) Data Analyst
9 42 (5.82%) Project Manager
10 34 (4.71%) Migration Analyst
11 33 (4.57%) Lead Architect
12 31 (4.29%) Functional Architect
13 30 (4.16%) Data Architect
14 28 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
15 27 (3.74%) Developer
16 25 (3.46%) Data Migration Analyst
16 25 (3.46%) Technical Leader
17 24 (3.32%) Migration Manager
18 23 (3.19%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (6.93%) Oracle Fusion
2 24 (3.32%) REST
3 23 (3.19%) Middleware
4 16 (2.22%) SOAP
5 13 (1.80%) XML
6 11 (1.52%) .NET
7 10 (1.39%) Lightning Web Components
8 9 (1.25%) JSON
9 8 (1.11%) Kafka
10 6 (0.83%) PySpark
10 6 (0.83%) Spring
11 5 (0.69%) Web Services
12 4 (0.55%) HTML5 Canvas
12 4 (0.55%) Keycloak
12 4 (0.55%) Playwright
12 4 (0.55%) React
12 4 (0.55%) XSLT
13 3 (0.42%) HTML
14 2 (0.28%) EDI
14 2 (0.28%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 85 (11.77%) Legacy Systems
2 54 (7.48%) Data Structures
3 24 (3.32%) Management Information System
4 21 (2.91%) Cloud Native
5 18 (2.49%) Product Ownership
6 17 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.94%) FMCG
9 13 (1.80%) Replication
10 11 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.52%) Mainframe
11 10 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.25%) Data Centre
13 8 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.83%) Legacy Code
14 6 (0.83%) NHS
14 6 (0.83%) Reference Data
15 5 (0.69%) PACS
15 5 (0.69%) Public Cloud
15 5 (0.69%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.63%) Windows
2 7 (0.97%) zOS
3 4 (0.55%) Linux
4 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 722 (100.00%) Migration
2 187 (25.90%) Validation
3 183 (25.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 179 (24.79%) User Acceptance Testing
5 166 (22.99%) ERP
6 129 (17.87%) Agile
7 128 (17.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 110 (15.24%) Data Modelling
9 95 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
9 95 (13.16%) ETL
10 83 (11.50%) DevOps
11 82 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
12 80 (11.08%) Data Governance
12 80 (11.08%) Data Mapping
13 73 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 71 (9.83%) Translating Business Requirements
15 66 (9.14%) Data Cleansing
16 61 (8.45%) Data Transformation
16 61 (8.45%) Decision-Making
17 60 (8.31%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 124 (17.17%) SQL
2 48 (6.65%) Python
3 28 (3.88%) Java
4 16 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 10 (1.39%) C#
6 8 (1.11%) Apex Code
6 8 (1.11%) PL/SQL
7 7 (0.97%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.83%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.69%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.42%) SOQL
11 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.28%) VBA
11 2 (0.28%) X++
12 1 (0.14%) C
12 1 (0.14%) COBOL
12 1 (0.14%) Korn
12 1 (0.14%) Scala
12 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (11.77%) Security Cleared
2 69 (9.56%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.02%) Degree
4 16 (2.22%) PMP
5 14 (1.94%) PMI Certification
6 10 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.83%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.69%) ACCA
9 5 (0.69%) CIMA
9 5 (0.69%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.55%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.55%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.28%) CFA
11 2 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.28%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (18.14%) Data Quality
2 61 (8.45%) QA
3 29 (4.02%) GDPR
4 21 (2.91%) PMO
5 10 (1.39%) SLA
6 5 (0.69%) HL7
7 4 (0.55%) GMP
8 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.42%) DICOM
8 3 (0.42%) IFRS
8 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.42%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.28%) GAAP
9 2 (0.28%) GRC
9 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) GxP
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.11%) Docker
2 8 (1.11%) NFS
3 6 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (2.35%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.08%) Terraform
3 6 (0.83%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (0.83%) vMotion
4 4 (0.55%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.42%) Ansible
5 3 (0.42%) Grafana
5 3 (0.42%) Karpenter
5 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.14%) Argo
6 1 (0.14%) Avamar
6 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 147 (20.36%) Microsoft
2 123 (17.04%) Oracle
3 119 (16.48%) SAP
4 42 (5.82%) Databricks
5 30 (4.16%) Salesforce
6 21 (2.91%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.35%) Informatica
7 17 (2.35%) Workday
8 13 (1.80%) VMware
9 11 (1.52%) IBM
9 11 (1.52%) IFS
10 10 (1.39%) MuleSoft
10 10 (1.39%) Pure Storage
11 9 (1.25%) Talend
12 6 (0.83%) Ariba
12 6 (0.83%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.83%) Commvault
12 6 (0.83%) Google
12 6 (0.83%) Temenos
13 5 (0.69%) Avaloq