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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 95 107
Rank change year-on-year +14 +12 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 702 400 390
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.47% 2.97% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 3.21% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 234 258
10th Percentile £375 £400 £389
25th Percentile £450 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £655 £650
90th Percentile £755 £738 £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% -13.25%

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 18,008 12,449 14,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.45% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 8,281 9,881
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £661 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 255 191
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -9.86% -11.25%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 29 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 29 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 +29 109 £600 +9.09% 16
West London +9 36 £705 +12.80% 10
South London -14 4 £514 +12.30% 5
East London 0 3 £675 - 3
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 (5.84%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.85%) Confluence
3 10 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.85%) Apache
4 6 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.28%) CMS
6 2 (0.28%) HCL Notes
6 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 30 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (1.28%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.28%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 63 (8.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (3.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (2.85%) Oracle ERP
4 18 (2.56%) Oracle Payables
5 16 (2.28%) NetSuite
6 14 (1.99%) Oracle Receivables
7 10 (1.42%) SAP ERP
8 9 (1.28%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (1.28%) Oracle General Ledger
8 9 (1.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 8 (1.14%) iTrent
9 8 (1.14%) Oracle Financials
9 8 (1.14%) Workday HCM
10 7 (1.00%) Temenos T24
11 6 (0.85%) SAP MDG
12 5 (0.71%) Finacle
12 5 (0.71%) SAP GRC
12 5 (0.71%) SAP Payroll
13 4 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
13 4 (0.57%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 125 (17.81%) Azure
2 108 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 83 (11.82%) Dynamics 365
4 59 (8.40%) AWS
5 52 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (4.84%) OCI
7 31 (4.42%) SaaS
8 28 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (3.70%) Snowflake
10 24 (3.42%) Power Automate
11 23 (3.28%) Amazon S3
12 22 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
13 19 (2.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 18 (2.56%) PowerApps
15 16 (2.28%) GCP
15 16 (2.28%) GitHub
15 16 (2.28%) SuccessFactors
16 12 (1.71%) dbt
17 10 (1.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 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 94 (13.39%) Power BI
2 41 (5.84%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (4.13%) SQL Server
4 25 (3.56%) Metadata
5 21 (2.99%) Data Lake
6 18 (2.56%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.85%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (1.28%) BusinessObjects
10 8 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.14%) DataStage
10 8 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
10 8 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (1.00%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.85%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.71%) Db2
13 5 (0.71%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 59 (8.40%) JIRA
2 15 (2.14%) Git
3 6 (0.85%) Zephyr
4 5 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.57%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.43%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.43%) Gatling
6 3 (0.43%) GitLab
6 3 (0.43%) LSMW
6 3 (0.43%) Selenium
7 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.14%) JMeter
8 1 (0.14%) JUnit
8 1 (0.14%) Postman
8 1 (0.14%) ScriptRunner
General
1 294 (41.88%) Finance
2 213 (30.34%) Social Skills
3 92 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (8.55%) Banking
5 53 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 40 (5.70%) Law
7 30 (4.27%) Retail
8 28 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
9 27 (3.85%) General Ledger
10 20 (2.85%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.42%) Local Government
12 16 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (1.85%) Aviation
14 13 (1.85%) Billing
14 13 (1.85%) Marketing
15 11 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.42%) Legal
16 10 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 162 (23.08%) Lead
2 115 (16.38%) Analyst
3 108 (15.38%) Architect
4 79 (11.25%) Consultant
5 62 (8.83%) Business Analyst
6 56 (7.98%) Senior
7 54 (7.69%) Data Migration Lead
8 51 (7.26%) Data Engineer
9 46 (6.55%) Data Analyst
10 36 (5.13%) Project Manager
11 33 (4.70%) Lead Architect
12 32 (4.56%) Functional Architect
13 30 (4.27%) Data Architect
14 29 (4.13%) Developer
15 28 (3.99%) Migration Analyst
16 27 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
17 22 (3.13%) Technical Leader
17 22 (3.13%) Test Manager
18 21 (2.99%) Data Migration Analyst
18 21 (2.99%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (8.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 29 (4.13%) Middleware
3 22 (3.13%) REST
4 15 (2.14%) .NET
5 14 (1.99%) SOAP
5 14 (1.99%) XML
6 10 (1.42%) JSON
6 10 (1.42%) PySpark
6 10 (1.42%) Terraform
7 6 (0.85%) Kafka
7 6 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (0.85%) Web Services
8 5 (0.71%) Keycloak
9 4 (0.57%) HTML
9 4 (0.57%) HTML5 Canvas
9 4 (0.57%) Spring
9 4 (0.57%) XSLT
10 3 (0.43%) Playwright
11 2 (0.28%) EDI
11 2 (0.28%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 83 (11.82%) Legacy Systems
2 53 (7.55%) Data Structures
3 25 (3.56%) Management Information System
4 24 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (2.85%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.56%) Cloud Native
6 18 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.28%) FMCG
8 12 (1.71%) Reference Data
9 10 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.28%) Replication
11 8 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
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
14 5 (0.71%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.14%) Windows
2 5 (0.71%) Linux
3 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 702 (100.00%) Migration
2 195 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 193 (27.49%) User Acceptance Testing
4 192 (27.35%) Validation
5 183 (26.07%) ERP
6 143 (20.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 129 (18.38%) Agile
8 116 (16.52%) Data Modelling
9 103 (14.67%) Business Intelligence
10 96 (13.68%) Data Governance
11 86 (12.25%) ETL
12 81 (11.54%) DevOps
12 81 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
13 73 (10.40%) Translating Business Requirements
14 71 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 70 (9.97%) Requirements Gathering
16 66 (9.40%) Data Mapping
17 61 (8.69%) Cutover Planning
17 61 (8.69%) Data Cleansing
18 60 (8.55%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 129 (18.38%) SQL
2 46 (6.55%) Python
3 22 (3.13%) Java
4 15 (2.14%) JavaScript
5 13 (1.85%) C#
6 7 (1.00%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.85%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.71%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.71%) Kotlin
8 5 (0.71%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.43%) SOQL
9 3 (0.43%) VBA
10 2 (0.28%) ABAP
10 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.28%) R
10 2 (0.28%) Scala
10 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.28%) X++
11 1 (0.14%) C
Qualifications
1 82 (11.68%) Security Cleared
2 70 (9.97%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.56%) Degree
4 16 (2.28%) PMP
5 15 (2.14%) PMI Certification
6 11 (1.57%) 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%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
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%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (20.66%) Data Quality
2 55 (7.83%) QA
3 24 (3.42%) GDPR
4 20 (2.85%) PMO
5 8 (1.14%) GRC
5 8 (1.14%) SLA
6 5 (0.71%) HL7
7 3 (0.43%) DICOM
7 3 (0.43%) IFRS
7 3 (0.43%) SNOMED CT
8 2 (0.28%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.28%) GMP
8 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.14%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.14%) Basel III
9 1 (0.14%) EMIR
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
1 157 (22.36%) Microsoft
2 132 (18.80%) Oracle
3 123 (17.52%) SAP
4 47 (6.70%) Databricks
5 23 (3.28%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.85%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.56%) Informatica
8 16 (2.28%) Workday
9 12 (1.71%) IBM
10 9 (1.28%) IFS
10 9 (1.28%) Talend
11 8 (1.14%) Ariba
12 7 (1.00%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.00%) Google
13 6 (0.85%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.71%) Temenos
15 4 (0.57%) Avaloq
15 4 (0.57%) Bloomberg
15 4 (0.57%) HP
15 4 (0.57%) Teradata