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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 103 122
Rank change year-on-year +17 +19 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 468 387 423
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.32% 2.48% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 2.78% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 262 281
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £455 £468 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £711 £738
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +1.85%
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% +44.68%
75th Percentile £99.38 £58.25 £86.50
90th Percentile £105.75 £62.90 £86.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -24.71% +34.92%

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 13,010 13,919 17,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.33% 89.24% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,558 8,971 12,826
10th Percentile £333 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.42% -3.47%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 166 247
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.38 £18.70
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.98 £21.63
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £36.34
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +3.21% -4.22%
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.56 £62.75
90th Percentile £67.25 £80.38 £76.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +28.57%

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 19 November 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 0 63 £553 +0.27% 82
East London +11 10 £540 +35.00% 1
North London - 6 £550 -
West London -10 5 £600 +20.00% 6
South London -4 4 £458 +1.67%
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 24 (5.13%) Confluence
2 9 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.85%) CMS
5 3 (0.64%) Apache
5 3 (0.64%) LiveLink
6 2 (0.43%) 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 20 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.07%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.64%) Oracle Smart View
6 3 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 44 (9.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (5.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (2.99%) SAP HR
4 10 (2.14%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (1.92%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (1.71%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (1.50%) NetSuite
7 7 (1.50%) SAP Payroll
8 6 (1.28%) Endur
8 6 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (1.07%) Oracle EBS R12
9 5 (1.07%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (1.07%) SAP ERP
9 5 (1.07%) SAP SD
9 5 (1.07%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.85%) Oracle FAH
10 4 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.85%) Unit4 Business World
11 3 (0.64%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 71 (15.17%) Azure
2 51 (10.90%) Power Platform
3 46 (9.83%) AWS
4 32 (6.84%) Dynamics 365
4 32 (6.84%) OCI
5 30 (6.41%) SaaS
6 21 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (3.63%) Snowflake
8 13 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (2.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 11 (2.35%) Amazon S3
9 11 (2.35%) GCP
10 10 (2.14%) GitHub
11 9 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (1.92%) PowerApps
12 8 (1.71%) dbt
12 8 (1.71%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 7 (1.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) NAS
1 2 (0.43%) WAN
2 1 (0.21%) DNS
2 1 (0.21%) Firewall
2 1 (0.21%) IPv4
2 1 (0.21%) Network Security
2 1 (0.21%) SAN
2 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.21%) VLAN
2 1 (0.21%) VPN
2 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.55%) SQL Server
2 37 (7.91%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (7.91%) Power BI
3 28 (5.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 20 (4.27%) Relational Database
5 17 (3.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 12 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (2.35%) Tableau
8 10 (2.14%) Metadata
8 10 (2.14%) Oracle Database
9 9 (1.92%) Big Data
9 9 (1.92%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.92%) DataStage
9 9 (1.92%) RDBMS
10 7 (1.50%) Amazon QuickSight
10 7 (1.50%) MySQL
10 7 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (1.50%) SAP HANA
11 6 (1.28%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (9.40%) JIRA
2 5 (1.07%) LSMW
3 4 (0.85%) Git
3 4 (0.85%) Zephyr
4 3 (0.64%) Selenium
5 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.43%) TestRail
5 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.21%) ERwin
6 1 (0.21%) GitLab
6 1 (0.21%) gulp
6 1 (0.21%) Postman
6 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.21%) webpack
General
1 196 (41.88%) Finance
2 156 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 57 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 35 (7.48%) Banking
6 22 (4.70%) Local Government
7 21 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (4.27%) Back Office
9 17 (3.63%) Retail
10 12 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.56%) Manufacturing
10 12 (2.56%) Marketing
11 10 (2.14%) Legal
12 9 (1.92%) Billing
12 9 (1.92%) General Ledger
13 8 (1.71%) Front Office
14 7 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.50%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 82 (17.52%) Analyst
2 68 (14.53%) Consultant
3 67 (14.32%) Lead
4 56 (11.97%) Business Analyst
5 55 (11.75%) Architect
6 43 (9.19%) Project Manager
7 38 (8.12%) Data Engineer
8 32 (6.84%) Senior
9 24 (5.13%) Data Migration Lead
10 23 (4.91%) SAP Consultant
11 22 (4.70%) Data Analyst
12 17 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
13 16 (3.42%) Developer
14 15 (3.21%) Functional Consultant
15 14 (2.99%) Data Migration Analyst
15 14 (2.99%) Data Migration Specialist
15 14 (2.99%) Migration Analyst
15 14 (2.99%) Migration Engineer
15 14 (2.99%) Migration Specialist
15 14 (2.99%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.70%) XML
2 19 (4.06%) REST
3 16 (3.42%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (3.21%) Lightning Web Components
5 11 (2.35%) SOAP
6 9 (1.92%) Middleware
7 8 (1.71%) Visualforce
8 7 (1.50%) JSON
8 7 (1.50%) PySpark
8 7 (1.50%) SAP Fiori
9 6 (1.28%) .NET
9 6 (1.28%) BAPI
9 6 (1.28%) EDI
9 6 (1.28%) IDoc
10 5 (1.07%) React
10 5 (1.07%) SAP ALE
11 4 (0.85%) Swagger
11 4 (0.85%) Web Services
12 2 (0.43%) Great Expectations
12 2 (0.43%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 60 (12.82%) Legacy Systems
2 30 (6.41%) Data Structures
3 18 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.71%) Virtual Team
6 7 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.50%) Reference Data
7 6 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.07%) Credit Risk
8 5 (1.07%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.85%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.85%) Grid Computing
9 4 (0.85%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.64%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.64%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (0.85%) Windows
3 1 (0.21%) AIX
3 1 (0.21%) Linux
3 1 (0.21%) Unix
3 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 468 (100.00%) Migration
2 98 (20.94%) Agile
3 92 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
4 81 (17.31%) ERP
5 77 (16.45%) ETL
6 75 (16.03%) Stakeholder Management
6 75 (16.03%) User Acceptance Testing
7 68 (14.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 67 (14.32%) Validation
9 62 (13.25%) Data Modelling
10 59 (12.61%) Analytics
11 52 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
11 52 (11.11%) CRM
12 50 (10.68%) Project Management
13 43 (9.19%) Change Management
13 43 (9.19%) Data Cleansing
13 43 (9.19%) Data Governance
13 43 (9.19%) Workshop Facilitation
14 41 (8.76%) DevOps
15 39 (8.33%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 118 (25.21%) SQL
2 40 (8.55%) Python
3 29 (6.20%) Java
4 14 (2.99%) Apex Code
5 13 (2.78%) C#
6 12 (2.56%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.71%) ABAP
8 5 (1.07%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.07%) SOQL
9 4 (0.85%) SOSL
9 4 (0.85%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.64%) Bicep
10 3 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.64%) VB
11 2 (0.43%) Korn
11 2 (0.43%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.43%) R
11 2 (0.43%) Scala
11 2 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (9.19%) Degree
2 35 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.41%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.56%) PMI Certification
4 12 (2.56%) PMP
5 11 (2.35%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.07%) CFA
8 4 (0.85%) CBAP
8 4 (0.85%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.85%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.85%) SAP Certification
9 3 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.43%) CIMA
10 2 (0.43%) CIPD
11 1 (0.21%) APMG
11 1 (0.21%) CCAB
11 1 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (13.46%) Data Quality
2 32 (6.84%) QA
3 15 (3.21%) GDPR
4 8 (1.71%) SLA
5 5 (1.07%) IFRS
6 3 (0.64%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.64%) IFRS 17
6 3 (0.64%) IFRS 9
6 3 (0.64%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.43%) EMIR
7 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.43%) MiFID
7 2 (0.43%) PMO
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 (3.21%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) 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 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.14%) Terraform
3 5 (1.07%) Ansible
4 4 (0.85%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.21%) Argo
5 1 (0.21%) Grafana
5 1 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 91 (19.44%) SAP
2 76 (16.24%) Oracle
3 57 (12.18%) Microsoft
4 29 (6.20%) Salesforce
5 25 (5.34%) Workday
6 20 (4.27%) Databricks
7 9 (1.92%) Informatica
8 8 (1.71%) Kronos
9 6 (1.28%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.28%) Google
9 6 (1.28%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.28%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.07%) HP
10 5 (1.07%) Liquidlogic
10 5 (1.07%) Siebel
10 5 (1.07%) Talend
11 4 (0.85%) Concur
12 3 (0.64%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.64%) Ariba
12 3 (0.64%) IFS