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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 99 101
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 526 352 409
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.32% 2.61% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 2.88% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 246 306
10th Percentile £391 £386 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £638 £629 £675
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
England median daily rate £540 £540 £550
% change year-on-year - -1.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £82.70
25th Percentile - - £83.50
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -58.82% +9.68%
75th Percentile - - £86.50
90th Percentile - - £86.70
England median hourly rate £61.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +142.99%

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 14,309 12,214 16,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.33% 90.73% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,601 7,904 11,472
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 158 346
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.93 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.81 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.98 £54.88 £49.97
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.51 £72.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.31% -2.26%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +11 61 £550 - 16
East London -1 5 £500 +25.00% 2
West London -15 4 £800 +60.00% 6
North London - 3 £550 -
South London - 3 - - 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 21 (3.99%) Confluence
2 10 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.57%) CMS
3 3 (0.57%) LiveLink
4 2 (0.38%) Appian
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.19%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Portal
5 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 29 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (1.52%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.57%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 31 (5.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (3.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (2.66%) SAP HR
4 12 (2.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (2.09%) Loan IQ
6 10 (1.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 9 (1.71%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (1.52%) Oracle General Ledger
9 7 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (1.14%) Oracle FAH
10 6 (1.14%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.95%) Finacle
11 5 (0.95%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.95%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.95%) Workday HCM
12 4 (0.76%) SAP MM
12 4 (0.76%) SAP Payroll
12 4 (0.76%) Temenos T24
13 3 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
13 3 (0.57%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 78 (14.83%) Azure
2 58 (11.03%) AWS
3 53 (10.08%) Power Platform
4 34 (6.46%) OCI
5 32 (6.08%) Dynamics 365
6 19 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (3.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 18 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (3.42%) SaaS
8 16 (3.04%) Snowflake
9 14 (2.66%) GitHub
10 12 (2.28%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 11 (2.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 9 (1.71%) SuccessFactors
13 8 (1.52%) GCP
14 7 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (1.33%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.33%) PowerApps
15 6 (1.14%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.09%) NAS
2 9 (1.71%) SAN
3 3 (0.57%) DNS
4 2 (0.38%) Firewall
5 1 (0.19%) IPv4
5 1 (0.19%) Network Security
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.19%) VLAN
5 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (8.75%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (7.60%) Power BI
2 40 (7.60%) SQL Server
3 32 (6.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 24 (4.56%) Relational Database
5 20 (3.80%) Oracle Database
6 15 (2.85%) Data Lake
6 15 (2.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 14 (2.66%) Metadata
7 14 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (2.28%) RDBMS
9 11 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (2.09%) Tableau
10 10 (1.90%) Big Data
10 10 (1.90%) MySQL
11 8 (1.52%) DataStage
11 8 (1.52%) DB2
11 8 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (1.14%) NoSQL
12 6 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 51 (9.70%) JIRA
2 5 (0.95%) Git
3 4 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.76%) LSMW
3 4 (0.76%) Toad
4 3 (0.57%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.57%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.57%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.57%) ERwin
4 3 (0.57%) JUnit
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.38%) Selenium
5 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.19%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.19%) GitLab
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 189 (35.93%) Finance
2 177 (33.65%) Social Skills
3 69 (13.12%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (11.41%) Banking
5 37 (7.03%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.51%) Retail
7 26 (4.94%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (3.42%) Legal
8 18 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.90%) General Ledger
10 10 (1.90%) Local Government
10 10 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.71%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.52%) Law
12 8 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.33%) Back Office
13 7 (1.33%) Front Office
13 7 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 100 (19.01%) Analyst
2 96 (18.25%) Lead
3 67 (12.74%) Business Analyst
4 58 (11.03%) Consultant
5 56 (10.65%) Architect
6 50 (9.51%) Data Engineer
7 44 (8.37%) Senior
8 42 (7.98%) Project Manager
9 32 (6.08%) Developer
9 32 (6.08%) Migration Analyst
10 29 (5.51%) Data Analyst
11 24 (4.56%) Migration Manager
12 23 (4.37%) Data Migration Lead
13 22 (4.18%) Data Business Analyst
13 22 (4.18%) Data Migration Analyst
14 19 (3.61%) Data Architect
14 19 (3.61%) Data Manager
15 17 (3.23%) Data Migration Manager
16 16 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
17 15 (2.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (3.80%) REST
3 19 (3.61%) XML
4 15 (2.85%) Middleware
5 12 (2.28%) SOAP
6 11 (2.09%) Lightning Web Components
7 10 (1.90%) .NET
8 7 (1.33%) PySpark
9 6 (1.14%) Kafka
10 5 (0.95%) JSON
11 4 (0.76%) React
11 4 (0.76%) Web Services
12 3 (0.57%) Playwright
12 3 (0.57%) SAP Fiori
12 3 (0.57%) XSLT
13 2 (0.38%) ADO
13 2 (0.38%) FHIR
13 2 (0.38%) OpenTelemetry
13 2 (0.38%) Spring
13 2 (0.38%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 72 (13.69%) Legacy Systems
2 40 (7.60%) Data Structures
3 20 (3.80%) Management Information System
4 15 (2.85%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.66%) Replication
6 11 (2.09%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.90%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.71%) Reference Data
9 8 (1.52%) Tandem
10 7 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.14%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.14%) Derivative
11 6 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.95%) Mainframe
12 5 (0.95%) Taxonomies
13 4 (0.76%) Equities
13 4 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
14 3 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.52%) Windows
2 6 (1.14%) Unix
3 5 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (0.95%) zOS
4 3 (0.57%) Linux
5 2 (0.38%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (100.00%) Migration
2 126 (23.95%) Agile
3 116 (22.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 113 (21.48%) ETL
5 90 (17.11%) Data Modelling
5 90 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
5 90 (17.11%) Validation
6 79 (15.02%) User Acceptance Testing
7 73 (13.88%) ERP
8 69 (13.12%) Analytics
9 65 (12.36%) Data Mapping
10 64 (12.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 61 (11.60%) Project Management
12 53 (10.08%) Business Intelligence
13 49 (9.32%) Data Governance
14 48 (9.13%) Data Cleansing
14 48 (9.13%) Decision-Making
15 47 (8.94%) Workshop Facilitation
16 41 (7.79%) Data Analysis
16 41 (7.79%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 148 (28.14%) SQL
2 49 (9.32%) Python
3 26 (4.94%) Java
4 14 (2.66%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.09%) PL/SQL
6 10 (1.90%) C#
7 9 (1.71%) Apex Code
8 6 (1.14%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.95%) PHP
9 5 (0.95%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.76%) Perl
10 4 (0.76%) VBA
11 3 (0.57%) Bash
11 3 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.57%) Korn
12 2 (0.38%) Bicep
12 2 (0.38%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.38%) R
12 2 (0.38%) SOQL
12 2 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 68 (12.93%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.65%) SC Cleared
3 34 (6.46%) Degree
4 15 (2.85%) PMP
5 14 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.09%) PMI Certification
7 9 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.71%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.52%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.38%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.38%) CFA
10 2 (0.38%) CIPD
10 2 (0.38%) IIBA
10 2 (0.38%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.19%) CAPM
11 1 (0.19%) CBAP
11 1 (0.19%) CCA
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (18.63%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.46%) QA
3 27 (5.13%) GDPR
4 9 (1.71%) IFRS
5 7 (1.33%) SLA
6 5 (0.95%) GAAP
6 5 (0.95%) IFRS 9
6 5 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.76%) Basel III
7 4 (0.76%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.76%) PMO
8 3 (0.57%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.38%) GMP
9 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.19%) COBIT
10 1 (0.19%) HL7
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (2.28%) Docker
2 10 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.52%) NFS
4 4 (0.76%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (3.61%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.90%) Terraform
3 6 (1.14%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (1.14%) vMotion
4 4 (0.76%) Ansible
4 4 (0.76%) Grafana
5 2 (0.38%) Argo
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.38%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.19%) Control-M
6 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 96 (18.25%) Oracle
2 84 (15.97%) SAP
3 68 (12.93%) Microsoft
4 32 (6.08%) Salesforce
5 27 (5.13%) Databricks
5 27 (5.13%) Workday
6 20 (3.80%) Informatica
7 15 (2.85%) Avaloq
8 12 (2.28%) MuleSoft
8 12 (2.28%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.09%) VMware
10 10 (1.90%) Pure Storage
11 9 (1.71%) GoldenSource
11 9 (1.71%) Talend
12 8 (1.52%) Kronos
12 8 (1.52%) Temenos
13 6 (1.14%) Commvault
13 6 (1.14%) Google
14 5 (0.95%) IBM
15 4 (0.76%) Alteryx