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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 92 102
Rank change year-on-year +18 +10 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 713 394 431
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.60% 2.91% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 3.15% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 234 298
10th Percentile £375 £400 £388
25th Percentile £463 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.90%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £661
90th Percentile £754 £773 £749
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £54.95 £40.20 -
25th Percentile £56.00 £48.56 £62.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +1.56% -32.63%
75th Percentile £71.00 £66.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.65 £67.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% -23.33% +141.94%

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 17,610 12,492 15,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.11% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,678 8,360 10,852
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
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 272 240 266
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.12
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £36.25 £31.75 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +14.17% -1.99% -21.94%
75th Percentile £57.81 £50.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £70.38
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 17 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 17 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 +32 104 £593 +7.73% 8
West London +11 30 £475 -24.00% 5
East London -1 3 £675 - 1
South London -14 3 £543 +18.58% 1
North London -7 1 £495 -10.00%
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 38 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.10%) Confluence
3 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.70%) Apache
5 4 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.56%) 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 34 (4.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.24%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.12%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 55 (7.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (2.52%) Oracle ERP
4 15 (2.10%) NetSuite
5 14 (1.96%) Oracle Payables
6 13 (1.82%) Oracle Receivables
6 13 (1.82%) SAP ERP
7 11 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
8 10 (1.40%) Loan IQ
9 9 (1.26%) iTrent
9 9 (1.26%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (1.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 8 (1.12%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.98%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.84%) SAP Payroll
13 5 (0.70%) SAP MDG
14 4 (0.56%) Finacle
14 4 (0.56%) Maximo
14 4 (0.56%) SAP SD
14 4 (0.56%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 125 (17.53%) Azure
2 98 (13.74%) Power Platform
3 77 (10.80%) Dynamics 365
4 59 (8.27%) AWS
5 52 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (4.35%) OCI
7 28 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
8 26 (3.65%) SaaS
9 24 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
10 22 (3.09%) Snowflake
11 20 (2.81%) Amazon S3
12 19 (2.66%) Power Automate
13 18 (2.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (2.38%) GitHub
15 15 (2.10%) GCP
15 15 (2.10%) PowerApps
16 14 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
17 11 (1.54%) dbt
18 10 (1.40%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
18 10 (1.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.40%) NAS
1 10 (1.40%) 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 86 (12.06%) Power BI
2 38 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (3.51%) SQL Server
4 22 (3.09%) Data Lake
5 19 (2.66%) Metadata
6 15 (2.10%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.54%) Db2
10 10 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (1.26%) BusinessObjects
12 7 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.98%) DataStage
13 6 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (0.84%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.56%) MySQL
14 4 (0.56%) SAP Data Services
14 4 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 65 (9.12%) JIRA
2 14 (1.96%) Git
3 5 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.56%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.56%) JUnit
4 4 (0.56%) LSMW
4 4 (0.56%) Selenium
4 4 (0.56%) Zephyr
5 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.42%) ER Studio
5 3 (0.42%) Gatling
5 3 (0.42%) GitLab
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.28%) Postman
6 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.14%) ERwin
7 1 (0.14%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.14%) JMeter
7 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 285 (39.97%) Finance
2 209 (29.31%) Social Skills
3 98 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (8.84%) Banking
5 59 (8.27%) Public Sector
6 42 (5.89%) Law
7 29 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.65%) Retail
9 24 (3.37%) General Ledger
10 19 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (2.24%) Manufacturing
13 15 (2.10%) Aviation
13 15 (2.10%) Legal
13 15 (2.10%) Local Government
14 14 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.68%) Billing
16 12 (1.68%) Marketing
17 10 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 175 (24.54%) Lead
2 115 (16.13%) Architect
3 112 (15.71%) Analyst
4 71 (9.96%) Consultant
5 68 (9.54%) Business Analyst
6 58 (8.13%) Data Engineer
7 57 (7.99%) Data Migration Lead
8 51 (7.15%) Senior
9 43 (6.03%) Project Manager
10 42 (5.89%) Data Analyst
11 37 (5.19%) Migration Analyst
12 33 (4.63%) Lead Architect
13 31 (4.35%) Functional Architect
14 30 (4.21%) Data Architect
15 28 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
16 27 (3.79%) Developer
17 26 (3.65%) Technical Leader
18 25 (3.51%) Data Migration Analyst
18 25 (3.51%) Migration Manager
19 23 (3.23%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.45%) Oracle Fusion
2 25 (3.51%) REST
3 23 (3.23%) Middleware
4 17 (2.38%) SOAP
5 13 (1.82%) XML
6 12 (1.68%) .NET
7 10 (1.40%) Lightning Web Components
8 9 (1.26%) JSON
9 8 (1.12%) Kafka
10 6 (0.84%) Spring
11 5 (0.70%) PySpark
12 4 (0.56%) HTML5 Canvas
12 4 (0.56%) Keycloak
12 4 (0.56%) Playwright
12 4 (0.56%) React
12 4 (0.56%) XSLT
13 3 (0.42%) HTML
13 3 (0.42%) Web Services
14 2 (0.28%) ADO
14 2 (0.28%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 87 (12.20%) Legacy Systems
2 57 (7.99%) Data Structures
3 25 (3.51%) Management Information System
4 20 (2.81%) Cloud Native
5 17 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (2.24%) Product Ownership
7 13 (1.82%) Replication
8 12 (1.68%) FMCG
9 11 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.54%) Mainframe
10 10 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.26%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.98%) Reference Data
14 6 (0.84%) Legacy Code
14 6 (0.84%) NHS
15 5 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (0.70%) Public Cloud
15 5 (0.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.38%) Windows
2 7 (0.98%) zOS
3 3 (0.42%) Linux
4 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 713 (100.00%) Migration
2 184 (25.81%) Validation
3 180 (25.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 179 (25.11%) User Acceptance Testing
5 159 (22.30%) ERP
6 128 (17.95%) Agile
7 126 (17.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 110 (15.43%) Data Modelling
9 93 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
10 90 (12.62%) ETL
11 86 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
12 84 (11.78%) DevOps
13 82 (11.50%) Data Mapping
14 79 (11.08%) Data Governance
15 72 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
16 70 (9.82%) Translating Business Requirements
17 65 (9.12%) Data Cleansing
18 62 (8.70%) Decision-Making
19 60 (8.42%) CI/CD
19 60 (8.42%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 123 (17.25%) SQL
2 50 (7.01%) Python
3 24 (3.37%) Java
4 17 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 11 (1.54%) C#
6 8 (1.12%) Apex Code
7 7 (0.98%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.84%) PL/SQL
8 6 (0.84%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.70%) 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%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 83 (11.64%) Security Cleared
2 67 (9.40%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.21%) Degree
4 16 (2.24%) PMP
5 13 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (1.82%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (0.84%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.56%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.42%) ACCA
10 3 (0.42%) CIMA
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
1 132 (18.51%) Data Quality
2 58 (8.13%) QA
3 31 (4.35%) GDPR
4 21 (2.95%) PMO
5 10 (1.40%) SLA
6 5 (0.70%) HL7
7 4 (0.56%) GMP
7 4 (0.56%) IFRS
8 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.42%) DICOM
8 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.42%) SNOMED CT
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%) COBIT
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 10 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.12%) Docker
2 8 (1.12%) NFS
3 6 (0.84%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.10%) Terraform
3 6 (0.84%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (0.84%) vMotion
4 4 (0.56%) 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
1 148 (20.76%) Microsoft
2 119 (16.69%) SAP
3 117 (16.41%) Oracle
4 39 (5.47%) Databricks
5 31 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 22 (3.09%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.52%) Informatica
8 16 (2.24%) Workday
9 13 (1.82%) VMware
10 11 (1.54%) IFS
11 10 (1.40%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.40%) Pure Storage
12 9 (1.26%) IBM
13 8 (1.12%) Talend
14 7 (0.98%) Avaloq
14 7 (0.98%) Google
14 7 (0.98%) Temenos
15 6 (0.84%) Ariba
15 6 (0.84%) Commvault
16 5 (0.70%) Bloomberg