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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 102 101
Rank change year-on-year +29 -1 +47
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 684 330 424
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.63% 2.68% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 2.90% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 195 308
10th Percentile £381 £400 £385
25th Percentile £463 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £649 £650 £677
90th Percentile £750 £775 £749
England median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.20% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £37.66 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £42.22 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £49.83 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.47% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £57.42 -
90th Percentile - £61.97 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% -20.00% +233.33%

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 16,752 11,363 15,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.81% 92.32% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,163 7,612 11,136
10th Percentile £360 £345 £343
25th Percentile £433 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £516 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.77% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 204 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +13.33% -23.90%
75th Percentile £58.88 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +70.72% -26.59% +5.63%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +31 97 £589 +17.80% 24
West London -1 24 £475 -24.00% 12
East London -1 3 £675 +25.00% 1
North London -3 2 £523 -5.00%
South London -9 1 £350 - 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 28 (4.09%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.34%) Confluence
3 4 (0.58%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.29%) Apache
5 2 (0.29%) Appian
6 1 (0.15%) CMS
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 35 (5.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.34%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 52 (7.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 16 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (2.19%) Oracle ERP
5 14 (2.05%) SAP ERP
6 11 (1.61%) NetSuite
6 11 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (1.46%) Loan IQ
8 9 (1.32%) Oracle General Ledger
9 8 (1.17%) iTrent
9 8 (1.17%) Oracle Payables
9 8 (1.17%) Oracle Receivables
9 8 (1.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.88%) Finacle
10 6 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.88%) Temenos T24
10 6 (0.88%) Workday HCM
11 5 (0.73%) SAP Payroll
12 4 (0.58%) Maximo
12 4 (0.58%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 115 (16.81%) Azure
2 91 (13.30%) Power Platform
3 65 (9.50%) AWS
4 64 (9.36%) Dynamics 365
5 42 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (4.24%) OCI
7 23 (3.36%) SaaS
7 23 (3.36%) Snowflake
8 19 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (2.49%) Amazon S3
10 17 (2.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (2.05%) GitHub
12 13 (1.90%) GCP
12 13 (1.90%) Power Automate
13 11 (1.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 11 (1.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 11 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (1.46%) dbt
15 9 (1.32%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.46%) NAS
1 10 (1.46%) SAN
2 3 (0.44%) DNS
2 3 (0.44%) Firewall
2 3 (0.44%) VPN
3 2 (0.29%) HTTP
4 1 (0.15%) DKIM
4 1 (0.15%) DMARC
4 1 (0.15%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.15%) Intranet
4 1 (0.15%) Network Security
4 1 (0.15%) SNMP
4 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (11.84%) Power BI
2 44 (6.43%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (3.65%) SQL Server
4 20 (2.92%) Data Lake
5 19 (2.78%) Metadata
6 16 (2.34%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.75%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (1.46%) Db2
12 9 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (1.32%) Oracle Database
13 8 (1.17%) BusinessObjects
13 8 (1.17%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (1.02%) Tableau
15 6 (0.88%) MySQL
16 5 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
16 5 (0.73%) DataStage
16 5 (0.73%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 62 (9.06%) JIRA
2 12 (1.75%) Git
3 4 (0.58%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.58%) JUnit
3 4 (0.58%) LSMW
3 4 (0.58%) Selenium
3 4 (0.58%) Zephyr
4 3 (0.44%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.44%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.44%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.44%) ERwin
4 3 (0.44%) Gatling
4 3 (0.44%) GitLab
4 3 (0.44%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.15%) Postman
6 1 (0.15%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
General
1 265 (38.74%) Finance
2 209 (30.56%) Social Skills
3 93 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (10.38%) Banking
5 44 (6.43%) Public Sector
6 41 (5.99%) Law
7 32 (4.68%) Retail
8 29 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (3.07%) General Ledger
11 18 (2.63%) Legal
12 17 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (2.34%) Local Government
14 13 (1.90%) Marketing
15 12 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.75%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.61%) Aviation
16 11 (1.61%) Billing
16 11 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 181 (26.46%) Lead
2 114 (16.67%) Architect
3 104 (15.20%) Analyst
4 60 (8.77%) Consultant
5 59 (8.63%) Business Analyst
6 57 (8.33%) Data Engineer
7 55 (8.04%) Data Migration Lead
8 48 (7.02%) Senior
9 43 (6.29%) Data Analyst
10 41 (5.99%) Project Manager
11 37 (5.41%) Migration Analyst
12 34 (4.97%) Data Architect
13 33 (4.82%) Lead Architect
14 32 (4.68%) Migration Manager
15 31 (4.53%) Functional Architect
16 29 (4.24%) Technical Leader
17 26 (3.80%) Data Migration Analyst
18 25 (3.65%) Test Manager
19 24 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
20 23 (3.36%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.73%) Oracle Fusion
2 24 (3.51%) Middleware
3 19 (2.78%) REST
4 15 (2.19%) SOAP
5 13 (1.90%) XML
6 10 (1.46%) Lightning Web Components
7 8 (1.17%) .NET
7 8 (1.17%) JSON
8 7 (1.02%) Kafka
9 6 (0.88%) Spring
10 4 (0.58%) Playwright
11 3 (0.44%) FHIR
11 3 (0.44%) PySpark
11 3 (0.44%) React
12 2 (0.29%) ADO
12 2 (0.29%) EDI
12 2 (0.29%) Snowpark
12 2 (0.29%) Visualforce
12 2 (0.29%) Web Services
12 2 (0.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 85 (12.43%) Legacy Systems
2 56 (8.19%) Data Structures
3 24 (3.51%) Management Information System
4 18 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 15 (2.19%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.05%) Replication
7 12 (1.75%) Onboarding
7 12 (1.75%) Reference Data
8 11 (1.61%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.32%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.17%) Derivative
11 8 (1.17%) FMCG
12 7 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.88%) PACS
13 6 (0.88%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.90%) Windows
2 7 (1.02%) zOS
3 6 (0.88%) Linux
4 2 (0.29%) Unix
5 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 684 (100.00%) Migration
2 168 (24.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 164 (23.98%) User Acceptance Testing
4 162 (23.68%) Validation
5 139 (20.32%) ERP
6 132 (19.30%) Agile
7 116 (16.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 112 (16.37%) Data Modelling
9 95 (13.89%) ETL
10 90 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
11 87 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
12 82 (11.99%) Data Mapping
13 76 (11.11%) Data Governance
14 68 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
15 65 (9.50%) DevOps
15 65 (9.50%) Translating Business Requirements
16 63 (9.21%) Data Transformation
17 61 (8.92%) Procure-to-Pay
18 60 (8.77%) Decision-Making
19 58 (8.48%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 126 (18.42%) SQL
2 54 (7.89%) Python
3 24 (3.51%) Java
4 12 (1.75%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.32%) PL/SQL
6 8 (1.17%) Apex Code
7 5 (0.73%) C#
7 5 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (0.73%) Kotlin
7 5 (0.73%) T-SQL
7 5 (0.73%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.58%) VBA
9 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.44%) SOQL
10 2 (0.29%) Bash
10 2 (0.29%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.29%) R
10 2 (0.29%) Scala
11 1 (0.15%) Korn
11 1 (0.15%) X++
Qualifications
1 90 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 74 (10.82%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.68%) Degree
4 16 (2.34%) PMP
5 13 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.75%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.88%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.58%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.44%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.44%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.44%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.29%) CFA
11 2 (0.29%) IIBA
11 2 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.15%) CCA
12 1 (0.15%) ISEB
12 1 (0.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (19.30%) Data Quality
2 50 (7.31%) QA
3 29 (4.24%) GDPR
4 12 (1.75%) PMO
4 12 (1.75%) SLA
5 7 (1.02%) IFRS
5 7 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.88%) GAAP
6 6 (0.88%) HL7
7 4 (0.58%) Basel III
8 3 (0.44%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.44%) DICOM
8 3 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.44%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.29%) GMP
9 2 (0.29%) GRC
9 2 (0.29%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 10 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.17%) NFS
3 6 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.58%) Docker
5 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (2.05%) Terraform
2 13 (1.90%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.88%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (0.88%) vMotion
4 4 (0.58%) Ansible
5 3 (0.44%) Grafana
5 3 (0.44%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.15%) Argo
6 1 (0.15%) Avamar
6 1 (0.15%) Control-M
6 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 126 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 122 (17.84%) Oracle
3 113 (16.52%) SAP
4 40 (5.85%) Databricks
5 31 (4.53%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.92%) Informatica
7 19 (2.78%) Workday
8 17 (2.49%) ServiceNow
9 14 (2.05%) Avaloq
10 13 (1.90%) VMware
11 12 (1.75%) Temenos
12 10 (1.46%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.46%) Pure Storage
13 8 (1.17%) GoldenSource
13 8 (1.17%) Google
13 8 (1.17%) IBM
13 8 (1.17%) IFS
13 8 (1.17%) Talend
14 6 (0.88%) Commvault
15 5 (0.73%) Ariba