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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 97 110
Rank change year-on-year +12 +13 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 692 412 377
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.40% 3.10% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 3.35% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 253 244
10th Percentile £375 £409 £377
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year - +1.38% -1.36%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £771 £721 £713
England median daily rate £525 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -2.33% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £46.25 £66.25 £37.70
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.88 £41.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £85.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +71.72% -41.76%
75th Percentile £61.44 £99.38 £58.25
90th Percentile £68.25 £105.75 £62.90
England median hourly rate £34.98 £62.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year -44.03% -2.34% -24.71%

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 18,128 12,293 14,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.49% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,864 8,121 9,276
10th Percentile £360 £332 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
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 342 242 178
10th Percentile £15.90 £18.25 £17.43
25th Percentile £18.81 £25.02 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.30 £30.25 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% -17.46% -8.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.88 £64.98 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 13 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Migration in London over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

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 13 October 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 +26 119 £600 +8.11% 56
West London +8 34 £700 +16.67% 5
South London -12 6 £543 +18.58% 4
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 36 (5.20%) SharePoint
2 33 (4.77%) Confluence
3 12 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.87%) Apache
5 6 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.72%) CMS
7 2 (0.29%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.29%) SAS
7 2 (0.29%) SugarCRM
8 1 (0.14%) Documentum
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.73%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.29%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 62 (8.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (4.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (3.03%) Oracle Payables
4 18 (2.60%) Oracle ERP
5 16 (2.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 14 (2.02%) NetSuite
7 11 (1.59%) SAP HCM
8 10 (1.45%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (1.30%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (1.16%) iTrent
10 8 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (1.16%) SAP ERP
11 7 (1.01%) Temenos T24
12 6 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.87%) SAP Payroll
13 5 (0.72%) Oracle Assets
13 5 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 5 (0.72%) SAP FI
13 5 (0.72%) SAP GRC
13 5 (0.72%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 137 (19.80%) Azure
2 82 (11.85%) Power Platform
3 63 (9.10%) AWS
4 58 (8.38%) Dynamics 365
5 55 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (4.62%) SaaS
8 28 (4.05%) Snowflake
9 27 (3.90%) OCI
10 23 (3.32%) Amazon S3
11 22 (3.18%) Power Automate
12 21 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
13 20 (2.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 20 (2.89%) GCP
13 20 (2.89%) SuccessFactors
14 16 (2.31%) GitHub
14 16 (2.31%) PowerApps
15 14 (2.02%) dbt
16 13 (1.88%) Microsoft Purview
17 12 (1.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.43%) Intranet
2 1 (0.14%) DKIM
2 1 (0.14%) DMARC
2 1 (0.14%) DNS
2 1 (0.14%) NAS
2 1 (0.14%) SAN
2 1 (0.14%) SSL
2 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (9.54%) Power BI
2 49 (7.08%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (5.20%) Metadata
4 32 (4.62%) SQL Server
5 23 (3.32%) Data Lake
6 22 (3.18%) Relational Database
7 21 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (2.02%) Oracle Database
9 12 (1.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (1.59%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (1.45%) MongoDB
12 9 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
13 8 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.16%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (1.01%) Delta Lake
14 7 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (0.87%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 57 (8.24%) JIRA
2 13 (1.88%) Git
3 4 (0.58%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.43%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.43%) Gatling
4 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.43%) Zephyr
5 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.29%) LSMW
5 2 (0.29%) Postman
5 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.14%) GitLab
6 1 (0.14%) JMeter
6 1 (0.14%) ScriptRunner
General
1 275 (39.74%) Finance
2 210 (30.35%) Social Skills
3 95 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.54%) Banking
4 66 (9.54%) Public Sector
5 32 (4.62%) Retail
6 30 (4.34%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (4.19%) General Ledger
8 28 (4.05%) Manufacturing
9 19 (2.75%) Legal
10 18 (2.60%) Local Government
11 14 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.73%) Aviation
12 12 (1.73%) Marketing
13 11 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.45%) Law
14 10 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.30%) Billing
15 9 (1.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 131 (18.93%) Analyst
2 122 (17.63%) Lead
3 87 (12.57%) Architect
4 84 (12.14%) Consultant
5 70 (10.12%) Business Analyst
6 65 (9.39%) Senior
7 55 (7.95%) Data Engineer
8 53 (7.66%) Data Analyst
9 44 (6.36%) Data Migration Lead
10 37 (5.35%) Project Manager
11 32 (4.62%) Data Architect
12 30 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
13 28 (4.05%) Developer
14 24 (3.47%) Migration Analyst
14 24 (3.47%) Migration Engineer
15 20 (2.89%) Data Migration Analyst
15 20 (2.89%) Data Migration Engineer
16 19 (2.75%) Data Business Analyst
16 19 (2.75%) Oracle Consultant
17 18 (2.60%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (7.80%) Oracle Fusion
2 28 (4.05%) Middleware
3 17 (2.46%) .NET
4 15 (2.17%) REST
5 14 (2.02%) PySpark
6 12 (1.73%) XML
7 10 (1.45%) JSON
8 9 (1.30%) ADO
8 9 (1.30%) Keycloak
8 9 (1.30%) Terraform
9 8 (1.16%) SOAP
10 7 (1.01%) Kafka
10 7 (1.01%) Web Services
11 6 (0.87%) Lightning Web Components
12 5 (0.72%) HTML
13 4 (0.58%) HTML5 Canvas
13 4 (0.58%) SAP Fiori
13 4 (0.58%) XSLT
14 3 (0.43%) ASP.NET Web API
14 3 (0.43%) Murex Flex
Miscellaneous
1 88 (12.72%) Legacy Systems
2 59 (8.53%) Data Structures
3 33 (4.77%) Management Information System
4 27 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.47%) Onboarding
5 24 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.60%) Reference Data
7 16 (2.31%) Cloud Native
8 13 (1.88%) FMCG
9 11 (1.59%) Reinsurance
9 11 (1.59%) Replication
10 10 (1.45%) Credit Risk
11 8 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.01%) NHS
13 6 (0.87%) Derivative
13 6 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.87%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.88%) Windows
2 8 (1.16%) Linux
3 5 (0.72%) Unix
4 1 (0.14%) SUSE
4 1 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 692 (100.00%) Migration
2 227 (32.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 218 (31.50%) Validation
4 160 (23.12%) User Acceptance Testing
5 155 (22.40%) ERP
6 127 (18.35%) Agile
7 122 (17.63%) Data Modelling
8 106 (15.32%) Data Governance
9 105 (15.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 94 (13.58%) ETL
11 93 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
12 89 (12.86%) DevOps
13 88 (12.72%) Requirements Gathering
14 76 (10.98%) Business Intelligence
15 68 (9.83%) Data Cleansing
15 68 (9.83%) Data Validation
16 66 (9.54%) Data Transformation
17 65 (9.39%) Workshop Facilitation
18 64 (9.25%) Data Mapping
19 63 (9.10%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 143 (20.66%) SQL
2 42 (6.07%) Python
3 17 (2.46%) JavaScript
4 14 (2.02%) C#
5 13 (1.88%) Java
6 10 (1.45%) PL/SQL
7 8 (1.16%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.01%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.01%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.72%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.72%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.58%) Bash
11 3 (0.43%) ABAP
11 3 (0.43%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.29%) Korn
12 2 (0.29%) R
12 2 (0.29%) Scala
12 2 (0.29%) SOQL
12 2 (0.29%) X++
Qualifications
1 91 (13.15%) Security Cleared
2 80 (11.56%) SC Cleared
3 37 (5.35%) Degree
4 18 (2.60%) PMI Certification
4 18 (2.60%) PMP
5 13 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.30%) ACCA
7 9 (1.30%) CIMA
8 6 (0.87%) CBAP
8 6 (0.87%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.58%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.29%) CAPM
12 2 (0.29%) CFA
12 2 (0.29%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (23.70%) Data Quality
2 46 (6.65%) QA
3 24 (3.47%) GDPR
4 22 (3.18%) PMO
5 8 (1.16%) GRC
6 5 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.72%) SLA
7 4 (0.58%) IFRS
8 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.43%) HL7
9 2 (0.29%) GMP
9 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) AIFMD
10 1 (0.14%) Basel III
10 1 (0.14%) EMIR
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 12 (1.73%) Docker
2 5 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (1.73%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.16%) Karpenter
3 5 (0.72%) Control-M
4 2 (0.29%) Grafana
5 1 (0.14%) Ansible
5 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 144 (20.81%) Microsoft
2 134 (19.36%) Oracle
3 126 (18.21%) SAP
4 57 (8.24%) Databricks
5 31 (4.48%) Salesforce
6 23 (3.32%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.75%) Informatica
8 16 (2.31%) Workday
9 13 (1.88%) Google
10 12 (1.73%) Talend
11 11 (1.59%) IBM
11 11 (1.59%) IFS
12 10 (1.45%) Ariba
13 8 (1.16%) Atlassian
13 8 (1.16%) Sage
14 6 (0.87%) Alteryx
14 6 (0.87%) Murex
15 5 (0.72%) MuleSoft
16 4 (0.58%) Palantir
16 4 (0.58%) Temenos