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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 89 113
Rank change year-on-year +4 +24 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 665 400 372
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.29% 3.01% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 3.26% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 233 239
10th Percentile £368 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £456 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £650
90th Percentile £754 £738 £732
England median daily rate £525 £537 £540
% change year-on-year -2.23% -0.56% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £46.25 £63.00 £37.70
25th Percentile £52.50 £63.75 £41.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +31.31% -47.89%
75th Percentile £61.44 £88.75 £58.25
90th Percentile £68.25 £101.50 £62.90
England median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £73.25
% change year-on-year -38.46% -11.26% -20.57%

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 17,965 12,280 14,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.83% 92.50% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,777 8,103 9,542
10th Percentile £359 £330 £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 £675 £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 310 249 177
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -7.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.95%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +29 110 £600 -2.04% 74
West London +4 34 £705 +12.80% 9
South London -9 4 £514 +12.30% 1
East London -3 2 £675 +11.11% 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 38 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 23 (3.46%) Confluence
3 12 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.90%) Apache
4 6 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.30%) CMS
6 2 (0.30%) HCL Notes
6 2 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.30%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.15%) Documentum
7 1 (0.15%) IIS
7 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.50%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.30%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 58 (8.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (4.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (3.16%) Oracle Payables
4 19 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
5 17 (2.56%) Oracle Receivables
6 16 (2.41%) NetSuite
7 11 (1.65%) SAP ERP
8 10 (1.50%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (1.35%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (1.20%) iTrent
11 7 (1.05%) Temenos T24
12 6 (0.90%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
12 6 (0.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 6 (0.90%) SAP MDG
12 6 (0.90%) Workday HCM
13 5 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
13 5 (0.75%) SAP GRC
13 5 (0.75%) SAP HCM
13 5 (0.75%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 128 (19.25%) Azure
2 88 (13.23%) Power Platform
3 65 (9.77%) Dynamics 365
4 55 (8.27%) AWS
5 51 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (4.06%) Snowflake
8 26 (3.91%) OCI
8 26 (3.91%) SaaS
9 23 (3.46%) Amazon S3
10 21 (3.16%) Power Automate
11 20 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (3.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (2.86%) GCP
13 18 (2.71%) SuccessFactors
14 16 (2.41%) PowerApps
15 14 (2.11%) dbt
16 13 (1.95%) GitHub
17 11 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
18 9 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.45%) Intranet
2 2 (0.30%) VPN
3 1 (0.15%) DKIM
3 1 (0.15%) DMARC
3 1 (0.15%) DNS
3 1 (0.15%) NAS
3 1 (0.15%) SAN
3 1 (0.15%) SNMP
3 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (11.28%) Power BI
2 42 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (4.51%) Metadata
4 28 (4.21%) SQL Server
5 23 (3.46%) Data Lake
6 18 (2.71%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (1.50%) NoSQL
8 10 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
10 8 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.20%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.05%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.05%) Delta Lake
11 7 (1.05%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.90%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 55 (8.27%) JIRA
2 12 (1.80%) Git
3 4 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (0.60%) Zephyr
4 3 (0.45%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.45%) Gatling
4 3 (0.45%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.45%) LSMW
4 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.30%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.30%) Postman
5 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.15%) GitLab
6 1 (0.15%) JMeter
6 1 (0.15%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.15%) Selenium
General
1 264 (39.70%) Finance
2 198 (29.77%) Social Skills
3 84 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (9.02%) Banking
5 50 (7.52%) Public Sector
6 31 (4.66%) Retail
7 28 (4.21%) General Ledger
8 27 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (3.91%) Manufacturing
10 21 (3.16%) Law
11 17 (2.56%) Local Government
12 14 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.95%) Aviation
13 13 (1.95%) Marketing
14 11 (1.65%) Billing
14 11 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.50%) Legal
16 7 (1.05%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 138 (20.75%) Lead
2 112 (16.84%) Analyst
3 91 (13.68%) Architect
4 76 (11.43%) Consultant
5 63 (9.47%) Business Analyst
6 53 (7.97%) Senior
7 50 (7.52%) Data Migration Lead
8 49 (7.37%) Data Analyst
9 48 (7.22%) Data Engineer
10 33 (4.96%) Project Manager
11 32 (4.81%) Data Architect
12 27 (4.06%) Developer
12 27 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
13 25 (3.76%) Migration Analyst
14 21 (3.16%) Data Migration Analyst
15 20 (3.01%) Migration Engineer
16 19 (2.86%) Functional Consultant
16 19 (2.86%) Oracle Consultant
17 18 (2.71%) SAP Consultant
18 17 (2.56%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (8.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 28 (4.21%) Middleware
3 15 (2.26%) .NET
4 14 (2.11%) REST
5 13 (1.95%) PySpark
5 13 (1.95%) XML
6 10 (1.50%) JSON
7 9 (1.35%) SOAP
8 8 (1.20%) Keycloak
8 8 (1.20%) Terraform
9 7 (1.05%) Web Services
10 6 (0.90%) Lightning Web Components
11 5 (0.75%) ADO
11 5 (0.75%) HTML
11 5 (0.75%) Kafka
12 4 (0.60%) HTML5 Canvas
12 4 (0.60%) XSLT
13 3 (0.45%) Playwright
14 2 (0.30%) FHIR
14 2 (0.30%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 81 (12.18%) Legacy Systems
2 55 (8.27%) Data Structures
3 27 (4.06%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 23 (3.46%) Onboarding
6 22 (3.31%) Product Ownership
7 14 (2.11%) FMCG
8 13 (1.95%) Cloud Native
8 13 (1.95%) Reference Data
9 10 (1.50%) Replication
10 9 (1.35%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.20%) NHS
12 7 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (0.90%) Legacy Code
13 6 (0.90%) Public Cloud
14 5 (0.75%) Credit Risk
14 5 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.75%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.11%) Windows
2 4 (0.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 665 (100.00%) Migration
2 203 (30.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 197 (29.62%) Validation
4 167 (25.11%) User Acceptance Testing
5 161 (24.21%) ERP
6 120 (18.05%) Agile
7 116 (17.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 114 (17.14%) Data Modelling
9 97 (14.59%) Data Governance
10 84 (12.63%) ETL
11 83 (12.48%) Business Intelligence
11 83 (12.48%) DevOps
12 76 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
13 73 (10.98%) Requirements Gathering
14 67 (10.08%) Data Mapping
15 65 (9.77%) Data Cleansing
16 62 (9.32%) Data Validation
17 59 (8.87%) Data Transformation
18 57 (8.57%) Cutover Planning
18 57 (8.57%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 123 (18.50%) SQL
2 39 (5.86%) Python
3 16 (2.41%) JavaScript
4 14 (2.11%) C#
5 13 (1.95%) Java
6 7 (1.05%) PL/SQL
6 7 (1.05%) TypeScript
7 5 (0.75%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.60%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.60%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.45%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.30%) ABAP
10 2 (0.30%) R
10 2 (0.30%) Scala
10 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.30%) SOQL
10 2 (0.30%) VBA
10 2 (0.30%) X++
11 1 (0.15%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 77 (11.58%) Security Cleared
2 66 (9.92%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.36%) Degree
4 18 (2.71%) PMP
5 17 (2.56%) PMI Certification
6 11 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.20%) ACCA
8 8 (1.20%) CIMA
9 5 (0.75%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.60%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.45%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.30%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.30%) CAPM
12 2 (0.30%) CBAP
12 2 (0.30%) CFA
12 2 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.15%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (22.11%) Data Quality
2 47 (7.07%) QA
3 22 (3.31%) GDPR
4 21 (3.16%) PMO
5 8 (1.20%) GRC
6 6 (0.90%) HL7
6 6 (0.90%) SLA
7 4 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.45%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.45%) DICOM
8 3 (0.45%) IFRS
8 3 (0.45%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.30%) GMP
9 2 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) Basel III
10 1 (0.15%) GAAP
10 1 (0.15%) GxP
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (1.35%) Docker
2 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (1.35%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.05%) Karpenter
3 2 (0.30%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.15%) Ansible
4 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 134 (20.15%) Microsoft
2 127 (19.10%) Oracle
3 123 (18.50%) SAP
4 52 (7.82%) Databricks
5 29 (4.36%) Salesforce
6 18 (2.71%) Informatica
7 17 (2.56%) ServiceNow
8 15 (2.26%) Workday
9 11 (1.65%) IBM
9 11 (1.65%) IFS
10 10 (1.50%) Google
10 10 (1.50%) Talend
11 8 (1.20%) Ariba
12 7 (1.05%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.90%) Alteryx
13 6 (0.90%) Sage
14 5 (0.75%) MuleSoft
15 4 (0.60%) Bloomberg
15 4 (0.60%) Infor
15 4 (0.60%) Palantir