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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 104 100
Rank change year-on-year +29 -4 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 667 323 434
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.55% 2.64% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 2.86% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 191 318
10th Percentile £388 £400 £385
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% -2.22%
75th Percentile £648 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £741
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +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 16,682 11,302 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.76% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,119 7,563 11,181
10th Percentile £358 £347 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 199 318
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.16 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.89 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +16.42% -28.34%
75th Percentile £58.88 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +4.17%

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 11 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 11 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 +27 95 £550 +10.00% 20
West London -5 22 £475 -24.00% 11
East London -2 3 £675 +25.00% 1
North London -3 2 £523 -5.00%
South London -13 1 £350 - 2
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 23 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.40%) Confluence
3 4 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.30%) Apache
5 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.30%) 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 (5.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.90%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 50 (7.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 16 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (2.25%) Oracle ERP
5 14 (2.10%) SAP ERP
6 11 (1.65%) NetSuite
6 11 (1.65%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (1.50%) Loan IQ
8 9 (1.35%) Oracle General Ledger
9 8 (1.20%) iTrent
9 8 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
9 8 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 8 (1.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.90%) Finacle
10 6 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.90%) Temenos T24
10 6 (0.90%) Workday HCM
11 5 (0.75%) SAP Payroll
12 4 (0.60%) Maximo
12 4 (0.60%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 111 (16.64%) Azure
2 88 (13.19%) Power Platform
3 64 (9.60%) AWS
3 64 (9.60%) Dynamics 365
4 42 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (4.35%) OCI
6 23 (3.45%) SaaS
7 20 (3.00%) Snowflake
8 18 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (2.55%) Amazon S3
10 16 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (2.10%) GitHub
12 13 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (1.95%) Power Automate
13 11 (1.65%) GCP
13 11 (1.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 11 (1.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 10 (1.50%) dbt
14 10 (1.50%) SuccessFactors
15 9 (1.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.50%) NAS
1 10 (1.50%) SAN
2 3 (0.45%) DNS
2 3 (0.45%) Firewall
2 3 (0.45%) VPN
3 2 (0.30%) 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 78 (11.69%) Power BI
2 41 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (3.75%) SQL Server
4 20 (3.00%) Data Lake
5 17 (2.55%) Metadata
6 16 (2.40%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (1.65%) Db2
8 11 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
8 11 (1.65%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.35%) Oracle Database
10 8 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (1.05%) BusinessObjects
11 7 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (1.05%) Tableau
12 6 (0.90%) MySQL
13 5 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.75%) DataStage
13 5 (0.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 62 (9.30%) JIRA
2 12 (1.80%) Git
3 5 (0.75%) LSMW
4 4 (0.60%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.60%) JUnit
4 4 (0.60%) Selenium
4 4 (0.60%) Zephyr
5 3 (0.45%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.45%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.45%) ERwin
5 3 (0.45%) Gatling
5 3 (0.45%) GitLab
5 3 (0.45%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.15%) Postman
7 1 (0.15%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
General
1 259 (38.83%) Finance
2 206 (30.88%) Social Skills
3 89 (13.34%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (10.64%) Banking
5 41 (6.15%) Law
5 41 (6.15%) Public Sector
6 31 (4.65%) Retail
7 29 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (3.15%) General Ledger
8 21 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (2.55%) Legal
10 16 (2.40%) Local Government
10 16 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (1.95%) Marketing
12 12 (1.80%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.65%) Aviation
13 11 (1.65%) Billing
13 11 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 175 (26.24%) Lead
2 111 (16.64%) Architect
3 99 (14.84%) Analyst
4 58 (8.70%) Consultant
5 56 (8.40%) Data Engineer
6 54 (8.10%) Business Analyst
7 51 (7.65%) Data Migration Lead
8 49 (7.35%) Senior
9 43 (6.45%) Data Analyst
10 40 (6.00%) Project Manager
11 37 (5.55%) Migration Analyst
12 32 (4.80%) Data Architect
12 32 (4.80%) Lead Architect
12 32 (4.80%) Migration Manager
13 31 (4.65%) Functional Architect
14 29 (4.35%) Technical Leader
15 26 (3.90%) Data Migration Analyst
16 25 (3.75%) Test Manager
17 22 (3.30%) Developer
17 22 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (6.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 23 (3.45%) Middleware
3 18 (2.70%) REST
4 14 (2.10%) SOAP
5 13 (1.95%) XML
6 9 (1.35%) Lightning Web Components
7 8 (1.20%) .NET
7 8 (1.20%) JSON
8 7 (1.05%) Kafka
9 6 (0.90%) Spring
10 4 (0.60%) Playwright
11 3 (0.45%) FHIR
11 3 (0.45%) React
12 2 (0.30%) ADO
12 2 (0.30%) EDI
12 2 (0.30%) PySpark
12 2 (0.30%) Visualforce
12 2 (0.30%) Web Services
12 2 (0.30%) XSLT
13 1 (0.15%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 82 (12.29%) Legacy Systems
2 54 (8.10%) Data Structures
3 22 (3.30%) Management Information System
4 19 (2.85%) Cloud Native
5 13 (1.95%) Product Ownership
5 13 (1.95%) Replication
6 12 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.80%) Reference Data
7 11 (1.65%) Mainframe
8 10 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.35%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.20%) Derivative
11 7 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.05%) FMCG
11 7 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (0.90%) PACS
12 6 (0.90%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.95%) Windows
2 7 (1.05%) zOS
3 6 (0.90%) Linux
4 2 (0.30%) Unix
5 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 667 (100.00%) Migration
2 159 (23.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 158 (23.69%) Validation
4 157 (23.54%) User Acceptance Testing
5 136 (20.39%) ERP
6 126 (18.89%) Agile
7 114 (17.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 109 (16.34%) Data Modelling
9 93 (13.94%) ETL
10 87 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
11 83 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
12 79 (11.84%) Data Mapping
13 73 (10.94%) Data Governance
14 68 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
15 63 (9.45%) Translating Business Requirements
16 62 (9.30%) DevOps
17 61 (9.15%) Data Transformation
18 60 (9.00%) Decision-Making
18 60 (9.00%) Procure-to-Pay
19 57 (8.55%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 124 (18.59%) SQL
2 54 (8.10%) Python
3 24 (3.60%) Java
4 12 (1.80%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.35%) PL/SQL
6 7 (1.05%) Apex Code
7 5 (0.75%) C#
7 5 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (0.75%) Kotlin
7 5 (0.75%) T-SQL
7 5 (0.75%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.60%) VBA
9 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.45%) SOQL
10 2 (0.30%) Bash
10 2 (0.30%) R
10 2 (0.30%) Scala
11 1 (0.15%) Korn
11 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.15%) X++
Qualifications
1 88 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 72 (10.79%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.65%) Degree
4 15 (2.25%) PMP
5 13 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.80%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.60%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.45%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.45%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.30%) CFA
11 2 (0.30%) IIBA
11 2 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.15%) CCA
12 1 (0.15%) ISEB
12 1 (0.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (19.64%) Data Quality
2 49 (7.35%) QA
3 28 (4.20%) GDPR
4 12 (1.80%) PMO
4 12 (1.80%) SLA
5 7 (1.05%) IFRS
6 6 (0.90%) GAAP
6 6 (0.90%) HL7
6 6 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.60%) Basel III
8 3 (0.45%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.45%) DICOM
8 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.45%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.30%) GMP
9 2 (0.30%) GRC
9 2 (0.30%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.20%) NFS
3 5 (0.75%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.60%) Docker
5 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (2.10%) Terraform
2 13 (1.95%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.90%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (0.90%) vMotion
4 4 (0.60%) Ansible
5 3 (0.45%) Grafana
5 3 (0.45%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.45%) 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
1 120 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 119 (17.84%) Oracle
3 110 (16.49%) SAP
4 38 (5.70%) Databricks
5 29 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.85%) Informatica
6 19 (2.85%) Workday
7 14 (2.10%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.95%) Avaloq
8 13 (1.95%) VMware
9 11 (1.65%) Temenos
10 10 (1.50%) Pure Storage
11 9 (1.35%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.20%) GoldenSource
12 8 (1.20%) Google
12 8 (1.20%) IBM
13 7 (1.05%) Talend
14 6 (0.90%) Commvault
14 6 (0.90%) IFS
15 5 (0.75%) Ariba