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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 98 107
Rank change year-on-year +20 +9 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 696 390 399
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.47% 2.90% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 3.14% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 230 271
10th Percentile £378 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% -6.96%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £650
90th Percentile £771 £750 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile - £42.99 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.53 £62.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +1.56% -32.63%
75th Percentile £62.75 £78.13 £66.00
90th Percentile £69.35 £97.25 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £50.25 £80.00
% change year-on-year -20.40% -37.19% +199.07%

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 17,896 12,411 14,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.21% 92.39% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,750 8,257 10,026
10th Percentile £362 £325 £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 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £530
% change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 255 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.72 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +29 105 £600 +8.60% 25
West London +10 38 £710 +13.60% 3
South London -5 4 £514 +12.30% 3
East London 0 3 £675 - 5
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 41 (5.89%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.73%) Confluence
3 7 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.86%) Apache
5 5 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.29%) CMS
7 2 (0.29%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 31 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 59 (8.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (3.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (2.73%) Oracle ERP
4 17 (2.44%) Oracle Payables
5 15 (2.16%) NetSuite
6 13 (1.87%) Oracle Receivables
7 11 (1.58%) SAP ERP
8 10 (1.44%) Oracle EBS
9 9 (1.29%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (1.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 8 (1.15%) iTrent
10 8 (1.15%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (1.15%) Workday HCM
11 7 (1.01%) Temenos T24
12 6 (0.86%) Finacle
13 5 (0.72%) Loan IQ
13 5 (0.72%) SAP MDG
13 5 (0.72%) SAP Payroll
14 4 (0.57%) Maximo
14 4 (0.57%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 124 (17.82%) Azure
2 107 (15.37%) Power Platform
3 81 (11.64%) Dynamics 365
4 58 (8.33%) AWS
5 53 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (4.89%) OCI
7 30 (4.31%) SaaS
8 27 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (3.59%) Power Automate
10 24 (3.45%) Snowflake
11 23 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (3.16%) Amazon S3
13 18 (2.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 18 (2.59%) PowerApps
14 16 (2.30%) GCP
14 16 (2.30%) GitHub
15 15 (2.16%) SuccessFactors
16 10 (1.44%) dbt
17 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
17 9 (1.29%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.43%) Intranet
1 3 (0.43%) VPN
2 2 (0.29%) HTTP
2 2 (0.29%) NAS
2 2 (0.29%) SAN
3 1 (0.14%) DKIM
3 1 (0.14%) DMARC
3 1 (0.14%) DNS
3 1 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.14%) Firewall
3 1 (0.14%) Network Security
3 1 (0.14%) SNMP
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (13.65%) Power BI
2 38 (5.46%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 21 (3.02%) Data Lake
5 20 (2.87%) Metadata
6 15 (2.16%) Relational Database
7 14 (2.01%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.29%) BusinessObjects
11 8 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (1.01%) DataStage
12 7 (1.01%) Db2
13 6 (0.86%) Oracle Database
14 5 (0.72%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.72%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 4 (0.57%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 61 (8.76%) JIRA
2 14 (2.01%) Git
3 6 (0.86%) Zephyr
4 4 (0.57%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.57%) LSMW
4 4 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.57%) Selenium
5 3 (0.43%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.43%) ER Studio
5 3 (0.43%) Gatling
6 2 (0.29%) GitLab
6 2 (0.29%) Postman
6 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.14%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.14%) JMeter
7 1 (0.14%) JUnit
7 1 (0.14%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 293 (42.10%) Finance
2 207 (29.74%) Social Skills
3 90 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (8.91%) Banking
5 50 (7.18%) Public Sector
6 41 (5.89%) Law
7 30 (4.31%) Retail
8 26 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (3.59%) General Ledger
10 20 (2.87%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.16%) Local Government
13 14 (2.01%) Aviation
13 14 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (2.01%) Marketing
14 13 (1.87%) Legal
14 13 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.72%) Billing
16 11 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.29%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 166 (23.85%) Lead
2 110 (15.80%) Analyst
3 109 (15.66%) Architect
4 78 (11.21%) Consultant
5 61 (8.76%) Business Analyst
6 57 (8.19%) Data Migration Lead
7 55 (7.90%) Senior
8 50 (7.18%) Data Engineer
9 43 (6.18%) Data Analyst
10 38 (5.46%) Project Manager
11 33 (4.74%) Lead Architect
12 32 (4.60%) Functional Architect
13 29 (4.17%) Data Architect
13 29 (4.17%) Developer
13 29 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
14 28 (4.02%) Migration Analyst
15 23 (3.30%) Technical Leader
16 21 (3.02%) Data Migration Analyst
16 21 (3.02%) Oracle Consultant
17 19 (2.73%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 27 (3.88%) Middleware
3 22 (3.16%) REST
4 14 (2.01%) .NET
4 14 (2.01%) SOAP
5 12 (1.72%) XML
6 10 (1.44%) PySpark
6 10 (1.44%) Terraform
7 9 (1.29%) JSON
8 7 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
9 5 (0.72%) Kafka
9 5 (0.72%) Keycloak
9 5 (0.72%) Web Services
10 4 (0.57%) HTML5 Canvas
10 4 (0.57%) Playwright
10 4 (0.57%) Spring
10 4 (0.57%) XSLT
11 3 (0.43%) HTML
12 2 (0.29%) EDI
12 2 (0.29%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 81 (11.64%) Legacy Systems
2 50 (7.18%) Data Structures
3 25 (3.59%) Management Information System
4 23 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (3.02%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.87%) Cloud Native
7 18 (2.59%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.16%) FMCG
9 10 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.44%) Reference Data
10 8 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.01%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.01%) Mainframe
11 7 (1.01%) Replication
12 6 (0.86%) Credit Risk
12 6 (0.86%) Legacy Code
12 6 (0.86%) NHS
12 6 (0.86%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.30%) Windows
2 5 (0.72%) Linux
3 3 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (100.00%) Migration
2 188 (27.01%) User Acceptance Testing
3 187 (26.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 182 (26.15%) Validation
5 173 (24.86%) ERP
6 136 (19.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 130 (18.68%) Agile
8 115 (16.52%) Data Modelling
9 104 (14.94%) Business Intelligence
10 90 (12.93%) Data Governance
11 88 (12.64%) ETL
12 80 (11.49%) DevOps
13 77 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
14 74 (10.63%) Translating Business Requirements
15 73 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 68 (9.77%) Requirements Gathering
17 67 (9.63%) Data Mapping
18 61 (8.76%) Data Cleansing
18 61 (8.76%) Data Transformation
18 61 (8.76%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 126 (18.10%) SQL
2 47 (6.75%) Python
3 23 (3.30%) Java
4 14 (2.01%) JavaScript
5 13 (1.87%) C#
6 8 (1.15%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.86%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.72%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.72%) Kotlin
8 5 (0.72%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.43%) SOQL
9 3 (0.43%) VBA
10 2 (0.29%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.29%) R
10 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.29%) X++
11 1 (0.14%) ABAP
11 1 (0.14%) Scala
11 1 (0.14%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 75 (10.78%) Security Cleared
2 65 (9.34%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.45%) Degree
4 18 (2.59%) PMP
5 16 (2.30%) PMI Certification
6 10 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.15%) ACCA
8 8 (1.15%) CIMA
9 6 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.57%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.57%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.29%) CBAP
12 2 (0.29%) CFA
12 2 (0.29%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.14%) CISA
13 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (19.25%) Data Quality
2 53 (7.61%) QA
3 26 (3.74%) GDPR
4 21 (3.02%) PMO
5 10 (1.44%) SLA
6 5 (0.72%) GRC
6 5 (0.72%) HL7
7 4 (0.57%) IFRS
8 3 (0.43%) DICOM
8 3 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.43%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.29%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.29%) GAAP
9 2 (0.29%) GMP
9 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) Basel III
10 1 (0.14%) EMIR
System Software
1 7 (1.01%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.57%) HP ALM
2 4 (0.57%) Karpenter
3 2 (0.29%) Ansible
4 1 (0.14%) Avamar
4 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 150 (21.55%) Microsoft
2 129 (18.53%) Oracle
3 118 (16.95%) SAP
4 45 (6.47%) Databricks
5 24 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 21 (3.02%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.59%) Workday
8 15 (2.16%) Informatica
9 12 (1.72%) IBM
10 9 (1.29%) IFS
11 7 (1.01%) Ariba
11 7 (1.01%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.01%) Google
11 7 (1.01%) Talend
12 6 (0.86%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.86%) Temenos
13 5 (0.72%) Avaloq
13 5 (0.72%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.57%) Palantir
14 4 (0.57%) Refinitiv