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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 106 101
Rank change year-on-year +36 -5 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 688 335 430
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.61% 2.68% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.07% 2.90% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 199 309
10th Percentile £381 £400 £379
25th Percentile £463 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £770 £750
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +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 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% -23.33% +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 16,916 11,555 15,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.87% 92.40% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,270 7,751 11,170
10th Percentile £360 £338 £340
25th Percentile £437 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 210 314
10th Percentile £18.06 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.22 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +18.39% -29.38%
75th Percentile £59.99 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.70
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.40 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.36% -27.18% +4.81%

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 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 20 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 +28 98 £590 +15.02% 12
West London -5 26 £475 -24.00% 8
East London +1 3 £675 +25.00% 2
North London -3 2 £523 -5.00%
South London -8 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 29 (4.22%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.03%) 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 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 52 (7.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (2.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 16 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
4 14 (2.03%) SAP ERP
5 12 (1.74%) NetSuite
6 11 (1.60%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (1.45%) Loan IQ
7 10 (1.45%) Oracle General Ledger
7 10 (1.45%) Oracle Payables
8 9 (1.31%) Oracle Receivables
9 8 (1.16%) iTrent
9 8 (1.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.87%) Finacle
10 6 (0.87%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.87%) Temenos T24
10 6 (0.87%) Workday HCM
11 5 (0.73%) SAP Payroll
12 4 (0.58%) Maximo
12 4 (0.58%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 118 (17.15%) Azure
2 90 (13.08%) Power Platform
3 66 (9.59%) Dynamics 365
4 65 (9.45%) AWS
5 45 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (4.36%) OCI
7 23 (3.34%) Snowflake
8 22 (3.20%) SaaS
9 19 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
11 17 (2.47%) Amazon S3
11 17 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 14 (2.03%) GitHub
13 13 (1.89%) GCP
13 13 (1.89%) Power Automate
14 11 (1.60%) SuccessFactors
15 10 (1.45%) dbt
15 10 (1.45%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 10 (1.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.45%) NAS
1 10 (1.45%) 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 (11.77%) Power BI
2 43 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (3.63%) SQL Server
4 19 (2.76%) Metadata
5 18 (2.62%) Data Lake
6 16 (2.33%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.74%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (1.45%) Db2
12 9 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (1.31%) Oracle Database
13 8 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
13 8 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (1.02%) Tableau
15 6 (0.87%) MySQL
16 5 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
16 5 (0.73%) DataStage
16 5 (0.73%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 62 (9.01%) JIRA
2 12 (1.74%) Git
3 4 (0.58%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.58%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.58%) JUnit
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%) LSMW
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.29%) Postman
5 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.15%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
General
1 268 (38.95%) Finance
2 210 (30.52%) Social Skills
3 93 (13.52%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (10.47%) Banking
5 44 (6.40%) Public Sector
6 41 (5.96%) Law
7 34 (4.94%) Retail
8 28 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (3.63%) General Ledger
10 21 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (2.62%) Legal
11 18 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.18%) Local Government
13 13 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (1.74%) Aviation
14 12 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.74%) Marketing
15 11 (1.60%) Billing
15 11 (1.60%) Manufacturing
16 10 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 182 (26.45%) Lead
2 114 (16.57%) Architect
3 101 (14.68%) Analyst
4 63 (9.16%) Consultant
5 58 (8.43%) Data Migration Lead
6 56 (8.14%) Business Analyst
6 56 (8.14%) Data Engineer
7 48 (6.98%) Senior
8 43 (6.25%) Data Analyst
9 40 (5.81%) Project Manager
10 37 (5.38%) Migration Analyst
11 33 (4.80%) Lead Architect
12 32 (4.65%) Data Architect
12 32 (4.65%) Migration Manager
13 31 (4.51%) Functional Architect
14 28 (4.07%) Technical Leader
15 26 (3.78%) Data Migration Analyst
15 26 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
16 25 (3.63%) Test Manager
17 23 (3.34%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.98%) Oracle Fusion
2 25 (3.63%) Middleware
3 20 (2.91%) REST
4 15 (2.18%) SOAP
5 13 (1.89%) XML
6 10 (1.45%) Lightning Web Components
7 9 (1.31%) .NET
8 8 (1.16%) JSON
9 7 (1.02%) Kafka
10 6 (0.87%) Spring
11 4 (0.58%) Playwright
12 3 (0.44%) FHIR
12 3 (0.44%) PySpark
12 3 (0.44%) React
13 2 (0.29%) ADO
13 2 (0.29%) HTML5 Canvas
13 2 (0.29%) Snowpark
13 2 (0.29%) Visualforce
13 2 (0.29%) Web Services
13 2 (0.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 85 (12.35%) Legacy Systems
2 57 (8.28%) Data Structures
3 24 (3.49%) Management Information System
4 18 (2.62%) Cloud Native
5 15 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.03%) Product Ownership
7 13 (1.89%) Replication
8 12 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.60%) Mainframe
9 11 (1.60%) Reference Data
10 10 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.31%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.31%) FMCG
11 9 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.16%) Derivative
13 7 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (0.87%) PACS
14 6 (0.87%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.03%) Windows
2 7 (1.02%) zOS
3 6 (0.87%) Linux
4 2 (0.29%) Unix
5 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 688 (100.00%) Migration
2 167 (24.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 166 (24.13%) User Acceptance Testing
4 162 (23.55%) Validation
5 146 (21.22%) ERP
6 129 (18.75%) Agile
7 118 (17.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 110 (15.99%) Data Modelling
9 92 (13.37%) ETL
10 90 (13.08%) Business Intelligence
11 86 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 82 (11.92%) Data Mapping
13 75 (10.90%) Data Governance
14 71 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 68 (9.88%) DevOps
15 68 (9.88%) Translating Business Requirements
16 63 (9.16%) Data Transformation
16 63 (9.16%) Decision-Making
17 62 (9.01%) Procure-to-Pay
18 58 (8.43%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 126 (18.31%) SQL
2 53 (7.70%) Python
3 25 (3.63%) Java
4 13 (1.89%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.31%) PL/SQL
6 8 (1.16%) Apex Code
7 6 (0.87%) C#
8 5 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.73%) Kotlin
8 5 (0.73%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.73%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.44%) SOQL
9 3 (0.44%) VBA
10 2 (0.29%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.29%) R
10 2 (0.29%) Scala
11 1 (0.15%) Bash
11 1 (0.15%) Korn
11 1 (0.15%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 87 (12.65%) Security Cleared
2 72 (10.47%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.51%) Degree
4 16 (2.33%) PMP
5 13 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.74%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.87%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.58%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.58%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.44%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.44%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.29%) CFA
11 2 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.15%) CAPM
12 1 (0.15%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.15%) IIBA
12 1 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (19.33%) Data Quality
2 53 (7.70%) QA
3 30 (4.36%) GDPR
4 12 (1.74%) PMO
4 12 (1.74%) SLA
5 7 (1.02%) IFRS
5 7 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.87%) GAAP
6 6 (0.87%) 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 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.16%) NFS
3 6 (0.87%) 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 (2.03%) Terraform
2 13 (1.89%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.87%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (0.87%) vMotion
4 4 (0.58%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.44%) Ansible
5 3 (0.44%) Grafana
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
1 128 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 126 (18.31%) Oracle
3 113 (16.42%) SAP
4 38 (5.52%) Databricks
5 30 (4.36%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.91%) Informatica
7 19 (2.76%) Workday
8 18 (2.62%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.89%) Avaloq
9 13 (1.89%) VMware
10 12 (1.74%) Temenos
11 10 (1.45%) IFS
11 10 (1.45%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.45%) Pure Storage
12 8 (1.16%) IBM
12 8 (1.16%) Talend
13 7 (1.02%) GoldenSource
13 7 (1.02%) Google
14 6 (0.87%) Commvault
15 5 (0.73%) Ariba