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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 96 104
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 +31
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 674 400 386
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.31% 2.97% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.72% 3.21% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 234 247
10th Percentile £368 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £456 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £650
90th Percentile £755 £738 £732
England median daily rate £525 £538 £541
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.69% -1.59%
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 £80.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% -18.75% -13.25%

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 18,107 12,462 14,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.93% 92.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,868 8,244 9,685
10th Percentile £360 £327 £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 306 252 179
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -9.58%
75th Percentile £57.38 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +26 110 £600 -3.03% 68
West London +3 34 £705 +12.80% 9
South London -9 4 £514 +12.30% 2
East London -5 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 (5.64%) SharePoint
2 22 (3.26%) Confluence
3 12 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.89%) Apache
4 6 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.74%) 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 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.34%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.30%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 59 (8.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (4.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (3.12%) Oracle Payables
4 19 (2.82%) Oracle ERP
5 17 (2.52%) Oracle Receivables
6 16 (2.37%) NetSuite
7 11 (1.63%) SAP ERP
8 10 (1.48%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (1.34%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (1.19%) iTrent
11 7 (1.04%) Temenos T24
12 6 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
12 6 (0.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 6 (0.89%) SAP MDG
12 6 (0.89%) Workday HCM
13 5 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
13 5 (0.74%) SAP GRC
13 5 (0.74%) SAP HCM
13 5 (0.74%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 124 (18.40%) Azure
2 92 (13.65%) Power Platform
3 70 (10.39%) Dynamics 365
4 56 (8.31%) AWS
5 48 (7.12%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (4.01%) OCI
7 27 (4.01%) Snowflake
8 26 (3.86%) SaaS
9 24 (3.56%) Amazon S3
10 21 (3.12%) Power Automate
11 20 (2.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 20 (2.97%) GCP
12 19 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (2.67%) SuccessFactors
14 16 (2.37%) PowerApps
15 15 (2.23%) GitHub
16 14 (2.08%) dbt
17 10 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (1.48%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.45%) Intranet
2 2 (0.30%) HTTP
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 79 (11.72%) Power BI
2 42 (6.23%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (4.30%) Metadata
3 29 (4.30%) SQL Server
4 23 (3.41%) Data Lake
5 19 (2.82%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (1.34%) BusinessObjects
8 9 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.19%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.04%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.04%) DataStage
10 7 (1.04%) Delta Lake
10 7 (1.04%) Oracle Database
10 7 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 53 (7.86%) JIRA
2 12 (1.78%) Git
3 4 (0.59%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (0.59%) Zephyr
4 3 (0.45%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.45%) Gatling
4 3 (0.45%) LSMW
4 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.30%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.30%) GitLab
5 2 (0.30%) Postman
5 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.15%) JMeter
6 1 (0.15%) JUnit
6 1 (0.15%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.15%) Selenium
General
1 273 (40.50%) Finance
2 201 (29.82%) Social Skills
3 87 (12.91%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (8.90%) Banking
5 51 (7.57%) Public Sector
6 31 (4.60%) Retail
7 29 (4.30%) General Ledger
8 27 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (3.86%) Law
9 26 (3.86%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.52%) Local Government
11 14 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (1.93%) Aviation
12 13 (1.93%) Marketing
13 12 (1.78%) Billing
14 11 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.48%) Legal
16 7 (1.04%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 143 (21.22%) Lead
2 112 (16.62%) Analyst
3 97 (14.39%) Architect
4 77 (11.42%) Consultant
5 62 (9.20%) Business Analyst
6 53 (7.86%) Senior
7 50 (7.42%) Data Migration Lead
8 48 (7.12%) Data Analyst
8 48 (7.12%) Data Engineer
9 33 (4.90%) Project Manager
10 32 (4.75%) Data Architect
11 27 (4.01%) Developer
11 27 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
12 26 (3.86%) Migration Analyst
13 21 (3.12%) Data Migration Analyst
14 20 (2.97%) Migration Engineer
14 20 (2.97%) Oracle Consultant
15 19 (2.82%) Functional Architect
15 19 (2.82%) Functional Consultant
16 18 (2.67%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (8.01%) Oracle Fusion
2 29 (4.30%) Middleware
3 18 (2.67%) REST
4 15 (2.23%) .NET
5 14 (2.08%) XML
6 13 (1.93%) PySpark
7 10 (1.48%) JSON
7 10 (1.48%) SOAP
8 8 (1.19%) Keycloak
8 8 (1.19%) Terraform
9 7 (1.04%) Lightning Web Components
9 7 (1.04%) Web Services
10 6 (0.89%) Kafka
11 5 (0.74%) HTML
12 4 (0.59%) ADO
12 4 (0.59%) HTML5 Canvas
12 4 (0.59%) XSLT
13 3 (0.45%) Playwright
14 2 (0.30%) FHIR
14 2 (0.30%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 81 (12.02%) Legacy Systems
2 55 (8.16%) Data Structures
3 27 (4.01%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 23 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 23 (3.41%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.08%) FMCG
7 13 (1.93%) Cloud Native
7 13 (1.93%) Reference Data
8 10 (1.48%) Replication
9 9 (1.34%) Reinsurance
10 8 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.19%) NHS
11 7 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.89%) Legacy Code
12 6 (0.89%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.74%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.08%) Windows
2 4 (0.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 674 (100.00%) Migration
2 204 (30.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 199 (29.53%) Validation
4 171 (25.37%) User Acceptance Testing
5 166 (24.63%) ERP
6 121 (17.95%) Agile
6 121 (17.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 115 (17.06%) Data Modelling
8 97 (14.39%) Data Governance
9 87 (12.91%) Business Intelligence
10 84 (12.46%) ETL
11 81 (12.02%) DevOps
12 78 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
13 75 (11.13%) Requirements Gathering
14 67 (9.94%) Data Mapping
15 65 (9.64%) Data Cleansing
16 64 (9.50%) Data Validation
17 62 (9.20%) Translating Business Requirements
18 59 (8.75%) Data Transformation
19 58 (8.61%) Cutover Planning
Programming Languages
1 125 (18.55%) SQL
2 41 (6.08%) Python
3 16 (2.37%) Java
3 16 (2.37%) JavaScript
4 14 (2.08%) C#
5 7 (1.04%) PL/SQL
5 7 (1.04%) TypeScript
6 6 (0.89%) Apex Code
7 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
7 4 (0.59%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.45%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.45%) SOQL
9 2 (0.30%) ABAP
9 2 (0.30%) R
9 2 (0.30%) Scala
9 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.30%) VBA
9 2 (0.30%) X++
10 1 (0.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 77 (11.42%) Security Cleared
2 67 (9.94%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.30%) Degree
4 18 (2.67%) PMP
5 17 (2.52%) PMI Certification
6 11 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.19%) ACCA
8 8 (1.19%) CIMA
9 5 (0.74%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.59%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.45%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.45%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
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%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (21.81%) Data Quality
2 48 (7.12%) QA
3 22 (3.26%) GDPR
4 21 (3.12%) PMO
5 8 (1.19%) GRC
6 6 (0.89%) HL7
6 6 (0.89%) SLA
7 3 (0.45%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.45%) DICOM
7 3 (0.45%) IFRS
7 3 (0.45%) SNOMED CT
8 2 (0.30%) GMP
8 2 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.15%) Basel III
9 1 (0.15%) GAAP
9 1 (0.15%) GxP
9 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (1.34%) Docker
2 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (1.48%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.04%) Karpenter
3 2 (0.30%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.15%) Ansible
4 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 138 (20.47%) Microsoft
2 128 (18.99%) Oracle
3 124 (18.40%) SAP
4 52 (7.72%) Databricks
5 29 (4.30%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.82%) Informatica
7 17 (2.52%) ServiceNow
8 15 (2.23%) Workday
9 11 (1.63%) IBM
9 11 (1.63%) IFS
10 10 (1.48%) Google
10 10 (1.48%) Talend
11 8 (1.19%) Ariba
12 7 (1.04%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.89%) Alteryx
13 6 (0.89%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.89%) Sage
14 4 (0.59%) Bloomberg
14 4 (0.59%) Infor
14 4 (0.59%) Palantir