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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 92 115
Rank change year-on-year +5 +23 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 684 410 371
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.38% 3.04% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 3.28% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 251 240
10th Percentile £368 £409 £380
25th Percentile £449 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £656 £650
90th Percentile £766 £725 £733
England median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £46.25 £66.25 £37.70
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.88 £41.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £85.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +71.72% -47.89%
75th Percentile £61.44 £99.38 £58.25
90th Percentile £68.25 £105.75 £62.90
England median hourly rate £36.71 £62.50 £66.50
% change year-on-year -41.26% -6.02% -25.65%

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 17,999 12,504 14,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.62% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,775 8,251 9,455
10th Percentile £358 £333 £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 £664 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 245 181
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.48% -2.52%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.35 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +31 119 £600 +2.78% 64
West London +7 35 £700 +16.67% 9
South London -5 5 £514 +12.30% 4
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 36 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 29 (4.24%) Confluence
3 12 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.88%) Apache
4 6 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.73%) CMS
5 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.29%) HCL Notes
6 2 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.29%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.15%) Documentum
7 1 (0.15%) IIS
7 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (3.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.75%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.29%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 57 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (4.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (3.07%) Oracle Payables
4 18 (2.63%) Oracle ERP
5 17 (2.49%) Oracle Receivables
6 16 (2.34%) NetSuite
7 11 (1.61%) SAP HCM
8 10 (1.46%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (1.32%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (1.17%) iTrent
10 8 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (1.17%) SAP ERP
11 7 (1.02%) Temenos T24
12 6 (0.88%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.88%) SAP MDG
12 6 (0.88%) SAP Payroll
12 6 (0.88%) Workday HCM
13 5 (0.73%) Oracle Assets
13 5 (0.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 5 (0.73%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 129 (18.86%) Azure
2 77 (11.26%) Power Platform
3 58 (8.48%) AWS
4 57 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 53 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (4.09%) SaaS
7 28 (4.09%) Snowflake
8 26 (3.80%) OCI
9 24 (3.51%) Amazon S3
10 21 (3.07%) Power Automate
10 21 (3.07%) SuccessFactors
11 20 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 20 (2.92%) GCP
12 16 (2.34%) PowerApps
13 15 (2.19%) dbt
13 15 (2.19%) GitHub
14 12 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
15 11 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.44%) Intranet
2 1 (0.15%) DKIM
2 1 (0.15%) DMARC
2 1 (0.15%) DNS
2 1 (0.15%) NAS
2 1 (0.15%) SAN
2 1 (0.15%) SSL
2 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (9.21%) Power BI
2 44 (6.43%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (4.82%) Metadata
4 30 (4.39%) SQL Server
5 22 (3.22%) Data Lake
6 18 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (2.63%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.61%) NoSQL
8 10 (1.46%) Oracle Database
8 10 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (1.32%) BusinessObjects
9 9 (1.32%) MongoDB
10 8 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.17%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.17%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (1.02%) Delta Lake
11 7 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 56 (8.19%) JIRA
2 13 (1.90%) Git
3 4 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.44%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.44%) Gatling
4 3 (0.44%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.44%) LSMW
4 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.44%) Zephyr
5 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.29%) Postman
5 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.15%) GitLab
6 1 (0.15%) JMeter
6 1 (0.15%) ScriptRunner
General
1 267 (39.04%) Finance
2 204 (29.82%) Social Skills
3 90 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (9.50%) Banking
5 60 (8.77%) Public Sector
6 31 (4.53%) Retail
7 30 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
8 27 (3.95%) General Ledger
8 27 (3.95%) Manufacturing
9 19 (2.78%) Local Government
10 16 (2.34%) Legal
11 14 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (1.90%) Aviation
12 13 (1.90%) Marketing
13 12 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.46%) Law
16 9 (1.32%) Billing
16 9 (1.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 129 (18.86%) Analyst
2 123 (17.98%) Lead
3 83 (12.13%) Architect
4 82 (11.99%) Consultant
5 70 (10.23%) Business Analyst
6 59 (8.63%) Senior
7 54 (7.89%) Data Analyst
8 53 (7.75%) Data Engineer
9 47 (6.87%) Data Migration Lead
10 34 (4.97%) Project Manager
11 33 (4.82%) Data Architect
12 28 (4.09%) Developer
12 28 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
13 26 (3.80%) Migration Analyst
14 24 (3.51%) Migration Engineer
15 22 (3.22%) Data Migration Analyst
16 20 (2.92%) Data Migration Engineer
16 20 (2.92%) Oracle Consultant
17 19 (2.78%) Data Business Analyst
17 19 (2.78%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (8.04%) Oracle Fusion
2 26 (3.80%) Middleware
3 15 (2.19%) .NET
4 14 (2.05%) REST
5 13 (1.90%) PySpark
5 13 (1.90%) XML
6 10 (1.46%) JSON
7 9 (1.32%) Keycloak
7 9 (1.32%) SOAP
8 8 (1.17%) ADO
8 8 (1.17%) Terraform
9 7 (1.02%) Kafka
9 7 (1.02%) Web Services
10 6 (0.88%) Lightning Web Components
11 5 (0.73%) HTML
12 4 (0.58%) HTML5 Canvas
12 4 (0.58%) XSLT
13 3 (0.44%) Playwright
13 3 (0.44%) SAP Fiori
14 2 (0.29%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 84 (12.28%) Legacy Systems
2 60 (8.77%) Data Structures
3 27 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
4 26 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 23 (3.36%) Onboarding
5 23 (3.36%) Product Ownership
6 17 (2.49%) Reference Data
7 15 (2.19%) Cloud Native
8 13 (1.90%) FMCG
9 10 (1.46%) Reinsurance
9 10 (1.46%) Replication
10 8 (1.17%) Credit Risk
11 7 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.02%) NHS
12 6 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.88%) Legacy Code
12 6 (0.88%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.73%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.05%) Windows
2 7 (1.02%) Linux
3 4 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 684 (100.00%) Migration
2 218 (31.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 214 (31.29%) Validation
4 160 (23.39%) User Acceptance Testing
5 151 (22.08%) ERP
6 121 (17.69%) Agile
7 119 (17.40%) Data Modelling
8 104 (15.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 103 (15.06%) Data Governance
10 89 (13.01%) ETL
11 86 (12.57%) DevOps
11 86 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
11 86 (12.57%) Requirements Gathering
12 73 (10.67%) Business Intelligence
13 69 (10.09%) Data Cleansing
14 68 (9.94%) Data Mapping
15 67 (9.80%) Data Validation
16 64 (9.36%) Data Transformation
16 64 (9.36%) Workshop Facilitation
17 59 (8.63%) Cutover Planning
Programming Languages
1 136 (19.88%) SQL
2 41 (5.99%) Python
3 16 (2.34%) JavaScript
4 14 (2.05%) C#
5 12 (1.75%) Java
6 8 (1.17%) PL/SQL
7 7 (1.02%) T-SQL
7 7 (1.02%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.88%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.73%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.44%) Bash
10 3 (0.44%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.29%) ABAP
11 2 (0.29%) Korn
11 2 (0.29%) R
11 2 (0.29%) Scala
11 2 (0.29%) SOQL
11 2 (0.29%) X++
12 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 85 (12.43%) Security Cleared
2 73 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 35 (5.12%) Degree
4 19 (2.78%) PMI Certification
4 19 (2.78%) PMP
5 14 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.17%) ACCA
8 8 (1.17%) CIMA
9 5 (0.73%) CBAP
9 5 (0.73%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.58%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.29%) CAPM
11 2 (0.29%) CFA
11 2 (0.29%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.29%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.29%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (22.95%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.58%) QA
3 23 (3.36%) GDPR
4 21 (3.07%) PMO
5 8 (1.17%) GRC
6 5 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.73%) HL7
6 5 (0.73%) SLA
7 3 (0.44%) IFRS
7 3 (0.44%) SNOMED CT
8 2 (0.29%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.29%) DICOM
8 2 (0.29%) GMP
8 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.15%) GAAP
9 1 (0.15%) GxP
9 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 10 (1.46%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (1.46%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.17%) Karpenter
3 4 (0.58%) Control-M
4 1 (0.15%) Ansible
4 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 133 (19.44%) Microsoft
1 133 (19.44%) Oracle
2 123 (17.98%) SAP
3 57 (8.33%) Databricks
4 31 (4.53%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.22%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.78%) Informatica
7 15 (2.19%) Workday
8 13 (1.90%) Google
9 12 (1.75%) IBM
10 11 (1.61%) IFS
10 11 (1.61%) Talend
11 9 (1.32%) Ariba
12 8 (1.17%) Sage
13 7 (1.02%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.88%) Alteryx
15 5 (0.73%) MuleSoft
15 5 (0.73%) Murex
16 4 (0.58%) Bloomberg
16 4 (0.58%) Temenos