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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 101 103
Rank change year-on-year +30 +2 +49
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 702 359 421
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.64% 2.76% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 3.00% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 216 296
10th Percentile £381 £394 £384
25th Percentile £463 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £639 £650 £673
90th Percentile £750 £761 £749
England median daily rate £525 £529 £540
% change year-on-year -0.76% -2.04% -0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £54.95 £40.20 -
25th Percentile £56.00 £48.56 -
Median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - -
75th Percentile £71.00 £66.25 -
90th Percentile £72.65 £67.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% -23.33% +141.94%

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 17,155 11,979 15,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.25% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,402 8,003 11,123
10th Percentile £358 £335 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
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 267 225 302
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £23.33 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% +9.63% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £68.68
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +85.35% -34.02% +1.65%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +30 102 £570 +11.12% 34
West London +2 27 £475 -24.00% 7
East London -2 3 £675 +25.00%
South London -5 3 £543 - 2
North London -4 2 £523 -5.00%
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 34 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.99%) Confluence
3 4 (0.57%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.28%) Apache
5 2 (0.28%) Appian
6 1 (0.14%) CMS
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
6 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 36 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 52 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (2.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (2.42%) Oracle ERP
4 14 (1.99%) NetSuite
5 13 (1.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 13 (1.85%) SAP ERP
6 12 (1.71%) Oracle Payables
7 11 (1.57%) Loan IQ
7 11 (1.57%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (1.57%) Oracle Receivables
8 10 (1.42%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (1.28%) iTrent
10 7 (1.00%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.85%) SAP Payroll
11 6 (0.85%) Workday HCM
12 5 (0.71%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 4 (0.57%) Finacle
13 4 (0.57%) Maximo
13 4 (0.57%) SAP HCM
13 4 (0.57%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 120 (17.09%) Azure
2 93 (13.25%) Power Platform
3 68 (9.69%) Dynamics 365
4 60 (8.55%) AWS
5 48 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (4.27%) OCI
7 23 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (3.28%) Snowflake
8 22 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 22 (3.13%) SaaS
9 18 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 17 (2.42%) Amazon S3
10 17 (2.42%) GitHub
11 14 (1.99%) Power Automate
12 13 (1.85%) GCP
13 12 (1.71%) SuccessFactors
14 11 (1.57%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.42%) dbt
15 10 (1.42%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 10 (1.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.42%) NAS
1 10 (1.42%) SAN
2 3 (0.43%) DNS
2 3 (0.43%) Firewall
2 3 (0.43%) VPN
3 2 (0.28%) HTTP
4 1 (0.14%) DKIM
4 1 (0.14%) DMARC
4 1 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.14%) Intranet
4 1 (0.14%) Network Security
4 1 (0.14%) SNMP
4 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (11.97%) Power BI
2 42 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (3.56%) SQL Server
4 21 (2.99%) Metadata
5 19 (2.71%) Data Lake
6 17 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (2.28%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (1.85%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.57%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (1.42%) Db2
12 9 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (1.28%) Oracle Database
13 8 (1.14%) BusinessObjects
14 7 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (0.85%) MySQL
15 6 (0.85%) Star Schema
16 5 (0.71%) DataStage
16 5 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 63 (8.97%) JIRA
2 12 (1.71%) Git
3 4 (0.57%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.57%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.57%) JUnit
3 4 (0.57%) LSMW
3 4 (0.57%) Selenium
3 4 (0.57%) Zephyr
4 3 (0.43%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.43%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.43%) ERwin
4 3 (0.43%) Gatling
4 3 (0.43%) GitLab
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.28%) Postman
5 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.14%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 273 (38.89%) Finance
2 211 (30.06%) Social Skills
3 98 (13.96%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (9.12%) Banking
5 50 (7.12%) Public Sector
6 41 (5.84%) Law
7 32 (4.56%) Retail
8 27 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (3.42%) General Ledger
10 20 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.42%) Legal
13 16 (2.28%) Local Government
14 15 (2.14%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.85%) Aviation
16 12 (1.71%) Billing
16 12 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (1.71%) Marketing
17 11 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
18 10 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 176 (25.07%) Lead
2 114 (16.24%) Architect
3 105 (14.96%) Analyst
4 68 (9.69%) Consultant
5 61 (8.69%) Business Analyst
6 59 (8.40%) Data Engineer
7 56 (7.98%) Data Migration Lead
8 53 (7.55%) Senior
9 41 (5.84%) Data Analyst
9 41 (5.84%) Project Manager
10 36 (5.13%) Migration Analyst
11 33 (4.70%) Lead Architect
12 31 (4.42%) Functional Architect
13 30 (4.27%) Data Architect
13 30 (4.27%) Migration Manager
14 28 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
15 26 (3.70%) Technical Leader
16 24 (3.42%) Data Migration Analyst
17 23 (3.28%) Data Business Analyst
18 22 (3.13%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.70%) Oracle Fusion
2 25 (3.56%) Middleware
3 23 (3.28%) REST
4 17 (2.42%) SOAP
5 14 (1.99%) XML
6 11 (1.57%) .NET
7 10 (1.42%) JSON
7 10 (1.42%) Lightning Web Components
8 8 (1.14%) Kafka
9 6 (0.85%) Spring
10 4 (0.57%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.57%) Playwright
10 4 (0.57%) React
11 3 (0.43%) FHIR
11 3 (0.43%) HTML5 Canvas
11 3 (0.43%) PySpark
11 3 (0.43%) Web Services
12 2 (0.28%) ADO
12 2 (0.28%) Snowpark
12 2 (0.28%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 84 (11.97%) Legacy Systems
2 57 (8.12%) Data Structures
3 25 (3.56%) Management Information System
4 20 (2.85%) Cloud Native
5 15 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (2.14%) Product Ownership
6 14 (1.99%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.85%) Replication
8 11 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.57%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.42%) FMCG
10 9 (1.28%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.14%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.00%) NHS
13 6 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.85%) Legacy Code
13 6 (0.85%) PACS
13 6 (0.85%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.85%) Windows
2 7 (1.00%) zOS
3 5 (0.71%) Linux
4 2 (0.28%) Unix
5 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 702 (100.00%) Migration
2 171 (24.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 170 (24.22%) User Acceptance Testing
3 170 (24.22%) Validation
4 154 (21.94%) ERP
5 125 (17.81%) Agile
6 122 (17.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 109 (15.53%) Data Modelling
8 92 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
8 92 (13.11%) ETL
9 90 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
10 84 (11.97%) Data Mapping
11 80 (11.40%) DevOps
12 76 (10.83%) Data Governance
13 72 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 70 (9.97%) Translating Business Requirements
15 62 (8.83%) Decision-Making
16 61 (8.69%) Procure-to-Pay
17 60 (8.55%) Data Cleansing
17 60 (8.55%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 124 (17.66%) SQL
2 53 (7.55%) Python
3 25 (3.56%) Java
4 16 (2.28%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.14%) Apex Code
5 8 (1.14%) C#
6 7 (1.00%) PL/SQL
6 7 (1.00%) T-SQL
7 6 (0.85%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.71%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.43%) SOQL
9 3 (0.43%) VBA
10 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.14%) Bash
11 1 (0.14%) COBOL
11 1 (0.14%) Korn
11 1 (0.14%) Scala
11 1 (0.14%) X++
Qualifications
1 85 (12.11%) Security Cleared
2 70 (9.97%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.27%) Degree
4 15 (2.14%) PMP
5 12 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.57%) PMI Certification
7 10 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.85%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.57%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.28%) CFA
11 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.14%) CAPM
12 1 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.14%) IIBA
12 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (18.80%) Data Quality
2 54 (7.69%) QA
3 31 (4.42%) GDPR
4 14 (1.99%) PMO
5 12 (1.71%) SLA
6 6 (0.85%) HL7
7 5 (0.71%) IFRS
8 4 (0.57%) GAAP
8 4 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.43%) DICOM
9 3 (0.43%) GMP
9 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.43%) SNOMED CT
10 2 (0.28%) GRC
10 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.14%) Basel III
11 1 (0.14%) EMIR
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 10 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.14%) Docker
2 8 (1.14%) NFS
3 6 (0.85%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (2.42%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.14%) Terraform
3 6 (0.85%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (0.85%) vMotion
4 4 (0.57%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.43%) Ansible
5 3 (0.43%) Grafana
5 3 (0.43%) Karpenter
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.14%) Argo
6 1 (0.14%) Avamar
6 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 142 (20.23%) Microsoft
2 126 (17.95%) Oracle
3 115 (16.38%) SAP
4 39 (5.56%) Databricks
5 30 (4.27%) Salesforce
6 22 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.42%) Workday
8 16 (2.28%) Informatica
9 13 (1.85%) VMware
10 11 (1.57%) IFS
11 10 (1.42%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.42%) Pure Storage
12 9 (1.28%) Avaloq
13 8 (1.14%) Talend
14 7 (1.00%) Google
14 7 (1.00%) IBM
14 7 (1.00%) Temenos
15 6 (0.85%) Ariba
15 6 (0.85%) Commvault
16 5 (0.71%) Bloomberg