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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 92 107
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 692 395 381
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.45% 2.99% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 3.23% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 231 249
10th Percentile £374 £400 £390
25th Percentile £450 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £751 £738 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £46.25 £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 £61.44 £78.13 £66.00
90th Percentile £68.25 £97.25 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £62.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -36.00% -21.88% -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 17,884 12,219 14,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.13% 92.48% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,101 9,738
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £682
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 254 186
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.98 £25.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.69 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 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 4 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 4 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 +21 99 £600 +9.09% 39
West London +7 35 £705 +12.80% 9
South London -11 4 £514 +12.30% 3
East London 0 3 £675 - 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 38 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.75%) Confluence
3 11 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.87%) Apache
4 6 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.29%) CMS
6 2 (0.29%) HCL Notes
6 2 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.14%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 27 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.30%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.29%) Windchill
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 63 (9.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (4.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (3.03%) Oracle Payables
4 20 (2.89%) Oracle ERP
5 17 (2.46%) Oracle Receivables
6 16 (2.31%) NetSuite
7 11 (1.59%) Oracle General Ledger
8 10 (1.45%) Oracle Financials
8 10 (1.45%) SAP ERP
9 8 (1.16%) iTrent
9 8 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
10 7 (1.01%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 7 (1.01%) Temenos T24
11 6 (0.87%) SAP MDG
11 6 (0.87%) Workday HCM
12 5 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
12 5 (0.72%) Finacle
12 5 (0.72%) Oracle Assets
12 5 (0.72%) SAP GRC
12 5 (0.72%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 122 (17.63%) Azure
2 103 (14.88%) Power Platform
3 80 (11.56%) Dynamics 365
4 57 (8.24%) AWS
5 48 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (4.34%) OCI
6 30 (4.34%) SaaS
7 28 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
8 26 (3.76%) Amazon S3
8 26 (3.76%) Snowflake
9 22 (3.18%) Power Automate
10 18 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 18 (2.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 18 (2.60%) GitHub
11 17 (2.46%) GCP
12 16 (2.31%) PowerApps
12 16 (2.31%) SuccessFactors
13 13 (1.88%) dbt
14 10 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 10 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.43%) Intranet
2 2 (0.29%) HTTP
2 2 (0.29%) VPN
3 1 (0.14%) DKIM
3 1 (0.14%) DMARC
3 1 (0.14%) DNS
3 1 (0.14%) Firewall
3 1 (0.14%) NAS
3 1 (0.14%) SAN
3 1 (0.14%) SNMP
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (13.15%) Power BI
2 41 (5.92%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (4.34%) SQL Server
4 27 (3.90%) Metadata
5 21 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 18 (2.60%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (1.73%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
11 8 (1.16%) DataStage
11 8 (1.16%) MongoDB
11 8 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (0.87%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.87%) Oracle Database
14 5 (0.72%) Db2
14 5 (0.72%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 56 (8.09%) JIRA
2 14 (2.02%) Git
3 5 (0.72%) Zephyr
4 4 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.43%) ER Studio
5 3 (0.43%) Gatling
5 3 (0.43%) GitLab
5 3 (0.43%) LSMW
6 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.29%) Selenium
6 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.14%) JMeter
7 1 (0.14%) JUnit
7 1 (0.14%) Postman
7 1 (0.14%) ScriptRunner
General
1 291 (42.05%) Finance
2 209 (30.20%) Social Skills
3 90 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (8.67%) Banking
5 51 (7.37%) Public Sector
6 37 (5.35%) Law
7 31 (4.48%) Retail
8 30 (4.34%) General Ledger
9 28 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
10 21 (3.03%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.46%) Local Government
12 14 (2.02%) Billing
12 14 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (2.02%) Marketing
12 14 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.88%) Aviation
14 11 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.45%) Legal
16 9 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 153 (22.11%) Lead
2 114 (16.47%) Analyst
3 107 (15.46%) Architect
4 77 (11.13%) Consultant
5 62 (8.96%) Business Analyst
6 54 (7.80%) Senior
7 50 (7.23%) Data Engineer
8 48 (6.94%) Data Migration Lead
9 47 (6.79%) Data Analyst
10 36 (5.20%) Project Manager
11 31 (4.48%) Data Architect
11 31 (4.48%) Lead Architect
12 30 (4.34%) Functional Architect
13 29 (4.19%) Developer
14 27 (3.90%) Migration Analyst
15 26 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
16 22 (3.18%) Data Migration Analyst
17 21 (3.03%) Oracle Consultant
18 20 (2.89%) Test Manager
19 19 (2.75%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.95%) Oracle Fusion
2 29 (4.19%) Middleware
3 21 (3.03%) REST
4 16 (2.31%) .NET
5 15 (2.17%) XML
6 13 (1.88%) SOAP
7 11 (1.59%) PySpark
8 10 (1.45%) JSON
9 9 (1.30%) Terraform
10 8 (1.16%) Keycloak
11 7 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
12 6 (0.87%) Kafka
12 6 (0.87%) Web Services
13 5 (0.72%) HTML
14 4 (0.58%) HTML5 Canvas
14 4 (0.58%) XSLT
15 3 (0.43%) Playwright
15 3 (0.43%) Spring
16 2 (0.29%) .NET Framework
16 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
Miscellaneous
1 84 (12.14%) Legacy Systems
2 56 (8.09%) Data Structures
3 25 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (3.32%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.60%) Cloud Native
7 16 (2.31%) FMCG
8 13 (1.88%) Reference Data
9 9 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.30%) Replication
10 8 (1.16%) Reinsurance
11 7 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.01%) NHS
12 6 (0.87%) Credit Risk
12 6 (0.87%) Legacy Code
12 6 (0.87%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.72%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.02%) Windows
2 4 (0.58%) Linux
3 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 692 (100.00%) Migration
2 195 (28.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 194 (28.03%) Validation
4 187 (27.02%) User Acceptance Testing
5 176 (25.43%) ERP
6 138 (19.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 125 (18.06%) Agile
8 119 (17.20%) Data Modelling
9 97 (14.02%) Business Intelligence
9 97 (14.02%) Data Governance
10 84 (12.14%) ETL
11 81 (11.71%) DevOps
12 79 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
13 72 (10.40%) Requirements Gathering
13 72 (10.40%) Translating Business Requirements
14 67 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
15 66 (9.54%) Data Mapping
16 60 (8.67%) Data Cleansing
16 60 (8.67%) Data Transformation
17 59 (8.53%) Cutover Planning
Programming Languages
1 130 (18.79%) SQL
2 44 (6.36%) Python
3 20 (2.89%) Java
4 16 (2.31%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.02%) C#
6 7 (1.01%) PL/SQL
6 7 (1.01%) TypeScript
7 6 (0.87%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.58%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.58%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.43%) SOQL
9 3 (0.43%) VBA
10 2 (0.29%) ABAP
10 2 (0.29%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.29%) R
10 2 (0.29%) Scala
10 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.29%) X++
11 1 (0.14%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 79 (11.42%) Security Cleared
2 68 (9.83%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.34%) Degree
4 16 (2.31%) PMP
5 15 (2.17%) PMI Certification
6 11 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.16%) ACCA
8 8 (1.16%) CIMA
9 6 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.58%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.58%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.43%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.29%) CBAP
13 2 (0.29%) CFA
13 2 (0.29%) CTC Cleared
14 1 (0.14%) IIBA
14 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (21.53%) Data Quality
2 54 (7.80%) QA
3 24 (3.47%) GDPR
4 20 (2.89%) PMO
5 8 (1.16%) GRC
6 7 (1.01%) SLA
7 6 (0.87%) HL7
8 3 (0.43%) DICOM
8 3 (0.43%) IFRS
8 3 (0.43%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.29%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.29%) GMP
9 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) GAAP
10 1 (0.14%) GxP
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (1.30%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (1.88%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.01%) Karpenter
3 3 (0.43%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.29%) Ansible
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 150 (21.68%) Microsoft
2 127 (18.35%) Oracle
3 122 (17.63%) SAP
4 49 (7.08%) Databricks
5 24 (3.47%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.89%) Informatica
6 20 (2.89%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.02%) Workday
8 12 (1.73%) IBM
9 10 (1.45%) Talend
10 9 (1.30%) IFS
11 8 (1.16%) Ariba
11 8 (1.16%) Google
12 7 (1.01%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.01%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.72%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.72%) Temenos
14 4 (0.58%) Bloomberg
14 4 (0.58%) Sage
14 4 (0.58%) Teradata