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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 98 110
Rank change year-on-year +15 +12 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 695 400 386
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.42% 2.96% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 3.20% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 233 253
10th Percentile £375 £400 £392
25th Percentile £450 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
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 18,076 12,495 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.53% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,807 8,257 9,705
10th Percentile £360 £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 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 255 182
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.01 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +21 102 £600 +8.60% 37
West London +8 35 £705 +12.80% 8
South London -11 4 £514 +12.30% 3
East London -1 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 39 (5.61%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.73%) Confluence
3 12 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.86%) Apache
4 6 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.72%) 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 26 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.29%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.29%) Windchill
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 61 (8.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (4.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (3.02%) Oracle Payables
4 19 (2.73%) Oracle ERP
5 17 (2.45%) Oracle Receivables
6 16 (2.30%) NetSuite
7 11 (1.58%) Oracle General Ledger
8 10 (1.44%) Oracle Financials
8 10 (1.44%) SAP ERP
9 8 (1.15%) iTrent
9 8 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
10 7 (1.01%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 7 (1.01%) Temenos T24
11 6 (0.86%) SAP MDG
11 6 (0.86%) 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 (17.55%) Azure
2 105 (15.11%) Power Platform
3 82 (11.80%) Dynamics 365
4 58 (8.35%) AWS
5 46 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (4.32%) SaaS
7 29 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (4.17%) OCI
8 27 (3.88%) Snowflake
9 26 (3.74%) Amazon S3
10 22 (3.17%) Power Automate
11 19 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (2.45%) GCP
13 17 (2.45%) SuccessFactors
14 16 (2.30%) PowerApps
15 15 (2.16%) GitHub
16 14 (2.01%) dbt
17 10 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
18 9 (1.29%) OneDrive
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 (13.09%) Power BI
2 41 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (4.32%) SQL Server
4 29 (4.17%) Metadata
5 21 (3.02%) Data Lake
6 18 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (2.59%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (1.29%) BusinessObjects
8 9 (1.29%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.15%) DataStage
9 8 (1.15%) MongoDB
9 8 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (0.86%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.86%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.86%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 55 (7.91%) JIRA
2 11 (1.58%) 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
1 292 (42.01%) Finance
2 211 (30.36%) Social Skills
3 90 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (8.78%) Banking
5 54 (7.77%) Public Sector
6 37 (5.32%) Law
7 30 (4.32%) General Ledger
7 30 (4.32%) Retail
8 28 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (3.31%) Manufacturing
10 18 (2.59%) Local Government
11 15 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (2.01%) Billing
12 14 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (2.01%) Marketing
13 13 (1.87%) Aviation
14 11 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.44%) Legal
16 8 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 155 (22.30%) Lead
2 114 (16.40%) Analyst
3 107 (15.40%) Architect
4 80 (11.51%) Consultant
5 62 (8.92%) Business Analyst
6 53 (7.63%) Senior
7 51 (7.34%) Data Engineer
8 49 (7.05%) Data Migration Lead
9 47 (6.76%) Data Analyst
10 37 (5.32%) Project Manager
11 32 (4.60%) Data Architect
12 31 (4.46%) Functional Architect
12 31 (4.46%) Lead Architect
13 28 (4.03%) Developer
13 28 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
14 27 (3.88%) Migration Analyst
15 22 (3.17%) Data Migration Analyst
16 21 (3.02%) Oracle Consultant
17 20 (2.88%) Functional Consultant
17 20 (2.88%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (7.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 29 (4.17%) Middleware
3 20 (2.88%) REST
4 16 (2.30%) .NET
5 15 (2.16%) XML
6 12 (1.73%) PySpark
6 12 (1.73%) SOAP
7 10 (1.44%) JSON
8 9 (1.29%) Terraform
9 8 (1.15%) Keycloak
10 7 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
11 6 (0.86%) Kafka
11 6 (0.86%) Web Services
12 5 (0.72%) HTML
13 4 (0.58%) HTML5 Canvas
13 4 (0.58%) XSLT
14 3 (0.43%) Playwright
15 2 (0.29%) ASP.NET Web API
15 2 (0.29%) FHIR
15 2 (0.29%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 82 (11.80%) Legacy Systems
2 58 (8.35%) Data Structures
3 27 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.60%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.02%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.16%) Cloud Native
6 15 (2.16%) FMCG
7 13 (1.87%) Reference Data
8 9 (1.29%) Reinsurance
8 9 (1.29%) Replication
9 8 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.01%) NHS
11 6 (0.86%) Credit Risk
11 6 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.86%) Legacy Code
11 6 (0.86%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.72%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.01%) Windows
2 4 (0.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 695 (100.00%) Migration
2 200 (28.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 199 (28.63%) Validation
4 187 (26.91%) User Acceptance Testing
5 179 (25.76%) ERP
6 137 (19.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 126 (18.13%) Agile
8 122 (17.55%) Data Modelling
9 98 (14.10%) Data Governance
10 97 (13.96%) Business Intelligence
11 84 (12.09%) ETL
12 81 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
13 80 (11.51%) DevOps
14 72 (10.36%) Translating Business Requirements
15 71 (10.22%) Requirements Gathering
16 70 (10.07%) Data Mapping
17 66 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
18 64 (9.21%) Data Cleansing
19 61 (8.78%) Data Transformation
19 61 (8.78%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 127 (18.27%) SQL
2 43 (6.19%) Python
3 17 (2.45%) Java
4 16 (2.30%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.01%) C#
6 7 (1.01%) TypeScript
7 6 (0.86%) Apex Code
7 6 (0.86%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.58%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.58%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.43%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.43%) SOQL
9 3 (0.43%) VBA
10 2 (0.29%) ABAP
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 80 (11.51%) Security Cleared
2 69 (9.93%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.32%) Degree
4 18 (2.59%) PMP
5 17 (2.45%) PMI Certification
6 11 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.15%) ACCA
8 8 (1.15%) CIMA
9 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.58%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.58%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.43%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.29%) CAPM
12 2 (0.29%) CBAP
12 2 (0.29%) CFA
12 2 (0.29%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.14%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (22.30%) Data Quality
2 53 (7.63%) QA
3 24 (3.45%) GDPR
4 22 (3.17%) PMO
5 8 (1.15%) GRC
6 7 (1.01%) SLA
7 6 (0.86%) 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%) GxP
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (1.29%) Docker
2 4 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (1.44%) 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
1 152 (21.87%) Microsoft
2 129 (18.56%) Oracle
3 123 (17.70%) SAP
4 51 (7.34%) Databricks
5 26 (3.74%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.88%) Informatica
6 20 (2.88%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.01%) Workday
8 12 (1.73%) IBM
9 11 (1.58%) Talend
10 9 (1.29%) IFS
11 8 (1.15%) Ariba
11 8 (1.15%) 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