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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 95 105
Rank change year-on-year +14 +10 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 713 401 398
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.54% 2.95% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 3.20% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 234 273
10th Percentile £388 £391 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -5.05%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £761 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £536
% change year-on-year - -2.10% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile - £42.99 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.53 £62.00
Median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +1.56% -32.63%
75th Percentile £65.50 £78.13 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.45 £97.25 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £50.25 £80.00
% change year-on-year -20.40% -37.19% +199.07%

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 17,959 12,532 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.33% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,377 10,112
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 248 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -13.73%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.81 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.08 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +26 108 £598 +13.81% 26
West London +12 37 £710 +13.60% 4
East London +1 3 £675 - 3
South London -11 3 £543 +18.58% 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 41 (5.75%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.66%) Confluence
3 6 (0.84%) Apache
4 5 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.28%) HCL Notes
5 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.14%) CMS
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
6 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 30 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 55 (7.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (2.66%) Oracle ERP
4 17 (2.38%) Oracle Payables
5 15 (2.10%) NetSuite
6 13 (1.82%) Oracle Receivables
6 13 (1.82%) SAP ERP
7 9 (1.26%) iTrent
7 9 (1.26%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (1.26%) Oracle General Ledger
7 9 (1.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (1.12%) Oracle Financials
8 8 (1.12%) Temenos T24
9 7 (0.98%) Workday HCM
10 6 (0.84%) Finacle
11 5 (0.70%) Loan IQ
11 5 (0.70%) SAP MDG
11 5 (0.70%) SAP Payroll
12 4 (0.56%) Maximo
12 4 (0.56%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 123 (17.25%) Azure
2 107 (15.01%) Power Platform
3 81 (11.36%) Dynamics 365
4 57 (7.99%) AWS
5 53 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (4.63%) OCI
7 31 (4.35%) SaaS
8 28 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 24 (3.37%) Power Automate
11 22 (3.09%) Snowflake
12 21 (2.95%) Amazon S3
13 18 (2.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (2.38%) PowerApps
15 16 (2.24%) GitHub
16 15 (2.10%) GCP
17 12 (1.68%) SuccessFactors
18 10 (1.40%) dbt
19 9 (1.26%) OneDrive
20 8 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.42%) Intranet
1 3 (0.42%) NAS
1 3 (0.42%) SAN
1 3 (0.42%) VPN
2 2 (0.28%) DNS
2 2 (0.28%) Firewall
2 2 (0.28%) HTTP
3 1 (0.14%) DKIM
3 1 (0.14%) DMARC
3 1 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.14%) Network Security
3 1 (0.14%) SNMP
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (13.18%) Power BI
2 35 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (3.51%) SQL Server
4 23 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 20 (2.81%) Metadata
6 14 (1.96%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.96%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (1.26%) BusinessObjects
9 9 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
10 8 (1.12%) Db2
11 7 (0.98%) DataStage
11 7 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (0.70%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.56%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (0.56%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 63 (8.84%) JIRA
2 15 (2.10%) Git
3 6 (0.84%) Zephyr
4 4 (0.56%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.56%) JUnit
4 4 (0.56%) LSMW
4 4 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.56%) Selenium
5 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.42%) ER Studio
5 3 (0.42%) Gatling
6 2 (0.28%) GitLab
6 2 (0.28%) Postman
6 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.14%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.14%) JMeter
7 1 (0.14%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 298 (41.80%) Finance
2 215 (30.15%) Social Skills
3 95 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (10.10%) Banking
5 52 (7.29%) Public Sector
6 42 (5.89%) Law
7 27 (3.79%) Retail
8 25 (3.51%) General Ledger
9 24 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (2.66%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (2.10%) Local Government
13 14 (1.96%) Aviation
13 14 (1.96%) Legal
13 14 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.82%) Marketing
15 12 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (1.54%) Billing
Job Titles
1 170 (23.84%) Lead
2 112 (15.71%) Analyst
3 110 (15.43%) Architect
4 77 (10.80%) Consultant
5 70 (9.82%) Business Analyst
6 59 (8.27%) Data Migration Lead
6 59 (8.27%) Senior
7 55 (7.71%) Data Engineer
8 43 (6.03%) Project Manager
9 41 (5.75%) Data Analyst
10 33 (4.63%) Lead Architect
11 31 (4.35%) Functional Architect
12 30 (4.21%) Migration Analyst
13 29 (4.07%) Data Architect
13 29 (4.07%) Developer
13 29 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
14 23 (3.23%) Data Migration Analyst
14 23 (3.23%) Migration Manager
14 23 (3.23%) Technical Leader
15 22 (3.09%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (2.95%) Middleware
2 21 (2.95%) REST
3 14 (1.96%) .NET
4 13 (1.82%) SOAP
5 12 (1.68%) XML
6 9 (1.26%) JSON
7 8 (1.12%) Kafka
7 8 (1.12%) Lightning Web Components
8 6 (0.84%) PySpark
9 5 (0.70%) Spring
10 4 (0.56%) HTML5 Canvas
10 4 (0.56%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.56%) Playwright
10 4 (0.56%) Web Services
10 4 (0.56%) XSLT
11 3 (0.42%) HTML
12 2 (0.28%) EDI
12 2 (0.28%) React
12 2 (0.28%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 83 (11.64%) Legacy Systems
2 51 (7.15%) Data Structures
3 24 (3.37%) Management Information System
4 21 (2.95%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.81%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.52%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.96%) FMCG
9 11 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.54%) Reference Data
10 9 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.12%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.12%) Mainframe
11 8 (1.12%) Replication
12 6 (0.84%) Credit Risk
12 6 (0.84%) Legacy Code
12 6 (0.84%) NHS
13 5 (0.70%) PACS
13 5 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.38%) Windows
2 5 (0.70%) Linux
3 4 (0.56%) zOS
4 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 713 (100.00%) Migration
2 186 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 185 (25.95%) Validation
4 182 (25.53%) User Acceptance Testing
5 169 (23.70%) ERP
6 132 (18.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 126 (17.67%) Agile
8 112 (15.71%) Data Modelling
9 101 (14.17%) Business Intelligence
10 92 (12.90%) ETL
11 88 (12.34%) Data Governance
12 81 (11.36%) DevOps
13 78 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
14 74 (10.38%) Data Mapping
15 73 (10.24%) Translating Business Requirements
16 71 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
17 68 (9.54%) Requirements Gathering
18 65 (9.12%) Data Cleansing
19 62 (8.70%) Data Transformation
20 60 (8.42%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 123 (17.25%) SQL
2 45 (6.31%) Python
3 27 (3.79%) Java
4 15 (2.10%) JavaScript
5 13 (1.82%) C#
6 8 (1.12%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.84%) Apex Code
7 6 (0.84%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.70%) Kotlin
8 5 (0.70%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.56%) SOQL
10 3 (0.42%) VBA
11 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.28%) X++
12 1 (0.14%) C
12 1 (0.14%) R
12 1 (0.14%) Scala
12 1 (0.14%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 76 (10.66%) Security Cleared
2 63 (8.84%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.21%) Degree
4 17 (2.38%) PMP
5 15 (2.10%) PMI Certification
6 9 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.12%) ACCA
7 8 (1.12%) CIMA
8 6 (0.84%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.70%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.56%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.56%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.28%) CFA
11 2 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.14%) CISA
12 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.14%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (19.35%) Data Quality
2 58 (8.13%) QA
3 29 (4.07%) GDPR
4 20 (2.81%) PMO
5 10 (1.40%) SLA
6 5 (0.70%) HL7
7 4 (0.56%) GMP
7 4 (0.56%) IFRS
8 3 (0.42%) DICOM
8 3 (0.42%) GRC
8 3 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.42%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.28%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.28%) GAAP
9 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) Basel III
10 1 (0.14%) EMIR
System Software
1 6 (0.84%) Docker
2 4 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.14%) NFS
Systems Management
1 15 (2.10%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.40%) Terraform
3 4 (0.56%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.42%) Karpenter
5 2 (0.28%) Ansible
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.14%) Avamar
6 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.14%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.14%) vMotion
Vendors
1 147 (20.62%) Microsoft
2 129 (18.09%) Oracle
3 116 (16.27%) SAP
4 44 (6.17%) Databricks
5 26 (3.65%) Salesforce
6 21 (2.95%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.52%) Informatica
8 17 (2.38%) Workday
9 11 (1.54%) IBM
9 11 (1.54%) IFS
10 10 (1.40%) Talend
11 9 (1.26%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.12%) Google
13 6 (0.84%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.84%) Avaloq
13 6 (0.84%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.84%) Temenos
14 5 (0.70%) Ariba
14 5 (0.70%) VMware
15 4 (0.56%) Teradata