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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 113 96
Rank change year-on-year +38 -17 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 621 310 435
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.44% 2.51% 2.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 2.72% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 190 326
10th Percentile £375 £400 £391
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £743 £776 £750
England median daily rate £525 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £37.66 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £42.22 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £49.83 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.47% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £57.42 -
90th Percentile - £61.97 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £62.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -36.00% -16.67% +233.33%

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 15,948 11,394 15,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.35% 92.23% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,673 7,685 11,109
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £431 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £681
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 187 308
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.24 £15.81
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +21.78% -25.23%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.83
England median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.78% -21.23% -0.11%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +27 87 £550 +12.13% 19
West London -19 12 £800 +28.00% 3
East London -3 4 £613 +13.43%
North London 0 2 £523 -4.13%
South London -17 1 £350 -
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 23 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.90%) Confluence
3 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.32%) Appian
4 2 (0.32%) IIS
5 1 (0.16%) Apache
5 1 (0.16%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (1.13%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 45 (7.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 16 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (1.93%) Loan IQ
4 12 (1.93%) SAP ERP
5 10 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (1.61%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (1.29%) NetSuite
6 8 (1.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 7 (1.13%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.97%) Finacle
8 6 (0.97%) iTrent
8 6 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.81%) SAP Payroll
9 5 (0.81%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.64%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.64%) SAP HCM
10 4 (0.64%) Temenos T24
11 3 (0.48%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 97 (15.62%) Azure
2 87 (14.01%) Power Platform
3 63 (10.14%) Dynamics 365
4 58 (9.34%) AWS
5 35 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (4.51%) OCI
7 21 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (3.22%) SaaS
9 18 (2.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 17 (2.74%) Snowflake
11 15 (2.42%) Amazon S3
11 15 (2.42%) GitHub
12 11 (1.77%) GCP
12 11 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (1.77%) Power Automate
13 10 (1.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 10 (1.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 10 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
14 9 (1.45%) dbt
14 9 (1.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.61%) NAS
1 10 (1.61%) SAN
2 3 (0.48%) DNS
2 3 (0.48%) Firewall
3 2 (0.32%) HTTP
3 2 (0.32%) VPN
4 1 (0.16%) DKIM
4 1 (0.16%) DMARC
4 1 (0.16%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.16%) Network Security
4 1 (0.16%) SNMP
4 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (12.40%) Power BI
2 46 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (4.03%) SQL Server
4 19 (3.06%) Data Lake
4 19 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 15 (2.42%) Metadata
6 13 (2.09%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.93%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (1.77%) DB2
9 10 (1.61%) Oracle Database
10 9 (1.45%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.45%) Tableau
11 8 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.97%) MySQL
12 6 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (0.81%) DataStage
13 5 (0.81%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 63 (10.14%) JIRA
2 11 (1.77%) Git
3 5 (0.81%) LSMW
3 5 (0.81%) Selenium
4 4 (0.64%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.64%) JUnit
4 4 (0.64%) Zephyr
5 3 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.48%) ERwin
5 3 (0.48%) GitLab
6 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.16%) Postman
7 1 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.16%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 238 (38.33%) Finance
2 193 (31.08%) Social Skills
3 81 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (9.98%) Banking
5 39 (6.28%) Law
6 38 (6.12%) Public Sector
7 30 (4.83%) Retail
8 26 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
10 17 (2.74%) Legal
11 16 (2.58%) General Ledger
12 14 (2.25%) Local Government
12 14 (2.25%) Marketing
12 14 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.61%) Billing
14 9 (1.45%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.13%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 165 (26.57%) Lead
2 103 (16.59%) Analyst
2 103 (16.59%) Architect
3 59 (9.50%) Business Analyst
4 53 (8.53%) Data Engineer
5 49 (7.89%) Consultant
6 48 (7.73%) Data Migration Lead
7 43 (6.92%) Senior
8 40 (6.44%) Data Analyst
9 39 (6.28%) Project Manager
10 38 (6.12%) Migration Analyst
11 32 (5.15%) Lead Architect
11 32 (5.15%) Migration Manager
12 31 (4.99%) Functional Architect
13 29 (4.67%) Data Architect
14 28 (4.51%) Technical Leader
15 26 (4.19%) Data Migration Analyst
16 24 (3.86%) Developer
16 24 (3.86%) Test Manager
17 23 (3.70%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.80%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (3.38%) Middleware
3 16 (2.58%) REST
4 13 (2.09%) SOAP
4 13 (2.09%) XML
5 8 (1.29%) Kafka
5 8 (1.29%) Lightning Web Components
6 7 (1.13%) .NET
6 7 (1.13%) JSON
7 6 (0.97%) Spring
8 3 (0.48%) FHIR
8 3 (0.48%) React
9 2 (0.32%) ADO
9 2 (0.32%) Playwright
9 2 (0.32%) PySpark
9 2 (0.32%) Web Services
9 2 (0.32%) XSLT
10 1 (0.16%) BAPI
10 1 (0.16%) Flash
10 1 (0.16%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 77 (12.40%) Legacy Systems
2 50 (8.05%) Data Structures
3 22 (3.54%) Management Information System
4 18 (2.90%) Cloud Native
5 11 (1.77%) Mainframe
5 11 (1.77%) Reference Data
5 11 (1.77%) Replication
6 10 (1.61%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.29%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.29%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.29%) Tandem
9 7 (1.13%) Derivative
9 7 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (0.97%) PACS
11 5 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.93%) Windows
2 7 (1.13%) zOS
3 6 (0.97%) Linux
4 3 (0.48%) Unix
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 621 (100.00%) Migration
2 150 (24.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 150 (24.15%) User Acceptance Testing
3 141 (22.71%) Validation
4 126 (20.29%) Agile
5 121 (19.48%) ERP
6 106 (17.07%) Data Modelling
7 101 (16.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 92 (14.81%) ETL
9 87 (14.01%) Business Intelligence
10 78 (12.56%) Data Mapping
11 77 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
12 68 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 68 (10.95%) Data Governance
13 62 (9.98%) Translating Business Requirements
14 61 (9.82%) Project Management
15 59 (9.50%) Data Cleansing
16 57 (9.18%) Data Transformation
16 57 (9.18%) Decision-Making
17 55 (8.86%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 122 (19.65%) SQL
2 53 (8.53%) Python
3 23 (3.70%) Java
4 12 (1.93%) JavaScript
5 10 (1.61%) PL/SQL
6 7 (1.13%) Apex Code
7 6 (0.97%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.81%) VBA
9 4 (0.64%) C#
9 4 (0.64%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.32%) Bash
10 2 (0.32%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.32%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.32%) R
10 2 (0.32%) Scala
10 2 (0.32%) SOQL
10 2 (0.32%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.16%) Bicep
11 1 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 84 (13.53%) Security Cleared
2 67 (10.79%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.99%) Degree
4 15 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.25%) PMP
6 11 (1.77%) PMI Certification
7 9 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.64%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.48%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.48%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.32%) IIBA
11 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.16%) CCA
12 1 (0.16%) CISA
12 1 (0.16%) ISEB
12 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.16%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (18.68%) Data Quality
2 45 (7.25%) QA
3 26 (4.19%) GDPR
4 10 (1.61%) SLA
5 9 (1.45%) PMO
6 7 (1.13%) IFRS
7 6 (0.97%) HL7
8 5 (0.81%) GAAP
8 5 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.64%) Basel III
10 3 (0.48%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.48%) DICOM
10 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.32%) GMP
11 2 (0.32%) GRC
11 2 (0.32%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.29%) NFS
3 5 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.64%) Docker
5 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (2.09%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.93%) Terraform
3 6 (0.97%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (0.97%) vMotion
4 4 (0.64%) Ansible
5 3 (0.48%) Grafana
5 3 (0.48%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.16%) Argo
6 1 (0.16%) Avamar
6 1 (0.16%) Control-M
6 1 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.16%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 117 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 106 (17.07%) Oracle
3 101 (16.26%) SAP
4 31 (4.99%) Databricks
5 29 (4.67%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.06%) Workday
7 18 (2.90%) Informatica
8 15 (2.42%) Avaloq
9 12 (1.93%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.93%) VMware
10 10 (1.61%) MuleSoft
10 10 (1.61%) Pure Storage
11 9 (1.45%) GoldenSource
11 9 (1.45%) Temenos
12 8 (1.29%) Google
12 8 (1.29%) IBM
12 8 (1.29%) Talend
13 6 (0.97%) Commvault
14 5 (0.81%) Ariba
15 4 (0.64%) Bloomberg