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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 110 90
Rank change year-on-year +35 -20 +58
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 603 317 459
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.41% 2.53% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 2.74% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 207 343
10th Percentile £375 £400 £408
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £636 £630 £683
90th Percentile £701 £780 £750
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £37.66 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £42.22 £83.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £49.83 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.47% -41.38% +325.00%
75th Percentile £73.75 £57.42 £86.50
90th Percentile - £61.97 -
England median hourly rate £41.56 £63.75 £75.00
% change year-on-year -34.82% -15.00% +275.00%

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 15,684 11,567 15,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.64% 92.16% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,506 7,851 11,317
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 172 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +20.18% -25.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.86
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.70 £66.30
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.68
% change year-on-year +50.00% -15.92% -4.85%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 76 £550 +10.00% 20
West London -16 9 £950 +52.00%
East London +1 5 £550 +1.85%
North London +1 2 £523 -4.13%
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 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 20 (3.32%) Confluence
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.33%) Appian
4 2 (0.33%) IIS
5 1 (0.17%) CMS
5 1 (0.17%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (1.49%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 38 (6.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (3.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (2.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 14 (2.32%) Loan IQ
5 11 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (1.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 8 (1.33%) SAP ERP
8 7 (1.16%) NetSuite
8 7 (1.16%) Workday HCM
9 6 (1.00%) Finacle
9 6 (1.00%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.66%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.66%) SAP Payroll
10 4 (0.66%) Temenos T24
11 3 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
11 3 (0.50%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.50%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 93 (15.42%) Azure
2 91 (15.09%) Power Platform
3 66 (10.95%) Dynamics 365
4 50 (8.29%) AWS
5 34 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (5.31%) OCI
7 24 (3.98%) Azure Data Factory
8 22 (3.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 20 (3.32%) SaaS
10 15 (2.49%) GitHub
10 15 (2.49%) Snowflake
11 12 (1.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 11 (1.82%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 10 (1.66%) SuccessFactors
14 9 (1.49%) GCP
14 9 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (1.33%) Power Automate
16 7 (1.16%) PowerApps
17 6 (1.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.99%) NAS
2 10 (1.66%) SAN
3 4 (0.66%) DNS
4 3 (0.50%) Firewall
5 2 (0.33%) HTTP
5 2 (0.33%) VPN
6 1 (0.17%) DKIM
6 1 (0.17%) DMARC
6 1 (0.17%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.17%) Network Security
6 1 (0.17%) SNMP
6 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (13.10%) Power BI
2 46 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (4.64%) SQL Server
4 23 (3.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (3.15%) Data Lake
6 15 (2.49%) Oracle Database
7 13 (2.16%) Metadata
7 13 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.16%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.99%) DB2
8 12 (1.99%) Oracle Reports
9 11 (1.82%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.33%) MySQL
10 8 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (1.33%) Tableau
11 7 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.00%) Star Schema
13 5 (0.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 65 (10.78%) JIRA
2 9 (1.49%) Git
3 5 (0.83%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.83%) LSMW
3 5 (0.83%) Selenium
4 4 (0.66%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.66%) JUnit
4 4 (0.66%) Toad
5 3 (0.50%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.50%) ERwin
5 3 (0.50%) GitLab
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.50%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.17%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 230 (38.14%) Finance
2 195 (32.34%) Social Skills
3 81 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (9.12%) Banking
5 43 (7.13%) Public Sector
6 40 (6.63%) Law
7 35 (5.80%) Retail
8 28 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (2.99%) Legal
11 14 (2.32%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.99%) General Ledger
13 11 (1.82%) Marketing
14 10 (1.66%) Billing
14 10 (1.66%) Local Government
15 9 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 149 (24.71%) Lead
2 107 (17.74%) Analyst
3 99 (16.42%) Architect
4 66 (10.95%) Business Analyst
5 52 (8.62%) Consultant
6 51 (8.46%) Data Engineer
7 46 (7.63%) Senior
8 42 (6.97%) Data Migration Lead
9 38 (6.30%) Project Manager
10 37 (6.14%) Migration Analyst
11 33 (5.47%) Data Analyst
12 32 (5.31%) Lead Architect
13 31 (5.14%) Functional Architect
14 30 (4.98%) Migration Manager
15 29 (4.81%) Developer
16 27 (4.48%) Technical Leader
17 25 (4.15%) Data Business Analyst
18 24 (3.98%) Data Migration Analyst
19 23 (3.81%) Data Architect
19 23 (3.81%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.31%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (2.99%) Middleware
3 17 (2.82%) REST
4 15 (2.49%) XML
5 14 (2.32%) SOAP
6 10 (1.66%) .NET
7 9 (1.49%) Lightning Web Components
8 7 (1.16%) JSON
9 6 (1.00%) Kafka
9 6 (1.00%) Spring
10 3 (0.50%) PySpark
10 3 (0.50%) Web Services
10 3 (0.50%) XSLT
11 2 (0.33%) FHIR
11 2 (0.33%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (0.33%) Playwright
11 2 (0.33%) React
11 2 (0.33%) Visualforce
12 1 (0.17%) pgvector
12 1 (0.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 73 (12.11%) Legacy Systems
2 46 (7.63%) Data Structures
3 22 (3.65%) Management Information System
4 19 (3.15%) Cloud Native
5 16 (2.65%) Replication
6 12 (1.99%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.82%) Mainframe
7 11 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.49%) Reference Data
9 9 (1.49%) Tandem
10 8 (1.33%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.00%) Derivative
12 6 (1.00%) PACS
13 5 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.99%) Windows
2 7 (1.16%) zOS
3 6 (1.00%) Linux
3 6 (1.00%) Unix
4 2 (0.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 603 (100.00%) Migration
2 147 (24.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 144 (23.88%) User Acceptance Testing
4 129 (21.39%) Agile
5 125 (20.73%) ERP
5 125 (20.73%) Validation
6 100 (16.58%) Data Modelling
7 98 (16.25%) ETL
8 97 (16.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 92 (15.26%) Business Intelligence
10 78 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
11 76 (12.60%) Data Mapping
12 66 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
13 64 (10.61%) Project Management
14 61 (10.12%) Decision-Making
15 58 (9.62%) Data Cleansing
16 57 (9.45%) Analytics
17 56 (9.29%) Data Governance
18 55 (9.12%) Procure-to-Pay
18 55 (9.12%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 130 (21.56%) SQL
2 46 (7.63%) Python
3 24 (3.98%) Java
4 12 (1.99%) JavaScript
4 12 (1.99%) PL/SQL
5 8 (1.33%) Apex Code
6 7 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (1.16%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.00%) C#
8 5 (0.83%) PHP
8 5 (0.83%) Shell Script
8 5 (0.83%) VBA
9 4 (0.66%) Perl
10 3 (0.50%) Bash
10 3 (0.50%) Korn
10 3 (0.50%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.50%) SOQL
11 2 (0.33%) Bicep
11 2 (0.33%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 81 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 64 (10.61%) SC Cleared
3 31 (5.14%) Degree
4 15 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.16%) PMP
6 10 (1.66%) PMI Certification
7 9 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.83%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.50%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.33%) CIPD
11 2 (0.33%) IIBA
11 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.17%) CCA
12 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.17%) ISEB
12 1 (0.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (18.41%) Data Quality
2 44 (7.30%) QA
3 25 (4.15%) GDPR
4 10 (1.66%) SLA
5 9 (1.49%) IFRS
5 9 (1.49%) PMO
6 5 (0.83%) GAAP
6 5 (0.83%) HL7
6 5 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.66%) Basel III
7 4 (0.66%) IFRS 9
8 3 (0.50%) DICOM
8 3 (0.50%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.33%) GMP
9 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.33%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.33%) NFS
3 5 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.66%) Docker
5 2 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.33%) vSphere
6 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (2.32%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.82%) Terraform
3 6 (1.00%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (1.00%) vMotion
4 5 (0.83%) Ansible
5 4 (0.66%) Grafana
6 3 (0.50%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.33%) Argo
7 2 (0.33%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.17%) Avamar
8 1 (0.17%) Control-M
8 1 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.17%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 116 (19.24%) Microsoft
2 105 (17.41%) Oracle
3 90 (14.93%) SAP
4 36 (5.97%) Salesforce
5 26 (4.31%) Databricks
6 21 (3.48%) Workday
7 18 (2.99%) Informatica
8 15 (2.49%) Avaloq
9 14 (2.32%) ServiceNow
10 13 (2.16%) VMware
11 11 (1.82%) Pure Storage
12 10 (1.66%) MuleSoft
13 9 (1.49%) GoldenSource
13 9 (1.49%) IBM
13 9 (1.49%) Temenos
14 7 (1.16%) Google
15 6 (1.00%) Commvault
15 6 (1.00%) Talend
16 4 (0.66%) Ariba
16 4 (0.66%) Refinitiv