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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 95 105
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 696 396 388
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.44% 2.96% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 3.20% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 231 255
10th Percentile £375 £400 £394
25th Percentile £450 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +3.77% -3.64%
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 17,989 12,382 14,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.01% 92.46% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,764 8,195 9,826
10th Percentile £360 £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 £660 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 255 186
10th Percentile £17.21 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £25.00 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -10.49% -10.63%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.40 £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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +23 100 £600 +9.09% 41
West London +11 35 £705 +12.80% 9
South London -9 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 38 (5.46%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.73%) Confluence
3 12 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.86%) Apache
4 6 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.57%) 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 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.29%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.15%) 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 (9.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (4.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (3.02%) Oracle Payables
4 20 (2.87%) Oracle ERP
5 17 (2.44%) 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
1 125 (17.96%) Azure
2 105 (15.09%) Power Platform
3 82 (11.78%) Dynamics 365
4 58 (8.33%) AWS
5 50 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (4.31%) OCI
6 30 (4.31%) SaaS
7 28 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (3.88%) Snowflake
9 26 (3.74%) Amazon S3
10 22 (3.16%) Power Automate
11 19 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (2.59%) GitHub
13 17 (2.44%) GCP
14 16 (2.30%) PowerApps
14 16 (2.30%) SuccessFactors
15 14 (2.01%) dbt
16 10 (1.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 10 (1.44%) 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 (13.07%) Power BI
2 41 (5.89%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (4.45%) 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 12 (1.72%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (1.29%) BusinessObjects
10 8 (1.15%) DataStage
10 8 (1.15%) MongoDB
10 8 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (0.86%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.86%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.72%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 56 (8.05%) JIRA
2 14 (2.01%) Git
3 5 (0.72%) Zephyr
4 4 (0.57%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.57%) 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 (41.95%) Finance
2 210 (30.17%) Social Skills
3 90 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (8.76%) Banking
5 53 (7.61%) Public Sector
6 37 (5.32%) Law
7 31 (4.45%) Retail
8 30 (4.31%) General Ledger
9 28 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
10 21 (3.02%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.44%) Local Government
12 14 (2.01%) Billing
12 14 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (2.01%) Marketing
12 14 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.87%) Aviation
14 11 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.44%) Legal
16 9 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 153 (21.98%) Lead
2 114 (16.38%) Analyst
3 111 (15.95%) Architect
4 79 (11.35%) Consultant
5 62 (8.91%) Business Analyst
6 54 (7.76%) Senior
7 50 (7.18%) Data Engineer
8 48 (6.90%) Data Migration Lead
9 47 (6.75%) Data Analyst
10 36 (5.17%) Project Manager
11 33 (4.74%) Data Architect
12 31 (4.45%) Functional Architect
12 31 (4.45%) Lead Architect
13 29 (4.17%) Developer
14 28 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
15 27 (3.88%) Migration Analyst
16 22 (3.16%) Data Migration Analyst
17 21 (3.02%) Oracle Consultant
18 20 (2.87%) Functional Consultant
18 20 (2.87%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 29 (4.17%) Middleware
3 21 (3.02%) REST
4 16 (2.30%) .NET
5 15 (2.16%) XML
6 13 (1.87%) SOAP
7 11 (1.58%) PySpark
8 10 (1.44%) JSON
9 9 (1.29%) Terraform
10 8 (1.15%) Keycloak
11 7 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
12 6 (0.86%) Kafka
12 6 (0.86%) Web Services
13 5 (0.72%) HTML
14 4 (0.57%) HTML5 Canvas
14 4 (0.57%) 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 (12.07%) Legacy Systems
2 57 (8.19%) Data Structures
3 25 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.02%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.59%) Cloud Native
7 16 (2.30%) FMCG
8 13 (1.87%) Reference Data
9 9 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.29%) Reinsurance
9 9 (1.29%) Replication
10 7 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.01%) NHS
11 6 (0.86%) Credit Risk
11 6 (0.86%) Legacy Code
11 6 (0.86%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.72%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.01%) Windows
2 4 (0.57%) Linux
3 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (100.00%) Migration
2 197 (28.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 194 (27.87%) Validation
4 187 (26.87%) User Acceptance Testing
5 176 (25.29%) ERP
6 138 (19.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 126 (18.10%) Agile
8 121 (17.39%) Data Modelling
9 99 (14.22%) Data Governance
10 97 (13.94%) Business Intelligence
11 85 (12.21%) ETL
12 83 (11.93%) DevOps
13 81 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
14 72 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
14 72 (10.34%) Translating Business Requirements
15 67 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 67 (9.63%) Data Mapping
16 61 (8.76%) Data Transformation
17 60 (8.62%) Data Cleansing
18 59 (8.48%) Cutover Planning
Programming Languages
1 131 (18.82%) SQL
2 44 (6.32%) Python
3 20 (2.87%) Java
4 16 (2.30%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.01%) C#
6 7 (1.01%) PL/SQL
6 7 (1.01%) TypeScript
7 6 (0.86%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.57%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.57%) 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 (11.35%) Security Cleared
2 68 (9.77%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.31%) Degree
4 16 (2.30%) PMP
5 15 (2.16%) PMI Certification
6 11 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.15%) ACCA
8 8 (1.15%) CIMA
9 6 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.57%) 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%) CISA
14 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (21.84%) Data Quality
2 54 (7.76%) QA
3 24 (3.45%) GDPR
4 20 (2.87%) 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%) GAAP
10 1 (0.14%) GxP
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (1.29%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (1.87%) 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 (21.84%) Microsoft
2 127 (18.25%) Oracle
3 122 (17.53%) SAP
4 50 (7.18%) Databricks
5 24 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 21 (3.02%) Informatica
7 20 (2.87%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.01%) Workday
9 12 (1.72%) IBM
10 11 (1.58%) Talend
11 9 (1.29%) IFS
12 8 (1.15%) Ariba
12 8 (1.15%) Google
13 7 (1.01%) Atlassian
13 7 (1.01%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.72%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.72%) Temenos
15 4 (0.57%) Bloomberg
15 4 (0.57%) Sage
15 4 (0.57%) Teradata