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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 110 96
Rank change year-on-year +33 -14 +54
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 617 308 447
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.47% 2.49% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 2.70% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 195 337
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £634 £688
90th Percentile £725 £775 £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 £40.78 £62.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -34.76% -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 15,715 11,404 15,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.26% 92.24% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,518 7,710 11,153
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £431 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 175 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.50 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +23.57% -28.41%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.45
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%

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 14 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 14 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 +25 86 £550 +11.06% 32
West London -13 11 £800 +28.00% 5
East London -2 4 £613 +13.43%
North London 0 2 £523 -4.13%
South London -14 1 £350 - 1
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 26 (4.21%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.40%) Confluence
3 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.32%) Appian
4 2 (0.32%) IIS
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.16%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 36 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.76%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.46%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 44 (7.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 16 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (2.27%) Loan IQ
5 10 (1.62%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (1.62%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (1.62%) SAP ERP
6 8 (1.30%) NetSuite
6 8 (1.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 6 (0.97%) Finacle
7 6 (0.97%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.81%) SAP Payroll
8 5 (0.81%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.65%) iTrent
9 4 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.65%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.65%) SAP HCM
9 4 (0.65%) Temenos T24
10 3 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 92 (14.91%) Azure
2 88 (14.26%) Power Platform
3 64 (10.37%) Dynamics 365
4 53 (8.59%) AWS
5 34 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (4.86%) OCI
7 23 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (3.40%) SaaS
9 20 (3.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (2.43%) GitHub
10 15 (2.43%) Snowflake
11 12 (1.94%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 10 (1.62%) GCP
13 10 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (1.62%) Power Automate
13 10 (1.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 10 (1.62%) SuccessFactors
14 8 (1.30%) PowerApps
15 6 (0.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.78%) NAS
2 10 (1.62%) SAN
3 3 (0.49%) DNS
3 3 (0.49%) Firewall
4 2 (0.32%) HTTP
4 2 (0.32%) VPN
5 1 (0.16%) DKIM
5 1 (0.16%) DMARC
5 1 (0.16%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
5 1 (0.16%) SNMP
5 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (12.64%) Power BI
2 44 (7.13%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (3.89%) SQL Server
4 20 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (3.08%) Data Lake
6 14 (2.27%) Metadata
7 13 (2.11%) Oracle Database
7 13 (2.11%) Oracle Reports
8 12 (1.94%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.78%) DB2
9 11 (1.78%) NoSQL
9 11 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.30%) Tableau
11 7 (1.13%) MySQL
12 6 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (0.81%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 5 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.81%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 65 (10.53%) JIRA
2 9 (1.46%) Git
3 5 (0.81%) LSMW
3 5 (0.81%) Selenium
4 4 (0.65%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.65%) JUnit
4 4 (0.65%) Toad
4 4 (0.65%) Zephyr
5 3 (0.49%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.49%) ERwin
5 3 (0.49%) GitLab
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.16%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.16%) Postman
7 1 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 229 (37.12%) Finance
2 195 (31.60%) Social Skills
3 80 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (9.24%) Banking
5 39 (6.32%) Law
6 38 (6.16%) Public Sector
7 31 (5.02%) Retail
8 27 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
10 19 (3.08%) Legal
11 14 (2.27%) General Ledger
12 13 (2.11%) Marketing
12 13 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.94%) Local Government
14 11 (1.78%) Billing
15 10 (1.62%) Manufacturing
16 8 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (1.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 158 (25.61%) Lead
2 110 (17.83%) Analyst
3 98 (15.88%) Architect
4 63 (10.21%) Business Analyst
5 51 (8.27%) Consultant
5 51 (8.27%) Data Engineer
6 47 (7.62%) Data Migration Lead
7 44 (7.13%) Senior
8 40 (6.48%) Migration Analyst
8 40 (6.48%) Project Manager
9 39 (6.32%) Data Analyst
10 32 (5.19%) Lead Architect
11 31 (5.02%) Functional Architect
11 31 (5.02%) Migration Manager
12 27 (4.38%) Data Migration Analyst
12 27 (4.38%) Developer
12 27 (4.38%) Technical Leader
13 25 (4.05%) Data Architect
14 24 (3.89%) Data Business Analyst
15 22 (3.57%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (6.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (3.40%) Middleware
3 17 (2.76%) REST
4 14 (2.27%) SOAP
5 13 (2.11%) XML
6 9 (1.46%) Lightning Web Components
7 8 (1.30%) .NET
8 7 (1.13%) JSON
8 7 (1.13%) Kafka
9 6 (0.97%) Spring
10 3 (0.49%) FHIR
10 3 (0.49%) Web Services
11 2 (0.32%) ADO
11 2 (0.32%) Playwright
11 2 (0.32%) PySpark
11 2 (0.32%) React
11 2 (0.32%) Visualforce
11 2 (0.32%) XSLT
12 1 (0.16%) HTML
12 1 (0.16%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 75 (12.16%) Legacy Systems
2 47 (7.62%) Data Structures
3 22 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 18 (2.92%) Cloud Native
5 14 (2.27%) Replication
6 11 (1.78%) Mainframe
6 11 (1.78%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.78%) Reference Data
7 9 (1.46%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.46%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.46%) Tandem
8 8 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
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%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.94%) Windows
2 7 (1.13%) zOS
3 6 (0.97%) Linux
3 6 (0.97%) Unix
4 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (100.00%) Migration
2 153 (24.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 149 (24.15%) User Acceptance Testing
4 135 (21.88%) Validation
5 125 (20.26%) Agile
6 121 (19.61%) ERP
7 99 (16.05%) Data Modelling
7 99 (16.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 95 (15.40%) ETL
9 89 (14.42%) Business Intelligence
10 78 (12.64%) Data Mapping
11 76 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
12 69 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 63 (10.21%) Data Governance
13 63 (10.21%) Project Management
14 61 (9.89%) Data Cleansing
14 61 (9.89%) Translating Business Requirements
15 60 (9.72%) Decision-Making
16 54 (8.75%) Analytics
16 54 (8.75%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 127 (20.58%) SQL
2 48 (7.78%) Python
3 23 (3.73%) Java
4 12 (1.94%) PL/SQL
5 10 (1.62%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.30%) Apex Code
7 6 (0.97%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.81%) PHP
8 5 (0.81%) Shell Script
8 5 (0.81%) VBA
9 4 (0.65%) C#
9 4 (0.65%) Perl
10 3 (0.49%) SOQL
11 2 (0.32%) Bash
11 2 (0.32%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.32%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.32%) R
11 2 (0.32%) Scala
12 1 (0.16%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 80 (12.97%) Security Cleared
2 65 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.19%) Degree
4 15 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (2.43%) PMP
5 12 (1.94%) PMI Certification
6 9 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.81%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.81%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.49%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.49%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.32%) IIBA
9 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.16%) CAPM
10 1 (0.16%) CBAP
10 1 (0.16%) CISA
10 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.16%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (18.48%) Data Quality
2 42 (6.81%) QA
3 27 (4.38%) GDPR
4 10 (1.62%) SLA
5 9 (1.46%) PMO
6 7 (1.13%) IFRS
7 6 (0.97%) HL7
8 5 (0.81%) GAAP
8 5 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.65%) Basel III
10 3 (0.49%) DICOM
10 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.49%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 10 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.30%) NFS
3 5 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.49%) Docker
5 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (1.94%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.78%) Terraform
3 6 (0.97%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (0.97%) vMotion
4 4 (0.65%) Ansible
5 3 (0.49%) Grafana
5 3 (0.49%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.49%) 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 (18.96%) Microsoft
2 106 (17.18%) Oracle
3 102 (16.53%) SAP
4 34 (5.51%) Salesforce
5 28 (4.54%) Databricks
6 19 (3.08%) Workday
7 16 (2.59%) Informatica
8 15 (2.43%) Avaloq
9 12 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.94%) VMware
10 10 (1.62%) MuleSoft
10 10 (1.62%) Pure Storage
11 9 (1.46%) GoldenSource
11 9 (1.46%) Temenos
12 8 (1.30%) Google
12 8 (1.30%) IBM
13 7 (1.13%) Talend
14 6 (0.97%) Commvault
15 5 (0.81%) Ariba
16 4 (0.65%) Bloomberg