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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 101 102
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 +56
Contract jobs citing Data Migration 455 367 445
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.18% 2.44% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 2.70% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 248 311
10th Percentile £388 £400 £413
25th Percentile £453 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £632 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
England median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £66.25 £37.70 £82.70
25th Percentile £71.88 £41.75 £83.50
Median hourly rate £85.00 £49.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.72% -41.76% +21.43%
75th Percentile £99.38 £58.25 £86.50
90th Percentile £105.75 £62.90 £86.70
England median hourly rate £64.63 £64.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +0.98% -24.71% +21.00%

All Process and 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 13,063 13,572 16,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.44% 90.07% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,607 8,737 12,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £794
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 164 237
10th Percentile £18.06 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%
75th Percentile £50.88 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025. 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 +11 64 £550 -0.18% 8
East London +10 11 £540 +35.00% 3
West London -14 5 £600 +20.00% 4
South London +2 4 £458 +1.67% 2
North London - 2 £675 -
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 24 (5.27%) Confluence
2 15 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.66%) Apache
4 3 (0.66%) CMS
4 3 (0.66%) LiveLink
5 2 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.22%) IIS
6 1 (0.22%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.22%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 24 (5.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.32%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.66%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 40 (8.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (4.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (3.08%) SAP HR
4 9 (1.98%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (1.54%) Endur
5 7 (1.54%) NetSuite
5 7 (1.54%) SAP Payroll
6 6 (1.32%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (1.10%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (1.10%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (1.10%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.88%) Loan IQ
8 4 (0.88%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.88%) Oracle FAH
8 4 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.88%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.66%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.66%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.66%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 66 (14.51%) Azure
2 51 (11.21%) Power Platform
3 48 (10.55%) AWS
4 30 (6.59%) Dynamics 365
5 29 (6.37%) OCI
6 23 (5.05%) SaaS
7 19 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (3.74%) Snowflake
9 16 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (2.42%) Amazon S3
12 10 (2.20%) GitHub
12 10 (2.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 9 (1.98%) dbt
13 9 (1.98%) Power Automate
13 9 (1.98%) PowerApps
14 8 (1.76%) GCP
15 7 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
16 6 (1.32%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.66%) NAS
2 1 (0.22%) DNS
2 1 (0.22%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) IPv4
2 1 (0.22%) Network Security
2 1 (0.22%) SAN
2 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.22%) VLAN
2 1 (0.22%) VPN
2 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (9.01%) SQL Server
2 37 (8.13%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (8.13%) Power BI
3 25 (5.49%) Relational Database
3 25 (5.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (3.08%) Oracle Database
4 14 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 13 (2.86%) RDBMS
6 12 (2.64%) Tableau
7 11 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (2.42%) Data Lake
7 11 (2.42%) DataStage
8 10 (2.20%) Big Data
8 10 (2.20%) Metadata
9 8 (1.76%) MongoDB
9 8 (1.76%) MySQL
10 7 (1.54%) Amazon QuickSight
10 7 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 44 (9.67%) JIRA
2 4 (0.88%) Toad
3 3 (0.66%) Git
3 3 (0.66%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.44%) LSMW
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.22%) gulp
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.22%) Postman
5 1 (0.22%) Selenium
5 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 180 (39.56%) Finance
2 147 (32.31%) Social Skills
3 57 (12.53%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.91%) Banking
4 36 (7.91%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.40%) Back Office
6 19 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (3.74%) Local Government
8 16 (3.52%) Retail
9 13 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.86%) Legal
10 11 (2.42%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.76%) Front Office
11 8 (1.76%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.76%) Marketing
12 7 (1.54%) General Ledger
12 7 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.32%) Billing
13 6 (1.32%) Law
13 6 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (18.90%) Analyst
2 71 (15.60%) Lead
3 62 (13.63%) Business Analyst
4 54 (11.87%) Consultant
5 50 (10.99%) Architect
6 39 (8.57%) Project Manager
7 35 (7.69%) Data Engineer
8 31 (6.81%) Senior
9 25 (5.49%) Data Migration Lead
10 24 (5.27%) Developer
11 22 (4.84%) Data Analyst
12 19 (4.18%) Migration Analyst
13 17 (3.74%) SAP Consultant
13 17 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (3.52%) Data Migration Analyst
15 14 (3.08%) Functional Consultant
15 14 (3.08%) Migration Engineer
15 14 (3.08%) Migration Specialist
16 13 (2.86%) Data Architect
16 13 (2.86%) Data Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.27%) XML
2 17 (3.74%) REST
3 14 (3.08%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (2.20%) Lightning Web Components
5 9 (1.98%) SOAP
6 8 (1.76%) .NET
6 8 (1.76%) JSON
6 8 (1.76%) Middleware
7 7 (1.54%) PySpark
8 5 (1.10%) React
8 5 (1.10%) Visualforce
9 4 (0.88%) Swagger
10 3 (0.66%) Web Services
10 3 (0.66%) XSLT
11 2 (0.44%) Great Expectations
11 2 (0.44%) Kafka
11 2 (0.44%) Playwright
11 2 (0.44%) SAP Basis
11 2 (0.44%) SAP Fiori
11 2 (0.44%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 59 (12.97%) Legacy Systems
2 28 (6.15%) Data Structures
3 12 (2.64%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.42%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.42%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.76%) Virtual Team
6 7 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.32%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.32%) Reference Data
7 6 (1.32%) Replication
8 5 (1.10%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.10%) Credit Risk
9 4 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.88%) Grid Computing
9 4 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.88%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.66%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (0.88%) Unix
2 4 (0.88%) Windows
3 1 (0.22%) AIX
3 1 (0.22%) Linux
3 1 (0.22%) VMS
3 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (100.00%) Migration
2 109 (23.96%) Agile
3 98 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
4 87 (19.12%) ETL
5 82 (18.02%) Stakeholder Management
6 68 (14.95%) Data Modelling
7 66 (14.51%) User Acceptance Testing
8 64 (14.07%) ERP
9 61 (13.41%) Validation
10 58 (12.75%) Analytics
11 57 (12.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 52 (11.43%) Project Management
13 51 (11.21%) Business Intelligence
14 48 (10.55%) Data Governance
15 46 (10.11%) Workshop Facilitation
16 43 (9.45%) Data Cleansing
17 42 (9.23%) Data Analysis
18 39 (8.57%) CRM
19 38 (8.35%) Data Mapping
20 37 (8.13%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 125 (27.47%) SQL
2 41 (9.01%) Python
3 28 (6.15%) Java
4 13 (2.86%) C#
5 9 (1.98%) Apex Code
5 9 (1.98%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.54%) Shell Script
7 6 (1.32%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.10%) PHP
9 4 (0.88%) Perl
9 4 (0.88%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.66%) ABAP
10 3 (0.66%) Bicep
10 3 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.66%) SOQL
10 3 (0.66%) VB
11 2 (0.44%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.44%) SOSL
11 2 (0.44%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (8.79%) Security Cleared
2 36 (7.91%) Degree
3 32 (7.03%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.42%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.42%) PMI Certification
5 11 (2.42%) PMP
6 9 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.10%) CFA
9 4 (0.88%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.88%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.44%) CIMA
11 2 (0.44%) CIPD
12 1 (0.22%) ACCA
12 1 (0.22%) CBAP
12 1 (0.22%) CCAB
12 1 (0.22%) IIBA
12 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (15.82%) Data Quality
2 35 (7.69%) QA
3 19 (4.18%) GDPR
4 6 (1.32%) IFRS
5 3 (0.66%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.66%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.66%) IFRS 9
5 3 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.66%) SLA
6 2 (0.44%) EMIR
6 2 (0.44%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.44%) MiFID
6 2 (0.44%) PMO
7 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.22%) GAAP
7 1 (0.22%) GRC
7 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (3.30%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (3.96%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.20%) Terraform
3 6 (1.32%) Ansible
4 1 (0.22%) Argo
4 1 (0.22%) Grafana
4 1 (0.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 86 (18.90%) SAP
2 76 (16.70%) Oracle
3 59 (12.97%) Microsoft
4 26 (5.71%) Salesforce
5 25 (5.49%) Workday
6 20 (4.40%) Databricks
7 11 (2.42%) Informatica
8 8 (1.76%) Kronos
8 8 (1.76%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.32%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.32%) Talend
10 5 (1.10%) Avaloq
10 5 (1.10%) Google
11 4 (0.88%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.88%) IBM
11 4 (0.88%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.66%) Ariba
12 3 (0.66%) Concur
12 3 (0.66%) Hitachi
12 3 (0.66%) Liquidlogic