Migration Contract Job Trends in Central London

Migration
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Migration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 308 206 218
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.85% 10.03% 9.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.50% 10.71% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 126 156
10th Percentile £402 £341 £363
25th Percentile £463 £425 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -7.08% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £719
London median daily rate £540 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £30.20 - -
25th Percentile £32.00 £34.63 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% - -
75th Percentile £46.96 £34.68 -
90th Percentile £54.14 - -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £65.75
% change year-on-year +118.69% -61.75% +25.24%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,282 1,924 2,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 87.77% 93.67% 91.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 1,262 1,450
10th Percentile £358 £331 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £687
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 33 20
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.15 £20.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.63
Median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% +3.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £54.50 £50.75 £65.63
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.61 £29.75 £34.00
% change year-on-year +19.68% -12.50% -18.07%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Migration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Migration job vacancy trend in Central London

Migration
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Migration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Migration

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Migration in Central London over the 6 months to 30 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Migration in Central London

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Migration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Migration

Migration
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in Central London over the 6 months to 30 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in Central London

Migration
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 July 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
City of London +6 288 £575 +9.52% 59
City of Westminster -11 8 £500 -23.08% 2
West End of London -7 6 £520 -20.00% 2
Southwark -1 3 £600 +33.33%
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £350 -
Migration
London

Migration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 19 (6.17%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.27%) Confluence
3 5 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.62%) SharePoint 2013
4 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.97%) CMS
6 2 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.65%) Apache
6 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.65%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.32%) Camunda
7 1 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.95%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.95%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.95%) Oracle Financials
2 6 (1.95%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.62%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (1.62%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.62%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.30%) Aladdin
4 4 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.30%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.97%) iTrent
5 3 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.65%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.65%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.65%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.32%) Maximo
7 1 (0.32%) SAP FI-AR
7 1 (0.32%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 62 (20.13%) Azure
2 40 (12.99%) AWS
3 24 (7.79%) Power Platform
4 20 (6.49%) GCP
5 18 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 11 (3.57%) GitHub
6 11 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (3.25%) SaaS
7 10 (3.25%) Serverless
7 10 (3.25%) Snowflake
8 8 (2.60%) OCI
9 7 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (1.95%) dbt
11 5 (1.62%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.62%) Azure AKS
11 5 (1.62%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.30%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.92%) Firewall
2 7 (2.27%) DNS
3 6 (1.95%) Network Security
4 5 (1.62%) VPN
5 4 (1.30%) VLAN
6 3 (0.97%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.97%) VSAN
6 3 (0.97%) WAN
7 2 (0.65%) BGP
7 2 (0.65%) DHCP
7 2 (0.65%) EIGRP
7 2 (0.65%) Internet
7 2 (0.65%) LAN
7 2 (0.65%) OSPF
7 2 (0.65%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.65%) Wireless
8 1 (0.32%) 802.11
8 1 (0.32%) DVB
8 1 (0.32%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.14%) Power BI
2 12 (3.90%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.95%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.62%) Metadata
5 5 (1.62%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.30%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (1.30%) Data Mart
6 4 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.97%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.65%) Spark SQL
8 2 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (7.47%) JIRA
2 6 (1.95%) GitLab
3 5 (1.62%) Git
3 5 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.32%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.32%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.32%) Gradle
5 1 (0.32%) JUnit
5 1 (0.32%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.32%) Mockito
5 1 (0.32%) MSI
5 1 (0.32%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 104 (33.77%) Finance
2 67 (21.75%) Social Skills
3 32 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.06%) Banking
5 18 (5.84%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.55%) General Ledger
7 13 (4.22%) Law
8 11 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.57%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.92%) Retail
10 6 (1.95%) Front Office
11 5 (1.62%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.30%) Legal
13 3 (0.97%) Back Office
13 3 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.97%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.97%) Local Government
13 3 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (17.86%) Architect
2 42 (13.64%) Lead
3 35 (11.36%) Consultant
4 31 (10.06%) Analyst
5 26 (8.44%) Project Manager
6 23 (7.47%) Senior
7 19 (6.17%) Solutions Architect
8 16 (5.19%) Business Analyst
8 16 (5.19%) Data Engineer
8 16 (5.19%) Data Migration Lead
9 15 (4.87%) Developer
10 14 (4.55%) Data Analyst
10 14 (4.55%) Data Architect
11 13 (4.22%) Migration Analyst
12 12 (3.90%) Azure Architect
13 11 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (3.25%) Cloud Architect
14 10 (3.25%) Data Migration Analyst
15 9 (2.92%) Administrator
15 9 (2.92%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.19%) Oracle Fusion
2 11 (3.57%) REST
3 10 (3.25%) Kafka
4 9 (2.92%) .NET
5 7 (2.27%) PySpark
6 6 (1.95%) Middleware
7 5 (1.62%) React
8 4 (1.30%) JSON
8 4 (1.30%) RESTful
8 4 (1.30%) SOAP
8 4 (1.30%) Spring
9 3 (0.97%) XML
10 2 (0.65%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.65%) ADO
10 2 (0.65%) EDI
10 2 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (0.65%) Flash
10 2 (0.65%) Redux
10 2 (0.65%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.77%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.44%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (4.22%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.25%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.92%) Mainframe
6 8 (2.60%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.60%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.30%) Clustering
8 4 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.97%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.97%) Derivative
9 3 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.97%) LIMS
9 3 (0.97%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.97%) Replication
10 2 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.65%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.82%) Windows
2 6 (1.95%) Linux
3 3 (0.97%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.65%) SUSE
4 2 (0.65%) VMS
4 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.32%) AIX
5 1 (0.32%) Android
5 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.32%) Solaris
5 1 (0.32%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.32%) Unix
5 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (34.09%) Data Migration
2 66 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 45 (14.61%) Agile
4 40 (12.99%) Validation
5 39 (12.66%) CI/CD
6 36 (11.69%) Project Delivery
7 34 (11.04%) Analytics
7 34 (11.04%) DevOps
7 34 (11.04%) ERP
8 29 (9.42%) Data Modelling
8 29 (9.42%) ETL
8 29 (9.42%) User Acceptance Testing
9 28 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (8.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 26 (8.44%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (8.12%) Business Intelligence
13 24 (7.79%) Project Management
14 22 (7.14%) Roadmaps
15 21 (6.82%) Data Governance
16 20 (6.49%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (14.29%) SQL
2 29 (9.42%) Python
3 13 (4.22%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.60%) C#
4 8 (2.60%) Java
5 5 (1.62%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.62%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.30%) Bicep
7 3 (0.97%) Bash
7 3 (0.97%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.32%) ABAP
9 1 (0.32%) Korn
9 1 (0.32%) Perl
9 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 51 (16.56%) Security Cleared
2 41 (13.31%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.92%) PMI Certification
3 9 (2.92%) PMP
4 8 (2.60%) DBS Check
5 7 (2.27%) Degree
6 5 (1.62%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.30%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.65%) CCNA
9 2 (0.65%) CCNP
10 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.32%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.32%) CSPO
10 1 (0.32%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.47%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.22%) QA
3 12 (3.90%) GDPR
4 10 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.27%) PMO
6 6 (1.95%) NIST
6 6 (1.95%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.62%) GRC
8 2 (0.65%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.65%) GMP
8 2 (0.65%) GxP
8 2 (0.65%) IFRS
8 2 (0.65%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 2 (0.65%) NCSC
8 2 (0.65%) PSD2
8 2 (0.65%) SEPA
8 2 (0.65%) SLA
9 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (3.90%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.27%) Docker
4 3 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.65%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.65%) vSphere
6 1 (0.32%) Firmware
6 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 20 (6.49%) Terraform
2 18 (5.84%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.30%) Ansible
4 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.97%) SCCM
5 2 (0.65%) SCOM
5 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.65%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.32%) Grafana
6 1 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.32%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.32%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 57 (18.51%) Microsoft
2 39 (12.66%) Oracle
3 24 (7.79%) SAP
4 17 (5.52%) Databricks
5 15 (4.87%) Google
6 9 (2.92%) Citrix
6 9 (2.92%) VMware
7 8 (2.60%) CyberArk
8 7 (2.27%) Workday
9 5 (1.62%) Cisco
9 5 (1.62%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.30%) IFS
10 4 (1.30%) Informatica
10 4 (1.30%) Remedy
10 4 (1.30%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.97%) IBM
11 3 (0.97%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.97%) Pure Storage
12 2 (0.65%) BMC
12 2 (0.65%) Commvault