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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 15 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +12
Contract jobs citing Migration 205 230 269
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.23% 9.86% 9.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.28% 10.71% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 155 198
10th Percentile £375 £396 £438
25th Percentile £463 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +2.73% -2.65%
75th Percentile £675 £639 £684
90th Percentile £738 £725 £800
London median daily rate £538 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.27% -2.22% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +9.35% -72.94% +104.82%

All Process and 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 1,818 2,147 2,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.76% 92.07% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,272 1,344 1,757
10th Percentile £343 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £813
London median daily rate £530 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 27 16
10th Percentile £19.94 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.09% +37.25% -37.04%
75th Percentile £36.00 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £51.25 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%

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 19 December 2025.

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
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 19 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
City of London -5 184 £575 +1.77% 22
City of Westminster +3 5 £525 -8.70%
West End of London -2 2 £663 +23.14% 1
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 20 (9.76%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.90%) Confluence
3 4 (1.95%) CMS
4 3 (1.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.98%) Apache
5 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.98%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.49%) CICS
6 1 (0.49%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 8 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.46%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.98%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.98%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.98%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.98%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.49%) Maximo
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.49%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.49%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 56 (27.32%) Azure
2 30 (14.63%) AWS
3 18 (8.78%) GCP
3 18 (8.78%) Power Platform
4 17 (8.29%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (6.34%) GitHub
6 10 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (4.88%) Entra ID
7 8 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (3.90%) SaaS
8 7 (3.41%) Power Automate
9 6 (2.93%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.93%) IaaS
9 6 (2.93%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (2.44%) Slack
10 5 (2.44%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.95%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.39%) Firewall
2 5 (2.44%) Network Security
3 4 (1.95%) DNS
4 3 (1.46%) VPN
5 2 (0.98%) DHCP
6 1 (0.49%) BGP
6 1 (0.49%) Internet
6 1 (0.49%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.49%) MPLS
6 1 (0.49%) NAS
6 1 (0.49%) NGFW
6 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.49%) VLAN
6 1 (0.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.80%) Power BI
2 12 (5.85%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.90%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.93%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.44%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.95%) DataStage
6 4 (1.95%) MySQL
6 4 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.46%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.46%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.46%) Metadata
7 3 (1.46%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.98%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (0.98%) Spotfire
8 2 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (8.29%) JIRA
2 6 (2.93%) Selenium
3 5 (2.44%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.95%) Git
4 4 (1.95%) GitLab
4 4 (1.95%) Gradle
4 4 (1.95%) Maven
5 2 (0.98%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.98%) Toad
6 1 (0.49%) ERwin
6 1 (0.49%) gulp
6 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.49%) NUnit
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.49%) Postman
6 1 (0.49%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.49%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.49%) webpack
General
1 73 (35.61%) Finance
2 39 (19.02%) Social Skills
3 28 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.27%) Banking
5 13 (6.34%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (4.39%) Front Office
8 7 (3.41%) Back Office
8 7 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.41%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.44%) Legal
10 4 (1.95%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.95%) Law
11 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.98%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.98%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.98%) Marketing
12 2 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (17.56%) Analyst
2 27 (13.17%) Business Analyst
3 25 (12.20%) Architect
4 22 (10.73%) Project Manager
5 20 (9.76%) Lead
5 20 (9.76%) Senior
6 14 (6.83%) Consultant
7 13 (6.34%) Developer
8 8 (3.90%) Business IT Analyst
8 8 (3.90%) IT Analyst
8 8 (3.90%) IT Business Analyst
8 8 (3.90%) Migration Manager
9 7 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (3.41%) Migration Specialist
9 7 (3.41%) Senior Manager
10 6 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (2.93%) Senior Business Analyst
10 6 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.93%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (2.93%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.88%) XML
2 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.46%) PySpark
4 3 (1.46%) SPFx
5 2 (0.98%) ADO
5 2 (0.98%) CSS
5 2 (0.98%) HTML
5 2 (0.98%) JSON
5 2 (0.98%) Middleware
5 2 (0.98%) Node.js
5 2 (0.98%) OpenID
5 2 (0.98%) Playwright
5 2 (0.98%) React
5 2 (0.98%) REST
5 2 (0.98%) SAML
5 2 (0.98%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (0.98%) XSLT
6 1 (0.49%) .NET
6 1 (0.49%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.83%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.85%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.41%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.95%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.95%) Reinsurance
7 4 (1.95%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (1.95%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.46%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.46%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.98%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.98%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.98%) NHS
9 2 (0.98%) PKI
10 1 (0.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.49%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.80%) Windows
2 10 (4.88%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.93%) Linux
4 5 (2.44%) Unix
5 2 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.49%) AIX
6 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.49%) Solaris
6 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (31.22%) Data Migration
2 46 (22.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (19.02%) Agile
4 32 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (14.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 27 (13.17%) Analytics
7 25 (12.20%) DevOps
8 24 (11.71%) CI/CD
9 23 (11.22%) ETL
10 19 (9.27%) Project Management
11 18 (8.78%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (8.29%) Data Governance
12 17 (8.29%) User Acceptance Testing
13 16 (7.80%) ERP
13 16 (7.80%) Infrastructure as Code
14 15 (7.32%) Project Delivery
14 15 (7.32%) Validation
15 14 (6.83%) Data Cleansing
15 14 (6.83%) Data Mapping
16 13 (6.34%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 34 (16.59%) SQL
2 15 (7.32%) Python
3 13 (6.34%) Java
4 9 (4.39%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.44%) C#
5 5 (2.44%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.46%) Bash
6 3 (1.46%) Perl
6 3 (1.46%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.98%) C++
7 2 (0.98%) IronPython
7 2 (0.98%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.98%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.98%) PHP
7 2 (0.98%) Scala
7 2 (0.98%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.49%) C
8 1 (0.49%) COBOL
8 1 (0.49%) ProC
8 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (11.71%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.73%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.88%) Degree
4 5 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.46%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.46%) PMP
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.49%) CFA
7 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.49%) OCP
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.49%) RHCE
7 1 (0.49%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.73%) Data Quality
2 17 (8.29%) QA
3 11 (5.37%) GDPR
4 7 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.46%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.98%) EMIR
6 2 (0.98%) NCSC
6 2 (0.98%) NIST
6 2 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.49%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.49%) PMO
7 1 (0.49%) SEPA
7 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (6.34%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.90%) Docker
3 5 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 19 (9.27%) Terraform
2 11 (5.37%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.95%) Argo
5 3 (1.46%) Ansible
6 2 (0.98%) SCCM
7 1 (0.49%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.49%) CASB
7 1 (0.49%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 45 (21.95%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.73%) Oracle
3 16 (7.80%) SAP
4 14 (6.83%) Google
5 8 (3.90%) Databricks
6 6 (2.93%) VMware
7 4 (1.95%) Adobe
7 4 (1.95%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.95%) Workday
8 3 (1.46%) Ahrefs
8 3 (1.46%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.46%) Informatica
8 3 (1.46%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.98%) Cisco
9 2 (0.98%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.98%) IBM
9 2 (0.98%) Murex
9 2 (0.98%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.98%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.98%) Talend