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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 15 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing Migration 192 209 206
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.20% 10.15% 7.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.33% 11.03% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 145 146
10th Percentile £413 £383 £413
25th Percentile £488 £463 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £650
90th Percentile £775 £741 £798
London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £58.92 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +167.82% - -
London median hourly rate £25.00 £23.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +8.70% -72.94% +136.11%

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 1,859 1,895 2,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.03% 92.03% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,275 1,180 1,657
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £444 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.26%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 19 27
10th Percentile £19.75 £21.85 £18.16
25th Percentile £24.85 £33.13 £21.36
Median hourly rate £26.34 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -24.74% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £41.00 £40.92
90th Percentile £55.30 £61.40 £65.00
London median hourly rate £35.00 £37.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year -6.04% +24.17% -15.49%

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 16 February 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
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 16 February 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 -2 172 £575 +4.50% 46
West End of London -3 2 £538 -2.27%
Southwark +1 1 - - 1
City of Westminster -2 1 £525 -4.55% 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 15 (7.81%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.65%) Confluence
3 3 (1.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.56%) Apache
3 3 (1.56%) CMS
3 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.04%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.52%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.08%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (7.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.56%) Aladdin
3 3 (1.56%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (1.04%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.04%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.04%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.04%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.04%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.52%) Maximo
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.52%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.52%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.52%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 56 (29.17%) Azure
2 34 (17.71%) AWS
3 15 (7.81%) GitHub
4 14 (7.29%) GCP
5 13 (6.77%) Power Platform
6 10 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.13%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.13%) SaaS
9 5 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.60%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.08%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.08%) IaaS
10 4 (2.08%) OCI
10 4 (2.08%) Serverless
11 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.13%) Firewall
1 6 (3.13%) Network Security
2 3 (1.56%) DNS
2 3 (1.56%) VPN
3 2 (1.04%) DHCP
3 2 (1.04%) MPLS
3 2 (1.04%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.52%) BGP
4 1 (0.52%) Internet
4 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.52%) NAS
4 1 (0.52%) SAN
4 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.52%) VLAN
4 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.25%) Power BI
2 11 (5.73%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.60%) MySQL
5 5 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.56%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.56%) Metadata
6 3 (1.56%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.56%) Tableau
7 2 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.04%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.04%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.04%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.04%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.04%) Spotfire
7 2 (1.04%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 16 (8.33%) JIRA
2 5 (2.60%) Git
3 2 (1.04%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.04%) Selenium
3 2 (1.04%) Toad
4 1 (0.52%) ERwin
4 1 (0.52%) gulp
4 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.52%) NUnit
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.52%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 74 (38.54%) Finance
2 41 (21.35%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.90%) Banking
5 11 (5.73%) Front Office
6 10 (5.21%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.65%) Legal
8 7 (3.65%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.60%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.60%) Law
11 4 (2.08%) Back Office
11 4 (2.08%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.08%) General Ledger
11 4 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.04%) International Banking
12 2 (1.04%) Military
13 1 (0.52%) Marketing
13 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (16.15%) Analyst
2 26 (13.54%) Business Analyst
3 24 (12.50%) Architect
3 24 (12.50%) Senior
4 22 (11.46%) Project Manager
5 19 (9.90%) Lead
6 18 (9.38%) Consultant
7 11 (5.73%) Developer
7 11 (5.73%) Migration Manager
8 9 (4.69%) Migration Project Manager
9 8 (4.17%) Business IT Analyst
9 8 (4.17%) IT Analyst
9 8 (4.17%) IT Business Analyst
10 7 (3.65%) Migration Consultant
10 7 (3.65%) Senior Manager
11 6 (3.13%) Programme Manager
11 6 (3.13%) SAP Consultant
11 6 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (3.13%) Senior Business Analyst
11 6 (3.13%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.65%) XML
2 6 (3.13%) Middleware
3 5 (2.60%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.04%) ADO
4 2 (1.04%) CSS
4 2 (1.04%) EDI
4 2 (1.04%) HTML
4 2 (1.04%) Node.js
4 2 (1.04%) OpenID
4 2 (1.04%) Playwright
4 2 (1.04%) PySpark
4 2 (1.04%) REST
4 2 (1.04%) SAML
4 2 (1.04%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.04%) SPFx
4 2 (1.04%) XSLT
5 1 (0.52%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.52%) FHIR
5 1 (0.52%) IDoc
5 1 (0.52%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (7.29%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (2.60%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.60%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.08%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.56%) Derivative
6 3 (1.56%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.56%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.04%) Equities
7 2 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.04%) NHS
7 2 (1.04%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.04%) Replication
7 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.29%) Windows
2 9 (4.69%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.08%) Linux
3 4 (2.08%) Unix
4 2 (1.04%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (29.69%) Data Migration
2 48 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 45 (23.44%) Agile
4 33 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (15.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 26 (13.54%) DevOps
7 24 (12.50%) Analytics
8 23 (11.98%) Validation
9 22 (11.46%) ETL
9 22 (11.46%) Project Management
10 19 (9.90%) CI/CD
10 19 (9.90%) User Acceptance Testing
11 17 (8.85%) ERP
12 16 (8.33%) Project Delivery
13 15 (7.81%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (6.77%) Business Analysis
14 13 (6.77%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (6.77%) Data Modelling
15 12 (6.25%) Data Mapping
15 12 (6.25%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 38 (19.79%) SQL
2 13 (6.77%) Python
3 7 (3.65%) Java
4 5 (2.60%) C#
4 5 (2.60%) PL/SQL
5 4 (2.08%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.56%) Bash
6 3 (1.56%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.04%) ABAP
7 2 (1.04%) C++
7 2 (1.04%) IronPython
7 2 (1.04%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.04%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.04%) Perl
7 2 (1.04%) PHP
7 2 (1.04%) Scala
7 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.52%) ProC
8 1 (0.52%) VB
8 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.54%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.73%) Degree
3 11 (5.73%) PMP
4 9 (4.69%) PMI Certification
5 5 (2.60%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.52%) CFA
8 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) MCSA
8 1 (0.52%) MCSE
8 1 (0.52%) OCP
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.52%) RHCE
8 1 (0.52%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.42%) Data Quality
2 18 (9.38%) GDPR
3 15 (7.81%) QA
4 12 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.65%) NIST
6 3 (1.56%) GAAP
6 3 (1.56%) IFRS
6 3 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.04%) EMIR
7 2 (1.04%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.04%) NCSC
8 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.52%) Basel III
8 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.52%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.52%) PMO
8 1 (0.52%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (3.65%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.60%) Docker
4 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.52%) NFS
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 17 (8.85%) Terraform
2 11 (5.73%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.08%) Ansible
4 3 (1.56%) SCCM
5 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.52%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.52%) CASB
5 1 (0.52%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.52%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.52%) vMotion
Vendors
1 42 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.46%) SAP
3 21 (10.94%) Oracle
4 9 (4.69%) Google
5 8 (4.17%) CyberArk
6 7 (3.65%) VMware
6 7 (3.65%) Workday
7 5 (2.60%) Databricks
8 4 (2.08%) Informatica
8 4 (2.08%) Murex
8 4 (2.08%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.56%) Adobe
9 3 (1.56%) Ahrefs
9 3 (1.56%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.04%) Cisco
10 2 (1.04%) Pure Storage
10 2 (1.04%) Screaming Frog
10 2 (1.04%) Sitecore
10 2 (1.04%) Talend
11 1 (0.52%) Veeam