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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 20
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Migration 190 212 209
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.30% 10.13% 8.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.45% 11.02% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 145 149
10th Percentile £416 £383 £423
25th Percentile £488 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £650
90th Percentile £775 £738 £795
London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
London median hourly rate £22.27 £23.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year -3.20% -72.94% +123.68%

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 1,818 1,924 2,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.94% 91.93% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,251 1,185 1,664
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +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 26 20 27
10th Percentile £19.98 £21.93 £18.16
25th Percentile £23.62 £29.79 £21.36
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -14.43%
75th Percentile £41.89 £40.63 £40.00
90th Percentile £49.83 £55.08 £65.00
London median hourly rate £34.00 £37.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -8.11% +23.33% -14.29%

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 9 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 9 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 -5 171 £588 +6.82% 59
West End of London -1 2 £538 -2.27%
City of Westminster -1 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 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.68%) Confluence
3 3 (1.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.58%) Apache
3 3 (1.58%) CMS
3 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.05%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.53%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 7 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.11%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (7.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.58%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.58%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (1.05%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.05%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.05%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.05%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.05%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.05%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (1.05%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.53%) Maximo
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.53%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.53%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.53%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 54 (28.42%) Azure
2 32 (16.84%) AWS
3 14 (7.37%) GCP
3 14 (7.37%) GitHub
4 13 (6.84%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.16%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.16%) SaaS
9 5 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.11%) IaaS
10 4 (2.11%) OCI
10 4 (2.11%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.58%) dbt
11 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.16%) Firewall
1 6 (3.16%) Network Security
2 3 (1.58%) DNS
2 3 (1.58%) VPN
3 2 (1.05%) DHCP
3 2 (1.05%) MPLS
3 2 (1.05%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.53%) BGP
4 1 (0.53%) Internet
4 1 (0.53%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.53%) NAS
4 1 (0.53%) SAN
4 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.53%) VLAN
4 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.32%) Power BI
2 11 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.21%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.16%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.63%) MySQL
5 5 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.58%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.58%) Metadata
6 3 (1.58%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.58%) Tableau
7 2 (1.05%) DataStage
7 2 (1.05%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.05%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (1.05%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.05%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.05%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.05%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 16 (8.42%) JIRA
2 4 (2.11%) Git
3 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.05%) Selenium
3 2 (1.05%) Toad
4 1 (0.53%) ERwin
4 1 (0.53%) gulp
4 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.53%) NUnit
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.53%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.53%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 75 (39.47%) Finance
2 39 (20.53%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (11.05%) Banking
5 13 (6.84%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.79%) Front Office
7 9 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.68%) Legal
8 7 (3.68%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.63%) Investment Banking
11 4 (2.11%) Back Office
11 4 (2.11%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.11%) General Ledger
11 4 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.11%) Law
12 2 (1.05%) International Banking
12 2 (1.05%) Military
12 2 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (16.32%) Analyst
2 25 (13.16%) Business Analyst
3 23 (12.11%) Senior
4 22 (11.58%) Architect
4 22 (11.58%) Project Manager
5 20 (10.53%) Lead
6 18 (9.47%) Consultant
7 12 (6.32%) Migration Manager
8 11 (5.79%) Developer
9 10 (5.26%) Migration Project Manager
10 8 (4.21%) Business IT Analyst
10 8 (4.21%) IT Analyst
10 8 (4.21%) IT Business Analyst
11 7 (3.68%) Migration Specialist
11 7 (3.68%) Senior Manager
12 6 (3.16%) Migration Consultant
12 6 (3.16%) Programme Manager
12 6 (3.16%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (3.16%) Senior Business Analyst
12 6 (3.16%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.68%) XML
2 5 (2.63%) Middleware
2 5 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.05%) ADO
3 2 (1.05%) CSS
3 2 (1.05%) HTML
3 2 (1.05%) Node.js
3 2 (1.05%) OpenID
3 2 (1.05%) Playwright
3 2 (1.05%) PySpark
3 2 (1.05%) REST
3 2 (1.05%) SAML
3 2 (1.05%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (1.05%) SPFx
3 2 (1.05%) XSLT
4 1 (0.53%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.53%) FHIR
4 1 (0.53%) Jest
4 1 (0.53%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.37%) Cloud Native
1 14 (7.37%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (4.21%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.21%) Data Structures
2 8 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
4 4 (2.11%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.11%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.58%) Derivative
5 3 (1.58%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.58%) NHS
5 3 (1.58%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.05%) Equities
6 2 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.05%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.05%) Replication
6 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.37%) Windows
2 9 (4.74%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.11%) Linux
3 4 (2.11%) Unix
4 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (31.58%) Data Migration
2 48 (25.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 43 (22.63%) Agile
4 33 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (15.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 25 (13.16%) Validation
7 24 (12.63%) Analytics
7 24 (12.63%) DevOps
8 22 (11.58%) ETL
8 22 (11.58%) Project Management
8 22 (11.58%) User Acceptance Testing
9 20 (10.53%) ERP
10 18 (9.47%) CI/CD
11 16 (8.42%) Project Delivery
12 15 (7.89%) Data Mapping
13 14 (7.37%) Data Governance
13 14 (7.37%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (6.84%) Business Analysis
14 13 (6.84%) Business Intelligence
15 12 (6.32%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 38 (20.00%) SQL
2 12 (6.32%) Python
3 6 (3.16%) Java
4 5 (2.63%) PL/SQL
5 4 (2.11%) C#
5 4 (2.11%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.58%) Bash
6 3 (1.58%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.05%) C++
7 2 (1.05%) IronPython
7 2 (1.05%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.05%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.05%) Perl
7 2 (1.05%) PHP
7 2 (1.05%) Scala
7 2 (1.05%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.53%) ABAP
8 1 (0.53%) C
8 1 (0.53%) ProC
8 1 (0.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (13.68%) Security Cleared
2 25 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.79%) PMP
4 10 (5.26%) Degree
5 9 (4.74%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.63%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.11%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.05%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.53%) CFA
9 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.53%) MCSA
9 1 (0.53%) MCSE
9 1 (0.53%) OCP
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.53%) RHCE
9 1 (0.53%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.00%) QA
2 18 (9.47%) Data Quality
2 18 (9.47%) GDPR
3 12 (6.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.68%) NIST
5 3 (1.58%) GAAP
5 3 (1.58%) IFRS
5 3 (1.58%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.05%) EMIR
6 2 (1.05%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.05%) NCSC
7 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.53%) Basel III
7 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.53%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.53%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.53%) PMO
7 1 (0.53%) SEPA
7 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.63%) Docker
4 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.53%) NFS
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 17 (8.95%) Terraform
2 11 (5.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.11%) Ansible
5 3 (1.58%) SCCM
6 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.53%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.53%) CASB
6 1 (0.53%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.53%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.53%) vMotion
Vendors
1 40 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.05%) Oracle
3 20 (10.53%) SAP
4 9 (4.74%) Google
5 8 (4.21%) CyberArk
6 7 (3.68%) VMware
6 7 (3.68%) Workday
7 5 (2.63%) Databricks
8 4 (2.11%) Informatica
8 4 (2.11%) Murex
8 4 (2.11%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.58%) Adobe
9 3 (1.58%) Ahrefs
9 3 (1.58%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.05%) Cisco
10 2 (1.05%) Screaming Frog
10 2 (1.05%) Sitecore
10 2 (1.05%) Talend
11 1 (0.53%) MEDITECH
11 1 (0.53%) Veeam