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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 17 20
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Migration 218 210 208
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.71% 10.39% 8.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.98% 11.32% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 146 149
10th Percentile £426 £375 £399
25th Percentile £488 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £636 £650
90th Percentile £775 £751 £788
London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
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% +178.69%

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 1,986 1,855 2,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.50% 91.74% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,363 1,207 1,642
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £446 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £769 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 15 24
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.55 £19.23
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.33 £22.88
Median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -15.77% +11.47% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £39.38 £40.46
90th Percentile £58.92 £86.70 £60.58
London median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.16
% change year-on-year -0.55% +18.35% -18.49%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -3 198 £575 +4.45% 79
West End of London -3 3 £550 - 1
City of Westminster -2 2 £625 +13.64%
Southwark -1 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 12 (5.50%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.21%) Confluence
3 3 (1.38%) Apache
3 3 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.92%) CMS
4 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.92%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.46%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 9 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (2.29%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (6.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.83%) Aladdin
3 4 (1.83%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.38%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.38%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (1.38%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.92%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.92%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.46%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.46%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.46%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 62 (28.44%) Azure
2 43 (19.72%) AWS
3 17 (7.80%) Power Platform
4 16 (7.34%) GCP
4 16 (7.34%) GitHub
5 13 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.13%) OCI
7 8 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (3.67%) Snowflake
8 7 (3.21%) Entra ID
8 7 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.21%) Serverless
9 6 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (2.75%) dbt
10 5 (2.29%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.29%) SaaS
11 4 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.21%) Firewall
2 6 (2.75%) Network Security
3 3 (1.38%) MPLS
3 3 (1.38%) VPN
4 2 (0.92%) BGP
4 2 (0.92%) DHCP
4 2 (0.92%) DNS
4 2 (0.92%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.92%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.92%) VLAN
4 2 (0.92%) WAN
5 1 (0.46%) 802.11
5 1 (0.46%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.46%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.46%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.46%) HSRP
5 1 (0.46%) NAS
5 1 (0.46%) NGFW
5 1 (0.46%) OSPF
5 1 (0.46%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.88%) Power BI
2 12 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (3.21%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.21%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.29%) Metadata
4 5 (2.29%) MySQL
4 5 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.29%) Tableau
5 4 (1.83%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.38%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.92%) OLAP
7 2 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.92%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.92%) Spotfire
7 2 (0.92%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 17 (7.80%) JIRA
2 6 (2.75%) Git
3 2 (0.92%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.92%) GitLab
3 2 (0.92%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.92%) Selenium
3 2 (0.92%) Toad
4 1 (0.46%) ERwin
4 1 (0.46%) gulp
4 1 (0.46%) MSI
4 1 (0.46%) NUnit
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.46%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.46%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 83 (38.07%) Finance
2 43 (19.72%) Social Skills
3 26 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.09%) Banking
5 11 (5.05%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.13%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (4.13%) Financial Institution
6 9 (4.13%) Front Office
7 7 (3.21%) Legal
8 6 (2.75%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.75%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.29%) General Ledger
9 5 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.29%) Law
10 4 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.38%) Retail
12 2 (0.92%) Back Office
12 2 (0.92%) International Banking
12 2 (0.92%) Marketing
12 2 (0.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (14.22%) Analyst
2 30 (13.76%) Architect
2 30 (13.76%) Senior
3 28 (12.84%) Project Manager
4 26 (11.93%) Business Analyst
4 26 (11.93%) Lead
5 20 (9.17%) Consultant
6 16 (7.34%) Migration Manager
7 14 (6.42%) Migration Project Manager
8 10 (4.59%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (4.59%) Developer
9 8 (3.67%) Data Migration Lead
9 8 (3.67%) Technical Leader
10 7 (3.21%) Azure Architect
10 7 (3.21%) Senior Business Analyst
10 7 (3.21%) Senior Manager
11 6 (2.75%) Business IT Analyst
11 6 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
11 6 (2.75%) IT Business Analyst
11 6 (2.75%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.21%) Middleware
2 6 (2.75%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (1.83%) XML
4 3 (1.38%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.38%) PySpark
5 2 (0.92%) .NET
5 2 (0.92%) ADO
5 2 (0.92%) CSS
5 2 (0.92%) EDI
5 2 (0.92%) Flash
5 2 (0.92%) HTML
5 2 (0.92%) Kafka
5 2 (0.92%) OpenID
5 2 (0.92%) Playwright
5 2 (0.92%) REST
5 2 (0.92%) SAML
5 2 (0.92%) SPFx
5 2 (0.92%) Spring
6 1 (0.46%) BAPI
6 1 (0.46%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.17%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (7.80%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.05%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.67%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.75%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.83%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.38%) Derivative
8 3 (1.38%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.38%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.92%) BYOD
9 2 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.92%) Equities
9 2 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.92%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.88%) Windows
2 8 (3.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.83%) Linux
4 3 (1.38%) Unix
5 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (33.03%) Data Migration
2 57 (26.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 50 (22.94%) Agile
4 32 (14.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 31 (14.22%) DevOps
6 30 (13.76%) Validation
7 29 (13.30%) Project Management
8 28 (12.84%) Analytics
8 28 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (11.93%) Project Delivery
10 25 (11.47%) CI/CD
10 25 (11.47%) ETL
11 24 (11.01%) User Acceptance Testing
12 23 (10.55%) ERP
13 20 (9.17%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (8.26%) Data Mapping
14 18 (8.26%) Data Modelling
15 17 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
15 17 (7.80%) PRINCE2
16 15 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 42 (19.27%) SQL
2 16 (7.34%) Python
3 7 (3.21%) Java
4 5 (2.29%) PL/SQL
4 5 (2.29%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.83%) C#
6 3 (1.38%) Bash
6 3 (1.38%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.92%) ABAP
7 2 (0.92%) IronPython
7 2 (0.92%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.92%) Perl
7 2 (0.92%) PHP
7 2 (0.92%) Scala
7 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.92%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.46%) C++
8 1 (0.46%) ProC
8 1 (0.46%) VB
8 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 30 (13.76%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.88%) PMP
4 13 (5.96%) PMI Certification
5 10 (4.59%) Degree
6 7 (3.21%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.92%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.46%) CFA
10 1 (0.46%) MCSA
10 1 (0.46%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.63%) Data Quality
1 21 (9.63%) GDPR
2 17 (7.80%) QA
3 16 (7.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (5.05%) NIST
5 6 (2.75%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.38%) GAAP
6 3 (1.38%) IFRS
6 3 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.92%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.92%) PMO
7 2 (0.92%) SEPA
7 2 (0.92%) SLA
8 1 (0.46%) Basel III
8 1 (0.46%) EMIR
8 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.46%) HL7
8 1 (0.46%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.46%) TARGET2
8 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (3.21%) Active Directory
1 7 (3.21%) Docker
1 7 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.46%) NFS
Systems Management
1 22 (10.09%) Terraform
2 12 (5.50%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.38%) Ansible
4 3 (1.38%) SCCM
5 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.46%) CASB
5 1 (0.46%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.46%) Grafana
5 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.46%) vMotion
Vendors
1 41 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.93%) Oracle
3 24 (11.01%) SAP
4 11 (5.05%) CyberArk
5 10 (4.59%) Workday
6 7 (3.21%) VMware
7 6 (2.75%) Google
7 6 (2.75%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.29%) Databricks
8 5 (2.29%) Informatica
9 4 (1.83%) Pure Storage
10 3 (1.38%) Murex
10 3 (1.38%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.38%) Talend
11 2 (0.92%) Ahrefs
11 2 (0.92%) Citrix
11 2 (0.92%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.92%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.46%) Datto
12 1 (0.46%) Dynatrace