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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 14 17
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +8
Contract jobs citing Migration 203 233 243
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.03% 10.12% 9.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.11% 10.96% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 158 181
10th Percentile £406 £388 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £675
90th Percentile £753 £725 £795
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% +134.48%

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 1,828 2,125 2,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.36% 92.27% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,272 1,328 1,697
10th Percentile £350 £363 £357
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 17
10th Percentile £20.18 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.70 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £41.75 £43.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £68.50
London median hourly rate £31.58 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.79% +7.69% -13.33%

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 31 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 31 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 -7 183 £575 +4.55% 125
City of Westminster +3 4 £525 -8.70%
West End of London -1 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 (9.85%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.94%) Confluence
3 4 (1.97%) CMS
3 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.48%) Apache
5 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.99%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.49%) CICS
6 1 (0.49%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 7 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.48%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.99%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.99%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.99%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.99%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.49%) Maximo
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.49%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.49%) Sonata
4 1 (0.49%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 58 (28.57%) Azure
2 31 (15.27%) AWS
3 19 (9.36%) Power Platform
4 18 (8.87%) GCP
5 16 (7.88%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (7.39%) GitHub
7 10 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (4.93%) Entra ID
8 8 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.45%) Power Automate
10 6 (2.96%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.96%) PowerApps
10 6 (2.96%) SaaS
11 5 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.46%) IaaS
11 5 (2.46%) OCI
11 5 (2.46%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (1.97%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.45%) Firewall
2 5 (2.46%) Network Security
3 4 (1.97%) DNS
4 3 (1.48%) VPN
5 2 (0.99%) 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%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.49%) VLAN
6 1 (0.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.37%) Power BI
2 12 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.94%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.96%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.97%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.97%) DataStage
6 4 (1.97%) MySQL
7 3 (1.48%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.48%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.48%) Metadata
7 3 (1.48%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.99%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.99%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (0.99%) Spotfire
8 2 (0.99%) SQLPlus
8 2 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (8.37%) JIRA
2 5 (2.46%) Selenium
3 4 (1.97%) Git
3 4 (1.97%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.48%) GitLab
4 3 (1.48%) Gradle
4 3 (1.48%) Maven
5 2 (0.99%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.99%) 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 (35.96%) Finance
2 41 (20.20%) Social Skills
3 29 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.36%) Banking
5 13 (6.40%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.42%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (4.93%) Front Office
8 8 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.45%) Back Office
9 7 (3.45%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.97%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.97%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.97%) Law
10 4 (1.97%) Legal
11 3 (1.48%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.99%) Marketing
12 2 (0.99%) Military
12 2 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.49%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 32 (15.76%) Analyst
2 27 (13.30%) Business Analyst
3 23 (11.33%) Project Manager
4 22 (10.84%) Architect
5 21 (10.34%) Lead
5 21 (10.34%) Senior
6 14 (6.90%) Consultant
6 14 (6.90%) Developer
7 10 (4.93%) Migration Manager
8 8 (3.94%) Business IT Analyst
8 8 (3.94%) IT Analyst
8 8 (3.94%) IT Business Analyst
9 7 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (3.45%) Migration Project Manager
9 7 (3.45%) Migration Specialist
10 6 (2.96%) Data Engineer
10 6 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (2.96%) Senior Manager
10 6 (2.96%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (2.96%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.93%) XML
2 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (1.97%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.48%) PySpark
4 3 (1.48%) SPFx
5 2 (0.99%) ADO
5 2 (0.99%) CSS
5 2 (0.99%) HTML
5 2 (0.99%) JSON
5 2 (0.99%) Middleware
5 2 (0.99%) Node.js
5 2 (0.99%) OpenID
5 2 (0.99%) Playwright
5 2 (0.99%) React
5 2 (0.99%) REST
5 2 (0.99%) SAML
5 2 (0.99%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (0.99%) XSLT
6 1 (0.49%) .NET
6 1 (0.49%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.40%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (5.91%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.97%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.97%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.97%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.97%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.48%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.99%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.99%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.99%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.99%) NHS
9 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.49%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.88%) Windows
2 10 (4.93%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.96%) Linux
4 5 (2.46%) Unix
5 2 (0.99%) 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 63 (31.03%) Data Migration
2 48 (23.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 45 (22.17%) Agile
4 33 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 27 (13.30%) DevOps
7 26 (12.81%) Analytics
8 24 (11.82%) ETL
9 23 (11.33%) CI/CD
10 22 (10.84%) Project Management
11 19 (9.36%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (9.36%) User Acceptance Testing
12 18 (8.87%) Validation
13 17 (8.37%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (8.37%) Project Delivery
14 16 (7.88%) Data Governance
15 15 (7.39%) Data Mapping
15 15 (7.39%) ERP
16 13 (6.40%) Data Modelling
16 13 (6.40%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 35 (17.24%) SQL
2 14 (6.90%) Python
3 12 (5.91%) Java
4 10 (4.93%) PowerShell
5 6 (2.96%) PL/SQL
6 5 (2.46%) C#
7 3 (1.48%) Bash
7 3 (1.48%) Perl
7 3 (1.48%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.99%) C++
8 2 (0.99%) IronPython
8 2 (0.99%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.99%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.99%) PHP
8 2 (0.99%) Scala
8 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.49%) COBOL
9 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.49%) VB
9 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (12.81%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.82%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.93%) Degree
4 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (2.96%) PMP
5 5 (2.46%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.46%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.46%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.49%) CFA
8 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.49%) MCSA
8 1 (0.49%) MCSE
8 1 (0.49%) OCP
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.49%) RHCE
8 1 (0.49%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.87%) Data Quality
2 17 (8.37%) QA
3 13 (6.40%) GDPR
4 9 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.97%) NIST
6 3 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.99%) EMIR
7 2 (0.99%) NCSC
8 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.49%) Basel III
8 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.49%) GAAP
8 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.49%) IFRS
8 1 (0.49%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.49%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.49%) PMO
8 1 (0.49%) SEPA
System Software
1 13 (6.40%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.45%) Docker
3 5 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 20 (9.85%) Terraform
2 10 (4.93%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.48%) Ansible
4 3 (1.48%) Argo
5 2 (0.99%) SCCM
6 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.49%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.49%) CASB
6 1 (0.49%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 43 (21.18%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.33%) Oracle
3 17 (8.37%) SAP
4 13 (6.40%) Google
5 8 (3.94%) Databricks
6 6 (2.96%) VMware
7 5 (2.46%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.46%) Workday
8 4 (1.97%) Adobe
8 4 (1.97%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.48%) Ahrefs
9 3 (1.48%) Informatica
9 3 (1.48%) Murex
9 3 (1.48%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.99%) Cisco
10 2 (0.99%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.99%) Screaming Frog
10 2 (0.99%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.99%) Talend
11 1 (0.49%) IBM