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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +9
Contract jobs citing Migration 189 216 229
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.57% 10.08% 8.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.68% 10.91% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 150 169
10th Percentile £404 £374 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +0.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £789
London median daily rate £539 £550 £566
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.83% -0.53%
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 1,769 1,979 2,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.61% 92.35% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,229 1,237 1,675
10th Percentile £350 £363 £354
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -
75th Percentile £665 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 19
10th Percentile £19.82 £18.73 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.98 £23.70 £20.72
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -27.15%
75th Percentile £40.19 £41.00 £42.38
90th Percentile £42.65 £112.00 £66.75
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 12 January 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 12 January 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 £575 +4.55% 42
City of Westminster +1 2 £500 -13.04%
West End of London -2 1 £525 -3.49% 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 17 (8.99%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.23%) Confluence
3 4 (2.12%) CMS
3 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.59%) Apache
5 2 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.06%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.53%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 7 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (6.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.59%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.06%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.06%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.06%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.06%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.53%) Maximo
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.53%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.53%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 50 (26.46%) Azure
2 29 (15.34%) AWS
3 15 (7.94%) GitHub
4 14 (7.41%) GCP
4 14 (7.41%) Power Platform
5 13 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.70%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.65%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.65%) OCI
9 5 (2.65%) SaaS
10 4 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.12%) IaaS
10 4 (2.12%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.12%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.59%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.65%) Firewall
1 5 (2.65%) Network Security
2 3 (1.59%) DNS
3 2 (1.06%) DHCP
3 2 (1.06%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.06%) VPN
4 1 (0.53%) BGP
4 1 (0.53%) Internet
4 1 (0.53%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.53%) MPLS
4 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.53%) VLAN
4 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.88%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (6.35%) Power BI
3 7 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.12%) DataStage
4 4 (2.12%) MySQL
4 4 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.12%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.59%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.59%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.59%) Delta Lake
5 3 (1.59%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.06%) Metadata
6 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.06%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (1.06%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (1.06%) Spotfire
6 2 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (8.99%) JIRA
2 4 (2.12%) Git
2 4 (2.12%) Selenium
3 3 (1.59%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.06%) GitLab
4 2 (1.06%) Gradle
4 2 (1.06%) Maven
4 2 (1.06%) Toad
5 1 (0.53%) ERwin
5 1 (0.53%) gulp
5 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.53%) NUnit
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.53%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.53%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 69 (36.51%) Finance
2 33 (17.46%) Social Skills
3 21 (11.11%) Banking
4 20 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.88%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.82%) Front Office
7 10 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.70%) Telecoms
10 6 (3.17%) Back Office
10 6 (3.17%) Legal
11 4 (2.12%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.12%) Investment Banking
11 4 (2.12%) Law
12 3 (1.59%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.06%) International Banking
13 2 (1.06%) Marketing
13 2 (1.06%) Military
13 2 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (15.87%) Analyst
2 27 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 23 (12.17%) Senior
4 22 (11.64%) Project Manager
5 20 (10.58%) Architect
6 19 (10.05%) Lead
7 16 (8.47%) Consultant
8 12 (6.35%) Developer
9 11 (5.82%) Migration Manager
10 8 (4.23%) Migration Project Manager
11 7 (3.70%) Business IT Analyst
11 7 (3.70%) IT Analyst
11 7 (3.70%) IT Business Analyst
11 7 (3.70%) Migration Specialist
12 6 (3.17%) Data Engineer
12 6 (3.17%) Migration Consultant
12 6 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (3.17%) Senior Manager
12 6 (3.17%) Technical Analyst
12 6 (3.17%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.82%) XML
2 5 (2.65%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (2.12%) Middleware
4 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (1.59%) PySpark
5 2 (1.06%) CSS
5 2 (1.06%) HTML
5 2 (1.06%) Node.js
5 2 (1.06%) OpenID
5 2 (1.06%) Playwright
5 2 (1.06%) REST
5 2 (1.06%) SAML
5 2 (1.06%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (1.06%) SPFx
5 2 (1.06%) XSLT
6 1 (0.53%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.53%) Kafka
6 1 (0.53%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.53%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.53%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.35%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.82%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.29%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.12%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.12%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.59%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.59%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.59%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.06%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.06%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.06%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.06%) NHS
9 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.53%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.41%) Windows
2 9 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.65%) Unix
4 4 (2.12%) Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (30.69%) Data Migration
2 47 (24.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (21.69%) Agile
4 30 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 25 (13.23%) DevOps
7 24 (12.70%) ETL
8 22 (11.64%) Analytics
9 20 (10.58%) Project Management
9 20 (10.58%) Validation
10 19 (10.05%) CI/CD
11 18 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
12 16 (8.47%) ERP
12 16 (8.47%) Project Delivery
13 15 (7.94%) Data Mapping
13 15 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
15 13 (6.88%) Data Governance
16 12 (6.35%) Business Analysis
17 11 (5.82%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.99%) SQL
2 13 (6.88%) Python
3 10 (5.29%) Java
4 7 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 6 (3.17%) PL/SQL
6 5 (2.65%) C#
7 3 (1.59%) Bash
7 3 (1.59%) Perl
7 3 (1.59%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.06%) C++
8 2 (1.06%) IronPython
8 2 (1.06%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.06%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.06%) PHP
8 2 (1.06%) Scala
8 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.53%) C
9 1 (0.53%) ProC
9 1 (0.53%) VB
9 1 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (13.23%) Security Cleared
2 23 (12.17%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.29%) Degree
4 7 (3.70%) PMP
5 6 (3.17%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.65%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.65%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
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 17 (8.99%) Data Quality
1 17 (8.99%) QA
2 13 (6.88%) GDPR
3 10 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.65%) NIST
5 3 (1.59%) GAAP
5 3 (1.59%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.06%) EMIR
6 2 (1.06%) NCSC
7 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.53%) Basel III
7 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.53%) IFRS
7 1 (0.53%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.53%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.53%) PMO
7 1 (0.53%) SEPA
System Software
1 9 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.17%) Docker
3 5 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 18 (9.52%) Terraform
2 11 (5.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.59%) Ansible
5 2 (1.06%) Argo
5 2 (1.06%) 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%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 37 (19.58%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.64%) Oracle
3 19 (10.05%) SAP
4 11 (5.82%) Google
5 7 (3.70%) Databricks
5 7 (3.70%) Workday
6 6 (3.17%) CyberArk
6 6 (3.17%) VMware
7 4 (2.12%) Murex
8 3 (1.59%) Adobe
8 3 (1.59%) Ahrefs
8 3 (1.59%) Informatica
8 3 (1.59%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.59%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.06%) Cisco
9 2 (1.06%) Screaming Frog
9 2 (1.06%) Sitecore
9 2 (1.06%) Talend
10 1 (0.53%) MEDITECH
10 1 (0.53%) Veeam