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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 18 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Migration 256 210 188
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.57% 10.40% 7.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.29% 11.21% 8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 140 132
10th Percentile £406 £365 £383
25th Percentile £463 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £676 £638 £639
90th Percentile £786 £764 £729
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £58.92 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +167.82% - -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +9.35% -65.93% +121.31%

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 2,083 1,874 2,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.04% 92.82% 90.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,421 1,215 1,580
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £771 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 24 27
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £19.52
25th Percentile £19.95 £22.75 £22.25
Median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £43.86 £43.97 £36.50
90th Percentile £59.32 £50.75 £56.15
London median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £29.00
% change year-on-year +2.68% +19.22% -25.64%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 0 237 £575 +2.00% 42
City of Westminster 0 4 £513 -6.82%
West End of London -4 3 £550 +11.34% 1
Southwark 0 1 - -
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £350 -
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 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.95%) Confluence
3 3 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.78%) Apache
4 2 (0.78%) CMS
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.78%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.39%) Camunda
5 1 (0.39%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.39%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 8 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.56%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.95%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.95%) Workday HCM
3 4 (1.56%) NetSuite
3 4 (1.56%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.78%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.39%) Magento
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.39%) SAP FI-AR
6 1 (0.39%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (25.39%) Azure
2 50 (19.53%) AWS
3 22 (8.59%) GCP
4 16 (6.25%) GitHub
5 15 (5.86%) Power Platform
6 12 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (3.91%) OCI
7 10 (3.91%) Snowflake
8 8 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.13%) Serverless
9 7 (2.73%) Azure AKS
9 7 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.34%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.34%) SaaS
11 5 (1.95%) dbt
12 4 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.13%) Firewall
2 6 (2.34%) Network Security
3 3 (1.17%) VPN
4 2 (0.78%) DHCP
4 2 (0.78%) DNS
4 2 (0.78%) MPLS
4 2 (0.78%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.78%) VLAN
4 2 (0.78%) VSAN
5 1 (0.39%) BGP
5 1 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.39%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.39%) DVB
5 1 (0.39%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.39%) HSRP
5 1 (0.39%) Multicast
5 1 (0.39%) NGFW
5 1 (0.39%) OSPF
5 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.39%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.86%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (5.08%) Power BI
3 8 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.73%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.34%) Metadata
6 5 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.56%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.56%) Tableau
8 3 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.17%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.17%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.78%) MySQL
9 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.78%) OLAP
9 2 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.78%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.78%) SQLPlus
10 1 (0.39%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 17 (6.64%) JIRA
2 4 (1.56%) Git
3 3 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.78%) GitLab
4 2 (0.78%) Selenium
4 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.78%) Toad
5 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.39%) ERwin
5 1 (0.39%) Gradle
5 1 (0.39%) JUnit
5 1 (0.39%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.39%) Mockito
5 1 (0.39%) MSI
5 1 (0.39%) NUnit
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.39%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.39%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (33.98%) Finance
2 40 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.03%) Banking
5 16 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.91%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.73%) Law
8 7 (2.73%) Legal
9 6 (2.34%) General Ledger
9 6 (2.34%) Retail
9 6 (2.34%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.95%) Front Office
11 4 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.17%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.78%) International Banking
13 2 (0.78%) Local Government
13 2 (0.78%) Marketing
13 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (17.97%) Architect
2 33 (12.89%) Lead
2 33 (12.89%) Senior
3 30 (11.72%) Analyst
4 28 (10.94%) Project Manager
5 25 (9.77%) Consultant
6 23 (8.98%) Business Analyst
7 17 (6.64%) Migration Manager
8 15 (5.86%) Migration Project Manager
9 12 (4.69%) Cloud Architect
10 11 (4.30%) Developer
11 10 (3.91%) Data Migration Lead
12 9 (3.52%) Azure Architect
12 9 (3.52%) Migration Analyst
12 9 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (3.13%) Data Analyst
13 8 (3.13%) Data Architect
13 8 (3.13%) Senior Manager
13 8 (3.13%) Technical Leader
14 7 (2.73%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.91%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (2.73%) Middleware
3 4 (1.56%) Kafka
3 4 (1.56%) Spring
4 3 (1.17%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.17%) XML
5 2 (0.78%) .NET
5 2 (0.78%) EDI
5 2 (0.78%) Flash
5 2 (0.78%) OpenID
5 2 (0.78%) PySpark
5 2 (0.78%) RESTful
5 2 (0.78%) SAML
5 2 (0.78%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.39%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.39%) IDoc
6 1 (0.39%) OpenJDK
6 1 (0.39%) Playwright
6 1 (0.39%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.20%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (7.81%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.30%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (2.73%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.34%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.34%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.17%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.17%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.17%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.17%) Replication
8 2 (0.78%) BYOD
8 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.42%) Windows
2 10 (3.91%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.34%) Linux
4 3 (1.17%) Unix
5 1 (0.39%) AIX
5 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.39%) Solaris
5 1 (0.39%) SUSE
5 1 (0.39%) VMS
5 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (29.30%) Data Migration
2 58 (22.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 46 (17.97%) Agile
4 35 (13.67%) Validation
5 32 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 30 (11.72%) DevOps
6 30 (11.72%) Project Delivery
7 29 (11.33%) Analytics
8 28 (10.94%) CI/CD
8 28 (10.94%) Project Management
9 23 (8.98%) ERP
9 23 (8.98%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (8.20%) ETL
12 18 (7.03%) Business Intelligence
12 18 (7.03%) User Acceptance Testing
13 17 (6.64%) Asset Management
13 17 (6.64%) PRINCE2
14 16 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (6.25%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 40 (15.63%) SQL
2 13 (5.08%) Python
3 8 (3.13%) Java
4 6 (2.34%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.95%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.17%) Bash
6 3 (1.17%) Bicep
6 3 (1.17%) C#
7 2 (0.78%) ABAP
7 2 (0.78%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.78%) Perl
7 2 (0.78%) PHP
7 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.39%) C
8 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.39%) ProC
8 1 (0.39%) Scala
8 1 (0.39%) VB
8 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 43 (16.80%) Security Cleared
2 35 (13.67%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.86%) PMP
4 13 (5.08%) PMI Certification
5 7 (2.73%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.73%) Degree
6 4 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.17%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.39%) CISA
9 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.39%) MCSA
9 1 (0.39%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.59%) GDPR
2 19 (7.42%) Data Quality
3 16 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (5.86%) QA
5 12 (4.69%) NIST
6 5 (1.95%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.95%) PMO
7 3 (1.17%) GAAP
7 3 (1.17%) IFRS
7 3 (1.17%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.17%) NCSC
7 3 (1.17%) SEPA
8 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.78%) SLA
9 1 (0.39%) GRC
9 1 (0.39%) HL7
9 1 (0.39%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 8 (3.13%) Docker
2 7 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.39%) Firmware
5 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.39%) NFS
5 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (9.38%) Terraform
2 15 (5.86%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.17%) Ansible
4 3 (1.17%) SCCM
5 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.39%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.39%) Grafana
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.39%) vMotion
5 1 (0.39%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (16.80%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.33%) SAP
3 27 (10.55%) Oracle
4 12 (4.69%) CyberArk
5 11 (4.30%) Workday
6 8 (3.13%) Google
7 7 (2.73%) Citrix
8 6 (2.34%) Databricks
8 6 (2.34%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.34%) VMware
9 4 (1.56%) Informatica
9 4 (1.56%) Pure Storage
10 3 (1.17%) IBM
11 2 (0.78%) Ahrefs
11 2 (0.78%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.78%) Murex
11 2 (0.78%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.78%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.39%) Adobe
12 1 (0.39%) Dell