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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 17 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 297 206 216
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.25% 10.05% 9.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.89% 10.73% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 126 151
10th Percentile £404 £364 £363
25th Percentile £455 £438 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £672 £650
90th Percentile £754 £769 £713
London median daily rate £543 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -1.18% +1.85% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £31.99 - -
25th Percentile £36.48 £34.63 -
Median hourly rate £44.46 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.31% - -
75th Percentile £51.94 £34.68 -
90th Percentile £56.13 - -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £64.00
% change year-on-year +118.69% -60.70% +21.90%

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 2,304 1,919 2,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 87.24% 93.66% 91.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,562 1,254 1,503
10th Percentile £363 £338 £356
25th Percentile £455 £425 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £678
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 32 24
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.08 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.63
Median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -28.74% +16.86% -20.54%
75th Percentile £54.50 £50.75 £44.25
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £88.38
London median hourly rate £36.00 £31.25 £32.29
% change year-on-year +15.20% -3.22% -21.76%

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 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Migration in Central London over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Migration in Central London

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 July 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 +4 276 £575 +4.55% 38
West End of London -5 7 £535 -10.83% 3
City of Westminster -12 7 £500 -23.08% 2
Southwark +1 3 £600 +33.33%
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 19 (6.40%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.68%) Confluence
2 5 (1.68%) SharePoint 2013
3 3 (1.01%) CMS
3 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.67%) Apache
4 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.67%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.34%) Camunda
5 1 (0.34%) IIS
5 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.02%) NetSuite
2 6 (2.02%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (2.02%) Oracle Financials
2 6 (2.02%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.68%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.68%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (1.68%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.68%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.35%) SAP ERP
5 3 (1.01%) iTrent
6 2 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.67%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.67%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.67%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.34%) Magento
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.34%) SAP FI-AR
7 1 (0.34%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 59 (19.87%) Azure
2 42 (14.14%) AWS
3 22 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 19 (6.40%) GCP
5 17 (5.72%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (3.70%) GitHub
7 10 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (3.37%) Snowflake
8 9 (3.03%) Entra ID
8 9 (3.03%) SaaS
8 9 (3.03%) Serverless
9 8 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (2.69%) OCI
10 7 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.02%) dbt
11 6 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.68%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (1.68%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.69%) Firewall
2 6 (2.02%) Network Security
3 5 (1.68%) DNS
4 4 (1.35%) VLAN
4 4 (1.35%) VPN
5 3 (1.01%) VSAN
5 3 (1.01%) WAN
6 2 (0.67%) BGP
6 2 (0.67%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.67%) LAN
6 2 (0.67%) MPLS
6 2 (0.67%) OSPF
6 2 (0.67%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.67%) Wireless
7 1 (0.34%) 802.11
7 1 (0.34%) DVB
7 1 (0.34%) Internet
7 1 (0.34%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.34%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.73%) Power BI
2 11 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (3.70%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.68%) Metadata
3 5 (1.68%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.68%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (1.35%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (1.35%) Data Mart
4 4 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.01%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.67%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.67%) Spark SQL
6 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (6.73%) JIRA
2 6 (2.02%) GitLab
3 5 (1.68%) Git
3 5 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.34%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.34%) Gradle
5 1 (0.34%) JUnit
5 1 (0.34%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.34%) Mockito
5 1 (0.34%) MSI
5 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 102 (34.34%) Finance
2 62 (20.88%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (10.77%) Banking
5 18 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.05%) General Ledger
7 12 (4.04%) Law
8 11 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.70%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.69%) Retail
10 5 (1.68%) Legal
11 4 (1.35%) Front Office
11 4 (1.35%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.35%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.01%) Back Office
12 3 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.01%) Local Government
13 2 (0.67%) International Banking
13 2 (0.67%) Marketing
13 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (17.51%) Architect
2 40 (13.47%) Lead
3 36 (12.12%) Consultant
4 33 (11.11%) Analyst
5 28 (9.43%) Project Manager
6 22 (7.41%) Senior
7 18 (6.06%) Business Analyst
8 17 (5.72%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (5.39%) Data Migration Lead
10 15 (5.05%) Data Engineer
11 14 (4.71%) Data Analyst
12 13 (4.38%) Data Architect
12 13 (4.38%) Developer
12 13 (4.38%) Migration Analyst
13 11 (3.70%) Azure Architect
14 10 (3.37%) Cloud Architect
14 10 (3.37%) Data Migration Analyst
15 9 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
15 9 (3.03%) Migration Project Manager
15 9 (3.03%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.39%) Oracle Fusion
2 11 (3.70%) REST
3 10 (3.37%) Kafka
4 8 (2.69%) .NET
5 6 (2.02%) PySpark
6 5 (1.68%) Middleware
6 5 (1.68%) React
7 4 (1.35%) JSON
7 4 (1.35%) RESTful
7 4 (1.35%) SOAP
7 4 (1.35%) Spring
8 3 (1.01%) ADO
8 3 (1.01%) XML
9 2 (0.67%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.67%) EDI
9 2 (0.67%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (0.67%) Flash
9 2 (0.67%) Redux
9 2 (0.67%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.34%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.43%) Legacy Systems
2 25 (8.42%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.37%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.69%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.69%) Mainframe
4 8 (2.69%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.69%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.35%) Derivative
7 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.35%) Replication
8 3 (1.01%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.01%) LIMS
8 3 (1.01%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.67%) Clustering
9 2 (0.67%) Equities
9 2 (0.67%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.72%) Windows
2 5 (1.68%) Linux
3 3 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.67%) SUSE
4 2 (0.67%) VMS
4 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.34%) AIX
5 1 (0.34%) Android
5 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.34%) Solaris
5 1 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (35.02%) Data Migration
2 65 (21.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 44 (14.81%) Agile
4 40 (13.47%) Validation
5 37 (12.46%) Project Delivery
6 36 (12.12%) ERP
7 35 (11.78%) CI/CD
8 33 (11.11%) Analytics
8 33 (11.11%) DevOps
9 30 (10.10%) User Acceptance Testing
10 28 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 27 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (8.75%) Project Management
13 25 (8.42%) ETL
14 24 (8.08%) Business Intelligence
14 24 (8.08%) Data Modelling
14 24 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
15 21 (7.07%) Roadmaps
16 18 (6.06%) AI
16 18 (6.06%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (13.13%) SQL
2 28 (9.43%) Python
3 9 (3.03%) PowerShell
4 7 (2.36%) C#
5 6 (2.02%) Java
6 5 (1.68%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.68%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.35%) Bicep
8 3 (1.01%) Bash
9 2 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.34%) ABAP
10 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (16.84%) Security Cleared
2 40 (13.47%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.04%) PMP
4 11 (3.70%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.69%) DBS Check
6 7 (2.36%) Degree
7 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.35%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.35%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.67%) CCNA
10 2 (0.67%) CCNP
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.34%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.34%) CESG Certified Professional
11 1 (0.34%) CISA
11 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.40%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.71%) GDPR
3 11 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.37%) QA
5 7 (2.36%) NIST
6 6 (2.02%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.02%) PMO
7 3 (1.01%) GRC
8 2 (0.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.67%) GMP
8 2 (0.67%) GxP
8 2 (0.67%) IFRS
8 2 (0.67%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 2 (0.67%) NCSC
8 2 (0.67%) PSD2
8 2 (0.67%) SEPA
8 2 (0.67%) SLA
9 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (2.36%) Active Directory
1 7 (2.36%) Docker
2 5 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.67%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.67%) vSphere
4 1 (0.34%) Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.34%) NFS
Systems Management
1 18 (6.06%) Terraform
2 16 (5.39%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.01%) Ansible
3 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.67%) SCCM
4 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.67%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.34%) Grafana
5 1 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.34%) PingFederate
5 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.34%) vMotion
5 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 57 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 38 (12.79%) Oracle
3 25 (8.42%) SAP
4 16 (5.39%) Databricks
5 14 (4.71%) Google
6 9 (3.03%) Citrix
7 7 (2.36%) CyberArk
7 7 (2.36%) Workday
8 5 (1.68%) Cisco
8 5 (1.68%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.68%) VMware
9 4 (1.35%) IFS
9 4 (1.35%) Informatica
9 4 (1.35%) Pure Storage
10 3 (1.01%) IBM
10 3 (1.01%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.01%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.67%) Adobe
11 2 (0.67%) Lotus
11 2 (0.67%) Murex