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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 17 16
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Migration 333 182 218
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 13.48% 9.39% 9.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.03% 10.01% 10.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 117 149
10th Percentile £389 £337 £363
25th Percentile £449 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £727 £725
London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £15.70 - -
25th Percentile £24.25 - -
Median hourly rate £32.50 - -
75th Percentile £36.25 - -
90th Percentile £38.50 - -
London median hourly rate £58.50 £25.15 £65.75
% change year-on-year +132.60% -61.75% -1.87%

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 2,215 1,818 2,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.68% 93.76% 92.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,530 1,217 1,384
10th Percentile £363 £316 £363
25th Percentile £456 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 30 26
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.69 £17.25
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.00 £23.69
Median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +34.62%
75th Percentile £43.00 £50.75 £42.13
90th Percentile £64.15 £63.75 £115.00
London median hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.13% -10.01% -7.28%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +8 305 £588 +3.98% 176
City of Westminster -6 11 £500 -23.08% 16
West End of London -5 10 £600 -7.69% 7
Kensington and Chelsea - 3 £550 -
Southwark - 3 £600 - 5
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 (5.11%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.30%) Confluence
3 7 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.50%) Apache
4 5 (1.50%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.20%) CMS
5 4 (1.20%) SharePoint 2013
6 2 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.60%) HCL Notes
6 2 (0.60%) SAS
7 1 (0.30%) Camunda
7 1 (0.30%) IIS
7 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.30%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (2.40%) Oracle Financials
1 8 (2.40%) Oracle Payables
1 8 (2.40%) Oracle Receivables
2 7 (2.10%) Oracle General Ledger
2 7 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.50%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.50%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.90%) iTrent
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle iProcurement
5 3 (0.90%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.60%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.60%) Maximo
6 2 (0.60%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.60%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 69 (20.72%) Azure
2 46 (13.81%) AWS
3 26 (7.81%) GCP
4 25 (7.51%) Power Platform
5 21 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (4.50%) SaaS
8 12 (3.60%) Entra ID
9 11 (3.30%) Snowflake
10 10 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (3.00%) OCI
10 10 (3.00%) Serverless
11 8 (2.40%) dbt
11 8 (2.40%) GitHub
12 7 (2.10%) IaaS
12 7 (2.10%) PaaS
13 6 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (1.50%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.50%) Firewall
2 11 (3.30%) DNS
2 11 (3.30%) Network Security
3 8 (2.40%) BGP
3 8 (2.40%) VPN
4 5 (1.50%) Internet
4 5 (1.50%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.50%) VLAN
5 4 (1.20%) DHCP
6 3 (0.90%) Multicast
7 2 (0.60%) LAN
7 2 (0.60%) SSL
7 2 (0.60%) VSAN
7 2 (0.60%) WAN
8 1 (0.30%) DVB
8 1 (0.30%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.30%) Extranet
8 1 (0.30%) OSPF
8 1 (0.30%) SAN
8 1 (0.30%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.61%) Power BI
2 18 (5.41%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.30%) Metadata
5 9 (2.70%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.10%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.10%) Delta Lake
6 7 (2.10%) Oracle Database
6 7 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.20%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (1.20%) Data Mart
8 4 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.60%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.60%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 28 (8.41%) JIRA
2 5 (1.50%) Git
2 5 (1.50%) GitLab
3 4 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.30%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.30%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.30%) Gradle
6 1 (0.30%) JUnit
6 1 (0.30%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.30%) Mockito
6 1 (0.30%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 113 (33.93%) Finance
2 89 (26.73%) Social Skills
3 40 (12.01%) Banking
4 32 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.31%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.20%) General Ledger
7 11 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (3.00%) Front Office
8 10 (3.00%) Law
9 9 (2.70%) Retail
10 7 (2.10%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.10%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.80%) Back Office
12 5 (1.50%) Legal
12 5 (1.50%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.50%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.90%) Billing
14 3 (0.90%) Local Government
14 3 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 58 (17.42%) Architect
2 42 (12.61%) Lead
3 35 (10.51%) Consultant
4 33 (9.91%) Analyst
5 27 (8.11%) Project Manager
6 23 (6.91%) Developer
6 23 (6.91%) Senior
7 21 (6.31%) Data Architect
8 19 (5.71%) Data Engineer
8 19 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (4.80%) Business Analyst
10 15 (4.50%) Data Analyst
11 12 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.30%) Administrator
13 10 (3.00%) Migration Analyst
14 9 (2.70%) Data Migration Lead
14 9 (2.70%) Oracle Consultant
15 8 (2.40%) Data Migration Analyst
15 8 (2.40%) Migration Engineer
16 7 (2.10%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.71%) Terraform
2 17 (5.11%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (3.90%) REST
4 11 (3.30%) .NET
5 10 (3.00%) Kafka
5 10 (3.00%) PySpark
6 7 (2.10%) JSON
6 7 (2.10%) React
7 6 (1.80%) Middleware
8 5 (1.50%) XML
9 4 (1.20%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.20%) SOAP
10 3 (0.90%) ADO
10 3 (0.90%) Node.js
10 3 (0.90%) RESTful
10 3 (0.90%) Spring
10 3 (0.90%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.90%) Web Services
11 2 (0.60%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.61%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.01%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.50%) Data Centre
5 11 (3.30%) Mainframe
6 10 (3.00%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.40%) Replication
9 7 (2.10%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.80%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.50%) Clustering
11 5 (1.50%) Derivative
11 5 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (1.20%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.20%) Reinsurance
13 3 (0.90%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.81%) Windows
2 6 (1.80%) Linux
3 4 (1.20%) Unix
3 4 (1.20%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.90%) VMS
4 3 (0.90%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.60%) SUSE
5 2 (0.60%) zOS
6 1 (0.30%) AIX
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) MVS
6 1 (0.30%) Solaris
6 1 (0.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (33.03%) Data Migration
2 86 (25.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 52 (15.62%) Agile
4 45 (13.51%) Validation
5 44 (13.21%) CI/CD
6 39 (11.71%) DevOps
7 38 (11.41%) Analytics
8 35 (10.51%) Data Modelling
8 35 (10.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (10.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 34 (10.21%) ERP
10 33 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (9.31%) ETL
11 31 (9.31%) User Acceptance Testing
12 30 (9.01%) Data Governance
13 28 (8.41%) Project Delivery
14 26 (7.81%) Business Intelligence
15 25 (7.51%) Roadmaps
16 24 (7.21%) Project Management
17 23 (6.91%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 47 (14.11%) SQL
2 33 (9.91%) Python
3 12 (3.60%) PowerShell
4 11 (3.30%) C#
5 9 (2.70%) Java
6 8 (2.40%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.80%) Bicep
8 5 (1.50%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.90%) Korn
9 3 (0.90%) Perl
9 3 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.60%) JCL
11 1 (0.30%) Bash
11 1 (0.30%) REXX
11 1 (0.30%) SOQL
11 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (15.92%) Security Cleared
2 42 (12.61%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.00%) PMI Certification
3 10 (3.00%) PMP
4 8 (2.40%) DBS Check
4 8 (2.40%) Degree
5 7 (2.10%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.60%) CAPM
8 2 (0.60%) CCNA
8 2 (0.60%) CCNP
8 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.30%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 1 (0.30%) CCIE Security
9 1 (0.30%) CSPO
9 1 (0.30%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.41%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.90%) QA
3 10 (3.00%) PMO
4 6 (1.80%) GDPR
5 5 (1.50%) GRC
5 5 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.60%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.60%) GMP
7 2 (0.60%) GxP
7 2 (0.60%) IFRS
7 2 (0.60%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 2 (0.60%) NCSC
7 2 (0.60%) NIST
7 2 (0.60%) SEPA
7 2 (0.60%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.30%) TARGET2
System Software
1 15 (4.50%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.50%) Docker
4 3 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.90%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.90%) vSphere
5 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.30%) Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.80%) Ansible
2 6 (1.80%) SCCM
3 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.90%) SCOM
4 3 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (0.60%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.30%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.30%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.30%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 65 (19.52%) Microsoft
2 47 (14.11%) Oracle
3 29 (8.71%) Databricks
4 27 (8.11%) SAP
5 17 (5.11%) Google
6 14 (4.20%) VMware
7 12 (3.60%) Cisco
8 8 (2.40%) Citrix
8 8 (2.40%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.80%) IBM
10 5 (1.50%) Remedy
10 5 (1.50%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.20%) Bloomberg
11 4 (1.20%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.20%) IFS
11 4 (1.20%) Informatica
11 4 (1.20%) Workday
12 3 (0.90%) BMC
12 3 (0.90%) Commvault
12 3 (0.90%) Refinitiv