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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Migration 240 210 212
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.24% 10.61% 8.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.70% 11.49% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 142 149
10th Percentile £413 £375 £387
25th Percentile £484 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £673 £638 £650
90th Percentile £758 £761 £756
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 £25.08 £23.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +9.02% -72.94% +178.69%

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 2,052 1,828 2,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 87.58% 92.37% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,410 1,197 1,603
10th Percentile £357 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.56%
75th Percentile £667 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £763 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 25
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.85 £19.33
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -15.77% +11.47% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £46.68 £40.00
90th Percentile £57.89 £53.35 £59.10
London median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.12
% change year-on-year +1.43% +16.20% -22.77%

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 4 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 4 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 -3 219 £575 +2.22% 81
City of Westminster -1 4 £513 -6.82%
West End of London -3 3 £550 - 1
Southwark 0 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 14 (5.83%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.50%) Confluence
3 3 (1.25%) Apache
3 3 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.83%) CMS
4 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.83%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.42%) Camunda
5 1 (0.42%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.42%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.67%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.08%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.67%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (1.67%) Workday HCM
4 3 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.83%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.83%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.42%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.42%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.42%) Magento
6 1 (0.42%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.42%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (27.92%) Azure
2 50 (20.83%) AWS
3 22 (9.17%) GCP
4 18 (7.50%) Power Platform
5 17 (7.08%) GitHub
6 13 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.58%) Snowflake
8 10 (4.17%) OCI
9 8 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.33%) Serverless
10 7 (2.92%) dbt
10 7 (2.92%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.50%) Azure AKS
11 6 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (2.08%) SaaS
13 4 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.75%) Firewall
2 8 (3.33%) Network Security
3 4 (1.67%) VPN
4 3 (1.25%) MPLS
5 2 (0.83%) BGP
5 2 (0.83%) DHCP
5 2 (0.83%) DNS
5 2 (0.83%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.83%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.83%) VLAN
5 2 (0.83%) VSAN
5 2 (0.83%) WAN
6 1 (0.42%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.42%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (0.42%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.42%) HSRP
6 1 (0.42%) NAS
6 1 (0.42%) NGFW
6 1 (0.42%) TACACS
6 1 (0.42%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.25%) Power BI
2 14 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.92%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.92%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.50%) Metadata
5 5 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.08%) Tableau
6 4 (1.67%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.67%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.67%) MySQL
6 4 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.25%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.83%) OLAP
8 2 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.83%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.83%) Spotfire
8 2 (0.83%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 17 (7.08%) JIRA
2 5 (2.08%) Git
3 3 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.83%) GitLab
4 2 (0.83%) Selenium
4 2 (0.83%) Toad
5 1 (0.42%) ERwin
5 1 (0.42%) Gradle
5 1 (0.42%) JUnit
5 1 (0.42%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.42%) Mockito
5 1 (0.42%) MSI
5 1 (0.42%) NUnit
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.42%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.42%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 87 (36.25%) Finance
2 48 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 28 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.58%) Banking
5 13 (5.42%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.92%) Law
8 7 (2.92%) Legal
9 6 (2.50%) Front Office
9 6 (2.50%) General Ledger
9 6 (2.50%) Retail
9 6 (2.50%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.08%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.83%) Back Office
12 2 (0.83%) Military
12 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (15.83%) Architect
2 32 (13.33%) Senior
3 30 (12.50%) Lead
4 28 (11.67%) Analyst
4 28 (11.67%) Project Manager
5 24 (10.00%) Consultant
6 23 (9.58%) Business Analyst
7 18 (7.50%) Migration Manager
8 16 (6.67%) Migration Project Manager
9 14 (5.83%) Cloud Architect
10 12 (5.00%) Developer
11 10 (4.17%) Data Migration Lead
12 9 (3.75%) Azure Architect
12 9 (3.75%) Technical Leader
13 8 (3.33%) Senior Manager
14 7 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
14 7 (2.92%) Delivery Manager
14 7 (2.92%) Migration Analyst
14 7 (2.92%) Senior Business Analyst
15 6 (2.50%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (2.50%) Middleware
3 4 (1.67%) Kafka
3 4 (1.67%) Spring
3 4 (1.67%) XML
4 3 (1.25%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.25%) PySpark
4 3 (1.25%) REST
5 2 (0.83%) .NET
5 2 (0.83%) CSS
5 2 (0.83%) EDI
5 2 (0.83%) Flash
5 2 (0.83%) HTML
5 2 (0.83%) OpenID
5 2 (0.83%) Playwright
5 2 (0.83%) React
5 2 (0.83%) RESTful
5 2 (0.83%) SAML
5 2 (0.83%) SPFx
5 2 (0.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.75%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.58%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.92%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.25%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.25%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.83%) BYOD
8 2 (0.83%) Derivative
8 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.83%) PKI
8 2 (0.83%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.50%) Windows
2 9 (3.75%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.50%) Linux
4 3 (1.25%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) SUSE
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
5 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (29.58%) Data Migration
2 58 (24.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 50 (20.83%) Agile
4 36 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 33 (13.75%) Analytics
5 33 (13.75%) Validation
6 32 (13.33%) DevOps
7 30 (12.50%) Project Management
8 29 (12.08%) Project Delivery
9 28 (11.67%) CI/CD
10 27 (11.25%) ETL
10 27 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (10.00%) ERP
12 22 (9.17%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (8.75%) User Acceptance Testing
14 20 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (7.92%) Data Modelling
16 17 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (7.08%) PRINCE2
17 16 (6.67%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 44 (18.33%) SQL
2 16 (6.67%) Python
3 8 (3.33%) Java
4 7 (2.92%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.08%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.25%) Bash
6 3 (1.25%) C#
6 3 (1.25%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.25%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.83%) ABAP
7 2 (0.83%) Bicep
7 2 (0.83%) IronPython
7 2 (0.83%) Perl
7 2 (0.83%) PHP
7 2 (0.83%) Scala
7 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.42%) C
8 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.42%) ProC
8 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.25%) PMP
4 13 (5.42%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.33%) Degree
6 4 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.25%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.83%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.42%) CFA
9 1 (0.42%) MCSA
9 1 (0.42%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.17%) GDPR
2 21 (8.75%) Data Quality
3 17 (7.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (7.08%) QA
4 12 (5.00%) NIST
5 6 (2.50%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.08%) PMO
7 3 (1.25%) GAAP
7 3 (1.25%) IFRS
7 3 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.83%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.83%) NCSC
8 2 (0.83%) SEPA
8 2 (0.83%) SLA
9 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.42%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.42%) PSD2
9 1 (0.42%) TARGET2
System Software
1 8 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 8 (3.33%) Docker
2 7 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.42%) Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.42%) NFS
4 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (10.00%) Terraform
2 14 (5.83%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.25%) Ansible
4 3 (1.25%) SCCM
5 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.42%) CASB
5 1 (0.42%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.42%) Grafana
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.42%) vMotion
5 1 (0.42%) VxRail
Vendors
1 45 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.25%) Oracle
3 25 (10.42%) SAP
4 12 (5.00%) CyberArk
5 10 (4.17%) Workday
6 8 (3.33%) Google
7 7 (2.92%) Databricks
7 7 (2.92%) VMware
8 6 (2.50%) Informatica
8 6 (2.50%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.08%) Citrix
10 4 (1.67%) Pure Storage
11 3 (1.25%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.25%) Talend
12 2 (0.83%) Ahrefs
12 2 (0.83%) IBM
12 2 (0.83%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.83%) Murex
12 2 (0.83%) Sitecore
13 1 (0.42%) Datto