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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Migration 262 191 185
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.58% 10.01% 7.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.38% 10.72% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 119 138
10th Percentile £406 £342 £363
25th Percentile £463 £446 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £686 £644 £638
90th Percentile £800 £751 £692
London median daily rate £525 £555 £550
% change year-on-year -5.41% +0.91% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £58.92 £28.33 -
Median % change year-on-year +108.01% - -
London median hourly rate £51.50 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +104.77% -62.74% +52.54%

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 2,116 1,781 2,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.43% 93.29% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,444 1,147 1,549
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +1.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 24 22
10th Percentile £18.45 £22.00 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.50 £22.63
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £52.16 £43.97 £28.98
90th Percentile £59.72 £50.75 £40.00
London median hourly rate £37.25 £34.25 £27.81
% change year-on-year +8.76% +23.16% -25.52%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +1 246 £575 +4.55% 105
City of Westminster -4 3 £500 -9.09% 3
West End of London -9 2 £638 +6.25% 4
Southwark +2 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 7 (2.67%) Confluence
1 7 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.15%) Apache
4 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.38%) Camunda
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.15%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (5.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.29%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.91%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.91%) SAP ERP
3 5 (1.91%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.53%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (1.15%) iTrent
5 3 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (1.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.76%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.76%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.38%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.38%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 64 (24.43%) Azure
2 46 (17.56%) AWS
3 22 (8.40%) Power Platform
4 19 (7.25%) GCP
5 14 (5.34%) GitHub
6 12 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (3.82%) OCI
7 10 (3.82%) Snowflake
8 9 (3.44%) Serverless
9 8 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (2.29%) dbt
11 6 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (2.29%) SaaS
12 5 (1.91%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.91%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.29%) Firewall
2 4 (1.53%) Network Security
3 3 (1.15%) VLAN
4 2 (0.76%) BGP
4 2 (0.76%) EIGRP
4 2 (0.76%) MPLS
4 2 (0.76%) OSPF
4 2 (0.76%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.76%) VPN
4 2 (0.76%) VSAN
4 2 (0.76%) WAN
4 2 (0.76%) Wireless
5 1 (0.38%) 802.11
5 1 (0.38%) DHCP
5 1 (0.38%) DNS
5 1 (0.38%) DVB
5 1 (0.38%) LAN
5 1 (0.38%) SAN
5 1 (0.38%) TACACS
5 1 (0.38%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.63%) Power BI
2 17 (6.49%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.44%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.29%) Metadata
5 5 (1.91%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.91%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.53%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.53%) Tableau
7 3 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.15%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.76%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.76%) OLAP
8 2 (0.76%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.76%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.38%) OLAP Cube
Development Applications
1 19 (7.25%) JIRA
2 5 (1.91%) Git
2 5 (1.91%) GitLab
3 3 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.38%) ERwin
5 1 (0.38%) Gradle
5 1 (0.38%) JUnit
5 1 (0.38%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.38%) Mockito
5 1 (0.38%) MSI
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.38%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.38%) Selenium
5 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 89 (33.97%) Finance
2 42 (16.03%) Social Skills
3 27 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.78%) Banking
5 18 (6.87%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.20%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.82%) General Ledger
8 8 (3.05%) Law
8 8 (3.05%) Legal
9 7 (2.67%) Retail
10 5 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.53%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.15%) Local Government
12 3 (1.15%) Marketing
13 2 (0.76%) Front Office
13 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.76%) International Banking
13 2 (0.76%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (18.70%) Architect
2 34 (12.98%) Lead
3 29 (11.07%) Consultant
4 28 (10.69%) Analyst
4 28 (10.69%) Project Manager
5 26 (9.92%) Senior
6 17 (6.49%) Business Analyst
7 15 (5.73%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.96%) Data Analyst
8 13 (4.96%) Data Architect
8 13 (4.96%) Migration Manager
8 13 (4.96%) Migration Project Manager
9 12 (4.58%) Cloud Architect
10 11 (4.20%) Migration Analyst
11 10 (3.82%) Azure Architect
11 10 (3.82%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.82%) Data Migration Analyst
11 10 (3.82%) Data Migration Lead
12 9 (3.44%) Developer
12 9 (3.44%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (3.82%) Kafka
3 7 (2.67%) Middleware
4 5 (1.91%) PySpark
5 4 (1.53%) React
5 4 (1.53%) REST
5 4 (1.53%) RESTful
5 4 (1.53%) Spring
6 3 (1.15%) .NET
6 3 (1.15%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.76%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.76%) ADO
7 2 (0.76%) Flash
7 2 (0.76%) Redux
7 2 (0.76%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.76%) XML
8 1 (0.38%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.38%) IDoc
8 1 (0.38%) OpenAPI
8 1 (0.38%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.54%) Legacy Systems
2 22 (8.40%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.67%) Mainframe
3 7 (2.67%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.29%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.91%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.91%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.53%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.53%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.15%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.15%) Replication
8 2 (0.76%) BYOD
8 2 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.76%) Equities
8 2 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.20%) Windows
2 5 (1.91%) Linux
3 3 (1.15%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.76%) SUSE
5 1 (0.38%) AIX
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Solaris
5 1 (0.38%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.38%) VMS
5 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (33.21%) Data Migration
2 49 (18.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 45 (17.18%) Agile
4 35 (13.36%) Validation
5 32 (12.21%) Analytics
5 32 (12.21%) DevOps
5 32 (12.21%) Project Delivery
6 29 (11.07%) Project Management
7 28 (10.69%) ERP
7 28 (10.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 27 (10.31%) CI/CD
9 25 (9.54%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (8.78%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (8.40%) User Acceptance Testing
12 21 (8.02%) ETL
13 19 (7.25%) Data Governance
13 19 (7.25%) Data Modelling
13 19 (7.25%) PRINCE2
14 17 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 40 (15.27%) SQL
2 20 (7.63%) Python
3 8 (3.05%) Java
4 5 (1.91%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.53%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.53%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.15%) Bash
6 3 (1.15%) Bicep
6 3 (1.15%) C#
6 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.76%) ABAP
7 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.38%) C
8 1 (0.38%) ProC
8 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.38%) VB
8 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 46 (17.56%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.11%) PMP
4 14 (5.34%) PMI Certification
5 9 (3.44%) Degree
6 7 (2.67%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.53%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.38%) CCNP
8 1 (0.38%) CISA
8 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.38%) CWNA
8 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.38%) MCSA
8 1 (0.38%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.87%) Data Quality
1 18 (6.87%) GDPR
2 14 (5.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.20%) NIST
4 10 (3.82%) QA
5 6 (2.29%) PMO
6 4 (1.53%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.15%) GAAP
7 3 (1.15%) IFRS
7 3 (1.15%) NCSC
8 2 (0.76%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.76%) SEPA
8 2 (0.76%) SLA
9 1 (0.38%) Basel III
9 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.38%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.38%) PSD2
9 1 (0.38%) TARGET2
System Software
1 8 (3.05%) Docker
2 4 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.38%) Firmware
5 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.38%) NFS
5 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (6.11%) Terraform
2 14 (5.34%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.15%) Ansible
5 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.38%) Grafana
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.38%) SCCM
5 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.38%) vMotion
5 1 (0.38%) VxRail
Vendors
1 46 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 33 (12.60%) SAP
3 32 (12.21%) Oracle
4 11 (4.20%) Databricks
4 11 (4.20%) Workday
5 10 (3.82%) CyberArk
6 9 (3.44%) Citrix
6 9 (3.44%) Google
7 6 (2.29%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.53%) Informatica
8 4 (1.53%) Pure Storage
9 3 (1.15%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.15%) VMware
10 2 (0.76%) Ahrefs
10 2 (0.76%) Cisco
10 2 (0.76%) IBM
10 2 (0.76%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.76%) Murex
10 2 (0.76%) Remedy
11 1 (0.38%) iManage