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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 16 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing Migration 196 209 228
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.57% 9.86% 8.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.75% 10.69% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 146 164
10th Percentile £413 £375 £416
25th Percentile £488 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% +0.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £669
90th Percentile £775 £738 £795
London median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
London median hourly rate £25.00 £23.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +8.70% -72.94% +112.50%

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 1,823 1,956 2,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.06% 92.31% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,270 1,225 1,696
10th Percentile £352 £363 £350
25th Percentile £432 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +1.77% -3.62%
75th Percentile £667 £675 £688
90th Percentile £765 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 26
10th Percentile £19.86 £18.10 £17.97
25th Percentile £23.15 £22.00 £22.63
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -14.43%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £39.50
90th Percentile £46.53 £43.75 £65.00
London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% +16.67% -16.08%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -2 176 £588 +6.77% 47
City of Westminster 0 2 £500 -9.09%
West End of London -2 2 £538 -2.27%
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 (8.67%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.57%) Confluence
3 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.53%) Apache
4 3 (1.53%) CMS
5 2 (1.02%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.02%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.51%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 6 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.04%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.53%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.02%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.02%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.02%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (1.02%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.51%) Maximo
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.51%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.51%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.51%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 56 (28.57%) Azure
2 33 (16.84%) AWS
3 14 (7.14%) GCP
3 14 (7.14%) GitHub
3 14 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (3.57%) SaaS
6 4 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (2.04%) IaaS
6 4 (2.04%) OCI
6 4 (2.04%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.04%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.06%) Network Security
2 5 (2.55%) Firewall
3 3 (1.53%) DNS
4 2 (1.02%) DHCP
4 2 (1.02%) Unified Communications
4 2 (1.02%) VPN
5 1 (0.51%) BGP
5 1 (0.51%) Internet
5 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.51%) MPLS
5 1 (0.51%) NAS
5 1 (0.51%) SAN
5 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.51%) VLAN
5 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.63%) Power BI
2 12 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.06%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.55%) MySQL
5 5 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.53%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.53%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.53%) Metadata
6 3 (1.53%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.53%) Tableau
7 2 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.02%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (1.02%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.02%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.02%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.02%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 17 (8.67%) JIRA
2 4 (2.04%) Git
3 3 (1.53%) Selenium
4 2 (1.02%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.02%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.02%) Toad
5 1 (0.51%) ERwin
5 1 (0.51%) GitLab
5 1 (0.51%) Gradle
5 1 (0.51%) gulp
5 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.51%) Maven
5 1 (0.51%) NUnit
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.51%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.51%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 75 (38.27%) Finance
2 38 (19.39%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.20%) Banking
5 13 (6.63%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.61%) Front Office
7 8 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.08%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.57%) Legal
9 5 (2.55%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.04%) Back Office
10 4 (2.04%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.04%) General Ledger
10 4 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.04%) Law
11 2 (1.02%) International Banking
11 2 (1.02%) Military
11 2 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (16.33%) Analyst
2 28 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 22 (11.22%) Architect
3 22 (11.22%) Lead
3 22 (11.22%) Project Manager
3 22 (11.22%) Senior
4 17 (8.67%) Consultant
5 13 (6.63%) Migration Manager
6 12 (6.12%) Developer
7 10 (5.10%) Migration Project Manager
8 8 (4.08%) Business IT Analyst
8 8 (4.08%) IT Analyst
8 8 (4.08%) IT Business Analyst
9 7 (3.57%) Migration Specialist
10 6 (3.06%) Migration Consultant
10 6 (3.06%) Programme Manager
10 6 (3.06%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (3.06%) Senior Business Analyst
10 6 (3.06%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (3.06%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.57%) XML
2 5 (2.55%) Middleware
2 5 (2.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (1.53%) PySpark
4 2 (1.02%) ADO
4 2 (1.02%) CSS
4 2 (1.02%) HTML
4 2 (1.02%) Node.js
4 2 (1.02%) OpenID
4 2 (1.02%) Playwright
4 2 (1.02%) REST
4 2 (1.02%) SAML
4 2 (1.02%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.02%) SPFx
4 2 (1.02%) XSLT
5 1 (0.51%) .NET
5 1 (0.51%) EDI
5 1 (0.51%) J2EE
5 1 (0.51%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 14 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (4.59%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.08%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.06%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.55%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.53%) Derivative
7 3 (1.53%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.53%) NHS
7 3 (1.53%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.53%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.02%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.02%) Equities
8 2 (1.02%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.02%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.65%) Windows
2 9 (4.59%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.55%) Unix
4 4 (2.04%) Linux
5 2 (1.02%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (30.61%) Data Migration
2 51 (26.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (21.43%) Agile
4 34 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 26 (13.27%) DevOps
7 24 (12.24%) Analytics
8 23 (11.73%) Validation
9 22 (11.22%) ETL
9 22 (11.22%) User Acceptance Testing
10 21 (10.71%) Project Management
11 20 (10.20%) CI/CD
12 19 (9.69%) ERP
13 16 (8.16%) Project Delivery
14 15 (7.65%) Data Mapping
14 15 (7.65%) Infrastructure as Code
15 14 (7.14%) Business Analysis
15 14 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
16 13 (6.63%) Data Governance
17 12 (6.12%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 36 (18.37%) SQL
2 13 (6.63%) Python
3 7 (3.57%) Java
3 7 (3.57%) PowerShell
4 6 (3.06%) PL/SQL
5 4 (2.04%) C#
6 3 (1.53%) Bash
6 3 (1.53%) Perl
6 3 (1.53%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.02%) C++
7 2 (1.02%) IronPython
7 2 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.02%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.02%) PHP
7 2 (1.02%) Scala
7 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.51%) ABAP
8 1 (0.51%) C
8 1 (0.51%) ProC
8 1 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (12.76%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.61%) PMP
4 9 (4.59%) Degree
4 9 (4.59%) PMI Certification
5 5 (2.55%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.51%) CFA
9 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.51%) MCSA
9 1 (0.51%) MCSE
9 1 (0.51%) OCP
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.51%) RHCE
9 1 (0.51%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.18%) QA
2 16 (8.16%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.16%) GDPR
3 12 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.57%) NIST
5 3 (1.53%) GAAP
5 3 (1.53%) IFRS
5 3 (1.53%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.02%) EMIR
6 2 (1.02%) NCSC
7 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.51%) Basel III
7 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.51%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.51%) PMO
7 1 (0.51%) SEPA
System Software
1 9 (4.59%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.06%) Docker
2 6 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) NFS
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 17 (8.67%) Terraform
2 11 (5.61%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.61%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.53%) Ansible
3 3 (1.53%) SCCM
4 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.51%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.51%) Argo
4 1 (0.51%) CASB
4 1 (0.51%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.51%) EMC VPLEX
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.51%) vMotion
Vendors
1 42 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.22%) Oracle
3 21 (10.71%) SAP
4 10 (5.10%) Google
5 8 (4.08%) CyberArk
6 7 (3.57%) VMware
6 7 (3.57%) Workday
7 6 (3.06%) Databricks
8 4 (2.04%) Murex
8 4 (2.04%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.53%) Adobe
9 3 (1.53%) Ahrefs
9 3 (1.53%) Informatica
9 3 (1.53%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.02%) Cisco
10 2 (1.02%) Screaming Frog
10 2 (1.02%) Sitecore
10 2 (1.02%) Talend
11 1 (0.51%) MEDITECH
11 1 (0.51%) Veeam