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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 19 23
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Migration 260 197 183
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.57% 9.91% 7.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.36% 10.65% 8.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 126 132
10th Percentile £406 £364 £383
25th Percentile £463 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.65%
75th Percentile £679 £638 £650
90th Percentile £800 £751 £737
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
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 £28.55 £23.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +24.13% -65.93% +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 2,104 1,849 2,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.56% 93.01% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 1,193 1,572
10th Percentile £357 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 24 24
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £20.01
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.75 £22.38
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.97 £29.11
90th Percentile £59.56 £50.75 £41.29
London median hourly rate £35.50 £34.25 £28.75
% change year-on-year +3.65% +19.13% -26.28%

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 7 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 7 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 +1 243 £570 +3.64% 88
City of Westminster -2 4 £513 -6.82% 2
West End of London -5 3 £550 +1.10% 1
Southwark +1 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 10 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.92%) Confluence
3 3 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.77%) Apache
4 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.38%) Camunda
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 7 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.54%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (6.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.92%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.92%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.92%) Workday HCM
3 4 (1.54%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (1.15%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.77%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.38%) Magento
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.38%) SAP FI-AR
6 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (25.77%) Azure
2 53 (20.38%) AWS
3 21 (8.08%) GCP
4 18 (6.92%) GitHub
4 18 (6.92%) Power Platform
5 12 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (3.85%) OCI
6 10 (3.85%) Snowflake
7 8 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (3.08%) Serverless
8 7 (2.69%) Azure AKS
8 7 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.31%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.31%) SaaS
10 5 (1.92%) dbt
11 4 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.46%) Firewall
2 6 (2.31%) Network Security
3 3 (1.15%) VLAN
3 3 (1.15%) VPN
4 2 (0.77%) BGP
4 2 (0.77%) DHCP
4 2 (0.77%) DNS
4 2 (0.77%) EIGRP
4 2 (0.77%) MPLS
4 2 (0.77%) OSPF
4 2 (0.77%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.77%) VSAN
4 2 (0.77%) WAN
4 2 (0.77%) Wireless
5 1 (0.38%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.38%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.38%) HSRP
5 1 (0.38%) Multicast
5 1 (0.38%) NGFW
5 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.15%) Power BI
2 15 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.08%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.69%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.92%) Metadata
5 5 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.54%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.54%) Tableau
7 3 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.15%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.15%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.77%) MySQL
8 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.77%) OLAP
8 2 (0.77%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.77%) SQLPlus
9 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (6.15%) JIRA
2 4 (1.54%) Git
2 4 (1.54%) GitLab
3 3 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.77%) Toad
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 88 (33.85%) Finance
2 41 (15.77%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.92%) Banking
5 16 (6.15%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.85%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.08%) Law
7 8 (3.08%) Legal
8 7 (2.69%) General Ledger
9 6 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.31%) Retail
9 6 (2.31%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.15%) Front Office
12 2 (0.77%) International Banking
12 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.77%) Local Government
12 2 (0.77%) Marketing
12 2 (0.77%) Military
12 2 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 47 (18.08%) Architect
2 34 (13.08%) Lead
3 32 (12.31%) Senior
4 30 (11.54%) Project Manager
5 28 (10.77%) Analyst
6 27 (10.38%) Consultant
7 19 (7.31%) Business Analyst
8 16 (6.15%) Migration Manager
9 15 (5.77%) Migration Project Manager
10 12 (4.62%) Developer
11 11 (4.23%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (4.23%) Data Analyst
12 10 (3.85%) Azure Architect
12 10 (3.85%) Data Migration Lead
12 10 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (3.46%) Migration Analyst
13 9 (3.46%) Technical Leader
14 8 (3.08%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (3.08%) Data Architect
14 8 (3.08%) Data Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.62%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (2.31%) Kafka
2 6 (2.31%) Middleware
3 4 (1.54%) PySpark
3 4 (1.54%) RESTful
3 4 (1.54%) Spring
4 3 (1.15%) .NET
4 3 (1.15%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.15%) React
4 3 (1.15%) REST
5 2 (0.77%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.77%) Flash
5 2 (0.77%) OpenID
5 2 (0.77%) Redux
5 2 (0.77%) SAML
5 2 (0.77%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.77%) XML
6 1 (0.38%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.38%) IDoc
6 1 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.46%) Legacy Systems
2 21 (8.08%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.62%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (2.69%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.31%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.92%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.54%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.15%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.15%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.15%) Replication
9 2 (0.77%) BYOD
9 2 (0.77%) Derivative
9 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.77%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.92%) Windows
2 10 (3.85%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.92%) Linux
4 2 (0.77%) Unix
5 1 (0.38%) AIX
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Solaris
5 1 (0.38%) SUSE
5 1 (0.38%) VMS
5 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (30.38%) Data Migration
2 55 (21.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 46 (17.69%) Agile
4 37 (14.23%) Validation
5 31 (11.92%) Project Delivery
6 30 (11.54%) Project Management
7 29 (11.15%) DevOps
8 28 (10.77%) CI/CD
9 27 (10.38%) Analytics
9 27 (10.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 24 (9.23%) ERP
11 23 (8.85%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (8.46%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (8.08%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (8.08%) ETL
14 19 (7.31%) User Acceptance Testing
15 18 (6.92%) PRINCE2
16 16 (6.15%) Continuous Improvement
16 16 (6.15%) Project Governance
17 15 (5.77%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 40 (15.38%) SQL
2 17 (6.54%) Python
3 8 (3.08%) Java
4 6 (2.31%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.92%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.15%) Bash
6 3 (1.15%) Bicep
6 3 (1.15%) C#
6 3 (1.15%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.15%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.77%) ABAP
7 2 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.77%) Perl
7 2 (0.77%) PHP
7 2 (0.77%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.38%) C
8 1 (0.38%) ProC
8 1 (0.38%) Scala
8 1 (0.38%) VB
8 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (15.77%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.15%) PMP
4 14 (5.38%) PMI Certification
5 7 (2.69%) Degree
6 5 (1.92%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.38%) CCNP
9 1 (0.38%) CISA
9 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.38%) CWNA
9 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.38%) MCSA
9 1 (0.38%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.46%) GDPR
2 18 (6.92%) Data Quality
3 16 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (5.77%) QA
5 12 (4.62%) NIST
6 5 (1.92%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.92%) PMO
7 3 (1.15%) GAAP
7 3 (1.15%) IFRS
7 3 (1.15%) NCSC
8 2 (0.77%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.77%) SEPA
8 2 (0.77%) SLA
9 1 (0.38%) Basel III
9 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.38%) HL7
9 1 (0.38%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.38%) TARGET2
System Software
1 8 (3.08%) Docker
2 7 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.15%) 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 22 (8.46%) Terraform
2 14 (5.38%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.54%) Ansible
5 3 (1.15%) SCCM
6 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.38%) Grafana
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.38%) vMotion
6 1 (0.38%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 33 (12.69%) SAP
3 30 (11.54%) Oracle
4 12 (4.62%) CyberArk
5 10 (3.85%) Workday
6 9 (3.46%) Citrix
7 7 (2.69%) Google
8 6 (2.31%) Databricks
9 5 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.92%) VMware
10 4 (1.54%) Informatica
10 4 (1.54%) Pure Storage
11 3 (1.15%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.77%) Ahrefs
12 2 (0.77%) Cisco
12 2 (0.77%) IBM
12 2 (0.77%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.77%) Murex
13 1 (0.38%) Adobe
13 1 (0.38%) Dell